Letters to the editor

. . . Bhakti Vidyapurna Swami, . . . report shows . . . abuse. . .

ASA - We edited about 97% of this. I personally talk with Gurukula boys who are now very smart, educated, young married men who were educated by Maharaja from childhood in the Ashrama and who are now very dedicated to carry on his work and working with him in the Ashrama.

To me Maharaja has some attachments. I hear strong critics saying that his fault was that he did not know what was going on in the Gurukula huts. He should have known. I see GBC whose service is Child Protection Office taking direct sanctions for Maharaja, but in other aspects judging that he should go on with his projects.

It's a big institution, but I have been in contact with Nityananda Dasa who made happen the first tests of Srila Prabhupada's hair samples, conducted by Dr. Morris at Missouri University Research Reactor. And it clearly shows 250 times cadmium level and little arsenic...... no-one ever has had this kind of levels for 8 months. So this is a REAL MIRACLE! This is science, this is how science develops, and heart's science too, or maybe it's the only one: http://killgurubecomeguru.org/2017/06/hair-analysis-is-a-reliable-indicator/.

HpS - We looked at it. 

And only the audio tapes about Tamal Krishna Goswami (how these names can be still-he is not a Goswami in any way, not a one characteristic)

HpS - From reports from close associates who we know he was always chanting enormous quantity of Japa on Ekadasi. Never any hint of improper association with ladies. Following basic standard and always engaged in managing for ISKCON. Very direct evidence that one time he had to have a root-canal and the dentist wanted to administer anesthetic, but he said he didn't need it. Just put headphones on with Prabhupada's bhajan and it would be O.K.  Dentist laughed and started and was amazed that Maharaja never called for anesthetic.

One time he was asked during Gita class in New York if he had any material desires and he said, as we have heard, "Yes, I guess so. I guess I want to have my opinion respected, but they are under controla and diminising".

and Bhavananda and company, have been studied with big money in 7 sound enhancing studios and audio forensics. So this is a fact that ISKCON have to take soon.....  what it makes to the ISKCON , to the power there, is another thing. But we with Nityaananda, we love Srila Prabhupada and we also have developed a personal thing to him. And I can say, everything is wrong, ha, when Prabhupada doesn't smile. Really wrong. You know it's not 70's anymore. no, there is no poetry in this time. Like there was before they killed Prabhupada and started using his disciples and their children, for their own tamasic purposes. Maybe Prabhupada meant Tamas Krishna Goswami and not Tamal?? this is one video, but there is longer one too, I like Nityaananda Dasa's style, and I think he is a resident of Vrindavana for me and my money, or maybe Prabhupada's money, I have to say: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOLeHjRhZMc&t=100s

HpS - We started watching it, but again. It is prefaced with a basic assumption that was very different from our experience. There was motive for people to kill Srila Prabhupada, and we never saw that in these people and we were with them under many circumstances.
If these devotees who are proposing this love Srila Prabhupada so much, then why weren't they present when he was in this condition? Srila Prabhupada was incompetent to surround himself with nice people?   Amogha-lila Das who was very educated but not materially elevated in ISKCON institution personally tells us his experiences of that time. Srila Prabhupada was very much in control of the situation and selecting who he wanted around him.

Hare Krishna, now I finally start to really feel again that Lord Caitanya is not a fairy tale, nor Krishna. Who feels it, knows it Lord

p.s. yes those were pictures of me yes:)

HpS - Is this the Nityananda Das who ran Vedic River devotional and drug paraphernalia supply company. He impressed me as very strict in some ways, but one friend who was directly working in his shipping business told us that the drug paraphernalia was direct part of the income.

Like this it start so become complicated and again one may kill Srila Prabhupada's external body but his Vani, instructions live on and can be practically applied to judge the people we chose for friends and the institution we join. Right now I don't see any poisoners, nor is the evidence from what I was trained to accept in graduate science laboratories in U.C. Davis, that compelling.

Dear Guru Maharaj PAMHO AGTSP

Dandavat Pranam

I'm okay ,very happy and exciting to meet you soon.

