Happy Birthday, Shyamasundara! I have met you only once, and briefly so, in Copenhagen 1999, but I remeber being very impressed with your shastric knowledge and kind disposition, even though you seemed to be quite jet-lagged. I have enjoyed reading about your memories from Audarya and especially about your realizations on this board. Please keep those texts coming, they are very refreshing, and please come to Finland next summer!
Sastric knowledge, that's funny, because all I remember about you is a long sloka you recited when you saw the giriraja that GM had chosen for Tadiya-seva and his wife, but I don't remember being particularly sastric. Actually I heard later that Tadiyaseva's wife (just can't remember her name) was a little weirded out by my ways.
Anyway, thank you. I guess I must behave now that I've hit the 30s. If I think of what our gurudeva was accomplishing at my age...