TavaPachePache
Afterwords to the Nectar of Instruction
Composition Book 22
September 21 – October 21
Contents
PREFACE
STEP ONE – Albert Camus
STEP TWO – Build with Arcs
STEP THREE - Winewright’s Waggle
CHAPTER NINE – Billy Brine, the Rat Sublime
Chapter 12 – Wake Up!
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PREFACE
We always ask us why we write,
And the answer is it gives insight.
We got a product to share with you,
And to do that job, it liberates too.
Only a liberated soul can talk about the wonderful land of Vraja.NOI 9
“The specific benediction of always preaching Krsna consciousness is that it always keeps the preacher beyond the clutches of death”, NOI 1.
Hare Krsna! Hare Rama!
STEP ONE – Albert Camus
The only excuse for not coming to Mangala-arati is an inability to crawl.
Chanting, Mangala-arati, is an exalted boon.
Monkey: Is it a Daniel Boone?
Piggy: Don’t die.
Monkey: Daniel Boone and Davey Crocket were similar. They were both like Tennessee dudes and fought with the Shawnee Indians and others. The Indians had nations, lodges, blood line royalty et al. They just didn’t have rifles and guns and canons and lances made of steel. Why was Europe advanced in this stuff? Africa, Arabia had some of this stuff also.
India, China . . . had steel, metal, but not American Indians. Hmmm?
If we have Krsna, we have all technology. Why do you need steel weapons if you can make the enemy soldiers all fall asleep? What do you need any defense for if the ‘enemy’ loves you?
Liberation is the first clause in spiritual life. Immortality.Sat. If you are not situated in immortality, you have not yet begun spiritual life.
STEP TWO – Build with Arcs
Bob Barton built houses.
Some from wood, some from rock,
Some from bamboo and some from chalk,
But ultimately they were all just bags of thorns,
Unless people installed Deity of Bhagavan therein,
And worshipped Him with drums and horns.
God is the hammer. God is the nail.
God is the water in our garden pail,
But ultimately He is in Vraja Wood,
Playing with the boys and calves
Like any boy should.
Milk your cow, grow your hay,
God’s life is simple every day.
Industrymakes life complex, creates lipstick at three dollars a tin,
And expects you to work for it, even to sin.
Sinning to get lipstick.
Selling cigarettes to get lipstick.
You don’t need this body!
You can stay always in trance,
Fly in the sky,
Ne’er give earth a glance.
Gallow-wishes: But, some of my best friends are there! On the earth.
Tom Brown: They are not all your friends. As soon as you have not got money, their ‘friendshop’ ends! They’ll sell you for roast-beef, they’ll sell you for drinks, they sell you for anything that their greedy mind thinks.
G -W: Then I guess the best thing is to just go to God, go to Goloka. Planning this will be our last breath!
B –W: Yes! Don’t guess again.
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[3:21:50 AM] hp swami: Good morning Doctor. How are you? It is 3.15AM here in Tennessee. The last part of our journey back to USA was intense: Chosica, Lima, Mexico City, Houston, Nashville. Our energy is still not recovered. Honestly speaking we don't know if we will live or die at this point. However, Seneca comments, "If my bark (boat) sinks, it is but to another sea". In any case, shall we die discussing philosophy?
We would certainly have the company of such immortal geniuses as Socrates, Descartes, Jung/Freud, Krsna. We will send copy of this to our esteemed friend Professor SamareshBandyopadhyay former head of Ancient Indian History and Culture at the University of Calcutta. Also, your good friend and our new acquaintance the Venerable Director of the Peruvian National Library might like to join the dialog at times, no?
[3:24:06 AM] hp swami: For us we can agree with Socrates in the Phaedo that these discussions about the ultimate nature of the self, its immortality, at this point, the cup of poison in front of us, are not idle speculations. Old or young man, we have to agree with Albert Camus about the primacy of death as an element in our philosophy of life.
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e. e. cummings forgot the uppercase letters. we have to sympathize with his endeavors.
eliminate unnecessary letters, words.
“Essential truth concisely expressed is true eloquence”, CC
It is 4.19am, in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
[The computer is putting in the capitalization, not us. O. k. let it do as it wishes. We think that Bill Gates is not real vicious.]
What use is it,us telling you when and where we are? … Tennessee… ?
Because our consciousness, Bhava, is very determined by these two things.This is called Vastu-veda. Every man should know it. Ayur-veda is medicine. You should also know that.
You may also note that we also have started to use upper-case letters. Hmmm, they add an extra level of communication. We follow traffic lights, green-yellow-red. That allows us to co-operate.
In our Academy Calendar we are leaving space for spontaneous, unplanned, work. We are keeping strict schedules with only a few people, but Mangala-arati, Full Morning Program (NOI, pg 34), we consider rather essential, to be sure we haven’t gone off the deep-end, like the mythological Osama Bin Laden.
Now our robot says, 3.30AM, “Prepare for FMP”, so we will see you at 6.30AM.
