Letters to the editor

Hare Krsna!   Hare Rama!
A G T S P !   (((paoho)  &  (((bw)))             Monkey/Piggy here!    We are in our excellent room in Raktaka Das's home in Brisbane. For example, yesterday, we were up at 1AM for Japa Joe!   About 11-devotees chanting and chatting.  Got 16-good rounds done before Mangala-arati.... Bath, Puja for Lord Nrsmha,  15-minutes travel to Temple. Mangala arati with about 7-devotees, more Japa, Bhakti-vaibhava readings for Canto Four. Class for 1-1/2 hours with about 45-devotees. Back to the house, bath, quick check of mail, little rest (24-minutes) some nice fruit, back in another auto, 45-minutes travel to full noon day program with one hour on internet for conference call with devotees in Peru of Nimsar, Educational Development. Took little rest in same house, bath, lecture (45-devotees, some strong topics), talk with 25-devotees, back in another car, change of plans and back to the Temple for ISKCON Youth program, read from Ramayana and then very intense questions and answers until 7PM.  Raktaka Das kind of pulled the plug on things at 7PM and back to his house by 7.45PM.

Little tire, ei Mate!!

We were supposed to post this DTC then, answer letters and read the Krsna book.

Ha!               Ha!               Ha!             (Re!!!).   cOMPLEetely   bone, dog-dead  T I R E D!

(((but happy))

So, we turned off our brain and looked at the Bio-graphy of Mao Se Tung on the Your tube up to the point where he started to murder 10-million people. Of course it seems to have some value in dovetailing it with preaching.

Now we have caught up on the MED, NIOS, ASA-Kids Mexico mail and answered an amazing request for a lecuture at University in Kolkatta when we are there.

SLOW DOWN HpS!

We are trying...   but it seems we are engaged as we should be and slowing down means for everyone to see who we are. That seems to be happening. Raktaka Das commented that he is just beginning to realize how much our work is extended. We are not just doing work here and now with our gross senses.

Also, we have been told again and again that we will be famous after we are gone, so it seems that our pushing programs in the here and now may not be what Krsna wants. In that spirit we have made good meetings, practical suggestions follow up letters to the devotees and scholars involved with the University of Bhagavata Culture in Manipur and there has been NO response so far. So we will make maybe two phone calls and then if nothing happens we will be open to future invitations but stop pushing ourselves.

Peru is advancing. Book in Kokatta is advancing. Book shipment to USA is advancing. For NIOS progress in Nashville we want to butt heads with Abhiseka Singh and NGD and Tandavika about what they are inspired to do.

If all else fails we, Tom Brown, will take Uncle Gismo's offer and start work on our ASA PhD (Doctor of Phalocracia).

Now, 3.30PM.  Time for lunch Prasadam. Then some Japa and Blog mail and Reviewing and grading our last paper from Radadesa before we leave for the Temple for the Evening Program (Meet Maharaja).

Tommorrow we fly to Melboourne.  One hour clocks forward!          Jaya!!!

          Oink!    Oinnk!         WHOOOP!!!    AGTSP.......       (((paoho))) . . .         Here we are in Brisbane, Australia.    Our residence is in    Raktaka Das' home with his wife, Srimati Acyuta-priya Devi Dasi and three nice children.           Temple is in light industrial area so can make all the noise you want.        Also wild, undeveloped area on most sides!

Congregation 85% Indian, but others coming.   Lot's of potential.

Hippies were our best customers, now it is Hindoos.   From Hippies to Hindoos.  What is next????   H>H>H

             We have a little alergy.    Our eyes are complaining about strain from computer.  Doing LOB and other seminars.

      " The sense of hearing is usually the last sense to go,so be careful what you say near and unconscious causalty",  ABC First Aid Guide.

    "An unconscious, breathing, woman in advanced pregnancy should be placed on her left side", Ibid.

Last night we did LOB 6 and 20.  This morning we try to do cow protection verse and Text 22.    That leads to NOI!           Distribute books, discuss books!!        Teach books!

              We read and comment on and post letters!!!

AGTSP paoho.   We are just leaving for Brisbane from New Govardhana Farm. 900 acres, scores of devotees, extended community.  We are pushing to answer the mail. Do our writing, classes, counseling...   We are refusing more and more engagements so we can handle our priorities.  O.K. We look for URGENT letters.   4.50PM  Jaya!

     AGTSP!!!   paoho.    Here we are in Govardhana Farm.   Our skin rash is a little better. We are still very weak but heathy!           How are you?    We have two weeks of letters to answer.          So many devotees here.  Madhu-manjari Devi Dasi, Adi-adri, Raktaka Das, Dhruvananda and Sudevi and Markendeya and Dhanesvari and her baby.....

                       We have heavy lecture and consultation load, but the weather is celestial.  Inernet is good.  We are doing Japa Joe daily.   It will be the same hour until Saturday morning.      Australia has like four time zones.  Confusing.  We will go to Brisbane Friday evening!

                O.K.  Calls to India, answer letters, correct BVC papers...

AGTSP    (paoho)  -   We made it to Govinda Valley, near Gold Coast, Australia!!!  Thoubal one night, Imphal one night, Kolkatta one night. Thai airways one night. Brisbane one night. Today two lectures and three hours of individual discussion, and three pounds of Burfi for the burro!
O.K. Take rest and pray for mercy of God!!!

A G T S P!

paoho & bw!  !
How are you?  We are fine (considering this is the material world, martya-loka). We are sitting a little uncomfortably under a mosquito net in Professor Bandyopadyay's ashrama in Lake Town, Kolkatta. It is 5.16AM.  Maybe first light is just coming.

By the mercy of the great rider in the sky, Horse Pradhana, we have Tata photon USB drive going, and we are using it now before the other people wake up and it becomes crowded.

It is little hot here, some mosquitos, crows and Kawwwking.   We got on Japa joe for the first time in an age! After about 1/2 hour Richard the Righteous of Amsterdam, we think, joined us.  Then Mother Gandharvika from SJC!    Was nice.

We have 15-rounds done and have sent our comments on the GBC Position Paper on who is Srila Prabhupada in ISKCON off, our first draft of how to establish a Bhakti-sastri center in your Temple off and reviewed the Yahoo mail. We got five mosquito bites so unplugged the Acer and got under the net.

Our eyes are falling apart. The screen is starting to blurr.  Hare Krsna!

Ekadasi today, we must starve, then at 9PM we have to go to the airport for a 2AM flight!    We arrive in the wonderful land of Oz(tralia) about 3-5PM in the afternoon. Seems like Lord Sri Krsna wants us to stay up all night on Ekadasi chanting Hare Krsna. I guess the Tata-photon will be working, so we could keep skype etc open until 2am.

O.K.  That's about it.  We are working on the next NIOS book with professor and we hope to talk with Patrak Das today et al.

Let's answer five letters and give our eyes a break!