Letters to the editor

Toda Gloria a Srila Prabhupada.

Por favor acepte mis reverencias a Sus pies.

Hare Krishna Gurudev!!!

Gracias por sus respuesta.

aqui bien quizas soy un poco impulsivo en la carta anterior, o grave innesesariamente, la relacion con mis autoridades es muy buena, pero tenemos que discutir algunas cosas y no estoy acostumbrado a esto.

HpS - Ha!  Ha!  Ha!    TlgaSP.  Es un arte, luchar como forma de communicacion. Realmente solamente es para Grhastha Ksatriyas o Vaisyas. Necesita una buena esposa para ayudar.

. . . aqui las cosas a nivel administrativo estan muy bien y a nivel espiritual pienso que tambien, todos los programas se mantienen he incluso hay algunos nuevos.

HpS - Aparece como Vaidi Sadhana Bakti. Super, pero...  necesitamos adelantar a Raganuga tambien.  Una vida interior para nuestra Sadhana exterior.  Con Krsna en la carroza!
 

. . . esta semana Krishna me ha puesto en trabajo de la humildad, por que he tenido que ver como me equivoco muchas veces con los devotos.

HpS - Si....   verguenza para nosotros aqui. Monocito, Puerquecito, aveces no sone muy generos compartir se bicicleta rojo con otros!

Gracias por su tiempo y disculpe!

nos vemos pronto!!!

Su sirviente Adi Yajña Das

HpS - Tenemos el boleto!  Vamos al "Lado Bueno"

saḿsāra-dāvānala-līḍha-loka-
trāṇāya kāruṇya-ghanāghanatvam
prāptasya kalyāṇa-guṇārṇavasya
vande guroḥ śrī-caraṇāravindam

Pamho!!!! agtsp!!!!!!!! agthps!!!!!!!!!!!

I hope you are well when you receive this letter in all aspects.

HpS - Ha!  Ha!  Ha!    We want to do mere intimate service to Radha-Krsna!

Dear Maharaja, we have been thinking about the last letter you wrotte us,

so, the first thing that we wish to do is to travel to India (Mayapur) and do the four month course on deity worship and brahminical culture.

ASA - Great.

Personally, I´m meditating about the posibility of giving up my job or maybe asking for a leave of absence, so I could get my job back after .

It is something that  came up since we have decided not to keep trying to have children.

This is a great opportunity to start a career for Krishna, traveling and serving in temples of Spain or out, this can be a great experience for both, we believe this will help us to grow and gain spiritual maturity, in order to enter the vanaprastha asrham.

HpS - Yes, travel with the Sananda Devi Dasi to ISKCON India, but ....  go with experienced devotees. Have good plans, confirmed with ISKCON India before you go...

After (or at some point) there would a  possibility to move to Almeria, and start something there, as part of Yadunandana Swami´s  project of the 54 provinces, because Sananda lived there some years ago and got an apartment (with a morgage, that has some years still to pay...).

This is up untill now our brain storm...<img alt="sad" height="23" src="http://hps-d6.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/sad_smile.png" title="sad" width="23" />, what do you think?

always  waiting for your infinite mercy,

thank so much

aspiring to become your servants Sananda and Bhadra.

HpS - I think we don't know the details well enough to give detailed advice, but in general we can give the advice that Canakhya Pandita gives:  Victory comes from good advice, and good advice comes from many advisors.
So talk to a lot of devotees who know you two, the situations and then make a practical decision based upon good rounds and SP's books.
Oink!     Then even if you have to kill 640,000,000 people it will be cool, man!
Awaiting your next step!

Hare Krsna dear Guru Maharaja

Dandavats pranamas. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

I hope you are in good health.

Still no answer from Rama Giridhari Prabhu, but I am being patient. <img alt="smiley" height="23" src="http://hps-d6.monkeywarrior.com/sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/regular_smile.png" style="line-height: 1.5;" title="smiley" width="23" />

HpS - ASA -- Enthusiasm is more important than Patience (NOI 3). His phone number is: 91 india 93 22 69 1013+the day of your birthday. eg. 1013 would be 1012 if your birthdate was the 1st. (UG did this). If it is 9PM in Peru it is 7.30AM the next day in India.

