Letters to the editor

AGTSP
paoho . . .

Hare Krsna!

Esteemed Professor.

It is Monday the 12th herein Cordoba, Argentina. It is little hot and we are resting after the Jung symposium last night. It was very, very intense. The audience was about 70-professional psychologists, university faculty and graduate students. They were extremely attentive, the questions very intense and often requiring rather profound technical psychological knowledge and Vedic knowledge to make the bridge.

The Vice-president said that he did not have words to express the change in heart that he felt from the evening, and the President is pushing us to come back in June or July for a series of accredited courses at the University.

We dustributed about 25-books: TLC, BG, NOI, LOB

We are always presenting ourselves as members of ISKCON, but with the comment that the "Hare Krsna movement" has had its evangelic aspect like the Jesuit branch of the Roman Catholic Church but we are more like the Franciscan Monks, and then as faculty of Ricardo Palma Universities Institute for Oriental and Occidental Classical Studies (IECOO) and NIOS. Of course, we are burning up energy in trying to always get the most strategic results from this work and not just tactical successes. In this perspective everyone's advice is very essential. We have seen Dr. Samaresh give it repeatedly. He has the broad view of a historian.

The work that the devotees, Ambaris, Vrsabhanu, Madhavendra, Pancha. . . . . are doing is supremely professional.

Nanda-gopal and Mother Sushila are hosting all of us.

Our body is really exhausted but at heart  our energy is well and we see that the schedule has sufficient rest opportunities if we take it!

Tomorrow we are off to The Capitol, Buenos Aires, and we stay in the same residential suites for 10-days.

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AGTSP . Paoho . 10.34PM . Cordoba, Argentina . We returned from the Jung lecture at 10.00PM but the house was locked so we waited outside until the owner came with the key . Our body is exhausted but we are quite satisfied. The lecture with 3,000 hours of preparation went quite well. The hall was full of people, psychologists etc. Now we must rest Brother Ass and begin our daily chanting again at 1.15AM or so.

[Why did the chicken cross the road?]
[Because it was to far to go around.]

We sold about 20-NOI, TLC, LOB, BG. The organizers asked us very strongly to come again in June or July so that they could organize a series of accredited classes at their university. Hare Krsna!

All glories to Sri Sri Gaura Nitai

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

All glories to You

My dear Srila Gurudev please accept my humble obeisances, hope you are in good health, and I imagine you must be  very busy due to you are always pretty busy in expanding this movement. I'm studying in chile a lot  to get good grades. My report is as follows beloved Gurudeva, I had problems this year with my chanting but I have managed to keep and   get it  more stable I want to enhance  my japa, the 4 regulative principles are equally well, and my service to krishna is very big in different subjects, first my university, we already have 3 new fellow devotees and secondly we are doing a lot of preaching and music with a group called '' Krishna Sambandha "this year we played almost every week on huge festivals like yoga exp. I will give you the  link. It was so beautiful, and many people are listening to the holy name through this preaches, also recorded an album and when we have it I will give you a CD, and finally'm also doing some services in the altar with the deities, I was living in the temple for one month and a half worshiping deities every morning. Now I'm calmer leveraging my time to work on my new home where I am living alone I am working and wanted to tell you that  I'm starting a relationship with "Soledad" she is a great devotee of Krishna, she is just starting but she is very  enthusiastic but does not like the institutional problems that exist in ISKCON, and we're trying to do everything right in the path of Krishna consciousness, she's my companion college too, and knows a lot of psychology. This coming year will be the 4th year of college and I have to look for my thesis project even we do not have decided to do with my teammates but clearly it will be at the service of Krishna.

That is all that I can tell, I am very eager to be see U on January 17th here in chile and I miss you very much and I am  looking forward to talk with you, and  serve you.

Your servant Abhimanyu das who loves U so much

HpS - Jaya!!!!! So we see you in Chile in a few days!!  Very nice news. Thank you so much...! ...  See you in just a few days, by Krsna's arrangement...

Dear Guru Maharaja, please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

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Guru Maharaja, may I ask few questions with one common theme. It is about melodies for kirtan: Did Srila Prabhupada had favorite melodies for chanting in kirtan? Did Srila Prabhupada told about using different melodies (apart from know Mangala arati and Gaura arati melodies) for chanting? Did Srila prabhupada approved of some melodies and of some not? Is there anything else regarding this topic (rhythms, loudness, speed) ? 
To me is known that Srila Prabhupada was not favoriting musical expresion (artistry) over devotion.  
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By some unfathomable luck, I am following all your words  that you Tweet and on the Blog lush.

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Your servant Namacarya das

HpS - AGTSP. Paoho. We have arrived at Balarama puri in the remote desserts, jungles of Argentina. There are 50-devotees camping here. Looks like a secret enclave of revolutionaries hiding form the "evil government". Very friendly. We have been traveling like 10 hours a day for both the last two days.
As far as we know there are not melodys, but Ragas. Srila Prabhupada liked the Ragas that Hansadutta used, B S. Damodara, Jayananda, so we tend to end up with those.

Of course it should be to please Krsna, the instruments should not drown the Holy Names. That is about all we know.

Main thing is to please Krsna and some of the ISKCON devotees and not disturb the others to much, no?

AGTSP paoho. Here we are in Buenos Aires, 4.11AM.

Got here are 3Pm Yesterday. Nice association with Kesava Swami and all the devotees. Now we are running to the airport and from Cordoba to the rural educational retreat with Param-padam Das et al. Don't know if there will be internet there.

AGTSP!!!!   Paoho.  Sankirtana!

Jaya Sri Krsna!

Esteemed Professor et al,

We are being called to he car to go to the airport for our next country, Argentina. It is 5.53AM. We are leaving at 6.00AM. We are feeling mild heart agitation, so should be little more tranquil. Have 13 of 16 daily malas done.

Tried to call you last two days but an Indian voice says, "Cannot be connected now, try later". Will try again.

Yesterday we arranged a Very nice lunch with.

Alejandro Salazaar - Director of "Sattva" and very intelligent social-political fellow here in Peru,

Miguel Polo - Head of Philosophy at San Marcos University. We gave him a copy of his entry in our Muesum book and the recent university of Chicago, 4-volume translation of "Journey to the West". He was very happy.

Walter Leon - Senior Professor of Achitecture at Ricardo Palma Univeristy

Oscar Natars - Director of Integro, one of the most famous avant garde theater groups in Peru.

All our collaborators for years.

We set 5th February for a big NIOS event - ""Science, Psyche and Spirituality - The Encoutner of Carl Jung with the Peruvian Collective Sub-conscious". We plan to have a publication and short movie out of it.