The police came today and Guru Sri Babu Kandi asked me to temporarily break my vow of silence and send you a one-page letter. I know you must have been worried when I failed to return to my life as a mortgage broker in North America but Guru Sri Babu Kandi has shown me that my life was successful only monetarily and that I actually lived in a world of plastic with a hollow soul.

It is difficult to explain, but Guru Sri Babu Kandi says it best when he describes all the of the time and space we know as the shell of a turtle and that unless we get to know the mind and heart of the turtle we will never truly know whether it is going. It is love and not money that will let us become one with the mind and heart of the turtle.

That is why I have given all my money to Guru Sri Babu Kandi. The police have said that you are concerned that I have illegally emptied our joint trust fund. You must understand that I must fo all I can to spread the word of Guru Sri Babu Kandi. Rest assured that your money will be put to better use than anything you would have done with it. I encourage you to send any other money you might have to Guru Sri Babu Kandi.

This is all you can do to help me. I am no longer Jeff. Jeff is dead. I have been reborn and Guru Sri Babu Kandi has blessed me with the name Bhakti. Having been reborn of spirit I have no mother of flesh and thus I must now call you Joan.

I have taken a vow not to use modern tools and that includes e-mail, a camera or a letter that might be sent using bikes, cars, boats (other than that driven by oar) or planes so this letter is indeed a special exception allowed by Guru Sri Babu Kandi. It has also been arranged that a devotee of Guru Sri Babu Kandi's (who has not yet taken vows of technological abstinence) to e-mail you a recent photo of me to show you that I am fine. I am standing in front of a small roadside temple Guru Sri Babu Kandi has recently bought for me to spread his word. I am hoping that within the next year or two Guru Sri Babu Kandi will pass this way in his travels so he can bless it with a new name so there will no longer be confusion amongst the locals here that it is still the temple it was before being bought by the agents of Guru Sri Babu Kandi.

Though we can no longer communicate due to my vow of silence and my complete and permanent abandonment of the life of Jeff I do encourage you to follow the words of Guru Sri Babu Kandi and become reborn yourself.

May peace and love be with you.

Bhakti