Hare Krishna, dear Gurumaharaj. Pamho, AGTSP!
This is a small report and some perspective on my personal life.
Almost half of the year has passed and we need a small evaluation.
Basically, once again, my service to Srila Prabhupada's mission is focusing more on education. I collaborated in many other aspects, but here I can contribute a little more, I think.
The basis is always the full morning program (fmp), as you always recommend, constantly quoting Srila Prabhupada's purport for NOI 3.
" In this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement we require everyone to rise early in the morning, by four A.M., and attend maṅgala-ārati, or morning worship, then read Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, perform kīrtana, and so forth. "
If there is not that, we practically live all day in the mind. Worried more about eating, sleeping, mating and defending. Without much perspective. I have personally experienced it many times.
On that basis, the intelligence is sharpened, our perspectives are increasingly clear. Our vision is broad, etc.
So, I think my life has to take a little twist.
I have had the great honor and fortune to work with you on education since 2003 and that will continue to eternity and beyond. Your instructions in this area, and practically in all areas, are becoming my life and my soul. I want to do nothing but serve you and Srila Prabhupada. Sure, as much as I can and my intelligence allows me.
Now, in that same sense, I think it's time to focus on my training. I have a tendency to talk too much and to believe that I know everything. I want to hear more, learn more.
For that I need your advice and your help more than ever. I want to learn more from Sesa Prabhu, from Ramgiridhari Prabhu, I want to visit Yadunandana Swami. I want to personally see what is happening elsewhere in ISKCON. And I also want to do my master degree, to professionalize myself more. Have more educational experience in other places.
But I do not want to be selfish and worried about just growing up. I want to do everything to help you better, to better help ISKCON Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador and where I am required. If were up to me, I could spend all days watching Netflix and eating chocolate ice cream
Besides, here for now on the National Board are not very inclined to use my services. It's unfortunate, but real. I do not want to be naive and pretend that everything is fine.
However, I am leaving with a sense of relief cause I made my efforts so that P.Karuna takes care of the education here. So no one will miss me.
We have an educational meeting in Lima, which is being organized by P. Karuna and P. Gandharva. I hope that it become a new era of sustainable growth in education. All my good wishes to them.
In that meeting will be many capable and intelligent devotees, so my intervention will not be in details. However I will emphasize only two things. The importance of cooperation and unity in diversity. In Ravindra Svarup's book on the position of Srila Prabhupada, conscientious and basic work to rediscover our founder acharya, he emphasizes again and again the topic of cooperation and unity in diversity, as I see it.
Then all these initiatives and so forth, which will be presented at the III Educational Meeting, I think they have to take into account these two core points. I think the task of a leader is to ensure that this happens. Let us hope that it doesn´t become an academic dictatorship, a controlism, centralism, verticalism, a professionalism at all costs, etc.
Personally I like the perspective of ASA. Association, process, content. People, plans and resources. Inspiration, debate and depth, etc., etc.
Well, that's just an idea. Maybe I'm wrong.
I would like to talk more with you when you are in Lima. I need advice on contacts and things to start moving out. A couple of years out would be good for me. Then I´ll return to be with you in Peru, as you have projected, and perhaps accompany you in Vrdavana when you have your base there. And someday have a formal ASA institution, university or something, before the government and everything, as a medium and long term project.
For the time being I will continue to serve the students I have. I don’t think I’ll take new groups. I hope that Perú as examination center can be stablished soon. I will travel to Cuzco and Arequipa in August to help a bit, as we have planned. Then we will see how we are going in the logistics for my personal projects and how soon they can be accomplished. In the meantime I'll do what I can here.
There are many more things, but enough for now.
Please, your blessings to be able to carry out my projects.
Thank you for your patience to listen to me.
Your eternal servant.
THE LAD
HpS - ASA ---- AGTSP!!! Paoho. Thank you for your clear and wholesome ideas. To me you seem to be on a very nice path. Best way to stop being to proud of our own ideas is look at our rounds. Are we really hearing the mantra with attention. Even every syllable - 50%, 25%, 70%. Then the mind becomes accustomed to listen to something other than its own thoughts. The Mantra is from Goloka, no?
Happy birthday, June 14th, but what is the year of your birth?
See you Thursday.