JAYA SRI SRI GURU AND GAURANGA !!

ALL GLORIES TO SRILA PRABHUPADA !! and his loyal and dedicated disciples like you.

HpS - You are very generous.

For reasons of order, I have divided this report into 3 parts:

Part I: Report on Integrated Team and the Web

At this time, as part of the marketing plan, we are finishing developing a survey to make a quantitative measurement of those who have read, at least once SOLARIS and then make a qualitative measurement through interviews.

As for the web, it is already in the cloud: https://www.solarisnios.org, the translations of the contents in English we will pass on to the President of NIOS, Prabhu Abhisek, for his approval.

ASA-Tom Brown - It's shocking to see the form of a solitary young women in tight pants doing Yoga postures, and a motor boat that burns gasoline.

Buck White - Look the other way.

TB - In the home page where NIOS is presented we didn't see a link to NIOS's webpage: www.NiosNimbus.Org. It's pretty, but seems that scenes of human culture like architecture or festivals would be better, no?

The verse from the Brahma samhita should be there, no?

Waiting for translation into proper English!

BW - You are a pig! boar.

II Part: content of SOLARIS No. 6:

For this No. 6 the thematic axis is EDUCATION, ECOLOGY AND THE SACRED, so the articles, essays, interviews, reviews and cultural portal must be related or linked to:

1. Education and harmony between human beings and nature.
2. Educational content and innovation, the cultivation of the human spirit as the center to build a good society.
3. Pandemics in the world, material problems, ethical and spiritual solutions.

ASA-Tom Brown - Wow. We don't remember hearing this thematic axis before. Seems nice but we cannot see any deeper, scriptural basis for selecting these themes. Eg. SB 2.1 would touch on ecology nicely but how is that related to Education and Ecology. Some relation could be there.

What articles have been submitted???

ITEMS CONFIRMED AND TO BE CONFIRMED:

1. Albert Ferrer / “From mainstream schooling to holistic education. A personal turnabout and a paradigm shift " ASA - No ecology in this, no?
2. Sarad-Gaurangui / Health and spirituality in times of pandemic. ASA - Same?
3. Ravi Gupta (to be confirmed)
4. José Luis Valencia / Dance and its role in mental health
5. Paloma Rojas Vaquero / Reflections on a comprehensive initial education
6. Héctor Béjar / educational innovation to build a healthy society
7. Miguel Polo / Ethics and dharma, the role of ecology in spirituality
8. Nicasio Cavilla / Ayurveda and nutrition in the mode of goodness (preliminary title)
9. Universidad Católica de Chile / Ecology and Zen Buddhism (to be confirmed)

ASA - Hmmm. Seems to health and holistic life and spirituality, no???

INTERVIEW:

• are asking Prabhu Caitanya Caran for his permission to allow us to make a summary of the two podcasts that he did with Professor Hanumatpresaka Swami. Those summaries would appear in the interview section.

ASA - No, ecology or education in them, but wonderful interviews. HpS is the greatest genius since Alfred E. Neuman.

Also - An article by C C Das about possibility and practice of communicating spirituality and moral values in the modern world.

REVIEWS:

• Jitendriya Prabhu: Memories, dreams and thoughts. Biography of C.G. Jung by Sara Jofre.
• Mother Sruti-priya: The teachings of Queen Kunti. A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami.

III Part: Trips for the implementation of the Asrama where SS HpS will be for 6 months as part of the implementation of the rural project, Nueva Aksovan:

We have made three trips, (1) Zuñiga, (2) Mala and (3) Pachacamac.

In Zuñiga prabhu Raghunata has a house and a land of 2500 m2, it is a beautiful place known as "The City of the Eternal Radiant Sun", the valley and the river are generous, it produces beans, bananas, yuccas, potatoes, sweet potatoes, mangoes, grapes, oranges, avocados and other vegetables, but there are two problems that make it impossible to settle there, first the house is in the middle of the city (and since nobody lives there now, it is neglected and full of things) and the land is 2 kilometers away ( the idea is that the house and the land are together) and the second point is that since almost two years the land is not worked then everything is full of weeds and cleaning it and getting it ready would take us a long time.

