Letters to the editor

Hare Krsna Guru Maharaja.

Por Favor acepte mis reverencias.

Todas las glorias sean para Srila Prabhupada.

Todas las glorias a Sri Sri Gaura Nitai.

Como le prometí quiero entregarle un pequeño reporte de Su Vyasa Puja, celebrado acá en el templo de Santiago de Chile.

Se realizó el día viernes 30 de diciembre, desde 1las 16:00hrs. Y como ese día se celebra la Fiesta en Honor a Srila Prabhupada, fue aún más hermoso celebrar ese día, glorificando a nuestro Fundador Acarya.

Asisitieron entre 120 a 130 personas, incluyendo invitados y niños. 

Comenzamos con unos hermosos Bhajanas, luego se realizaron las ofrendas. Un momento muy emotivo, que nos conectaba mucho más con Usted.

Luego del Gaura Arati, mataji Alankrti dió una hermosa clase, que tuvo muchos asistentes.

Luego Puspanjali, Guru Puja y Kirtan..

A pesar de que fue muy difícil reunir las donaciones para la realización de la fiesta, ya que muchos discípulos suyos no aportaron, nos llevamos una gran sorpesa, porque muchos otros, muy comprometidos lo hicieron, incluso recibimos una buena donaión de una bienqueriente.

Quiero darle algunos nombres de devotos que destacaron por sus servicios:

Pundavanika, siempre es muy comprometida con el servicio, y ayudó muchísimo en la organización general, guirnaldas, decoración, servicio del prasadam, etc.

Alankrti además de las guirnaldas, preparó una hermosa clase.

Prabhu Lomarsa Rsi, hizo 7 tortas con mucho espero, además creo que estaban deliciosas.

El servicio de Parasurama en la cocina, junto a su equipo, donde sacó más cantiad de prasadam que la que teníamos pensada.

Lalita Madhava organizó los bhajanas y nos ayudó en la coordinación de la ceremonia.

Trivikrama diseñó el afiche.

Destaco a estos devotos, a pesar que hay otros devotos y devotas que ayudaron y dieron sus cuotas para el festival, pero desde un inicio hubo muy poca asistencia a las reuniones. No tuvimos más de 7 devotos en cada reunión que se hizo, y eso era muy desalentador.

Pero bueno, finalmente se realizó el festival Vyasa Puja, en glorificación del Parampara, y fue muy hermoso poder ayudar y estar ese día ahí junto a todos los devotos, compartiendo lo mejor que tenemos en éste mundo material,. El canto del Santo nombre, y el servicio a nuestros maestros espirituales y a Sri Krsna!

Adjunto un video que realizó Cintamani Devi Dasi (Discípula de SS JPS Maharaja, con fotos sacadas por Guna Manaji, Cintamani, y palabras de algunas ofrendas)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=su4JyjHxYt8&feature=youtu.be

Muchas gracias Guru Maharaja por la inspiración.

Su aspirante a sirviente

Priya Sakhi Devi Dasi.

HpS - ASA -- "Esta Sociedad fue empezada sin ninguna ayuda, pero ahora se está respondiendo a la llamada, y está siguiendo este sistema de tratos mutuos. Nos alegra que la gente esté ayudando generosamente condonaciones para el desarrollo de las actividades de la sociedad, y también esté aceptando ávidamente cualquier humilde contribución que les estamos brindando en la forma de libros y revistas que tratan estrictamente sobre el tema del cultivo de conciencia de Kṛṣṇa.", http://www.vedabase.com/es/noi/4

We have to consider if what we are doing is right. If it is then we should go on whether others accept or not, preaching without violence, no? Of course, if people are not responding we can move to another Sankirtan field where people are more receptive.

We only want to see "our Vyasapuja" as our chance to glorify the Parampara including our position in proper prportion and your position also.

Now it is 2.18AM in Thoubal, Manipur. Rtu-raja Das is chanting next to us with great vigor. We have 5-rounds done and will have three hours of driving today so we will chant some of our 16-rounds while driving.
Thank you for the news and the clip!!
We hope everything is going well with your Sankirtan and your Sankirtan partners!!!

Hare Krsna Dear Gurudev,
    Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.
    All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
    All glories to Guru parampara.

    Gurudev, Below are progress as of :
    1. Accommodation, Transport - fix.

