Letters to the editor

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Thank you for the letters! AGTSP! Paoho. Got one from Jagat bandhu Das in Mexico that is a week old. So, sorry we have not answered it yet.

We did our Whatsapp letters, and emergency Yahoo mail, and now our eyes and heart are:

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E ..... don't want to push Bro. Ass any more or he may be dead by tomorrow, but seems we will get to everything timely! Hare Krsna.

So nice to get your association: FMP! SB, NoI, classes. Calls. Blog... just by chanting. If we need some kind of external communication Krsna will tell us.

Sent a copy of Solaris to Radhanatha Swami also.

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Lord Nrsmha deva tolerates our bad service!! 😥 Today we offered Him two bananas, 1/2-cup of yogurt, cup of cashews and a can of hot V-8 juice.

The Tweets seem to be pretty good.

Always have NoI, TLC, LoB with you, by the door etc. so that you can give it to people.

Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna... Always experimenting with ways to get people to read, take, the Bhaktivedanta Summary Studies and Purports.

Hare Krishna Querido Gurudeva!!!!!!!!!!!

Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada

Todas las Glorias a USTED.

Por favor acepte nuestras reverencias familiares. PAMHO

El boletín ya está (en ingles y español) en el grupo de Facebook, este es el enlace:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/166681160058275/

Finalmente acabaron las clases en el colegio. Fue un año muy intenso, pero aprendimos muchas cosas, especialmente la capacidad de los niños por aprender de una manera diferente a lo habitual.

Hace unas semanas pudimos por fin ver a nuestra doctora. Despues de varios meses pudimos conversar con ella y ver como estaba esta maquina (cuerpo). Su conclusión: Necesito comer algo de carne para poder mantener mi sistema inmunológico fuerte, mas en esta pandemia.

Respondiendo sus preguntas

HpS --- Thank you all. How is your venerable Mother? Your Aunt live nearby also?

Mi madre esta muy bien. En las mañanas esta haciendo ejercicios físicos, también algunos ejercicios para trabajar la memoria. Mi tía, que vivía cerca, dejo el cuerpo el año pasado.

How old are your students?

tienen 11 años

What are you teaching them?

Enseño todos los cursos. Matemáticas, lenguaje, personal social, ciencia y tecnología, música, manualidades, ingles, etc.

Of course, you are teaching them what is life, by your attitude, no?

Si. Muy difícil, porque basicamente enseñamos con el ejemplo. La relación del ser humano con la naturaleza, a través de los cursos que damos. Descatar al ser humano como un ser en devenir.

Can you describe a couple of them?

Hay un niño que es como yo cuando estaba en el colegio: muy inteligente, muy hábil, pero muy distraído, muy hablador y muy gracioso. Tengo otra niña que le encanta leer, todos los días lee mucho porque quiere saber muchas cosas y quiere ser presidente de la república y cambiar el mundo.

Muchas gracias por darnos este grandioso servicio. su misericordia es increíble.

EDT (Patrak das & Antuanette )

HpS - Awk! https://vedabase.io/en/library/spl/1/1/#bb1561487

I heard that in Japan SP said that the people (not necessarily devotees) could eat fish, because there was so little land to grow food, but he asked them to PLEASE not kill the cows! ??

Super success in the spiritual life of your family. Make this the last one. Krsna is waiting!!!

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