Letters to the editor

On Friday, December 11, 2020, 07:09:11 AM CST, Baladeva das wrote:

Dear Hanumat Presaka swami.

Please accept my humble obeisances 

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Hoping you are well and Happy

I am Baladeva das from Argentina.

With the Global Communications team we are looking for scholastics who appreciate Srila Prabhupada in order to plan conferences around the world (especially in our case in South America) to celebrate the 125th anniversary of Srila Prabhupada's appearance next year.. That is why I am in contact with you for any suggestions you have. 

It would even be important to know if there are any academic women who can give a speech about it. Sure it's better, but it's not limited to her being from South America.

Thank you very much Maharaja a joy for me, to be in contact with you.

ys bd

P.S. Did you finish writing the book on Indian architecture with that phd who met you at Radha Govinda temple in Vrindaban?

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HpS/ASA (Anjana Suta Academy)

So very nice to hear from you! We want to get your association many times, so this is very nice. We have done a lot of academic preaching is Hispanomerica. Check with Abhirama Thakura Das in Peru, Arjuna and Jagat guru Das in Santiago and Ambarissa Das and Rati-manjair Devi Das (Wife of Temple President) in BsAs.

O.K.?

We got an academic Journal: http://www.jayarama.us/archives/solaris2020.pdf

Of course, many of these scholars are just coming in contact with Srila Prabhupada so we would have to explain your goals to them gradually.

Thank you!

asa[e], ifd

We were born into a Christian family and our Mother taught us to recite The Lord's Prayer each night before going to sleep.

Then our neighbor's dog died when we were about four years old, and we were very depressed because we realized that we were little and could die just like Suzy, the neighbor's dog. We became nauseous and could not each much. We didn't discuss it with our parents because we knew they could not help, but then we began to think very seriously about the prayers we were reciting nightly and decided that the authorities who believed in Jesus must have a reasonable understanding of him, so we decided he could save us from death.

Other experiences happened but when we came in contact with Srila Prabhupada and Gaudiya Vaisnavism we were very attracted but we were wondering about seemingly replacing Christ with someone elese.

Then we heard Srila Prabhupada speaking while he was in Berkeley Temple in 1975, and he said with such respect, depth and practical realization, that Lord Jesus Christ had done such wonderful preaching work in the West, and then we were conviced that we had never met a better Chiristian than Srila Prabhupada, and if we really wanted to serve Christ then Srila Prabhupada was the best via media for that.

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Three Kings come from the East with gifts for baby Jesus. Bh. V. Th., Bh. S. S. and Srila Prabhupada?

Songs, Diamond Sharp Argument, Big Mrdanga?

Tom Brown/Buck White wrote to:

https://bearnibbles.us/

Hello, Hare Krishna,

We are the 'Anjana Suta Academy' [www.JayaRama.US].

We want to buy a lot of your fruit leathers but...

. . . will they fit into envelopes for mailing ie. are they less that 1/4" thick?

How much does each flat packet weigh?  We tried 'Stretch Island Fruit Leathers'. They were pretty good, 1/2oz. but seems we might be able to work with you-all a little better. 

ASA is about 400-direct members, but the broader Hare Krsna community, ISKCON, is about 1-million.

https://vedabase.io/en/library/rkd/2/12/#bb1581004 

Thank you,

Hanumatpreska Swami 

HpS - ASA -- Hare Krsna! Gandharva Das [et al]. Our extended conversation was very nice yesterday. We suggest erasing some things and editing others. I think the letter can go to edited letter can go to Paramatma Das and Mathuresa Das as Secretary and Chairman of the LA RBGC. If you accept the changes we have made.

O.K.?

Hare Krsna dear Gurudeva

PAOHO AGTSP

I'm sending you the RGBC report. The spanish and english versions were sent to your email. I'm waiting for your comments and suggestions. Hope you're doing great and we are very happy that your health is getting better.

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Hare Kṛṣṇa dear RGBC authorities

Please accept my humble and respectful obeisances

All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda

My name is Gandharva das (HpS), in charge of the Regional Representation service on behalf of the ISKCON Ministry of Education in Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru. By the initiative of HH Hanumatpresaka Swami Maharaja, I am writing this letter with the intention of greeting you, humbly requesting your blessings and presenting the activities report that I have carried out during the last two years.

