Letters to the editor

    7.45AM   -   Radha Natabara Ashrama, Murfreesboro, Tennessee

One Poem We Wrote this Morning for Trash-12K:

GOPAL DARSAN
Fortunate necklace made of gold,
     Fortunate flute that His fingers hold,
Fortunate flute that His two lips kiss,
     Arrogant souls opportunity miss.

 Banging on his banjo,
    Strumming his guitar,
The musical arranger,
     Sees Krsna near and far.

 “Hare Krsna” quakes his brain,
    Tears of pain fall like rain.
Many different melodys,
     The very same refrain.

 Merging in transcendence,
    Every ache and strain.     Gopal, Govinda, Rama,
Sri Madhusudana.   Our days are numbered.
       Some have bigger numbers.

Some have small.  You’re very fortunate to get a
   “Ready” call.  “Time to go!”    Now it’s Mangala
Arati. One last time we roar.
    Wake up the bears and buffalos,
Let no one lose and snore.

 NINE MORE MINUTES
What would you write?
   What would you say?
If you only had nine minutes,
   If you had to leave today?

 1. We do not die Intestate,
Someone has our Will,
   And Final Testament,
And then we’re on our way.

 2. “Poor fellow!  He left so little.”

        Our Bequest to Our Disicple: Get up early and get your rounds done!

 Then all the rest the day is fun.
        With Gopal.  [Of course, getting up early and chanting is also fun if you know the Way.]    [[ The Way is What Srila Prabhupada Say: ]]

 “Anyone who chants the Pancha-tattva Maha-mantra and follows it with the Hare Krsna/Rama Maha-mantra has achieved the perfection of life. However, if you want to preach you should probably read my books” – Srila Prabhupada

       So, at any moment you can follow this formula and achieve perfection, know exactly how to make further progress to complete confection.

          Ummm!   Hare Krsna,           Ummm!           Hare Krsna.       Jaya Sita-Rama.

 
3. Yet, demons come during the day to disturb the play?
             Hey, for Krsna they are not disturbances,
Unknowingly they increase the play, in an unpredictable, interesting
             Way.        "HaRe!   Hurray!"     You chant and
See how to help Gopal sends each demon on his way.

4. What is the biggest demon?
We don’t know for sure, but boredom is a really great one,
            Maybe the biggest fear.  Fear of no service,
For Krsna that He’ll really find quite dear,
            [By the mercy of Guru and Gopis]

"Hurray Krishna!   Hurray Rama!", that big, big demon also slay!

O.K.  That’s all.   No more to say.
            Nine minutes up.  Let’s be on our Way.   >>--->      Humility.

      Oink!     Oinnk!     Heeeeeeee  Hawwww!

AGTSP    paoho.   We just finished Japa Joe Forum.   Sometimes we Chat a little too much.   Chat can become Chant without the "n" (Names!), yet if we just chant mechanically without Chating about the Japa, Krsna, Radharani, then that is also not good.

    Mix, Kirtan, Japa, Books, Puja, Karma-yoga    to     improve your Japa!

                  O.K.   Let's answer a few letters before push Brother Ass in the shower.

Buck White/Brown Tom.....

          {We're in Murfreesboro still....    Radha Natabara Ashrama}    !

     AGTSP       paoho       It's 7.11PM.      Usually we go for our regular walk at 7.15PM.     Nitai-gaurasundara Prabhu has a 2.1 mile route he follows.   It is AMAZING. We walk all that distance and we always come back within 43-46 minutes.  Amamzing, doesn't vary by 3-minutes!

Last week we did a strong writing project every day. We were adjusting our new office space. Today Saturday we have taken it a bit lighter and are doing simple but important follow up on NIOS office and office systems, Calendar for Texas and Peru.

O.K.  (Om Kesavaya Namah).  We write letters until our Doctor calls us to walk!   He is very regulated.

     HpS - ASA!

           AGTSP
          (Paoho)

Today, Thursday, we taked with Dr. Bandhyopadya in India about his felicitations volume and calendar for India and Australia.          We wrote an intense letter to the new professor of comparative religions at MTSU inviting her to come to our Symposium 8th September and meet all our NIOS friends.      We finished our paper for the Center for Spirituality and Health, Houston   ...  etc.    Our eyeballs can't take too much computer time anymore.          Sri Krsna Sankirtana Ki Jai!          Heart is 90% regular.   Hot at the office.    Lots of spiders.   Will get to Blog letters next!

     A G T S P !         Paoho.   9.03PM.     Ashrama Nitai-gaurasundara Prabhu.   Only 55% left on the bettery so have to bee brief.  Left plug at the office.  Save it all for Japa Joe, 1.30 AM  that's were we'll go.  Our Sankirtana was pretty good. We finished the essay for the 8th Sept NIOS symposium. GOt more respnoses from difererent nice schilars. We type and it doesn't apea for 15 seconds.     Tommorrow we work on the essay for Texas.   Medical center.

Lot of lettrs but o battery.  think it is Krsna's trick to save our eyes.  O.K.  Hari Bolo!

AGTSP    paoho.   We are not mad.      We are no mad.    We are not mad.

           And you?

Are you also not mad!

                      Very not madder than we are not mad!

Ha!              ha!                      HAW!                         We shall sell buttons with big, big, sinister faces of Lord Jagannatha and Baladeva with fangs. (Little fangs).  We saw a picture like that from Puri.                I guess They have those in the mood or Lord Nrsmha deva.      He was Krsna gone            MAD              !      Grrrrrrrrrrr!     Nobody messes with my devotee!!!!!!!!!           Now we get some liquid for Brother Ass and have an ecstatic Srimad Bhagavad gita class!                (Because we are not mad!    And only sane people read Srimad BG, that's a well know fact.  Mad people don't read the BG.         I mean what could they get out of it???

Well I guess thay could get a "Hari He" perspective on life from Arjuna: "Hari, He! Help!".           And Hari did.  Put it all in proportion and the fig the twigs!  Snuffed the devils!)

AGTSP

(paoho)