Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna Gurudeva, please accept my humble obeisances

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!!

All glories to Hanumatpresaka Swami!!

SOLARIS No 5 is 98% ready, only a few small details are missing so we will go to print soon. By the mercy of Nimai-Nitai, we hope to offer Sri Ramacandra this printed edition on October 25 as an offering in the Glorious RAMA-VIJAYA MAHOTSAVA. Gurudeva, on that Sunday 25th, on behalf of the ISKCON-Chosica authorities, we ask you to give us your auspicious spiritual guide giving the class at 11 am, Lima-Peru time. It's okay?

HpS-ASA --- AGTSP!!!! paoho. It is in our Calendar!

As for the "indexing" process, it is progressing, as I said in the previous report: “this process is very important because it allows significant sectors of the academic community to know and read the journal, but to achieve this it is necessary to make several adjustments that require a lot of management and therefore a lot of time ”.

In this sense, I had a meeting with Miguel Polo on this issue. After two hours of dialogue we have considered the indexing of SOLARIS to be valuable and important, but not fundamental, that is, we are going to try to achieve the goal of indexing, but without renouncing our essence of being an open window where the entire human society can see and “TAKE THE BEST OF THE PAST, APPLY IT IN THE PRESENT AND BUILD A BETTER FUTURE FOR ALL”. In summary, SOLARIS must be indexed, we will make adjustments, but without losing our identity so as not to end up being a magazine only for the academic elite.

IMMEDIATE STEPS:

- SECTIONS: the proposal is that the content be divided into: Essays, Articles, Interviews, Book Review and Cultural Portal. Please, any suggestions?

HpS - Are these sections required by the indexers? Difference between Essays and Articles??? Also, NIOS organizational news, Calendar, Institutional Collaborators.

- PERIODICITY: The goal is that from 2021 we do two issues per year (in June and December respectively). Please, any suggestions?

HpS - Sounds good.

- INTERVIEWS: Gurudeva we want to ask you, for SOLARIS No 6, you interview one of these three personalities:

1. SONU SHAMDASANI

2. SAMARESH BANDYOPADHYAY

3. BERNARDO NANTE

If you accept, and tell us who is okay with interviewing this time, our management unit would do all the coordination with said academic so that you do not burden your activities anymore, you would only focus on.

HpS - Dr. Samaresh.

- FORMATION OF A COUNCIL OF HONOR

This is a requirement for indexing, we think of 12 members, this is our proposal:

1. Hanumatpresaka Swami (USA)

2. Samaresh Bandyopadhyay (India)

3. Beverley Zabriskie (USA)

4. M. Darrol Bryant (Canadá)

5. Ramon Mujica Pinilla (Perú)

6. Héctor Béjar Rivera (Perú)

7. Raúl Zurita (Chile)

8. Cecilia Montero (Chile)

9. Bernardo Nante (Argentina)

10. Carlos Rúa (Argentina)

11. Itzel Barrera (México)

12. Mónica Cornejo (Spain)

Do you agree? any suggestions?

HpS - ?? No. I thnk some are too old?? Some are to busy.... Some I don't know: Hmmm.

- SOLARIS WEBSITE

This is another requirement for indexing (at the end of the report I attach a photo of the main mockup). At this point we want to consult you and the members of NIOS about the domain of the web, currently, we have these names reserved:

revistasolaris.org

solarisjournal.org

solarisnios.org

revista-solaris.org

solaris-journal.org

solaris-nios.org

revista.solaris.org

solaris.journal.org

solaris.nios.org

Miguel Polo and I like the domain: “revista.solaris.org”, we also like “solaris.nios.org”.

HpS - 'revists.solaris' doesn't seem as universal as 'solaris.nios'. Why can't the magazine be part of the exisiting NIOS webpage? I see that the Oxford Center Hindu Studies has two web sites. One for the Center: https://ochsonline.org/, and one for their journal: https://academic.oup.com/jhs, which is part of a general journal website run by Oxford University Press?

That is all for now

Hare Krishna Gurudeva, your insignificant servant, Abhiram Thakur das.

HpS-ASA - Thank you for this excellent report!! As we discussed with a lot of detail, we are only a member of the Advisory Board. With change Officers, Directors and Members, we need to get Solaris, fixed in its relationship with the new administration. Let us schedule a meeting with President, Abhiseka Singh, you, me, Miguel Polo, Gandharva Das(???). Maybe send us the final version and then Abhiseka can look at it and we can all use it as the basis for our discussion.

