Letters to the editor

Esteemed Dr. Professor S. Bandyopadhyaya, Brahmacari Purusottama-kesava Das et al,

Hare Krsna!!!     We are struggling to stay alive in the little village of Murfreesboro. and move forward, NIOS, ISKCON Ministry of Education, Latin American GBC and our own esoteric Anjana Suta Academy work.   ...    We have organized our ASA bulletin as our basic platform of communication: http://www.jayarama.us/news.htm, and this month is anniversary of 20-years of publication.  In this last issue especially, God's mercy and some real pain on our part, we were able to put all the work in 91% clear perspective.

Please look at it as you can and give us your criticism!!

Very specifically: Prof. here is a link to the very nice effort to place your Bio-data on Wikipedia. Our worker, Carlos Rold, from Chile, has faced different challenges but seems we are 87% ready to see it posted: https://monkeywarrior.com/detail/11123/

Number Two - PK Das, where are you? Professor, everyone is asking about you!   Can you also make a post to the Blog eg. Twenty-first Century Brahmacaria in ISKCON?    What was the conclusion about the NIOS-ISKCON Kolkata account?  NIOS has a substantial debt to Professor and his team for printing, editing last book.  If all the remaining funds had best go to ISKCON Kolkata, O.K.   Or if we can get our official reps in India eg. Sashi Prakasa Sing, Deputy Attorney General for Central Government, Uttar-pradesha to send an Invoice to the Temple. Or just have Prof. Sri Hari Das send proper compensation and adoration to Prof. that is another option.

Number Three - Prof.   a) How can we get Pracya-prajna articles into Solaris? b) Are there scholars that you know who would like to contribute to Solaris. It is in process with Prof. Miguel Polo et al of being reviewed for becoming academically Indexed Journal. We are poor as church mice but we can honestly offer proper honraria for articles. c) Abhirama et all want a(n series of) bio-graphical interviews of your good self. I have been trying to get the international media working with Ambarisa Das in Argentina. He and his wife are well respected, professional, video editors.  Remember the one we did quickly at the Gaudiya Matha?  That was edited and shown at the last Symposium, Education and the Sacred. Can we make a few interviews?  Are there some topics that appeal to you? One topic is why does one become a historian, especially of ancient culture?

Hector Behar ran successful Journal on Political Science for twenty years and suggest that we "Partner" with like five other Journals that, along with Solaris, will give a very serious view of the topics we are trying to communicate. We started with Bellas Artes from Lima last issue. We give them a page at the end of our Journal and they so the same for us. Who else, Stapatyam?

Hare Krishna Maharaja!

PAMHO

AGTSP

AGTHPS

At the end of this message: proposal of new text about Dr. Samaresh biography for Wikipedia.

Thank you very much for letting me try to be an instrument of our Eternal Lord.

I just wanna be your servant,

Carlos.

HpS - ASA --- Thank you for the patience to deal with our sincere but slow moving efforts. Thank you. Sent your the very nice PDF of the award ceremony for Professor and the accompanying bio-data. If you integrate that with this information, especially citing a source besides NIOS, then it should pass the Wiki-police, no?

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Samaresh Bandyopadhyay (born May 3rd 1942 in Calcutta, now called Kolkata) is an indian Doctor of Philosophy, scholar and professor. He belongs to an illustrious family of scholars famous for patriotism and philanthropic activities. In his youth, Professor Dr. Samaresh Bandyopadhyay was a brilliant student of the University of Calcutta. He has received several scholarships, research fellowships and a gold medal for classifying First Class First at B.A. (Hons.) in Ancient Indian History and Culture. University of Calcutta is his alma mater and he served in that institution for over four decades in different academic areas and retired in 2007 as a professor emeritus. He has written 10 books, 25 essays and more than 300 research articles published in indian and foreign specialized magazines. 

He has made several featured contributions to different aspects of Indology in specific areas such as Literature, Numismatics, Epigraphy, Architecture, Iconography and Sculpture. In 2002 he was the General President of the Numismatic Society of India, later, during 2003 he was the General President of the Epigraphical Society of India, and in 2012 the General President of the Indian Art History Congress. His work is considered as an invaluable contribution to the study of the History of Science.

