Letters to the editor

MAYAPURA INSTITUTE

Prabhus, Padmanaya Das, Radhika-n., Atul-k., Rama-giridhari Das et al,

Hare Krsna!    Hope all is well with your Sankirtan.

1. We are still struggle and expanding with Bh. Sastri, Vaibhava and Vedanta in San Francisco, Houston and South America.  Again we are still interested in making a relationship with these centers as affiliates with the MI. Sent some messages on Skype to arrange meeting time with Padmanaya and our director in San Francisco, Srivasa pt. Das, but didn't hear back. Can we have a call? Looks very good.

2. We leave for India Travel on the 27th: Delhi, Indoor, Ujjain, Pune, Navi-mumbai (Australia), Kolkata, Imphal, Delhi.   We would like very much to help develop this Sastri Education anywhere along the route. Of course, we are trying to meet with Radha-shyam Das in Pune et al. Any service for us?
 

  a) There will be official MOE meeting in Ujjain 3rd-5th October and your participation would be wonderful. Tapana-misra and his esteemed wife will be there and can represent the MI in some ways, no?    We also want to get an online meeting if possible for maybe 45-minutes when MI, VIHE, Pune et al can just make a brief presentations (Power Point?) of what they are doing to facilitate P-O-W-E-R-F-U-L cooperation between the academic educators of ISKCON. We can record this and then broadcast it.

  b) We are arrive Kolkata airport from Imphal 12.15PM Saturday November 4th. We want to go straight to Mayapura and sit in your Ashrama (makinging generous donation) to teach and learn until 7th morning. Then we have to go back to Kolkata-Delhi-Houston. HK/HR.

    Can someone, the Radhika-nagara Das, co-ordinate our visit to MI. Tapan is supposed to be there the same time. We can present about "Teaching and Preaching Srimad Bhagavatam in the Modern Academic World". It will be a HOT presentation. The elephants will be crying in ecstacy. The street dogs will sitting at attention with their paws and ears raised, their eyes bulging from their sockets, and the blook running cold in their veins.

HpS - Hare Krsna

AGTSP

We push. We restrain.   We only have so much energy. We rest. Read World Classical Literature. Energy comes back and we do what we can.

Kapi-dhvaja is late.

Fund raising work is late.

Web page is late.

Blog is on time.

FMP and FEP are going on.

Class to Hawaii is going on!

Traveling and preaching is going one.

BhVedanta Study group is going on!

O.K.   Push as hard as you can with all the energy you have all the time. Learn your real strength.

Why Solochana das would have been killed ...

HpS - ASA --- Hare Krsna. Nanuk Ji.      Srila Prabhupada is with us. We are doing Sankirtan with his living direction.    We see many problems in ISKCON, but we see so many positive possibilities directly with Srila Prabhupada and with our friends in ISKCON and even with the Insititution, which we don't expect to be much more than and insititution, Varna-ashrama-dharma, which is not going to be perfect in Kali - yuga.

Are you a disciple of Prabhupada. I mean do you follow his discipline?   Up early, Mangala-arati-kirtan, SB, Sankirtan, 16-rounds, four principles?

Then we want to associate with you.  If there is only fault finding and not glorification it is Mayavada view, not this, not this.

Not Mayavada, not Sahajiya.  Isopanisad, both seeing faults in material world, Institutional ISKCON, and good qualilties.

We personally talked with the Pulitzer Prize candidate who wrote 'Monkey on a Stick' after serious investigation of this stuff. Other very serious journalist. There conclusion was not that Cakradhari and Tirtha presented a bad case for ISKCON. It presented a bad case for the Navy Seals in not being able to integrate their trained assasins back into normal life.
 

Our experience does not paint the Insitituion or its Institutional leaders anywhere as black as you present. Maybe we are wrong, but we only seriously listen to critics who are living a popular alternative. Who are involved in book distribution according to their nature and ability.

So, many problems but complete possibility to associate with Srila Prabhupada and get his opinion on anything.

Just one specific example. A personal friend is Akruranatha Das. He was lawyer when Hansadutta sued for copyrights to the BBT publications. Also, Vedaguhya Das.  From them we understand that Hansadutta won copyrights for all pre-1977 books, but then sold them to Vedaguhya, who has been publishing them. The BBT International was the legal name for the BBT as Prabhupada wanted it.

Yes, if they dropped "fairies" out of later editions we think that is probably wrong.

Many things wrong. We are just tying to get our little area right and see the wrongs deleted almost automatically in our area.

O.K.?

Chanting rounds and following principles??

