Letters to the editor

Hare Krsna Gurudeva

PAOHO AGTSP

I send you the answers to your questions:

• Concerning to Param Padam's das round table. He is ok with your 5 minute introduction about the most suitable methods for the study and teaching of sastra.
• Everything to be recorded, distributed? Yes, every session will be recorded in a Youtube channel and delivered via Facebook. We're planning to edit an online document summarizing the ideas discussed.
• MOE blessings? Yes, I have invited Tapana Misra prabhu to share with us a 10 to 15 minutes introduction / blessings just before the first conference (given by your good self) on december 17 th. Still awaiting for his confirmation.
• One paragraph summary of each presentation in English within day after the event? Yes, the summarized report will be translated and distributed among english speaking memebers of NIOS, ASA and anyone that could be interested in.
• Get a report ready. Think you need to catch up with ArtD the same way you did with KkD, no? I have asked ARTD for a report in Spanish that I will translate to share during the December 12 session.

HpS - Hare Krsna! Hare Rama... Just talked with Abhiseka about the NIOS meeting on the 12th and maybe you, me and ArtDas can have a quick talk on Friday. Thank you so much. Please keep your priorities.

• Publish the results in Solaris? It will be great, we just need to give an academic form to the aforementioned technical report that we will share with the community of devotees.
• Concerning to Radhika Ramana das and Subhra mataji participation: we will send a few suggestions and questions for them to present during their extra time sessions.

Thank you Gurumaharaja

Your servant

Gandharva das

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaja

Please Accept My Humble Obeisances

All Glories To Srila Prabhupada!!!

Guru Maharaja, I write this letter because of the last response. I really want to apologize for all the offenses committed, first of all not knowing how to write to you, I was already seriously reprimanded. I would also like to tell that you gave me formal refuge on your last visit to Mexico City, in December 2019. So I know I have to continuo doing big efforts. Please Guru Maharaja, let me continue learning this beautiful process of Krishna Consciousness, with your elemental guide.

Your eternal aspirant to servant, Bhaktin Natyelli.

¡Jay Srila Prabhupada!

Hare Krishna

HpS/ASA - Hare Krsna. We don't remember any offenses in your last letter. 🙂 We hope we have not committed and serious offenses. I hope our last letter dealt with your needs??

Thank you.

Hare Krishna, dear gurudeva. Pamho, AGTSP.

ASA - AGTSP. Paoho. Can you please edit this into a shorter letter with the themes more concisely arranged? 🙂

The year is already ending and we need to do an evaluation, perhaps.

I think it was a good year. I got married and it raised my bar in my service. On that side everything is fine.

I end the year with a lot of service in the area of ​​education. I have 5 study groups. So I have classes practically every day. Now I am helping Gandharba prabhu a little bit in the excellent work that he is doing. On the one hand I am helping a little in the education congress and also in adjusting the themes of the Bhakti Sastri and the Bhakti Vaibhava.

I hope to keep busy about it for the rest of my life, which is not long.

We are trying to form an educational group to continue working in education and preserve the legacy of ASA in that area. That is one of our goals. We look forward to meeting with you for some advice on this educational endeavor.

We are aware of our differences, Gandharva and I, but what unites us is greater.

In the educational congress I will participate with a topic that I am passionate about, which is teacher-student interaction. Basically I am guided by the idea of ​​ASA, which is also mine, of the priorities in the study: association, process and content. I will cite some scholars who handle a very similar idea and my own experience as an educator and university student for more than 40 years, including my 20 years within ISKCON. I will present my own perspective. You mentioned that an educational project is based on the enthusiasm and desire of the teachers, or something like that. We have a lot of that. I hope to learn a lot from the great educators who will participate. I consider myself an eternal student. And from time to time I share a little based on what I understand.

I will participate online and associate with you and visiting devotees whenever I can see you at the temple, Vyasa puja, etc. I think there are many people and activities in Santa Eulalia and I don't want to be an insect on the king's throne. Besides, I am too old for discomfort and my wife does not like the tumult very much.

Returning to the educational topic, I share the concern of you and other great devotees like Yadhunanda Swami and HDG in the development of the educational area.

