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Nama Om Vishnu paadaaya..
Hari Haraya Naama Krishna …
Jay Prabhupada…
Mukham karoti…

So about ten days ago, I went to Bombay, to participate in the IIAC meeting which is Advisory Body to the Bureau to discuss preaching activities. So they were discussing about the Kumbha mela. How the Kumbha mela should be an all India effort. Like that they discussed different things and come out with some strategies. They were discussing about cow protection in India. Whether they should have a minister or a committee. So I said one doesn’t necessarily eliminate the other and the minister is an advisor. He doesn’t have any power to make administrative orders. But the committee on the other hand, if they are delegated with some power, they can make some resolutions or bye laws. So they decided to have both. Minister and committee. So there were four candidates to be the minister and someone proposed, let them all be ministers. So we have four ministers now to promote cow protection and a committee to enforce it. So if anyone wants to have a cow in India in Iskcon, they have four ministers and a committee to deal with!! So like that the IIAC, discussed different topics. That went on for two days. Then the Bureau met for three days. They discussed more like, legal issues. And these meetings, apart from the GBC meetings were a bit tiring. I would go every day to see the deities of Nitai Gaur, Srila Prabhupada, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur Prabhupada and also Radha Rasabehari Lalita Visaka and Sita Rama Laksman Bhakta Hanuman, Srila Prabhupada and some dioramas of Nrsimha and Bhakta Prahlada and Vittala. Vittala, Vittala! Panduranga! So on the day of rest, after the meetings were over, there was an emergency meeting of the BBT! Ha! And there was also a meeting of the TOVPE the same day. And initiations on the same day – that was the rest day! And I was supposed to go to the hospital next day, but they decided that possibility of becoming something serious, my skin lesions, and they require general anesthesia operation, and my doctor said that in that case, let us do it in Chennai. So that was cancelled. That was the actual day of rest! Ha! The next day they came with liquid nitrogen, -196 degrees C! It was so cold that it burnt! So they gave that therapy to my lesions and they said within two weeks, they should fall off, if the therapy works! Let us see! So then I came back to Kolkata and I gave a two-day program in Bengali, to the full house at Kala Mandir. The second day was broadcast on the Bengali Facebook page, right. And oh, first day it was on the English page, in Bengali! Ha! Then I came here back last night Today I gave my vote. Who else gave the vote? They have marked your finger so you don’t vote twice. I don’t think I can slip in and vote twice! So I was supposed to give class from 8 to 9 here and 9 to 10 give class downstairs for the Bengaluru group. I think it is 9.17, I will go downstairs. If you want, you can listen to my class there. There is more room there. I will be giving in English. I will have some question and answer here? I don’t think, it is late. Shanta Gopi mataji, who do we have here? Netra, Ranjana, Pavana, Reena. Let us give them all a big welcome! Haribol! Haribol! Haribol! Hari dhwani! Matajis ulu dhwani, jaya dhwani! Haribol! Hari bol! Hari Hari Hari bol! Haribol! Gauranga!

So thank you very much. I will be here tomorrow, hopefully at 8 o clock!

Transcribed by Jayaraseshwari devi dasi
29 April 2019