Jahnava Nitai Das

Latest HED (June 22, 2002) TODAY, Friday we're in Cuenca, Ecuador. Its 6,000 ft, cold mountain air, but nice preaching. Since last HED we did little more preaching in La Paz and then went to Cochabamba in Bolivia. Ramaprasada, former member of Parliament is converting his tri-plex into a temple. About half done and some regular programs. Vere nice but only one night there. THEN ... <THEN> ... Began our version of Walt Disney's, "Mr. Toad's Wild Ride to Ecuador": At 5:45AM we were supposed to leave the house/temple in Cochabamba to go to the airport. But Ramaprasada couldn't find his keys so he ran off down the road while we stayed with the devotees. He found a sleeping taxi driver who drove us to the airport, but at the entry gate one tire went flat. We took the luggage in hand and ran the final one kilomete. Arrived in La Paz 45 minutes later with only 45 minutes connect time. Mathuresha was waiting with our suitcase. Stood in line at Taca and came to the desk: Your flight to Lima is confirmed but not from Lima to Santiago. What! We confirmed both sectors. I'm sorry, you´ll have to go through customs in Peru and try to get on Stand-by. Ayee! Chiuauaaaaa! Arrived in Lima and there we're devotees there looking for their lost luggage: Hey, Hanuman Swami. Are you going to Guayaquil? The devotees want to know. HpS> Ayee! Yes, in two hours if I can get standby. Devotees> O.K. We'll let them know and help you. HpS> (Thank you Krsna!) (The Immigration guys in La Paz we're hard: Are you religious? Why are you in La Paz!!) We got on Stand-by with only one seat not claimed one hour before loading. The guy whose seat it was came up just after they'd given us the ticket. We ran to the gate not looking back. Ugh! Plane then went from Lima to Quito to Guayaquil!}Phew! Five airports, 11 hours door-to-door. In Guayaquil the weather was warm. There´s a nice park along the river front. Full devotee and outside programs. Lunch is 25 preparations. Its hard to figure out what to eat. Rice and beans! Went to the ocean for Ganga-puja and Mother Ganga gave us a very nice bamboo stick for our gong. Best gift in a <<long-time>>. Ganga-mayi Ki Jai! Now we are in Cuenca in the mountains for Nama-hatta programs and then back to Guayaquil for Sunday feast. Next week we'll report from Chile. Feel like a small part of a big machine, nice machine. Srila Prabhupada, Ki Jai! CAL -Complete CALendar next HED (29 June). - Mexico still not fixed. Maybe Texas, Mexico as soon as we reach USA (24Jul). Waiting for news of Mexico-Madrid-Mexico ticket prices. - No news from Nestor about Kartik tour. ABC *Kindergarten - Still keeping 25 rounds. Tough/nice. So many things whirling around us, even death, that we often have to chant just to do material things. JAPA MALA A smooth as sali-grama silas They serve Krsna in five kinds of lilas. Beads, one-hundred and eight, Though only wood you are great. *Primary - NOI seminar in Guayaquil. *Secondary - Got a sample of the VIHE Bh. Sastri Exam for the VMP Refresher course. Now have to exam it and see if we can work toward it. - KB, Krsna is just Marrying Five Queen's. Next week interesting talk between K and Rukmini, K's family in Dvaraka etc. *Graduate - SAR, Canto 8, 14 Manvantars. "K knew the inhabitants of Dvaraka would be afraid to enter the tunnel, therefore He asked them to rermain outside. Then He himself entered the dark tunnel to find Rksa, Jambavan". Interesting, the Dvarakavasi's and the Brijavasis. Brijavasis ready to die entering Yamuna to save K from Kaliya. I´m still very attached to matter. Gotta get out. ASM Our number-one focus is still this HED. Please help. AGT Gaurava Prabhu for his steady help in posting it! We are keeping a Wanderin Miscreants Journal on Bhakta CIDCO and can send it July 24th when we reach USA. CAMP(us) -ISV: There is a committee to find a larger building. How was CCD's house warming? Jaganmangal is better. Subal is working 24 hours a day for Krsna and also planted some flowers for Radha Madana-Gopal. -Nimsar: Raktak is reporting little rough times in getting started. But I'm pushing to keep to our agreement to try it out for six months. SMS ("Science Made Stupid" by Guy (Uncle) Gismo, Warp World IX) Ecuador Social Sciences. The economy here is better than the USA. Bananas are 100 pounds a dollar. You can live for $450/month nicely. Applying the Street Dog Index things are O.K. They are well fed. Clean and lots of them (bottom of the food chain). Before the government was robbing the people by banks etc. etc. but now the "economy is good". Haw! Haw! Haw! Be careful. That's just a trick so you'll earn a lot of money again and then they will find another way to rob you. In USA lower class is mostly driven out on the street of hovels and then take to drugs and sex to survive for some time, but die quickly. Hence, no "problem" with lower class like in Ecuador etc. (Fifth Class). Also true of dogs. No street dogs in USA. But its not so great in Ecuador either. Like Arizona 1905. Robbers assault people in the street. Guards with pistols, shotguns, rifles and even machine guns in the department store portals. GT - Nothing. LTE - Nothing. We answer the letters with URGENT in the Subject field first! Please write with news. It helps a lot. Your fallen servants, HpS / ASA Whoop! Whoop! Oink! Oink!

