Letters to the editor

Hare Krsna Gurumaharaja,

Please, accept my humble obeisancesAll glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Gurudeva, I hope you're having a few quiet days in the company of kind devotees. I'm sending you Sarva Deva´s message as agreed last week. See you soon, Gurudeva. I'm sending the projecto to your e-mail because Docx files are not allowed here.

Your servant

Gandharva dasa

VOY A NECESITAR TENER UN INGRESO PARA MIS GASTOS FAMILIARES Y EL RESTO DEL. TIEMPO DEDICARLO AL PROYECTO. PUEDO COLECTAR CON SANKIRTAN, DANDO CLASES DE ARTES MARCIALES Y MATEMÁTICA O TENER UN PEQUEÑO NEGOCIO. MAHARAJA QUIERO TUS SUGUERENCIAS. QUE TOMES ES PROYECTO COMO TUYO Y LO IMPLEMENTES.

HpS - Sarva Prabhu. I don't know your project. If you want to start with developing a rural community, I have no particular talent in that area. It is like saying your want start by becoming a USA Senator. It is not a small thing. We have been working in the area of Psychology and the Sacred. So if we can be of help in those areas please ask us.

How can we specifically be of help? Are you chanting your rounds and following four principles? Are you keeping a full ISKCON morning program.? 

TENEMOS PERSONAS MADURAS QUE PODEMOS TRABAJARLO. TAN SÓLO NECESITAMOS TU SANTA DIRECCION.
EL PLAN PILOTO ES FORMAR UNA PEQUEÑA COMUNIDAD, EN UN ÁREA DE 3 A 5 HECTÁREAS,  CON UNAS 4 ó MÁS FAMILIAS, CREANDO FUENTES DE TRABAJO PARA EN EL CAMPO DE LA AGRICULTURA. MANUFACTURA DE ALIMENTOS Y MEDICINA NATURAL, COMERCIALIZACIÓN DE ESTOS PRODUCTOS, VENTA DIRECTA "DE LA CHACRA A LA OLLA", CLASES DE COCINA VEGETARIANA, CLASES DE ARTES MARCIALES, CLASES DE MATEMÁTICAS, TURISMO ECOLOGICO MÍSTICO (PODEMOS CONSTRUIR ALGUNOS TRULYS. COCINAS ECOLOGICAS. OBTENCIÓN DE GAS METANO PARA CALEFACCIÓN, LUZ Y COSINA. TERAPIAS  HOLISTICAS, AGNI-HOTRA, CLASES DE ASTROLOGÍA Y MEDICINA NATURAL, SANKIRTAN, DISTRIBUCIÓN DE PRASADA, HARINAM, ETC. . TENEMOS MUCHO DE ACCIÓN SI NOS UNIMOS PARA FORMAR UNA NUEVA GENERACIÓN DE DEVOTOS BIEN FORMADOS EN LA FILOSOFÍA BÁSICA, ETIQUETA VAISHNAVA, ESTATUTOS DE ISKCON Y DE LA COMUNIDAD, KIRTAN, BAJAN, SADHANA, ETC. . SE TIENE QUE CUIDAR Y PROTEGER A LOS DEVOTOS : BUENA ALIMENTACIÓN, TRATO DEVOCIONAL Y AMOROSO, CUBRIR TODAS SUS NECESIDASES DE MANUTENCIÓN, RECREACIÓN Y DE TRABAJO, ETC. . MADHU-HARI Y VASANTA VAN A APOYAR Y SE VAN A INTEGRAR FÍSICAMENTE AL EQUIPO DE TRABAJO CUANDO SE DEN LAS TIERRAS.
MAHARAJA, SI TÚ LIDERAS ESTE PROYECTO, PUEDES CONTAR CON UN BUEN EQUIPO DE DEVOTOS MAYORES CON EXPERIENCIA Y DESEOS DE QUE ESTE PROYECTO SE MATERIALICE. TENEMOS A ABHAY DEVA, KEVALA ANANDA Y MI PERSONA QUE ESTUVIMOS TRABAJANDO EN LA GRANJA "GOURANGA SEVA", LIDERADA POR PAYONIDHI PRABHU. VASANTA NITAI QUE TAMBIÉN  ESTÁ EN LIMA CON QUIENES PODEMOS TRABAJAR EL PROYECTO. BHAKTA ALEX, QUE ESTÁ EN AYACUCHO PREDICANDO SÓLO, PERO YA TIENE QUE DESOCUPAR LA CASA PIR QUE LA HAN ALQUILADO. NO TIENE RECURSOS PARA MANTENER LO POCO QUE ESTÁ AVANZANDO EN LA PRÉDICA Y ME DIJO QUE QUJERE VENIR A LIMA, DONDE TIENE A SU FAMILIA, PARA CONVERSAR SOBRE EL PROYECTO. HAY POTENCIAL HUMANO COMO LOS MENCIONADOS, APARTE DE MUCHOS OTROS QUE ESTÁN DISEMINADOS EN TODO EL PAÍS , MUCHOS DE LOS CUALES PUEDEN INTEGRARSE Y SABEN DE LOS ESFUERZOS QUE ESTOY HACIENDO DESDE HACE 27 AÑOS POR MANTENER VIVO ESTE PROYECTO QUE AHORA ESTÁ MÁS ENRIQUECIDO. LIDÉRANOS MAHARAJA Y ORGANÍZANOS Y ESTE PROYECTO SE PONDRÁ EN MARCHA. LOS TIEMPOS NOS LO DEMANDAN. ES UN HUMILDE TRIBUTO QUE PODEMOS OFRECER A PRABHUPADA CON TUS BEDICIONES Y DIRECCIÓN.
 

