Dear GM,

Pamho

Agtsp

Agthps

Your mercy is carrying me through this spectacle of life. The world is a seemingly limitless ocean, but the mercy of you, all the Vaisnavas, our dearmost Lord, and some semblance of sadhana keeps me afloat.

I find chanting, reading, and listening to bhajans and devotee lectures keep me pointed in the right direction, although my chanting and regulation are far from flawless. My mind and family life still need significant purification. Faith is a hard-won achievement that I need to put more time into pursuing.

Your insignificant servant,

tcsd

HpS - ASA - - - Tulasi the Terrible Thai-man!   Jaya!   Have you been to Ankor wat? It might be interesting but of course, just chanting Hare Krsna might be even more valuable.

So you have a family life!?

That is such a great miracle in Kali-yuga that you must be in like the top 15% of the world's population just for that one fact!  How are Bala and Nila (got their names correct?)?        I think "faith" comes from doing austerities that we understand we should do, like controling our lust a little at every meal, and then getting a clear experience of the result of the austerity. Then naturally we have more "faith" because we have realized the results, not just theory.

BG 4.34, nice comment on "faith" in the Purport.

Now it is 4.38PM. We are suffering in our body in several ways. Several "fires". That is good. Will burn up the body and if we help then it will burn it up completely!

Birth, death, old-age and disease, Ki Jai!

Hey, are you sending an Annual Report to the address in the Kapi dhvaja?

4.39PM here in Nitai-gaurasundara's house. DARK outside. Time to go to the Temple room and do Gayatri and Japa. Maybe we can go for a walk this evening?
Waiting for more news from Thai-land.