He is associated through different functions (Honorary Fellow, President, Vice-president, Advisor, Editor and Member) with different learned institutions in different states of India and other countries. Professor Dr. Samaresh Bandyopadhyay is now a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, also a Member of the Advisory Board of Sthāpatyam (Journal of the Indian Science of Architecture and Allied Sciences) from New Delhi, and he is the Principal Advisor of the North American Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies (NIOS), USA, which promotes worldwide the study of the History of Science building bridges between the ancient knowledge from West and East.

One of the outstanding Indologist of present times, Professor Dr. Ian W. Mabbett of Australia, have been published two books in his honor: "Abhivādana (A Volume on Aspects of Early Indian History and Culture in Honour of Professor Dr. Samaresh Bandyopadhyay)", published in 2008 in Kolkata; and the second, entitled “Prācyaprajñapradīpa (Professor Dr. Samaresh Bandyopadhyay Felicitation Volume on Early Indian History and Culture)”, which is commended as “a precious gift in the new millennium to the scholars of Early Indian History and Culture”, published in 2012 in U.S.A.

MAIN PUBLICATIONS:

- Āchārya-Vandanā (D.R. Bhandarkar Birth Centenary Volume), edited by Professor Dr. Samaresh Bandyopadhyay, released by the then Prime Minister of India, Her Excellency Indira Gandhi, and commended as "one of the best Indological publications of the century and the best of the type" by Sir Harold Bailey of Cambridge University, U. K. 1985.

- Thoughts on Synthesis of Science and Religion, also edited by him with Dr. T. D. Singh of Berkeley University (U.S.A.), incorporates contributions from as many as five Nobel Laureates. (YEAR OF PUBLICATION?)

- Bhārara Saṁskriti (Presentations at the Three Day International Seminar on “Importance of Early Indian Culture in Making a Better World”), published from the U.S.A., 2015.

AWARDS:

- Nelson Wright Medal of the Numismatic Society of India (Varanasi). 2012.

- Honorary Fellowship of the Ancient Sciences and Archaeological Society of India, Mysore, Karnataka. (2014?)

- Jñānanidhi, of the Government sponsored Academy of Sanskrit Research, Melkote, Karnataka. (2015?)

- Sir Achārya J. C. Bose Memorial, Bose Institute Main Campus (Kolkata) for his outstanding contribution to the history of science and archaeology. 2016.

REFERENCES:

- www.niosnimbus.org

- www.caluniv.ac.in

Hare Krishna Maharaj 

Pamho. 

How are you managing in these circumstances. Sorry I haven't communicated much. Read Prahalad prayers which is just fantastic. 

Pray for Lord Mercy on all of us

Respects, Hari Bol, Rknd

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Hare Krsna, Prabhu et al,

We are struggling to be pure devotees! We have been in Murfreesboro for weeks now.

For the benefit of our reading audience, RKnd Das is a former astronaut or some such service for Nasa. He was invited to be the first man on the moon I think but decided to go to the Houston Temple for the Sunday Feast instead.

He is an avid SB reader and our long time associate from Houston. Mataji is an equally avid scholar.

Prabhu, we do very little communication outside of this Blog, because we are too stupid to function without 9-other people looking at us. Join here. Post news on your research into the service of Bhagavan.

We also send our daily news from here and fortnightly from the web page... www.JayaRama.US.

PLEASE - PLEASE - PLEASE

Join us here and send your research results!! Respects to your esteemed family.

Please accept my respectful obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

So grateful for accepting the transmission for ISKCON Mexico dated May 31.

I submit the topic proposal.

"Psychology in multicultural context"

Questions:

1) What should be the psychology of the devotee who is in a bicultural situation in which he faces being Hare Krsna and being inserted in a situation that demands fruitive activity?

2) How to healthy reconcile the differences derived from the cultural variables between devotees?

3) What does it mean to assume the identification as Vaisnava in a context like today?

Sincerely,

Your aspiring servant,

Govardhanesvari devi dasi

Member of the Administrative Committee, 

in charge of the Communications Department

HpS - Thank you... AgtSP. Multi-cultural, Australian Bushmen and Paris Fashion Designers??? Can you pick say three or more as you think best, different cultures that we should look at! Sounds like fun.

Querido Gurumaharaja: 

Por favor acepte mis reverencias.