HpS - ASA -- Well I hope it won't be a disappointment. We are generally just an ISKCON devotee. AGTSP.

Start Meeting is work perfectly, inspiring and making me happy every day.It's a Krishna's mercy to hear your voice every day.

HpS - You are just like Lord Siva. You see bad qualities as good qualities.

Hare Krishna.

Dear Gurudev, maybe is the best if I meet you on the airport when you landing in Delhi,and together go to the Temple?

HpS - When do you arrive? Have you arranged for accomodations at the Temple? We should be Camped there from 28th Sep - 1 Oct nights. Then go to Indoor/Ujjain. Probably better to meet at Temple.

Hare Krishna

Your servant

Indradyumna das

Resending email to Srinivasacarya Prabhu about categorization as you may found it interesting or have some comment for it:

Hare Krishna Dear Srinivasacarya Prabhu,

OK, I thought I would be able to add categories on my own if you enable permissions. It seems you need pre-defined categories that I could then associate a topic to.

Yes. As suggesting paragraph into categorization can be done by any user we need to have good category tree already created. Otherwise users will create duplicate categories or categories which doesn't give sense.

That categorization will be usable for all, possible to use as filter in search. And once proposed categorization of paragraph/s is accepted by moderator it will be applied in all languages. So person who speaks only Telugu will be able to categorize in Telugu, but it will automatically categories same text in English, Spanish, Russian, Hindi, even in language we don't have yet (as when we will add new content we connect it)

I have plan to add feature which will enable you to do your personal categorization (personal folders) where you will have full freedom to create any categories you want. Although that would be available only for users who did some service for project (e.g. importing books, categorization, moderators) and donors.

I can discuss with Maharaj and come up with some categories but for now if you need some sample categories below are some that I use in my own indexing:

1.       Varṇāśrama-dharma
    a.       Strī-dharma
    b.       Rāja-dharma
    c.       Pati-dharma

2.       Guru-tattva
    a.       Qualities of a guru
    b.       Qualities of a disciple

3.       Philosophical classification
    a.       Epistemology
    b.       Ontology
    c.       Cosmology
    d.       Praxeology

4.       Sāṅkhya
5.       Aṣṭāṅga
6.       Glory of Bhagavatam
7.       Glory of Holy name

Most probably I will add now (in close future) only 2. Guru-tattva (a, b), 6. Glory of SB and 7. Glory of Holy name. As those should be clear for 95% users and most likely should be somewhere in final category tree. Although in final category tree they may not be in top/root level, but as children of top level or some other category..

I realize that creating of category tree will be tremendous task. It may need we create some group of devotees who will plan the tree and slowly transform it into 'final' version. And most probably it will be practical to make 2 trees, One for simple devotees and another one for scholars. Some of categories from both three could be considered as aliases. So for example: paragraph in category Varnasrama :: Raja-dharma would be mirrored in something like Leadership :: Quality of the leader.

And I am aware of my inability of correct word expression of my thoughts and ideas, so most times it is hard or impossible for people to understand what I want to say. But I would try my best to clarify or answer if you have any questions.

Brief summary of categorization:

- categorization of texts is accessible for anybody (possible to use for narrowing down search results)
- any user (except those who has very bad reject rate from moderators) can suggest paragraph into any category from category tree
- any suggestions from any language, will be automatically applied in all languages (as we have connected paragraphs through languages)

ASA - This requires that the Catetegory Label be translated into the othe languages. Also a challenge. 
- any suggestions will be moderated to assure quality
- users cannot create categories, they can only tag category to the text (there will be way to suggest categories, but will be careful process as we don't want to end with 100,000 categories like other project with categories like 'Eggplant', 'Hitler', 'Therefore', etc.. which are not in fact suppose to be categories, but are more like search terms what user write in search page)
- category tree will have ideally as few top-level items as possible (with common sense children, grand-children, ... e.g. subcategory 'quality of guru' you would search under 'guru-tattva', thus easy for people to find wanted category)
- categories will have ability to have defined synonyms (user could search 'arca vigraha', it will suggest him category 'Deity Worship')
- while suggesting categories user will see also his last few recently used categories (so it is faster to select those categories without need of going down through whole tree)

[I think think topic may be interesting for Guru Maharaja, I may copy this email into blog].

