Hare Krsna,
1.54 AM... AGTSP Paoho Our second day in ISKCON Delhi. Up at 12.30 AM, chanted two rounds. aswered important mail and read from KRSNA Enters Mathura! Roses and narcissus!
3.06AM ... R(10). Slow chanting with no voice. Go challenge. No voice at the time of death. Practice for passing that examination, Death. After that Diploma, there are others.
"Contributing or distributing the holy name of the Lord is a sublime example of contributing or giving charity (the dadäti principle). By the same token, one must also follow the pratigåhëäti principle and be willing and ready to receive the transcendental gift. ", NOI 4. So, if you are chanting you are offering the best thing to others. If you want to increase your Book Distribution, chant mo' rounds bettah.
Time for 6-minute nap and then Bath-Kirtan, Puja, go to Partha-sarathi Temple.
11.45AM - R(16)... Voice a little recoverd. Rest. Rest. Rest. We have to find tasks that do not require thinking or personal contact with people much more in the bodily concept of life than us (Haw! Haw!). This is like gardening, ironing clothes, going for walks. Just one class a day (every day) is intense.
The Art of Living. Do you have a PhD in The Art of Living? Bhava.... (Goals and 'practical' work follow automatically from the proper consciousness (bhava [buddhi]).
12.15PM - We answered as many letters as we could. Our eyes are starting to get strained. Now we have to bathe and shave (once every two weeks). One b'cari, Aditya narayana (and others) is assigned to help us. He is great guy. He got razor etc for us. We wash our clothes in the morning when we bathe (with Tungavidaya DD soap) but he irons them.
We posted some of the answers in the lettes to the ASA Encyclopdia. Seems like a project that might just work.
12.21PM - Whatsapp to Atul - The work in Pune was one of the highlights in my life to that time. Next Braja and we gave a two hour class for Adi-P in the VIHE. I think this God-father Diploma might really be a good tool. It would be for giving Bhakti-sarva bhauma one time. We could get all the Senior Devotees on board eg. Roma-pada Swami, Vaisesika. Das. They could be assigned specific chapters to work on. We could get a general idea of what the character requirements etc. are for the diploma, generate good start of essay questions, standard slokas, short answer questions, and show off to the world the excellent academic quality of devotees in ISKCON. What do you think? We would be glad to work on NOI to Bh. Sarva level and Canto One + Two of Srimad Bhagavatam. It would include the work for the previous titles.
3.42AM (Monday) - Hare Krsna! We should have posted this last night but forgot. Didn't make it a priority, but Daily Sankirtan Reports, after everything, are essential.
Aditya Narayana Das brought some Maha-prasad. We wanted to take with the devotees, B'caris but not possible. We honored some nicely, napped, recovered our voice, answered and sent mail, went to Gaura-arati and danced ... one two three, and met Yuddhisthira Das and his daughter Kalindi from Ecuador. Back to Room 4 and Yuddhisthira Govinda Das was here. We discussed NIOS stuff with excellent results and then hot milk and Krsna book etc.
Up at about 1.15AM, voice better but little fever in the box.
O.K. Japa. Blog, Whatsapp, ASA-Encyclopedia and now Bath-kirtan.
We missed M. Urmilla Devi Dasi's class yesterday!