Letters to the editor

   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)+

                Hare Krsna!!    AGTSP   Paoho    6.58AM   in Franklin, Tennesssee, Tandavika Das et al Govardhana Ashrama.  Now finish packing and go to the airport and               ---o=0=o---            f l y     ---o=0=o---                to Houston.        We still have rash from Poison Ivy, but we read the government of Canada information page and now we feel much more confident how to manage it!          Grrrr!!!     All these fights with disease are fun if we know how to fight and that it is just a game!

             HOw are you?     We have letters to look at from the last three days.   Annual Symposium was a complete.......    success.....         Now getting ready in Nashville for Rathayatra.             NIOS administration improving.          Nimsar administration improving.                ISV was given approval as a Bh.Vai. Diploma Center!!!!!!!                 Texas almost ready.          Nimsar little more work....             Mexico                (??)    ...   First chapter of M. Jambavati's book has arrived.   What we heard so far is great!!!  We will try to hear it on the airplane!!!

          O.K.   Let's go on Sankirtana!

             AGTSP!
                     Paoho   ...    How are you?    Our poison ivy infection has spead all over our legs and one arm.  Ha!   Ha!   Ho...        It looks terrible, but is not so irritating.  We are following Nitai-gaurasundara Das advice.    It has dried up a little also.

                      24-hour kirtana and symposium was very great.   prof. messier could not come, but the Imam of the Nashville Islamic Center, Pastor Lauria, Dr. Robert Dray and Dr. Ravi Gupta were all there.    Some very interesing discussions of the soul, preparation for death.....        Very elevated disussion.     About 100 devotees.    Was outside and it was rain and clouds all day until one hour before the program....     !

                      today we go to franklin, tandavika das's house, and then tommorrow we go with our rash and flash to     t e x a s !   agtsp...   paoho.    we get to the mail in a moment.....      noticed that michelle obama and bill clinton both said, "God bless you, God bless America" at the end of their speeches.   Interesting.  Same was there for the Republican candidates? ...

             AGTSP!
                     paoho...   Here we are in Murfreesboro in the Ashrama of Radha and Natabara Ji!   We have weepinng sores from poison ivy plant from toe to waist and on one arm.  ha!   Ha!      !

               Sankirtana is very good.   We've mounted Abhirama's Sattva posters from the   shows in Lima Town and will hang them at the Symposium to show our wide renown.                      The 24-hour sankirtana starts at 6PM today and many guests are coming.  For the weekend they will stay.                We distributed five NOI in Virginia, we prepared a "NIOS News" and will print it out this morning to distribute in the pews.

                      O.K.  Answer some letters, 16-rounds done to this hour.

TB/BW!!!     -{:D)/

         A G T S P !      (paoho)
    We are still in Srinivasa Ji's Ashrama in Richmond, Virginia.  Yesterday we had no Internet connection until 10AM so we could not join the Japa Workshop (Japa Joe). Neither could we meet with Srinivasa Das from India for our BhVai, Curriculum Development Worshop at 6AM. [Two Srinivasas].  However, we called Laksmana-agra-ja Das at 6AM and had ecstatic BhVai program.

       Then we all got in the van and drove to Yogaville. (Dr. Bandyopadhyay called us in route. The NIOS history book is being delivered to the President of India!). At Yogaville about 250 or less yogis and yoginis and yogitos (kids) met us with a great reception and after they finished their organic, home grown, vegetarian lunch we had a kirtana and lecture.  They were ecstatic. They are followers of Satchitananda Swami who is disciple of Sivananda Sarasvati who founded the Divine Life Society.  They have 650 acres of parks and monuments and ashramas.

    We understand that their philosophy is from impersonal perspective and that may cause some problems in character, but we saw lot of personal character and work manifested, very laudable!       However, their Deities seemed like statues, however they commented that they also felt so and should offer fruit and flowers daily.

  ..  Ecstatic Kirtana..   Lecture got 150 praises...   they bought ocean of big and small books.

  ...  Tour of their project.

   ...  Back in the van and 2-hours back to Richmond.  (Fruit too late but necessary).    Rest ...   Z  Z  ZZ  !             Up at 1.15AM  ( bonk!   crash...   up at 1.49AM!!)      Japa Joe.               Some Sandesha (like Prabhupada)  (too much??).

      ... >>>    Today we have NIMSAR meeting at 10AM, interview of Professor Kenneth Rose at 11AM, lunch with devotees in third city at 1AM   (rest)  lecture at University of Virginia at 6PM (Spirituality without Relgion?).    Back to Srinivasa Ji's Ashrama.                    >>====>           We are not the doer.           Yet, we have to work to do less and write more...          Govinda!!!!

                       Govinda!!!!

                                     Anyone who chants "Sri Krsna Caitanya..." and follows it with "Hare Krsna, Hare ..." has achieved the perfection of life!", Srila Prabhupada.                    Ahhh!     Yayatma suprasidati...!          Krsna is pleased, Servant is pleased,   Guru is pleased..

(Also have to Read/Write Blog, Send BhVai Notes to LaD and Srinivasa, start reading Chapter 22, look at  Yahoo!)  >>=====>              Hare Krsna!