AGTSP

Paoho.

Today is Ekadasi. We focus on the question: Who am I?    Tomorrow lettuce (let us) focus on the question: Who are we?    If we know who we are, to some extent, then we can relate to others.

Third Day, Trayodasi: What is the plan?  Then we can develop our Calendar (based upon self knowledge and knowledge of others (a solid floor)).

Caturdasi: What things do we need to accomplish the Plan. Of course, that shall be the final Kapi-Dhvaja itself.

The unfortunate conclusion of the first days work is that we are Pleasure Seeking. Well P'pada says the same from the Vedanta Sutra: Anandamaya 'bhyasat. The Jiva is basically pleasure seeking. [Vis. Jayananda's first visit to P'pada.]

Seeking pleasure we want to associate with Krsna and the cowherd boys. They are having the most fun. We are not egoistic pleasure seekers. We can find pleasure once we have an honest relation with Krsna. Krsna does not claim to be perfect. He is trying to do His job, be God of the Universes, to the best of His ability, then He gets back to Braja as soon as possible and tries to deal with all the problems and puzzles that come up there along with everyone else.

To see it, we have  to join it, but if we have grevious misconceptions about Krsna in Vraja, P'pada in ISKCON (?) then we will be looking TOTALLY the wrong way when He tries to reveal it to us.  Good conceptions are goo background for direct experience.

When you try to understand who you are, you must be ready to eliminate everyone who is not related to your real self.

We stand in an empty space at the feet of Srila Prabhupada. We don't remember what anyone else has said about him. We just want to know him, from this perspective, directly. We will live or die with that relationship.

Then we add the forest, the ocean, the town, the boys, the families. That's enough.

[[[The Gopis scare us]]]

Prabhupada, Prabhupada, Prabhupada, Prabhupada! Prabhupada, Prabhupada, Prabhupada, Prabhupada! Prabhupada, Prabhupada, Prabhupada, Prabhupada! Prabhupada, Prabhupada, Prabhupada, Prabhupada!    Nitai-Nimai!!   Hare Krsna / Hare Rama!  Prabhupada, Prabhupada, Prabhupada, Prabhupada! Prabhupada, Prabhupada, Prabhupada, Prabhupada! Prabhupada, Prabhupada, Prabhupada, Prabhupada! Prabhupada, Prabhupada, Prabhupada, Prabhupada!