Letters to the editor

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada and all his enthusiastic, determined and patient disciples like you who are ready, always, to carry out his transcendental instructions.

Please excuse this report being 2 days late, ARTD is trying to better tune with Paramatma. We hope to be more helpful and punctual in our humble efforts.

Tom Brown: Sorry it has taken one week to answer it. We are also struggling, but when the

Kapi Dhvaja stuff arrives late then escapes from your normal, though small, system to do stuff. In any case, it is so welcome.

Hope it is funny.

DTC-UT FILM:

A. ADJUSTMENTS TO DEFINITELY FINISH THE 1st MOVIE (Peru): On May 3 we hope to have a meeting, via Zoom, with HH HpS, Raul and Pablo to refine details,

for example the voices of Tom Brown and Bucke White, the credits of Óscar Naters and Ana Zavala (They are the National Prize for Culture, in 2017, in the creativity genre, they also have other international awards) and how to present Radhika Ramana Dasa.

TB-Yes we have had very productive meetings and film is done. Now we send it to Jagat guru Das and he puts in on Vimeo with a private address. Then in Texas we plan an Avante Premier.

B. DETAILS OF THE 2nd FILM (USA): Pablo will travel to Minneapolis from June 10 to 21 and then from June 22 to July 20 he will travel to Houston to meet with HpS, TB and BW. Right now we are seeing what technical elements, in addition to the Chamber, should be brought to the USA.

TB-Because Krsna is merciful, second film is developing. All we should aspire for is to find our little place in Srila Prabhupada's orchestra.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBZ7AfZR9xs

C. DETAILS OF THE 3rd FILM (Spain): Due to Krishna's arrangement, the trip of Ambarisa, Vrisabhanu and Hari-Vansi to Madrid is cheaper by making a stopover in Lima (the stopover can be 10 hours or 1 day) this will allow them to get some equipment that they need and that Raúl has, and on the other a suitcase with SOLARIS Magazines.

TB-Thank you for doing this work. You are earning your title in the film as Producer. We all thank you (although we all have room to improve, no?!)

D. DETAILS OF THE 4th FILM (India): Now that the dates have been changed, now the trip is scheduled from September 7 to 30, we are making adjustments with the mother of Govinda Pramodini to see the issue of accommodation.

TB-See the letter from BRC published today. They say they can help with accomodations.

The delegation would leave Lima (10 to 12 people) in the crew are Miguel Polo and his wife, Héctor Béjar (he is in Switzerland on that date, he would join Madrid on September 5) Óscar and Ana, possibly Claudia Lira or Elvira Ríos and some devotees complete the crew

The meeting of April 24 for the presentation of the project for June of an International Symposium: Science, psyche and spirituality. The meeting between Carl Gustav Jung and Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur was a success, the entire coordination team of the Masters and disciples forum attended. In the end, three of them have a decided proposal for a presentation:

• Claudia Lira: About Taoism in Jung and Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati
• Héctor Béjar: on War and Peace.
• Dwarka Prabhu: Meditation a comparative study between Jung and Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati.

The other members of the team have not yet decided on their presentation. Please we URGENTLY request help to provide them with a good biography of Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur and any books we have on him. Miguel, Héctor and Claudia have requested this material with great interest.

TB-The heroes big and little did the work and excellent academically of highest authorization encyclopedia artice written by Prana Das of Bh. Siddhanta Prabhu AND Jung in India have been sent to all.

We will work on refining our idea of these symposia, the possible building of bridge between Jung and Bh. Siddhanta Sarasvati.

Same two books have been sent to Dr. Samaresh.

To finish this report we have good news: By the mercy of Guru and Gauranga the Spanish translation of the book "Tava pache pache" is already done, Parbhu Partha who is an excellent professional translator is finished, now we are in a style review , which goes to Prabhu Jayanta, we hope that when Ambarisa traveled to Spain, would take with her 108 books in English and 108 books in Spanish.

TB-Is better to print in Spain, no?

That's all for now next Friday May 6th I will send a report exclusively about SOLARIS, thank you very much for accepting our limited service.

JAY SRI RAMA!!!!

TB - Salute from the Supreme Absolute Undifferentiated Commando of ASA in photo below.

Hari Bolo!

Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada y a todos sus discípulos entusiastas, determinados y pacientes como tú que están dispuestos, siempre, a cumplir sus trascendentales instrucciones.

