Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna respected Gurudeva, please accept my humble obeisances

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!!

All the Glories to You!!

We are trying to coordinate, in goodness, your Sankirtana in Peru, this is the proposal:

Virtual trip of His Holiness Hanumatpresaka Swami to Peru May 20-28, 2020

ONLINE PROGRAM

WEDNESDAY MAY 20

18.55 ASA-NIOS-PERU Meeting / translated: Nitya-kisori d.d

THURSDAY MAY 21

4.30 FMP / sings Mitravinda d.d.

9.30 Dialogue with Raúl Zevallos about the movie “The last trip”

11.00 am e-sanga, class for Hawaii

FRIDAY MAY 22

4.30 FMP / sings Abhinanda d.

7.30 SB class, prabhu Srinivas Acarya / translator: Nitya-kisori d.d.

9.30 Dialogue with Miguel Polo, agenda: SOLARIS, 1) Indexing and 2) restructuring

18.55 Class of NOI 5, HH HpS / translator: Gandharva d.

SATURDAY MAY 23

4.30 FMP / sings Isvari Radha d.d.

7.30 SB class, HH HpS / translator: Candra-mukhi d.d.

9.30 Dialogue with prabhu Karuna Krishna

SUNDAY MAY 24

4.30 FMP / sings Candra-mukhi d.d.

12.30 COME WITH ME TO PREACH IN A HISPANIC UNIVERSE by HH HpS / translator: Gandharva d.

MONDAY, MAY 25

4.30 FMP / sings HpS

7.30 SB class, HH HpS / translator: Candra-mukhi d.d.

TUESDAY, MAY 26

4.30 FMP / sings Anandamaya d.

7.30 SB Yugala-kisor d.d. class / translator: Srutipriya d.d.

9.30 Dialogue with Héctor Béjar about the preface of the SB

18.55 NOI 6, HH HpS / translator: Gandharva d.

Wednesday, May 27

4.30 FMP / sings Yugala-kisor d.d.

7.30 SB class, HH HpS / translator: Gandharva d.

Thursday, May 28

4.30 FMP / sings Mitravinda d.d.

6.55 virtual arrival in Mexico

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

Hare Krishna respetado Gurudeva, por favor acepte nuestras humildes reverencias.

TODAS LAS GLORIAS A SRILA PRABHUPADA!!

TODAS LAS GLORIAS SEAN A USTED!!

Estamos tratando de coordinar, en bondad, su Sankirtan en Perú, esta es la propuesta:

MIÉRCOLES 20 DE MAYO

18.55 Reunión ASA-NIOS-PERÚ / traduce: Nitya-kisori d.d

JUEVES 21 DE MAYO

4.30 FMP / canta Mitravinda d.d.

9.30 Dialogo con Raúl Zevallos sobre la película “El último viaje”

11.00 am e-sanga, clase para Hawai

VIERNES 22 DE MAYO

4.30 FMP / canta Abhinanda d.

7.30 Clase de SB, prabhu Srinivas Acarya / Traduce: Nitya-kisori d.d.

9.30 Dialogo con Miguel Polo, agenda: SOLARIS, 1) Indexación y 2) reestructuración

18.55 Clase de NOI 5, HH HpS / Traduce: Gandharva d.

SÁBADO 23 DE MAYO

4.30 FMP / canta Isvari Radha d.d.

7.30 Clase de SB, HH HpS / Traduce: Candra-mukhi d.d.

9.30 Dialogo con prabhu Karuna Krishna

DOMINGO 24 DE MAYO

4.30 FMP / canta Candra-mukhi d.d.

12.30 VEN CONMIGO A PREDICAR EN UN UNIVERSO HISPANICO por HH HpS / traduce: Gandharva d.

LUNES 25 DE MAYO

4.30 FMP / canta HpS

7.30 Clase de SB, HH HpS / traduce: Candra-mukhi d.d.

MARTES 26 DE MAYO

4.30 FMP / Canta Anandamaya d.

7.30 Clase de SB Yugala-kisor d.d. / traduce: Srutipriya d.d.

9.30 Dialogo con Héctor Béjar sobre el prefacio del SB

18.55 NOI 6, HH HpS / traduce: Gandharva d.

Miércoles 27 de mayo

4.30 FMP / canta Yugala-kisor d.d.

7.30 Clase de SB, HH HpS / traduce: Gandharva

Jueves 28 de mayo

4.30 FMP / canta Mitravinda d.d.

6.55 Llegada virtual a México

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

HpS - Looks good. The only problem is that we can all die at any moment! Hare Krsna.

