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From 1977 t0 1980, I did most of the cooking in Bhubaneswara Iskcon ashrama. GG Maharajah said he liked my cooking best, so.
On Sundays, we had Nayapalli over for pracara and prasadam and kirtana. We hired a brahaman cook and his helpers. They cut veggies, boiled dahl, made rice
I would ususally go into town to fetch a litre of ghee and two boxes of premixed boxed spices; gram dahl spice and sambara, to be added to the finishing v large pot of dahlma, so that the offering would be extra special .
Sometimes I made some semolina halava and samosas for the Deities, for Sunday. I would bring a box of milk sweetsonce or twice a week, very small amounts of pera and sandesh, very sweet but good, Maybe milk ake or misthi dahi . We got milke delivered, Dikpati's assovisate from Nayapalli. GGS laugher at how the dairy me watered the milk down each day a little bit more, little bit more, until it was no longer milk and you had to complain about it. Then the cycle repeats itself.
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Yes, well noted! Srila Bhaktisiddhanta says it is like an arrow of deliverance shot by Vishnu, it will meet it's mark, though it must first sail across the field etc. Similarly, once He has determined that the soul is due for liberation, He makes that sure arrangement. The conditioned soul sees the pastimes of enlightenment ocurring in his life, and may think he is the doer, maybe still some maha maya, but it is the Lord's arrangement. No one goes to Goloka without the Lord's arrangement, to make it so.

That is our entance by merciful acceptance into pastimes of yogamaya, He has saved us, but we lament and strive, we advance toward our goal through using knowledge, sadhana, self control, but after a while love arises and we are no longer fearful nor simply hopeful but experiencing tasteful, relishable, satisfying ; living love of Krsna and Radha, and Friends. Everything powerful and desirable is fulfilled, as Gopal looks after us persoanlly then, in His Vrndavana or Dwarka etc. pamh

tava — your; āsanam — position on the throne; dvija — of the brahminical culture or the brāhmaṇas; gavām — of the cows; pārameṣṭhyam — supreme; jagat-pate — O master of the whole universe; bhavāya — for improvement; śreyase — for the ultimate happiness; bhūtyai — for increasing the opulence; kṣemāya — for the maintenance and good fortune; vijayāya — for the victory and increasing prestige; ca — and.

O Lord Brahmā, your position within this universe is certainly most auspicious for everyone, especially the cows and brāhmaṇas. Brahminical culture and the protection of cows can be increasingly glorified, and thus all kinds of material happiness, opulence and good fortune will automatically increase. But unfortunately, if Hiraṇyakaśipu occupies your seat, everything will be lost.

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