¡Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada! 

Informe sobre los avances del itinerario para México. 

Los horarios corresponden para Tennessee, México (horario de Verano) y Perú. 

MAYO

Viernes 29

Sabado 30

Propuestos en KDh, para nosotros esta muy bien!!! Tambien los tamales para Sri Nrsimhadeva.

Domingo 31 

5:00 pm Tema: "Psicología en contextos multiculturales" 

Dirigido al público en general a través de gotomeeting* y facebook live de ISKCON México.

Invitan: ISKCON México 

*Gurumaharaja decidimos descartar Zoom para Su mayor comodidad y de los fieles seguidores de gotomeeting, se hizo las pruebas técnicas y funcionan muy bien. 

Más detalles sobre el tema de la clase en otra carta de ISKCON México. 

JUNIO

Lunes 1 

7:30 am Srimad Bhagavatam 

SS. Hanumatpresaka Swami

Martes 2 

7:30 am Srimad Bhagavatam

Invitado

6:00 pm Tema: "La Educación y lo Sagrado" 

Dirigido al público, profesores y psicólogos de Krsna West y Proyecto Mantra a través de Zoom* 

Dirigido al público en general a través de facebook live de los anfitriones. 

Invitan: Krsna West y Proyecto Mantra

*Tienen una cuenta de zoom de paga y como Usted me indico los aspectos visuales serán por sesión y el audio por acceso telefónico a EE.UU.

Proyecto Mantra es el programa de prédica de Mahatma Prabhu, en México trabajan con Krsna West . 

Miércoles 3

7:30 am Srimad Bhagavatam

SS. Hanumatpresaka Swami

Las clases de SB estan de acuerdo a la gira, pero podemos ajustar, el final del tours siempre es mas exahusto, las pantallas causan cansancio. Como Usted disponga Gurumaharaja .

Muchas gracias por su misericordiosa atención y permitirnos viajar con Usted por Sud America, Es muy increible!!!!

Nos alegro mucho escuchar que esta pensando viajar con alguien en un futuro cercano.

Vuestra eterna aspirante a sirviente

Asta Sakhi dd. 

HpS - Muy bien. Podemos afilar mas. Junio 4-7 es Symposium en Educacion Sastrica "en" Houston. Podemos hablar de estas temas en Mexico y organizar como los devotos Hispanyolicos puede participar en estos eventos.

hare krishna Maharaj pamho agtsp.

Maharaj I am happy to receive your letter thank you so much.

well thank you Maharaj what can i say.. agtsp!

yeah its been few years already like people says time flys.

here the two certificates of the courses that i did at the manor back in 2015.. !

the fact its i am happy i guess due to the mercy of the holy names. i practically haven't stop chanting all this years, more exactly like since i was 15 years old back in Colombia, when i received the mercy some books, now i am 29 years old, so yes i may know many things about this krishna movement, but still stuck in the basics. lets be positive, still chanting.

what happens i believe in krishna´s plan, and i appreciate how things slowly slowly get on place. right now i think i have to keep chanting an praying for things to improve, but the reality its, i don't feel like taking initiation i am not surrender. like Prabhupad explains guru its not a fashion. I think i need more more more time, i don't want to make a mess, maybe even next life. still i keep myself near to the holy names.

HpS - Everyone is different. Srila Prabhupada took initiation like 11-years after he met Srila Bh. Siddhanta, no? Srimad Bhagavatam's goal is reality distinguished from illusion for the welfare of all. Is that O.K.?

The situación, it's still difficult here in barcelona. still locked at home, you can go out to do some sport in a stipulate hours.

finally just want to say thank you one more time for the inspiration and example.

waiting for your thoughts and advice with great hope and emotion.

now we are dispose to chant a round hare krishna hare krisna...! !!!

HpS - Rupa Goswami, Srila Prabhupada, suggest: Think about it very clearly and then set a number of rounds to chant, a sacrifice of your mind and intelligence, each day for a certain time. Eg. I will chant 4-rounds at least until Ekadasi... Then DO IT... don't let your mind defeat your intelligence, and then evaluate the results:

1. Was a waste of time. I shall follow Tom Cruise.
2. Was O.K. but really I should do 3-rounds until the next Ekadadi.
3. I can do 7.....