Querido Gurumaharaja: 

Por favor acepte mis respetuosas reverencias! 

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada!

El programa de Krsna West es el Martes 2 de Junio, 6:00 pm

ASA - Got it! 

REUNIÓN SASTRA MELA 

Estoy en contacto con madre Lalita Gopi.

Gurumaharaja nos preocupa no saturar la agenda así que tenemos la propuesta que la reunión se haga el Viernes 29 a las 7:00 pm, sería en lugar de la clase y no habría problemas porque de todas formas ISKCON México se encarga de la Noche de Srila Prabhupada. 

Madre lalita Gopi ya estuvo preguntando a los demás y les parece bien esa fecha y horario. 

Así que si a Usted le parece adecuado podemos agendarla o hacer los cambios que considere. 

La reunión sería por gotomeeting? 

HpS - Aparece bueno! Por los quien le gust el libro Krsna

ITINERARIO completo

(horario Tenessee y México) 

Mayo 

Viernes 29 

7:30 am 

Taller de Srimad Bhagavatam 

Prabhu Srinivas Acarya ( por confirmar) 

7:00 pm 

Reunion Sastra Mela ( por confirmar) 

Sábado 30 

7:30 am

Taller de Srimad Bhagavatam

SS. Hanumatpresaka Swami

Domingo 31 

5:00 pm a 6:00 pm 

"PSICÓLOGIA EN CONTEXTOS MULTICULTURALES" 

Anfitrión: Govardhanesvari dd ( ISKCON México ) 

Gotomeeting y Facebook live 

JUNIO

Lunes 1 

7:30 am

Taller de Srimad Bhagavatam

SS. Hanumatpresaka Swami 

Martes 2 

7:30 am 

Taller de Srimad Bhagavatam

Yugala kisor dd ( por confirmar) 

6:00 pm 

"LA EDUCACIÓN Y LO SAGRADO"  

Anfitrión: Anuradha dd ( Krsna West y Proyecto Mantra) 

Zoom y Facebook live 

HpS - Necesitamos un number de telefono USA para participar.

Miércoles 3 

Taller de Srimad Bhagavatam

7:30 am

SS. Hanumatpresaka Swami

* FMP cada día 

SERVICIOS

kirtaniyas : 

Responsable: Bhakta Héctor

Equipo : 

Arya Srestha _ Viernes

Bhaktin Natyelli _ Sábado 

Saranagati dasi _ Domingo

SS. Hanumatpresaka Swami _ Lunes 

Lalita Gopi dd _ Martes 

Bhakta Héctor _ Miércoles

Diseños y anuncios : Ananda Maya dd. 

Traducción de textos y apoyo en traducción de preguntas: Bhaktin Natyelli 

Traducción de clases : apoyo de países hermanos. 

Siempre hay más oportunidades de servicios, la invitación sigue abierta 😊

Vuestra eterna aspirante a sirviente: Asta Sakhi dd.

HpS - Is just like being there! Radha - Madana-gopala will take us with them to Gokula Mexico.

Dear Maharaj,

Please accept my humble obeisances and all glories to Srila Prabhupada! Dear Maharaj, I read all the purports you assigned to me. Discussed with my parents. Tried to apply those teachings. Maharaj, but my husband has another woman in his life now. What am I to do now? I've tried to make things work, but I'm falling apart now.

Your aspiring servant,

YajnaseniDD

ASA - Thank you. Srila Prabhupada must be very touched when we try to apply his messages.

From your report it sounds like your husband is falling apart, not you.

