DTC 24(Sat)

8 years, 3 months ago by hps in DTC

AGTSP
Paoho

Saturday is very, very hard for us.  WE have two classes and that is a lot of work for us in one day on the internet.
The it is 32 degress centigrade here, so we suffer from the heat, mosquitos, bad allergy, hay-fever. The traffic outside is lots of trucks, cars, ambulances. All of this makes life hard.
Then we don't have any intimate association in our Karma-yoga, people calling us about their passion in with Carl Jung.
I think that you all have just the same problems as us.

We need more exercise than we are getting. Devotees here are content with brisk walks but we need intense exercise. They finish the evening walk in 44minutes, but when we did it at our own pace last Friday we did it at 33 minutes and we see that we could progress a lot more in that line.
We can only do so much of this administrative and preaching work each day, then we want some "sense gratification" so now we are reading

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks14/1403241h.html

It is boring in many ways, but it lets our mind stop thinking and get systematic stimulation from the mode of goodness-passion.
We could just read the KRSNA book and live on water and Goloka maybe. Real possibility, but if we are to stay in this world then we have to feed and read somethings for our Stupid Ass.

Hmmm.

O.K.  We answered all the mail to four days ago. Responed to one more disciple report. In your association had dalh and rice from Mrs. Desai, fruit and nuts.

Let's go walking and see you at Noche Sabado Vivo!!

DTC 22(Th)

8 years, 4 months ago by hps in DTC

 

       Oink!   and  Whoof!       
        Whoop!  and Neigh!       
All the animals with Krsna, play.


Now it's 3.38PM.
We got 5-more rounds to end.

Caught up on the mail to less than a week.
Sent our Abstact of Madras so that into it you-all and Radhika Can peek.

33-degrees centigrad,e 40% humidity, our air-conditioner makes it cool in our little cave. Thank Dr. Desai.

Offered 2-banana-oranges, nuts and two potatoes and butter to Bhagvan Nrsmhadeva.

Gave class to Hawaii. Raghava Pandita and Luciano were there.

Trimmed three hedges. That exercises our muscles and bodies.
O.K. Let's rest now.

We go to Dr. Desai's house, five houses from NGD house, at 5.45PM. Then he and me and Vijaya Ji go for a 44-minute walk.

NGD has gone to Gita-nagari for the second ISKCON Doctor's Conference. We hope it can be integrated with the Ministry of Education work.

DTC 20(Tu)

8 years, 4 months ago by hps in DTC

AGTSP

paoho

Starting to get a dangerous headache, but finished Claudio Naranja's articles, translation.  It took like maybe 75-corrections in two pages. The concepts and many things were really challenging. The original translation had many, many simple mistakes and then the sophisticated concepts to thinking, thinking, thinking.

Translate "bienser no es bienestar" into English.

O.K.   99.99% perfect day.

Rushing to NGD home.  Got the tickets for Texas.  We go to Texas the 7th to 12th of December, back to Nashville and then again on the 23rd to catch the flight to Mexico the next day.

Hare Krsna.

No time for more mail!

DTC 15(Fr)

8 years, 4 months ago by hps in DTC

Hare Krsna,

We are still alive.  Guess just like you.    We gave our class for Hawaii today. It was intense. Requires a fair amount of work. Is a very superior audience, so we have to work to make a good presentation.

Just got the ticket for Mexico, in response to Asta sakhi DD's investigations.  That is good, time to plan.

Everything is impossible withour order created by God.
There is no regular Temple program here, so it is a little difficult for everyone here, but our Sankirtan, partner is here and a physical base. We really see that we are making a LOT of progress discovering how much and what kind of work we can get done.

The number one things is finding people who you can teach about KRSNA and who can be Sankirtan partners to involve others.  Teach teachers.

DTC 9(Fr)

8 years, 4 months ago by hps in DTC

Hare Krsna!

AGTSP!    Paoho.

6.15PM now.    Program tonight at NGD Ashrama starts at 7.30PM, so we have to leave around 7-7.15PM. What do we do with this one-hour? We have so many projects:

  1. Transcribe Prabhupada's comments on Jungian philosophy in Dialectic Spiritualism.
  2. Read Gerald Larson's commentary on the Sankhya Karika.
  3. Write our Bi-annual Report to Tamohara Das
  4. Write our Abstract for the Madras Bhagavatam Symposium...

Always, Sri Krsna Sankirtan is first, then Vidya vadu jivanam, Krsna will give us intelligence what to do. We put the Karika, the Dialectic etc on hold. Now we will work on editing Solaris English translation. We already have looked at translations of two articles and both need a lot of work. Claudio's more than Hector's. It is not easy translating these people. These people are all poetical.

Priorities. We have been pretty good apes today. A little bit too much sweets and milk. We aim to become more expert Goswamis, Goswaminis.

This morning from 6-7.30AM was the Latin American MOE meeting. We hosted it at Start Meeting.com. It was very effective. The dates for the next Latin American Symposium on education and the content are getting practically defined. The efforts to get Latin Educators into a Database has been very successful. One hundred are there and even statistics are now available.

At the end we were able to catch Rama-giri-dhari Das and he was able to join for about 10-minutes. It was worth $1,000,000. Afterwards we talked with him individually and he commented that he often thought how much he would have participated in this Ministry work if we hadn't been on the team and his conclusion was alwasy, "A whole lot less, thank you", but we can all do much more.

So, now lets look at the mail. Write a quick letter to Tamohara Das. Chant three more rounds and celebrate Radha-astami with the Murfreesboro Yatra.

Hare! Hare!

DTC Su(4)

8 years, 4 months ago by hps in DTC

Hare Krsna.

We stayed up until 12.15PM last time and so didn't get up so early. We did that because we were lonely and were reading things about peoples lives and adventures. It is normal. We are learning how to have Krsna as our life and family. We already know to some degree.

