Respected Guru Maharaja,

Please accept my humble obeisances at your feet. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

HpS - ASA - Our obeisances at your feet.

You told me to take some notes of my travel so I thought I would write to you every few days with three most important things that I could recall. Here comes the first one:

1. Travel makes me really sick. I felt dizzy, sleepless and unable focus. So I simply chanted as much I can and I was deeply grateful to Srila Prabhupada, you and other devotees who travel so much for preaching. At the same time I was amazed how many folks are enjoying their travel. A mom with two older kids, one infant, aged mother was attending to all of them and at the same time finding time to have fun playing video games! I thought if the materialists are so enthusiastic to carry on their duties like this I should be much more enthusiastic to serve the Lord and His mission and prayed for that enthusiasm and strength.
2. Following your instruction, at my wife's hint, I gifted a Gita to the passenger next me on the flight. He is an Indian, a professor/Director of Computer Science, in a US university. He did his PhD from Purdue and a senior member of IEEE. He was grateful for the gift and asked me to write my name on the book so he can remember being received it from me. I quoted 3.21 (123 backwards!) and told him with his big position he is a leader in society and he should read. He promised to read. I really felt like a robot following your instruction but since I did what you said I felt like the life entered the robot!
3. We reached Vrindavan safely and spent 16 hours since I reached here. My memories of the 6 months stay came back. I felt humbled to be allowed an entry into the dhama and I am appreciating the dhama and the dhama vasis. An elderly gentle man in the shop in front of the temple (my wife said he must be Biharilal) preached me about take caring care of cows, parents and chant the holy names. I kept quiet and simply listened to his realizations. My wife Sundari Radhika and daughter Sugopi looked like they were deeply moved with the first darshan of Sri Sri Radha-Krishna, Krishna-Balaram and Gaura-Nitai; I felt really embarrased for my stone heartedness. I prayed to Radha-Krishna, Krishna-Balaram and Gaura-Nitai to guide my thoughts, words and actions and they immedialtely filled my thoughts with you, an indication I took that I need to seriously and sincerely follow your instructions.

Your insignificant servant

Srinivasacarya dasa

HpS - ASA -- Super. Super. Super.  All we can say is that we are absorbing what you have written and are waiting for the next one. !!!!