Letters to the editor

Hare Krsna gurumaharaja. 

Por favor acepte mis humildes reverencias a sus pies y sean todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada.

HpS - ASA - TLGASP!

Gurudev espero que usted esté muy bien. Quería compartir con usted que estoy en una etapa de mucho sufrimiento mental, tengo mucha inseguridad como persona.  Estoy haciendo un trabajo con esfuerzo de ponerme al cuidado y protección de Krsna. En mi vida tuve otras etapas de crisis parecidas. Usted podrá pedirle a Krsna que me ayude a sanar?

HpS - Hare Krsna!     Hare Rama!!!

La vida condicionada es muy sufriente cuando uno se siente separado  de  Krsna . Por favor usted me podrá dar un consejo?

HpS - No consejo detallado sin asociacion detallado, pero claro canta HK/HR tan mucho como puede. 64x108 veces cada dia minima es super. 16x108 in cuentas y mas mientras esta cocinando etc. etc.

Estoy tratando de cantar las 16 rondas, siempre estoy ofreciendo las preparaciones a Krsna, leo sobre Krsna. También quería comentarle que estoy en pareja con bhakta Damián, él se hizo devoto, es muy entusiasta. El me habla de Krsna todo el tiempo. Canta 4 rondas y ahora está tratando de subir la cantidad. Con él lo vamos a ir a ver a Chile. 

Gurumaharaja usted siempre está en mi corazón y en mi mente. Realmente quiero ser una buena devota. Se están manifestando en mi tantas anarthas, ver mi falta de amor es muy triste. 

Muchas gracias por ser mi maestro espiritual.

Esperando poder algún día entender que significa servirlo, madre Campakalata dd. 

Hare Krsna. Lo veo pronto.

HpS - Estuvimos con mucha asociacion en Santiago, no?  Era muy feliz para nosotros verse!!!   Ya como esta Vd?    Damian estaba alla?   El es mas viejo que Vd??   Tiene que pensar in Kunti devi. Ella era solo pero sentiendo presencia de Krsna!!!

Por favor acepte mis reverencias. Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada 

Desde hace varias días había querido escribirle, pero por alguna u otra razón no había podido. 

HpS - AGTSP paoho. For one month wanted to answer your letter but we could not do it because we have been traveling and then means we have many people to meet with every day and no time to meet with peopl in letters.

Aún sigo viviendo dentro del templo en la Ciudad de México. Bastante servicio y variado: raja bhoga, lavar parafernalias, cambiar a la murti de Prabhupada, sankirtan y tengo tres grupos de bhakti vrksa con al rededor de 6 o 7 personas cada uno.

HpS - Very nice!  Is it still the same?

Y estamos preparando un campamento de verano en el templo junto con otros devotos, en el cual vienen devotos de la congregación, por lo general personas nuevas, a quedarse por dos o tres semanas al templo. E intentamos compartir un poco con ellos sobre cosas básicas: etiqueta, cómo hacer los servicios y algunos grupos de estudio y lecutra de los libros de Srila Prabhupada.

HpS - For new devotees we like "Prabhupada", the condensed "Lilamrta", biography of Lord Caitanya from Intro to SB, "Science of Self Realization" and read the Texts of Upadesamrta with a Brahmana explaining  each one.

El sadhana va bien, estamos retomando el estándar de terminar las rondas antes del amanecer y mantener ocupada la mente con estudio y lectura personal. Y siguiendo bien los principios. 

HpS - Es un desafio para nosotros tambien con campamiento solo aqui pero estamos adjustndo.

También quería darle las gracias por su asociación el día de ayer acá en la Ciudad de México y esperando que haya llegado con bien a Perú. Estoy muy feliz de haberle visto de nuevo. Es como un bálsamo para el corazón poder verle nuevamente.

 Se despide, Su aspirante a Sirviente bhakta hector. 

HpS - No podemos recordar bien a Vd!!  Un foto?   Algo mas detallado.

Funding Letter Draft 170810

<img height="137" src="file:///C:\Users\HHHANU~1\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.png" width="117" />NIOS

North American Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies

2129 Stratford Rd; Murfreesboro, TN 37129; USA

Esteemed Members, Directors, Officers,

XXX Foundation

We, NIOS, are looking for a partner in spirit for a substantial and potent project. Since our formation in 2004 we have been blessed to have realized such projects in co-operation with the National Museum of India, National Library of Peru, San Marcos University, Peru (the second oldest university in the Western Hemisphere) and many other excellent institutions.