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I came across this site: http://www.geocities.com/asa_hed/ Looks to be a more up to date site of his. Last update was Jun 22nd. Updates every week with the HED newsletter. [This message has been edited by jndas (edited 06-27-2002).]

I came across this site: http://www.geocities.com/asa_hed/ Looks to be a more up to date site of his. Last update was Jun 22nd. Updates every week with the HED newsletter. [This message has been edited by jndas (edited 06-27-2002).]

Krishna experiences pain through us. From His perspective there is nothing but Him, ourselves being just another aspect of Him. For the whole, the part is also itself. [This message has been edited by jndas (edited 06-27-2002).]

And lets not forget the "parardha", or half the life of the universe. It equals 4,320,000*1000*2*30*12*50

In the case of Kunti and her co-wife, it was agreed that one should live to raise the children and one should perform sati.

In the case of Kunti and her co-wife, it was agreed that one should live to raise the children and one should perform sati.

As long as one isn't absolutely pure, there is the danger of one coming under the influence of his anger. It is best in all situations to just control the anger and not associate with evil minded people who would want to criticize someone's religious belief. I would only advise one to fully utilize one's anger if one saw another person who was going to be physically or mentally harmed. Even then, one should choose the best method of action for all concerned. That cannot be determined without being in the particular situation and analyzing the circumstances.

Here is one of Hanumatpresaka Maharaja's articles: "Karate, Kung Fu and Prana" [ - by Sri Hanumatpresaka Swami ] There's a "Wind God" in Berkeley near our ISKCON Temple. Peter Ralston's his name - one of the top Karate guys in the world. I asked one of his students, "What's your philosophy of nature? What is the world made up of?". He responded, "Earth, water, fire ...". I began to get excited. This is the same as the Bhagavad-gita. Maybe we can have a great conversation here. He continued, "Earth, water, fire ... wood and paper". "Wood and paper?!", I exclaimed, trying to control my disappointment, "What about air?". He said, "Oh! Air in Chinese philosophy is considered all pervasive, almost like God". Humph! I considered. What can you expect. Karate guys will always look at "air", prana, chi as God. Peter could do so many miraculous things. So could the ranking Black belts in my school: Uechi Ryu. Sometimes they were Island champions in Okinawa - walking on styrofoam cups without crushing them, punching their fingers through 3/4 in. plywood. This is all manipulation of "prana". Whatever you can feel is prana. In the body it is circulating in seven major currents, cakras, but there are 10,000 major and minor "nadis" or tactile channels. You cannot see pure prana. It is the source of "fire", visual element. A portion of the prana slows down to become visual. Just to come up from visually biased perception of the world to tactile is a big jump. Even if you close your eyes and try to "feel" a candle in your intelligence you will still be hangng on to a visualization to orient yourself. This is why all the activities of karate guys appear like magic to Western science. But really (in theory) its quite easy. Yogi guys focus more on sound and so the prana follows. When you chant Hare Krsna are you trying to get "good feelings" out of it? Probably. Try to go beyond that to meditating on the sound. Then comes meaning. Many of the things that you'll read in the Krishna book and the Bhagavatam can be understood now. For example, Narada Muni travels on the airways. The planets are held together by wind-ropes. The universe , obviously, is composed of tactile forces. Some you can see, some you can't. You can feel the moving tactile force in a river and see it also. But you can't see the wind. You can't see "gravity". What would a visual representation of the tactile force created by the "gravity" of the Moon, Sun and Earth look like. Would the two primary "Le Grange" points correspond to the invisible Vedic planets Rahu and Ketu? During an eclipse would the tactile field of these points "eat" the tactile field of the earth as the Vedas describe Rahu tries to eat the earth. There is a book "Vedic Cosmography" by Richard Thompson. He gives wonderful description of many of these things. Always chant Hare Krsna and then you'll dance. Don't be so influenced by what you see. By this potency you'll draw His glance And then what's the use of colour Tv. Are we finished yet? Can we play? O.K. Maybe. Maybe I should cite one more science thing and quit. You have to walk that lonesome valley. You gotta walk it by yourself. Nobody else can walk it for you. You gotta go through this mystical world by yourself if you want to reach God. Max Ernst and Sequential Events and Theater There is a book I cite a lot: "Mind Works" by Max Ernst. He has some interesting studies related to heiracrchy of the sense modalities. The first one is Sequential Event Discrimination. You are confronted with two flashes of a strobe light, two tickles from an electrode or two clicks of sound. Of course, at a certain minimal separation the two events will cease to sound like two different events and seem like one. In cinema this is Critical Flicker Frequency. [Continued next week in Chapter 4.7]

