Letters to the editor

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]]]

Hare Krsna, Hare Rama.

It is 35(2)-degrees outside and cool inside. We have the office, bedroom, cave room on half heater so we can heat up the bath room. Then we can take a final bath.

Full Morning Program. Nice discussion of Matsya Avatar. Always need to step back and see how the stories are important to our life, our Sankirtan.

Then banking and three calls to Dr. Samaresh about Gaudiya Math Symposium in April. More travel work that we can do. Have to accept what the devotees can do to help us in India. Hard to plan it all from here. Devotees in India cannot do a lot of organizing in advance.

Then banking - NIOS money, ASA money ...

Our computer fan seems to have died and now the screen is cloudy and hard to read. We will leave it in Houston for Gopinatha Das to look at. Indication from Krsna that we should only take our smart phone and Blue tooth keyboard? But our right knee is better! Srila Prabhupada says that material life means trading a back ache for a head ache.

Then drove to Walmart and replaced our cane, looked for one cup microwaveable container but could not find. May have one here. Got toothpaste, reading glasses and frozen orange juice.

Offered almonds, walnuts, apple, banana, little milk (don't want to abuse the cows), and frozen orange juice in the blender etc. Brother Ass took to much but he is pretty stressed by the cold, age etc.

Read a little KRSNA book, world classical literature, nap, back to work. Finished accounting with calls to Abhaya, Abhiseka, NgD and several more. Gaura-Arati on line. All the Urgent (except for Isvaris) letters and all the old ones to one week ago.

No article writing.

O.K. 8.38PM. Bath in the HOT tiny, weak floored bath room and some more Krsna book.

See you in FMP.

Thank you for the association, letters, online programs. Upendra Called with good ideas. Talked with Radhika about the India trip.

Hare Krsna. We live in a bubble of time and space dominated by the feet of His Divine Grace.

Oink! Honk! WHoop! ! ! !

8.39PM We are DEAD!!! lONG lONG LONG dAY! You can see some of the letters we wrote to Minstry of Education, Philemon Foundation. We answered "Urgent" letters. The problem/advantage of URGENT letters is that we answer them quickly so that sometimes means it is a short answer.

We see so many Vyasapuja offerings. How can we answer them?? We feel sad. Our eyes are very strained now. We can push but we will go blind even sooner.

Tandavika Das has gone to bed. We didn't get a chance to go for walk today. I wanted to but it kept getting later.

The world moves very fast.

All we can do is keep our little part of it clean and be an example to others. We can talk to them, offer advice, if they can hear, but if not then we can set and example.

Hare Krsna Hare Rama. Happy Radha. Happy Shyama. Play Their vina, play their lute. Play Their bamboo country flute.

More letters we wanted to answer but will destroy our eyes, so we rest now. Hear Krsna lila in the rumbling of the surf.

Our humble obeisances to you. Thank you for your sacrifices for Srila Prabhupada's movement. , , , ,

Hare Krsna!

AGTSP. Paoho. Today was typical.

Up at 2AM - Ja Ja Paw!!

Full morning program online and with Tandavika Das here in Giriraja Ashrama in Franklin, Tennesse. The long phone conference with Dr. Samaresh to do the second draft of the letters from NIOS and Rector of San Marcos University to the Governor of West Bengal et al.

Then SB class with Srinivasa, Sundara-radhika, Sugopi-radha, Isvari, Jiyada, Mitravinda et al! Copy to Upendra and Twitter. Bali Maharaja goes to Sutala.

Then 24-minutes rest and 2-1/2 hours of discussion with Mathuresa Das about property management of ISKCON Peru, GBC College etc.

Breakfast.

Some rest, rest, rest and now sending the letters and this DTC.... Jaya! Now we will go for a walk in the Mall with Tandavika Das. Hare Krsna!!!

ENGLISH TRASH

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SEMI-ARID SAVANA

Bartworth Beekers bridge the gap,

That stood between the elephants and the Lion's baseball cap.

Moving herd South-wise across the warm savana,

The elephants first saw it lying like a heavenly Hosana!

It was a baseball cap, but the trees and fleas, and dogs and logs, all sang to it in high Hosannas!

"Halleluah!  Halleluah!

   "H A LL E L U AAAAaaaA H!"

"My aching back", said the Duke of the 'derms, "if I don't waddle and quack, it's a Lion's baseball cap!"

"WaaaaWuuuuuu", trumpeted the rest of the herd because you have heard the word that elephants and lions sometimes fight and usually the lion wins and on the colosal's spine takes a bite.

!FOOD FOR A WEEK FOR THE PRIDE!

[A covey of quail,

a herd of cows,

lions in PRIDES they all resides].

"WaaaaWuuuuuu!!!", most wanted to stomp it and flip it and rip it to shreds but wise old Duke he said, "We must bow our heads. All the ambient creatures glorify it with purples and reds!"

Bartworth came forward, or rather descended from a tree, and spoke in such a way that all 'derms and 'boons the great truth could see.

"It's like this yur majesty. This lion who 'ere done wear this baseball cap was none to proud of being a lion and 'aving to kill, to eat, sentient creatures that danzes and waulks.

So this morn'n we talked and he laid down 'is 'at and his team labeled socks.

'e was a devotee of God in the Chistian faith, but didn't mind chanting with the Krsna wraiths."

!!!  HARE KRSNA!   HARE KRSNA!   ! ! !

"Was a Maha-bhagavata and by NOI 6 we should not fault him his skin, lungs nor nails, nor if he speaks any crooked tales."

So the old noble duke raised the hat to the tops of the trees and there it hangs today where everyone sees.

KIRATA HUNAANDRA PULINDA PULKASA...

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Meanwhile, the lion, whose name was Leo, a young man, b'cari, was loping south-west, having completely forgotten the hat of detest, but his mind gave no rest.

It asked, "If you don't eat meat, what can you eat?!"

For a dog or a man, God has a wide plan, but cats eat meat or they die.

"Did Vibhisana eat meat? He was a Raksasa. Do they have to eat meat?"

Then he came across a solitary rose bush named Rose Bush in the semi-arid savanah and sat down next to it and asked, "Are you a boy rosebush or a girl rosebush?"

"Girl," said RB.

Leo looked at him and said, "Liar! I can see you are a boy."

"Yes," said RB, "but don't hide what's lurking inside."

"Hare Krsna!" said Leo, "a homosexual rosebush!", but did not get up to leave. Then he asked, "Look RB, you have a broad perspective on things. What should I do? I don't want to kill animals to live but there is really not much option with the body I got. Actually I even like licking muscles too the bone over a few days after I take them home."

"Garumph," said RB, "by the way people like me fear vegetarians more than carnivoars.

Doars to Vaikuntha are always open. You could fast on water, die and go to heaven, just chant Holy Names as the very best leaven. As an alternative you could kill and eat criminals who are condemned to death by the laws of the state: wolves, jackals, patricide, matricide or those who murder their mate. You could protect the flocks of white fluffy sheep and eat, the assailants as your little ones bleat!"

"Cricky good gravy," sassed Leo, "I'll take your advice and unless there are enough wicked for rice, I'll take it as God's mercy and only take water and ice."

THE SUN SET AND LEO PASSED THE NIGHT WITH RB SMELLING THE EARTH UNDER THE STARS AND QUARTER MOON DISCUSSING THEIR EXPERIENCES IN LIFE.