Por favor disculpa que este informe llegue con 2 días de atraso, ARTD está tratando de sintonizarse mejor con Paramatma. Esperamos ser más útiles y puntuales en nuestros humildes esfuerzos.

PELÍCULA DTC-UT:

A.    AJUSTES PARA ACABAR, DEFINITIVAMENTE, LA 1ERA PELÍCULA (Perú): El 3 de mayo esperamos tener una reunión, por Zoom, con HH HpS, Raul y Pablo para afinar detalles, por ejemplo las voces de Tom Brown y Bucke White, los créditos de Óscar Naters y Ana Zavala (Ellos son Premio Nacional de Cultura, el 2017, en el género creatividad, también, tienen otros premios internacionales más) y cómo presentar a Radhika Ramana Dasa.

B.    DETALLES DE LA 2DA PELÍCULA (USA): Pablo viajara a Minneapolis del 10 al 21 de junio y luego del 22 de junio al 20 de julio viajara a Houston para darse el encuentro con HpS, TB y BW. En estos momentos estamos viendo que elementos técnicos además de la Cámara debe llevar a USA.

C.     DETALLES DE LA 3era PELICULA (España): Por un arreglo de Krishna el viaje de Ambarisa, Vrisabhanu y Hari-Vansi a Madrid sale más económico haciendo escala en Lima (la escala puede ser de 10 horas o 1 día) eso va a permitir darle algunos equipos que ellos necesitan y que Raúl tiene y por otro una maleta con Revistas SOLARIS.

D.    DETALLES DE LA 4ta PELICULA (India): Ahora que se ha cambiado las fechas, ahora el viaje esta programado del 7 al 30 de setiembre estamos haciendo ajustes con la madre de Govinda Pramodini para ver el tema del hospedaje. La delegación saldría de Lima (10 a 12 personas) en la tripulación están Miguel polo y su esposa, Héctor Béjar (el está en Suiza en esa fecha, él se uniría en Madrid el 5 de setiembre) Óscar y Ana, posiblemente Claudia Lira o Elvira Ríos y algunos devotos completan la tripulación

La reunión del 24 de abril para la presentación del proyecto para junio de un Simposio Internacional: Ciencia, psique y espiritualidad. El encuentro entre Carl Gustav Jung y Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur fue un éxito, todo el equipo de coordinación del foro Maestros y discípulos asistió. Al final tres de ellos tienen una propuesta decidida de ponencia:

Claudia Lira: Acerca del taoísmo en Jung y Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati

Héctor Béjar: La guerra y la Paz.

Dwarka Prabhu: Meditación un estudio comparativo entre Jung y Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati.

Los otros miembros del equipo todavía no deciden su ponencia. Por favor URGENTEMENTE solicitamos ayuda para proporcionarles una buena biografía de Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur y algunos libros que tengamos de él. Miguel, Héctor y Claudia han solicitado este material con mucho interés.

Para terminar este informe tenemos una buena noticia: Por la misericordia de Guru y Gauranga la traducción al español del libro “Tava pache pache” ya está hecho Parbhu Partha qué es un excelente traductor de profesión ya lo entrego, ahora estamos en una revisión de estilo que la va a Prabhu Jayanta, esperamos que cuando viajé Ambarisa a España lleve consigo 108 libros en inglés y 108 libros en español.

Eso es todo por ahora el próximo viernes 6 de mayo enviare un informe exclusivamente de SOLARIS, muchas gracias por aceptar nuestro limitado servicio.

JAY SRI RAMA!!!!

Hare Krishna, Gurudeva 🙏🏻

Please, accept my humble obeisances! All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Gurudeva, here is a little report about our progress in "Waves of Devotion" translation..

Some weeks ago I got from Param Padam prabhu the Eastern Ocean of the book already translated into Spanish.

ASA - AgtSP.... Hmmm. There was an English version of WOD for the Eastern part that was circulating in hard copy. Later they did some extensive editing of it for the final printed book. Guess you should check the translation you have to see if it matches the official English copy.

So, we started with the next part: Southern Ocean..

Until now we have translated about 70 % of the Southern Ocean.

Of course, all this work has to be reviewed and edited carefully.

HpS - When I finally appreciated what Maharaja had done in WoD, my understanding of NoD increased many times.

Apsara Gopi dd is helping a lot, because she has already previous experience in translations work.

