Letters to the editor

JAYA SRI SRI GURU AND GAURANGA !!

ALL GLORY TO SRILA PRABHUPADA!! and his loyal and fixed disciples like you.

We are in the final stage of the edition of SOLARIS No. 7.

All that remains is the approval of the content of the "Cultural Portal", which is a chronicle of the event held at The Asiatic Society, in Kolkata, India, on September 16, 2022.

This event was held in honor of Professor Dr. Samaresh Bandyopadhyay and is in recognition of his outstanding educational career and contributions in the field of ancient Indian history.

First there is a bilingual summary of the ceremony and then the development of it is detailed.

We are awaiting delivery of the English translation of the document to immediately send it to Dr. Samaresh Bandyopadhyay with a copy to you.

By the mercy of Lord Nityananda we hope that Dr. Samaresh Bandyopadhyay will give it his go-ahead soon so that we can have the printed version ready for distribution this May.

As we have had an involuntary delay in Issue-7 and trying to meet the goal of having two issues of Solaris a year.

ARTd met on Friday, April 28, with Miguel Polo, our Director, and with Dr. Héctor Béjar one of our main advisors. In the meeting, the contents of the previous numbers were analyzed and based on that they agreed to propose as the theme of No. 8: EDUCATION, NATURE AND THE SACRED. Alright? any suggestions?

HpS - We can see no harm in it and have a lot of faith in your choices. 👍👍👍

For SOLARIS No. 8 we already have 5 items:

1. Claudia Lira: RESONANCE, SERENITY AND SYNCHRONICITY: JUNG AND CLASSICAL CHINESE THOUGHT.

2. Héctor Béjar: THE PARADIGMS OF A HOLISTIC EDUCATION.

3. Paula Miranda and Elicura Chihuailaf: POETRY, NATURE AND THE SACRED.

4. José Luis Valencia: THE AZTLAN SPIRITUAL PLAN, Symbols of the Chicano resilience movement.

5. Interview with Francois Vallaeys: THE ROLE OF VOLUNTEERS IN UNIVERSITY SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

For SOLARIS, an important goal is for 40% of its content to be articles in English, as on average each edition has between 9 and 12 articles, which means that in each issue of SOLARIS we must have 3 or 4 articles in English, Please, any suggestions to reach that goal?

That's all for now, HAPPY AND HELPFUL NRISIMHA CATURDASI!!

Bhakta Manuel.

 HpS - On behalf of the Supreme Undifereniated Comando of ASA we thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Your sacrifice along with Miguel, translators, authors etc. has been heart rending. Trying to distribute a journal like this is like trying to distribute water in the middle of the African desert.

Thank you.

We pray that Guru-Gauranga inspire your progress and carry you when it is to hard.

Thank you!

Respects to everyone.

Hope to see them soon.

¡¡TODAS LAS GLORIAS A SRILA PRABHUPADA!! y a sus leales y fijos discípulos como tú.

Estamos en la etapa final de la edición de SOLARIS No. 7. Solo falta la aprobación del contenido del “Portal Cultural” que es una crónica del evento realizado en La Sociedad Asiática, en Kolkata, India, el 16 de septiembre de 2022. Este evento se realizó en honor al profesor Dr. Samaresh Bandyopadhyay y es un reconocimiento a su destacada trayectoria educativa y a sus contribuciones en el campo de la historia antigua de la India. Primero hay un resumen bilingüe de la ceremonia y luego se detalla el desarrollo de la misma. Estamos esperando la entrega de la traducción al inglés del documento para inmediatamente enviárselo al Dr. Samaresh Bandyopadhyay con copia a usted. Por la misericordia del Señor Nityananda esperamos que el Dr. Samaresh Bandyopadhyay le dé su visto bueno pronto y así tener la versión impresa, lista para su distribución, este mes de mayo.

Como hemos tenido una demora involuntaria en el número 7 y para tratar de cumplir con la meta de tener 2 números de SOLARIS al año, ARTd se reunió, el viernes 28 de abril, con Miguel Polo, nuestro director y con el Dr. Héctor Béjar uno de nuestros asesores principales. En la reunión se analizó los contenidos de los números anteriores y en función de eso acordaron proponer como eje temático del No. 8: LA EDUCACIÓN LA NATURALEZA Y LO SAGRADO. ¿Está bien? alguna sugerencia?

Para SOLARIS No. 8 ya tenemos 5 artículos:

1.      Claudia Lira: RESONANCIA, SERENIDAD Y SINCRONICIDAD: JUNG Y EL PENSAMIENTO CLÁSICO CHINO.

2.      Héctor Béjar: LOS PARADIGMAS DE UNA EDUCACIÓN HOLÍSTICA.

3.      Paula Miranda y Elicura Chihuailaf: LA POESÍA, LA NATURALEZA Y LO SAGRADO.

4.      José Luis Valencia: EL PLAN ESPIRITUAL AZTLAN, Símbolos del movimiento chicano de resiliencia.

5.      Entrevista a Francois Vallaeys: EL PAPEL DEL VOLUNTARIADO EN LA RESPONSABILIDAD SOCIAL UNIVERSITARIA

Para SOLARIS una meta importante en es que el 40% de su contenido sean artículos en inglés, como en promedio cada edición tiene entre 9 y 12 artículos, eso quiere decir que en cada número de SOLARIS debemos tener 3 o 4 artículos en inglés, por favor, alguna sugerencia para llegar a esa meta?

Eso es todo por ahora, FELIZ Y UTIL NRISIMHA CATURDASI!!

Bhakta Manuel.

Hare Krishna, Gurudeva 🙏🏻

Please, accept my humble obeisances!

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!!

Here is the current schedule of devotees for leading kirtan on Full Morning Service:

● MONDAY: H. H. Hanumatpresaka Swami.

