Letters to the editor

Oink!   Wiggle, Wiggle!

Buck White here!

Can you write when you are hungry?  Are all of your essays, just your stomach talking?

Eat for you heart, eat for your soul,
   What about eating does your stomach know?

Words are like little sounds: Click! Click!   They Srila Prabhupada's feet in Braja do surround.
If you are a human or a hound, keep your nose to the ground (of Braja) and you will quickly hear Krsna's flute making a bewildering sound.

Then with the guidance of Subal et al, your chances to offer your special service will abound, on the ground, all around, with nice sound.

For how many life times we are writing these poems?  For how many lifetimes are we reading yours as they come to our homes?

We live in the dust at Srila Prabhupada's feet. We hope your messages there we will meet as we scavenge for p-nuts and raisins quite sweet.

Any service for us?

Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna,

We broke Ekadasi with some baked-to-a-crisp puris and milk.

We read the "Poison Antidote" by Mayesvara in PDF format. Tough on our eyes but pretty good document. We put the link in the letter to Nanuk.

We just finished a Report to Prof. Samaresh (RGD):

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Hare Krsna!

Esteemed Professor, Rama-giri-dhari Das,

It is 3-minutes to midnight, Tuesday. Of course, we are in the iron grips of Jet Lag. We crash about 9AM and wake up about 3PM. We wanted to call at 9PM Kolkata hour but we were just to weak.

In general we are very weak, exhausted. The last push from Kolkata ISKCON to Houston ISKCON was 43-hours of hard work. We got a fever and cold, but with our efforts our deranged Pitta is about 90% normal now. Normal for a 70-year old Donkey.

We told Dr. Pankaj Gupta from the 24-December program and Sriman Gopal-bhatta Das from the 4-February programs that we would have to confirm by the 15th of November that they wanted us to present at Jendal University and ISKCON Leadership Sanga, so we should be able to finalize those calendar dates by tomorrow.

Dr. Ravi, put his foot down and set the requirement that if we came back to India so soon we would have to travel Business Class to avoid the intense pressure on our body that Economy Class presents.

I informed Dr. Panaj of that and he said he would investigate and get back to us.

In general, we feel that we pushed ourselves to the limit and unless we severely rest from travel for at least three months we are heading for an early death.

More natural seems to rest here until 15th February, then go to South America for two months. The programs with NIOS and ISKCON Ministry of Education have reasonable potential for us there.

Our Ashrama space here is pretty good. Car is O.K. Bathtub hot-water valve is broken and leaking.

I have to do the paper-work, accounting, for the last two months for ASA (NIOS).

I talked with Sesa Das (Dr. Seth Spellman), ISKCON Minister of Education, and we are supposed to have a conference call to settle the work to be done with the magazine, 'Viplavah.

For Siksadrsa I have looked on this little computer and cannot find any older files. Now as I remember we were using a computer borrowed from the Kolkata Temple to do the work in January and I looked at the three other USB-drives that I have here and also no more recent copy of Siksa than I gave Sanjaya. Hmmfff.  Can we just start to go through the book with Sanjaya from beginning to end? He can send the work as he finishes it to me as a PDF and then I can review it?

We left Canadian dollars with Sri Hari-dasa in Delhi and about 165-brochures, carrying 35-with us as hand luggage to the USA.

I will try to call today, Wednesday at 9PM.

Your stumbling servants,

HpSwami - ASA.

Hare Krsna!

Brown Tom here.

Arrived Houston ISKCON at 3.30PM Wednesday. Left Kolkata Temple at 8AM, Tuesday (= 7.30PM Monday, Houston Time). So we traveled HARD for 48-5hours = 43-hours - Kolkata-Delhi-Amsterdam-Houston.

We got association of Harsh, Sita-pati, Sataksi, Sri Hari and Mataji in Delhi Temple and went for arati and kirtan of Radha Partha-sarathi.

Ooof!     Lot of airplanes, lot of lines, lot of terrible seats, lot of impersonal people!  Some nice people. Quite a few devotees traveling (Hari Bol!)

Our "health" is O.K. We are 'yellow line". Push any more and we can die. Got light but deep fever.

Got 13-17 rounds done. Watched some movies on arquitecture, pyramids, gave class. Gonna call Joshua and go to evening program and eat Mother Subra's vegetable soup.

It's 4.30PM dark and cold, but Radha Nila-madhav are dressed like a BEAUTIFUL bowl of fruit.

Hare Krsna.

Material scientists all say that to construct the pyramids ar Giza in 20-years you would have had to put one 20-ton block in place every 5-minutes 24-hours a day.

Let's give 'em a rest and say 10-blocks every hour and the night off. These are like 5-ton blocks. Takes  a lot of people to pull 5-tons and then they fit within .5-mm on the camping surface and the North South orientation is tighter than the Greenwich observatory.

There are many aquitectural remnants like this that show a very advanced technological and social culture. Electricity and atomis power are just one of the many subtle wonders of the material energy.

Why not develop geo-magnetism and have resonating centers all around the world. You bring in a large crystal to the pyramid. We charge it and take 200 pounds of wheat and you get atomic energy for two months.

HK-HR
Arrived U.S.A. just barely alive. CCD, Subra, Gopinatha Das giving us Generous support. Rest. Recover.

 Tour was great success. Worth dying for.

Hare Krsna.

AGTSP

Paoho

You can see the Saturday Workshop post we just made. The weather has been pretty good. We were doing temple programs and work with Dr. Samaresh in Kolkatta. Devotees gave us big help and then off to Manipur. Here it is a little rugged, mountain, people, but also fresh air.

The program at the Asiatic Society in Kolkata was perfect. Hall was full with scholars, retired Vice-chancellors etc.. Then the program yesterday in the Manipuri medical college organized by Sarad-gaurangi Das et al was also incredible: Head of Psychiatry, retired head of psychology. We think they are open to the ideas that the soul animates the mind and body and that the Bhagavata has an excellent map though the mind.

Some stomach pains. Maybe from green banana. Surrounded by devotees with Dengue fever. Mind and body screaming to get back to "our country". Counting the days.

Need to write letter to Badri Swami about "Every Temple a Preaching Center" in terms of what we are learning in Pune, Boise etc.

No response to our Whatsapp post about art and the sacred.

Hare Krsna. We call Kolkata about our brochure printing.

Hare Krsna. AGTSP. Paoho.

Here we are the second day in ISKCON Kolkata. Our telecommunication and word processor are working pretty well.

The work with Dr. Samaresh is a big challenge but Srila Prabhupada has given us unlimited determination!   AGTSP!  !   ! ! ! !    !

We worked for about two hours on the next copy of Viplavah, MOE Journal, collecting stuff from the internet on our little little HP Elite screen and then passing it to Palak Partha Sarathi Das' computer and editing it and then back to cell phone for sending. Ooof.   Get the job done by improvising whatever you need to do.

It is 3PM... Little warm but no mosquitos. Got 13-rounds done. Dr. Samaresh had to go to a meeting room at the airport instead of the National Museum so we are not sure we can meet today.

O. K. Our eyes need a break. Bath, Gayatri, Japa.

We also listened to the first SB 7.5 class from Boise on Start Meeting.com and today and gave class in the Temple. We are eating once a day at b'cari breakfast and maybe little fruit and milk in the after noon.

Thank you. We look for URGENT letters now.