PAMHO AGTSP

Preaching in Peru is looking amazing!

An update on how things are developing here:

Brisbane (15^th-19^th) and New Gavardhana (19^th-21^st) have confirmed dates but I’m still waiting for Melbourne (11^th-15^th). Once word comes from Melbourne we can purchase tickets.

New Govardhan Temple President HG Ajita Prabhu  and all the devotees are very happy to hear you will be here for Govardhan Puja. One small glitch though is that Govardhan puja festival will be celebrated on the Sunday the 22^nd of October so we beg you to consider extending your stay till 23^rd or evening of 22^nd?

Your servant

Dhruvananda Das

HPS - Sorry, slow to respond. Intense travel and no internet. Your association like fresh air. 15th is Ekadasi, no? Sunday? Bad day to travel. Stay for Sunday Feast in Melbourne? 23rd is Srila Prabhupada disappearance festival? 

Hare Krsna Beloved Gurudeva 

AGTSP

Gurudeva I hope U are Ok

Gurudeva I has been communicating with Jambavati mataji since one month ago... She was wondering if U can meet with his father..

I talked with her yesterday she is recovering from neumonia :( she did not listen so good .. she is staying in veracruz because the weather is warmer there.. still she was very dissapointed because she will not be able to see U  when u arrive to mexico...morover she was in distress because she can not collect any money for his father :(

I talked yesterday with abhiram and he basically told me that U are going to be in Callao .. So. I communicate that to Jambavati matajji but she told me that callao is too far from his father.. plus And he can not handle the trip. Also abhiram's house is in a second floor.

Jambavati's father  lives near my home 15 minutes. So we were wondering if U can come to my home on tuesday 25th to meet him for lunch.

I am too offensive to ask U favors.  Please forgive me if I offended U. We will do what u decide.

Here the sun is shinning.

Tomorrow I have a seminar about gems!!! With my mentor she is from argentina. I am too excited to meet her again she is like my grandma

Thank U for all the nectar of your association

Trying to be useful

Cmdd

ASA - Seems best to visit him. Has he got cell phone number?

Hare Krrsna, Prabhus,

AGTSP. Paoho.

We danced with Bh. Bhusana Swami yesterday. Poked one of the ladies in the breast while dancing (Ugh!) and flew from Arrequipa to Lima.

The children's Jagannatha Padayatra in Chosica was great, just didn't have banners, flyers and a Parade Marshall.

We are getting little fat (Ugh!    Ugh!) but not eating anymore than before. Must be our Jupiter phase.

Today we fly to Cusco. We are passing with no translator now. We can do nice fire sacrifices but Rama-Sundari Das did a  very impressive one for Arrequipa.

Our aspiration is to write something that will sell Srila Prabhupada's books, glorify, illuminate Srila Prabhupada's books.

If you want to see his lotus feet, then you can do it through his books.

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We are exchanging nice letters with Ananta-Rupa Das in Boise about developing SB classes in the Boise Temple. We consider it a very central ISKCON Temple.

We noticed that it describes in the SB that different demigods were attending different events while hovering in the sky in their airplanes. This is like attending by SKYPE?

O.K. Here we go to Cusco.

Hahaha!! Hare Krisna beloved and esteemed Gurudev!!
Please accept my humble obeisances,
All glories to Srila Prabhupada,
You said you are going to look at funny titles and answer letters with urgent on it. So i guess i accomplish both requirements to get an answer.
 

