A G T S P !
(paoho & bw)

Brother Ass is EXHAUSTED! Yesterday:
Mangala-arati with Ganga-mantri Das
Pack - 5.30AM off to NGD house
Peru BhVai Class
San Jose BhVai Class
Organize and Direct Annual NIOS Board Meeting with seven present and five on conference call.
Help set up 30-foot Symposium Tent and Chairs, Tables and sound system.
Rest.
Prayyyyy to Indra to not rain (but it did rain (before the symposium (and not after that (and then it was cool during the event))))!
Receive the Imam from the local Mosque
Pioneer the Symposium and help Manage it.
Say farewell to Imam (great! Discussion and we will talk more, we learned that Sufis are not some marginal, abused Muslim group, but they were there from the very beginning, in the Great Mosque of Sophia, and that is why they were called, "Sufi"). He discussed liking steak as opposed to us liking vegetables, but after the Symp. he asked, "So you are strict vegetarian"... "Yes"... "Being vegetarian gives you good health", he said! We will meet more.
Joined the end of the 12-hour Kirtan.
30-cars out front.
Blew the conch shell and did the Arati at 6PM and then everyone joned the Feast with a great roar... Home to our cave, crash, not a minute for Japa! (Krsna even hid our bead bag (but up early and 16-rounds before Mangala arati(((.

Now it's 7.30PM.
Went for a walk with NGD, 44minutes door to door as always.
Plotting plans and took some dokla and V-8 juice Prasadam after consulting with Lord Nrsimha deva and Hanuman.

Hare Krsna . Hare Rama.

A little bird writes:
I have a hard time understanding people some time, sometimes it is better to remain silent and be though a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
We apes respond:
But attentive. Perk up your ears and listen. Listen deeply. Ask questions or make comments like a doctor saying, "Stick our your tongue, let me look at your eyes".
"Nobody every listened himself out of a job", Calvin Coolidge.
Of course, Draupadi did not know why all these strange things were happening. She howled and complained, but she never lost faith that Krsna was ultimately in control and in the end she saw things adjusted in a way that was so cosmic and so deep that she could not have imagined it.
Stay on board the ship.
Try to understand people.
Even if you can't don't give up faith. Krsna knows why things are happening.

[7.36PM Dark as the inside of a goat outside. Ganga-mantri just showed up. He stays in his van in the yard and baths and lounges inside.]

Hare Krsna Hare Rama. Krsna's pastimes are so, so much fun. He is expanding them everywhere! Join in the fun. Become a demon killer for Gauranga!

Let us look at all the letters from today and a few from yester-years. Now that this Annual NIOS Symposium has come to a successful conclusion we turn to the Celebrate Nashville Festival next month. Then we have no commitments until 31st December.
So, we can write. Publish.
Our eyes have been giving us a lot stress lately. See if it clears up.
Letters!!!! >>>======>