Somerset Maugham
He was the highest paid author of this time and maybe of all time. Why? Can we write literature like that for Krsna? NOI: mayatatamidamsarvam …, nirbandha Krsna sambandha…The Moon and Six-pence is filled with descriptions of the relationships between men and women, alcohol and meat consumption, all common affairs in Western countries at that time. It also discusses creation of the world, celestial beauty. The Bible and, we would guess, the Koran also describe low class relations between men and women not found in Srila Prabhuapda’s books. SB, Canto Five, Prayers by Hanuman: Om NamoBhagavateUttamaSlokaya… Srila Prabhupada’s books and his Yoga are a standard by which we can judge everything, find its use in Krsna’s service.
2.34 AM – R[-3] ie. Three left from 16-from yesterday.
3.00 AM – R[0] ie. 26/3 – 8⅔ minutes/round.
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2.48AM – R[0]. . . . Format and print NOI 8. Then hang it out by the side of the road in front of your Ashrama in little plastic bags for people to take with an advertisement for VedaBase.Com and the NIOS office as sources for the complete book. As people respond, send them an invitation to join learned discussions of the content of the book as they like.
This is Tree Top Tell-ta(i)le(s), Hanuman hiding up in a tree. So that him, he hopes, no one will see. He is crooning tunes for Mother Sita’s attract, but maybe his tail is hanging out for a tell-tale fact.
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The donkey, Darrin, brayed and brayed,
And other souls brayed with him!
Unless you feed your donkey oats,
His brain it goes a dim'n!
6.15AM: Just offered Lord Nrsmhadeva raisins, banana, and after everything, hot milk, then honored His remnants.
Now we'll nap and write?
Read SB for tonight (and tomorrow bright)?
STEP THREE - Winewright’s Waggle
Cartwrights make carts, no? Coopersmiths make barrels. Then what is a “Winewright”? It is someone who makes wine?
Well, there is non-alcoholic wine, or just plain fruit juice. Then there is fruit juice that is let to go like .5% alcoholic to prevent it going to vinegar. Then it can last through the year in barrels where there is no refrigeration.
Even still, what is the use of drinking non-alcoholic wine if it is not Krsna-prasada. Even if you take it as Prasadam you must take it in a sense of service requirement, intimacy.
Make fine wines for Radha and Krsna. The perfection of life!
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Reading NOI(6), we see it talking about bodily contaminations in a pure devotee. We were thinking that this can also include the bodily contaminations caused by fall-down into rum and beer, or cigars. Your body is contaminated, at least temporarily.
In the paragraph before this Prabhupada was talking about the Madhyama-adhikari and how he can distinguish who is a devotee. Does that mean that he can see who is a Suddha-vaisnava and is himself also above the modes of nature? We would say that he is above the modes of nature and a pure devotee by care, whereas an Uttama-adhikari is spontaneously pure.
There are so many things that can be discussed about these topics. We should get a clear understanding of Vaisnava-sanga as a community. However, if we cannot discuss things in a friendly fashion, as Madhyama-adhikaris, then how they be practical discussions, not just superficial?
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NOI 10 – Even in this world, seems we can reside on the banks of Radha-kunda in a physical body surcharged with Aprakrta-bhava. Even old age, disease and death can be wonderful, ecstatic pastimes in Krsna’s service. Destruction of an old body is supplying elements for new bodies! Dying is a great service, if you are doing it greatly.
PIT (Problems In our Temples) – We personally heard from the lips of Srila Prabhupada, in ISKCON Berkeley (San Francisco), in 1975, when one reporter asked Srila Prabhupada if there were problems in his Temples, he responded that this is the material world, there are problems everywhere.
So, we must prioritize those problems and fight to correct them, no? However, this is the material world and even when Krsna was personally present, in Vrndavana, there were demons causing miscarriages for the girls. So, what to speak of ISKCON Nashville and our Regional GBC Secretary,Tamohara Das, 2015.
PIT – In one letter we heard that Srila Prabhupada said that anyone who lives in the temple for six months and follows the full program, chanting 16-rounds and following the four principles, can take first initiation, but for second initiation there must be more consideration.
From Srila Prabhupada’s books we understand there is a Vedic, Puranic or VaisnavaTantric injunction that the Guru and disciple should examine each other for one year before initiation. We suppose, following this, the GBC changed the standard for first initiation, to one year, after Prabhupada left. The one year investigation is for “actual” initiation, Vedic initiation, “2nd initiation”. So, this problem should be corrected by going back to the six month standard for 1st initiation.
PIT – The temple Mangala-arati song in Vrndavana was made into Udiloaruna… this is a sunrise song. It should be changed to something else. Dhananjaya Das, President in Vrndavana under Srila Prabhupada also declares this.
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Our robot is not working properly! Had Full Morning Program on line.Jagad Guru Das led the Gurvastakam, but now our speakers aren’t playing the Japa file onboard. Hmmmf! We will just wait to see if the problem resolves itself. We tried to adjust things at the Control Panel, but no such luck.
How are you?
Our body feels sleepy. Probably from taking pnuts, potatoes and jam late at night. We will tell you one story about Albert.
He was a donkey who lived in the zoo, but escaped and went back Africa so that he could do whatever he wanted to do. When pursued by lions he would kick them, as hard as a bolt from the blue, and when it came to hymn singing he knew just what to do.