It was so so inspiring having met you in chile!!
I almost forgot about spiritual bliss until i was there with you all at ISKCON chile.
In your last Kd you named all devotees who traveled from Argentina but me. Please please forgive me if i commited any offense! I'm too stupid. Don't throw me away!!

HpS - ASA -- AGTSP!! We didn't name everyone. We just grabbed some of the names that jumped out at us. Maybe not always for the best of reasons. Maybe.

Of course, your association during our visit in Chile gave great enthusiasm  to us and everyone. Also, Manu and Benjamin. They have great opportunities and great challenges in life, no?

Thank you so much for such great lectures and wonderful Harinam!! Big realizations with both.
Mandara sakha Prabhu did a great service and recorded all of them and uploaded them so we got all the néctar!!
ASA - We hope Lord Siva removes the poison.

Yesterday i was reading a book about Jayananda prabhu and i came to one of your memories with him, about french devotee speaking about different diets and Jayananda told you that so far what works well is work hard and eat little. Wisdom!!
I feel embarrased to notice how great service are, my godbrothers from Peru and Chile, doing for you and I'm doing nothing. Please Gurudev engage us in your service. I'm a busy fool but i guess i can give like 3 hours a week. I don't know, maybe translate anything. I remember something about Upadesamrita you wanted to do.
In the same direction i think you are working in a book about sankhya. Can you please Gurudev explain me a little bit about this book.
I remember when i was translating you in Cordoba like two years ago, at the Jungian Society, that lecture you gave really shooked me, when you compared Jung's phylosophy with Bhakti Rasamrita Sindhu, the different bhavas. That day I realized how deep are SP's books, that everything we need to know to transcend are inside those books. How profound is Vaisnava Phylosophy, first class science. So is hard to me to understand why most people does not take shelter on this books but go on reading about modern self-help processes based on contemporary psychology, like hoponopono, a course in miracles by inner peace foundation, Claudio Naranjo 's eneagrama theory, new germanic medicine, etc.
I would like to see a work in this matter by you, it would be so enlightening, cause you are an expert in this subject matter. So, so inspiring.
Maharaja Dhanurdhara Swami wrote an essay on this topic, yoga psychology, here is the link to it. http://wavesofdevotion.com/essays/yoga-psychology/

So mahatmas have no time, they relish eternal bliss for having taken shelter in The Supreme Lord. But duratmas also have no time, they always run for sense gratification which never satisfies them.
Thank you so much Gurudev,
Your Spiritual potency is astonishing!!
What would be of this world without travelling Sadhus, what would be...
Your proud and fallen apprentice,
Nikunja bihari das.

HpS - Hare Krsna. I hope the letters we posted yesterday are of some use. We are being PUSHED by Radhika and many others to write about the Sankhya. We got a got of the most famous review of Anisvara-kapila's Sankhya. He was a philosopher, who the Britannica says , lived about 50-BC. Prabhupada mentions that his philosophy promotes an atheistic conclusion of the structure of reality.

We read some of it.

We are getting free from our administrative duties. All we have now are making some Grant Applications for NIOS and the ISKCON Education Journal. Anything else we take we will struggle to accept only because it promotes this writing work.

I think the NOI comments are going ahead in Peru. From what we hear of your activities you are doing a lot for us and Srila Prabhupada. You are giving intimate chance for great spiritual life to Benjamin and Manu et al.

Devotees in Chile do so much during our visit and during the time for organizing that but of course, they have other work just like you at other times.

Right now it is 4.45PM. We arrive in Arrequipa today and are having a fire sacrifice for two initiations in a few moments. It is high and cold but very dry. Still very weak voice but using it carefully.

Everywhere is possibility to teach. Renato, initiation today, is prominent guy in Radio Harmony. Many listeners 24-hours daily.

Quick call and we were right on the live show. It was packed into the mode of passion for the after noon audience, but we had a really great time. No, translator here. "What should we do, Hanuman Swami".

We should should, Hallelujah, or Allaha Akbar or Hare Krsna and then we will feel the presence of God without doubt and you can be free of this stress which is grabbing your soul!

"After that"?

Look for a good church, fellowship and of course this Hare Krsna movement is offer great literature and regular programs. We know many priests who get great inspiration from this church.  God is too big for one religion.

The interviewer kept prolonging the interview.

Lots of sunshine here.

O.K. Back to our sensorial background.

