Letters to the editor

Hare Krsna, Gurudev 

All glories to srila Prabhupada 

All glories to you gurudev

My humble dandavat pranams your lotus feet 

Hare krsna 

I am more steady in my sadhana now. Regular 16 rounds and 4 regulations are ok ( needs more work on sense control on the subtle level..first is to control my desire to taste tasty prasadam...I am trying to keep my prasadam simple and avoiding food professionally cooked even if inside the temple until or unless I am too hungry ...I feel it is helping me little bit to control my senses)

HpS - Seems that keeping regular times to honor Prasadam is a great help! Even six times a day, but regular times.

In bhaktisastri we completed bhagavat Gita till chapter 12. In 12 chapter  Prabhupada writes that krsna has already given us all the good qualities but we need to develop them from ourselves. No practical advice was given on how to do it. I mean externally do we need to act more humble , not show distress even if we feel distress, etc....what's the best solution.

HpS - SB 5.18.12, no?   Do our service and if we can't do service then, we can try to act in the mode of goodness, follow suggestions for moral behavior of Bhisma Deva, Socrates.

Krsna has also been very merciful. I got to eat \serve mahaprasad in Radha Raman Ji out of the blue. Yesterday I was praying for devotee association of my age but who is very highly realized so that I can progress and krsna sent a very sincere devotee from the 24 hour kirtan team and as I spoke I could feel that he is very realised devotee but he is only my age. He is completly dependent on krsna . I too hope I too can become like him. so much sraddha for krsna . please give me mercy. I am little stupid to understand deeper things that you say. Please guide me gurudev . And forgive me because of my stupidity.

HpS - We should be intelligent enough to explain things properly.

The last answer that you told me helped me a lot. I chant now a days thinking of the fact that I am not this body..sometimes so chanting has improved. 

Please keep me in your prayers.

Lots of love and pranams to you from Vrindavan .thank you for doing the name giving of nitai and nimai. We will have their Maha Abhishek on 14 November and formally start taking care of them from that day .H.G.Mukunda Dutta prabhu is also guiding me. I had the darshan of very very very beautiful Radha shyam in his home.

Hare krsna

Your eternal servent 

Rturaj  krsna das 

Vrindavan

HpS - Hare Krsna.  Thank you.  It is 9.22PM.  We have had a hard day.  Get criticism from some people, but Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna!   That is purifying.

We got a replacement computer from Gopinatha Das and sent our sick one back to him. Took a long time with auto breaking down, finding the Fed Ex office. Getting the new compute working. Nice 108 minutes talking with Peru devotees.

Jaya!!!

Good night!

AGTSP

paoho

Hare Krsna.  5.49PM.
Last rays of setting sun are kissing our half alive pear tree.

Many cars running outside on Medical Center Parkway. Getting cool, now, Autumn.

Got up late this morning. Too much late night feasting and literature. Got 21 of proposed 27 rounds done. Feel little like vomiting. Eyes hurt. Beard itches. Stop and examine your body. Bet you find many of the same things.

Good day: Maya 10, Monkey/Piggy 7!

Prasad was a Baked pear, Cashews, Apple, Boiled sweet potato and rice, one juiced apple, and more cashews.
 

We read and worked on our Hawaii class, and BG class for Wednesday.

Laked with Srivasa pandita, Rama-giridhari Das and Dr. Samaresh.

Today is Rama-vijaya!   Our Hindu Myth of  Victory of Good over Evil. Ha!   Ha!  Ha!

Was not a myth. Actually happend in the Dvapara yuga when things were much for subtle. We really are doubtful of Carbon Dating as we investigate how it is established.

Also disappearance anniversary of Bhakti Svarupa Damodara Swami. We wrote two biographical chapters and posted it in our archives as bsdm.doc.

Caught up on all the mail to one week ago, with special reference to the "Urgent" stuff.

Nice letters.

