Hare Krsna! Hare Rama! AGTSP paoho... We are in Tennessee with Nitai-gaurasundara, Tandavika and everyone. Our health is good. We still have itching from the Poison Ivy but the rashes have all gone away.
Here is getting ready for Rathayatra on the 6th.
Preparing for Peru.
Regular Bhaktivaibhava work.
Regular counseling work.
Our eyes are getting more and more intolerant of the computer. Have to minimize.
We are like 9-days of letters to answer. Now we plough into them!
AgtSP and an excellent Radhastami manifest in your face! (((paoho)))... Of course t.brown, your journalist of renown and the village clown makes this sound.
So many of you we think of now, only Krsna can say how....
In Houston?
So are we.
Sugar Land.
Hari-lila and Mother Madhavi's home. She's sending 108 sarees for the ladies in Peru and Chile... too... (or maybe 2?).... Sankirtana... Jayananda Das manifest leukemia. It was manifest in big blue streaks on his arms. He could no longer walk. He was getting ready to leave before Srila Prabhupada... Too much... He couldn't stay to see that pastime...
... but he was in the Temple in New York and nothing, leukemia, nothing, could stop his super-active spiritual service propensity.
... so, when he saw that there was no one to manage the botique, gift store, well he volunteered. It was up on the second or third floor and the entrance to the temple and the restaurant were down below. Who would go up there.
... but he started to make up a display board that sat in the temple entrance lobby and had an arrow and invitation to go up, "Free Burfi, Gift Store and Botique This Way >>>". Then people started coming. He put balloons on his invitation sign sometimes. Had people passing out invitaion cards in the restaurant. Had different sales and events. It became the place to visit. He started selling stuff left, right, up and down. People brought devotional things to sell o consignment whenever they came from the farm to the town.
... He talked and he counseled and
did all things well and showed that there's no
service that is small if done well..!
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... when I was a new bhakta, visiting the temple in San Francisco, I wanted a pair of Kartals from the Temple and he opened the little gift store and showed me a pair. I said, "How much?", and he said, "I don't know, just give some donation, whatever you think you can afford", and I gave a good donation, whatever I had. He had faith that people a basically generous. You just have to give them a chance to express it!
A G T S P ! (((paoho & bw)))
9.52PM: 32-rounds done. One NOI and two BBT Medium-hard books distributed.
Headache.. Look at the mail quickly. Read the story of Dhenukasura and take rest until 1.15AM.
1.5 hours with Srinivasa on SB 3.23. Was super. . . .. .
1-hour with ISKCON Hawaii SKYPE class. Also super...
Formal lunch with Radha-vallabha Das and family. Also, very nice, but a LOT of work!
Could not do it all, but did a Calendar Purge and everything is pretty much in order for tommorrow.
Also, packed the big suitcase with Sarees from M. Madhavi and BBT books for Peru/Chile... AGTSP paoho..
AGTSP!
(((paoho))) 5.22AM, 21-rounds done, M. Jambavati DD's audio book files transfered and saved and letter of acknowledgement and planning sent to Oscar, Abhirama, Yugala DD and Patraka Das.
Mangala arati in a few minutes when Hari-lila Das is ready.. Lord Nrsmha has had his bath. Friday we distributed about 20 small books and about 8 big books. Last night we got 48-pounds of books for South America.
We still are taking steroids for the poinson ivy allergy but seems to be geting cured like 80% now.
Now we read some letters! No chance since Friday.
AGTSP paoho........
AGTSP paoho We are late leaving for a Home Program at Vivek Varma and his good wife's new home. All the mail answered to three days ago and immediate attention to letters marked "URGENT".
Our heart is pretty steady. Our Poison Ivy infection is down by 65%. Still some poison inside the legs, but the steriod treatment seems that it will cure all. Of course it is putting stress on the heart, but risk having a heart attack to save the legs. Ha! Ha! Ha! Best use of a BAD bargain.
O.K. We go and post the Kapi Dhvaja before Sunrise tommorrow!
A G T S P ! (((paoho))) BROTHER ASS IS taking 10 mg of prednisone every 8-hours for the next three days. Then it is gradually reduced over nine more days. It's a steriod. It pumps our heart beat up to 90/minute, normal was 55/minute.
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Gives us moderate chest muscle cramps (mild naseau (vertigo))) > weird stuff, but ... the poison ivy was inflaming both feet and legs 'till it was get critical. "If you don't so the steroids, Dude, you may lose the legs!". Choop-oopy dupe! Use the steroids.
UNCLE GISMO TRIED transfering a Power-point-show from the Net Book to the Nook yesterday. It would take the picture show but wouldn't play the audio. We'll ask some expert.
The Bhakti-vaibhava Orientation Seminars are going great. Very satisfying. Lots of attendance. ~20-registered students. Tonight we do Summary of the First Two Cantos. Mail is caught up to 3-days. We don't do Yahoo mail much anymore. We are behind on our BhVai reading, but not too much and really look forward to in on the NOOK.....
..... if you chant p'tattva maha-mantra and follow it with hk/hr m'mantra, you have achieved the perfection of life. ... kirtaniya sada harih, just continue with the same thing, hk/hr... haraye nama... p'tattva..... and accept what ever intelligence, memory/plans, that occur as sufficient. {:O)+