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P.S. Yes, that picture on the link is him.

P.S. Yes, that picture on the link is him.

In case anyone doesn't know who he is, you can read some of his writings here: http://www.indiadivine.com/hps.htm He has a unique and interesting writing style, and if you meet him in person, he has the same unique way in his dealings.

In case anyone doesn't know who he is, you can read some of his writings here: http://www.indiadivine.com/hps.htm He has a unique and interesting writing style, and if you meet him in person, he has the same unique way in his dealings.

Sati is really too misunderstood to even begin a discussion. I will have to side with one of the previous posters (maybe another thread) who considered it a mystical activity - not a suicide - which was only possible in previous ages (not for the last 5,000 years).

Sati is really too misunderstood to even begin a discussion. I will have to side with one of the previous posters (maybe another thread) who considered it a mystical activity - not a suicide - which was only possible in previous ages (not for the last 5,000 years).

You obvious didn't read his mailing policy. "You no write me, I no write you." He doesn't maintain a mailing list, but makes a new one each month. Sometimes you get in for one issue by a recomendation or something, but then you won't get the next issue unless you write him a letter. He tries to keep it more personal, where the receivers are people who actually communicate with him.

You obvious didn't read his mailing policy. "You no write me, I no write you." He doesn't maintain a mailing list, but makes a new one each month. Sometimes you get in for one issue by a recomendation or something, but then you won't get the next issue unless you write him a letter. He tries to keep it more personal, where the receivers are people who actually communicate with him.

Yes, it is an alphabetical encyclopedia of persons and places mentioned in the Puranas; a very huge book (three volumes) with many thousands of pages. [This message has been edited by jndas (edited 06-25-2002).]

There are flood stories in all the cultures of the world. I recall seeing a few books on this topic. Nearly all of the stories seem identical.

I think the interpretations will really depend on how one defines caste (varna). If we base it solely on birth, it appears to be very discriminatory. But if we accept it as being based on one's inner qualifications (i.e. levels of purity) then it does not seem to be discriminating. Anyone has the opportunity to perform any occupational duty provided they qualify themselves for that duty. And ultimately all duties are for the satisfaction of Lord Vishnu. Just because a sweeper isn't allowed to perform a surgery operation does not mean he is being unfairly discriminated against. If he qualifies himself through study, practice, and certification, he can also perform surgeries. But until then he has no right to perform such activities.

I think the interpretations will really depend on how one defines caste (varna). If we base it solely on birth, it appears to be very discriminatory. But if we accept it as being based on one's inner qualifications (i.e. levels of purity) then it does not seem to be discriminating. Anyone has the opportunity to perform any occupational duty provided they qualify themselves for that duty. And ultimately all duties are for the satisfaction of Lord Vishnu. Just because a sweeper isn't allowed to perform a surgery operation does not mean he is being unfairly discriminated against. If he qualifies himself through study, practice, and certification, he can also perform surgeries. But until then he has no right to perform such activities.