EDITOR'S NOTE: Our web server is out so temporary copy of this K Dh is here,
Kapi Dhvaja
2023 April 5
Visnu-Purnima (5.2)
● Sankirtan Babble of the Anjana Suta Academy (ASA), www.JayaRama.US, a pioneering branch of ISKCON, Founder-Acharya, His Divine Grace, Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.
● GBC Zonal Secretary – H. G. Virabahu Das.
● Editors - Tom Brown, Buck White et al.
● Branch Head - H. H. Hanumatpresaka Swami.
● Published - Each New and Full-moon day.
Wandering Miscreants
The Sun is at 5.36PM,
Nila-madhava Dhama,
Houston, Texas, USA
2023, April 6th, Thursday.
AgtSP (paoho)!
This last fortnight started with us still camping at New Govardhana near Monterrey, Mexico.
H. G. Gadadhara-gosai Das and family et all still hosting us, with so many devotees eg. Aristasena Das, Asta-sakhi and Subhadra-mayu Devi Dasis, Karuna-shakti Devi Dasi, Dhruva, Dhanesvari and girls, Arya-strestha and Saccinananda Das’ and so many others working on the ASA Sankirtan!
We continued with the Friday night Caitanya Cinema Circles watching Oscar’s Universal Form and then summary extract of Brother Son, Sister Moon.
For last four nights we moved to Gadhay-gauranga’s restaurant and guest house in Monterrey. Simple but great. Continuous rush of backpackers reserving rooms. We also had huge Harinama to the Lion’s Garden around the corner where they have given use of their ancient garden for Sunday and other festivals.
In general, Hari-lila Das, Mataji, Kuvera et al appreciated that there are fantastic preaching opportunities in Mexico. People seem to be simple, warm-hearted (but also can become angry like children sometimes too).
In Monterrey we did big cultural program at one of the oldest and most prestigious language schools. Bhakta Guillermo was the Master of Ceremonies, contact. Harilila Das did Intro to Sanskrita Language and HpS did Hamlet and Arjuna.
· Everyday Mangala arati and Gaura arati. Local bhaktas coming for classes
· Accommodations rough like campinggg.
· Complicated packing and travel to Mexico City. Shuffling luggage, wrong Terminal, Guest Lounge…
MEXICO CITY
Arrived. First class apartment with Janardana and Arya Srestha as roommates. Formal arrival lunch with 10,000 devotees, tamales and frijoles!
Evening meeting with Diksa candidates (All in Spanish!). Gaura arti…. Rest….
Rama-navami
· 11.30AM – Diksa with Bh. Sundara Goswami
· 2-4.30PM – National Congress and Assembly of Deputies, Commission on Cultural Relations, Session on Relations of Mexico and India with Ambassador of India (ICCR), Minister of Culture and five more top rank Mexican Dignitaries, television, first class Indian Dance (Subhadramayi DD et al), Abhirama Thakura (Hector Behara).
Nios was certified by the Indian participants, Hari-lila Das, Ranchor, as being first class representative of India, and by the Mexican participants, symphony direct Ricardo, Govinda-pramodini Devi Dasi et al as being first class representatives of Mexico, Latin America.
Ambassador said that NIOS had organized in three weeks what he had been trying to do over 15-months. So many practical and spiritual questions from the heart for HpSwami.
1. First, they will laugh at you,
2. Then, they will try to kill you,
3. Then, they will expect solid example and knowledge to follow.
We have come to the third phase. Now so many challenges to be grown up institutionally.
… After the intense program in Assembly Room Seven (El Chuachasumach), they took us right into the Main Hall with 500 national Deputies, debating laws and referendum, walked us down through swirling mass of Delegates, standing and meeting in the aisles, greeting our sponsor until we were all sitting in the first row. Then our sponsor (tall as a regal tree) passed a note to the Directoress of the Assembly (twenty feet above the Assembly Fooor) and she smiled and gave us “The most warm welcome for the NIOS/International Delegates from India just coming from the workshop on India/Mexico Cultural Relations, with sincere wishes for all success in our work! Hare Krsna!”
(Now saying “Hare Krsna” is like saying “Salam alekham” to some Muslim friend.)
The building was an example of the greatest architecture in the world with six story vaulting ceiling.
Marched out, back to our Ashrama while talking with Ricardo about his symphony conduction in Carnegie Hall and our contacts with Havi Das, (Ilan Chester) and Symphony of the Soul.
· Quick evening Prasadam and run to the temple (fighting chest pains) for the Rama-navami evening program with 600-devotees.
Ayee de mi! Caramba! Chihuahua!
Every day was like that in Mexico City. Can look at Monkey’s Diary of a Traveling Creature. Big picnic in the park, premier of Spanish subtitled DTC-UT-Peru. Screaming, complicated rush to airport (fighting chest pains), dumped into the USA at Customs.
“Welcome home”
“Oh, my God, thank you. God bless America”.
Now we are just putting our feet on the ground. Adjusting things in the Big H(ouston) and well head back to our Base Camp in Nashville (Murfeesboro).
“Where are you going after this???”
We don’t know. We need to sit down in our Base Camp at 903 Hillcrest, TN 37129, considering things with Abhiseka and Nitai-gaura-sundara Das and then plan for the Final Months.
If developing a NIOS Campus is progressive, then we can see never leaving Nashville again. Otherwise, sort the few boxes of stuff there and maybe go to Houston and Mexico.
Very unlikely we’ll go out for another Mexico, Richmond, Boise tour.
We need to settle down for our last days.
