Letters to the editor

Oink!   (Optomistic Iconographers Need Krsna)!

Last day in Nila-madhava Dhama. Our eyes and throat are still some bit tired. We have been determined to eat what we want to eat and it has helped a lot. CCD and M. Subhra went to the SFO Rathayatra the day after we arrived. We were asked to go too, but it was too much. We hope they send us lots and lots of news.

Our energy has recovered a lot.

But definitely we are finished working like young asses.

Tomorrow, 6.30AM, we go in Nandulal Das' Chariot of Fire to the airport and get to the Boro at 11.30AM.   Get our feet on the ground. See if Red Rover starts, what has happened to Bhakta Pear Tree, how well the air-conditiner works.

Saw the letter to Oscar?     Good plan?    A documental on Art and the Sacred. Movie interview with many people.

By art we can spiritualize the masses.

                   O.K. We go to the Sunday Feast.

Everything seems to be moving ahead at a practical pace.

Hare Krsna!!

Got our rounds done.

Answered three letters.

Hare... Hare... Hare...     At every moment we can make ulitmate progress in perfecting our service, bhajan.

Tom Brown:

Brother Ass, has every mass, of being Dog-Dog sick,

But chanting Holy Names refrains,

The material chaos,

And sustains,

A hope in heart, that the soul'll awake, and take its part, in the Bhaktivedanta Band.

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Our postion is the Full Morning Program. Arising as early after midnight as possible and chanting Japa. We give our life to this foundation and then during the day we are now mostly just responding to requests from others and the impetous the FMP gives us eg. Now we are working on the Ministry News-letter.

Seems like this will work and the world that results from this will have a very, very substantial foundation, even allow us to prepare for old-age and death. It will be a preaching world.

Buck White:
Behind this is "Kirtaniya sada harihi", always chant the Names of God within the core of your heart as authorized by Srila Prabhupada.

 aare Krsna!

You can see from the letter to Dr. Kalyankumar Chakravarty that we are under great pressure here, but also experiencing great association and Sankirtan.

We are on the second story here in Mathuresa Das' home. The keys on this computer are different than what is marked on the keyboard. We have stomach turmoil even after some milk and a nice bananana, but when we hear about the HELL people face in Serbia and such, then we don't complain. It is gettng dark. It is about 46-degrees Farenheit and night and gets a little warm during the day. There is a lot of sunlight and fresh air. You can walk out the door and see, smell, cows. There are so many devotees today arriving from La Paz etc. Some disciples no one has seen for more than a year!  Someone is chanting with the harmonium downstairs and in 14-minutes we will all pile in cows, mount motor cycles and take the 15-minute drive to Cochabamba where the temple is in Rudra simha Das home.

Hamlet and Arjuna played to a full auditorium last night with good questions - What is Karma? Did Hamlet have a Guru like Arjuna had?

We gave class on SB 6.9.31 plus this morning, went for a walk up the back roads to Tiquipaya with about 15 devotees and sat in the Church for some Japa. We wrote letters. You can see them. Shaved in the cold water.

Now we will write a short story.

TREE TOP TELL TALES

Once there was a donkey named Dilson who spoke Latin and French.

He did not know the difference between atoms and Adam, but he loved to recite the books of Prabhupada while sitting in the park on a bench.

It was summer and the beach was visible below. People would come and spread their blankets each day, and though he never talked with them they all stayed and listened to the poems.

He read of the Sone of Drona Punished and Krsna Enters Dvaraka.

After all this he dug deep into cyber space and found other stories of Sita and Rama.

Hare Krsna, Hare Rama.

When the puris puff up and Baby Krsna laughs and claps His hands, everything is very, very nice.
 

Hare Krsna!

AGTSP. Paoho

Here we are in Tiquipaya, Bolivia, not far from Cochabamba. It is Ekadasi so we mostly just have energy for hearing and chanting.

Can we make an impact in the world?

What is the specific contribution that we have to offer?

Bessie Smith ate an apple in Israel and then wrapped the core in a napkin and put it in her coat pocket. She forgot about it until she returned to USA, Texas, and then when she found it she thought, "Let me just plant the seeds.". Now there are "Bessie Smith" apples all over the region. Shows you how one seed can spread everywhere.

Now we are headed for the Temple in Chochabamba. We have asked to have internet and go on line with StartMeeting.com for our regular Wednesday night Bhakti-Sastri workshop.

Hare Krsna. Hare Rama.

If you don't know what to do,
The Holy Names will always inform you!

Reading Srila Prabhupada's books is a convenient way to chant the Holy Names also.

Hare Krrsna, Prabhus,

AGTSP. Paoho.

We danced with Bh. Bhusana Swami yesterday. Poked one of the ladies in the breast while dancing (Ugh!) and flew from Arrequipa to Lima.

The children's Jagannatha Padayatra in Chosica was great, just didn't have banners, flyers and a Parade Marshall.

We are getting little fat (Ugh!    Ugh!) but not eating anymore than before. Must be our Jupiter phase.

Today we fly to Cusco. We are passing with no translator now. We can do nice fire sacrifices but Rama-Sundari Das did a  very impressive one for Arrequipa.

Our aspiration is to write something that will sell Srila Prabhupada's books, glorify, illuminate Srila Prabhupada's books.

If you want to see his lotus feet, then you can do it through his books.

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We are exchanging nice letters with Ananta-Rupa Das in Boise about developing SB classes in the Boise Temple. We consider it a very central ISKCON Temple.

We noticed that it describes in the SB that different demigods were attending different events while hovering in the sky in their airplanes. This is like attending by SKYPE?

O.K. Here we go to Cusco.

Hare Krsna,

Hare Krsna,

We are in Hell, how about you?
Are you shivering and coughing as you read this too?

Our fever is 95% defeated by the armies of the Yoga Damned.

Tonight is the "Night of the Living Prabhupada and Carl Jung".

Last night was super, super, super successful program with National Poet Laurreaute, heads of National Libararies etc here in Santiago. It was so exciting: Hamlet and Arjuna, violin, sitar, prasadama, marble arches, greatest authority on Hamlet translation in the Spanish world. Ooof. Still reeling from the shock.

Answered all the mail. Got 15 rounds done. Need to call one devotee about local politics. Go for harinama sankirtan at five with two feet o jackets.

How are you?   Sankirtan trumps our crazy political mind everytime.

KapiDhvaja goes tomorrow?

O.K. Here we go.

Make a big sound for Srila Prabhupada.