Letters to the editor

Sit'n downtown in the Murfree's Boro Ashrama, one step ahead o' my mind!

TB/BW here.   6.30PM. R(17/18).   Pretty good day. Pigged-out a little bit on frozen orange juice, but the stress from the heat is great and we still haven't fine-tuned our auto.

Listening to Hawaii classes every day while we iron our clothes, write letter to Vais and Srivasa and Hari Lila.

Lokannatha Das called an recounted the SFO Rathyatra.   GREAT success.

He has Parkinson's: (UG) The mind uses the brain, uses the body. The mind has a vasana, fear, trauma, from childhood or previous life and it keeps that stored around a muscularly debilitated hand, because we got unfairly slapped in the hand.

We store stuff in our while body.

Then we drive our body into convulsions with sex or drugs and shake off the mind. Or we can get electro-shock treatment from the psychiatrist. Or we can get it through ecstacy in basketball or Kirtan hymns. How does this sound. Ecstacy, orgasm, is a necessary part of good physical heath. But when done with illict sex it destroys the endorphine producing organs.

Letters from Daniel and others to answer.  Peru yatra managers. Solaris promoters.
Scheduled to talk to Rama-giri-dhari Das at 11AM tomorrow.

Hari bolo, Prabhus!!!

Hare Krsna, Prabhus,

It is 11.13AM here. We come to NGD's home in the morning to us the WIFI for our SB workshop. Kala-kanta Das, a very senior devotee and Temple President of the Krsna House and the University of Gainseville is here. Many senior devotees visit here.

We answered the mail and now we will go with them to look at prospect of getting a house near the Campus here.

How are you?

We are catching up with the mail. We are getting stronger and stronger in our regualar Sadhana here. Almost certain now we will go to India 10 January to 10 February at least.  Maybe we go to Texas and Mexico for Christmas and Vyasa-puja. End the Marathon.

We bought book recomended by Radhika for writing Sankhya articles and the order number was "108"!

O.K. Some Japa and tonight at Start Meeting at 7PM for Saturday Night Live in Spanish.

We are Tweeting regularly in the hours before Mangala arati.

tWEEt
     TweeTTT   .    Hare Krsna!

Esteemed Professor Samaresh Bandyopadhyay et al

We hope this meets you in the best of spirits and excellent health. Here we, Hanumatpresaka Swami, Anjana Suta Academy, NIOS, have been working hard since our return from these intense travels through India, Europe and North and South America.

If it is agreeable to your good self and others we will write a report each Thursday to be dispatched to the Nil-kamal office of NIOS and then call on Saturday with the presence of Ravi Singh et al. We post a report daily on our Blog in the spirit of the Vanaras of Hanuman who were out each day looking for Sita and would then regroup nightly to discuss the days search. Can we can this anveSaka samAgama? (We use www.spokensanskrit.de as our translator).

We have sent the University Mailing list to Rama-giri-dhari Das and the Promotional Letter in its current format. We also gave him $1000 while we were in Houston together for one year’s expense for warehousing our NIOS books and developing an aggressive program of marketing. This will include work from his in-house professional marketing agent who will be in contact with your and our good self for advice actively. From this we really expect to see our books going out.

The question then came up of printing our third book, Man Making. Should we wait and us the income from the sale of the first two books or should we try to go ahead and print it and warehouse it also.

In terms of the NIOS program in South America, we are beginning to contact the scholars who attended. From Beverly Zabrieskii of the Jungian Foundation of New York we have had no response to our preliminary contact, but Darrol Bryant of the Center for World Religions in Ottawa we have had very nice proactive contact. Everyone is very enthused to work toward a big global program in 2018 on Art and the Sacred. Sir, what do think of this theme?
The idea would then be to use the magazine, Solaris, as a focus to organize our work in developing this event.

Solaris is printed in Spanish in black and white and color. It has received excellent appreciation and is now in distribution to all of our academic and cultural contacts in Mexico, Peru, Chile, Argentina and Spain. Abhirama Das is sending me the files for the English edition and we are working toward publishing that next. I think it can be a little different than the Spanish version. For this we would hope to send the articles to your good self and see if you can write an Forward to the Journal and the project.

We have been doing work to move the base for NIOS to Houston and merge with a more general corporation, the Goloka Foundation. This has gone well. The Foundation is legally incorporated and has had its first meeting and we are working to open bank accounts etc. Besides these NIOS publications of first-class academic literature, South America symposium, the Foundation is also generating a standard curriculum for Sunday School for ISKCON’s 100,000+ congregational children and cooperative funding application for the five active ISKCON primary schools in North America.

In general we feel that ISKCON as an institution is going through very, very critical times in its historic development, that other institutions such as Buddhism, Islam and faced. Unless it develops its educational institutions such as primary schools and universities it will certainly schism. We feel the ISKCON congregations are such a valuable allies to NIOS in its work.

Our calendar is becoming more certain. We will probably be based here until the beginning of January. Then we will go (with you?) for Radhika’s program on the Srimad Bhagavatam, 10 January, at University of Madras. Then we can travel and finish with time in Mayapur, 10-13 February, for the ISKCON Guru, Sannyasi, GBC Sanga.

