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Manipur Trip, Online Ed., Spam

12 years, 7 months ago by pnd in Sankirtana / Temple Activity Reports, Hot Topics, Calendar Development
Hare Krishna Dear Gurumaharaja, 
Please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
 
  Yes, we are looking forward to time in Kolkatta and Mayapura (and Manipur).  You coming to Manipur???  Could be nice trip.
 
Yes, I would like to come. 
 
  Your Blog ideas matches mine perfectly.  Like Yahoo Groups.  We just have to approve new members.
 
Manual approving of new users works well as by user names all of them are spammers now (3 to 6 attempts for new account a day).
 
  After SPT meetings in Tirupathi we should be able to plan the visit to Mayapura more effectively.  We hope you get to meet Tandavika and Nitai gaurasundara when they are there!!!!   What is your cell phone.  We won't publish it!
 
My cell phone number is: +917384458243
 
Many interesting things happening last days. 
 
Your servant Prahlad Nrsimha Das
 
    HpS  - AGTSP    paoho    Sorry slow to answer.  Big program after big porgram after...     Cant talk!   {:O)....          Raghupati Das is the SPT Secretary for education.   Maybe you know him. Very nice devotee.  Is doing PhD in Economics now in London.  Before he did the MI on line BhSastri program.    He would like to work with you to develop with area of on-line education in a broad way for ISKCON.   There are many programs and there should be tools that various students and teachers can use and then ways of assesment.    Then, the academic portion of learning should be integrated with the ethical aspect of learning.  Eg. we want to learn humilty along with verses.  Patience, respect...
   .............   then it is all useless unless we are advancing in adau sraddha, sadhu sanga......
                  I will write to you with copy to him.  Please remind me here if I forget.    We would like to stay in involved also.
 
2.    Guru Sannyasi, GBC, Sanga a  and  SPT meetings are from 26 Feb - 6 March.    We fly from Kolkatta to Manipur on the 6th of March at 10.55AM on Jet Connect Flight.              You can try to contact Ekanatha Das 91 94 360 207 63.   About accomodations and everything with the Temple.         We fly from Manipur, Imphal back to Kolkatta on the 22nd Friday on Air India 724.
 
           AGTSP!       Best luck in your Sankirtana, in catching all the innocent people Krsna sends, in keeping pure!!

Sindroma Bi-Polar

12 years, 7 months ago by hps in Hot Topics

[2:26:27 AM] GKD
gurudeva estoy nuevamente en una gran depresion, que me tien estancado...


[10:19:46 AM]HpS
TlgaSP   Pfanrh....   Pero la muerte es un gran depresion para todos, no?    No estoy bromeando.  Es un hecho simple.     La muerte es un depresion super que todo el mundo tiene que experimentar.   De esta manera Vd es mas afortunado que nosotros por que esta experimentando ya y puede practicar.  Claro, voluntariamente puede experimentar eso por siguiendo Ekadasi y otras cosas, pero Vd y otros es una Karma inevitable actual.   Por la pequena experiencia que tenemos la actitud que nos siriva es tomar refugio 100% en cantar Hare Krsna, la Mantra como un barquito en el ocean.  "Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna!!!"    Otra vez, no es bromo, o teoretical. Yo he pasado desafios fuertes y la Mantra, Gauranga kripa, es alla.      Y si puede hacer mas, bailando y ofreciando un flor a sus deidades, muy bien y y y y ....   por la fine posible va a pasar a un nnivel de psicosis, schizofrenia. Es posible o posible VA A MORIR.  Eso es no espera mas de su mismo que puede hacer, pero no dejar ser un serviente del Senor Rama!

Visit Texas / BhVai Texas

12 years, 7 months ago by hps in Sankirtana / Temple Activity Reports, Calendar Development
Hare Krishna Maharaja,
 
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
 
How is your health and how is your Kartik going?
 
We are doing good here in Houston but we have not heard from Bhaktarupa Prabhu regarding our Bhakti Vaibhava center approval. It is a long time for making such a simple decision no?
 
Do you have any other news regarding this matter?
 
Your servants
 
 
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HpS - Jaya!!! AGTSP.... paoho... Our health, Brother Asses health, is normal. We are really Pitta so we get these allergy reactions to Poison Ivy and pollen VERY strong, but we are learning how to make a practical use of a Bad Bargain... My next Ass will be spiritual. And you al?
 
We are in Chile until 28th. The university programs are going very, very well. We have more and more solid contact and friendship with very nice, powerufl educators. I think the whole world is changing for the better. 28th November we go for a week in Ecuador then the 8th of December we are back in Nashville. We will stay there for a month!!! Good chance for telephone and postal contact!.
 
We arrive in Houston at noon on the 9th of January, Wednesday and then go on to San Jose on Friday miday also. It is short, but we cannot spend so much time traveling like before so we thought, "O.K. quick visit ot Texas while they are in vacations and longer stay in West Coast, then we can stay for few weeks in June". Is O.K? We can meet with, everyone on th 9th, 10th... January???
 
I tried to contact Hari lila about this but he is in India.
 
I would suggest just writing to Bhakta rupa again. He is very busy and the Board of Examiners only meet by internet except for their Annual Mayapura meetings. I think that that is all that it needs. Just an e-mail and even ask him for his phone number. He is a very nice person, organized, and I'm sure he would also like to have a personal relationship with you. He is American, USA.
 
Again, so very nice to hear from you.
We are on Schedule, finishing Canto Three. "No one dies feeling satisfied that he is leaving enough money for the family". "The material world is so designed that unless one is an expert diplomat he is guaranteed to be a failure".

