Letters to the editor

Hare Krsna, AGTSP!!! Paoho. Monkey/Piggy here!!! Did you like the KDh??

Still in the Pune Temple. It is about 20,000 acres and 100,000 people come each evenign for Gara Arati. Sataksi came last night with here new husband. He is a very nice person.

Each day we do 10.30-1.30 and 4.30-6.30 with the Board of Examiners. It is starting right now. We are working on redesigning the Examinations for the 4-degree program. Atul Krsna Das, Gauranga-darshana Das, Laksmni mauni and Prasanta devi dasi's, Adi-purusa Das, one excellent Indian B'cari who s name we forget and others visiting. They are all very erudite, excellent devotees who have taught hundreds of BhS et al programs. Very interesting hearing about all kinds of different students.

It is very very hard mental work. We have to use many techiniques to avoid headaches. Our ideas are appreciated sometimes and rejected others. Same for others, but no one becomes angry or unenthusiastic. Present again or accept the difference.

O.K. Here we go again.

Radha-natha Swami liked our lecture in Eco Village. About 1,000 people for his lecture thing morning. Pune we secnd in th Kristmas marathon.

Sunday we leave a 5AM for Delhi.

Dr. Samaresh writes:

Peru letter not yet received by me.

Monkey Piggy answer:

Yes! ☹ I don't know what has happened with them after I started this travel. Only 5% contact. When I hear this it gives me INTENSE stomach pain. I have to ask, "Am I doing my best? Am I choosing right priorities?"

Only one day and I am 75% adapted to local Asrama function! Not an easy task. 🐘

Spent two hours with Gauranga Darshan Das Brahmacari. He is biggest curriculum development scholar in ISKCON. Over 6-hundred pages of didactic material. Tomorrow and next day two hours more including his students and teachers. 😲

Can't use someone else's phone here! No towers!

Help!

Hare Krsna. Internet may fail at any moment so we write fast.

We are in Gujurat at Atmarama Das school. It is in the country with 16-acres, 50-cows and 120 students. It has dropped a lot since when it started there was only his school with English media and now there are 50. People have become much more materialistic and want High Tech educaiton for the children. Dont want them to work with cows!

Is a lot of stress for us.

Packed with travel and programs.

Now so many devotees want us to join their programs ans squeeze in air trip here and there but our body cannot handle it. We live on the edge of reality with the full morning program as a life and death choice. We are waiting for Rama-giridhari Das to come back from an unexpected trip to organize local Rathyatra. We may miss our trip to the Eco-village.

Hare Krsna!

The Holy Names and Guru-padma are our only shelter.

Internet has not been too good, so our ASA daily workshops are not too good.

In the time between the five programs a day we work on the essay for the Gaudiya-matha program.

It has come off pretty good - writing academic papers in the middle of a rowboat in the middle of the ocean.

O.K. Close here before the inter net goes.

Yahoo blocked our mail but seems o.k. now.

Insanity in a bag. Ha! Ha! Hare!

Another endless day. Up at 11.30pm. Answered 23-letters including sending itinerary to GM. Then Yahoo blocked my mail because they thought some one had hacked it from India. Took about one hour to resolve that. Them out from 8.30-6.30 for home, academic, temple programs and finally three hours dancing in Rathayatra.

Good night

Hare Krsna, Prabhus,

AgtSP. Paoho.

Three in the morning in RGDD flat in New Mumbai. It is a little warm. Our eyes have reached their limit working on our article for the Gaudiya-matha symposium.

Jet lag, travel, we are working pretty well. Already the programs are beginning to sprout up around us. Rtu-Raja Das et al coming to join us. Have this moment to write to you.

Trip from USA was long and hard even Business Class, but was O. K. Now get internet access, contact sponsors. We depend on you all. At this point we are 90% responding to the environment and only little bit able to keep our personal identity by chanting Hari Nama within our self.

O. K. bath and drive to FMP at the Temple.

Thank you.

Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna!

AGTSP! Paoho! 8.36PM, sitting on the sofa in NGD home. Abhiseka Das just got back from his day in the law offices. Manjari is back from her day in the medical supply industry. NGD is just coming to sit in his chair to read Krsna conscious literature. He is full of CDs, online programs etc.

Mother Matsya cooked Ekadasi Prasadam.

It is cold and wet so we did not go for a walk.

The damn computer seems to have been cured. I noticed that there was a light in the alternative screen buttn so pushed the function switch and that button and the haze went away.

Shoud we take it with us?

So many options. So many writing projects. Hare Krsna. We get exhausted from all the mental agitation. Solution is to Chant Hare Krsna!!! We remember to do that in your association,

but

sometimes we don't have the strength to chant on beads, but we can do it! It has to come from deep within the heart. It may be slow, but it is there. Chant Chant Chant. Maybe you die in a day, with you no one will play, but Krsna will will walk with you on the way Back to Vrndavana.

KRSNA, KRSNA, KRSNA, KRSNA, KRSNA, KRSNA, KRSNA HE!

Patricia wrote. S. Barbara Conference is 3rd through 7th. $500, but lot of content, lot of contact with Jungian leaders. Give and Take.

Srivasa Das sent the Charter from BOEX for San Jose and started to look at tickets.

We chanted 22-rounds (6-from yesterday.....[devil]) and talked with Hari lila Das for 30-minutes. Travel arrangements, Hawaii class. Walnuts and orange juice for Lord and potatoe soup here at NGD house. Our cave is small, dark and dificult but it is isolated. It forces us to concentrate. If we stayed in the mode of passion in Grhastha Ashrama we would not have the intensity that we need.

O.K. I guess that is it. We love you all and want to do our part in the choir. Our right knee is better and computer is better. Really we are 100% preparing for TEN WEEKS on the road!

Hare Krsna! HAre Krsna!!

Kapi Dhvaja on SUnday.

[[[ Don't want to put any pressure on PND at all. He has given such wonderful facility in this Blog, but if the pictures can be added that would nice, no? But no rush]]]