Please write to us as Principal Advisor for NIOS and as one of the kindest well-wishers that we have.

Hare Krsna,
Another long day.  I remember one time we were preaching in Lima and Laksmanagraja Das was our associate during the whole day programs. He of course, was a Catholic Monk for many years and a teacher at the most posh private high school in Lima, and at the end of the day he commented that if he had been working this hard during his previous life he would have become a millionaire.

We had FMP on line. Isvari Devi Dasi was leading. Then talked with Hari-lila about BhVai, Ramananda about the Hawaii classes. Lokanatha Das about his and our service and San Francisco Rathyatra. Left a message for Amit about our wounds, and Braja bihari about traveling to DC.

Got a phone call from Mother Matsya about working out a more practical exercise schedule for all of us.

Offered 1/2-chapati and some prunes and milk to Lord for lunch, and answered a few letters on Yahoo and here.

Oooof!   Now it is 5.12PM.  Our eyes are exhausted.   We will go for a long drive to NGD's house and visit Jo Ann Fabrics to see if they have any Sannyasi colored cloth and chant Hare Krsna. We have five rounds more to chant.

We also read the first part of Chapter Ten of the BG for our class tommorrow night. As we read again and again we see more and more deeply that Prabhupada's words are so precise. In our first passes we can't see all the details included.

Hare Krsna!!!

Thank you Candra-mukhi Devi Dasi, Nikunja-bihari Das, Abhirama-Maria, Isvari-Abhinandana, Laksmana, Mitravinda et al, for your constant association in our FMP on line each morning. 

Hare Krsna, Prabhus,

AGTSP.... paoho  and Bw.

Here it is 5.14PM, 88`F (31`C) outside, but Tom came by today and put in an exhaust-duct for our free-standing airconditioner.  It was only $110.    Great price for his effort, but machine is not doing much more than before. It makes it O.K. inside here but not super.

The swelling has gone down considerable in our hand and arm from the wasp sting. Don't know if it is Benadryl or just our Yoga.

Enough Brother Ass Katha.

In terms of Sadhana bhakti, we have had pretty good control of our senses today. We really have not done much in the way of recreation or relaxation. We get tired, then we rest a little, do any service that we can and that gets us back into priority service, even though we may not have a material inclination towards it.

We read and answered several administrative letters from Peru and India in our Yahoo account. There will always be so many things to deal with in administration, no?  It is in the mode of passion, so we don't expect first class results there. We expect second class results guided by our first class engagement, Sankirtan!  Judges, bakers and candle-stick makers may all be our Sankirtan partners in ISKCON, then we deal with administration in our institution in order to facilitate this.

" After hearing the vibration of the flute of Kṛṣṇa, the gopīs in Vṛndāvana remembered Him and began to talk amongst themselves about how nicely Kṛṣṇa was playing His flute. When the gopīs were describing the sweet vibration of Kṛṣṇa’s flute, they also remembered their pastimes with Him; thus their minds became disturbed, and they were unable to describe completely the beautiful vibration.", KRSNA book, Gopis Attracted by Flute.   So, Gopis are 1. Good citizens of Nanda Maharaja's village (ISKCON GBC), 2. They discuss these things with Their intimate friends (Sankirtan partners), and 3. They have their own unique, direct relationship with Krsna (Prabhupada) that is so intense that it can disturb the perfect performance of the first two function.

"Vyāsa was the spiritual master of Sañjaya, and Sañjaya admits that it was by Vyāsa’s mercy that he could understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This means that one has to understand Kṛṣṇa not directly but through the medium of the spiritual master. The spiritual master is the transparent medium, although it is true that the experience is still direct." BG 18.75.    So, our ISKCON Diksa, and Siksa Gurus, our Temple Presidents and GBC Secretaries, our Family Authorities are only authorities to such and extent as we have a direct experience of Srila Prabhupada through them. If we try to have a direct experience of Srila Prabhupada without including the aformentioned categories then we are missing a great opportinity, no?

We agree with this thesis and its presentation about 87-91%, what about you?

O.K. Let's offer some potatoe soup to Lord Nrsmhadeva and chant and go to NGD Ashrama.

Thank you!

Hare, Hare, Krsna.... 
.....6.15PM... We localize our self in time and space. At the lotus feet of His Divine Grace.  Can we imagine that Srila Prabhupada stays with us here?    Or rather should we to his feet grow near?    He feels stones and grass and posts on shoes, that in a symphony give news of Gopal-Krsna in the evening sung, as to Vrndavana village with all the cowherd boys He does run.

He and the boys are exhausted to the limits of their strength. All day long they have been herding cows and with demons contending in battles that even the heros of heaven pause and pause to contemplate.

Their Mothers welcome these small boys to home and give them baths and fresh clean clothes. The boys just prattle with the days events and then take Prasad and sleep with full intent, to take up the work they left off undone under forest trees and dappled sun.