Letters to the editor

Oink! Oink!     Whoop!  WHooP!    '@'     'g'         8.11PM. We just finished "Noche Sabado Directo". "Saturday Night Live", on Start Meeting. About 11-devotees in thre groups. Is getting better and better.

For us it was almost impossible in the beginning because it comes at the end of Saturday which is a very full day, and so we were exhausted, but now we are getting our rhythm and planning our energy.

We were doing the Blog mail and then the connection collapsed!   So, we did as much as we can. We seem to be getting our senses under control more and more.   I guess and ordinary person is addicted to Peparoni Pizza and Beer and Hot DVDs with his friends Saturday night, although Sunday morning he feels like hell. So we may have problems with chocolate cake or condensed milk, or too much fruit, but still these are obstacles to doing better and better service.

Krsna loves to dance with pretty girls!!!   But you have to be a good dancer to do this with Him.  We HOPE we are progressing.  Seems that we are getting a practical rhythm here so that we can get a lot of work done in the next four months: End of August to End of December.

Our focus has been Art and the Sacred, 2018, but Ramon has been approved by the Congress in Peru as Minister for the 200th anniversary of Peru's independence celebration. So, we are suggesting Dr. Sameresh and Kalyankumar can write about this very, very strongly from the perspective of India's experience of Colonialism and the aftermanth.

This can also be done in art. If our world is dominated by this European colonial consciousness what will we have?  War?  Animal slaughter?

Is Indian and Peruvian traditional consciousness a good step toward Krsna consciousness?  Prabhupada established the "Sunday Feast". That is not a Vedic festival. He catered to his best customers, Hippies.

Art, like Ekasma Das and others can do is the way to create traveling shows that go on large scale form town to town to educate the people. Then the government will be good!!

Dear Guru Maharaj,

Please accept my humble obeisances, all glories to Srila Prabhupada! 

I have heard you've been doing quite a bit of traveling. Is it true that you will be reducing your travel before long and staying in India?

It's been very busy around here with Rathayatra going on, so it's been difficult for me to really do much else. Then, I was maybe a little too excited to get back to normal over here and I woke up with a killer toothache. I couldn't eat or sleep and I've been going all over town trying to sort it out and just this morning someone finally yanked out my wisdom tooth. I feel a little more wise now about this material world. Maybe next time I won't neglect to write Lord Jagannath a get well card.

ASA - We are all sinners in the hands of an angry God!

About your proposal I would be thrilled and honored to contribute to your project. I actually went through art therapy for about a year with one psychologist who studied Carl Jung, it really changed my life because I could tell she really cared about me. She told me nothing could help unless I found spiritual meaning in life. At the end of our time together she told me "I don't usually say this to patients but actually there's nothing wrong with you. It's everybody else that's crazy." Then she retired and went back to teaching art to kids.

ASA - Wow!!

Maybe we can discuss the details of my involvement when I come in the fall. In the meantime, there's a great opportunity to get the community in LA fired up for preaching and cultivation projects.

There is one group trying to bring the Gurukulis together, there's another group interested in art, another group restarted a weekly meeting for young people, there's a few interested in doing home programs or Bhakti Vrksha and there's one new sannyasi (H.H. B.R. Sagara Maharaj) who has ambitious plans for a huge interfaith festival here. So I'm involved in all of these things on some level, so I'm trying to organize some kind of grassroots co-op to bring all these devotees together so that we have a team in place to collate all these different kinds of outreach. So far local management seems agreeable so long as we don't make extra work for them.

Right now I'm trying to be as productive as possible while working over the phone to curate this group exhibition I have planned on the east coast in November. I'm going to try selling art in a few flea markets to buy time and make money until I can get in with local galleries. The temple is making me a great offer on a fully outfitted sankirtan van they're not using so I want to buy it ASAP and use it as my urban cottage on wheels. That will be of great use for transporting work, engaging in different areas etc etc etc. I'm just going to stay here, but it will be great to have my own space so I can put all my time and energy into making some real progress on these projects.

If you could pass along any more info about your project I would be excited to see it. Hare Krishna!

your servant,

Ekāśma Dās

HpS - We are always doing updates in the DTC and other notes. Look at the DTC today with something just for you!!

                 HARE KRSNA GURUDEVA,

                 PAOHO, AGTSP!

