All glories to Srila Prabhupada! All glories to Guru Maharaj HpS!

Hare Krishna!!

PAMHO Guru Maharaj,

Thank you so much for the long awaited reply. It must have been a very, very hectic schedule. I hope Nrshimha Dev has protected you and the whole team very well.

Maharaj BhaktiVyaas Tirtha Swami had recently undergone surgery for Inguinal Hernia at our hospital and it has been a blessing in disguise for me. By Prabhupada's mercy, Maharaj has almost fully recovered now. We would hopefully discharge Maharaj on Monday , well in time for Janmastami. I get to spend quite a lot of time with Maharaj here at the hospital. On other days, it is nearly impossible to interact. I am blissfully happy for this special mercy.

Have booked my tickets for Vrindavan (27th Sept). I hope Maharaj would give me a little chance to serve.....there will be lots of devotees at Vraja undoubtedly. I am thrilled with the idea of Peru-Manipur venture. I had always wondered about the Mayans.....the Spaniards!

Its a rainy day....the rain has done wonders to the lotuses here!!

Banamali Prabhu had asked me to write an article for Janmastami souvenir....I wanted to request Guru Maharaj on what to write...but somehow I felt it was not proper for me to disturb you while on a hectic tour.... I simply prayed for Guru Maharaj's guidance. I wrote a short article entitled ' The joy of a neophyte devotee'. I hope you will like it Guru Maharaj.

Sending you ...a rainbow from above.....and lotuses from causal ocean!

I remain,

Your most fallen servant,

Sarada Gaurangi DD

HpS - AGTSP.  Paoho.  Nothing but one cup of water in the last 18-hours!  Our Donkey is under a lot of pressure, but smiling. Our respects to Maharaja.
You are medical Doctor?   I thought you were in the University.
Your news and Yamunesvara's is very nice. I wish to be in Manipur.

We arrive Delhi (if trip is on time) at 10.40PM on the 28th. Temple administration should meet us and then we will go to the Gloria of India Guest House and show up for Mangala arati. Then of course recuperating from the travel, but then we want to arrange visit with Dr. Kalyan-kumar Cakravarty about these projects. We are publishing letters we are exchanging with him. We will see what other programs the Temple arranges. Of course, we want to visit Vrndavana, but it maybe only for one night!! We are also waiting for response to our letters to Tunga-vidya Devi Dasi and Braja-basi Jagamohan. Only for our five nights total, then MOE/GBC meetings in Ujjain.

Just talked with Dr. Samaresh in Kolkata, looked at the flights to Silchar and Imphal. Still don't know the geography of the Northeast that well, but now seems best that we stay in Kolkata, Albert Road from 26th October to August 1st. The trip from Australia will be about 20-hours. That is the best ticket we could find, so our body will be at deaths door, and then five nights in Kolkata will be good. Then ... August first we go to ..... Imphal (?Silchar?) and stay there until 4th morning, three nights. Everyone who really needs to see us can load their camels in advance and travel to Imphal. Next visit if it is like this then we go to Silchar instead of Imphal.

How does this seem to your good self? We will put this in a general Blog Post called "Details of North East India Travel".

We must be sure that Rtu-raja Das and everyone who wants to can come and be accomodated. Maybe we can even allocate some funds for camel food.

What will we do while we are there?  We can have an Nectar of Instruction seminar for all three days and that will allow us to talk about EVERYTHING in Krsna consciousness in a very systematic fashion. We could record all the questions and comments. Also, can we meet with cultural and academic leaders during the day? Maybe have a colloquia on "Presenting Bhagavata Culture in the Western World: "Hamlet and Arjuna", "Science, Psyche and Spirituality - Prof. Carl Jung and the Mysticism, Music and Dance of the Bhagavata". We can engage these experts in our magazine "Solaris", our movie, "Art and the Sacred", and even developing educational exchange programs with South America.

I just spent 30-minutes researching the flights and there appears to be an Indigo ticket that we can use at noon on the 1st and 11AM on the 4th, but we need to buy within next two days!

O.K. Thank you.  We will post this in a general letter and to Yamunesvara Das also.