We still think "Vaisnavi" is an O.K. title. Usually refers to Durga. Otherwise seems to be used in a little bit of bodily concept eg. Indira Gandhi should become a Vaisnavi.  Not expecting her to become a Madhyama adhikari exactly.

Our opinion.   Also, we still like the address, Mataji. For us it is equal with Maharaja. Also bodily concept but more in line with Chanakhya Pandita. Let's see what Srinivasa acharya et al come up with a Mataji phrase research.

O.K. Let's go to NGD for our evening walk. Now we are starting on a fixed time because Dr. Desai and Vijaya Narain are joining us. That is good. Because they are all Vanaprastha's they tend to discuss how to get to the Parikrama sites on the Indian yatras and which cars are the best.
 

We are very happy with the NIMSAR work. All the work.
We are in Kali-yuga. If people want, then by Lord Caitanya's mercy, there will be a King like Maharaja Pariksit born, appear and make it like Satya yuga for the next 9500 years, no?

Hari Bolo!!!

If a six-month sick dog had then been run over by a truck and still could move, that might resemble our body at this moment.

Hare Krsna. AGTSP.

Paoho.

When we write this we smile. It is a fact. We fight, fight, fight, every day.   Do you do the same?    I think that you may even fight more bravely than we do. We did FMP today. Read before it for the NOD class. We wrote in the CB. We did a Calendar Session and cleaned up many details. Then we answered Urgent letters and there was one that took a lot of effort.

It was useful, we hope. Such a thing can make your whole day worthwhile. Then we gave the Hawaii class. It also was nice. Then cooked for the Lord, offered Bhoga, Gayatri, honored Prasad. Looked at Ajata's NOI transcriptions. Extracted them. Edited the first one for like an hour. Then the whole file just disappeared even though we were saving it from time to time. Looked, Looked, Looked, blamed Krsna for not taking care of us, but came to the conclusion that He was taking care of what we asked to be cared for.

O.K.

Found our notes on Vais. last BhVai class. They were too detailed to even begin working on them. All the time our senses weak, eyes dying.
Then looked at two more of the Solaris English article translations hoping that the articles might be more simple and better translated, but the translation is barely, barely comprehensible. It is very strange that anyone could speak English so un-naturally. Maybe the translators was only used to converstional English. She seems like a nice person. Maybe she can translate conversations, but this academic stuff seems like it was run through www.translate.google.com.

Hmmmm?    NoI, Vais, Solaris..  also talked with Srivasa Pandita and after some struggle sent a file to him with our effort to track down who has what records from our BhVai. group.

So, this diseased, run-over dog read some historical fiction and sees that we may have 20% success today, but at least we know the condition of these different projects now and thus we can make practical decison about how to use our limited strength to achieve practical results.

First, priority: Always chant Hare Krsna!!!       We always fall away from that, but there is no other priority for us to try for.  It has wonderful results, no?

Very specifically that means to chant 16-good rounds, follow four principles, get up early...

Is there anyone else who holds these principles the same as we do, amongst our God-brothers?

One of our greatest concerns in that ISKCON Sannyasis become pets kept by pious ISKCON householders to satisfy the Grhastha's sentiments: Here is my parrot, here is my cook, here is my Guru.

If you are a Sannyasi you should have a passion to do something new, no?  Then, how can the Institution support you, because it is something new, so the Institution has no existence there yet.

None of the instruments we have in ISKCON now will let us move forward.
We try to contact senior men A...,   N....,   P.....,   T.... about their projects and their vision. We try to contact R.... in Peru.

No one seems alive on this level, so the only solution is to go back to the roots of our life in Krsna consciousness.   Hmmm.  Does God have a plan?   Does He know the future?  Is a war coming, that will break all the rules and leave us only the inspiration of the Paramatma to do anything in this comedy?

Ekasma Das left last evening, back for Nashville, with Bhakta Jesse. He is a very nice artist. It seems like we had about 3-hours association each day he was here. As you get older you collect your experiences into structures, like houses or machines. These you can show to younger people.

