Letters to the editor

Hare Krsna! Hare Rama! Jaya Radha, Jaya Shyama, Jaya Sri Vrndavana Dhama. AGTSP! paoho.... It is 7.02AM... We go for Mangala arati, chant during a lot of extra hymns that the Temple does after MA and until just before Srngara arati and Guru-puja. During that we come back to our cave and read and write.

Yesterday was a donkey killer from Daytona! Three lectures. Tough lectures. The first was a Regional Medical Conference sponsored by the local university hospital, RIMS. We had to struggle to understand the audience and then put a PPTX together, but it was good. We were impressed but the love of the scientists for their work, the level of dscipline and organization existing in Manipur. Right before us was Medical Ethics and then we pushed it to Integral Medicine - Body, Mind and Spirit. Audience was about two hundred and the Doctors and Professors and Chairpersons listed with continuous attention. We saw that we could have followed up a lot more. This is Manipur. B. S. Damodara Swami is from here and he is a reknowned scientist.

Some war, bloodshed, with mosquitos here.

Next was NOI seminar third day. Eight nice students. We are reviewing our study guide.

Finally, regular ASA Saturday Morning ABC symposium. We were dog-donkey-dumpling tired but we knew that once we got on line and associated with devotees it would be possible. Upendra, Sugopi radha, explained their weeks reading and HpS summarized the classes from Kolkata, Manipur and showed the RIMS pptx in summary.

Too tired to do Reports or post this DTC.

Now, 12-rounds done, leaving for Tubal at 8AM for 6-hour program. B. S. Damodara Swami's birth place. Nice shrine there.

We will nap, bathe, and work on the Annual Reports.

Today is Ekadasi!

Watching for Urgent news in the Blog.

Hare Krsna.

AGTSP. Paoho. Little overcast. Some dust and smoke in the air. We are out near the airport. Lots of empty land away from the road here. Temple is quite Oriental looking.

Not strong emphasis on Japa and SB here. More on Arati, Kirtan, manual service and good Prasadam.

We are half way through the Disciple Reports - like 34 done and 32 to go. It is interesting, we only formally have 66-disciples. That even seems mangeable.

Few reporters are behind on ther rounds. 90% following four regs. Everyone doing good service. We are asking to hear about their families a little more, here in the Blog. Without the help of the family, participation of the family, even as critics sometimes, how can we be doing good service. Of course, some are STRONG brahmacaris (:>>>====>) head toward Sannyasa(??). They need nice administrative authority. Sannyasis administrating B'caris.

O.K. Now we should prepare for the NOI seminar, day two. About four ladies and 8 gents. Finished into to the course and Preface and Text One yesterday. Chanting the Goswami Astaka.

Trying to fix the calendar for USA when we get back. Abhirama Das says Ambassador may not help in our relations with San Marcos because he feels we are religious.

Hmmm. Hare Krsna, Hare Rama!!

Checked the Blog for any URGENT letters.

AGTSP

paoho

Did another 7 reports! Fighting fever from all the dust blowing in the wind in Manipur. Many people wear masks. Culture is incredible here. Gave class this morning. Told a lot of stories. Very simple, nice devotees here. Now in 33-minutes we start our NOI seminar. About 200-devotees will eventually come from all over the North East. We worked a lot on the NOI study guide and talked with Rama-gir-dhara Das about the NIOS/MOE calendar, and Dr. Samaresh ran his heart out to get the paper to the printer to get Siksa Darsha on line for 19th March release.

Hare Krsna!!!!

"The preacher of Krsna katha is always beyond the clutches of death", NOI-1

AgtASP Paoho. We are in Manipura. It is 2.08PM. We are only partially destroyed by mosquitos, malaria and dengue like flies. The weather is a little cold but nice. It is so remote here. More remote than Kolkata. If you are from Peru or California you cannot imagine how different it is here or in Kolkata. A different world.

We should be dead.

Maybe we are dead.

We started answering the Disciple Reports. We got like 7-done and the web-page won't post them. Happens for some time.

We will give NOI seminar here and go to one wedding and one university program.

Dr. Samaresh has almost published the next book, but got very dizzy from fatigue so had to wait one day. Now we take a quick bath and leave for Thoubal, the wedding, 1/2-hour from here. Is very different culture. We hope you all can come to Manipur next year. We should make a movie. Adventure/detective movie.

Hare Krsna.

Starting to get hot in India. Still not too many mosquitos. Temple is CROWDED on Sunday. Nava-yogendra Swami was supposed to give SB class today but he was sick so we were enlisted. Then we had to step into the car from the Vyasa-asana into the car, Kolkata traffic, and after dogging two pigs running we climbed six flights of stairs in the dark and came out on the roof where all the Book Distributors from all the Bhakta-vrksa Programs were assembled with a roaring Kirtan to get ENLIVENING INSTRUCTIONS from HpSwami about the Marathon.

He was terrified but Krsna gave a good class.

More fruit. Back in the Car. Back to the Temple. Bath, Gayatri, Lunch (Saved from Breakfast). World Classical Literature. Nap.

Worrying. Why is Prof. Samaresh not calling?!! We were supposed to see Sanjaya (the type-setter) today. No call. No call. Do mail. Listen to chaos of five Sunday Feast programs below.

Rtu-raja K Das cousin called. We gave his number..

Srinivasa Das called by accident. We were happy by accident. We talked for 30-minutes.

We ansered letters.

Prof. Called. Printer whome we met last night NEVER SENT THE QUOTE for printing Siksa Drsa tha he promised last night! No reason to travel today to see Sanjaya. Seems good. Too much.

Tomorrow the Gaudiya matha wants us for lunch, meet other printer, record interview with Professor, get signed contract with printer, go to paper supplier, go to see Sanjaya, ask PKD to check in for us and pay Rupees 200 for seat in rows 11-20. They board first.

Then return to Temple.

Ha! Ha! Three more years and we can retire in Radha-kunda?

Join us.

Now we go down for Arati.

AGTSP paoho. They are 4.08AM. In room 301 of the ISKCON Kolkata Guest house with Rtu-raja-krsna Das. Now we go to Mangala arati and then at 5.45AM the bus leaves for Mayapura. Every day we travel 1.5 hours in the taxi to work with Dr. Samaresh for NIOS.

Our laryngitis is rfeduced to 25% but still there with subtle fever. Maybe it will improve when we get into the country atmosphere of Mayapura.

Answered the letters marked URGENT and want to get to letter from Dhruva/Australia, Chaitanya caran Das and others.

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