Watch for the news of our ASA Sankirtan here and join it. Help Ambo and Jagat with the Spanish ISKCON Education Journal.

HpS - AGTSP. We have just read RGD's excellent letter. We agree with everything except we are still squirming on making it a Journal for all of ISKCON Education. We really, really, really feel that it should be a Western Hemisphere, USA Canada, English language journal, that includes ISKCON news and views from the Western Hemisphere and the rest of the world.

This is a view from my perspective on the elephant, the backside.

I think that will make it work, make other Continents work and then from that chorus of maybe five Journals we will get an overarching Journal.

We are humorously fanatical about this, but don't think it should really adversely influence the production of the Journal. We are going to do this and our copy will be ready for our circle as the related date copy of our "Kapi Dhvaja".

We will write to the participants of the Seattle Symposium for short sumarries of their presentations with references for more information if any readers wish to contact them.

RGD - Can you contact, twist the tails, of the two other working groups: Accreditation and Curriculum Development, for their reports for the Journal?

Again we hit the USA 27th September running and should be able to talk on phone by that time. This Journal will be wonderful.

From: Ramanan Nagarajan <[email protected]>
To: 'Vinode Vitthala' <[email protected]> 
Cc: 'HpS (HHR)' <[email protected]>; 'Sesa Prabhu' <[email protected]>; 'Jagad Guru Das' <[email protected]>; 'Nrtya Kisori' <[email protected]>; 'Indira Meshram' <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2017 1:36 PM
Subject: RE: ISKCON Education Journal
 

Dear Prabhuji,

Hare Krishna. Dandavats. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

I had a call with Hanumat Presak Maharaj sometime ago. We are happy to have Mukunda Datta Prabhu being part of the team for editing and related services for the journal. We were only considering that he is presently in India (that’s what maharaj told). So we should clarify and also be prepared that whilst he is part of the team, we would keep moving forward with our publishing just in case if we are NOT able to get Mukunda Datta Prabhu’s involvement due to time constraints. This is in the case of first journal, and since we will be publishing every quarter we can engage him in the future issues as well.

We also discussed the following:

• First issue will be a printed and also e-version (which we had discussed) but then we will do the printing regionally. For India, Ramgiridhari will take care of the printing and distribution and for USA maharaj will facilitate for printing and related. Distribution shall be taken up through our appointed 3 regional representatives for USA (Gopi Geetha, Balimardan pr and Visvambara Pr). For south America Jagad Guru Prabhu will take care of the printing and distribution (both the English version of it and also a parallel Spanish version of it).

• Maharaj is proposing the name of the magazine as “Pascatya Desa Tarine - A Journal of the ISKCON Ministry of Education”. If anyone have any other suggestions please share them here. I have few thoughts. I shall think further on this and circulate them tomorrow.

• We have discussed that the first journal being an introductory one can cover about our (recently concluded) Seattle conference and also what we intend to do thru this journal.  We also discussed if we should restrict this journal for North America… we finally discussed and concluded (which we had also agreed before) that this shall be a single global magazine for the ISKCON’s Ministry of Education as we don’t have many team members to run continent wise magazine. If in the future we have more team who can take up regional initiatives we can facilitate them. It is important that the outline of the first magazine should be finalized.

• I had shared with Maharaj that I have got some draft version. I shall share them shortly with everyone. I strongly urge that each of us write down our thoughts on what should go in the Journal in general and if anything specific we wish to have them in the first one.

• We have 20 more days to wrap up the content and the layout of the journal. We are strongly desiring to launch the first journal on Srila Prabhupada’s Vyasa Puja day (August 16^th 2017).

Please keep this thread active and lets consolidate our thoughts and enable the content team to finalize them asap.

Nityananda Prabhu,  I will be in Houston between August 17^th and 31^st. Maharaj is also planning to come to Houston then. We were wondering if either you could come to Houston during one of the days or if myself and Maharaj could come to Dallas to chalk out the rest of the 3 issues for the year. This is just a heads up. More details have to be worked out.

Finally, this journal is an important part of our Ministries activities and hence lets make it happen and network all the educational initiatives.

So the immediate TO DO List is:

• Name for the journal – Everyone shall contribute (just in case if we need other names apart from what Maharaj has proposed)
• Outline for the first journal – If possible nominate who will / should provide the content – Everyone can contribute for this.
• Contacting Mukunda Datta Prabhu for being part of the editorial team – Nityananda Prabhu / Maharaj to contact him.

Your servant,

Ramgiridhari Dasa