HpS - ASA - Yes, very much interesting to us. We are German. We want everything to fit into a Category. Seems like what you are generating is an Index. Our current index of BBT books is in our Archives as asa-ndx.docx.  We have worked on the Index Topics, Categories, for some time and there are some there that might interest you.

I would definitely include Varna-ashrama-dharma (VAD) as one Topic and then the natural Sub-Topics become: Brahman-dharma, Ksatriya-dharma, Vaisya-dharma, Sudra-dharma, Brahmacari-dharma, Grhastha-dharma, Vana-prastha-dharma, Sannyasa-dharma and Stri-dharma.

It is a big area and would require a team, no? BBT books already have indexes for the paper volumes.

Seems you need a Vedabase.io Index Committee. 

Por favor acepte mis humildes y respetuosas reverencias 

Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada

Todas las Glorias a Sri Guru y Gauranga

Es un placer para mí enviarle esta carta de recomendación para refugio formal de Bhaktin María de los Ángeles

su aspirante a sirviente 

Jagannatha caran das

HpS - Muchas gracias Prabhu!    We hope to get lots of communication from her and then after six months she can take first initiation!!   Thank you!!

Por favor escribanos con mas noticias de Sri Sri ISKCON Santiago.!

Hare Krishna Maharaj!

Pamho! AgtSP!

Thank you for your response on the last letter. I’m engaging in war with my mind every day to get some discipline established. Its tough but doable [to some degree.] Trying to not eat at night so I can wake up in the mornings. Morning programs are nice (best on the rainy days). Will also try to make more FEPS (the notifications are so short notice!)

Somehow managed to get accommodations in Vraja—close to ISKCON temple. I will be splitting the room with another nice girl from the UK.  Krishna is kind. Any recommendations of things to do that aren’t mainstream (of course govardhan, Parikrama, offering ghee lamps, etc…but anything off the beaten path …that Brajvasis do?)

ASA - When you get their just look for new friends at the Temple. When two thieves meet upon the road they need no introduction, they know each other by sight.

Go to the English Gita class in the evenings.

Get some one to take you to the "Old" Radha Govinda Temple. It is the one Rupa Goswami built.  Just sit in a corner and chant and try to imagine what is was like at Janmaastami 500-years ago.
Chant Hare Krsna and wander around with a girl friend. You might meet a Gopi. You might not come back.

Get vdm.docx from our ASA Archives. It is worth $25,000,000. Read it slowly while you are in Vraja.

You asked about father’s spiritual purification. I’m not sure if you’ve known, but my dad’s a Shiva devotee… he still worships Krishna and Vishnu and everything…and he’s encouraging about my spiritual practice but often sees it as a ‘diluted’ version as compared to traditional Hinduism (then again he doesn’t read  so I can’t hold his opinions in high regard) …and he also has been chewing tobacco since his days in the air force and it’s a habit he’s tried to quit so many times but now just accepted it and basically justifies it saying Shiva does it so it’s okay (which is total hogwash in my opinion). He also fasts on Ekadasis and Mondays (yet still chews the tobacco so I doubt there’s progress there…)

So I can’t really gauge his spiritual trajectory. But it is because of him that I had an ‘inkling’ of spiritual practice from a young age. He’d encourage my sister and I to fast and participate in aarti  early mornings and make offerings to the Lord. The tobacco issue is something we’ve beaten to a pulp. No change. I honestly don’t have any expectations either. I just need to be grateful for what’s been provided to me by them. I have friends whose families are very discouraging about Krishna consciousness and am fortunate not to be on that boat.

I doubt I willl cross paths with you in India, but I do wish you the smoothest journey, free of complications.

Please keep shining your grace and mercy Gurudev.

Thank you for your mercy.

Your struggling servant,

Sugopi dd

(P.S. Purnima darshan attached!) 

HpS - Well, get an India SIM card after you arrive and maybe we will see each other. Best preaching is example.