REPORTE SOBRE SOLARIS No 5 y EL PROCESO DE INDEXACIÓN

El No 5 de SOLARIS está listo al 98%, faltan solo unos pequeños detalles así que pronto entraremos a impresión. Por la misericordia de Nimai-Nitai, esperamos ofrecerle a Sri Ramacandra esta edición impresa el 25 de octubre como una ofrenda en el Glorioso RAMA-VIJAYA MAHOTSAVA. Justamente Gurudeva, ese día domingo 25, a nombre de las autoridades de ISKCON-Chosica, le pedimos nos brinde su auspiciosa guía espiritual dando la clase a las 11 am, hora de Lima-Perú. Está bien?

En cuanto al proceso de "indexación" va avanzando, como dije en el reporte anterior: “este proceso es bien importante porque permite que significativos sectores de la comunidad académica conozcan y lean la revista, pero para lograrlo se requiere hacer varios ajustes que requieren de mucha gestión y por lo tanto de mucho tiempo”.

En este sentido, tuve una reunión con Miguel Polo sobre este tema. Luego de dos horas de dialogo hemos considerado valiosa e importante, pero no fundamental, la indexación de SOLARIS, es decir, vamos a intentar lograr la meta de la indexación, pero sin renunciar a nuestra esencia de ser una ventana abierta donde toda la sociedad humana pueda ver y “TOMAR LO MEJOR DEL PASADO, APLICARLO EN EL PRESENTE Y CONSTRUIR UN FUTURO MEJOR PARA TODOS”. En resumen, SOLARIS debe ser indexada, vamos a hacer ajustes, pero sin perder nuestra identidad y terminar siendo una revista solo para la elite académica.

PASOS INMEDIATOS:

- SECCIONES: la propuesta es que el contenido se divida en: Ensayos, Artículos, Entrevistas, Reseña de libros y Portal Cultural. Por favor, alguna sugerencia?

- PERIODICIDAD: La meta es que partir del 2021 hagamos dos números por año (en junio y diciembre respectivamente). Por favor, alguna sugerencia?

- ENTREVISTAS: Gurudeva queremos pedirle que, en el No 6 de SOLARIS, usted entreviste a una de estas tres personalidades:

1.     SONU SHAMDASANI

2.     SAMARESH BANDYOPADHYAY

3.     BERNARDO NANTE

Si usted acepta y decide a quien entrevistar, nuestra unidad de gestión haría todas las coordinaciones con dicho académico para que usted no cargue más sus actividades, usted solo se centraría en hacer la entrevista, Esta bien?

- FORMACIÓN DE UN CONSEJO DE HONOR

Este es un requisito para la indexación, pensamos en 12 miembros, esta es nuestra propuesta:

1.      Hanumatpresaka Swami (USA)

2.      Samaresh Bandyopadhyay (India)

3.      Beverley Zabriskie (USA)

4.      M. Darrol Bryant (Canada)

5.      Ramon Mujica Pinilla (Perú)

6.      Héctor Béjar Rivera (Perú)

7.      Raúl Zurita (Chile)

8.      Cecilia Montero (Chile)

9.      Bernardo Nante (Argentina)

10.  Carlos Rúa (Argentina)

11.  Itzel Barrera (México)

12.  Mónica Cornejo (España)

Esta de acuerdo? alguna sugerencia?

- WEB SITE DE SOLARIS

Este es otro requisito para la indexación (al final del reporte anexo una foto de la maqueta principal). En este punto queremos consultarle a usted y a los miembros de NIOS acerca del dominio de la web, actualmente, tenemos reservados estos nombres:

revistasolaris.org

solarisjournal.org

solarisnios.org

revista-solaris.org

solaris-journal.org

solaris-nios.org

revista.solaris.org

solaris.journal.org

solaris.nios.org

A Miguel Polo y a mí nos gusta el dominio “revista.solaris.org”, también nos gusta “solaris.nios.org”.

Actualmente estamos en la fase final de la conformación de un equipo editorial internacional de 16 miembros lo cual le daría mayor dinamismo y agilidad a la revista en el próximo informe nos centraremos en ese punto, en ese sentido, si hay algún miembro del blog que quiere unirse a estos esfuerzos puede escribirnos a [email protected]

Hare Krishna Gurudeva, su insignificante sirviente, Abhiram Thakur das.

[4:45 AM, 10/17/2020] Anandamaya Das: HK Gurudeva, pamho, TLGASP!! le envie el libro Olas de la Devoción en español tambien a su correo... 🙏🙏🙏

[11:06 AM, 10/17/2020] Hp Swami: the table of contents show all four parts of the ocean ie, east, south..., but the tranlastion only includes the east.  is there more? where from you got it?

[11:06 AM, 10/17/2020] Hp Swami: maybe it is bh. sastri usage?

'O'ink~ Whoop! √2∞ x pi

End of another long, hard, productive day.

How are your daze?

I think they must be similar to ours.

Endless hell and suffering! (No?) 😎 Dukhalayam asasvatam ... Krsna guarantees that this world is a place of suffering and unpredictable. Pain is one of the proofs that God exists. How wonderful. We are all going to die!! Krsna is going to kill us!!!

