Esteemed Professor Samaresh Bandyopadhyay et el,
This is your wayward servant, Hanumatpresaka Swami reporting, Thursday, 6th March.
After we talked from Vrndavana we finished our intensely refreshing visit to the Pandits and places of the Holy Dhama. It was very, very cold there and even the entire three weeks in India so our body was exhausted from fighting with the cold alone.
We went to Delhi at 1.30PM on 28th February with Sriman Harsh Pradhana and had excellent reception by the ISKCON Temple.
We rested very little and said, 'Good-bye' to Harsh and then joined a 1-1/2 hour presentation and discussion on presenting Bhagavata philosophy and cosmology in the formal science areas. There were about 15-professors and professionals present.
After that one hour rest and up at 11:15 PM to go to the airport. One man was killed on a scooter two cars in front of us and then it took 2-hours of standing in lines to get to the Boarding Gate for Brussels.
7-hours in the dark in a tine seat we arrived in Brussels.
We found some clean cheese and offered it to Lord Madan-gopal and then honored the remnants.
We were about to die then of exhaustion, but got in the Boarding Line for the all night flight to New York like good soldiers. When we got to the counter the girl accepted our Boading Pass and smiled at us and tore it into pieces.
Our beffuddled, exhausted mind was about to panic and jump over the guard rail fearing that we had broken some rule and Armed Security Forces would seizes us in a moment, but before we could act on that hysteria, she smiled and handed us another Boarding Pass saying, "You have been upgraded to First Class".
We smiled and said, "Oh, thank you", wondering, "Why us, Lord?".
Arriving on-board we discovered we had a persona servant, a seat and little cabinet that fully reclined to a bed and a white table cloth for each meal, although we declined the pig, chicken and beef and took only fruit milk and nuts.
Honestly without that we could have died of heart failure.
In any case, there were more rigors after that and in all it took 28-hours of hard travel to get back to Franklin, Tennessee. We were COMPLETELY exhausted and barely capable of moving for several days, but it is testament to our Yoga that we are beginning to move again.
We have made great personal and social advancement in the last few months by all these efforts, and specifically we have a a very clear method of fulfilling what seems to be our main responsibility in these last few years or even days of writing.
We, and everyone else, are accepting that we cannot travel like before or even handle so many projects, so a lot of our work now is seeing who we can inspire to continue with this work. It is a very happy project.
This weekend we will be staying at Ravi's home. It is about 45-minutes from here. He was also exhausted by the return journey.
Frankly speaking we consider it a great honor to be able to associate with you in all these personal and professional efforts and if you let us we will continue with this work although in this less physical and more inspirational aspect.
We hope things are super successful at your end also.
Some snow and sunshine here.
Your fallen servant,
HpSwami
