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.
HK/HR
Oink! Oink! Whoop! Whoop!
Hare Krsna, Hare Rama, Jaya Sri Vrndavana Dhama.
Here we are in the ISKCON Kolkata Guest House. We had a good Ministry of Education (MOE), North American Regional Representatives, meeting from 8.00-9.00AM. Our fever is almost gone, but our voice is still weak. The move from the Temple to the airport was fast, so we were in the airport for 3-hours before we flew to Kolkata. Slept well on the airplane. No one wanted to talk.
Purusottama Kesava Das and Pankaj met us and about 30-minutes to the Temple, bath, laundry soap, Gaura-arati, purchase a bit KRSNA book for this room, HOT MILK on the roof in the B'cari ashrama.
Some mosquitos.
Talked with Dr. Samaresh.
Now some world classical literature an take rest.
We should do the Kapi-Dhavaja but the travel has been exhausting.
Hare Krsna, Hare Rama!
Hare Krsna, Hare Rama!
The Holy Names are a gift of Gaura-Nityananda, Narottama Das Thakura, Srila Prabhupada. If we take Them we can find an eternal place in Vrndavana under the shelter of the Manjaris.
Hare Krsna,
1.54 AM... AGTSP Paoho Our second day in ISKCON Delhi. Up at 12.30 AM, chanted two rounds. aswered important mail and read from KRSNA Enters Mathura! Roses and narcissus!
3.06AM ... R(10). Slow chanting with no voice. Go challenge. No voice at the time of death. Practice for passing that examination, Death. After that Diploma, there are others.
"Contributing or distributing the holy name of the Lord is a sublime example of contributing or giving charity (the dadäti principle). By the same token, one must also follow the pratigåhëäti principle and be willing and ready to receive the transcendental gift. ", NOI 4. So, if you are chanting you are offering the best thing to others. If you want to increase your Book Distribution, chant mo' rounds bettah.
Time for 6-minute nap and then Bath-Kirtan, Puja, go to Partha-sarathi Temple.
11.45AM - R(16)... Voice a little recoverd. Rest. Rest. Rest. We have to find tasks that do not require thinking or personal contact with people much more in the bodily concept of life than us (Haw! Haw!). This is like gardening, ironing clothes, going for walks. Just one class a day (every day) is intense.
The Art of Living. Do you have a PhD in The Art of Living? Bhava.... (Goals and 'practical' work follow automatically from the proper consciousness (bhava [buddhi]).
12.15PM - We answered as many letters as we could. Our eyes are starting to get strained. Now we have to bathe and shave (once every two weeks). One b'cari, Aditya narayana (and others) is assigned to help us. He is great guy. He got razor etc for us. We wash our clothes in the morning when we bathe (with Tungavidaya DD soap) but he irons them.
We posted some of the answers in the lettes to the ASA Encyclopdia. Seems like a project that might just work.
12.21PM - Whatsapp to Atul - The work in Pune was one of the highlights in my life to that time. Next Braja and we gave a two hour class for Adi-P in the VIHE. I think this God-father Diploma might really be a good tool. It would be for giving Bhakti-sarva bhauma one time. We could get all the Senior Devotees on board eg. Roma-pada Swami, Vaisesika. Das. They could be assigned specific chapters to work on. We could get a general idea of what the character requirements etc. are for the diploma, generate good start of essay questions, standard slokas, short answer questions, and show off to the world the excellent academic quality of devotees in ISKCON. What do you think? We would be glad to work on NOI to Bh. Sarva level and Canto One + Two of Srimad Bhagavatam. It would include the work for the previous titles.
3.42AM (Monday) - Hare Krsna! We should have posted this last night but forgot. Didn't make it a priority, but Daily Sankirtan Reports, after everything, are essential.
Aditya Narayana Das brought some Maha-prasad. We wanted to take with the devotees, B'caris but not possible. We honored some nicely, napped, recovered our voice, answered and sent mail, went to Gaura-arati and danced ... one two three, and met Yuddhisthira Das and his daughter Kalindi from Ecuador. Back to Room 4 and Yuddhisthira Govinda Das was here. We discussed NIOS stuff with excellent results and then hot milk and Krsna book etc.
Up at about 1.15AM, voice better but little fever in the box.
O.K. Japa. Blog, Whatsapp, ASA-Encyclopedia and now Bath-kirtan.
We missed M. Urmilla Devi Dasi's class yesterday!
AgtSP Paoho. We reached ISKCON Delhi. Did five hours of lectures at two universities and two temples along the way. Five hours driving. Accommodations nice but not heated. Struggle. Struggle. Struggle. Result!
Our voice completely gone 😀 but hope for its quick return.
Sankirtan. Ekadasi. Hare Krsna!
FMP in Vrndavana! Cold. Fresh. 500-devotees. Then went to Radha kinda. Thunder. Lightening. Hail. Robbers. Success. Visited 100-holy places. Bare foot. Beautiful. Beautiful. Beautiful. Can see Krsna's hand everywhere. Vrijabasis. Even nasty factories and pollution are controlled by Krsna in Vrndavana.
Back from Radha kunda. Rest ie. Read. Honey and fruit. Ride through the storm clouds to Jaga Mohan, Brijabasi, home to see him family and blind Father. Very intense. 😲.
Back to Temple. Meet with Sri Hari Das. Tomorrow to Delhi
Jagadguru, Carlos, Arjuna called … Rodrigo had gone to Goloka. Hare Krsna!
Met Carlos's guru here.
Talked with Dr. Samaresh.
Take rest.
Thank you.