signing off from Mayapurlive 2005

[Guest guest]

[Much of this text is copied from my similar announcement of last year]

 

Dear Devotees,

 

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

 

With this text I'm announcing a 'hibernation' period for the Mayapurlive

conference. It was specifically intended for the transcription of the Srimad

Bhagavatam lectures during the Festival and this purpose has now been

served. Those of you with Economy PAMHO accounts with conference

restrictions might like to remove yourselves from Mayapurlive. You can

always rejoin before the 2005 Mayapur Festival, when I would hope, with your

encouragement and blessings, to be able to renew the transcription service.

Till then, we may occasionally post or forward interesting and relevant

texts.

 

For your information, the general procedure we adopted for the transcription

was to set up our laptop next to the speaker by the side of Radha Madhava's

stage and during the SB lecture speedily type as many sentences and passages

as we could manage. It was quite intense, and even with the help of the

laser fingers of my partner, Vidvan Gauranga Prabhu, we could only manage

about 40% of the entire lecture, which, however, was an improvement from

last year.

 

Later in the day we would go over the audio file of the lecture and fill in

all the gaps, phrase by phrase. Generally to complete this and scan the

entire text for errors and typos would take about three hours, but on the

days when class was particularly long, it could take up to five hours.

 

We were also daily uploading the audio files of the lectures to the

Internet. They were hosted on the www.mayapur.info and

www.harekrishna.org.au; and also available via www.krishna.com/radio.

 

We hope you relished the opportunity to read and hear the Srimad-Bhagavatam

classes from the Mayapur Festival. The following devotees helped to make

this possible and deserve mention:

 

 

Vidvan Gauranga Prabhu -- helped greatly for the second year running with

the "live" transcription. I struggled intensely on the few days he was

unable to come!

 

Anakadundubhi Prabhu from Italy: kindly gave me copies of the audio files of

the lectures

 

Matsya Avatara Prabhu from Govardhan: lent his MP3 recorder

 

Kalavati Mataji of www.mayapur.info

 

Manu Prabhu of Krishna.com

 

Ekendra Prabhu of www.harekrishna.org.au and www.gopala.org

 

Bhakta Ben from Chowpatty: transcribed HH Devamrta Swami's class

 

Bhakta Gatin from the UK: transcribed HG Madhudvisa Prabhu's class

 

 

Please offer your blessings to all these nice Vaisnavas and thus encourage

them to help again next year!

 

>From my side, I would like to also request your blessings and good wishes

since, after many years as a brahmacari, I am just about to enter the

grhastha-asrama. . . .

 

The good news for you all is that the bride-to-be is an experienced

transcriber herself!

 

Hare Krishna.

 

Your servant,

 

Ananda Tirtha Das