Letters to the editor

Oink! Oink! Whoop! WHoop! AGTSP..... !!! ! paoho.... It is 5.30PM here in The Boro. Again we are almost dead. We can't see that we are Great Devotees, but we seem by Srila Prabhupada's effort to be Devotees. We struggle to do something. Of course, criticism from devotees can be the hardest thing to tolerate. Go on! We all (especially us) have our crazy moments and hurt others.

We jumped into the mail today.

Gave our class for Hawaii. Nice SB. Nice meditations on Dhruva Maharaja and his position. How much of a devotee was he???? We are like him in many ways???? Doing ISKCON yoga for material gain? Want our 'enemies' to see how great we are??

Education and the Sacred

BOEX

MOE

Everything seems to be O.K. Our eyes can't take any more computer screen. Yes, five more years, 2024, is practical estimate of when we will need a new car.

Maybe we will go to Gurukula in Houston Temple???

AGTSP paoho Our third day in our Base Camp. Things going pretty well. Today we spent one hour conversing with Art Das about the program in Peru (Bolivia, (Argentina (Chile))) and working on the Calendar in general for South American, Spain, India.

Lots of little details here and there.

Offered two sandwiches on bread made by Tandavika Das family to Lord Nrsmha deva and 1-liter yogurt with fruit.

Blog mail is catching up O.K:

AGTSP. Paoho. 9.36PM. We are dead. After week or more we talked with Dr. Samaresh. Adjust India preaching. Then we had nice SB class this morning. We are syncing with the Board of Examiners.

Then ... gardener, local adjustments, and 3.5 hours to get the last Viplavah done and off to the editors. Gave them three days to respond. Was a lot of work and a lot of fun. Walking with NGD and Vijaya ji.

After just two days we have made a lot of progress toward recovering our energy and getting things caught up. Subal called from Richmond and wants to know if we can visit there in May. We looked at tickets and it would be hard. We will have to see how much we recover. Tomorrow we sync with Art Das and NIOS Peru.

Thank you.

Hare Krsna!

UND writes: Dandavats. Polite reminder. Has anyone been in touch with HH Hanumat Presaka Maharaja recently? I am concerned if everything is okay as I have never experienced such long gaps in response from Maharaja ever.

Daso'smi

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Tom Brown/Buck White: Aaaaaah!   We have been fighting The Evil One in the Swamps. On the hills. In the fire. Every day. Every day we try to get to the Viplavah and fail. We are in Boise now. We have been posting regularly at squeals at our Blog. After Houston we hit the Jung congress in Santa Barbara. This was INCREDIBLE. Thirty-five presentations in many cases by double doctorates who have published like 8-books with presses like Yale University and have had their art displayed at the Metropolitan museum of art in New York. Had to get a rental car and drive at 70-years old daily through the rain, wind etc and find the hall. UCSB spent maybe $200,000 to bring Jung's original art from Switzerland. Our contacts were there etc. etc.  Aaaah. This is also the end of our 10-week tour.  Today got 16-rounds done by 7AM but have 8-more to finish which we have been carrying for three daze now. Then we had meeting during breakfast with one disciple couple, then a three hour, intense emotional, valid meeting with the administration about Sastric studies here and in the world. Then a super 7-course lunch which we as travelers had to pick our way through with great care so as not to over eat while another disciple dialog went on between mouthfuls in Spanish and English. All very productive, but we are just struggle with Viplavah (Sadhana, (Latin American GBC (MOE North American Sastric Studies (University Lectures))).  Aaaaah. 🙂  Your letter is like a hello from a boat to a drowning man. Our letter here has taken about 15-minutes and now in 30-minutes we go for evening program and a lecture on "NOI - Delivering Rama's Ring".   Any advice?  We will still push the Viplavah. How are things at your end of the fight???

AGTSP. Paoho.

It is 6.07PM. At 6.15PM we have to get ready for the FEP. Fool Evening Program.

We had two hours of Latin American Regional GBC administrative meetings and then two hours of Hawaii SB class and preparation. Suniti gives good Niti, advice, to Dhruva. Is she Kanishta adhikari??

Then lunch with peas-porridge soup, powdered milk burfi, pumpkin soup, potatoes pops, plum chutney, misti dahi, another bengal sweet, Bala-bhadras farmers-bread and came back to our ashrama with Apple-Strawberry Juice. It was all nice. Was able to get through it pretty well.

Nap. World classical literature. Correspondences.

Now arati, talk with Natha, home program with 600-devotees at Srinivasa Das ashrama Acrosss the street.

In general, still packed programs.

Low energy - from end of trip.

Health for 70 year old ass is 90%.

Barely maintaining Bh. Sarva bhauma standard.

Barely keeping all our NIOS and MOE and ASA programs afloat.

Hare Krsna. Same for you?

1 - Japa

2- 4-regs

3- FMP

4 - Sankirtan (Distributed two full sets, 50+ Gitas and SSR this last week).

Sugopi radha Devi Dasi Ki Jai! (Jung program at the Univeristy brough Jung followers from all over the region, professors, students, cngregation members). Was intense.

Ananta rupa Das, Niti-sara Das and (good wife). Balabhadra (and very good wife). Srinivasa ach (and very very good wife) and ... Upendra Das (and very, very, very, very good wife and daughter (radhika (becoming a pharmacist)).

We try to be servants. A sublime service in any situation for any community or people is to always chant HK/HR.

6.17 :>>>> FEP!

Thank you.

AgtSP!

paoho... Brown and White here. The first day of the Jungian congress was INCREDIBLE. About 600-attended - seventy percent ladies (21-81 years old). The level of scholarship and artistry was amazing. Jung was amazing. Shonu Shyamdasani was like a giant mountain surrounded by other giant mountains. We felt like a little rat at the foot of the Himalayas.

Beverley Zabrieskii also presented and when it broke for lunch we saluted her and had a short but nice discussion.

So many people have made the connection between Jung's work and their work. Jung and Caitanya-vaisnavism would be one more effort (but the best!).

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We do all this in the middle of a war zone. [BANG! BANG!]

1. We are still on an Indian time mode so in the after-noon we tend to crash and then wake up like now - 7.40PM-11.40PM.
2. Our host, Giridari-priya Das (John Patel) is a super, second generation ISKCON devotee, hero, but he is event-organizer for big people in a large retirement community, so he has his schedule and we have to walk softly not to be a burden on him.
3. Getting around is a challenge. We are a 71-year old ass behind the wheel. The GPS map on our Windows Phone is pretty good, but finding Lot 22 on the U.C. Santa Barbara Campus is a little challenging for it. Fortunately they sent us maps and we can remember them and found the parking garage. The event was programmed into the automated parking system but still we lost $5 on the first round with the robot parking attendant.
4. We learned a lot about Jung's timeline. We chatted with a few people but no intense connections so far. People ask who we are, dressed as Sannyasis. We say Bengali Vaisnavas.
5. During the intense Plenary Session in the morning we listened to, contemplated, Prof. Shamdasani and Beverley's presentations but still it does not arouse our heart intensely. Japaiya sada harih. We were chanting on beads the whole time.

Our other ASA and MOE work is greatly reduced. We are trying to find our place in Srila A. C. Bhakti-vedanta Swami's orchestra.

O.K. . . . 12.06AM. Lettuce chant on beads. Vidya-vadu-jivanam. Plans will come from the Name. Bhava, perspective, will come from the Name.

HARE KRSNA. HARE RAMA. JAYA SRI VRNDAVANA DHAMA.