• I was born in Lima, Peru, in 1967 (53 years old) and studied Arts at the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving of Mexico City, between 1989 and 1996. For 25 years I have been teaching and researching in different universities and colleges in my country, having taught theoretical and practical courses in faculties of Architecture (12 years), Plastic Arts (16 years), Design and Visual Communication (10 years) and Photography (13 years). I am married to Indira Sakti dd. and we both received initiation from Maharaja Hanumatpresaka Swami. Currently, we are both serving as pujaris for HH Radha Madana Vihari in the ISKCON Chosica temple in Peru.
• In March 2019 I was suggested by HH Hanumatpresaka Swami and appointed by the National Board as Regional Representative of the ISKCON Ministry of Education for Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia, with the permission of HG Mathuresh prabhu (representative of the GBC Zonal Secretary for Peru and Bolivia) and Divya Priya dd. (representative of the GBC secretary for Ecuador). My position is under the authority in consultation with H. H. Hanumatpresaka Swami (member of the board Executive Committee the Ministry) and S. G. Tapana Misra prabhu (Executive Secretary).
• During the first year of service, I made the necessary contacts with authorities and educators from temples and preaching centers to find out their needs, interests and concerns regarding the educational development of their respective communities. For this, two face-to-face meetings were organized with different educators from Peru and several teleconferences with teachers from Ecuador and Bolivia. During 2019 I traveled to Bolivia, in order to establish contact with local educators. A trip to Ecuador was also planned at the beginning of this year, which was frustrated by the health situation.
• The year 2020 has been very fruitful for educational development. The confinement situation has given the opportunity to many teachers to provide their services on online platforms and thanks to this, six Bhakti Sastri courses are currently being taught since March 2020 with 170 students, approximately, in the three countries of the region. In addition a Bhakti Vaibhava course is taking place in Lima with 5 enthusiastic students.
• We are applying, Yugala Kisora dd, and myself as examiner and administrator of for the Bhakti Sastri course at with the Board of Examiners of the Ministry of Education (BoEx). The accredited temple will be ISKCON Chosica and the procedures are advancing, so we await the official appointment for during the first months of 2021.
• In order to increase the capacity skills of the teachers, the TTC2 and TTC3 courses are being taken, having achieved an alliance with Bhakti Culture School, which offers us facilities so that teachers can improve themselves at through the different courses that this platform offers online.
• We have been actively collaborating with the Executive Secretary of the Ministry in the search and recruitment of devotees who can perform a similar service of Regional Representation in different areas of Latin America: Zone 1 (Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador), Zone 2 (Chile, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay), Zone 3 (Brazil), Zone 4 (Colombia, Venezuela and Panama), Zone 5 (Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana), Zone 6 (Mexico and Guatemala) and Zone 7 (Central America and the Caribbean Islands). At the moment, the applications of Adikarta das (Colombia) and Param Padam das - Nara Narayana Rsi (Argentina), from zones 2 and 4, respectively, have been accepted by the Ministry. I have heard from H. H. Hanumatpresaka Swami that Tapan Misra Das has suggested to you that someone act as a Latin American Regional coordinator for the reporting and communicating with the Ministries Zonal Representatives in these seven areas, the Ministry and your good selves. I think I could do this service for a year while things are developing, but after that it may require more energy than I am capable of.
• Finally, we have had conversations with devotees from Arequipa (Peru), who are very interested in the development of a pedagogical program for children and pre-adolescents. At the beginning of 2021, we will put them in contact with devotees with experience in this field and we will provide them with the translated teaching material, available on the Ministry website.

I say goodbye to you,

Your servant, Gandharva das

Hare Krsna Gurumaharaja.

Por favor acepte mis respetuosas reverencias.

¡Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada! 

Prabhu Tejas vit, el encargado del templo me contactó en estos días, informa que con el asesoramiento del GBC el Templo está planeando organizar el tema de las iniciaciones de los aspirantes, están formando un equipo de devotos activos del yatra para que les faciliten la comunicación con los diferentes maestros espirituales que nos visitan para concretar el tema de las recomendaciones e iniciaciones, me pidió que por favor apoye con ese servicio siendo parte del equipo para tener comunicación con Usted. 

Le propuse que yo pondría la información requerida en el blog de manera que otros puedan opinar, le pareció bien a prabhu Tejas vit.  

Gurumaharaja ¿Usted está de acuerdo con este servicio? 

HpS - Esta bien. Srila Prabhupada dijo una vez que el proceso de iniciacion es muy simple. Aqui es el estandard. Estas siguiendo? Si senyor. O.K. Puede ser iniciado.

Compartí algunos puntos que Usted menciona con respecto al tema y sumados a la preocupación del templo, están considerando las siguientes puntos : 

- Publicar la lista de los candidatos en el mural y en la página de facebook del Templo

- Manejar el tramite con suficiente tiempo 

- Realizar un examen psicológico ( algún psicólogo con relación neutral con el candidato) 

- Solicitar antecedentes penales 

- Solicitar carta responsiva al candidato

- Tener el compromiso de una relación con el Templo mediante algún servicio práctico por el tiempo acordado con las autoridades. 

HpS - Ooops! Pienso hay problema con esto en terminos del estandard de GBC para iniciacion, y una carta a TODOS GURUS Y PRESIDENTES del Templos, que no puede establecer requisitos mas que lo que estan establecido por leyes del GBC. Guru-prasada Swami puede informar bueno de esta carta.