To your request, a little about your servant. My harinama inititation was in Radhastami 1999 and my brahmana inititation was in Gaura Purnima 2003. I was lecturing in Bhagavad-gita since 1995. I was gurukula teacher in Chosica between 1994 - 1996. Actor and Director of Jagannatha Theatre from 1995 to 2008. Involved in Bhakti-vrksa developing and preaching. I was lecturing in Srimad Bhagavatam since 1999. Head Pujari at ISKCON Lima in 2000. Head Pujari at ISKCON Miraflores from 2002 to 2005. I passed the Facilitation I course and obtained the Certification from VTE in 2003. I passed the Leadership and Management course in 2003. The same year I started to teach the bhakta course and helping devotees to prepare for harinama and brahmana initiation tests, etc. We participated in a temporal Commission of Education in 2005. Head Pujari at ISKCON Chosica between 2006 - 2007. I obtained the Bhakti-sastri degree in 2011. Member of the ISKCON Miraflores Board from february 2012 to february 2014. A new Commission of Education appears in july 2012 from the National Board and started a new Introduction to Bhakti-yoga course, I developed the entire study program. In charge of ISKCON Miraflores Education since july 2012. Member of the ISKCON Peru National Board since november 2012. Appointed by the National Board as its Secretary in september 2013. Appointed by the ISKCON Miraflores Board as its Secretary in february 2014. June 2014, appointed by the National Board as Director of the Commission of Education ISKCON Peru. Member of the ISKCON Lima Board from february 2014 to 2015. In charge of ISKCON Lima Education since february 2014. In charge of ISKCON Lima Communications since february 2014. In charge of ISKCON National Board Communications since june 2014. May 2015, I passed the ISKCON Disciple Course and obtained the certificaction. August 2015, speaker at Regional Meeting of Education in Chosica. We are working with the National Board to standardize the requisites and tests for refugees, harinama and brahmana initiations. Now, the Commission of Education is organizing the first ISKCON Disciple Course to be 26 october - 1 november with Baladeva Prabhu in Lima.

About the Commission of Education ISKCON Peru.

PRESENTATION AND WORK PLAN

Introduction

The Commission of Education is primarily an empowering body, facilitating education and educators. Therefore the Commission recommends values, principles and guidelines, in accordance with the teachings of Srila Prabhupada. It is also involved with issues of assessment and accreditation for educational initiatives and institutions. The Commission takes the responsibility for the development of education in ISKCON Peru. Facilitates any facet of the implementation of education and coordinates with the whole of existing educational initiatives.

VISION

Be the educational entity that provides Krsna conscious quality education through centers, educational institutions and various initiatives in ISKCON Peru nationwide.

MISSION

Promote and develop the education system in ISKCON Peru, for the integral formation of our community and the general public, in accordance with the purposes of ISKCON.

OBJECTIVES

To establish, maintain, and monitor effective quality systems to:

1. Instruct and train all devotees in the principles and practices of Krsna Consciousness, qualifying the members according to their aptitudes and interest to contribute to the welfare of ISKCON.
2. Train appropriate devotees to teach the principles and practices of Krsna Consciousness.
3. Equip students with all the skills required for a productive life in Krsna Consciousness.
4. Support devotees in developing and furthering their life-skills.
5. Meet ISKCON’s need for qualified people to serve its mission, by devotees equipped with the basic tools for favorable service.
6. Host, promote and recognize the educational initiatives, according to the requirements of MED.
7. Develop the National Education Plan, gathering proposals from existing educational initiatives for discussion and integration.

FUNCTIONS

1. Promote Krsna conscious quality education in the devotees and develop the education system in ISKCON Peru.
2. Recommend values, principles and guidelines for the empowerment of educators and the improving of educational initiatives.
3. Promote the importance of having qualified members in ISKCON community as an essential mechanism for institutional strengthening.
4. Accredit educational initiatives and institutions for inclusion and gather their plans, strategies and models.
5. Coordinate with the whole of existing educational initiatives and intermediate communication between them, within the educational system of ISKCON Peru.
6. Implement and promote programs for the development of education in ISKCON Peru.
7. Periodically monitor and provide advice to educational programs undertaken by educational initiatives and institutions.
8. Organize educational meetings seeking openness to dialogue, generating agreements and commitments in assembly

HpS - ASA - Ooof!   It is nice but starts to seem redundant and not connected to tangible results. Seems you should make it smaller, and get to work, and then modify it after seeing some results.  We read on.

GOALS

Achieve the training of devotees according to values, knowledge and skills in:

Bhakti-yoga, Guru-disciple, Sastra, Brahminical culture, Worship, Education, Communications, Leadership and Management, Bhakti-vrksa.

Aditionally:

Sankirtana, Cooking, Kirtana, Hatha-yoga, Ayur-veda, Jyotir-veda, Vastu-veda, Natya-veda, Varnasrama.

Organize effective communications media to spread all relevant information that involves the whole of existing educational initiatives.

HpS - Eg. you could say educated as taught in Srila Prabhupada's books.

ORGANIZATION

Direction: - Director, - Secretary, - Treasurer.

Members: - Responsible for education of each center in Peru, - Representatives of educational initiatives and institutions.

Collaborators: - Communications, - Design, - Pedagogy, - Organization, - Planning.

