Letters to the editor

ISKCON República Dominicana con su círculo de estudio se honran con la presencia de su santidad HanumatPresaka Swami.

Este martes 30 de Marzo a las 7:00 pm, zona el caribe.

Hanumatpresaka Swami (Huber Hutchin Robinson, nació el 12 de enero de 1948, en California, EE.UU.) es un guru o maestro espiritual iniciador de ISKCON. Es un erudito vaisnava, que viaja continuamente dando conferencias acerca de filosofía y literatura india clásica.

Es fundador de NIOS (North American Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies), y Profesor Itinerante de IECOO, (Institute for Oriental and Occidental Classical Studies), Universidad Ricardo Palma, Lima, Perú. También era miembro de la facultad en el Bhaktivedanta College, donde enseña acerca del Bhaktirasamrita-sindhu.

Gradue de la Universidad de California en 1970 con premio al primer puesto en Psicología y estudios menores en Biología e Ingeniería Eléctrica.

Luego empezó estudios de doctorado en la Universidad de Northwestern en Chicago. Su mentor, Donald T. Campbell, Presidente de la American Psychology Association impulse investgar psychologia Oriental y luego recibiendo iniciación brahmacari, monje estudiante, de S.D.G. A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada en 1974, en 1984 sannyasi (renunciante) y se convirtió en guru iniciador en 1994.

Desde 1990 Hanumatpresaka Swami ha desarrollado también un programa global de conferencias y viajes. incluyendo trabajar como director asociado del Instituto Bhaktivedanta, que organizó dos "Congresos Mundiales para la Síntesis de Ciencia y Religión" en Bombay, 1985 y Calcuta, 1997.

 En marzo de 1999 Hanumatpresaka Swami fue Jefe Invitado para el "Seminario Nacional sobre Ciencia y Tecnología en la Antigua India" de la Universidad de Calcuta.

En Lima desde, 2005-2007, con la Universidad de San Marcos, NIOS era co-organizador del “Bharatiya Sanskriti: El Festival de la Cultura Clásica de la India”.

Todas las glorias al Fundador-Ācārya de la Sociedad Internacional para la Conciencia de Kṛṣṇa, su divina gracia A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Śrīla Prabhupāda.

Desde 2015 hasta el presente se han realizado programas regulares con San Marcos, Bibliotecario Nacional de Perú y organizaciones de primer nivel en Chile, España e India, y programas sobre Psicología y lo Sagrado, Arte y lo Sagrado y Hamlet y Arjuna, etc. .

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Gauranga.

Dear Guru Maharaja

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! All glories to you.

On the auspicious occasion of Gaura Purnima, my mother was initiated by H. H. Bhakti Vikas Maharaja in Salem, India. Maharaja gave her the name Vijaya Murti devi dasi - Servant of She whose form is victorious and glorious.

She was very inspired to take initiation when she saw Divya Sri take shelter of your lotus feet in Houston and many initiations that happened in Kalachandji dham when she was with us a couple of years back.

She is a very simple and an innocent lady. She had to do so many things to get the required documents that were completely out of her comfort zone, but somehow persevered and successfully took shelter of her spiritual master.

Please bless her that she may continue firmly on the path of Bhakti and serve Srila Prabhupada nicely. Hopefully by your mercy my father will also take up Krishna Consciousness and make his life successful before it is too late.

Your servant

Srinatha Krsna dasa

HpS - Of course, of course, may she develop her service more and more. Our best wishes to her.

Hare Krsna.

AgtSP

paoho... 🐵

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🚀

Mathuresha Das and others are asking if we can visit Bolivia or other places, but the idea is to just go one place. As we posted in the last Kapi Dhvaja, the first option now seems to Urubamba in Valle Sagrado, in Peru, or near Rupanugas project in Cinigui, over the hill from Lima.

We could stay for 6-months with a tourist visa.

We would go to help start a village-ashrama project, New Ashokavan, with a cultural Sankirtan base. Of course, that would mean working on our movie, Diary of a Traveling Creature - The Ultimate Trip. That would require practical internet connection etc.

Idea is that people could only enter the village with proper quarantine etc. Vedic village. Maybe leas with option to buy for six months, then continue developing there or take the results to another place.

After six months we would go back to USA for maybe three months and then Spain for the same and then Radha-kunda, still estimating to leave this donkey 2024 December 7.

