Letters to the editor

Dearest Guru Maharaj,

Please accept my most humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Thank you for your kind reply. I am again most humbled to have your kind mercy upon me. Regarding whose association I have here, I don't have any devotee association here, apart from hearing Prabhupada's kirtan and japa on the laptop and Prabhupada's Bhagavad-gita in hard copy. But I do really want to visit ISKCON Houston when you come in December to get the most precious association.

HpS - ASA --- Jaya!   We arrive 11.45AM, Wednesday the 7th and leave 7.15AM, Monday the 12th. Have you got accomodations etc???  Text us.

When I first arrived at my current place of work, Texas A&M University - Kingsville, Corpus Christi is the nearest large city, which is about half-an-hour from Kingsville (the small university town of a population of around 20,000). I found a facebook page called Bhakti Yoga Society of Corpus Christi, to which I sent a message, but got no reply. San Antonio is a very large city here, the second largest in all of Texas after Houston, with a population of about 1.47 million people. San Antonio is around 2 hours drive from Kingsville and many of the Indian students go to work part-time jobs there and I also went once. I found the address for ISKCON San Antonio and went there, but it was just a house. I am not sure how to get in contact with devotees in these south Texas cities. It maybe that some devotees were running preaching centres or temples here but left after some time so now there is no active centre. Do you know any devotees active in San Antonio or Corpus Christi?

HpS - We just Texted you M. Guru bhakti's phone number and little bio. She can help!!

I wanted to get a tulasi plant for my evening worship. I have seen a Shri Venkateshvara Swami South Indian Hindu temple, but never found any ISKCON centre or devotees in this area. My parents and I would like to dedicate our lives to starting an ISKCON preaching centre under your guidance. For this, I am really hoping I can get a permanent faculty position somewhere, because my current position is contractual (i.e. temporary).

Your humble servant,

Aja Govinda dasa

HpS - Thank you for this super, super news. Contact Mataji and I think she can put you in touch with good associates.

What are you teaching in the University?   What would you like to publish with NIOS???

HARE KRISHNA MAHARAJA 

POR FAVOR ACEPTE MIS HUMILDES Y RESPETUOSAS REVERENCIAS

TODAS LAS GLORIAS PARA SRILA PRABHUPADA

Mi nombre es Jagannatha caran Das, vivo en Santiago de Chile, soy esposo de su Discipula Priya Sakhi d.d.,  hace tiempo le envie un correo con las cartas de recomendacion para refugio de Martin Moris y David Leyton. me pidio que las publicara en este blog, disculpe la demora. ¿debo publicar algo mas sobre los devotos recomendados para refugio?

Me despido de usted.

su aspirante a sirviente

Jagannatha caran Das

HpS - Muchas Gracias.  Tengo anotacion en nuestra libro de ellos de Vd. 8 Septiembre.  Eso es para Refugio y no para Iniciacion, no?  Por favor envia fecha de nacimiento de ambos aqui, y comunicar que tiene que comenzar communicar aqui con prontitud.   Muchas gracias, Prabhu!! Nos vemos en Abril.

Dear gurudev,

Some news about the congress.

1. Just today we received the final invitation from the devotee encharge of Vraja Bhumi, Nrisimhananda, to Hanumatpresaka Swami and other one to Rama Giridhari prabhu. He already reply and said that he could answer the next week. Are you received this letter well?
2. HpS - Yes we got a letter from him but we also got one earlier. We asked before into what airport we should book our ticket. We will need a Visa, no?  Anything else.   Did his invitation go to Rama-giridhari Das???
3. The dates to the Congress will be:
   1. 19^TH Wednesday > 21^TH Friday April morning > Private meeting about curriculum and exams in “Bhakti” Programs.
   2. 21 ^TH Friday evening > 23^TH Sunday noon, Festival to the South American Community of devotees. A different name?  
   3. HpS - ASA -- "LEARN SOMETHING" In one lecture Prabhupada Srila Prabhupada commented that we should come to these classes not just as a ritual but also to learn something. Then he looked at the audience and said, "All right, come as a ritual but also try to learn something". So come to teach, learn something based on Srimad Bhagavatam and how to apply it in Sankirtan, Primary School, Congregation Preaching etc.
   4. 23^TH Sunday evening > 23^TH Wednesday morning, workshop and led conferences and talks to brahmanas, teachers devotees, temple presidents, brahmacari and bhakti vriksha leaders, etc.
4. My “not complete task” now is the aims and secondary aims of the congress with this general planning that I put above to Chandramukha Swami. But when this work is done I’m planning make a brochure in .pdf with a nice design to invite senior devotees. It will be finished this same week. Could I show you this advance this Monday 7:30 pm?
5. HpS - A little earlier?  We will have some evening program here. We are in Washington D. C. hour. Main thing is who has committed to come and what they want to hear and explain.
6. Baladeva and Param Padam, Ananta Sayana sent to me their topics in the congress. But in my last travel to Italy I missed my phone, and they sent to my throught whatsapp. So now I ask them again in mail. So now, I only should ask the topics to Dhanvantari Swami, Aravinda, Rama Giridhari, yourself.
7. HpS - We want to discuss preaching and teaching in the universities, especially with Psychology and the Sacred, and the ISKCON Ministry of Education which includes Pre and Primary School, and Sastric Education.
8. Dhanvantari Maharaj says that if we invite devotees like Hridayananda das Goswami (in his condition of senior preacher in South  America) or Jayapataka Swami (in his condition of the GBC) could be complicated to the organization because, like too much devotees could come, also a lot devotees could leave the place after this devotees leaved and that even he should go outside because he would be like a host because they would be at Brazil.
9. HpS - ASA -- Seems true, but maybe they could do a video clip for the program!!!!!!!

