Yellow brick road report
Haré Krsna Gurudev!
Please accept our humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada,
The witch is lingering, but we still see her feet smashed under your red brick ashram. If we don’t visit our fairy Godmother Radha everyday the Oz/Goloka remnants that still linger from your blessed presence in New Biharvan may vanish very soon.
We saw Jordan and Loo (the new couple who came with the two small children to the NOI seminar). They said that they have missed your association. They stumbled upon an Uttama Adhikari. How can anyone go back to their bungalow/trailer/and just watch tv??? Nothing will ever be the same….
HpS/ASA - AgtSP! He is living in His books! Jaya!
Jordan said he looked at you and understood you are free and it reminded him of seeing a happy boy (a cowherd boy?) I told them to check out your blog. They also want to see one of your Kapi Dvaja. Preaching with picture books Common folk like us “will connect with spiritual art books”, then the inner child could lean over to the Paratmatma and say, “I’m tired mom/dad, please take me home...”
(Switching to sleepy town news reports)
Gurudev, our priority is MA in some form. FMP association then we go to ISKCON Houston’s Syamasundar’s Chanting program, your classes, daily SB clases or devotee care course recordings. We were recently advised be the local pujari that we look really tired. We said we are blissed out. They said with kids you should rest more. We tried to do this for a week or two but our rounds felt less attentive during the day and we felt enveloped by our senses/mind. Now it scares us which is a good sign I guess.
HpS/ASA - Better to die with Chan Ting and Dan Sing.
We started a new LOB study group with new Bhaktins from the seminar. Prasadam cooking is still in place. All of us then move along to the BG class. We feel like the Mormons with a 4 hour community program (it can create a family atmosphere though, so much time spent together)!
Homeschooling with Murari the España Muestro. We started a 3-5 year old Gopal Fun School zoom group with 3 other families from Austin, San Diego, and Silicon with 2-4 year olds. We must meet with a UK and Australian family. I am teaching devotional songs and literature based on Chowpatti kids books. Sunday school is maintained and the SB activity Canto 3 books continue to be incredibly entertaining.
HpS/ASA - Super Girl!
We are continuing services for the temple and continue our cleaning service of the kitchen (we may send new pics soon!) We don’t like laundry but are trying to trick our mind into always making cleaning priority. We will always remember seeing our Gurudev cleaning dishes very diligently.
We are still remaking Indra’s “pillars of rain clouds” for our Govardhan puppet show. We will try putting cotton on Chinese lanterns and sticking blue fairy lights inside of them. The kids made multi colored clay offerings and new puppets because Aja’s anti tech vegetarian Waldorf school visited a week ago. They are studying ancient India. The bus driver ate two plates after the Govardhan puppet show! Many students danced/chanted along while following their song sheet. Flying ribbons on sticks swayed in the Audience while re-enactment of Krsnas pastimes as described in the song “King of sweet” was sung by Aja’s esteemed parents. Aja’s teacher lives at the corner apartments on Martha street. He likes cursive, old typewriters, feathered top hats and we suspect that he misses the transcendentalist 18th century time period. Maybe he was at Walden’s Pond skipping rocks with Thoreau. He invited Balabhadra and I to teach a “ how to write/speak in Sanskrit” You got an extra pumpkin cookie if you could write the whole maha mantra in Sanskrit.
Lately we are feeling that we are very offensive, awkward persons. I remember when Maha Bhagavat told me that she realized that the devotees are so merciful because they are merely just tolerating her.
HpS - She wrote to us after so many years. Bossy's Kitchen. Think it is in the Blog!
We feel the same. Thank you for tolerating our ego, our mind, and our soul that is somehow in the midst of this show. We pray for more and more sincere hearing and more sincere chanting🙏. Time is running out. Please give us direct instruction for artistic endeavors Gurudev. We’ve always done better with direct instruction (the sudra in us).
Thankyou Gurudev for asking us to write.
Your Servant,
Kamagayatri devi dasi
HpS - AGTSP. It is 10.24PM. We are working in Over Time. Finished the hand written Kapi Dhvaja, posted the online calendar and now catching Blog mail. TB/BW have been catching the Priority Coded letters. (Code in each KDh). They are good guys. They try their best.
We got your letter. Yes.... God willing.... we want to visit New Biharvan from Nashville between Mar 7th and Jul 15th. What might be good dates for you all?
Your report is great. Use you life for Radha Banki bihari, but in an efficient way. Continue to make a large part of your service to them educating your kids for Them.
Our respects to Jayanta (Jayananda Das?) and Mataji, Bala b. Das and Mataji..... everyone!!!! When Radhika R. Das comes we can get some online programs set up.
