Letters to the editor

JAYA SRI SRI GURU AND GAURANGA !!

ALL GLORIES TO SRILA PRABHUPADA !! And his dedicated disciples, like you, who carry his message of Krishna consciousness to all parts of this world.

First of all, we want to thank you-all for the questions and suggestions, made by the ASA Commando, to our report No 5.

Prof. Miguel Polo and Abhiram Thakur Das analyzed them in detail and responded, that is the 1st part of this report (this report consists of Two parts).

Part I: Questions from the ASA team to report No 5 and their respective answers:

QUESTION: ASA-Tom Brown - It's shocking to see the shape of a lonely young woman in tight pants doing yoga poses and a gas-burning motorboat.

Buck White - Look the other way.

ANSWER: Regarding the images on the web, Miguel Polo and Abhiram selected the images with the following criteria: The 1st image, that of the ship, was to represent the material world (a predominantly dark and dirty place), then the 2nd. image shows a person on top of a mountain saluting the sun (everything is clear because he is directly receiving the light of knowledge, represented by the sun) and finally, the 3rd. Image, the blue lotus symbolizes or represents the spiritual world.

Perhaps the interpretation of the images is not clear or does not suggest our intention, therefore, considering TB's suggestion, we have withdrawn them and we have placed a sunrise with the SOLARIS leitmotif “Contributions for a humanity inspired by a new culture of friendship, peace and prosperity ”. (attached a photo of how he has been)

ASA - The Brown Tom - So much nicer, but could we use the rest of Srila Prabhupadas quote:

"humanity can become one in peace, friendship and prosperity with a common cause." https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/1/preface/#bb13378 ?

QUESTION: TB - On the home page where NIOS is presented we did not see a link to the NIOS website: www.NiosNimbus.Org. It's nice, but it seems like scenes from human culture like architecture or festivals would be better, right?

The Brahma samhita verse should be there, right?

ANSWER: Miguel and ARTd agree 108% with this suggestion from TB, so now the home page of the website begins with the verse from the Brahma samhita: https://solarisnios.org/. Also if you click on the face of Socrates or on NIOS it also takes you to the NIOS website: https://www.niosnimbus.org/

ASA - TB - Is this new version posted some place?

QUESTION: ASA-Tom Brown - Wow. We do not remember having heard this thematic axis before. It seems nice, but we cannot see any deeper Vedic basis for selecting these themes. E.g. SB 2.1 would touch ecology very well, but how does that relate to education and ecology? There could be some relationship.

What items have been shipped ???

ANSWER: After the event THE ART AND THE SACRED (2018) Professor Hanumatpresaka Swami suggested as content, for the next three years EDUCATION AND THE SACRED (this covers 2019, 2020 and 2021, that is, numbers 4, 5 and 6 of the magazine). Then, at ARTd's house (October 2019) when SOLARIS was discussed, Professor Ravi Gupta (Radhika Raman prabhu) suggested, due to global importance, adding the topic of ecology and we all agreed.

Since its appearance, SOLARIS has been the basis for the academic events of NIOS (No. 1 and 2 was for PSYCHOLOGY AND THE SACRED, No. 3 for ART AND THE SACRED and 4 for EDUCATION AND THE SACRED). As last year everything was modified by the pandemic (we could no longer do the November 2020 event) so for number 5 we held two round tables to add the topic of Covid-19 in the magazine. Based on these circumstances and the 2018 agreement, Miguel and Abhiram continued with THE EDUCATION AND THE SACRED with the addition of ECOLOGY for the thematic axis of No. 6.

EDUCATION, ECOLOGY AND THE SACRED are very broad topics, therefore, it is necessary to set more specific content so that the authors can write based on them. This is how these three thematic contents arise:

• (A) Education and innovation, the cultivation of the human spirit as the center to build a good society. (EDUCATION AND THE SACRED)
• (B) Pandemics in the world, material problems, ethical and spiritual solutions. (ECOLOGY AND THE SACRED)
• (C) Education and harmony between human beings and nature. (EDUCATION, ECOLOGY AND THE SACRED)

ARTICLES BASED ON CONTENT “A”:

1. Albert Ferrer / From conventional schooling to holistic education. A personal change of course and a paradigm shift (article delivered)
2. Paloma Rojas Vaquero / Reflections on a comprehensive initial education in Art (article delivered)
3. Dwarka / The Bhagavad Gita as a model of comprehensiveness in teaching (delivery August 29)
4. Caitanya Caran / the possibility and practice of communicating spirituality and moral values ​​in the modern world (delivery September 17)

ARTICLES BASED ON CONTENT “B”:

1. Ravi Gupta / Why we need a Gaudiya Vaishnava eco-theology. (to be confirmed)
2. Miguel Polo / Ethics and dharma, the role of ecology in spirituality. (delivery August 29)
3. Sarad-Gaurangui / Covid-19 in the world, material problems, ethical and spiritual solutions. (delivery September 10)

ARTICLES BASED ON CONTENT “C”:

1. Nicasio Cavilla / Ayurveda: Sustainable Medicine. Understanding the natural cycles for health care. (delivery August 29)
2. José Luis Valencia / Recognizing natural entities is synchronizing with universal consciousness. (I already deliver a trailer, final delivery on August 29)
3. Universidad Católica de Chile / Nature and Zen Buddhism. (Delivery September 10)

ASA-TB - Now it is more clear, though we had to scan a lot of the explanation. Manuel, you are an intellectual too great for us.