Brother Ass go back to India, Yamuna bath, in a clay canister. (Haw! Haw! Haw!)
O.K.
The Sun is as 6.43PM. We had to review Monkey’s DTC, collect the notes for its Preface and then write this (with little chest pain, and eye strain).
Now, lettuce (let us) dress up and go down the lane from the Sannyasi Place to Nila-madhava’s Alter for Gaura-arati and three last rounds.
Will we come back and finish this???
Calendar
http://www.jayarama.us/kd/cal.htm (revised 2022 July 13).
Now Sripad Surya-narayana is at 2.18Am, 23-04-07. As usual, after FES we could not do anything practical. Had fruit and nuts for a late night supper. {Arrrgh!} Now we have zero-rounds done from today, but finished three we had left from yesterday. L
Lettuce, TB/BW, finish this KDh quickly and post it.
· 11th about noon we SWA to Nashville, (BNA), then we skedaddle to The Boro, 902-Hillcrest.Then we work to get out Base Camp in order.
· Tonight Srinivasa Das, Mother Guru-bhakti Devi Dasi, Jaya-hari Das, Abhaya-joshi Das et al are arranging a sneak preview of DTC-US (USA) {Tada, Tada, Tada!!} in The Gauranga Hall.
· Next Kapi-Dhvaja would be April 19th
April
8th = Katy with Devendra-krsna Das with Mataji and family.
9th = Sunday Festival.
10th = SB class.
11th = Hou to BNA.
Again, plan to settle in our Base Camp and look at everything with NgD/AsD et al and plan our next move.
Uncle Gismo
In Goloka, every step is a dance, every word a song, and the sound of Krsna’s flute in the dear-most companion.
$$$ - ASA
There has not been too much activity. We closed our ASA accounts from 1 January to 7 March but we see we did not summarize them. We will make a note [ttd] to do that and post it in the Blog. The mad USB robot is subdued but [ttd] must work on this more when we get back to The Boro.
ABC (American Bhagavata Curriculum)
· Full Morning & Evening Service (FM & ES), Sankirtan Classes etc, we are trying to share through www.gotomeeting.com (737-859-341). Watch for news at Twitter and ASA Blog.
· Tava Pache Pache (The book) - Is available at https://www.amazon.com/Tava-P%C4%81che-Instruction-C-Bhaktivedanta/dp/0984861149/ref=sr_1_1?crid=C815I1W1M0J0&keywords=tava+pache+pache&qid=1656835432&s=books&sprefix=tava+pache+pache%2Cstripbooks%2C77&sr=1-1. We are presenting it as we travel and ArtDas brought 20-copies in Spanish from Peru!
· Diary of a Traveling Creature (The Movie) – Is available at: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/dtc1/708063883 . That’s the first movie. The second, USA, is also done. Jaya!!!! We are still working with Jagat-guru Das on sending the link in the Blog and by Twitter.
· Waves of Devotion (Spanish Translation), has no more news.
· Tweeting our Vedabase.io TLC, Ramayan, and Kindle Carl Jung readings!
· Solaris (NIOS periodical) editing of the Award Ceremony article from Asiatic Society has gone from Govinda and Subhadra Devi Dasi’s to ArtD. We only wait for news from them now.
Wherever you go, whomever you meet, chant Maha-mantra for their hearing and let It preach
LOB, NOI, TLC etc.
Branches
No Blog reports this fortnight but personal discussion with Smt. Karuna-krsna Dasi about ASA Carnival, Srinivasa Das, Govinda/Ranchor, et al about NIOS.
Guru-tattva
www.jayarama.us/kd/guru-tattva.txt
HpS is getting 16/4 done daily but struggling to not eat too much at improper times. Watch the Blog for the list of recently initiated devotees from Asta-sakhi Devi Dasi.
Letters to/from the Editor
https://jayarama.us/kd/lte.htm
· Blog (www.monkeywarrior.com) is caught up. We look at it daily, usually in the afternoon.
Category A is stuff for this current Kapi Dhvaja Twitter (huber_robinson):
Where is Sita?
. . . . Here is the Ring!
. . . Back to Rama, Back to Rama!
Piggy’s Parting Pearls
Hare Krsna. Hare Krsna. 2.42AM.
(No chest pains, little eye-strain, breathing little smothered, HK, HK!)
We feel that Krsna is instructing us that basically this is the last time we will do initiations. From what we know, Radha-krsna Das in Houston, Swami Yadunandana in Spain, are acting very nicely as ISKCON Diksa gurus, and very compatible with out ASA efforts.
Lord nRSMhadeva will go back to the Boro, but Lord jagannAtha will stay in Srinivasa Das, Su-gopi, Sundara-radhika Devi Dasi’ AzrAma.
This may be the last Kapi Dhvaja. We find ourselves more and more riding a Donkey3 (Half-dead, Half-deaf, Half-demented) or maybe we are making spiritual progress.
Yet, this morning, for the first time, we got the feeling that we might stay until 84-years old, but just as a Hari-nama San-Kirtan leader.
(Unless Putin and Nato toss a few tactical nukes at each other in the Ukraine, and then we will be publishing Kapi Dhavjas in Goloka. Jaya!)
Hari Bolo.
Srila Prabhupada Singing Maha-mantra (as Bhajana),
Simple form at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Smz7zghQLaY),
Graphic enhanced form is at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6uCAGiWT8A&list=PLrhs0W1X0ThVs2ISR__ZFVSLSAx2g_8f0&index=12&t=905s
We listen to it every day when we take our morning bath etc. We can check our consciousness, Bhava, attitude, against the absolute standard of love of God!
