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a love affair going on, some

knights are storming around on

horses .and now theres some

stupid movie about the British

Queen, God, it is a stupid movie,Huh, Ive already seen it ten

times now because its all around

the plane everywhere , oh gosh-

so .yes

Everyone has his external

overwhelming circumstance that

push us in our situation where we

have to go to our reserves so we

just have to note it that this is myreserve, I better do something to

charge up the batteries or they are

going down.

We may have some batteries that

will last us for a little while so

maybe we can afford a few days

of not real serious hearing and

chanting but know that you are

depleting your batteries and you

have to do some serious

recharging, so maybe start

planning a serious ekadasi, next

ekadasi going somewhere and

chant or whatever opportunity I

have, next Sunday Im going to

lock myself with teeth on the

door, this door bites and just

read, right, something, we haveto keep an eye on the situation.

So normal healthy bhajan should

be there everyday thats our

standard but overwhelming

circumstances they force us to go

into our reserves and we have to

recharge otherwise its a kind of,

if everyday we are overwhelmed

by the circumstances and itbecomes a way of life we become

spiritually ill, depleted. You say

its not possible, when you have a

little baby cries all the time what

you going to do, one mother

wrote to me and I said to her,well Ill check with some other

mothers because I dont know

about this so I asked some other

mothers they said, no, you can

train the child, you can train them

when they are very small, just

train them you dont always have

to jump up every time they cry,

you have to train them, you haveto let them cry a little sometimes

like that, try get more regulation,

they get used to regulation, that

way you will have time.

Sounded like..erm.. made sense

to me and I said why not teach

these kids some regulation from

the beginning it will only help

them, they will need it anyway,

how else will they ever control

their senses and mind. If they

never learn to control their senses

and the mind and they get

everything every whim get what

they want, of course within

reason, everything within reason,

but that means are the

circumstances really so

overwhelming? We have to dosomething to organise time for

these things, its some sort of idea

that we have I have to do all

these things

I guess we have to make

adjustments make plans on how

to improve, how to everyday do

good chanting and preaching, ok,

Prabhupada said first health, afteryou are healthy and you are

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physically well then good

sadhana, then preaching.

But the most important is

preaching, then bhajan and then

our health but if we have to get towork we have to make sure our

health is ok, mentally peaceful,

and then good bhajan good

sadhana, then we can do

something to preach. I dont

think there is an easy solution,

because we all live in the world

and the world is not favourable,

the world is not giving ussupport, so everyone has to

struggle somehow or other, but

thats what we have to do by

keeping the balance we have to

make good endevour and a good

plan so we have to make a

plan, then all these things become

feasible.

Just like there are some people

who say they can not chant

sixteen rounds, I usually think

this is due to bad time

management, I dont think its a

spiritual defect. I think its a

material defect, poor organization

of their life. So I think often

times its not that they really

dont want to its just that they

dont organize their lifesufficiently. Some cases there

maybe, its a lack of desire to

chant but in many cases its just

that people get really

overwhelmed and if they would

just learn to make a plan to chant

sixteen rounds, then they will

chant sixteen rounds.

If I chant less than ten, personallyfor me, if I chant less than ten

rounds in the morning than

sixteen rounds becomes a stress

that daythats my minimum

ten, I dont do it very often, I

normally chant more, I chantsixteen but thats my minimum in

the morning. If I am below that I

know that this day I have to make

a special arrangement to chant

somewhere or Ill get into big

trouble,

so then its got to do with what

time I go to bed because somepeople say I cant get up in the

morning, my answer to that is no,

its not that you cant get up, you

cant get in bed at night, thats

your problemif you go to bed

early you cant sleep anymore

early in the morning you just

wake up.

If you go to bed very early and

you wake up very early and then

you will have lots of time to

chant in the morning so its not

that your problem is getting up

your problem is going to bed late

at night and thats just a matter of

organising things, sorry, Im

going to bed now...but its only

eight oclockthats it, yepthats it everybody gets used to it.

When I was temple president in

Vrndavan the whole temple was

always, you live at work, so the

whole temple wanted to come all

the timeso I trained people up

dont come to me during japain

hostile mood GRRRAAHHH!

Theres a problemGGRRAAHHH! Come at 9.30

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GRRRAAHHH! Im chanting

my japa

so everyone knew hes really

touchy about it, his japa,after awhile after some time the temple

was trained up dont disturb him

during his japa he doesnt like it.

Good, very good, if necessary

come after 9.30 after breakfast

yeah.. that starts to make sense

But if I wouldnt have growled

then it would have spoiled my

japa everyday, always somethinggoing on always, so I think one

has to defend his japa, what do

you think? I want some feedback,

working peoplehuh..is it

practical? Is it feasible, easy to

say for me, is it practical?

Some devotee speaks-Maharajain conversation:Then you have to chant at night,

tell your wife when you come

home..sorry..I still have to chant

four rounds, right, and she wants

to know everything you have

done, throughout the whole day

and talk about it and say you

never share anything with me and

you say you want to chant your

last four rounds and she just

doesnt care and she just talksanyway and your last round you

started at 9.45pm, right, if youre

lucky and because youre tired

you finish at 10.30 and the next

day youre tired again and then

you get in a rutI know all

about it.

Ive been there,Yeah I went

through all kinds of things in this

regards, late night fights and

what not, yeah sometimes I

would want to sleep in the office. Devotees speak and banter isgoing onMaharaja: In the spiritualworld we have, somehow or

other, relationships there , its

very difficult to figure out, you

know, how it works, this thing

about that we are eternally in the

spiritual world; that we are nowsort of in the forgotten stage, that

we are returning there which you

find in the ..scripture.. Swarupreturns and then hes back and

Krishna receives him and so on,

then what happens in the

relationships you make in the

material world with the

vaishnavas, how do they

integrate because, you maybe in

different corners of the spiritual

world or in different roles in

different rasa, different, even if

your both in madhurya still

different connections to Radha

Krishna, so how will it all work?

I dont know, I guess thats the

adventure, some adventure has to be made and can not know

everything in advance, here just,

philosophising,.something has

to be saved, otherwise what will

be the fun of going to the

spiritual world, but we will all

meet there, lets see what it will

be like, any other topic? .ok.