We face tough challenges. How to get authorities excited and supportive of education? How to get devotees interested in their education? How to make the temples giving proper importance to the SB and BG classes? How to make people see us as a SB-based culture? How to get educational institutions interested in spiritual cultivation? How to be aware of and apply what Srila Prabhupada told us in the SB's preface?

ISKCON resources keep going to great constructions and rituals, which is very good, however there is no work on building colleges, universities, libraries. I see with some shame how other religious groups are making decisive progress in the educational area and we continue to emphasize the ritualistic part. What little there is in education is due to private efforts. So should it be? Education is on its own.

I think your legacy that will be reflected in your film can go further. Continue developing your Sankirtan. Gandharva and I think that it is best to continue developing education trying to have a good relationship with authority, trying to inspire them and inspire devotees who want to educate themselves and help in this great task.

I don't know what will happen in the future, when you leave, when Yadunandana Swami leaves. I don't know, but we can continue to be a voice crying out in the desert.

His servant,

Laksmana-agraja das

Hare Krsna Gurudeva

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Our sincere obeisances

The symposium schedule has been set at 95%. All invited participants are excited about the potential of the event, we hope to be up to it. Some comments and doubts:

• The presentations will be broadcast by Zoom between December 17 and January 7 at 7:30 am Peruvian time.
• On December 25 and January 1 there will be no activity.
• You are invited to give the first conference (December 17 / 7:30 am) and the last one (January 7 / 7:30 am), on any of the 4 main topics.
• Maharaja Yadunandana and Maharaja Dhanvantari will give their presentations on January 27 and 29, respectively.
• There will be two sessions of only questions, answers and surveys by LAD and two roundtables by Param Padam das.
• You have been invited to the round table on December 23 (7:30 am). Topic: The most suitable pedagogical methods for teaching and studying the sastra (together with Yadunandana Swami, Baladeva das, LAD, Vraja Bhakti devi dasi and myself).

HpS/ASA - I declined because I just cannot follow the dialog during these sessions. Not my mother's tongue. 😛

Instead, we both thought it would be nice for me to make a five minute presentation at the start.

• As I understand it, Radhika Ramana prabhu and Subhra mataji will make their presentations at separate times from the temple. It would be excellent to know what day and time to advertise them in advance.

HpS/ASA - We must have misled you but we were thinking of them being a part of the program with the other speakers. This arrangement is fine though. 🤓

Why don't you poll your participants and see what topics would please them. Subhra DD is of course an experienced and senior educator and administrator in public and devotee primary schools, and can give information about the other schools in USA.

RRD grew up in home schooling and his mother is the greatest expert in the subject. He graduated from Oxford, has published three heavy books with Cornell University Press etc. and is now head his department of history and institute of religious studies at the oldest state university.

They could do some presentation and then question and answer.

Everything to be recorded, distributed?

MOE blessings?

One paragraph summary of each presentation in English within day after the event?

• LAD has joined the organizing committee as a consultant and organizer of activities.
• Indira Sakti and I will travel to see you from January 9 to 19. We cannot do it before because we will be in charge of the transmission and organization of the online programs. We will miss your Vyasapuja (which makes us very sad) but we will try to be at your service (which makes us very happy).

HpS - O.K. .

• I am attaching the calendar and the first poster of the event (there will be two).
• As you asked, to be able to board the ASA boat, I have managed to identify my archetypal form: A badger ...

HpS - Your American Indian name can be "Lives in the Earth".

*Of course I want to remain part of the NIOS directory, I was the first to reply to your email!!😋 . HpS Super. Get a report ready. Think you need to catch up with ArtD the same way you did with KkD, no?

**I had a meeting with Tapana Misra prabhu on very good terms. He sends you his greetings and obeisances.

ASA - Answers our previous questions.

Eagerly waiting for your comments.

HpS - Above, no? Publish the results in Solaris?

Your servant

Gandharva das

Hare Krishna, Maharaja, please accept my humble obeisances. ALL GLORIES TO SRILA PRABHUPADA AND HIS DETERMINED DISCIPLES LIKE YOU, JAY !!

