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They are trying to make a Strategy for Preaching in the Region. Here are our suggestions on Strategy Development and an entry in our ASA Encyclopedia, VAD,

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The management model that we have is based on a celestial message from Lord Balarama while we were sitting at Rama/ghata during the Braja Mandala Parikarama with Lokanatha Swami and later confirmed when one disciple gave us, "From Good to Great" which was a key text that Micron was using in their management training courses. 1. Who am I?    What are my inspirations,duties, in the current situation, project.  Takes introspection, Japa to answer this question. Separate youself from the environement. What is my real nature, passion, pleasure in deeloping this project. We started the North American Mnistry of Education Meetings and agan and again we would lose our way, and then stop and get our feet on the ground with this questions.  2. Who are we?   Can you find anybody else who has answered the first question? It is rare. most people are working on the guidance of others or reacting to the environement. If you do then get a common motivation. Eg. I am a school teacher. I am a school admiistrator. I am a school building maintenance man.  Then obviously ...  3. What's the Plan?   After 1 & 2 it is easy to make 3, but now it is based on clear personal character and motivations, and clear team relations and motivations abilities.  4. What do we need?   If the plan is clear then the materials needed are clear. Eg. We are going to start a primary school in Houston. The families are a little dibursed. We need two medium size school busses and drives.  Who am I? Who are we? What is the plan? What do we need?

Hey, Prabhu, my father gave me an office and $55,000.

Great!!!  ..... what do we do???     What's the plan???

So often we start with the resources and work backwards. I saw a plan for New Vraja Mandala, the Spanish rural project that had an elaborate plan to the extent of three dimensional physical models of the property, but when questioned, not ONE of the people involved personally wanted to participate in the project, but -they thought it was a GREAT plan-?

We are pretty fixed in a Full Morning and Evening Program. Without those we have no basis for planning stuff. We check our mail to see what others want and our own motivation is to follow the inspiration we receive from chanting HK/HR at the lotus feet of Srila Prabhupada from as deeply as we can.   We can adjust to work with other's motivation but our own nature is to look for and produce cultural, artistic and logical expressions of Krsna consciouness and connect those with ISKCON.  For example we are connecting with Harvard University, London School of Medicine, Peruvan and India Fine Arts Academy on this issue of Jungian psychology and the Bhagavata Of course this results in them hearing the wonderful ideas of Srila Rupa Goswami and then we hope readin… I feel we will not develop an ETERNAL, UNIVERSAL strategy, but one for this Campaign, like Alexander against the Persians or Hannibal agains the Romans on their penninsula. Then another one later.

Respected Guru Maharaja,

Hare Krishna. Please accept my humble obeisances at your feet. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Thank you for the text message this morning. Sugopi, Sundari-radhika and I are missing your regular association and fortunate are those in the distant lands/time zones that have your association. Yet we are trying to lick the lotus feet of Krishna's literary incarnation in the morning but it's not the same as hearing your voice filled with devotion, faith, simplicity and clarity. It is very refreshing to hear you on Saturdays but the rest of the week is dull.

I some times get frustrated that I am so sinful and unfortunate to take birth in this age of Kali which robs whatever little bit of mode of goodness that exists around. So many sinful and un-sastric things are accepted as normal in this age of Kali!

Yet as it is said in https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/1/18/7/ Maharaja Pariksit was not envious of Kali and Srila Prabhupada points out many benefits and emphasizes chanting of the holy names and recitation of Srimad Bhagavatam. Bhagavatam recitation is not the same without your presence. My jnana is in place but dhyana is extremely poor. Even when chanting my mind races towards analyzing things, sometimes material and sometimes spiritual. I am struggling to stay focused while eating the sugar candy and the jaundice is not disappearing. I wonder how long it takes before the all attractive makes His name attractive to a fallen soul like me?

I wonder when my heart becomes a suitable place for His residence? Please give me mercy so that I will relish the holy names and Srimad Bhagavatam as the most valuable treasures of my life.

I look at this blog regularly and read the news letter. I try to catch up with the pearls on the twitter and they are great! Couple of weeks ago your tweet inspired me to read the incident of Gopinatha Pattanayaka. It was bewildering but also humbling to see how Maha Prabhu saved him due to his relationship with his exalted brothers - Vaninatha and Ramananda.

