Letters to the editor

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.

AGTSP

paoho

What happened two hours ago?   I don't really know. Focusing on the present moment was the most important thing two hours ago and it is now also.
We have mild exhaustion, the computer seems to have updated Yahoo mail etc and now it is very difficult to read.

Frustration!    Madness!
Well, no.

Distress is expected in this world as a gift from God, but happiness will also follow it.  So, accept what we have now and act properly.

If you tremenous Sankirtan intelligence. Use it.

If now use what you have.

Number One - Chant Hare Krsna under the shelter of Srila Prabhupada's lotus feet and that will lead to all else!!!!
Mail answerd to five days ago.

AGTSP!

Paoho...    At your lotus and lettuce feet.  Here we are in our cave.  It is 7.11PM and now DARK ourside.  Only insane people go out walking at this time. The cars move around like they have no drivers, but we have the Maha-mantra and your association.  Was so, so busy today: BG 15, Fifty-minutes of Vaisesika Das lecture...   NGD and everyone just got back from the ISKCON Doctors Conference at Gita Nagari. We are letting them rest tonight so we will pass the evening alone here.
 

O.K!   Thank you for your association.  We ahswered about five letters.  Many times we are just exhausted and don't know what we can do, but the desire to do something, a little bit of anything comes along and then we go forward. We will all die soon and then have another body. Only if Krsna comes and meets us will we meet Him and each other again, and then go on with new fun!

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!!