In Mala it is a 160 m2 house with 2500 m2 of land, it is a beautiful place not as fertile as Cañete, we are waiting for the owner's proposal and

In Pachacamac we went to see prabhu Rupanuga's project, it is a very cozy place and there are about 6 rooms ready, it has a dining room and a large kitchen, the point is that sometimes it receives patients for days and a family lives there so they do not give the conditions to establish ourselves with the characteristics we want.

On the 27th and 28th we will go with Abhiram, María and Nitya-kisori to Coahillo, San Vicente and San Luis, we hope that by the mercy of Guru-Gauranga the place will manifest there.

HpS - ASA - Very nice work!

The Solaris work is very nice, but we see that TB's criticisms have some value. If we work together like this in the Blog then we can bring it to a standard that would enthuses us.

Attached to this report photographs of the places we have been.

That is all for now, HARE KRISHNA.

(revised 21 07 23 by ASA Staff)

Niti-sara Das wrote:

Hare Krsna, Guru Maharaj, 

Please accept our most humble obeisances Guru Maharaj! 

All sincere glories to His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada!

Thank you for your association and willingness to consider these outreach programs.

The attendees will have a great opportunity to be personally guided through the Light of the Bhagavat and Upadesamrita.

We're in contact with a yoga teacher, who has attended more than a year of temple Bhagavatam and Bhagavad Gita classes.

We may be able to use her Yoga space as a venue for one of the seminars but will converse about the possibility this week.

She was wondering if key themes of the Bhagavad Gita would be discussed in one of the two seminars because her students in her Yoga program are also studying the BG.

HpS - BG is in both LOB and NOI very intimately. Let us refine the content with her.

The NOI seminar seems like it would coincide well with Jhulan Yatra, 18th-20th. Jhulan Yatra 6:30-7:00PM followed by the seminar 7:00-8:15PM.

Here is Current Schedule:

Regular Daily ASA programs on line, adjusted to local Deity schedule, USA Mountain Time.

2 (mon) - Gaura-arati and Arrival Lecture with Hp Swami and Sriman Murari Das (Bilingual).

11 (wed)-13th(fri) - LoB, 7:00-8:15PM.

14 (sat) - Rafting. 9:45am-3pm, Murari and HpS in Spanish Armada.

16 (mon) - Chi Gong and Kirtan program (Maharaja can lead us in the Hanuman Goes To Lanka poses).

18 (wed)- Pavitraropana Ekadasi. Sweet Jhulana Yatra festival, 6-7PM. NOI Seminar, 7-8:15 (Three Minute with a Genius)

19 (thu) - Jhulana Yatra; NOI,

20 (fri) - Jhulana Yatra; NOI

22 (sun) - BALARAMA PURNIMA, Anniversary of Radha Banki-bihari installation.

• Anantarupa Prabhu will speak,
• Badrinarayan Maharaja will send a video,
• M. Arrudha will send something written.

Things to Do: ⏱

Uncle Gismo, ASA-Practical Arts Workshops.

• Communication Skills with K. G. Devi Dasi, HpSwami et al. How to draw, theater.
• New Biharavan and Local and Global Community Development. Building Braja Villages.
• The History and Future of NBV with interviews of ARD et al.
• Other ideas?

We receivied the following Yahoo mail from Zoom Robot 📺:

Hi Hanumatpresaka Swami,

The meeting information for "ISKCON Ministry of Education - Global Viplavah 2021",

Which you previously registered for has been updated by the host.

New Time and Date: Aug 12, 2021,

05:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

    Every day, until Aug 15, 2021, 4 occurrence(s)

    Aug 12, 2021 05:00 PM

    Aug 13, 2021 05:00 PM

    Aug 14, 2021 05:00 PM

    Aug 15, 2021 05:00 PM

Then we got a copy of a Yahoo mail to Radhika raman Das from our Organizer, H. G. Bali-mardana Das:

Hare Krsna Prabhu,

Pamho, agtSP,

We moved the conf date to Aug 12th now. I hope the new date will still fit into your schedule, we are looking forward to the presejntation, The idea is to have 25 Mins duration for each presentation, 

Would you please provide the topic and the abstract so that we collect the info and build a better schedule this weekend.

Any preference of the day? (Aug 12-15)

Your humble servant

-Balimardana das-

Along with Gandharva Das, Gopi-gita Devi Dasi, and others, we have been having regular meetings to organize and promote the Annual Symposium, but then Bali commented that there were some doubts about the Symposium by Tapan misra Das, Executive Secretary, and then explained to us with some detail the dialogs that resulted in this postponement.

