Good night!

AgtSP.

So, many people saying, "Do not travel. Stay here." but it is like telling a doctor, "Do not go to your clinic". So many of our tools are there is Nashville. Our Ashrama is there if we are going to be doing any preaching by the internet, postal, methods, developing projects with Oscar, Ambarisha et al.

Our team is there. NgD is there.

So, we will travel tommorrow.

Now is 10.23PM. Head ache has started to appear. Time to stop writing letters. Was very good day. We have contact with like six households here. We all keep Brahmnical distances. Don't meet all together at the same time, receive them rather than going out.

Long discussion with Latin American GBC team today and few hours with Srinivas Das, M. Sundara-radhika Devi Dasi (Kama-Murari-Bala-Ananta-Nanda...)

VDM

***46 The forest of Vrndavana charms the hearts of the entire world and makes it thirst after the sweetness of the ocean of bliss. How is it that by the cooing of Vrndavana’s cuckoos, parrots, and other birds, even Lord Krsna’s flute, which maddens the entire world, has become bewildered and silenced?

*****47 The transcendental amorous passion of Sri Sri Radha-Muralidhara increases moment by moment without limit and all Their Gopi friends become plunged into the ocean of transcendental bliss. O Vrndavana, this is your great transcendental glory.

48 Alas, alas, if one does not worship Sri Radha’s lotus feet, then when She is displeased, Lord Hari, who is submissive to Her, becomes very difficult to attain. Without taking shelter of Vrndavana, how is it possible to attain Her feet, which never travel to any other place?

***49 As the girls of Vraja blissfully sing, play musical instruments, and wonderfully dance, and as the sky of Vrndavana resounds with the beating of drums and is filled with a shower of flowers, Sri Sri Radha-Krsna sweetly sing and dance.

****50 The vina makes no sound, the flute does not call, the cuckoos do not warble the fifth note, the gopis become silent, and Lord Hari gives up His love-talk, when Sri Radha sings the glories of Vrndavana.

hare< [KRSNA (hare Rama)] !

9.16PM. Brother Ass is going blind, heart and respiration failing etc.

Prabhod ananda Sarasvati - Treat your sense, donkey, roughly!

• Today was SB class. Is so satisfying. We are studying for teaching. If we can give SB, Canto 1-2 to people that is wonderful. The Gopis recite SB, no?
• Then breakfast offering of five kinds of fruit and avacado.
• Then collect our brains, then discover our flight had been canceled and then choosing the new option. Now we leave Boise at 7.45 AM Thursday (April 2) and arrive Nashville 2.15PM and look for an Uber ride to Murfreesboro. So looks like we will be available in the morning and evening on Rama-navami but not for Anandamaya Das' program as scheduled.

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Talk-ed with Art Das for 45-minutes about Peru Teleconferences, Calls, for April 1st-15th. We will make a movie with Oscar and Ambaris/Vrsabhanu et al that will win an Oscar for Oscar. Karuna Virus.

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Then there was an EarthQuake at 5.30PM! The whole building was shaking. People was running from the houses! This is all the same bad influence as the Karuna Virus, no?

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Then we joined the Nashville 15-minute Daily Anti-virus/Prema Kirtana, and finished our rounds and doing let, let, letters!

[Upendra Das visited with cookies for the journey. We chanted for 30-minutes and discussed a little politics and Satsvarupa Das Goswami's books!]

O.K. 9.30PM (With hot milk, Srinivasa Das read from the "Genealogical Table of Lord Krsna" about how Krsna was not attached to any of His wives (??? 😎)

• You can see the snow in the mountains that surround Boise, that came

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today. [Fred, the grey, fluffy cat is on patrol everyday. We want to hang a sign that says, "Hare Krsna" around his neck]

😐 😐 😐 Thank you!!

Hare Hare Krsna!!!

AgtSP!!! Paoho. 11.29PM...... BAD headaches starting. Time to sleep rest, or we may get a brain stroke.

We fought with the Witch today?

Did you?

We fight with her everyday. She is very nice!! We fight. We learn!!! We fall. We get up!

Three hour home program today. Only time we have gone out in two weeks. We are hoping to travel back to our Base Camp on Wednesday. Two days from now.

We did a lot of Yahoo and Whatsapp letters. Just one from Anandamaya and Karuna mayi Das. He is in FMP. Whatsapped us. Used the current Kapi Dhvaja Priority Code, so.... we answered him.

The ducks that get closer get more bread.

Don't be afraid of death. It will be very purifying. Krsna will be with your helping you to wake up!! KRSNA!

O.K. Take rest. So much contact with so many friends. So many!!! So, so many.

VDM (ASA Archives?)

Sataka Fourteen

1 Worship the forest far from the ocean of ignorance, flooded with the wonderful ocean of knowledge, and splendid with Sri Sri Radha-Krsna’s pastimes.

2 What is the use of this network of illogical ideas? Cut the network of illusion and fly, O bird, to the beautiful forest of Vrndavana.

3 Cut the great ropes of misplaced hope, leave the poison forest of sense gratification, and fly, O bird of my heart, to the nectar forest of Vrndavana.

4 O! O, when will this fool cross the lofty Vindhya Mountains of pride in his wealth, learning, and noble birth, and find the sweetness of Vrndavana?

AGTSP!!!! Paoho

Here we are in Idaho, Ho, Ho. There are mixed flocks of big grey clouds in the big blue sky and sunshine. We are high up in the mountains.

We are struggling to help with conflicts between devotees. The same thing happens in Goloka and whenever we can help to resolve conflicts between devotees it is essential service.

Yet, also, we may not be able to help. We are not the Best Friend, so be a servant, friend, of Krsna, the Supreme Diplomat.