That is the best plan we can make now. Sankirtan, Krsna's plan, these all determine what we should do. Thank you.

What is your opinion?

Hare Krsna.

Querido maharaj, por favor acepte mis mas humildes y respetuosas obediencias a sus pies de lotos.

HpS - ASA -- Pies de (20%) loco.

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada.

HpS- ASA --- !!!

Querido maharaj,

Por favor podria concedernos la bendicion de su maravilloso darsan, en nuestra plataforma de zoom and fb para circulo de estudio de ISKCON Republica Dominicana?

HpS - Pienso que si. FB, no, pero Zoooooom, si.

Si su respuesta es afirmativa , el dia que tenemos para usted seria el Martes 30 de marzo , a las 7:00 pm hora de RD. Perdon me equivoque con la fecha maharaj.

HpS - Aparece 6PM, 30 Marzo, aqui. Una tema especifica? Caracter del publico? Puede ser grabado??

Su sirviente:

mukunda madaha das.

hare krsna.

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Topic: The Stages of Bhakti in Development.

Dear Guru Maharaja, please accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

If I recall correctly, I heard you say that gopis and Nanda Maharaja could not read and write.

In one conversation with devotees, I brought this up and was asked for a scriptural reference.

I searched, but could not find it.

Please, can you give it?

Thank you!

Your servant Namacarya Das

HpS - AGTSP! Paoho. I think it was a Lecture, not a Room Conversation. Srila Prabhupada was talking about how the Vrajavasi's were not very big, big scholars or rich, but they had the highest love for Krsna. As I remember Srila Prabhupada said, that Nanda Maharaja could not read or write. He would hire some educated fool to do it for him, what speak of the girls (here Srila Prabhupada's accent was very strong, "Garls"), but they would attend lectures given by the learned Brahmanas and thus they knew everything about the structure of the universe and so forth.

If you can find it with that information it will be wonderful. Please let us know.

Dear Hanumat Presaka Maharaj,

PAMHO AGTSP!

I've been focusing on my book, applying for grants, teaching and trying to use social media platforms to publicize KC through dance.

Maharaj, I wanted to ask for some advice regarding this...I feel like maybe there is a calling to do something with regards to reaching out to many people through KC and dance.

However my digital platform is quite small still. I'm feeling a bit lost and it's really difficult to survive after leaving my dance school. Seeking some transcendental vision, knowledge and light🙏

You're aspiring servant,

Yajnaseni D D

HpS - Thank you for your letter and association.

https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/1/14/4/

https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/1/16/21/

In Kali-yuga we can see that women (like you), children, old men (like us) and animals are all in very difficult position, but there is one Greatly Good Thing. Just chant HK! and get liberated and go to Goloka and learn how to dance from Lord Balarama.

He is a a very great dance teacher.

So, the real thing is how much we can be engaged in kirtaniya sada harih. Am I writing this letter without chanting??? Stop!!

Krsna writes the best letters.

Within that then 16-enthusiastic rounds, Kirtans morning and evening... then!

We can see our Dharma well.

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Music, Dance, Drama are Gandharva veda. We are doing GV, not Vastu, not Ayur, not Danda... LC was always dancing out the meaning, Bhava, of the songs, no?

So..... it is great preaching.

We need and ISKCON Dasa-avatar to show to other traditions.

We need Gaura-arati dance. It is a very descriptive son.

Jaya Radha Madhava. Udillo aruna. So many songs need to be put into dances.

1. Who are you?
2. Who are we? Find maybe five people who have some good idea about the first question and then connect with them.
3. Then What is the Plan?
4. What Things do we need.

Set a standard of rounds you are going to do until the next Purnima. Really consider what you can do, live or die.

Hmmm. 4/day... 11/day... 1/year on Janmastami... but DO IT. Then you will advance in "Who am I". (NOD)

Then.... Krsna will put you in contact with different people.

Was life easy for Kunti?

Gandhari?

Mandodari?

Radharani?

Devaki?

Devahuti?? Hmm. How is it going to be for Yajnaseni D D.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhqkRGISQr8 (4.36.00)

There are several girls working in this area. One I know but she is in Spanish language. She writes here. Prati-jalps.

Do what you can do now, but get your Japa down

Hope this helps a little.

Hare Krsna Hare Rama.