- Haber tomado el curso para discípulos en ISKCON

- Haber sido acreditado con el curso de etiqueta vaisnava 

Solicité un comunicado oficial de los puntos mencionados, y me dijo que si lo tendrán.

Si Usted tiene alguna petición u observación si le parece bien le puedo comunicar. 

Vuestra aspirante a sirviente

Asta Sakhi dd 

HpS - Necisita la leyes del GBC. Todos necesitan.

Hare Krsna Gurudeva.

Here You have the transcription, i wish is good enough...

Agt SP

[14:57]

HPS:

We need so many kinds of books, a lot of children books over there, and so, the all things too, as like you saying, is it´s ...is, is...

i hear that Prabhupada said "every seller have their own technique", and you can steal so...you can steal a idea that by a (¿habit?), (¿father saw?) and mother (¿sellerman?)...but in the ¿Indian? you better develop new technique.

Ok!. Number four: by the web pages, books, others, who are readers can contact, and turns...how develop books distribution.

VAISESIKA DAS:

Yes. There is “distribuyebooks.com”, which I recommend, and there is also a book call "Our family business" that has the hist...not only the history of book distribution, but also ¿waist? to organizar it. the principles that, well, that if it had "(¿here?) to guarantee your success", and they also, it also have some ideas about enhanced in. your sadhana, so i do recommend those two resources, definitely, we also...

HPS:

What...what about...resources??? for example near ISKCON Silicon Valley community...This kind..kicksdown to the thief question...are we aware of that?

Ok...i´m sorry, so, go ahead, because this question (¿?) again ...

VAISESIKA DAS:

ok, by resources, we also have a...

HPS:

What about kids, for example, like in here, in the area Iskcon silicon valley. Are they people who can...¿who come? and contact in Iskcon Silicon Valley, to understand about, how or who, you know, sankirtana with kids is going on of...(¿did, you say?)...that?...

Do you have different people there, who (¿?) people contact as your resources?

VAISESIKA DAS:

yes, in fact, we put on regular seminars, call SOS, Sankirtana Orientation Seminar, and during our seminars we cover all different ¿maces? of sankirtana, includes, kid sankirtana, which is been...become wildly successfull, not at just (¿that I it´s be?) but also all the others contacts, included London....implementing.

HPS

I heard, that, in boise, idaho, i mean, kids can roll me relate to it...ok.

how to handle too much your time...and...you so, next...(¿I?) should be appointed number five.

SP promoted four diplomas, Bhakti sastri, Bhakti vaibhava, bhaktivedanta, bhakti sarvabhauma.

how can they be integrated with book distribution?

then, they give one perspective, by design with all that, Srivas Pandita ...bhaktivaibhava study program.

We included, that, everybody have been engaged for over the four years of study, and some kind of sankirtana book distribution, and we consider that it was enough... that ..is somebody (¿taught?)...somebody Bhaktivaibhava can a day, (¿toughth?) bhakti sastri, two times during the bhaktivaibhava work, that (¿toughth?)work will be ok, that will be enough...of course obviously it means first, the students have to buy BG, Sri Isopanisad, nectar of instruction, and nectar of devotion.

So, that is one idea by how thinking to integrate, but maybe, this allow ...better ways that this diplomas can really be (¿tought?) focus and, you know...and book distribution.

VSD

Well, you know, I could not agree with you more...I, (¿we?) always fall and discourses, you and I, that, I think that it is, you know, important to have devotees trained in book distribution, and, (¿they?) have to be able...they have the oportunity they do it, even make as they are studying the books...make them come alive.

I see in Mexico, Guanajuato, they have a training center there. (¿Aravinda?) prabhu set upon ¿work?...they have the bhaktisastri, and, the same time, on the weekends, all the students go out to distribute books and, I like the convination.

I think, I think that should be a part of it. Of course, ¿you should be?.. everybody who takes Bhaktisastris, also..., a book distributor (¿cause?) everyone is a book distributor.

But I think, again, to go together like rise and dawn. And if you have one without the other, then I think, is...not complete meal...you know, “get the full protein”.

HPS

I generate programs...for all the education programs that we (¿would?) do, Hanumatpresaka Swami, and Anjana Suta Academy, is, you are studying to teach, and, so, how purpose...your studying, studying, studying, so you can teach...know...

Ok...then last point ¿gear?

How can the ashrama path, can do to college (¿?) to college (¿?)...they integrate with book distribution, and now we have (¿Su?)devi dasi, with their (¿?) (¿who is a...) so much, you know, experience with the primary ¿pries? School...¿pries?school, can be (¿?) and primary school education, so then ¿they? Should, can also kickout some questions here.

[20:00]

Hare Krsna

HpS - Thank you!!!! We will look at it in detail!!! Thank you. Hope you get nice ashrama arrangement soon in transit to Goloka.