AGTSP paoho. We just headed for Mexico. We just could not answer letters yesterday but we are keeping pretty up to date. We should be back to work on Monday. Follows our like regular report to Dr. Samaresh.

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Jaya Sri Krsna!

Esteemed Professor et al,

Thank you so much for your call. We missed it but the record and voice message was there. We made it to Houston,Texas for this Goloka Education, Primary School system work last Wednesday, 12 March. After one week back in the USA we had just barely recovered our vitality and as expected this trip has put us right at the edge of exhaustion again.

As I write it is 16th March, Sunday, Gaura-purnima and we are headed for the airport in a few minutes. We will go from Houston to Mexico City just for the day, returning to Texas tomorrow morning. We must deliver some money for one disciples emergency jaw surgery, meet with the Regional Representative for our ISKCON Education Ministry and participate in the excellent Gaura-purnima festival.

We are just barely vital. We are feeling a little nausea, vertigo etc. but spiritually quite well! Back in Houston on Tuesday we will talk to our local book distribution center, Krsna Culture, help Rama-giridhari Das design the Ministry web-page and so forth. It is a lot of work but is so, so valuable. As we are able to set up Houston as a model ISKCON primary school maybe a dozen more could be started in the USA within one year.

Back in Tennessee on the 21st we will then sit tight for two months! On the 14th May we come back to Texas for a week again for the new Temple inauguration. They have 2-meter tall beautiful Murtis of Radha Nila-madhava and will be opening a Temple with the same grandeur to honor them.

Honestly we feel we are getting our work load under control.

We answered 15-intense letters yesterday, many involving very personal anxieties. We are so happy to be useful to disciples and friends, and we are learning just how much of this we can do. As I'm sure you know this takes a very heavy toll on one's personal strength.

We have never felt our writing and academic work was better organized than now. With this commitment to a handwritten notebook we are gradually seeing everything in perspective in reviewing and organizing the rather extensive work we have previously done and hope to do in the future.

There is no news of the Felicitations volumes reaching Bombay yet so I will have to start that bloodhound work of calling Omkara Das and seeing what happened. Again, Vanderbilt University has our review Journals online and we will work out a good method of regularly visiting their library. Then we will be ready to market the Felilcations and Museum volumes both. We talked with Radhika for about one hour with Rama-giridhari Das and there are several development with the American Association of Religions (AAR) that will be very favorable for NIOS's work.

So, we need to close here for the moment and do our last dash at packing and we are off to Mexico. We are very sincerely trying to call also, but honestly it takes a lot more energy than these correspondences so we hope to get to it as we get back to Nashville and can recoup our energy a little more.

Thank you so, so much for you personal tolerance and attention to us and of course your general educational efforts for humanity.

HpSwami

NIOS