Dear Guru Maharaja, please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
It is Sunday, fall has started. As everyday, we made puja to our Lord and Mistress/ Father and Mother/ Friend. Then we partook of Their remnants. Then japa-yajna. After we went to the garden where Nirgata and my mother sow different green leafy vegetables and flowers. I took care of weeds that are growing through the cement pathway to our flat.
In our (or should I say Their) garden we have fig trees, tangerine trees, tomatoes, spinach, basilico, celery, different green lefy vegetables, and also various flowers. I like to go pick up flowers for Radha Madhava's enjoyment.
By calendar dates summer ended, but in sunny days it is very nice to go and have a swim in a clean sea. There are no tourists now, so it is not crowded on the rocks, and as there were few strong rains, the surroundings are clean. Although there are still cigarette butts, which are looking disgusting and smelly. The sea temperature is around 23 Celsius degresss. That is not too cold. These days will be one of the last baths in the sea for this year.
What godsister Madhumanjari wrote to the Blog, resonates with me. Blog gets me blocked. I am not used to write, specially publicly and in English. I would like to say/write on some topic, but get blocked. Like there is a barrier. But I understand that it can also be a catalyst. <img alt="yes" height="23" src="http://hps-d6.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/thumbs_up.png" title="yes" width="23" /> Somehow, I much prefer a talk face to face. Do not know how to get into dialog on the Blog. I am not in any way saying that Blog is bad. It is wonderfull in many ways. One nice thing about writing on the Blog and have a Blog-sanga is that before writitng, there is more time to think of what to say <img alt="angel" height="23" src="http://hps-d6.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/angel_smile.png" title="angel" width="23" />
Sunday program in the temple go on now cca one time a month. Festivals we celebrate. For festivals, I like any kind of celebration in association with devotees, but for our Pula situation I am keen to do what you informed us - kind of 20 minutes of kirtan, reading and japa each. We still did not do iit like that, but maybe in the future if devotees desire.
I'm in the middle of preparation for BhVai Canto 5 presenatations.
We were invited to visit a ISKCON centre in other town and serve as leading kirtans and giving lectures. Looks we will accept this call.
H.H. Prahladananda Swami was in Pula for 2 days. Nirgata and myslef prepared prasadam for him. Did he answered your letter?
HpS - We see that he just answered but we have not been able to open it yet.
In your letter to him, you told about suggestions from Bhaktividyapurna Swami. What are those suggestions, if I am allowed to know?
HpS - Ha! Ha! Ha! Maharaja said that many of our ideas about GBC, Sannyasi relations were very good but if we pushed them we would probably get politically marginalized. Of course, if it is a big margin that is O.K. It is surprising, but I can see that my family has been pioneers for many generations.
In SP Folio I got some more (few) "hits" for a term "Vaisnavi". Those hits are from lectures, conversations and letters. Should I report here?
HpS - Yes! That would be nice.
This Blog is my most visited site on the internet. Plus Vedabase.com. I am grateful that you are keeping in touch with us through the Blog and for your care. Also, thanks to our dear godbrother Prahlad Nrsimha Ji, a Mayapura-vasi <img alt="smiley" height="23" src="http://hps-d6.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/regular_smile.png" title="smiley" width="23" />.
There are some topics more to write about, but let me try to do that in the future.
Your servant Namacarya das
HpS - For some one who has writers block on Blogs, you send such beautiful, informative, practical and important letters. Thank you!
I will write about some of the topics you mention here in todays, DTC! Prabhupada: The magic will not be done by you, nor me, nor any living being, the magic will be done by Krsna when we become pure devotees of Krsna!!!!!
Paoho!!!