Considering our strengths, weaknesses, finances and community, our next selected focus is a Symposium on Art and the Sacred, October 2018. The venue is already set, Centro Cultural Ricardo Palma, Lima, Peru. The exhibition halls guarantee 40,000 visitors, international tourists, a week. The center-piece would be an excellent movie, ART AND THE SACRED: A Pilgrim’s Progress.

One of our advisors, Prof. Hector Behar, one of the most prominent players in the history of human rights in South America, and currently member of the United Nation’s Committee on World Poverty (???), commented that the United Nation’s estimate is that 1-million people commit suicide each year. This is more than all the deaths in all the armed conflicts combined.

We can define the real enemy as our own minds, our lack of cultural assets. We propose a documentary that will systematically and dramatically interview profound scholars, art historians, poets, artists, Jungians, Jesuits, from Peru to New York, London, Madrid, Delhi and Kolkata that will demonstrate and communicate a practical pathway to a world culture of Art and the Sacred.

In the world there are enough resources for everyman’s needs, but not enough for one man’s greed – Mohandas Gandhi

We are asking for a budget of $125,000. Our Director will be a longtime co-worker, Oscar Natars Burger (Iber-Americano Association for Arts and Letters, Director of the Year 2017). Of course, the premier for the film will be Lima, Peru but already it has presentation sites in Chile, India, USA and will be aired for use by such agencies as the BBC, National Geographic et al.

Join us? Money, men, brains, heart?

We have already invested $2,000 in the concept development work. If you are seriously interested we can send more details. Partial funding for even specific aspects of the project would be greatly appreciated.

Prof. H. H. Robinson

(Hanumatpresaka Swami)

Resource Research Office

Namacharya Das asks:

 Is there difference between
 refugees and aspirants? In the online list there is
 "refugees" and here in this scan you write
 "aspirants".
*** HpS - AS Jayapataka Swami explained it to us, and it was set ups for/by him, you can be an Aspirant almost immediately. This was to give a sense of belonging to people who would otherwise be "initiated" by other Gaudiya Vaisnava groups outside of ISKCON before they were following any principles. Then you are a Refugee after six months of following everything. So, technically they are all Refugees. We don't do anything formally for Aspirants usually. When Prabhupada was manifest he wrote and the standard was that anyone who followed the principles and lived in the Temple for six months could take first initiation, but for second initation there had to be more care taken.

Edited into "pdp-csg.docx"

HpS-ASA [170809] – T1 says, “On hearing Sūta Gosvāmī speak thus…”. Thus we are continuing with Chapter 3, no? Suta G. finishes there with what we hear is a very essential phrase: yathādhītaṁ yathā-mati, now I shall try to make you hear the very same thing as I learned it from him and as I have realized it, or as we heard H. H. Hrdayananda Goswami say, “I shall now try to make you understand it as I understood it”.

T1-13 Saunaka R. wants to know the Preface, why Vyasa and Suka learned and wrote the SB? He describes the circumstances and personal qualifications at its creation in detail. This leads us to the question, “Why should we want to hear and teach SB? What are our circumstances and personal qualifications in terms of answering this question?”

HK/HR

Exchanging text-messages with Anantarupa Das and Radhika-ramana Das about our daily SB reading. They say they just started Canto One, Chapter Four, "Vyasa Meets Narada Muni"; and just finished SB 6.9, "Appearance of Vrtasura". I think they read First Canto when there are new guests and then Sixth when it is just themselves.

We mentioned that we have notes at www.jayarama.us/archives/pdp-csg.docx. We looked at them and of course we can improve them.

Looked in our computer archives and could not find any Bhakti-vaibhava CSG for Canto Six. We will ask Srivasa pandita Das for them.

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (1.5.11):

tad-vāg-visargo janatāgha-viplavo
yasmin prati-ślokam abaddhavaty api
nāmāny anantasya yaśo ’ṅkitāni yac
chṛṇvanti gāyanti gṛṇanti sādhavaḥ

“On the other hand, that literature which is full of descriptions of the transcendental glories of the name, fame, form and pastimes of the unlimited Supreme Lord is a transcendental creation meant for bringing about a revolution in the impious life of a misdirected civilization. Such transcendental literature, even though irregularly composed, is heard, sung and accepted by purified men who are thoroughly honest.”

Any purified men who are thoroughly honest in Boise?  If there are then they will start coming to these classes, no?