Hare Krsna.
We are Sick as Seven Dogs. Externally. Internally we are pretty happy. This pressure is catching up with us and we collapsed, rested, all day to day, until 3PM. Ooof! We are still weak but active now. Thanks to all the support we get we can do something. We are learning so much about Efficient Donkey Management. Lots of letters to answer but we did a few. O.K. Six more rounds to chant and Bhakti Sastri Workshop on line tonight at 7PM!
Hare Krsna.
HAre Krsna!
We started the day with determination to call Robbie Robinson and negotiate about selling our car to him. Before we could do it someone was knocking on our door. It was Mr. Meyers who had asked about buying car two months ago. Then we talked with Robbie. He said he could have the money when we came back from Texas. Don't sell it to anyone else. Then we had Daniel put it next to the side of the house that faces the bank and put up a for sale sign. Within 2-hours five people had called, and we told them if Robbie didn't have the money on Monday we'd call them back. They said, "O.K., but don't forget".
We took the For Sale sign down and went back to our ISKCON management, Sankirtan, efforts.
We had program for Raktaka Das, B. S. Damodara Swam and our Sannyasa anniversary (32-years now). Here is the link: https://stme.in/PJyMevzGC
O.K. Take rest. Long day.
HARE KRSNA!
HARE RAMA!!
Long, very busy, very productive day.
We Texted Yuddhiasthira Govinda Das in Delhi and he CALLED us right back. We talked very practically about organizing the NIOS visit to Delhi, 31st-4th of January. NIOS has such opportunities to develop now. Will you help? Push the June Symposium in Peru, magazine.
Organizing the visit to Houston. Candra mukhi DD arrives in a few hours.
So, many things.
Now is 9-minutes to sundown. Cloudy all day. 40-degree F.
Quick bath and go visit Radha Natabara and NGD and Matajis with Bh. Daniel.
oH! Tommorrow is Odana sasti. Vyasapuja of B. S. Damodara Swami, anniversary of HpS Sannyasa, and Tirobhava Festival for Sriman Raktaka Das. Maybe we do online program tommorrow night. Watch for Tweet, and here.
Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna!
AGTSP. paoho & bw.... 5.57PM. We are seeing more and more that we are neither demons nor Rupa Goswami. We may have to sleep more than perfect arrangment. We may have to eat more pnut butter and sugar than is ideal. We may have to read more historical literature than is connected to our service, but when the day is in the mode of goodness, when we have your association, then we get some practical intelligence about how to deal with our physical, social, and personal environment and join this Sankirtan movement.
I think all we can do is to try to produce some literature like the KRSNA book and the VDM for the modern man.
Many people can't read these directly so we have to put it in their language.
Every cowherd boy has thousands of cows under his personal protection. Reader! You should consider having thousands of disciples.
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No news from Pune!! When shall we go there?
Talked with Rama-giri-dhari Das for like 1-1/2 hours yesterday after like two weeks of no talks! Calendar 90% fixed for India. Also, regular conversations with Abhirama Thakura Das about Solaris and the Psychology and the Sacred 2017 program.
April - Brazil - Argentina
June Seattle, Peru, Chile
But at first look the tickets are a little expensive. We keep looking.
Dark, Dark, Dark [[[[[[[[[[depressive]]]]]]]] outside. Now we take bath and go to NGD house for program.
Mail answered up to three days ago.
AS LONG AS WE ARE CHANTING HARE KRSNA, LORD CAITANYA CAN USE US.
Hare Krsna!
Another ordinary day in hell/heaven. First we got up a little late, 3.24AM from fasting, nirjal, ekadasi. Then wonderful, wonderful, FMP. Then call from Australia: Raktaka Das has found his place in the heavens.
Then some preaching left and right by the phone.
We worked hard on correcting our Bh. Vai., Pada-padma tests and it is a lot of work. It forces us to refresh our own memory of the First Two Cantos. It is like waking up your heart to real life again. I guess it won't be an academic exercise in the future, it will just be a part of our home town.
Hair cutting (every dvadasi only).
Now it is 7.01PM. We recorded another song. We Tweet the links. It is essential for us. We are alone here in Murfreesboro. It is an extremely depressing, grey, light industrial, low-income shopping mall area and the surrounding houses for lower income people.
It is very, very good in some ways. There is no stimulation for material enjoyment. Usually Dr. Desai, Visnu-carana's family, NGD, are all here, but they start coming back on Sunday. Even still that doesn't solve the onological loneliness. Having nice house, car etc. only stimulates the mind and senses in crazy ways unless either the poverty or opulence is related to Krsna.
The only reason to do austerity is to get closer to Krsna. He is the only person who is an independent enjoyer.
Hare Krsna, Mates!
Back in Murfreesboro, our cave. NgD et al are still traveling. He gets back on Sunday. So we are alone here for a few days. Our pear tree and rose bush survived without daily watering. The car battery was dead, but a tow-truck was going right by so we screamed at him and ran after him and he started it and we gave him Gita, Banana chips and $20. He asked for $10. He was a real Christian.
Did we write about this yesterday??
We did a power-point show and posted it in the archives and sent the link on Twitter. www.jayarama.us/archives/Disneyland.pptx.
We have lost contact with Tamohara Das, our GBC, and Rama-giridhari Das, our MOE and Goloka-Education CEOs. Call repeatedly but no answer. Nice letter from Karuna-Krsna Das. Now we hope to talk with him on the phone.
Letters here to the Blog are the center of all our communication. We try to post anything from any other source here also.
. .Hare Krsna. .
Actually we cannot say anything to anyone, preach to anyone. We can only offer the words of our Spiritual Master to them. So, unless we are in heartfelt communication with him, we have nothing to offer anyone else.
Hare Krsna, Hare Rama!
In 40-minutes is our Wednesday night Bh. Sastri workshop. The same books again and again, but deeper, deeper. See you there.