One time we were in India, like 1984, our second time, and we had been staying in Vrndavana Temple with Krita-karma Das, our friend, who was General Manger for the Temple. Then we took off to go to Lucknow to visit Nitai-gaura-sundara and his family. He had sent us the address and dates, but then at the last minute, train coming, we discovered that we had lost them. KKD said: Chant Hare Krsna. Krsna will arrange  everything.

So off we went, not knowing where we were going, with evil looking men smoking Bidis and with knives hanging from their belt looking at our luggage. Well we got to Lucknow in the afternoon on a Second Class sleeper train, that Jules Vernes took when he went "Around the World in 80-days".

Then we didn't have the slightest idea where to go. Well, at least we could go to Naimisaranya. It was near by. So we walked out onto the street with our Sannyasis luggage and after some time we learned that the local name for Naimisaranya was Nimsar. Then we understood in, 75% Hindoo, that buses left in the morning and it was like 4.30PM, so one Rickshaw walla who looked 65% honest indicated that he would take us to "First Klass HOtel". Off we went.

It was a kind of simple place at the edge of a market district, like a guest house with trees, patio, rooms here and there, more than any kind of hotel. It was like run by some family. We negotiated a simple, 77% functional, room with the 25-year old, little surley, manager and the Ricksha walla got some cut of the payment. Then he carried our bag to our room and then by interesting Indian hand gestures asked if wanted a female companion to play chess with. We were surprised that he would ask someone in Saffron cloth such a thing, but we said, "No".

Then we were all alone and wondering if we would be killed in the night for our luggage. We took Lord Nrsmha-deva out of our box, and established Him pretty well. Then we sang Gaura arati and did some mental Puja for him and the manager's friends started practicing their rock band across the patio, and we felt loneliness and terror surrounding us, but we looked at Lord Nrsmha-deva and felt His friendship and company.

Well, dark out and nothing to eat, so we went for a walk to the market. It was really busy. Found an open air sweet shop and bought "100 grams of Milk-Cake". People were looking at us with sane attention while drinking milk-tea.

Then we found a Hanuman Temple and rang the bells as we walked in and out like others. One man approached us and said: Hare Krsna!   I am ISKCON Life Member. You are ISKCON? Why are you here?  You are British?

So, we talked for some time and I went back to the room and offered the Milk Cake to Lord Nrsmha Deva. He shared it with us and we had a little island of sanity with now father, mother, wife, kids or neighbors.

At the time of death we are all alone. We get very morose, but we can have friends who have both material and spiritual bodies, whose material body relations will lead us to transcendental relations.

It is just like developing a friendship with the person next to you in the Theater. They are not a part of the movie, but they are in the Cinema House. After you leave the Cinema with them they want you to work for them.

O.K. We answered the one URGENT letter.

Now we will answer a few more.

Today was a good day!

FMP with ART, CMDD, MvDD, YkD, NkbD ...   Emily ...   PKD ...   NOD was about Shanta Rasa. We got some of that. We gotta get association and move ahead!

Then fresh juice for Lord's breakfast. Japa. BG-12 Tpp. Nap. Clearing brush from around the pear tree in the back. Lot of it. Hard work. We have a little poison ivy rash on our skin from cleaning up poisnon ivy site a few days ago, but it is like 5% of what we got last time. We are winning the war. Think the work cloths need to be washed in a washing machine.

Then had the enthusiasm to call Dr. Samaresh. Call went through on Reliance the second try. It was 10PM his time. 11.30AM our time. We had a very, very good discussion about Radhika's Conference in Madras the 7th-10th of January, our book publication, South America, Sankhya book.

Then I called Radhika right after that and communicated from Dr. Samaresh. He was worried that his son, Purusottama wanted to get into dance, but that would mean like 90% association with women, so I suggested that he might try Tai Chi. He said he never thought of that and would look for a world famous Tai Chi Master in Logan, Utah. We worked on the tickets to India in December etc.

Cooked my Lord's Sunday Feast: Sweet Rice, Halavah, fresh Celery.

Honored Prasad, read a page of Jerald Larson's Samkhya, Three rounds, three rounds, three rounds, Tweeting all the time. Another nap (we will become cats in our next life).
Then working on our Sankirtan Post that we are developing by the sidewalk. It has little New-papers that we are writing and photo-copying and hanging in plastic bags for the interesting people that pass by.
Then some transcribing of "Dialectical Spiritualism" of Prabhupada on Jung. NGD called. He is a very good friend. They are having nice program this weekend in Kentucky. I didn't know until Friday they were going.

Vijaya (73-years old) and his wife called yesterday to ask us to dinner, but we had "Saturday Night Live" and they had other guests tonight, "Some other time".

Washed and ironed our clothes. Talked with Upendra about next BhVaibhava Cantos.

While we were bush-wacking a nice old guy in his pick-up (300,000 miles) pulled up and asked if we wanted to sell Rtadhvaja Swami's mothers, 1993 Cutlass. We were just talking very seriously about it with NGD and Tandavika because it is really starting to fall apart, even though it still has some good life in it, look for a pick-up truck.

He had another one just the same as ours that he had resurrected and then someone smashed into it so he was looking for the same year car. Krsna's arrangement??!!

Well that was today. Now it is 8PM.

We write out all these details because we are supposed to be a "Guru" and some people are supposed to be our "Disciples" following Prabhupada in some ways, so that you will know what kind of media we are to connect you to Prabhupada. 

Now we need a little Prasad from Lord and go to market to look for water bottle and see some people, otherwise we have not had much physical association for Brother Ass today.

Answer a few letters!   Hare Krsna!   Hare Krsna.
Read the KRSNA book!

Thank you!

(Our legs itch and burn a little)