I want to start by apologizing for delivering this report two days out of time, but this fortnight that has passed from November 18 to December 4 has been very intense and it is certain that the next fortnight will be even more intense.

• So, it is necessary to anticipate the details of the activities,
• adjust, if necessary, the calendar of these,
• and contribute to prioritizing the objective of consolidation of the Sankirtan of the ASA team
• (consolidating almost 50 years of Sankirtana is not an easy task).

Well let's get started.

• Oscar, Ana, Trilce and Ikal arrived in Nueva Asoka-van on Sunday, November 28. The HH HpS interview with Oscar and Ana is an important contribution of what has been done and what can be done in the field of Art and the Sacred.

• From December 1 to 4, Eugenia (the owner of the country house) arrived together with mother Nitya Kisori and mother Yasoda, they together with Parama Karuna, have prepared a very interesting shadow theater, the premiere will be on January 3.

• This week ARTD will have TPP ready with the corrections sent by Srinath Krishna Prabhu and Radhika Raman Prabhu. On the other hand, the Spanish translation team of the TPP, coordinated by Jayanta Prabhu, is already finishing the translation phase and is now in the fidelity phase of the translation and then style correction. The goal is to have both versions printed by Monday, January 3, as an offering, to the Guru-parampara in the Vyasa puja of H. H. Hanumatpresaka Swami.

• Raúl and Pablo have just finished a clip of selected scenes showing the progress made to date with our DTC movie. Also H. H. HpS, Raúl, Pablo and ARTD had a meeting of almost three and a half hours to develop in more detail the structure of the two 24-minute films: The first film is to present the purpose of the trip, learn significant details about the messenger, and how this determined messenger develops his service.

It is analogous to Hanuman receiving the order from Sri Rama and becomes his messenger (Hanumatpresaka).

Then Hanuman and the monkeys begin to SEARCH for SITA.

The second film is the crew of the ship, that is, they are the people who participate and help the messenger to communicate his messages, especially, to the innocent (here the analogy is that Hanuman already found Sita, shows her the ring and prepares to SERVE SRI RAMACANDRA FOR THE RESCUE OF SITA DEVI).

• Finally, the Agreement between CEAS (Center for Asian Studies of the University of San Marcos) and NIOS is signed, the online event is called: MASTERS AND DISCIPLES, it will have two stages, a preliminary one with a round table to be held on December 10 and an International Symposium on February 9 and 10, 2022 where one of the central guests will be Dr. Samaresh Bandyopadhyay.

That's it for now, thank you so much for accepting this monkey's humble service. JAY SRI RAMA !!

HpS/ASA - AgtSP. Paoho. We almost go this Kapi Dhvaja off on time. Next issue better. This is a very , very nice report!!! Good Monkey!!! We edited a little bit, and it can be edited even more for logical structure of ideas, but it works.

1. TPP.
2. San Marcos.
3. DTC-UTC (Guests, Education Symposium, V-puja).
4. Solaris???

Thank you so much for doing and improving your service. So many people appreciate your work. So many!!!

Hare Krishna Gurudeva! 🙏🏻

Please, accept my humble obeisances!

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!!

Here is the monthly schedule of devotees to lead the kirtan on "Full Morning Program"...

MONDAY: H. H. Hanumatpresaka Swami.

TUESDAY: Mitravinda devi dasi.

WEDNESDAY: Yugala Kishora dasi.

THURSDAY: Tarangaksi devi dasi.

FRIDAY: Parama Karuna das, Panca Tattva Das.

SATURDAY: Abhinanda das, Isvari Radha devi dasi, Karuna Sakti devi dasi.

SUNDAY: Candramukhi devi dasi, Parasurama Avatara das, Isvari Radha devi dasi.

If there is something to improve on this matter, please let us to know..

Thank you for your mercy, Gurudeva!! 🙏🏻

HARE KRISHNA!!!

Mitravinda dd.

HpS/ASA - Thank you so much for your excellent devotional service. All the Kirtan leaders should learn the word by word translations, no? Then the Kirtan will increase 700% potency! Also, everyone should try to keep strong volume in their transmission.

Thank you.