No-one has ever said to me, that a society which killed their Acharya, would be 77% good, I would say 77% bad, but I guess it's a thing personal taste. This all just gives very very plasticized image. This little game of power, with Ken and the Barbie.... The, haha!! Hare Krishna. This all gives very sick and wicked image about ISKCON, and now I can see, nobody can't be trusted but Prabhupada, if one wants to go to Spiritual World, like Prabhupada wanted us to go. So please do have nice time playing your games. I can not be a part of the killer party. It would be nice, if someone checked my links. And not just thinking that one knows what I have been talking about here. But we look this with psychologists and things. And I am sure you will all be a part of history, how positive, it depends on if one is demon or not. Hare Krishna. I just hope many more will get out from their childish Maya

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!! All Glories to Guru Maharaj HpS!

PAMHO at Your Lotus feet....Dandavat Pranaam!

Dear Guru Maharaj,

While we wait for Yamunesvara Prabhu's reply, may I update your good self about the programme to be scheduled at RIMS. Had a talk with the Head of Department of Community Medicine, Professor Brogen and he suggested that adding SPRITUAL HEALTH would be a very nice theme, something like  SCIENCE, PSYCHE and SPIRITUAL HEALTH. Dr Brogen says , very soon the WHO will incorporate Spiritual Health as another aspect of health and will be introduced in our teaching curriculum.

HpS - O.K.

Will be having a word with Dr Gojen, a leading Psychiatrist here. Probably, together with ISKCON, we will incorporate these 2 departments. Surely , we will have a Chief Guest, probably the Director of our Institute....still have'nt finalised on that. Can we send letter of invite to Prof Samaresh this week Guru Maharaj? Professor wants it ASAP so that he can apply for leave as soon as possible.

HpS - He will come with his good wife, Smt. Nandini Bandhyopadaya. She is a very delightful respectable lady and as there is time I think you can also put her to good use. She is Bhajan singer with harmonium. Directs the cultural programs for the annual civic festivals in Lake Town. Like Vice-President of All India Ladies Relief Fund.
If you and Dr. think it is useful for him to come, we think it will be fine. We can make a lasting step forward for Krsna consciousness.

We are having daily classes with H.H. Bhakti Ananda Haridas Goswami, starting at 5.30am for Bhakti Sastri preliminary classes and SB class after Guru Puja. Feeling Your immense Mercy of which we would remain forever indebted.

Your most fallen,desperately seeking Your mercy forever ....hopeless servant,

Sarada Gaurangi DD

HpS - ASA -- Hare Krsna!!!!  Sankirtan........

Hare Krsna gurumaharaja. Por favor acepte mis respetuosas reverencias a sus pies, y sean todas las glorias para Srila Prabhupada. Espero que usted se encuentre muy bien.

HpS - ASA -- Ha! Ja!     Hare!!!     Eso es el mundo material.  Luchando con nuestra debil dedicacion a Krsna.  Por misericordia, sufrimiento de Srila Prabhupada, adelantando.

Estoy meditando en su consejo de cantar el Maha-mantra continuamente, la verdad que me cuesta acordarme. Por lo menos estoy intentando hacerlo cuando me siento mal. Sigo tratando de cumplir con las 16 rondas y los principios. Estamos haciendo mangala arati a las 5 am más o menos tres días a la semana con Damián y Pandavanatha. También vamos a empezar a leer el Bhagavatam y compartilo en grupo una vez cada 15 días con prabhu Param Padam como coordinador, el 24 de septiembre es el primer encuentro. Vamos a leer un capítulo cada 15 días. 

Como me pregunta en la última carta Damián es 14 años menor que yo. Sigo trabajando con mi crisis de ansiedad y miedo, y estoy viendo muchos anarthas, cuán alejada estoy de Krsna, cuántos sentimientos de egoísmo y de desamor que tengo. Estoy bastante tiempo triste por darme cuenta en la condición en la que estoy. Tengo una imagen distorcionada de mí misma y gracias a Krsna estoy trabajando para conocerme un poco más. Gurumaharaja usted ha tenido crisis durante su proceso de conciencia de Krsna, se ha sentido triste?

HpS - Cada persona es diferente. Nuestra sendero no es solamente de esta vida, pero vidas pasados. Si, ahora, cada dia, constantamente estoy luchando con depresion. Eso es el mundo material, modalidad de ignorancia: Yo soy mal, no puedo hacer...      Pero con asociacion de otros devotos quien son 77% sincero como nosotros llegamos a nivel mas elevado.

Pues, no hay otro opcion mejor que ISKCON, Srila Prabhupada, entonces adelantamos como podemos y cada advanza es eterno. Vamos a vencer contra egoismo.  Krsna es infeliz sin nosotros.

Siempre estoy agradecida por permitirme ser su discípula. Y siempre lo recuerdo en mi corazón y en mi mente.

HpS - Si, no podemos cantar all the time, then ocupanos en Karma-yoga, haz lo que podemos hacer para Krsna, jardinero, limpiando, atencion a imvitados.   Krsna dara inteligencia como adelantar.