Advisors: - Spiritual masters, authorities and senior vaisnavas.
Thank you very much.
Your eternal servant,
Jiva-Sakti dasa.

HpS -  Thank you!   Is good, but seems for us, ASA, Monkey-Piggy, you need to have a simpler declaration.  Taking citations from Prabhupada's books are tje very best.  Short, Sastric, Sankirtan oriented.

AGTSP PAMHO Haribolo maharaja, como esta?

ASA - La misma como Vd.

Le escribo para decirle que le voy a mandar un mail, candramukhi DD me paso el correo. Mi mail es [email protected] le aviso para que sepa. Mis rondas están mejorando mucho. Estoy muy feliz. Espero que se encuentre bien. Quien espera poder servirlo, Bktn lali

HpS - O.K. pero no lo vemos.  Mejor comenzar comunicando aqui!

PAMHO and AGTSP!

Dear Maharaj,

We are wondering how to choose a husband. What qualifications should we look for? How should a relationship period be tested to decide if the marriage is liveable? My personal sadhana is weak again. You're holiness instructed us to rise early for morning program and chant nice rounds for clarity. We will start doing that again tomorrow. _/\o_. Please forgive us, we find our life very hard to manage any sort of discipline due to emotioanl turmoil from household conflict on a daily basis and will endeavor to improve.

ys,

Vrsabhanu Nandini dd

ASA - HpS - AGTSP --  Note for your readers: The devotee writing is not our good disciple from Argentina with the same name. She already has a husband. He is pretty cool dude.
Qualifications for a husband.
1. Heterosexual (Ha!   Ha!   Ha! (but this points out the first point: Things are tough in Kali-yuga. Maybe better to chuck the whole thing and ask Radharani to share Shyama-sundara with you. You can wear white and cook one grain of rice each day for every round you chant.)))
-1. An ISKCON devotee.    Real ISKCON devotee.  Doing his rounds, getting ups, Temple program, participate Sankirtan movement.
Of course, if nice person who likes devotees, O.K.    Husband is like getting a car. Don't expect perfection. He is your husband, not hour God.
Hope he has same expectations of his wife. Then peaceful life, natural affection, Blah!  Blah!  Blah!    and he will become more appreciative of devotees and become initiated after 35-years.

2, 3, 4 ... Prabhupada's purport he says that should try to marry a devotee and not a demon.   All the details, it really is natural if your community and his community are involved. How to get to judge each other etc.

That's about all we have to say, but 16-good rounds (mangala arati, Kirtan, SB) + 4-principles and all family, sankirtan, health, wealth issues improve at the maximum possible rate.  Kartika starts on Tuesday. Do a Katika vrata!  Get your request in before the other Gopis (during Katyayani vrata, next month).

Hare Krsna Guru Maharaja,

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!!!     yes, thanking him so much for coming to deliver us the way home

so, we are advancing nicely in the development of this institution... today a very nice friend came "as if send by Radha" and guide us about affiliations and examination boards.  we would like to make an affiliation with Radhadesh, maybe to have senior girls validate certain subjects for the Bs in theology?

HpS - ASA - Is very complicated. Probably all they would suggest is that your students can register for the on-line courses. Even Radhadesa is losing some of their accredidation because they have not got enough students.  The Headmaster of the Vrndavana Gurkula would know Prana Das and Rama-giridhari Das from Nava mumbai, ISKCON Ministry of Education and they would know the official position of Radhadesa, but it is hard to get in touch with them.

GBC meetings now in Pune? soon to be in Mayapur. we have big dreams... and we have this feeling pushing us that the money will come, we just have to make it nice and give our best.

HpS - Yes, is possible. Was possible to win the Battle of Kuruksetra.

We want to have a compleat educational and devotional program, very LUDIC and practical, which we want to become our key elements.

ASA - LUDIC??

So today and yesterday we heard the name Prana das 5 times... we will contact him ASAP.

How can we contact Yadunandana Swami? Sesa Das? Devoteed from the texas gurukul?

HpS - Yadunandana Swami through the Radhadesa College. Sesa Das almost impossible. He has his family, GBC President, and Minister of Education. It is like trying to contact President of India.

are we going the right way? how can we know?

HpS - About 50% the right way. You can know byu letters like this.  Work more with the local educators, Gurukula, people for information.  Who are you partners in this project?

(our psycologist husband says we have a mild manic depressive case... and we think... yeah, it makes sence...childhood so frustrating, we became devotees young so it became little better, nice to have a goal in this world.... to try to get out of it!!!   not so much depressiveness this past 12 years, more maniac '@'  )

We are at your feet, Srila Prabhupada's mercy...

Cakori Radha Devi dasi.

HpS - Maybe the monkeys in vraja were manic depressives.  Has your good husband diagnosed himself?   Ha!   Ja!   Haaa!