In some aspects it is a fantastic shock for us. We are thinking our esteemed friend TMD must have gone mad.

In other aspects we are noting that just this week we changed our SB and NOI schedules. So, we hope we can hear more from Tapan, and Bali will give us some more details to publish here.

In any case, will try to cooperate whole-heartedly with the Ministry, but we can see that already we have a Seminar on Light of the Bhagavata at the same time as some of the days. 😮

Furthermore, with ASA we will have our own little preliminary symposium on Education with/in ISKCON on the dates already planned:

www.GoToMeeting.com (737 859 341)

Evenings: Th-Sa (28-31 July) - 7.30-8.30PM

Mornings: Fr-Su (29 July - 1 Aug) - 7.30-8.30AM

• We will invite:
• Sesa,
• Tapan,
• Gopi-gita,
• Bali,
• Gandharva,
• Param-padam

To enlighten us, and if anyone else wants to join please write here in the Blog with "Ed-Symposium" in the Title field.

More to come in this Blog.

Hare Krsna, Hare Rama,

Nice letters from devotees.

We are sorry we are not stronger.

We joined the Hawaii class today as audience and afterwards the discussion went for 20-minutes. Then we had personal phone call with Madana mohana Das about it etc. for one hours, the Ramananada Das, President, for 1/2-hour.

Spent fair amount of time making a PPTX for tomorrow night and quite talk with RRD and Art Das about NIOS.

Walking with Dr. Desai and Vijaya. NgD and family left for Chicago to see his children and grandchildren.

Drought, plague, civil violence, old age continue, but that is completely normal.

It is like annual growth and by product and death of corn plants.

Krsna kindly maintains this hospital.

Hare Krsna!!

Hare Rama!!

Win a battle with Maya right now.

Querido Gurumaharaja.

Por favor acepte nuestras respetuosas reverencias.

¡Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada!

Continuando con mi informe, en un tema más personal, nosotros estamos bien dejando las miserias menores, estoy tratando de dejar las preocupaciones del mundo del contagio del virus, parte de mi familia en Perú también fue afectada recientemente, mi cuñado José, un hombre muy bondadoso, falleció porque ya tenía su salud débil, el virus fue un pretexto para un cambio de cuerpo, de igual manera fue muy triste. Cuanta gente muere, recientemente en un video un sacerdote decía "la vida se dió para buscar a Dios , la muerte para poseerlo".

Le tenemos miedo a la oportunidad de acercarnos a Dios porque él amor hacía Él tiene demasiado polvo. Glorias al sankirtana de Sri krishna que nos da la esperanza de perder el temor a la muerte.

Hay una frase muy famosa de Su Gracia Pankajanghri prabhu en el periodo previo a su partida " pensé que este cuerpo era una fuente de placer, una fuente de disfrute, pero el Bhagavatam tiene razón"

Después de su partida un devoto preguntó a Jananivas prabhu "Tantos devotos estaban orando, tantas pujas y oraciones. Aún así, Krishna se llevó a Prabhu Pankajanghri? ¿Por qué Krishna lo hizo? ¿Cómo entendemos esto?"

Jananivas Prabhu respiró hondo y respondió: "Krishna está mostrando cómo Él es el Señor Supremo Independiente".

Este año lo empecé con dificultades de salud, a finales del 2020 tuve una suma de estres fuerte, críticas de mi servicio que me llevaron a una tristeza profunda que se transformó en problemas físicos, estuve en urgencia en el hospital en pleno apogeo de covid y no sabían exactamente qué pasaba conmigo, sucedido que el estrés había desplomado mi sistema inmune y se activó un virus que me provocó una infección que afectó algunos nervios del brazo izquierdo, pensé que se iba a paralizar, mucho tiempo estuve sin poder usarlo, estuve con antivirales y medicina para relajar los nervios locales que me provocaban un desiquilibrio para dormir, malestar, siempre con dolores fuertes y analgésicos fuertes que parecían peor que la enfermedad, duró varios meses pero al fin parece que voy recuperando mi brazo que ya tiene nada más un porcentaje congelado pero poco a poco puedo asistir mejor a la Deidad, es la mejor fisioterapia que puedo recibir.