ASA Kids México

12 years, 7 months ago by asa mexico in Sankirtana / Temple Activity Reports

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada

Porfavor reciba nuestras reverencias Guru Maharaja

Gracias a sus bendiciones, tuvimos un festival de RAMA VIJAYOTSAVA muy lindo. Asistieron mucho devotos felices,  niños acompañandos de sus padres, jovénes y adultos también, icluso personas que hiban a comer al restaurante del templo, pudieron observar lo felices que estaban los niños con sus disfraces de monitos, raksasas, etc. Se dieron premios a los ganadores en los juegos y dinámicas de integración, como Bhagavad gitas poket, peliculas del Ramayana, títeres del señor jagannatha, entre otros. ASA Kids presentó la obra de teatro  RAMAYANA "una batalla incomparable", el grupo de jóvenes presentó un radio teatro llamado "la última balatalla" , las dos presentaciones fueron muy ovacionadas. Repartimos prasadam y por último rompimos una piñata del demonio RAVANA. Muchos hermanos espirituales y devotos de la comunidad participaron en este hermoso festival, cada uno con su granito de arena. Sabemos que tenemos mucho que mejorar, pero humildemente le rogamos, acepte esta pequeña ofrenda de la escuelita del templo ASA KIDS México.

Aprovechamos para informarle, que hemos comenzado un nuevo curso escolar este pasado 4 de noviembre, prabhu Aristasena nos sigue intruyendo con respecto a los programas de estudio y organización de eventos como MAHA HARINAMA y salidas a chapultepec , el fin de mes sería nuestra primera salida.

Querido Gurudeva porfavor disculpe nuestras ofensas y carencias en nuestro servicio, comprendemos que lo unicó que nos mantiene en este pequeño servicio son sus bendiciones. MUCHAS GRACIAS POR SU TIEMPO Y NECESARIAS INSTRUCCIONES.

Sus sirvientes

Asa KIDS México

         HpS - ASA -  Jaya!        Srila Prabhupada Ki Jai!      El dijo que super servicio de Sannyasa era ser profesor de Gurukula como los Padres Christianos!     Muchas gracias sus noticias, piensa la Madre Purnamasi en Madrid y otros esta leyendo y tomando apoyo de sus reportajes.   No podemos visitar a Mexico en Enero!!!    Pero entonces pienso podemos visitar mas en Junio.

    Por favor mas noticias!!!!!!!!! !

Super fotos.

            Copias del Radio Show??????????

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Sri Radha Kund ki jay!

12 years, 7 months ago by sriradhedd in Personal Sadhana Reports

Dear Hanumatpresaka Swami,

Please accept my respectful obeisances,

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Hahaha :) I like your sense of humour, Maharaja!
Yes, my story is like a Stephen King novell. But what i wrote it was just a preface of the book, much worse things happened there also :(
Since i got in touch with You i became a different person, i changed a lot. From Your mercy i learnt so many things but i still have to understand a lot.
I don't want to bother You with my mental platform always so i try to not write to You so often. I always start my days with Your blog and i get answer for my non asking questions from Your responses to others.
I hope we can meet in person in Europe next year.

Thank you for everything.

Your servant,

Sri Radhe dd

        HpS - ASA - Jaya!     AGTSP....    paoho.   ....      We are trying to fix the Europe dates in more detail now because they moved the Education Conference half a week later. Seems we will be in Spain for almost one month.   Is very nice there.

Online Education

12 years, 7 months ago by pnd in Sankirtana / Temple Activity Reports, Hot Topics
Hare Krishna Dear Guru Maharaja,
Please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
 
Sometimes I was thinking to cooperate with some nice online education program, so people who come to vedabase.com can take some nice online course. Unfortunately none of the current ISKCON online education programs fit standards I would like to provide.
 
Some time ago I mentioned the idea about online education to Mahendra Prabhu. Few days ago I asked Vidvan Gauranga Prabhu (our local scholar, he was teaching here under guidance of HG Gopiparadhana Prabhu) if he would like to be part of the project. We spoke like 3-4 hours, we looked at how MIT and Udacity are doing and got inspired more and more. The same day when I visited Mahendra and Pandava Prabhus they told me: "We have to start that online education". Then I told them I spoke with Vidvan that day about it, later to find that they independently of us also spent about 3-4 hours with the same :)
 
Our main ideas/concepts so far:
  • Free education (it is against our conviction to charge for education, only those who will want certification will have to pay a fee)
  • Certification for Bhakti-sastri, etc...
  • To establish the highest quality (both in sense of education and technology)
  • All different levels, similar to Khan Academy (www.khanacademy.org). From the most simple basics, through Bhakti-sastri, Bhakti-vaibhava, ...
  • We would like to work in collaboration with ASA / NIOS if possible.
 
On Friday after lunch we all plan to meet and discuss our ideas to see if all of us have a compatible vision and plan further. 
 
If you like the idea of the project, would you like us to join you?
 
Your servant Prahlad Nrsimha Das
                  HpS - ASA/NIOS - AGTSP   paoho.    You can see we are a little slow in answering because of our life style.   That is the kind of partner we would be.     Ha!   Ha!            Yes, of course we would like to join.    We have been doing a lot of work in this area.   One principle is that Gurukula means place of the Guru. So our whole idea of education is very personal. First principle is Association: Student-Teacher, Students-Students.  Then...   we work on Processes in that ambience,    then ...  we are concerned on learning specific content.   Many other things.     At the end of SB 1.6, Suta tells the sages that now he will try to make them experience the instructions he heard from Sukadeva Goswami the same way he experienced. We are trying to communicate a point of view, attitude, consciousness more that facts, no????        How to do that?     Blogs for new readers to associate with other new readers!  ....