• FULL morning program (Kirtan by the incomparable Mitravinda Devi Dasi).
• Hawaii Class (Prthu Maharaja and Civil Widow Ashrama in ISKCON)
• Raja-bhoga (Vijaya & Visaka Devi Dasi Narain, 7-preps, LoB [Peacock])
• Lilamrta (Prabhupada Dying to Create ISKCON)
• Kapi Dhvaja (Pre-press)
• Wall King, Tall King (NgD, Dr. Desai and again Master Vijayi)
• 1-hour of ecstasy and working our brain, with ArtD and Solaris refrain.
• Here with you all (8PM Murfreesboro Kirtan and now we must. . .

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Hare Krsna Guru Maharaj,

Please accept our most humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

What an amazing opportunity to even be able to write on this Blog!!

HpS/ASA - https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/4/4/12/ I think you are like Lord Siva.

It is 6:18 and we need to chant more. We never regret being able to join such a wonderful and sincere group of Japa Joe 4 am chanters. On average we join and thereafter join the LA Temple mangal Arati at 5:30 at least 4-5 times a week. The other two days we just get ready, chant, and sing our mangal arati prayers. Rounds chanted after 8:30 (if over 10) are so mechanical and distracted so we are trying to avoid that. We pray that you, Guru Maharaj-Srila Prabhupada-Krsna will accept our small morsel of sincerity (even from this morsel there is a minuscule amount that is unmotivated) and allow us to continue. Or we literally feel like most of this life is truly wasted!!!

HpS/ASA - Monkey, Piggy, Uncle Gismo and the Anjana Suta Academy, Supreme, Undifferentiated, Absolute, Commando have met and decided that you deserve the "Distinguished Survivor Mama" award. You may not be perfect Prabhu, but you ain't dead yet and your shooting back at The Witch. Thank you! O.K. Now onto the next award "Victory Mama". How is The Murari Das et al?

Next steps are: we are going on with our Canto 2 Sunday school study (now Chapter 8 and 9) but we need to do this a little more frequently since it happens a few days a week at most. We also are studying the intro to the Bhagavad Gita with our ladies group. It’s become more of a lecture or class by one person the last two months. The TPP starts chapter 1 so this should help us delve in more deeply. Thankyou !!!

HpS/ASA - The Intro seems impossible to follow in any logical development. We always want to get behind the flow and see why Srila Prabhupada is writing one thing after another. It made Hari sauri Das a devotee!

Also...we notice our consciousness waking up to just wanting things more organized and clean. This may sound weird, but it’s been a focus/meditation for us (The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kundo).

ASA - Thank you!!!

We work for a private primary medical practice now as the sole counselor. So much to read, orient ourselves with the diverse clientele and some clients that are 15-20 years older than us. 13-17 hours a week seems about what we can manage along with all the tasks That come with taking care/homeschooling the kids. We do some devotee care/coordination work for weekly seva but this seems to not be too cumbersome and increases during festivals.

This is our update. We also have some news and humbly request it can be kept confidential

HpS - O.K. but as Sannyasis and B'caris we have to consider these things in the association of a competent Grhasta, so we will share it with CCD/Subra.

With great respect and reverence Guru Maharaj for tolerating us! So many waves 🌊 to ride. We will become professional surfers 🏄🏻‍♀️ 🏄 under your guidance. HK HK KK HH!!! HR HR RR HH.

Your servant,

Kamagayatri Dasi

HpS - ASA === O.K. We prepare for Hawaii Class.

[2:23 AM, 10/15/2020] Rupanuga Das: https://www.facebook.com/120011391353052/videos/385226265849379/?sfnsn=mo

1.- UN RECUENTO DE PLANTAS QUE AUMENTAN EL METABOLISMO Y MEJORAN EL SISTEMA INMUNOLÓGICO. 

2.-COMO VENCER EL MIEDO.

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HpS/ASA -- TlgaSP. Que lastima, no podemos revisar esto. Comentarios de otros!?

Dear Guru Maharaj,

Please accept my most humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada and your service unto him.

I recieved a letter from Japan and wanted to know where I can direct them or how to respond to them so that they can order the book Pracyaprajnapradipa by Professor Dr. Samaresh Bandyopadhyay. Should I just guide them to order it from Amazon as it is available on Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Pracyaprajnapradipa-Professor-Samaresh-Bandyopadhyay-Felicitation/dp/B00WJ4SAIO)?

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HpS - ASA --- Hare Krsna!!!! The seller on Amazon is "cemorris" from Spring Hill, Tennessee. ?? ! I don't know who they are. Very interesting. He shows only one book leftin stock and I cannot see that s(he)it has got anything else for sale on Amazon.

Hmmm.

I think the best is to direct them to us.