Letters to the editor

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.

H'are Krsna, Mates!    AGTSP.....   paoho.....   How are ya?    We are still here in Raleigh.  Big, beautiful college program at 'North Carolina University at Raleigh' last night. About 25-members of the Bhakti Yoga Club and new guests.

We did psychology and the Sacred and some of the Graduate Engineering Students from India were even nodding when we quoted from Albert Camus. If the steps to Krsna, ISKCON, worked for us, they can work for others. Of course, we can give advice about how to relate to or even avoid some of them.

HOw are You??

We've answered all the mail to three days ago.  It is 3.43PM. We have been working without break since 3AM. Finally got Rama-giri-dhari Das on the phone. Called Dr. Samaresh. Class to the house folk! Very nice!   Eating Prasad once a day = Peas porridge with carrots, little butter, salt, fruit and yogurt.  During the day water, air, dancing and maybe some Fennel tea without sugar.

Lots of letters.   You can see the one we posted about Kolkatta preaching.

Seven university programs so far.

We have not done Disciple Reports for a while.  Other stuff, but no stomach for it now.    Class tonight on NOI!!!       and another on Sunday ....   Sunday Feast is permitted!    ....  Oink!    ... . .
We have a lot of work to do but seems that it is getting done.

If we have missed something important, let us know.

We want to buy all the South America tickets before we leave for India.  

South American Education Symposium in Rio is little weak (19th - 26th April) because seems Jagat guru Das has not got the same time to work on it as last two years. We need to get committment from at least one other leader that he will go, then we can be sure that we will have someone to associate with during that week.

Psychology and the Sacred 2017 (26-29 June) is strong because of Sattva efforts and so much response from Miguel, La Catolica, Ramon, Eduardo et al.

Seattle conference is supposed to happen first part of May, but Mataji's pressure cooker blew up and was medical emergency, so Rama-giri-dhari Das could not talk with Seattle for final dates.  That would be Boise, San Jose, Sacramento etc also.

O.K. Chant Hare Krsna and be happy.

2-gayatris and 15-nice rounds done.

Walking around on the cement drive way in our bare feet with the slanting sun, we could not help think of Vrndavana in Kartika. Big lots here. Opulent homes.

Hari Bolo!