In Canto Seven it says that wife should not be a servant of a husband who is fa

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"Indulging in beer or broads", TB

Rather she should take shelter of her real husband [we know Who], live apart [with her father, brother et al] get on with her life [of becoming a famous devotee of KRSNA] and pray for the Donkey's recovery.

Hare Krishna

All Glories To Srila Prabhupada

Please Accept My Most Humbles Obeisances

Esteemed Maharaja

Hoping the allergies are getting better, here in panamá the raining season started but not fully, so weather goes from super humid to super rainy and so we are going thru the same here.

HpS - ASA --- AgtSP!!! Ayur-veda is so nice. Even a little general principles and we can see so many ways to improve our energy. We are 70% pitta, minimum, so allergy means we have to reduce the pitta. That gives us inspiration intuitively what to cook for our Deity.

0ur sadhana is getting so much better, getting up at brahma muhurta, chanting our rounds, i have given myself the task of keeping a steady number of rounds and when i´m completely disciplined committed with this, i increase the number, in order to keep a steady number.

we are following the four principles on point, and we are very interested in keeping studying the second chapter [canto?] of the Srimad Bhagavatam, we feel very interested about the Virat-rupa form of the Lord and its meditation and finding a way in it, to find a "where to start" because every time we feel we are just starting the process, always in the neophyte mood, because i´m having a hard time to keep up the utsahan, some days we feel we aren´t being sincere with our process, like we are ghosting our own process, and i was wondering, if our material nature interfere more than we think it can in our spiritual process to become devotees? or its that some people develop a better relationship with krishna in the separation mood?

HpS - A lot of variety, but the basic principle is that whatever effort you make to purify yourself of material convering, it has a effect. Krsna is pleased

listening every day to your classes and trying to keep everything learned in practice in a daily basis! my memory is giving much trouble i have a hard time remembering everything i learn! its this part of maya too? or more part of our own ignorance?

HpS - Listen. You cannot learn everything. Understand as best you can, then the correct things will sink into your heart.

but still, im not acting like before, when everything used to become dark and lazy and i stopped chanting, but now i chant, even if i feel heavy and not like chanting i chant HARE KRISHNA HARE KRISHNA KRISHNA KRISHNA HARE HARE HARE RAMA HARE RAMA RAMA RAMA HARE HARE !

we do our offerings to the Lord and then eat the prasadam and while chanting we ask the Lord to help us with this feeling, with this thoughts, we pray to the Lord to clean our hearts and to give us the opportunity to serve him, to serve you, serve Srila Prabhupada and serve the devotees! Haribol!

your wellwisher

Andrea Ramirez

HpS - Just go back and forth chanting your rounds like a soldier, HK, HK, then you will have strength all day!!! You are doing O.K. Just take advantage of the mercy when Krsna sends it. Always do some service. That will give you intelligence in the fastest way possible about how to be organized.

Querido Gurumaharaja: 

Por favor acepte mis respetuosas reverencias.

¡Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada! 

Deseando y orando humildemente para que su energía se encuentre en óptimas condiciones para Su sankirtana. 

Recibimos las fechas para México, muchas gracias!

Entiendo que queda fijo del 29 al 3 de Junio. 

Viernes 29 y Sábado 30 

Mantenemos FMP cada dia.

Srimad Bhagavatam 

Viernes 29 

Srinivas Acarya Das ( por confirmar) 

Sábado 30 

SS. Hanumatpresaka Swami 

Como se viene realizando el Viernes se puede celebrar: 

Noche de Srila Prabhupada "Distribuicion de los significados de Bhaktivedanta a través de los medios académicos" 

 7:30 pm o el horario que le convenga a Usted, no tenemos inconveniente.

HpS - ASA -- 7PM, Podemos? Programa local a las 8.PM. -[;o]/\___

También vemos la importancia de las reuniones con Balimardana prabhu y los invitados que se unan así que podemos descartar la propuesta de la noche, no queremos saturar la agenda, somos flexibles con cualquier cambio prioritario, estamos a sus órdenes.

Por favor digamos si de nuestra humilde posición hay alguna posibilidad de apoyar en su servicio para el sastra-mela; talves requiere alguna fecha de reunión con participantes específicos de México y Sud América?

