JAYANANDA NECTAR

Hari Bol Maharaja,

Jaya Prabhupada! Long time no see, remember me? Just got on e-mail and am trying to engage the techno-geek system in a little service. Right now I'm doing a Biography of Jayananda Prabhu -- Vaiyasaki's doing Bio of VJS & Radha-Damodara, and he added Jayananda to it down the line, and he says it is just for devotees. But my book is ONLY Jayananda (and Srila Prabhupada, or course), and it is meant to reach out to all persons, devotee or non-devotee -- because this is the way Jayananda himself was. I have to somehow make the book act just like Jayananda, and reach out to the guys down at the produce market as well as to relatives and old friends of Jim Kohr. And indeed I have collected many interviews (over 108) from not only devotees but many school chums of Jim Kohr, and I'm sure you would not be surprised to find out that these people who have not seen their buddy in 40 years have nothing but good things to say about him. It seems Jayananda was a saint when he was a kid, too. Everybody remembers the things

Anyway, while tumbling on the path of collecting anything I could find on Jayananda Prabhu, of course there is your exciting and relishable account entitled Servant of the Servant. I must confess that I had taken the liberty of extracting your various Jayananda anecdotes from there and putting them in the appropriate timeframe sections of my text. I am nowhere near going to press yet, so at this time I am contacting you to ask permission to use your different stories. I put them in as if you were telling the stories (your words are 100% verbatim), just like in the Lilamrta the devotee's name is followed by a colon, then they tell their blurb. The whole of my book is like this -- very little narrative by the editor, but all persons telling stories one after the other, woven in together for proper flow. So you're already merged in there (this is a good type of merge, not Mayavadi!). Is this okay with you? Of course, in the front of the book it lists the different source materials besides live interviews, and

And if I may get even bolder with you -- do you have any more nectarean anecdotes about Jayananda Prabhu that you can toss in? For example, I don't have a direct telling of the story about when you convinced Jayananda to leave San Francisco temple to go away with your bus party. And also it would be nice to have some impressions of when he was with the party. And you must have had some words with him in New York 1976 for the big Ratha-yatra (the perfection of his career, he used to say).

Anyway, Goswami Maharaja, I know you are probably very busy and are swamped with mail and e-mail from all over the world. Why, I just sent out my first 5 e-mails a couple days ago, then happened to check it the next day and was riddled with replies! And each one was requiring further reply, so forth and so on. It appears people are obsessed with all this. But I'm not entirely impressed -- I spent an hour typing a sincere, heartfelt letter to a Godbrother... then the e-mail compose screen went blank! Where are all my carefully-crafted sentences? But if you can somehow get this low-tech nonsense to cooperate, then please be merciful and spare me a few drops of the nectar. The world is starving for it. Some persons try political or philosophical tactics to make their points or influence others to their way of thinking, but the only answer for the world's problems is Nectar, which is by and for itself -- the Supreme Godhead. And Jayananda Prabhu was the sincere servant of the Supreme Godhead. He's the only Isk

Hoping you are well and absorbed in lotus feet.

servant, Dasaratha-suta dasa