Ayer prabhu Prestha , administrador del restaurante del templo me ofreció prestarme un aparato electro estimulador, una vez recibí esa terapia y estuve con dolor fuerte por casi 3 semanas pero luego observé un pequeño pero favorable ganancia.

Todo esto me hace reflexionar como puede ser que el cuerpo se volvió cómplice de la mente y perdió la cordura de esa forma?, la medicina es la trascendencia, ruego por sus bendiciones por favor para tomar las dosis indicada y mi enfermedad verdadera se cure algún día. Porsupuesto es vergonzoso pero últimamente tengo que decirlo porque me piden participar en más servicios en el templo y aún no tengo el brazo al 100% pero mi mente se va fortaleciendo más y así como hundió al burro ahora debe jalarlo para purificarlo con el servicio a Krsna.

Prabhu Manash Ranjan le envía sus reverencias, el sigue entrando un día a la semana al altar atendiendo a Sus Señorías Goura Nitay yo le ayudo vistiendo a los Gurus y los detalles que hagan falta. La adoración a la Deidad es lo mejor para los grhastas, principios regulativos estrictos para poder tocar a las Deidades y canto de los Santos Nombres de Krsna sin devoción pero por ahora son nuestros upacaras básicos.

Disculpe por robarle el tiempo con estos temas. Usted nos da demasiado y me da vergüenza no poder aprovecharlo.

Su eterna aspirante a sirviente

Asta Sakhi dd

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Dear Gurumaharaja.

Please accept our respectful obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Continuing with my report, on a more personal issue, we are fine leaving the minor miseries, I am trying to leave the worries of the world about the contagion of the virus, part of my family in Peru was also affected recently, my brother-in-law José, a very kind, he died because his health was already weak, the virus was a pretext for a change of body, in the same way it was very sad. How many people die, recently in a video a priest said "life was given to seek God, death to possess him."

HpS - That's nice. For a devotee threat of death is mercy of God to focus on Him. Arjuna was in risk of death at every moment on the Battle of Kuruksetra.

We are afraid of the opportunity to get close to God because love for Him has too much dust. Glory to Sri Krishna's sankirtana which gives us hope to lose our fear of death.

There is a very famous phrase from the Grace of him Pankajanghri prabhu in the period before his departure "I thought this body was a source of pleasure, a source of enjoyment, but the Bhagavatam is right"

After his departure a devotee asked Jananivas prabhu "So many devotees were praying, so many pujas and prayers. Still, Krishna took Prabhu Pankajanghri? Why did Krishna do it? How do we understand this?"

Jananivas Prabhu took a deep breath and replied, "Krishna is showing how He is the Independent Supreme Lord."

HpS - Radha Krsna can go into the prison and see anyone. Who can stop them.

This year I started it with health difficulties, at the end of 2020 I had a strong sum of stress, criticisms of my service that led me to a deep sadness that turned into physical problems, I was urgently at the hospital in full swing of covid and They did not know exactly what was wrong with me, it happened that stress had collapsed my immune system and a virus was activated that caused an infection that affected some nerves in my left arm.

I thought it was going to paralyze, I was not able to use it for a long time, I was with antivirals and medicine to relax the local nerves that caused me an imbalance to sleep, discomfort, always with strong pain and strong analgesics that seemed worse than the disease, it lasted several months but at last it seems that I am recovering my arm that already has nothing more than a percentage frozen but little by little I can better assist the Deity, it is the best physiotherapy I can receive.

Yesterday Prabhu Prestha, administrator of the temple restaurant, offered to lend me an electro stimulator device, once I received this therapy and I was in severe pain for almost 3 weeks but then I observed a small but favorable gain.

HpS - ASA - Amazing. Amazing. We wish we could have been of some help during all this. I think you took great spiritual advancement from the experience. Great chance to become and eternally advanced devotee.

All this makes me reflect how it could be that the body became an accomplice of the mind and lost its sanity in that way? Medicine is the transcendence, I beg for your blessings please to take the indicated doses and my true disease is cured some day.

Of course it is embarrassing but lately I have to say it because they ask me to participate in more services in the temple and I still do not have my arm at 100% but my mind is getting stronger and just as it sank the donkey now it must pull it to purify it with the service to Krsna .