I have to improve, Gurudeva 🙏🏻

I am delay with my part, due to mistakes in my time management.

Seeking your blessings and begging for your mercy to obtain inteligence to go on..

Mitravinda dd.

HpS - Such a nice substantial work.

Hope you health is always teaching you new things about devotional service.

Respects to Apsara, Param, everyone. Thank you.

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaj

Please accept my humble obeisances

All glories to you

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Guru Maharaj thank you much for your reply to the previous letter.

Hope you are doing well and your health is fine.

Guru Maharaj I was looking into the dates in your calendar, You are in Houston from July 1st to July 20

We would like to request you to visit Dallas for few days if possible. We can arrange some programs here in Kalachandji Dham. Many of the devotees in Dallas are eager to have your association and Srinath and I specially want you to come to Dallas and stay with us for few days Maharaj. We want to serve you Guru Maharaj and would be lucky to have your association.

If possible please come to Dallas Guru Maharaj

Eagerly waiting to serve you.

Yours Servant

Divya Sri Devi Dasi

HpS - Hare Krsna!!!! Do you ever consider that your role in Krsna consciousness may turn out to be as intense as Draupadi's? Ha! Ha! Hare...

We can't travel much any more.

In our youth we were often changing beds every three days or less.

We hate to burden people to visit us, our vehicle makes these decisions for us.

We will be packed up on the spiritual platform.

We will see Kalacandji and Radharani in our heart.

\'o'/

Dear Guru Maharaja,

please accept my humble obeisances. All Glories to Srila Prabhupada.

When you texted me the reminder that annual disciple reports were due, it wasn't only that I felt bad about giving an honest assessment of how much i had fallen short of the minimums that you and Srila Prabhupada require your disciples to follow, but even worse, i lacked the resolve, maybe the desire or ability to vow to give my best in making up the difference. 

The year before my initiation I was able to complete my rounds, and was for the most part maintaining the four principles. When i told Jaganaath Swami that I had hoped to ask you for shelter as your disciple I had been doing a fair amount of service at the temple and the festivals for a few years, but I knew that as a neophyte, to follow in the footsteps of a surrendered devotee of the Lord would be a challenge that I could only hope to rise to with the Lord's special mercy as I was clearly not "cooked all the way through". I was suprised but also felt thankful and blessed when a week or two later Jaganaath Swami told me that he recommended me to you as a prospective disciple and that an initiation could be scheduled the day after SF ratha yatra that year. Now I see that my biggest obstacle to truly surrendering- I unconsciously wanted to use Krishna Consciousness as a band-aid to a life where i was not able to find real peace, joy, and lasting fulfillment with otherwise. I found a faith (science) with a powerful spiritual practice, that i was trying to use to prop up my own separate life of sense enjoyment, never giving up- or understanding how to give up trying to be the enjoyer- to give up being so self-centered. I completed my rounds, plenty of service at the temple, taking part in sankirtan and book distribution. Took part in kirtan for the deities. It was though always in a sense "bhoga-tyaga". I felt blessed, comforted, protected, and elevated by the Lord's mercy that reached me. The service i performed were offerings out of gratitude to a Lord I could see was blessing and supporting me. Pretty far from uninterrupted and unmotivated.

Around summer 2020 I was invited to an online program that devotees from ISV had created during the start of the pandemic they called "Bhakti Community". I was touched that he took the trouble every monday and thursday to text me an invitation to the program. Even though this program is held using the zoom conferencing software, the kindness I felt on the part of the facilitating devotees and especially the often-MC Vaisesika Das made an impression. I wished that kindness would have been would have been more prevalent at the historic temple in Berkeley that I thought of as my home temple. I had been absent from the temple even some time before the pandemic, to avoid the fighting, gossip, and lack of courtesy that more than a few other devotees would say that you could expect there. The programs Bhakti Community hosted online would feature a video that was full to the top in Krishna Conscious philosophy from Prabhupada's books- presented a LOT of information in 5 - 10 minutes. After around 2 years of these twice-weekly sessions I felt encouraged and able to pick up and try again. This April they started a morning Japa circle call from 5 - 7 am. I joined that program and now have 16 good rounds completed every morning before 8 am. What I experienced doing this made clear that perhaps my biggest stumbling block was just looking at anything in this world as an accessory to my own enjoyment. Things that Prabhupada sometimes would describe as 'decorations on a dead body'. When chanting im finally touched with some love, peace, and satisfaction that I had been starving for. 

