Report from Czech
Hare Krishna Dear Guru Maharaja,
Please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
Month ago I left Mayapur to Czech for 3 months. It is pretty good here, except I am getting more crazy and sad to see how many people are systematically avoiding to remember Krishna, including me. I feel my mind is more peaceful, my theory is that it is caused by the fact that I am cooking myself, instead of eating prasadam cooked by others.
HpS - ASA - AGTSP. Paoho. 11.34PM. If we take rest by 11.45 PM that will be two Muhurtas of rest before Japa Joe. Brother Ass is O.K. Got chronic arthitis in the right thigh, feet are starting to swell up, eyes get strain from computer, but seems O.K. It is soooo nice to hear from you. On behalf of the hundreds of readers of this Blog, we thank you for setting it up and maintaining it.
It is good to hear that your leave from Mayapur is temporary. Yes, same experiennce, when we cook for ourselves has good effect, but is also good to get Prasad of others also, especially nice devotees.
...My morning sadhana is still pretty bad. My body and mind is enemy here as I was born at the evening and my brain was always most effective in nightly hours, but I didn't give up, hoping one day I will be able to switch it till end of this life.
HpS - Try to make little changes. We tried to go from 25 rounds/day to 32 but couldn't do it. So now we have been able to keep 26/day!
Most of the time I work on my business project and hopefully will be ready soon. Thing which is really good is that I am learning every day something new and most of this I will be able to use in new engine for vedabase.com.
HpS - Another super project. I see so many people, groups using it. Having professional librarians help us set up an index will be super.
... All family here loves when I cook, so I often cook for everybody here. I was planning to eat more like a raw salts, but seems Krishna has different plan. Normally 8 people come for prasadam. It makes me happy to see how are they unknowingly attracted to Krishna. They are also offering help with cutting vegetables and nephew was also asisting and singing while offering. :)
I have very strong tendency to use mind and intelligence in mode of passion and it is hard for me to push myself to read Bhagavatam during day, so I am reading before sleep, but unfortunately not every day. I know that is very bad and slowly improving it.
Funny is that Krishna is the biggest trickster, so he inspires people to write through vedabase.com contact form and ask different philosophical questions, which force me to do research and answer them. Today we spoke with somebody about Vedas and BG and SB as their essence and bhakti-yoga as ultimate way to re-establish relationship with Krishna.
A week ago I went to church together with my two cousins. They moved from roman-catholic to protestant church in last years, so I wanted to visit as see. They sing lot of sweet songs, and mainly they sing about pure devotion, it was very inspiring. Problem was with their class, when priest was talking as it was very poor philosophy, listening to it was very painful. I would like to come more often for singing, but would like to avoid lecture there.
Visit of the church reminded me how fortunate we are to have Srila Prabhupada, for bringing us answers for all our questions which is Christan religion unable to answer.
It is now more than month I was not physically in association of the devotees. But during this week I will visit devotees on the farm.
Your servant Prahlad Nrsimha das
HpS - Jaya! Such a nice report. You are also a journalist. Read like a paragraph of the Krsna book each day after breakfast, before you start your work.