Prabhu Manash Ranjan sends his obeisances, he continues to enter the altar one day a week attending to His Lordships Goura Nitay and I help him by dressing the Gurus and the details that are needed. Deity worship is best for the grhastas, strict regulative principles to be able to touch the Deities and chanting the Holy Names of Krsna without devotion but for now they are our basic upacaras.

HpS - Yes, worshiping the deity together is so, so, so powerful to build a strong, strong, strong Grhastha community.

"We do it together. We see who is there."

Sorry for stealing your time with these themes. You give us too much and I am ashamed not to be able to take advantage of it.

HpS - Are you strong enough to take a role in the Mahabharata in your next life. If we need a Kunti or a Draupadi, can you do it? 😎 How much Krsna must love their help in His work! Would you like Krsna for your nephew? Waking up.

Maybe you will loose one arm and get four??? That would really impress the other Pujari's, no?!!

Thank you.

Your eternal would-be servant

Asta Sakhi dd

🌲

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

All glories to Ss Hanumatpresaka Swami

Please Gurudeva, accept my humble and respectful obeisances at his lotus feet.

HpS - Lettuce feet.

Beloved gurudeva I remember that on your last visit to Mexico when you were in Cuernavaca, by your mercy we managed to have some association, it was very enriching because in particular I had not had that closeness with you, it greatly encouraged me in the plaza to lead a little The kirtan, that was something totally new, but at the same time wonderful, the one that despite my faults and total ignorance in singing injected me with enthusiasm and you sang along with me teaching me that everything is possible. Thanks for those nectar droplets.

HpS - I remember the Kirtan. It was very nice. Walking, chanting nicely, offering books to people.

From that moment I felt an injection of enthusiasm, on the other hand, thanks to the virtual tour, online classes and especially the mornings in sleeves and the association with you and the brothers has enriched our determination.

Thanks to the pandemic, each house is a temple and following the recommendations that you suggested a few years ago, our sadhana is to attend to our wife and son and little deities at home, get up to mangal arati, sing a little and a little reading. , offer food, however during the pandemic I lost my permanent job, so I am only giving emotional kinesiology therapies, this helped a lot to dedicate more time to my service at home, so we organize some festivals here at home, with my wife and child. And other festivals we went to the temple, for the experience was totally new, we felt how Krishna occupies himself in service, protects us and gives us his personal darshan, an intimate atmosphere with lord Jagannath.

On one occasion we managed to cook in the temple for Mr. Jagannath right in snana yatra it was incredible and wonderful to be able to serve Mr. Jagannath directly, he also participated helping the pujaris to prepare everything necessary for the bath in the festivals, I keep my service to save the clothes of His Lordships Jagannath, Balaram and Subhadra, Goura Nitay and Sri Sri Radha Pranabhallava which he carried out for the last 6 years, bathing and changing Srila Prabhupada took it 2 years ago and taking care of Tulasi devi at home, he who for the Grace of Krishna we have done for 5 years,

We continue to study Bhakti sastri online, with Prabhu Param from Argentina that started last year, and with Mother Chandramukhi from Peru, as I told you in another of my letters, I finished Upadesamrta, but maybe I will have to take Upadesamrta again. with the Prabhu Param. Our studies of Bachelor of Business Administration are going in 8 semester only 1 more left to finish the degree. So if Krishna wants, we will be finishing university and Bhakti sastri this year, please give us his blessing to open this mind that refuses to learn.

In the recent letter

https://monkeywarrior.com/detail/12388/?query=retaking+the+the+topic+of+harinama+diksha

It is mentioned to resume the process of initiations. During your visit to Mexico, I gave you the letter of recommendation from my authorities from the Nueva Nilacala Mandir temple in Guadalajara, Mexico. To take the second initiation, will it be necessary to reapply

 Another letter to the president of the Guadalajara temple? What else do I have to do, Gurumaharaja?

Sorry for the offenses, Your smallest insignificant would-be servant Mandali Bhadra das

HpS - Thank you!!! We will look for other letters from you, here and answer them, now. Process of initiation seems very confused now in Mexico. It seems M. Asta sakhi Devi Dasi has been helping all of us by pushing to take care of this!!!

Maybe you can contact her and see if she knows how things should be done.

As you describe yourself you are ready for Second Initiation so let us work out the details.