I don't see the latest news letter yet so I am using the last known code in the title. Thank you very much for your time in reading this letter.

Your insignificant servant

Srinivasacarya dasa

HpS - Letter just went out. We are struggling in the middle of the mess just like everybody else. Just as you have administrative problems in you local Yatra, there are problems just as difficult at the GBC level. Oooof. Only solution is to join Srila Prabhupada's Sankirtan.

What are you studying in your daily classes?

Here is has been instructions of Bhismadeva. Is good audience. Intelligent, about 25-devotees each morning. The window on the spiritual world is there and we can enter it and get realization of the situation. When was the first time Bhisma met Krsna? How old was he when he renounced marriage? We began to get some realization of Bhisma's personal understanding of Krsna at the moment of His death.

Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada!!!

Hare Krsna Guru Maharaja, por favor reciba mis respetuosas reverencias y un cordial saludo desde Huancayo - Perú.

Aún seguimos en este cuerpo material....

HpS - AGTSP. Pienso es un cuerpo temporal espiritualizado.

Bueno, tuvimos comunicación con Prabhu Adveita Takur Dasa, vamos a ir de Sankirtan Viajero por Puno, Cusco y Arequipa, por lo pronto, esperamos que todo el plan sea un exito para que podamos seguir distribuyendo los LIBROS SAGRADOS DE SRILA PRABHUPADA.

ASA - 😊

Bueno quería comentarle sin ningún sentido de ser sajayiya que he tenido unos sentimientos extraños....preguntas extrañas...si cometí alguna falta le pido por favor me perdone...

Para mí es todo un Misterio sin resolver, el SANKIRTAN....¿como entender?... ¿como saborear ese néctar?.... ¿como meditar siempre en que los libros de Srila Prabhupada son la energía interna de Krsna?...hay tantas formas de Servicio Devocional....pero...este Sankirtan de los Libros de Srila Prabhupada es tan especial....

Cuando distribuyo los libros de Srila Prabhupada tengo esta meditación...... "Srimati Radharani" en la forma de los Libros de Srila Prabhupada se junta con las personas que dentro de sus corazones esta Paramatma "Sri Krsna"....un verdadero Misterio sin resolver....y solo para entenderlo...solo queda refugiarse en las instrucciones del Maestro Espiritual...

Lo único que me hace feliz es por lo menos saber que los Libros de Srila Prabhupada son sagrados y que tienen que ser distribuidos....y que yo sigo siendo un tonto....pero tonto o no tengo que seguir con la Misión de Sankirtan...

ASA - 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

Estaré viajando para el 2 de diciembre, me encontrare en Puno con Prabhu Adveita Takur.

Huancayo es una ciudad donde los españoles, chilenos, no pudieron conquistar, tienen una tradición y costumbres bien cerradas, pero por misericordia de Srila Prabhupada se han distribuido muchos libros hace ya unos años a tras, ahora en estos tiempos la distribución es un poco menos, también la cantidad de devotos sankirtaneros es menor, pero igual no es impedimento para que se sigan distribuyendo los libros de Srila Prabhupada. Pero no todas las ciudades son iguales, las personas son diferentes, en algunos lugares se distribuye mas libros, en otras menos, es curioso pero igual los libros se distribuyen. así que solo tenemos que seguir ADELANTE!!!

Mi sadhana marcha bien, 16 rondas, 4 principios, lectura del Srimad - Bhagavatam, atendiendo como siempre a las Salagrama Silas y Govardhana Sila y Deidades.

Bueno Guru Maharaja, me despido, perdone si cometí alguna ofensa, que Nrsimha lo proteja siempre...y como usted me dijo alguna ves "NOS VEMOS EN LAS CALLES". Hare Krsna.

Gadai Gauranga Dasa

HpS - Hare Krsna. Somos esforzando seguir la misma ruta como Vd. Estamos en Peru 3-10 Deciembre en Lima. Solamente esperamos noticias de Vds..... Srila Prabhupada esta personalmente presente, viva, en su libros.

Education and the Sacred 2019-2020

2019 November 27, Santiago, Chile,

We, Hanumatpresaka Swami (Prof. H. H. Robinson) and other NIOS members, have basically rounded the corner in this 2019 Education and the Sacred tour passing through Spain, India and South America. This tour has focused on developing the 2020 event of the same name. It has been a lot of hard work and excellent results.