Prices

1. This is the minimum cost for Vraja Bhumi with prasadam included, according the place when the devotees sleep. (To 10 guests will be free):

1. Festival Congregacional

Viernes – Domingo = 2 noches y 3 días.

1. Chalés= 570 Rs / $120.997 / 181 USD
2. Hotel = 480 Rs / $101.892 / 152 USD
3. Hare & Camping = 300 Rs / $63.683 / 95 USD

ASA - Damn cheap, Bobba!

1. Brahmanas y Ksatryas

Viernes – Miércoles = 5 noches y 6 días.

1. Chalés = 1140 Rs / 362 USD
2. Hotel = 960 Rs / 305 USD
3. Hare (some devotees houses) & Camping = 600 Rs / 191 USD

1. Ksatryas

Lunes – Miércoles = 2 noches y 3 días.

1. Chalés= 570 Rs / 175 USD
2. Hotel = 480 Rs / 148 USD /
3. Hare & Camping = 300 Rs / $63.683 / 92 USD

Hare Krsna gurudevm thank you for encourage us to serve.

HpS - ASA --  The ASA Absolute Undifferiniented Commado is Please With You!  Go ahead with full intelligence. List of Participants and their topics. We will prepare.

Photos below.

Hare Krsna.

Estimado Asta-sakhi Devi Dasi et al,

Estamos en Mexico 24 Dec - 30 Enero.
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Nuestro proposito es unos dias en: De Cristo a Krishna y De Nuevo (y otra vez). Podemos expressar nuestra ideas finalmente en esta area. Utilizar la misma para el simposium en Tirupati, Enero 1-4, y relacionar con Navedad, Los Tres Reys, y distribuir regalos del Oriente (libros de BBT).

Esta bien???

Hare Krsna!!

Esteemed Professor,

We have finished a week in Chicago. It was 6-7 degrees at night and they had not started the heating in the building, so we sat infront of a little fan and heater on the floor like Himalaya Yogis and did your work. We have built very good relations with our good ISKCON authorities and Bhaktas there. Several are in the University and we had two university programs as well as about 800 guests for the Govardhana Puja Program. Subal Das' wife in PhD in Education and we are continuing to work with here.

We tried to contact Rama-giridhari Das on Tuesday as planned, but discovered that he has left for Vraja with 75-devotees from his Navi-mumbai program. He Skyped us that he will be back on the 10th and planned very seriously to get in touch with us all then.

We feel very bad that we have not been able to move ahead with these weekly calls. We are always pushing our priorities, but we have realized that too much anxiety only results in too much eating and passionate effort.

Did you get our previous letter with the Photo links for the "Man Making" Book?

Has Sri Hari Das sent the print outs?

Did you get copies of our letters to him with ISBN and resend of Didhiti Bisvasa letter?

We have to work on the Foreward.

South America, even on the second try, is facing great problems in translating some of the articles, but I have expressed, and even our UN members agree, that we should at least format and circulate what we have, which is substantial, to our Editors and more intimate contacts, then move ahead with good advice to the next issue.

So, Abhirama has planned to have a good, formatted copy available by this weekend with photos.

With him we are also working on getting a page of bio-data for your good self on the Wikipedia and the review of our books in Spanish language journals.

Our work on Jung is slowly but realistically advancing. Our priority sending an effective letter to Professor Shyamdasani.

Our dates for India are more and more fixed:

Dec.  31st - Arrive Delhi 11.45PM

Jan.
1st - 4th - Tirupatti - Vaisnava x Christian Dialog. We are writing for circulation a paper: From Krist to Krsna, and Back Again (and Again).

4th-9th - Madras - Srimad Bhagavatam Symposium. We will present for 25-minutes with: Teaching SB in the Industrialized West.

9th - 18th - Kolkatta. We have answered Acharya-ratna Das letter but he has not got back to us about Kokatta Temple.

18th - 20th - Tripura North / Ananda Bazaar

21st - 23 - Cachar, Silchar. I have informed the organizers that you have very good friend in Asaam and the we MUST organize a very nice program with him for NIOS. Is Prof. Palit in Museum in Guwahati or Silchar at the University? [  ]

24th - 26th - Manipur Thoubal.

26th - Feb 1st - Delhi, Vrndavana.

1st - 8th - Navi Mumbai/Pune

8th-10th - Kokatta

10th-13th - Mayapura

13th - Mayapura to Delhi

14th - 3.15AM - Delhi to Houston, Texas.

Please any advice on this Calendar.

We will plan on calling on the 10th if that is possible!!! but you can always call us for any service.

HpSwami

NIOS - ASA