AGTSP

Please accept my humble obeissances

Thanks and more thanks for trusting your poetry to us.  

Our present schedule has been shaken by the loss of laptop.  No more jobs to do.  Or novel writing to follow.   I presently have no desire to go back to mundane job life.  So the loss is working for dharma I believe but still figuring that one out.   Tryng to keep our mind quiet and centered. reading a lot, listening to music a lot, (lots George Harrison)  Celibate for almost three years so I perfectly understand your comment on leaving the itching genitals behind,  it seriously keeps the "mosquitoes"  away and also opens new paths of consciousness. No alcohol or drugs, coffe etc.  No partying.  No credit card, cable tv, internet at home, etc  It Feels like  vanaprastam sometimes but know it is just a fraction of that, a tiny one. We meet with devotees on saturday for musical group and honor prasadam. When chance comes we join the sankirtan with Vijay Prabhu (singing vaisnava teacher) and devotees in Temple.  We`re reading the Teachings of Lord Caitanya and re-reading Upadesamrita, Gita, Isopanishad and others.   Trying hard to keep a strict vegetarian diet but due to health problems (transplanted kidney in `07)  need some protein from chiken or fish, but never ever ever touch anything else. Honor Cows.  (I`ll talk to the dietician of hospital to ask for possible 100% veggi diet)

ASA - HpS = AGTSP    Devotee here in Peru has had first transplant, lasted much longer than normal, now on second and has been strict vegetarian.   While he was between transplants was on dialysis and always many times cleaner blood that normal or others.  Doctors, nurses always asking about his life style.  Plenty of energy!    Maybe he is readin this?

We sleep late due to feeling of loneliness and feel confort in movies so therefore we wake up late.   We feel more and more detached from life in city and dream of peaceful abode somewhere in the woods, mountains or desert. But difficult to accomplish.  Not chanting rounds and still feel that  "I am-I do"  and Cartesian trick  very present. Imprints from years gone and past lifes still around (like rock music) but with a stronger hint of fading away.  Only possible thanks the mercy of the Lord and Vaisnavas.

Hare Krishna  Maharaj     We don`t understand much how this works but intellect not important in such matters. Only a tool given by the energy of the Lord for present life.  We are receiving lots of mercy from siksa Guru and vaisnavas. And mosquitoes have less power over us. 

We wish you a very pleasant and transcendental stay in Peru !  
The fallen jiva with the greatest luck on earth
Raul

 HpS - ASA --   There is no fixed program for anyone, no?    We are all different. Srila Prabhupada took several years to become and inititated devotee after he met and accepted Srila Bh. Siddhanta S. in his heart. In NOD is suggestion of Rupa G. / Srila P'pada to consider carefully with the intelligence what we can do and then take a vow of a fixed number of rounds of Japa and do it.   Eg. "I will chant 4-rounds/day from this Ekadasi until the next". By that proccess he says we can advance!