Esteemed Professor Dr. Samaresha et al,

Awk! Hare Krsna.

We are like 97% dead, but happy.

We have had arthritis in our shoulders the last few weeks. It may go away.

We have to talk carefully or our throat becomes in flamed.

We have wanted to report for so long but don't know how to summarize things.

Personally, we have been able to maintain this Japa Vrata of 16-good malas/day and this Dharma vrata of our four principles from the SB(https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/1/17/38/) and Guru. If we did not our Karma would carry us away very quickly like your Fullbright son whose attraction to alcohol killed him very quickly.

It is hard, it takes time, but withour 16/4 we would be even more useless than we are.

We have been working very furiously with the Ministry of Education and this Sastric Studies development, the four diplomas that Srila Prabhupada and Srila Bhaktisiddhanta outlined.

We have been working on the Ministry of Education newsletter, Viplavah, and our NIOS newsletter, Solaris, and developing the symposia for Education and the Sacred.

Just for example, day before yesterday:

Full morning program on line, with Mangala arati, reading Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu, Japa together for 30-minutes, answering about five quick questions in the Chat.

1/2-hour preparing for SB class.

1-hour presenting class and discussions.

1/2-hour each with Rama-giridhari Das and Radhika raman Das about political problems in ISKCON, calendar for travel and projects, family issue..

1-4.30PM preparing and meeting with Prog. R. Messier, one of the foremost expert on Islamic studies in USA. He is wonderful person. We had so much to talk about. I showed him Pracyaprajna, Bharati Sanskkrti, Siksa Drsya, Stapathya, Light of th Bhagavata, Solaris. He was very enthused and showed us his current work. He is a historian and doing two original digs in Morocco, and did his doctorate in Numismatics! He is 68 years old.

Our practical relation is developing more and more.

Then we came back from Prog. RM home and went for a walk in the near freezing weather with Ravi and Dr. Kiran Desai and discussed all the NIOS and ISKCON work and answered the many dogs in the neighborhood.

So, we become exhausted, and have to force our selves to rest and read historical novels sometimes.

O.K.

That is a little update.

I hope to call soon unless our voice disappears altogether.

We are always trying to take advantage of the mercy you have shown to us and NIOS.

Best regards to your out esteemed family and hope that your influence is spreading more and more.

HpS