    2. Still in process of finalizing the events.
      (Actually, we had already two rounds of meeting with temple authority and conveyed message about ISKCON Education events.
      So we are trying to fix more schedule for ISKCON Education, College seminars/ Youth Preaching etc.)

    3. HG Radyshyam Prabhuji will be available during your visit now, and he assured for his time and meeting / discussion with you.

    We have a meeting tomorrow noon with temple authority then we will have a clear picture of your events, then update you again.

your fallen servant,
Girivaradhari-Gopal Das

HpS - AGTSP paoho.   Thank you very much. More. More.   Have the Temple organizers seen the clip at www.youtube.com searching with the Keywords, "psychology and the sacred 2016"?  That is our direct effort, although Education with ISKCON is also our focus. EWI can include into: Daivi Varna Ashrama Education as Pre, Primary, Secondary and University education, Philosophy of Education, Sastric Education all for the purpose of Sankirtan. We can even have several presentations in the morning, workshops in the after noon and cultural presentations in the evening.

We have the Light of the Bhagavata Symposium.

Pschology and the Sacred. ...

Hare Krsna Beloved Gurudeva

AGTSP

PAMHO

I hope this meets U in really good health !!!

HpS - ASA -- About 50/50.

We really miss iur daily  association. !!!

I do not know what will be the future in education in Iskcon peru.. Everything is not well organized. Too much politics, ego.. pffff. My desire and my calling is to be an educator but if things continue like this.... regarding to your question .. Yes I would love to teach in Houston !!! Let's see what Krsna wants. But I have the feeling that peru will not be my permanent resident [residence].

I would like to continue teaching SP 's books 

I continue with FMP.. Bhadra Vardhana & Sananda, Indulekha, isvari, carlos rold join. Association is everything ! I also join through skype with Dhanya lalita in the evenings we share our experiences and also chant 4 rounds.

HpS - ASA -- You will certainly develop mystic powers from this.

I am.on vacations. I continue giving gem therapy. we preach a little bit. I use the little cottage that is in my garden for doing therapy. I feel good helping others.

Today we fast nirjala till 1pm

My mom and sisters are sick.. but the 3 of us continue with enthusiasm!!  3 ladies one dog and now one kitty. We are like draupadi and  say: Hey Govinda !! Hope U are there!!!

Thank U for all iur inspiration

See U in June

Your useless servant

Candramukhi dd

HpS - It is 11.17AM. Up at 2.15AM, chanting, P A C K I N G, 20-people offering Dandavats, donations, cloths, flowers. 45-minute drive at 4.30AM through the jungle to the airport. Check-in.. ... arrive Guwahati. 20-more devotees. Lunch/Breakfast. Check in . SCREAMING over the loudspeakers. Pushing in the lines. Security. Almost droping computer.

Some chest pain, but not much.

Calling, recalling, discusssing NIOS joining Sthapatyam magazine of Vastuveda as a publisher. Sending letter to them. Now 1-hour until flight. The announcements are so loud that they really hurt the ears.

Battle of Kuruksetra.

Kali-yuga is like a storm, but you have your umbrella. Use it. Get nice things done. They will last. Give others umbrellas and teach them how to use them.

Out respects to the Start Meeting Sanga!  What gems do you use?

O.K.   Continuing with our Sankirtan.

Hare Krishna Maharaj

PAMHO. AGTSP!

I am very much concerned (and convinced) that I have caused an aparadha to you due to my Vyasa Puja offering.

Please forgive this neophyte! KC is not always easy for me (if at all), and I am constantly overwhelmed by the material modes of nature. It is of course no excuse, but rather an explanation of my offensive tendencies.

I thought it may be helpful to reveal a bit of my worldview of ISKCON in the spirit of 'guhyam akhyati prichati'. I mean no offense, and feel I should have been more straight about this with you from the outset, but I am constantly besieged by the mode of passion, and therefore am constantly making mistakes.

I beg your pardon in this regard.

Your servant,

Janardan-hari das.

HpS - Hare Krsna!   I don't think we have been able to see it yet. If we did, it didn't strike us as offensive. It is important to see both the good and bad qualities of people and organizations, then we can help them!

Hare Krsna Dear Gurudev,
    Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.
    All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
    All glories to Guru parampara.