Of course, we always want to thank the members and institutions of ISKCON, Founder Acharya His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, for their support and active help without which this tour would have been very difficult.

We have personal confirmation of participation from:

·       Universidad Complutence (Center for the Scientific Study of Religions), Madrid,

·       Bhaktivedanta Research Center, Kolkata, Mumbai, New York,

·       San Marcos University (Center for Asian Studies), Pontifical Catholic University and Antonio Ruiz de Montoya University (Prof. Juan Dejo), Lima, Peru,

·       Waldorf and Montessori schools, Peru,

·       Universidad del Salvador and Fundacion Vocacion Humana (Prof. Bernardo Nante), Buenos Aires,

·       Pontifical Catholic University (Center for Study of Aesthetics), Santiago, Chile,

and several other excellent, decorated artists, scholars, religionists and institutions.

The events in these mentioned places during this tour have been super excellent. Very specifically in Lima, San Marcos University hosted Education and the Sacred with an exhibition-fair of one week, and three nights of formal academic and cultural presentations. During these presentations Prof. Miguel Polo presented the Papal Bulletin on Ecology, Juan Dejo on the history of learning intellectual discrimination in spiritual issues from pre-Socaratic times up to the founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuit), Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Prof. Hector Bejar on the apparent loss of spirituality when modern life is carefully compared to traditional cultures, ourselves on Learning Ecstasy as a goal of education and many others.

Now we will go back to Lima to begin to make final decisions for our journal, Solaris, and events in this project for next year.

We will approach Prof. Shonu Shyamdasani and the Philemon Foundation (Jungian) and Prof. Francis Clooney (Director, Harvard School of Divinity) for their participation and finish in Mexico.a

Hare Krsna.

AGTSP paoho......

We just anwered about 10,000 letters, no? Well seems like a lot. We have good computer on loan from Jagat guru Das's bossm but even still now we are getting eye strain and a head ache. Death is God's way of telling you it is time to slow down.

• We need to make a video for Maharsi Das, MOE, etc about increasing reading and distributing books.
• We need to answer Dr. Samaresh's chat!
• We need to go to Temple, we GET to go to the Temple for Arati and NOI class.
• We need to post a summary of the "Education and the Sacred" (just had some heart arthymias. Ie heart missing beats. Really we can die at any moment now.) so that Radhika can approach Francis Clooney, we can write to Shonu Shyamdasini et al!!
• We feel that if chant our rounds better we will understand how to do all this with priority.

O. K. Bath and go to Temple. Japa, Arati, Class!!!

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

All glories to you and all your service.

I hope that your health is better.

HpS - AGTSP paoho. This letter is very old. We met with Lalita in the temple since you wrote this. It has been very inspiring to see you both here. Thank you!! Actually our health is worse, as expected. We are expecting to die, but is O.K. to do Sankirtan.

Please accept my respectful obeisances dear Guru Maharaja, first of all I apologize for the lack of report and communication with you by this means, although we are always connected in service, mind and heart.

I tell him that we are with Lalita in the restaurant, managing and cooking together. It has been an arduous job, thanks to the Lord we achieved a definitive patent where all legal, were months of hard service, a lot of delivery, painting, making arrangements, resting little, we believe that thanks to the mercy of Lord Krishna everything flowed as I need.

HpS - Yes, I see the result. I think that you two and your service are in the top 15% of ISKCON devotees. You must have had a wonderful father!!

Lalita Madhava has been a fundamental support and has been able to give the right word at all times, an excellent devotee, it inspires me a lot, a blessing to be by her {his} side.

On the other hand, it has been more than a year since my father left the body, we cannot deny how much he is missed, I ask you for advice,: How bad is it for my spiritual life, to stick to my father's memory and my mother's pain? my mother and siblings are in the field, the ones visited often, they like prasadam very much, she lights maha incenses and until she learned to cook vegetarian bakery, it is very favorable.

HpS - It is natural to feel separation from you family. If you papa got a job in China in 1925 and you all said good bye to him at the wharf, boat, you would naturally feel separation. But there would be letters, telegrams, and for sure meet again. Help your family to the eternal world.

We are eager to have your association, we really need Guru Maharaja, Krishna through see you in November here in Iskcon Santiago de Chile.

HpS - Hope to see in 52-minutes.

At your Service, Manjulali Devi Dasi.

ASA - One client for the restaurant below.