Gurudeva, there are so many examples from the gates of Vaikuntha down to the hell realms of jivas that require making mistakes to learn an important lesson. I hope and beg that you could still accept me as your disciple in spite of my mistakes the past 2-3 years. I recently caught covid from home and it was one of the most painful illnesses I have ever experienced. I asked Krishna to accept that suffering as an offering for my purification. If there is anything i can do to atone for this period please let me know and consider it done. I hope my mistakes did not impact you negatively. I want to pursue spiritual life and wish to be a cooperating member of Iskcon and be of service to Lord Chaitanya's mission. I want to avoid any single thing that is not an asset to that goal. I want to thank you for your mercy and beg your forgiveness. Please let me know. Thank you Gurudeva

your servant,

Loka Bandhu Rama Das

HpS - ASA --- AgtSP. Paoho. We received the hard copy of this letter and the very nice oriental drawing yesterday.

I wrote an answer to the hard copy with some of our own drawings.

Please send us your phone number and mailing address here in the Blog. I will not publish them, but then can mail you our letter.

Our address book for electronically corrupted a while ago.

\'o'/

We answered all the questions in the letter.

Basically thank you for your nice letter and your nice efforts in so many circumstances to be a good human.

As you describe things, it is an honor to try to serve you and Srila Prabhupada as your Diksa guru again.

Details in the letter.

PAMHR, TLGSP, Por favor disculpe nuestras torpezas.

Quiero pedirle información sobre el Instituto de Investigación Bhaktivedanta (Calcuta). Para viajar a la India y obtener algunos permisos de trabajo en el campo académico, tal vez podría hacer algunos cursos en este Instituto y/o buscar una carta de ISKCON. Esta carta tiene que incluir la idea de que me estoy suscribiendo a un curso especializado en filosofía védica. Además, esta carta tiene un objetivo polivalente: notificaciones de visa y permisos de trabajo que me dejen volver a trabajar después de seis meses de viaje. Ya nos había dicho que usted se quedaría en Calcuta (Kolkata), Manipur y Delhi el próximo mes de septiembre. Mi esposo Angirasa y yo podríamos unirnos con usted allí o en Vrndavan. Quizás puedas ayudarnos a conseguir esta carta. El tiempo estimado del viaje es de finales de septiembre 2022 a abril 2023

PAMHO, AGTSP, Please excuse our awkwardness

 I want to ask you some information about Bhaktivedanta Research Institute (Calcutta). In order to travel to India and get some job permissions in academic field, maybe I might do some courses in this Institute or search for an ISKCON letter. This letter has to include the idea that I am subscribing to a specialized course in vedic philosophy. Also this letter has multipurpose objective: visa and job notifications that allow me to get back to work after six months’ travel. You have already told us that you would stay in Calcuta (Kolkata), Manipur and Delhi on September. My husband Angirasa and I would be able to reach you there or in Vrndavan. Maybe you can help us to get this letter. The estimated time of the trip is from the end of September 2022 to April 2023.

HpS - AgtSP!!! Paoho. The contact that I have there is with Samanta Rudra. He is very nice person. About 60-years old. Big international business executive also.

If you send a note to our Whatsapp account I can send you his contact. I think I would be very practical for them to occupy you in your professional status, so send a bio-data with your first contact letter.

Thank you!!!!!!

🙂

We are (AGTSP!!) discussing the Madrid - India - Madrid ticket with Jayanta Das. Yes, we would go in September with any delegates and aim at a 3-week overview of our India: Kolkata-Mayapura, Manipur, Delhi-Braja.

Then we could stay in Braja until ... ? ... until November and return to Spain. Then he suggests visiting the Canary Island until February.

What do anyone else think?

Divya svarupa Das?

Tunga vidya Devi Dasi et al???

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Estamos (¡¡AGTSP!!) discutiendo el billete Madrid - India - Madrid con Jayanta Das. Sí, iríamos en septiembre con cualquier delegado y tendríamos como objetivo una visión general de 3 semanas de nuestra India: Kolkata-Mayapura, Manipur, Delhi-Braja.

Entonces podríamos quedarnos en Braja hasta... ? ... hasta noviembre y regreso a España. Luego sugiere visitar Canarias hasta febrero.

¿Qué piensa alguien más?

Divya svarupa Das?

Tunga vidya Devi Dasi y otros???