HpS - Si! Gracias. Cuando es bueno para Srimati Lalita-gopi Devi Dasi y mas.

Muchas gracias por su infinita misericordia de emplearnos en servicio. 

En una próxima carta enviaré el resumen. 

Vuestra eterna aspirante a sirviente

Asta Sakhi dd.

HpS - Gracias!!! Sabado 30 es organizado con Krsna-West??

Hare Krsna dear Gurumaharaja

Please accept my humble obeisances

All glories to Srila Prabhupada !

I apologize in advance, because this message will not be short. I have already sent my proposal for the BhVai questionnaire in Chapter 3 of the 2nd Canto to your e-mail. I hope it agree with what you have in mind. Please allow me to make the necessary corrections otherwise.

HpS - We hope that MOnkey and Piggy get to it and we can help! You class was wonderful. We sent the link to Atul, Yadu Swam et al. SO was Isvari's. We can help with ed. dev. in ISKCON at the highest of its levels.

If you are satisfied with the questions, I would ask you to allow me to continue with another chapter. Honestly I have learned many things from this experience and I have had a good time doing something that I really like which is research.

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On the other hand, and with regard to the education landscape in Peru and the region, I would like to share some ideas with you, as well as some doubts with the purpose of knowing your point of view.

Bhakti sastri :

• At the moment things are moving to the rhythm of their possibilities. Only a few online programs maintain their activities. I just had a conversation with Deva Deva Vyasa prabhu who starts a Bhakti Sastri course this weekend with 71 enrolled! ( wow ! if most of them finish the course, they will generate irreparable brain damage to our examiner!) The good thing about all this is that the devotee is willing to collaborate with the MOE and we periodically have conversations on Skype to clarify the doubts he may have. Their intentions are to continue with institutional policies and offer an official course. LAD and I continue with our program separately and everything is presented without further inconvenients. Both courses will be ending before the middle of next year.
• CMDD BS examiner record was rejected as she lacks training in Teacher Training Education courses 1, 2 and 3. Bhaktarupa prabhu asked me to at least she must take the TTC3 course. Her extensive teaching career is recognized, but BoEx devotees have raised the bar , with which I fully agree. Param Padam prabhu offers teachers recommended by the MOE 50% discount on any of their courses, so in the coming weeks LAD, CMDD, me, Rupa Gosai and Deva Deva from Bolivia will acquire this training. After obtaining the certificate, I will resubmit the file of our future examiner.
• Last minute news! Guayaquil is starting two BS courses next week (one line / classroom) with Rupa Gosai prabhu, I have just had a kind conversation with Guru Mangala prabhu who has shared with us their needs , expectations and concerns on education. He sends you greetings and his best wishes for your sankirtan program.
• The educational tide is pervading and nurturing each corner of this land of God, by the grace of Sri Sri Radha Madana Vihari. All glories to his Lordships! I'm so, so, so happy.

Pada Padma ( BhVai )

• LAD has formed a small but enthusiastic group of students that I am pleased to be part of. We started as a larger group but little by little we were reducing. The level of discussion is interesting and the commitment of the participants is serious. It may be necessary to work on the study material which seems to me, it does not have the level of the material developed for BS yet, but the effort is being made. This first official experience is meeting the expectations of the temple and the students.

Introduction to Bhakti- yoga

• Isvari Radha devi dasi is finishing the annual course with a small but highly motivated group with a strong inquisitive profile. Hopefully by the second half of this year we can start another group online. Very comprehensive study guides have been developed. The first five topics of the course were developed by me and the second five, by madre Isvari . The material is organized in the form of synoptic charts and diagrams and is serving as a model for the study guides I am developing for my Bhakti Sastri course . Later, we can put it all together in a database. The important thing is that this material is in Spanish entirely. My intention is to make it interactive and include hyperlinks that allow less linear and more dimensional access. Little by little I am working on this idea.