    Gurudev, we have your update through - DTC 21 (Sa). We are happy to see success of events.

    In Pune, we are continuously in touch with local temple authority and fixing your schedule, and
    communicated your message about ISKCON education.

    Below are progress, as of :
    1. Accommodation has been fix for you and me.
    2. Still in process of finalizing the events.
    3. HG Radhyshyam Prabhuji may not be available during your visit.

    We have a meeting again today with temple authority then we will have a conference call with you.

your fallen servant,
Girivaradhari-Gopal Das

HpS - ASA -- Thank you very much!  If H.G. Radhashyama Das will not be available then maybe someone who is confidential with his ideas of education will be available.

DTC 21(SA)

[Especially written so that ART Das can forward is to Ramon]

1.12AM – Brother Ass is doing pretty well. It is rather cold here in village, Ananda Bazaar, cold and foggy mornings. We are typing on our platform-bed under a THICK blanket with our arms sticking out. We have a room in The Tribal Guest House. Now the water has ceased to flow but the one lamp and one plug, across the room, are working. No heat. There is a wedding party gaily blasting their music across the village.

At 4AM we will take a sponge bath from a bucket of well-water, go to Mangala-arati in the Temple down the hill, dance to keep warm and insure good digestions and at 6.30AM we leave for Silchar. It is about 60Km from here but the road moves like a snake in the jungle, so we won’t arrive until noon.

So far this India Tour has been very productive. Three weeks completed, three weeks to go, a good way to die.

We met with Dr. Kalyan Kumar, Dr. A. P. Dutta and Śriman Yuddhisthira Das in Delhi. Respectively they are Director of the National Academy of Fine Arts (Kalyan Academy), Director of the Indian Council on Philosophical Research and Assistant Director of Communications for the ISKCON-Birla Foundation Glory of India Cultural Complex. We can develop our NIOS publications and symposia with all of them.

Next we went to Chennai and participated in a symposium on The Bhagavata Purana – Its Art and Its Impact, co-sponsored by the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies and the University of Madras. We were variously informed about the research and appreciation of the Bhagavata though illustrated manuscripts, the millennial tradition of different scholastic-yogic commentaries and made our own presentation titled: PASCHATYA DESA TARINE – Śrimad Bhagavatam and the Scientific Mind Set. We have a pile of Name Cards and contacts to process of related scholars.

Next Kolkatta where we of course were deeply involved with the ISKCON Albert Road Temple and Professor Dr. Samaresh Bandyopadyay, Principal Advisor to NIOS, and former Professor and Head of the Department of Ancient Indian History and Culture at University of Calcutta. With the former we did several lectures on the Bhagavata, introduced our NIOS work and lectured at Asutosh University to a packed room of 120-Psychology students and five professors. They will begin to study Jung and participate in writing for Solaris projects. With the later we focused with intensity on the next academic book by NIOS, SIKSHA-DRSA – Education in Ancient India and Man-making in Modern Times.

Finally, hours of flying and driving in the Himalaya foothills from Kolkata to Ananda-bazaar. It is a kind of Shangri-La if we look at the industrialized world. Milk and fruits and vegetables, grains and beans, houses and heat still come from the local fields and forests. Here we joined The 11^th Annual Festival of Loving Exchanges as a Sannyasis-guru, Chief Guest.  Both sides of the rode were lined with men and women, boys and girls, with candles, Kirtan, when we arrived. The Kirtan is with drums and gongs illuminating the traditional hymns and prayers.

We formally Baptized, gave Diksa to twenty serious students and again joined the lecture and ritual Kirtan process along with local ISKCON Pandits. Our cell-phone provider, Voda-phone, does not work here, so we have had excellent chance to rest our eyes – Simple and Refreshing.

Tomorrow we will have internet connection and we can see if Prof. Shamdasani from the Philemon Foundation has answered our letters. If not we are already drafting one more letter. We have been promoting the Foundation wherever we go and we consider Jung essential for building this bridge between East and West. We are looking for friends who share this appreciation to divide up the work necessary . Beverley Zabrieskii of the Foundation has already given us good reading materials to work on. We need more Officers, Directors, Advisors for NIOS in the USA.

2.00AM – Review this Diary Post and “Chant One Round”.