Any obstacles we face are Krsna's efforts to put us on better and better paths.

TODAY'S COMPETITION
Witch - 7
Monkey/Piggy - 5

... but we do seem to be making progress, and The Witch is not an easy opponent.

It's 5.44PM now.  We got the mail caught up to one week. We are trying up to three days to squeak.
We offered Lord Nrsmha-deva apple-sauce and p-nut butter for Breakfast and Baked sweet potato, carrots and split peas for lunch.
If our cooking doesn't kill Him then He must be God!

Board of Director's Meeting yesterday came off like 75% successful. We are doing so, so much work for NIOS that should be being carried on by the Officers and Directors, but we can't find anyone who knows those jobs naturally, and our work as a teacher is not inspiring people to act that way.

Squeezed the Kapi Dhvaja out.

Squeezed 17-nice rounds out.

Ekasma Das took the Cutlass for tire-air, a bath and vacuming. We are trying to sell it.

We really feel that we have to eliminate many things.
Actually, old age eliminates many things automatically.
What do you want?     What do you want???   What DO    Y O U    WANT?

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Tom Brown - Service!

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O.K.  See you in Sankirtan!

HARE KRSNA / RAMA

AgtSP. Paoho & bw!!   5.28PM.   Getting dark early now in the Boro.   Ekasma Das is staying with us today and maybe for a little longer.

We just answered all the Urgent mail and letters up to one week ago.
We have been struggling, struggling, struggling to organize the NIOS work the last few days. There has to be an Annual Meeting, filing reports with the Federal Tax Office.  We feel that we are being drown by this and then the writing work on Sankhya-Jung etc. doesn't go on.

The only center we have is to always chant HK/HR.  When we do that we smile.  Life is so, so difficult, but we have a little island with morning program and Japa and constant association of the Holy Names. Also, we do get so much help: Nice cave, auto, walking with NGD daily, Dr. Desai, Vijay...   You all on the Blog...   even the Gopis are not satisfied with the association of the Gopis.  Ha!   Ha!    Ha!!!   Our desire to serve Krsna more intensely will only go on increasing more and more.   Krsna is such an enjoyer!

Many problems with NIOS functioning. Seems that we may have to let it go so that we have time to write.   Hmmm!   There are plans to improve things.
 

We are just old men who want to have fun>>>>
The Kapi Dhvaja is two days late!  What will happen with it.  We had two hours nice classes with Ekasma Das, 1/2 hour with Dr. Samaresh, two hours of NIOS Annual Meeting and preparation, and now we go to NGD house for a walk with everyone.!

Hare Krsna,  AGTSP, paoho...
It is 8.51PM.   We are in NGD living room. He is across the room from us. It is a very comfortable Grhastha Ashrama, compared to our Sannyasi cave, but also everyone running around screaming and yelling, loading and unloading. We could not concentrate to well on the two "Little Urgent" letters, but go them done.

We are really, really struggling to advance our service. Who are we? What is ISKCON? What is our little community, ASA, NIOS within ISKCON?  How can we control the tigers of our senses?
We still are not eating as well as we could and so we are causing permanent damage to our body. If you live less than 100-years you are sinful.

Of course, no meat, no fish, no eggs, no onion, garlic, but Chocolate? Condensed Milk???  Fruit at night...
... We, you, are evil. We eat too many sweets, pizza, popcorn... but then we get a little control. We start to keep a regular schedule. We follow our list of priorities.

Nehaabikramo naso sti..   We make a little progress in Sadhana, Vaidhi bhakti, and it is eternal.   We only 50% evil. Other 50% is that we are facing very, very challenging problems. Who else has a passion for our natural Sankirtan? Who else has discovered the best current works on Carl Jung? Of course, you have your passion and nature in Sankirtan. We don't know how to cook pizza, but it can be wonderful Sankirtan.

So, we are pushing, pushing, pushing: NGD, NIOS Board of Directors, North American GBC et al.  What is their Sankirtan.