Dear Gurumaharaja, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. It was with great elation that i read of your visit to Radhadesh for the conference in May, as i most likely wasn't going to make it to Spain this year. I'm glad to have learnt of your tour to South-America and return to the States, but it's also less pleasant to hear about the harshness of the climate there. HpS - You have the dates, no? We put it into the kapi-dhvaja calendar. We have to get the interior tickets now. My year so far was lively. Late last year we learnt my wife was a little bit pregnant, and by August she's getting fully pregnant. We also are kicked out of our house, by legal pressure, but with 7 months respite. It is coming to pass together with delivery, so that is challenging. But we are fully aware this is the arrangement of Gaura Nitai, and although we don't see yet why They arranged it like this, we do see recurring themes and are very blissful because of that. Mid January i had to deal with some troubles in my chanting, probably because i offended a devotee out of arrogance a few weeks earlier. Me and the person solved that situation. I consider this a good experience, even though i chanted notably less than 16 for a few weeks. I am very impressed how you caught up leftovers from 2013, and in all honesty i don't see my lazy self doing that (this time at least). HpS - Yes, that was left-overs from our 25/day standard. We were always able to do 16/day. At least figure out how many you owe and then later you can catch them up. Is a promise you made. Fortunately i'm back at my minimum of 16. I do recognize my bad attitude in saying i don't see myself catching up. While writing this, on deliberating how to ask you what you think about it, i came to the conclusion that the best thing to do is to try to catch up anyway, even though i'm not sure how many rounds it were, and until when it'll take me. Reformation should be the goal. One line i heard Amala Bhakta prabhu say, was, 'I live to be corrected.' I sort of understand that now, as a husband, but as a devotee not yet, unfortunately. Let this be my little attempt to get there. 31 x 8 = 248 rounds. Ooff :) HpS - ASA - Inch by Inch, It's always a Cinch (Easy). Little by little starting to do some devotional program in the evening with the family. This is nice, but there is much room for expansion. Mornings i'm pretty much by myself. No singing, but some reading and praying, and working to get the bulk of the rounds done in a good way. The Journey Home translation i just finished. HpS - Wow!!!!! Now i want to start a new project, a book about the early days of ISKCON in the Netherlands, with interviews with participants. Stories about how Sri Sri Radha Gopinath came to Amsterdam by Malati. How they were in the Red-light district. Like that. In both Dutch and English. I seek your blessings to make this project pleasing to Srila Prabhupada. HpS - Hog (Lord Varaha) bless you!!!!! What is your idea on the following? The Lord in our hearts knows how we feel and what we experience, so then why would He feel the need to experience what Sri Radha feels, the three reasons mentioned in Adi 1.6? I wonder where the difference comes from. Radha Krishna are one in their identity, but it seems their feelings are unknown to each other, not like Supersoul experiences us. HpS - Well, just like Radharani we are stones yet unknown. We are discovering new things about our service potencies that Krsna nor us know. Same for Krsna, but yes, She is the ananda shakti and there is always a competition between the Jnana sakti and the Ananda shakti. Krsna understands Her then She expands Her self. happy lover's quarrel with lots of friends. That's pretty much it for now. nAma-zreSThaM manum api zacI-putram atra svarUpaM rUpaM tasyAgrajam uru-purim mAthurIM goSTha-vATIm rAdhA-kuNDaM giri-varam aho rAdhikA-mAdhavAzAM prApto yasya prathita-kRpayA zrI-guruM taM nato smi I bow my head again and again to the holy preceptor, through whose most celebrated mercy I have received the best of all names, the initiation mantra, Sri Sachinandan Mahaprabhu, Svarupa, Rupa and his older brother Sanatan, the extensive dominions of Mathurapuri, a dwelling place in the pasturing grounds [of Krishna], Radha Kund, the chief of all mountains, Sri Govardhan, and most pointedly of all, the hope of attaining the lotus feet of Sri Radha Madhava. (sri mukta carita, invocation) In all my humility, Dandavat pranams, Raghava Pandita dasa HpS - Very nice to hear from you, We wish you all the best. We hope that Mataji is doing well with her heroic service and that your son will be a great Vaisnava!!!