Regarding the summaries of “Carl Jung & psychological insights for spiritual growth” and "Shakespeare Revisited, Universal Themes, Spiritual Insight" of the Podcast “The Monk” Chaitanya Charana prabhu authorized their use for the summaries, he said “I think it is wonderful that they are used for SOLARIS magazine”.

ASA- BW - Oink!! 🐷

Another important point, we send to Prabhus Abhisek and Srinivas-acarya the content on the web in English. The part about the authors has been sent to HH HpS and Radhika Raman prabhu, we await your comments.

ASA-TB/BW - Oh! .... We just looked in HpS's Yahoo account and cannot see anything in the VIP, NIOS, HPS1088 or Spam Folders!!

II Part

Trips for the implementation of the Asrama where H. H. HpS will be for 6 months as part of the implementation of the rural project Nueva Aksovan:

Tomorrow Tuesday we are going to see a house in Pachacamac and another in Cieneguilla, according to these visits, on Friday the confirmation of the place will be sent to the blog.

ASA-TB/BW - Wow! Manuel, you are like Terminator 6! Wonderful.

That's it for now, please excuse our limitations and any mistakes or offenses.

HARE KRISHNA

ASA Supreme Undifferentiated Absolute Commando [ASA-SUAC] - We salute you. (Photo Attached). This is wonderful report. What if apes ruled the world and humans were kept in zoos and the jungle? ! So many respects to the Rabbit, Miguel et al, Hector et al.

Six weeks and four days before we arrive in Lima?

What should we bring?

Hare Krsna Gurudev,

Please accept our obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

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AGTSP paoho.... We want to do more, but can only do less.

Now's time to release our brains from all kinds of stress.

So many tasks still undone.

Yet, now you must rest and wait for the Sun.

9.30PM

for Monitos

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tears_in_rain_monologue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoAzpa1x7jU

"All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain"

ASA - Thank you! 'maya tatam idam sarvam...'

Hare Krishna !

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada

PAMHO

Dear Maharaja

So sad I will not see you in the near future. Have always wanted to visit the Boro, but not in theses trying times. Hope you are in good health. We are doing as well as could be expected for old folks. Been going through some more of my father's keepsakes and found a prayer written in Italian. Probably written by my grandfather in the 1930s in Wisconsin. It translates:

Act of thanks

Infinite thanks I give you oh my God of having redeemed me, made me a Christian, and preserved me in this night.

My God I regret with true heart for not loving You, and I propose with Your holy help not to offend you anymore in the future.

Merciful Lord forgive me.

This is the finest thing my father left us. I'm going to mount it in a frame with the translation and show it to all of my siblings and cousins.

Your humble servant, Dave Prabhu.

HpS - ASA --- We are seeing each other right now. Eyes pass photons, here we are passing electrons. Such a perfect prayer. I was born into Episcopalean family. Baptized, confirmed, met Srila Prabhupada, investigated him very sincerely and was convinced that he was the best Christian I had ever met, so took shelter of him formally as my eternal leader, and hope he continues to accepts me as such and I can become more and more connected with him, and with him our Lord Christ Jesus.

I am like an ant compared with both.

Send us a photo of the framed prayer if you can. Scan it.

Hare Krishna!

Please accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

I just went to the JayaRama website and the blog. Nanda Braja gave me a quick tour of the sites as well. I relished reading the verses you like about chanting the secret mantra of "Radha".

And then I saw Uncle Gizmo so I clicked on that, and read about Guru Tattva. It was very informative and it gave me great guidelines on how to be a disciple and serve Srila Prabhupada well through serving you.

HpS - We are trying to act as a formal Diksa guru for Srila Prabjhupada. You only get one of those, but you need as many Siksa gurus from Srila Prabhupada's disciples as you can get, in harmony.

As Srila Prabhupada mentioned about chanting 16 rounds and following the regulative principles as a primary service, I would like to share with you that I have been chanting 16 rounds since 2016 and I have been following the four regulative principles since the beginning of 2020. I'm also a regular at mangal aarti, Gopal Prabhu at Radha Kalachandji's says I'm part of the mangal crew.

Thank you so much for giving me a chance to serve!

Also I saw the calendar of events, and noticed that you will be in Houston near the end of September? Could I come see you there before you go to Peru?

HpS - I think so??!!

Plus of course I am really looking forward to Balaram Purnima this year! To me, this is the most special Balaram Purnima ever, because now, you are in my life.

Aspiring to serve you,

Bhakta Jason

HpS / ASA -- It has been wonderful meeting you and having your daily association here in Boise.

See you in 45-minutes.

You seem very ready for initiation.

Have you take the Disciples Course?

Will the Sriman Nityananada Das give you a letter of recommendation for Harinama Diksa?