AGTSP paoho
How are you?
It is 9.46PM, bed time. We have 15/16 rounds done. We will chant one more and take rest.
So many things happen in one day that it is difficult to remember them all.
Good Full Morning Program at startmeeting.com. Candra-mukhi Devi Dasi led the Kirtan. Maybe it was the connection, but the time she allowed for us to chant the response to the Gurvastakam prayers was a little short. When we lead, we chant the response softly to ourselves and I guess that gives enough time for the other participants. She and many others lead nicely.
Is very important to learn the word-for-word meaning of the Astakam. Then you can chant with meaning, feeling, especially if you chant in front of your Deities.
Then we continued with some more Japa.
Guru-puja and apples, cranberrys and yogurt breakfast offer with Musa.
Went over the letters and got very depressed over some of the projects, but we don't lose enthusiasm. We just realize that things are not going the way we want them to, so we try another way. Later, Bean pancakes and peas porridge for lunch offering.
Nappppppp... Got up with a lot of enthusiasm. Calendar calls to Peru, locally and Full Evening Program. I wake up Gaura-Nitai here in our Franklin Ashrama and Musa puts Them to rest at 8.30PM. So, we are getting a rhythm: 'Jaya Radhe, Jaya Krsna, Jaya Vrndavan' bhajan and Kirtan, then KRSNA book, then last Tweet/DTC.
We always remember that Nava-yogindra Swami told us that Prabhupada told him that if you chant 16-enthusiastic rounds, follow the four principles strictly, keep a full morning and evening program, and see that everyone under your authority does the same thing, then you will have no problems. Of course, for us it is a big problem when we can't preach. Having applied this we see that it always works.
Happy life. Vraja life.
O.K. Guess that is all for now.
We opened a Yahoo Group for Solaris Editors to work on the Magazine. Oscar has agreed to write an article. Will you? The Call for Papers will be out soon. We discussed with ART and we will change the Spanish, Saturday night symposium to 6PM Nashville time, 7PM Lima time, maybe fix a calendar, like 'First Saturday of the month, Pada-padma, Second Saturday...".
Progess.
Good night.