Strategies:

• I suggest to change certain paradigms regarding educational administration. The ISKCON Chosica temple can be the point of origin for these transformations that can then be replicated (as necessary) in the rest of the region. The administrators of some centers have a somewhat rural idea of ​​what ISKCON development can represent, locally and globally. For decades, educational services have facilitated administrative issues, such as initiations, which generate labor for the practical services of the temple, which is what matters most to these sectors. The education of two or three devotees (no more) to teach the weekend classes is also part of their interests but without the intention of facilitating a platform for collective and personal growth for the majority of the members, according to their service. and position in the VAD. Therefore, since education becomes an instrument of political exploitation, they have no greater interest in understanding the possibilities of sustained growth for their communities.
• The old culture of the temple education officer appointed by the authorities is still very much in force. The temples have remained isolated from each other and the temple educator ran the universe for his congregation , and (literally) was unaware of what was going on in other spaces . There are devotees who have a hard time coordinating, I think it is important to meet to find ways to understand the purposes of the MOE. Only in this way, education in Peru and the region can be articulated with the ISKCON pedagogical current worldwide trend.
• The administration of the sastric courses (BS, Pada Padma - BhVai , Introduction to Bhakti Yoga (IBY) and Disciples Course) should be more orderly, locally speaking. BS has two teachers, an administrator and an examiner, I propose to replicate the model in the others. IBY also: administrator, examiner and one or two teachers, depending on demand. Pada Padma will conform to a similar scheme when we can access BhVai accreditation and the Disciples Course is examined by the same teachers but I also propose an administrator. The administrator should be responsible for overseeing compliance with course standards, providing content, and serving as a link between examiners and teachers. 
• In this way, I strongly beleive a specialization should be developed in each course. Teachers must specialize in one course (or two at most, as it is done in the universities). Multi task teacher who gives 3 or 4 courses corresponds to an educational system of a smaller scale and of little scope. It seems to me that we must turn each course into a program, supervised by the MOE and the national education officer. This is what is being done globally.
• It may be necessary to give teachers more tools, although the TTC courses are not a panacea, they serve to organize a language and didactic and pedagogical standard. Param Padam prabhu wants to collaborate with the MOE, I will take him at his word.
• I do not know if it is possible to develop an online seminar program with MOE's accreditation, something like diplomas on various topics, given by devotees in two, three or four 2-hour sessions. These certificates can allow devotees to access specialized services in temples or abroad. I haven't fully developed the idea but I think it can be interesting. Would a MOE-certified program be possible? I'm presenting in short a project to you an TMd for its discussion, if you allow me, Gurudeva.
• It is necessary for devotees interested in children's education to hone their skills. For this I think that a network of early childhood education training can be developed that formally links educators in the region with educators in Dallas or Houston (or elsewhere) , that way they get enthused and can apply that knowledge in their own jobs (many of them work as teachers or education assistants in schools).
• What about the Sastra Mela in june? Which are the details or where can I look at them? It's an open invitation for all the regional teachers?

I regret the length of this message. I am looking forward to your opinions and recommendations, Gurumaharaja . May Lord Nrsimhadeva take care of your sankirtan .

Your servant

Gandharva das

OOOh!! Sri Sri Gaura Nityananda have given us their infinite mercy by allowing us to worship them at home, these two beautiful deities have come to light up our lives due to the generous heart of our beloved sister Nitya Kisori devi dasi, the Lord bless her always!!. Nitai Gaura Haribol !!!!

 HpS - Gaura nitai Ki Jai!! We had to start scanning the letter and could not read everything. It is far to technically advanced for us. I don't see the institution being able to handle such a complicated system. Hmmm! It depends on how you can develop relations. I have a nice but simple relation with the BOEX now. I don't know how it will develop or disappear. Our ideas may be lost. ISKCON may fade away after 100-years and Krsna come again and start another. He will never give up.

1. Who am I? Two Mantras are enough, first. Then on that BASIS how do other books fit in.
2. SB class on some day. NOI evening on the other days. Is working well.
3. Bonk.. We ge tired... Hare Krsna Hare Krsna!! Priorities. Personal relations then building systems that people THOSE people will maintain. Moltke, "No plan of battle survives after the first thirty minutes of serious contact with the enemy".

Thank you for this letter!!! Any close friends in these projects?