Read the KRSNA book!
Read it lone(ly) or make a show,
But read it, read it wherever you go.
No more service to the folks is needed,
Because by this one act their future is ceded.
The muck in their soul will surely settle,
And a hundred bright rabbits,
Their texture will meddle.
Oink! Oink! Whoop! WhooP!
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[6.45AM]
“You must understand that there are basically two types of baboons,” said Tom Brown to his friend Buck White, as they strolled through the Bazaar at Bhilbadad.
“What are they”, asked his companion?
“Hamadryas and Anubis. The Hams live in the savannah of Africa, hang-out with the elephants. The Anus live in Egypt and the temple priests give them roaches as snacks in exchanged for weeding the gardens.”
“I prefer popsicles”, attested the Pig, B. White...… and just as fate would have it a little old man with a mustache, but vigorous energy, rolled past with his cold confection treats,“Got popsicles.”
“Yaaah, I got these what is made of di-hydrous-oxide with 100% artificial flavors and artificial colors, that causes cancer in rats, and I got these made of fruit pulp and nothing else.”
“Gimme the pulp Dudes”, gesticulated Monkey [T. Brown].
When they said that they “preferred”, they meant for offering to Lord Nrsmha-deva, their Ista-devata, not for personal enjoyment.
After the Lord relished the ‘sicles the boys took them as well, appreciating the Lord’s enjoyment and seeing how now He would be enthusiastic for Sankirtan, and engage them in His acts.
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3.12AM
It is interesting comparing the TLC to the same chapters in the CC. More information is available from the CC on the TLC section we are reading now. The point in interest is identified as a comment by Srila B. Siddhanta Maharaja in the CC, but then we want to look on the internet for bio of Narottama Das Thakur and Rama-krsna. Is this Rama Krsna, the master of Vivekananda?
Doing this we were able to discover that the Rama-krsna mentioned is not the Rama-krsna who is currently famous as guru of Vivekananda.
Attending the ISKCON Studies Institute meeting in 2015 we were impressed that there are volumes of GaudiyaVaisnava literature extant in old formsfor more research of Krsna consciousness. Of course this can be done when approved by Srila Prabhupada.
R(3)…
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R(3). . .
Anything that interferes with chanting, “Hare! Hare! . . .Hare Krsna! . . . Hare Rama!” should be eliminated at the cost of even death, or humiliation by materially attached people.
Chant at the lotus feet of Srila Prabhupada.
Read systematically from the Bhaktivedanta Library.
We are just finishing the Instructions to SanatanaGoswami. We still have several aspects of the logic of Krsna Consciousness not clear in our mind. The basis is Srila Prabhupada’s books, Vedic literature. Sometimes we have to accept that certain things are not clear and that we have to go on in devotional service based upon what we do know without the mental satisfaction of knowing. “sraddhasabde…”. Just continue with the regular process, based upon hearing and chanting, and all our questions will be answered in due course of time.
3.08AM – R[3] . . .
6.06 AM – R[16], FMP …
Now let’s write a three page tale of goats and beets and Brother Rat, who tamed a Fer-O’cius jungle cat.
He lived in the juris of VrajaDhama, and loved to sing songs of RadhaShyama.
“I’ll snap my tail and a bullock board, if that’s not a monstrous gourd”, he said, looking at the fruits of his garden work.
Brother Rat lived in a little house that was dug and walled within the root of a tree. His brothers and cousins would come for tea [Herbal teas, caffeine free.], and he showed them his garden which looked like an endless sea.
Then one day came the Jungle Cat and by his front door on the lawn-chairs sat, and Brother Rat ceased to be fat.
Carping fair, he began to think, “How can I get that cat to slink, to another place so I’ll be safe,” but then he thought awry, “I’ll give him milk to drink”.
While the Gopis milked the cows at dusk, our Brother bartered a cup for a pinch of musk.
“Here, Kitty, Kitty”, he crooned with a wink, but the cat just starred, refused to drink. Then Brother Rat sat and thawt, thought, “If I get him Maha-prasad, he’ll go away”, and that was a fact and he hasn’t been seen to this very day.
the man who shares his Krsna Prasad,
he,assassinswill never see.
CHAPTER NINE – Billy Brine, the Rat Sublime
Billy Brine, cousin to our Rat,
Was distinguished by a Bolivian, felt, simpleton’s hat.
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3.25AM - R[5]
We just started Chapter 17 of the TLC. We learned one new detail after another: Chapter 17 so far is a summary study of CC 1.7, Lord Caitanya in Five Features. The dialog with Prakasananda Sarasvati that starts in Chapter 18 also starts in CC 1.7. The assignations of the verse, “PanchatattvamakamKrsnam…”, now seems clearer to us. We see Prabhupada talking about bother Confidential and Internal devotees when he is talking about GadadharaPandita, as contrasted with SrivasaPandita as the marginal potency. This seems to clarify our questions of whether Jiva souls become internal potency when they become attracted to conjugal love. Seems that some are Jiva and some are Hladini Shakti.