Letters to the editor

We are more [agtsp!!] dead [paoho] than alive. We offered blended non-fat yogurt, carrots, walnuts, orange-juice to Lord Nrsmhadeva. He seemed to appreciate it. We thought a long time about what would be good for Him.

How about you?

If you are on the level of at least a second initiated devotee then you can feel that your intuitive experiences of Krsna have some value, to be adjudicated [big word!], of course, in terms of Srila Prabhupada's books. E.g. BG 10.10-11

It is
Sunday
morning - overcast and slight rain. Our pear tree is very healthy. The disease it had in the Fall has not come back. We are like Maharaja Bharat with his deer?    In our next life we will be a pear tree?

Got moving on the mail today.

Rounds a little slow. Got up late!!!!

Better to die chanting HK. That was Socrate's dictum. 

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Demon: You're weird!
Devotee: Then so was Socrates, Jesus, Confuscious and Genghis Khan.

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We'll get back to our Japa now. At 12.15PM is the half-hour SB with Boise, Idaho. We'll go walking with NGD.  The only thing that makes us go is reading of the sinless hero.

Blog mail is always moving.  Now a little faster.

TB

Hare Krsna, Tom Brown (Monkey (Kris Knox)) here!

We are sitting in the Atlanta airport at gate E-32.  It is 4.24pm and our flight leaves at 5.50PM for New Vraja Mandala, Spain. We are honoring one fo CCD's oatmeal cookies before we lose consciousness from hunger.

We will check to see that we have the latest version of Sakatsi Ji's paper for "Man Making" downloaded, then we will take a last look at the mail before we depart into the "Reduced Mail Zone" for two weeks.

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We have an edition of her paper from March 15th. Dr. Samaresh assigned it as our editorial work for the week!  We still need an article from Prana Das or other ISKCON primary school director: Education in Ancient India and Man Making in Modern Times.

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O.K.  Loading!  >>>>====>> 

Tom Brown (Kris Knox)  -  Ho! HO!  He! He!  Hari!  Hari!

It is 5.54PM.  All the mail is caught up to three days ago. Now we scoop for Spain.   Did Meta-soft work, and NIOS State filing requierements today. Had to go to Office Depot. Buy ink, and after two months got our printer working.

The roof on the porch blew off like 85% last night. It was coming off. We called Tandavika Das in Austin and he said he would get back by Sunday and call roofers by Monday or Tuesday. We sent the pictures and said that it might be more urgent than that.

Lot of Tweeting with poems pretty early.

All this administration gets boring to us. Some is a lot of fun. Then we want to take lots of Maha-prasada fruit and read some well written historical fiction. We have to purify our gross body so that we can read the Krsna book like that.

Is this true of you also?

Lot of things, but we chant Hare Krsna, take bath a few times a day and try to answer our mail. Calendars come from Friendships.

Tomorrow we write from Atlanta, then... New Vraja Mandala???

 'are Krsna, Mates,

We just uploaded our current annotated NOI: www.jayarama.us/archives/asa-noi170326.docx, which includes a reference to:  www.jayarama.us/archives/jaiva-40.docx, as as source of more explanation of the 'dasas', stage of devotional service, mentioned in Text 8

In the Sunday, Boise, SB class, 1.2.16 we noticed that even the Asuras who Krsna declares that He send to hell forever can get escape from that by the mercy of the preachers.

World Classical Literature: "She" by H. Rider Haggard. List of most read books: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_books. We want to get the KRSNA book on this list, no? What makes a book well read? Of course, one answer is that it is a good book and it is an old book. Then many people have a chance to read it for a long time. We also noticed that a book is satisfying if it doesn't just end, but rather satisfies us as a complete meal but then indicates what to read next.

Our mail is keeping pretty current. You can see the "Seattle Symposium" letter. Now we are waiting for a letter from Sattva, Abhirama Th. Das, to make the next move on "Psychology and the Sacred".

All these projects are too big for us. We are just doing our work to organize our little contribution. That's the way for everyone, no?

"Oh, my Lord, my boat is so small and your ocean is so big."

Tomorrow we have to pack: Mind, Body and Soul, for our trip to New Vraja Mandala.

On the way to NGD's ashrama we just stopped at Kamya-van, Good-will Store. It is a second hand store. We were looking for a nice briefcase for the Blue Baboon and others.

Hare Krsna, Dudes and Dudins!
We are here in Murphy's Boro with HpSwami et al.

. . . Like next week, we head for Atlanta and Spain.

We just got all the mail caught up!!   No letters older than 2-days waiting [!],  but,  now we will go traveling, so again we will only be answering URGENT letters during that time . . . regular stuff, like BOISE KIDS.

That's April 1-12th.  Look at the Calendar in the Kapi dhvaja.

How are you?  How is your health?  Where are you?

These are all pretty strange questions in some since, no, because we are not these bodies, anymore than we are the characters in the movie we are watching.

Of course, once we become devotees, we get more or less control over our puppets. We can use them to preach to each other and others.

             <img alt="devil" height="23" src="http://hps.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/devil_smile.png" title="devil" width="23" /> - "Hello, I am the Evil One".

                <img alt="cool" height="23" src="http://hps.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/shades_smile.png" title="cool" width="23" /> - "Oh, I am the Teacher".

THERE IS ONLY ONE PURPOSE IN LIFE: BE HAPPY!     [Prabhupada told this to Jayananda Das].

         Hari Bolo!!! 

But we cannot be happy without our friend:   K R S N A !      Forget the Yamaraja and Maha-visnu job, sometimes!
Go on Sankirtan with Lord Nityananda. Hide behind Him when Jagai and Madhai come down the street.

            Now we will chant HK and develop our Calendar.    Tonight we will drive our 'new', year 2000 Mercedes, to Amit's house, about 20-miles away and hope the wheels don't fall off. We will have an Evening Program and talk about how he can take charge of NIOS. He's a Doctor. His father, Madhava Das, was initiated by H. H. Gopal Krsna Goswami (as I remember), his good wife is PhD in chemisty.

                      Tomorrow is TLC.

We will write some more about the "Seattle Symposium" and wait in great expectation for the news from Sattva that BNP has signed the agreement to co-sponsor "Art and the Sacred" in 2018. The minute that happens we can contact the Ambasador, ICCR, Maha-prabhu in Uraguay.

Maybe we will be able to read Hari-nama Cintamani and the Introduction to Jung's Red Book, write a Bhagavata commentary with RRD and NGD for publication.

Maybe we can get into a good dialog with the Jesuits in Peru! Maybe...   {Piggy: Maybe you can get your rounds done today. (TB: Oh, yeah!  Gotta do that too!)}  

Hare Krsna!

Yesterday we talked with NGD on the phone, then had a 30-minute discussion with Radhika-ramana Das about Education with ISKCON, then we talked with Tom Daigle for 30-minutes, then Bhakta Jyodo came to our door. Then we had the class in Boise, then we talked with Abhiseka, NGD son, then we went to NGD ashrama in our new[old] car and walked and talked and dined. Then we cam back to our Ashrama and read World Classical Literature, and could not answer, write, other letters.

The Blog is caught up for the last few days until about three days ago. Then we have some older letters from up to a month ago, but we are answering them. We are getting our senese, schedule, work, more and more under control. Is a struggle, just like you. One Dude is attached to smoking, another to Burfi and fudge. One to the life of Dvaraka another from Vaikuntha will not budge, but the Rasa-lila of Vraja stands mighty above so much more fun, so lets move in that directions, and see what needs to be done.