● TUESDAY: Apsara Gopi devi dasi, Mitravinda devi dasi.

● WEDNESDAY: Yugala Kishora dasi, Jagad Guru das.

● THURSDAY: Tarangaksi devi dasi, Caturatma das.

● FRIDAY: Abhinanda das, Deva Vrata das.

● SATURDAY: Isvari Radha devi dasi, Karuna Sakti devi dasi.

● SUNDAY: Candramukhi devi dasi, Parasurama Avatara das.

Any suggestion to improve, Gurudeva?

Thank you.

Your servant:

Mitravinda dd.

ASA - Super. Please send it each Ekadasi.

Dear Maharaj,

PAMHO AGTSP!

I requested my husband for maintenance as you advised but he refused. I found he’s researching how to get visa processed based on abuse report. I wanted to peacefully pass time, not make first attack move, but I also don’t want to put myself in dangerous place in terms of my legal records. Should I file a report to the police now? Or should I wait for further attack from him?

YAS,

Yajnaseni DD

HpS/ASA - Hare Krsna. This is the same point as before. No one can give specific advice without specific knowledge. We do not know the details of the immigration laws. We do not know the details of the Indian marriage laws. We do not know the reliability of the sources about your esteemed husbands legal actions. He said, she said, they said.

You may be stepping into the situation of attacking someone and starting a conflict when they in reality had not done anything.

For us to acquire detailed knowledge of this situation would requiere hours of work, and probably even traveling to different places and interviewing different people.

We did this for the Peru gurukula, GBC Regional Body for complaints about corruption by the local officers.

Took hours and hours of work.

So, again, develop practical team of localized people to use for localized advice.

"Victory comes from good advice, and good advice comes from many counselors", Chanakya Pandita.

Do your best. Krsna will do the rest.

Don't spend too much time on these topics, but keep your Sankirtan as your main focus.

O.K.?

Tom Brown: We received a following important communication from devotee in one ISKCON community. We have edited it for practical use in this here Blog!

"Hare Krsna beloved Gurudeva,

AGTSP

PAMHO

Thanks for your letter to the Regional GBC. You are right. During the former investigation that you worked so much to organize, in the end, nobody presented a formal complaint against ABC Das.

Nevertheless, there is something much more deeper here. We do not understand why some GBC authorities support him in the way the way they do.

(Personally I am really sorry to bother You with all these things.)

So for the sake of ISKCON Xyz we will continue with the investigations.

At this point we do not know if our Zonal GBC will meet with us.

I do not know if I can act as friends as with ABC Prabhu and his friends as you suggested.

I trust My Friends and at the end of the day I do not trust them.

Many devotees are expressing themhselves in social media and they erase those comments.

Why do they not want to answer the requests or doubts of the community of devotees? What are they hiding? Anyway..

So sorry for bothering You. We Will continue until we see what Krsna wants

JAYA SRI RAMA 

In service

DEF Das

Tom Brown, Buck White et al.

Hare Krsna, Prabhu! AgtSP. Paoho. Yes, if you smell a rat you should definitely investigate, but remember the sagely advice of Mulla Nasreddin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasreddin) whom Srila Prabhupada also cited:

"One should not engage in an argument with a fool, because people may have a hard time distinguishing which one of you is the fool!"

If you feel that devotees, Jiva souls, are infected with material consciousness, greed, lust, anger, pride, then try to help them, but don't get involved beyond your strength.

Don't get too close, but don't get too far.

The people you save today may be the people who save you tomorrow.

Thank you!!!

More news!

"Hare Krishna Guru Maharaj

PAMHO AGTSP

How are you Guru Maharaj.

Bhakti charu Maharaj decipal group wanted to check how is your schedule on 4th of July, they want to invite you at DeLand Florida, for Bhakti charu swami Maharaj Tirobhava mahotsav."

HpS-ASA --- AgtSP. Paoho. Thank you for forwarding the invitation. We always have happy feeling in our heart when we remember H. H. Bhakti-caru Swami. We was a human being!

We have just finished 6-months on the road, consolidating our decades of traveling and preaching/teaching, and now are just getting our Base Camp in Nashville open and running. We just got our car registered, insured and running last week.

Very nice.

Right now we have no plans for traveling out of town, Murfreesboro, even for the rest of our life. Of course that may change as we get in a better position to see Krsna's plan of work.

Yet, right now we could not join the festival, but might join online.

Thank you.

"Hare Krishna, Gurudeva, accept. my obeisances. I am meditating hard on everything I learned during your visit. honestly during this new goverdan event it was very instructive and i am very grateful to the devotees, but i have my personal reservations and i want to serve sankirtan but i feel very ignorant. develop good communication with Dhruva Prabhu and his Family. , . we want to do sankirtan and start a preaching movement. here in Latin America as a new Goverdan base. MONTEMORELOS."

HpS - ASA -- TlgaSP!.... Thank you. I think 50% of your effort is now finished, you followed up on the visit!

Many times we organize and event. That is 50% of the effort. The other 50% is to continue.

1. It depends on our effort and Krsna's effort. Try to understand Krsna's plan from goof Japa, Srila Prabhupada's books, advice from nice devotess and people - one, two, three. Krsna wants Kirtan, hearing and chanting, in Kali-yuga, so if New Govardhana is amined at that then it is proper.
2. Judge by the results. See how things are developing and then adjust accordingly. You have already done that in terms of your Sankirtan and got good results.
3. Purity is the force. Four principles and 16-nice rounds (Mangala arati etc). Anything you want to accomplishin Sankirtan or with your family will only improve as you stick to these things.
4. Keep posting results, news, here in the Blog. Let us see if the devotees respond.

Thank you, Hare Krsna!!