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Getting a regular schedule here is hard. This place is Dukhalayam asasvatam. Built for austerities and needs ability to improvise!! Yet, we are doing it day to day and hour to hour.

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Still planning to return to our Base Camp in The Boro next Wednsday. Health still fine (for 72-years old [which means we have to be careful not to get brain or heart stroked])

Singing

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dancing is the essence of all spiritual reality. Dance, Dance, Dance.... HK/HR... Looked at the Blog mail. Now must print the Kapi-Dhvaja so that we can see it to organize our ASA work.

Two to three classes, personal consultations daily. This visit to Boise has been worth $1-million.

Trust no future no matter how bright. This pandemic may be the end of global technology. Don't be passionate but preach now!!!!

Hare Krsna.

AGTSP!

My body feels like hell.

How about yours?

It is not from any virus.

It always feels like this, but we can chant. Preach! and then this dead body becomes a arrow in the hands of the Gopis!

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Such nice letters from Sarad G. in Manipur, Pandava in Spain, Gadai in Peru...

Boise Temple is just next to the California border, so Mangala arati is at 5.30AM which is really more like 4.30AM.

We got up early and started to chant. Went to Mangala arati in the Temple with five more devotees and sang from the depth of our bodily consciousness for the first time in weeks. It was so purifying, able to express our highest realization. Otherwise it gets rusted!

Some Japa with Bh. Nathan.

Class in our room.

Talk with Peru. We will cancel all South American tickets tomorrow.

May stay here for one more week.

Balabhadra Das and devotees brought lunch. Six course feast! We tried to eat sanely, but is always a struggle. We could not eat the Kitri. the cinamon rolls were the best I ever remember.

Lots and lots and lots and lots of talks with devotees individually. Confidential. Philosophical. Personal. Intense. Friendly.

Tonigh at 7PM will be Ananta'rupa Das´ BG group. Only the first 9-people admitted. Will be on www.gotomeeting.com

Got back in touch with the ISKCON Board of Examnations (BOEX) for Bh. Vai. etc and we are back with the Ministry of Education, Executive Committee in general.

We feel that we have a personal service to Srila Prabhupada. We hope others also feel that.

Then, it is our personal duty to Srila Prabhupada to see that his institution, ISKCON GBC is getting the best service that we can offer. We need to offer criticism and construction. Be servants. Appreciate others. We have so many faults!

How can we expect the Institituion and its Head, the GBC, to have anymore health and vitality than our body has. Inspire the devotees who take up these services with great wealth, words, intelligence.

If you protect Dharma, then Dharma will protect you.

🙂

Hare Krsna.

AgtSP. Paoho. They are 8.03 AM.

We are in New Biharvan, ISKCON Boise, Idaho.

The trip was hell and one-half! We have been through hell and five-halves in travel to/from India!

You also?

Left 902 Hillcrest at 4AM Boise Time (ACT) and arrived at our residence at 2AM. That's 22-hours! Before that we were packing for three hours with a great Mangala-arati.

As soon as we hit the road at 5AM there was dense, fast, little crazy, traffic!

Zoom! ZOOM! Z O O M !

Our mind and senses are 72-years old, so it was a challenge driving.

Then we had to find the exit for the gas refill. We found it with a little bit of jumping. Found the gas station. Pumped the gas. Worried about missing our flight. It was $3 for the gas. We saved $12 against the Avis gas refill charges.

Then. . . with the help of the nice Lady-in-the-Cell-Phone and other stuff we found the Avis rental car drop-off. Dude was a cultured dude from Ethiopia. We were just naturally preaching(?!) and at then end he asked us to pray for him!

We asked him to pray for us and shoved him a NOI!

Security guard asked, "How are you today"? We said that this was the material world and everyone is suffering. He nodded mildly and said, "Have a safe jouney" with a serious look.

So, lot of chance to meet people and talk with them. We need more NIOS/ASA promo material to give to people. LOB, NOI...

Then WhooOOp! WhhhOOOOP! whOOp! Earthquake in Salt Lake City. Water pipes busting. Control towers out of commission. Rickter 5!

Plane diverted with three more planes to ?? Rapid Falls, South Dakota!!!? The home of Mount Rushmore, and we did Rush no More!

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Like six hours sitting. Everybody was really cool.

God bless America!

Talked with a lot of people. Communicated good ideas.

NOMOREBOOKS! -[;o{/\__

Back to SLC and waiting for six more hours, until 12.30AM!!!

Always chatting with Ananata-rupa Das, Srinivasas, Abhi, et al, et al.

We were supposed to avoid Karuna virus and almost died of an earthquake.

Have lot of arythmias, so may die of a heart attack any time.

Was hell sleeping, sitting, in the airport with 300 other refugees. Bananas $1.20 ea.! Yet, we adjusted pretty well and were pretty comfortable.

Watched <ovo. "Midway" on the airplane while we chanted. Hmmm! Skipped the family life.

Then ran the "Adams Family" with no sound while we flew from SLC to BOI at 12.30AM with our brains sloshing in our skull and our heart coughing a little to keep from going mad.

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Arrived, nap, CLEANED everything. Got four rounds done. Ekadasi!

Set up our ASA Camp site.

We will probably get Karuna virus and suffocate to death. We are thinking about how to do it.

It will probably also kill about 90% of our GBC members.

Hmmm. Telecomunication will break down, but "Very nice! We can just sit down together and chant Hare Krsna and not have to deal with all these worries about Sankirtan!"

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An astrological change is expected on the 24th and there will be a spontaneous remission of Karuna virus and Rascal Science will be greatly ruffled, and Demonism and Pseudo Science will gain strides!

Actually, hear about Krsna and teach other's about Krsna, and it will be a happy harmony in hell on the way to heaven.

Hare Krsna!!! AGTSP paoho. Very best wishes for your Sankirtan.