                 YES!! , PREMA MURTI EVERY YEAR DOES A NICE GARDEN WITH MANY FLOWERS AND VEGETABLES

                FOR SRI SRI RADHA GOVINDA CANDRA (G&N, L&N AND SP). WE GET PUMPKINS ALL WINTER  THANKS TO HIS WORK,

                HE IS  AMAZING.  ALSO SOME DEVOTEES WORK IN LITTLE PIECES OF LAND.

                WE ARE NOT SO GOOD AT TAKING CARE OF PLANTS. CITY RATS, WE ARE STILL...MAYBE WE LEARN AT SOME POINT.

ASA - We will go to the local garden store, run by Amish people, Monday and see what we can plant. We are thinking of gardening in pots, because we are traveling.

                ALMENDRO´S E-MAIL: xxx

                AND SKYPE: xxx

ASA - Aaaah!    Thank you!  What shall be the content of the next Solaris, so that you can give it to a lot of people???

                THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING

                ASPIRING TO SERVE YOU

                SANANDA DD AND BHADRA VD

Hare Krsna Dear Gurudev,
    Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.

HpS - ASA -- Apple flower feet, maybe.  We still eat improperly, but progressing.

    All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
    All glories to Guru parampara.

    Gurudev, We hope you are good in health and doing well.

    I am thinking to do PhD (through correspondence). what you would advise?
    
your fallen servant,
Girivaradhari-Gopal Das

HpS - Hmmm!   It is a big question.  It is like I am thinking of buying some land.   What is your personal motivation for doing it?    Who inspires you to do it?    Who would be your associates if you did it?   Who would benefit if you did it???

COpy of Letter to Vais, Srivasa and HLD:

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Hare Krsna, Prabhu,
Distributed one NOI yesterday and working on transcribing Prabhupada's dialog on Carl Jung in "Dialectic Spiritualism" for wide distribution.

What about Lecture Three and Mee-ee-ee Teeing with
The Srivasa Pandita and Hari-lila Das on administrative issues like we mentioned in the the previous broadcast??  Any time???

Jaya Sri Krsna!

Esteemed Prof. Samaresh Bandyopadhyay, Anjana Suta Academy,
Here it is Thursday, night, 7.48PM and we are seated in the living room of Dr. Ravi Singh. It is very cool here, but in our cave and outside it is about 30* and 85% humidity. It makes it very hard for us to work, but we did get a small air-conditioner installed in one room of our mobile-home and it brings it down to a workeable level in that room.

Again, we tried to call last weekend but could not get through. We got your letter and will try again on Saturday with Dr. Ravi.

This week we were supposed to have a conference call with Rama-giri-dhari  Das about the NIOS work, and the ISKCON Ministry of Education, but he Skyped us apologizing that he was caught in travel, so we have not met so far.

Ramon Mujica, who was Director of the National Library in Peru for five years, and our staunch supporter and friend, has not yet been chosen by the new Minister of Cultural to retain the position, but he has been asked by the new President himself to take up the responsibility, directly under him, of Director for the Centennary Celebrations of Peru's Independence from the Spanish colonial powers. He has asked Abhirama Das that anyone of our community who would like to do anything in this regard then please present it to him. For your good self and Prof. Kalyankumar it seems like there would be excellent opportunity to make very practical comments about colonial independence in comparison of India and Peru and modern development of national identities and missions.

Solaris is going out and we are already getting new friends from it in Spain. I downloaded the English files today and I can start work on them and as discussed we were hoping that you can review the articles and then write the Foreword for this first number and the whole Journal.

Personally, between battles with lust, spiders, local projects etc, I have ordered Prof. Gerald Larson's translation of Isvara Krsna Das' Sankhya Karika, as recomended by Prof. Ravi Gupta and Miguel Polo, and hope to use it in developing our efforts in adjudicating  Sankhya with the world models of the West from such philosophers as Carl Jung, Marshal McLuhan and E. T. Hall. Is it the proper book?

Finally, our Calendar seems to be settling down and we would come to the all glorious land of Bharata on January 1st for an ISKCON-Christian dialog in Tirupati and Radhika's developing Bhagvatam syposium at Madras University about the 7th. Then we are at the disposal of your good selves until about 10th-17th February when the is a Guru, Sannyasi, GBC Sanga in Mayapura. After that we were thinking to head by the USA with a quick stop in Spain.

Well this letter sounds half-way sane and we hope to talk with you this Saturday.

HpSwami - ASA