Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna,

We broke Ekadasi with some baked-to-a-crisp puris and milk.

We read the "Poison Antidote" by Mayesvara in PDF format. Tough on our eyes but pretty good document. We put the link in the letter to Nanuk.

We just finished a Report to Prof. Samaresh (RGD):

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Hare Krsna!

Esteemed Professor, Rama-giri-dhari Das,

It is 3-minutes to midnight, Tuesday. Of course, we are in the iron grips of Jet Lag. We crash about 9AM and wake up about 3PM. We wanted to call at 9PM Kolkata hour but we were just to weak.

In general we are very weak, exhausted. The last push from Kolkata ISKCON to Houston ISKCON was 43-hours of hard work. We got a fever and cold, but with our efforts our deranged Pitta is about 90% normal now. Normal for a 70-year old Donkey.

We told Dr. Pankaj Gupta from the 24-December program and Sriman Gopal-bhatta Das from the 4-February programs that we would have to confirm by the 15th of November that they wanted us to present at Jendal University and ISKCON Leadership Sanga, so we should be able to finalize those calendar dates by tomorrow.

Dr. Ravi, put his foot down and set the requirement that if we came back to India so soon we would have to travel Business Class to avoid the intense pressure on our body that Economy Class presents.

I informed Dr. Panaj of that and he said he would investigate and get back to us.

In general, we feel that we pushed ourselves to the limit and unless we severely rest from travel for at least three months we are heading for an early death.

More natural seems to rest here until 15th February, then go to South America for two months. The programs with NIOS and ISKCON Ministry of Education have reasonable potential for us there.

Our Ashrama space here is pretty good. Car is O.K. Bathtub hot-water valve is broken and leaking.

I have to do the paper-work, accounting, for the last two months for ASA (NIOS).

I talked with Sesa Das (Dr. Seth Spellman), ISKCON Minister of Education, and we are supposed to have a conference call to settle the work to be done with the magazine, 'Viplavah.

For Siksadrsa I have looked on this little computer and cannot find any older files. Now as I remember we were using a computer borrowed from the Kolkata Temple to do the work in January and I looked at the three other USB-drives that I have here and also no more recent copy of Siksa than I gave Sanjaya. Hmmfff.  Can we just start to go through the book with Sanjaya from beginning to end? He can send the work as he finishes it to me as a PDF and then I can review it?

We left Canadian dollars with Sri Hari-dasa in Delhi and about 165-brochures, carrying 35-with us as hand luggage to the USA.

I will try to call today, Wednesday at 9PM.

Your stumbling servants,

HpSwami - ASA.