Letters to the editor

Hare Krsna! Muchachos and Muchachis!

AGTSP. Paoho. This is Tom Brown (Monkey) here. "Here" is sitting on top of OUR desk in OUR Ashrama in OUR town, Murfreesboro.

It is 5PM but it is already dark and cold and spooky. We have already had three visitors. Found p-but butter, strawberry jam and bananas in the refrigerator. Then we cooked oatmeal and milk and offered it to Krsna and took the remants!

So much service to so many projects and things to sort out. So many personal relations to sort out. Hare Krsna! Hare Rama!

This is nothing.

Krsna can dance on the heads of Kaliya! Cha cha cha! Cha cha cha!!

O.K. We chant Japa and go for a walk with NGD et al.

Super luck with your Sankirtan!

We distributed 6-NOIs today.



AGTSP

paoho

Tom Brown, The Immortal, here!

Piggy: Are you sure?

TB: Well, Brother Ass's teeth, eyes, lungs, ears, knees and memory are going but HpS is really learning to chant from a more deep basis. Hare Krsna!

Piggy: What have you done today?

TB: We finished about five letters between us and Atul-k Das and Bala-gov Das and there will be a coloquia on Phil. of Sastric Education in ISKCON at Pune Feb 4-9 and HpS will probably go to Govardhana Eco Village (GEV) to stay with Gauranga Das and the B'caris to see their program and smell cows.

• Working with the 5,000 devotees here for Art and the Sacred.
• GBC administration work for Arrequipa propertys.
• Did NIOS accounts with Abbhaya.
• Answered letters from Dr. Samaresh.
• Honored one banana, one mango, cup of yogurt and pnut butter and bowl of vegetable soup!
• Now we prepare for BG class tonight!

Piggy: Let us die a happy death. Hare Krsna, Hare Rama.

Hare Krsna.

AGTSP

paoho & bw.

(Purusa) Kala - Desa - Patra

(Who) When - Where - What

Monkey and Piggy (Dhruva, Dhanesvari, Gaura, Suryayani, Sarasvati, LAD, M. Rama-lila, Rai-ramananda, Lila-sri,.... Ananda, Joel, Purandara...), 3.42PM, ISKCON Arrequipa, Sitting in our Campsite with our things well set-up Calendar set doing our Letters to the Editor.

At 4.00PM we have to bathe (wash clothes (Kirtan)), then Tilak, Tea-time, brisk walk to the park (take books (get the triple-heaters opened)), Japa, 6.30PM Gaura-arati (GoToMeeting (NOI Symposium (1/2)), Japa and rest.

1. We are third class. We asked Srinivasa Das to give the Daily SB class today. We were in transit from Lima to Arrequipa. Yet, we did not give him the access codes. We are giving them to him by text-message now!  We apologize and hope to rectify this mistake.

2. Everything seems to be going O.K.: 'Art and the Sacred', 'Solaris', MOE meetings. Hare Krsna. You can make plans for serving Krsna, but better to just chant HK/HR (then you will see that the plans 'come' from the sky).

3.  "Purport: As suggested by the words cukūja veṇum, Lord Kṛṣṇa skillfully blended the sound of His flute with the lovely sounds of Vṛndāvana’s multicolored birds. Thus an irresistible, heavenly vibration was created.", https://www.vedabase.com/en/sb/10/21/2. This is the 'Venu Gita', Song of the Flute. We were doing it last Friday also. This phrase struck us. We also play a flute. You also? This merging of the sound our our flute with the ambient sounds is incredible challenge. Then you can turn all the local noises into Sankirtan, Book Distribution. Even more so, we can merge our Hari-nama Japa/Kirtan with the sounds of the environment. Listening to someone can merge with the Mantra. That is our goal of life. Your's?

Hare Krsna!

AGTSP

Paoho

We have a headache, stomach ache, back ache, laboring to breath a little, getting dark here in Lima (depressing), no Krsna kirtan in the room. No crowds of people...  but Abhi/Maria flat is very clean, new, bright. Dhruva and Dhanesvary and the babies came today. We have been having FMP that crack the neighbors windows and all of our rounds done early.

Our knees, especially the right one, seem to be coming to permanent collapse. Guess we will be on wheels soon.

Solaris is our constant meditation now. Abhi. Rama. Indu, Nitya K.   Everyone got it into a near final draft and then we looked at it and sent it off with suggestions to Dr. Samaresh and our NIOS Directors.   Lot of work.

Now lets look at our BG workshop preparation!!

 Hare Krishna!

 In La Paz 13,333 feet at the airport. No air. No brains. Headaches of the critically insane.

 Venomous spider bite and your blood runs lame. Steroid anti-venom, your stomach dances on vomit lane.

 Hurray! Krsna!

 Potent local politics prime the stew, but if we are sincere Krsna sends good ideas to you.

AGTSP

paoho...

Brother Ass got two spider bites.  Spreading out. Maybe our flesh will rot and we will have to live in an ant hill for two hundred years.

Our eyes have recovered much.

General health is pretty good.

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We have been in Peru for five days. Seems like several lifetimes.   We look for URGENT letters and answer them. Beyond that we just haven't got the facility. We can push our selves, then we have to eat more and our eyes get tired and can't focus and we start to get headaches which at 70-yeats old can mean a brain strike for our Donkey.

Full morning program.   Fighting with our new teleconferencing system: www.gotomeeting.com, but in general it seems much better than startmeeting.com. It works our our Window's phone!

We went with Abhirama th. Das Thursday to see Prof. Miguel Polo. His house is like a museum. Solaris, the flagship journal of NIOS, is coming out. Good articles. Interesting. Useful.

The Symposium, Art and the Sacred, is rolling. The airplanes start coming in 21st October. The houses are leased.     Our September, October, Latin America calendar is becoming clear. Today we go to Chosica but only for one night. Sunday come back and go to the airport at 10.30PM for La Paz...

Hare Krsna, Hare Rama.

We finally got 90% of the Yahoo mail.  Still got information frm Srinatha Krsna Das to process.

Got a head ache so time to stop.

No blog mail beyond this letter.

Tom Brown Buck White et al