Letters to the editor

Abstract – Rabindra-bharati University
2013 April 26

Hanumatpresaka Swami (Professor Huber Hutchin Robinson)

Sankhya and a New Direction for Modern Science
Before the time of Sir Isaac Newton there was a battle between the Alchemists and the Mechanical Philosophers over whose discipline would be the King of the Sciences. The Mechanical Philosophers won, so Physics has become the normative science in the West. However, it also includes a Cosmology, Ontology and generates specific moral standards. For example, is abortion healthy or unhealthy?

There is an ongoing debate in Oxford between the leading scientists and theologians, and among others in the world, that peace, prosperity and fraternity in the world can only come when we improve our scientific view of life.

The speaker has had success in presenting the Sankhya of Kapila deva from the 3^rd Canto of the esteemed Srimad Bhagavata Purana as an excellent way for science to go ahead. He will incidentally clarify the distinction between the Bhagavata Sankhya of Sri Caitanya’s tradition and the Sankhya of Isvara Krsna Das.

In the majority he will give a probably novel and detailed explanation of this Bhagavata Sankhya with correspondence to accepted Western scholars such as Carl G. Jung and E. T. Hall. Of course the question should arise, what is the position of Music, Dance and Drama as sciences within this context.

    A G T S P !   (((paoho)))   Here we are in Kolkatta Temple. We have nice room. The devotees have been so, so helpful.  It was long hard trip from Australia and our time is getting booked up here pretty fast.
   Our work with Dr. Samaresh is going pretty good.
   All the different projects seem pretty much under control.   We are still having heart fatigue.  We adjust the work and that definitely helps, but doing nothing seems the greatest strain on the heart.   If we are going to die, better to die doing Sankirtan.

   Probably 90% of our readers face the same confrontations.  O.K.  We adjust our schedule, work, as best as we can and then push ahead inspite of the heart squeezes. The regular Sadhana like that really seems to do the heart good.

  Thank you again, Australia devotees.

   Tommorrow is Rabindra Bharati lecture. We have to write and abstract next.
    We have 23/32 rounds done.
   Dr. SB is coming to the Temple after Museum meeting.  NOw it is 4.27PM. Sun has gone.  Birds singing. Little warm but O.K.   Radha Govinda are so nice.
    The Kapi-Dhvaja is supposed to go today.
O.K.    Letters answered up to 3-days ago.        We do our abstract now.

After returning from Rama Navami last friday we watched youtube's Sita sings the blues, a modern rendition of the Ramayana. Are you familiar with that? Nice art, and culturally funny too.

A while ago i learned about the Vatican movie list and watched several of them, including Carl Dreyer's 1928 The passion of Joanne of Arc. I don't know how you feel about that, i found it very heavy to watch. There is a version on Vimeo with classical score, it's so dramatic.

Hare Krishna.

  HpS - ASA -  AGTSP.....  Spiritualizing YOUTUBE.COM is one of the major efforts of the current Hare Krsna movement.   Your investigation is certainly wonderful.  We saw a more recent Joan of Arc movie. Our final conclusion is that it is like watching a Tamasic or Rajarsic Purana.  Many things very nice but also a lot of stuff that makes you feel bad afterwards also.

Dear Hanumatpresaka Swami maharaja,
Please accept my obeisances, all glories to Srila Prabhupada.

It feels like it took me a long time to reply regarding our family's options for Spain, but here goes. Marriage is May 13, arrival near NVM the evening after, the 14th. We leave from Madrid, the 21st. A friend arranged a bungalow from one of the devotees nearby NVM, apparently about 10 minute walk. I have looked into the option to travel to Valencia for initiationceremony, but sad enough i had to conclude it doesn't work out very well for us. Monetary situation is a bit uncertain, but also for our little Mani, who will be 5 months then, a bit young to subject to that much travelling. I'm sorry to not be able to follow your suggestion.

I have a letter of recommendation, but it might be different than requested. TP Markandeya asked me to write down the basics for such a letter, but i wrote from a personal point of view, which wasn't quite the standard, he said. He did accept the content and signed it, but mentioned to put it before you to ask if you think it's okay, otherwise we'll do it again, and he'll write it. I added a scan in two pictures below.

What else is going on? Besides familytime and keeping up nicely with the 16-4 i started adding content in Dutch to the national Hare Krishna website, specifically articles written by Sadaputa prabhu. I've always liked him, and i guess you inspired me in Brussels with the science topics. Plus i heard you mention TKG's remark how science is such an important preaching field. Other than that, i just finished condensing 7th canto chapter 2 to 8 into a short story of 4300 words for our magazine. It came out very nice, Hiranyakasipu & Prahlada's story with some of the philosophy. A nice read for young and old. Now i can go back to science articles again, and i will investigate how to publish e-books online. To start with, we have Dhaneshvara's nice book about economics and Bhagavad-gita in Dutch. Idea is to start with an e-book, make money, then print real books. And to see what could be next to put out. So, happy in service! Sleeping and getting up is a bit unregular though. Could use some improvement.

And a thank you note for the great classes that you gave to the internet group, last december and january. I guess it was the facilitator who was so kind to record and put them online. They were deep, insightful, and very rich in connection with thoughts on society. Also it is nice to follow your classes from Australia, both visually and auditive. I'm very happy to follow you.

Good luck in India, and with all your projects, and see you in Spain! Hare Krishna, dandavat pranam.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Richard van Dijck

HpS - ASA -  Jaya... AGTSP   paoho.       We are in Kolkatta. We will write a DTC in just a few moments with your newz.    Then it seems that we can do a ceremony in NVM, no?  It doesn't have to be very elaborate. We can do it in the cowshed. Ha!   Ha!  Ha!          Very inspiring your writing.  We can talk a lot about that when we meet. I think your family will be very, very refreshed by NVM!!    Moooo!

Dear Guru Maharaj

Please accept my humble obesciences. All glories to Srila Prabhupad. Thank you for taking time to respond to this fallen person. Thank you very much for your kind response.

I have closely observed myself in why I am addicted to Onion Garlic. Please dont publish it and keep it confidential

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HpS - ASA - AgtSP  Paoho.  We have sent an answer to your "confidential" comments at the addresses we have in our Yahoo book.  Did you get them?

Honestly it is more than we can handle to answer too many individual letters like this.  It is not just you. There are maybe six more people who read the Blog who are in just the same situation as you. So if you can put dialog in a comfortable general sense, or even log in from an anonymous account then it will help us a lot.

Your sincerity in regards to advance in spiritual life is unique. Krsna is taking note of all that you are doing.  You seem to be just one little step away from knocking down a big wall. Don't give up!