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Hare Krsna Maharaja:

Le envio la carta de recomendación para iniciacion de Piero Torchio, Él realizo los cursos correspondientes. Como el curso de discípulos.

Él ahora esta en Peru, por eso no puedo adjuntar el diploma del curso de discípulos, pero cuando el regrese, lo subiré al blog.

Por la situación de Chile, le envio la carta de recomendación, por si existe la posibilidad de que se inicie en Peru, ya que no conocemos cuando usted venga.

Esperamos verlo pronto

su aspirante a sirviente

Jagannatha caran das

HpS - TlgaSP!! pfanrh... Si, estuvimos viviendo con El Bhakta Torchio y todos. Muy amable. Estuvimos hablando con el de arreglas hacer la iniciacion. Mi sugerencia era que yo puede cantar en las cuentas y poner ellos y el nombre en una bolsa y el puede regresar a Chile con esto y tener el ceremonia en Santiago. Pero el prefiera recibir en nuestras presencia corporal su puede. O.K. Ya es casi seguro vamos a a Santiago 13 Noviembre y salimos para Peru 2 Dec. Entonces podemos realizar los formalidades en estas fechas, no?

Mucha gracasi por sus esfuerzas en esta area y tambien mucho para su asociacion. Esperamos ver se en una semana.

Hare Krishna, dear gurudeva, Pamho, AGTSP!

There are several issues that I have to tell you. I will try to be brief and summarized.

1.- Education.

I always saw two aspects.

a) My contribution to ISKCON and

b) My contribution to the community in general.

That's why I was encouraged to do a master's degree so that my contribution is more professional. I am missing the thesis that I hope to do next year.

a) I am currently giving the Disciples Course to a group. I also have the Bhakti sastri group that ends this year. Next to them I have some students waiting for the exam. All of them would take the exam approximately in March 2020 with M. Candramukhi as an evaluator. From the beginning we kept the course development separated with the examiner. I have been doing this program for ten years.

My proposal is that we follow the program as it is, basically ASA, until the new proposal scheduled for 2021 comes out. Gandharva prabhu agrees. That is why I am going to propose to make a bhakti sastri for a year, for the last time, until the new proposal appears, with a slightly different design with some innovations that I have been making. I hope they let me work well. My fear remains in the implantation of an academic dictatorship through an immovable standard. I'm sorry, I can't avoid my anarchic tendency.

HpS - I hope Gandharva Das can work out the bureaucratic details. We can help. Srila Prabhupada's diploma.

b) Krishna is taking me along interesting paths. I left the previous job in August and continued wandering, thinking if it would be good to continue working outside, etc. The sankirtan of cultivating the human spirit really compels me.

Then came the initiative of the devotees of Chosica who wanted to have a good education. Over time, two groups with different interests emerged. The first wanted one more Vaishnava thing, to put a name, a Sunday school. The second, wanted something different.

The second group was like in limbo and met with you, basically M. Krsna karmini. And you presented your vision. I offered to participate in a meeting to see what it was. They were going to start practically from scratch.

Finally we had a meeting M. Krsna karmi, M. Padmavati and I, the three educators by profession. A brainstorm began and little by little we realized that we wanted practically the same. Of course we start with the dynamic “Who am I? Who we are? What's the plan? What do we need?"

For now I can only say that something interesting will come up. I will not give the details. In the next meeting we will summon other devotees and discuss and shape the ideas. This is not a report in itself. We will create a minimal organization to draw up the plan. The communications officer will give the appropriate report.

ASA - Avanti School in England!

Personally I feel very excited. When we went to visit that interesting school in Chorrillos, with a large campus, I was very impressed. I told myself, this is what I was looking for. The three mentioned were thinking the same. We will analyze the conformation of the team to work radially, as I say, from a nucleus outward according to the degree of commitment.

I have the impression that the gurukula of 2003 and NIMSAR ceased to exist because the team never consolidated.

Now we hope that Krishna's desire is manifested and if he approves this budding project. It is clear to us that it is our sankirtan.

Well, I think we have enough with this. Other issues, later.

Thanks for listening.

Bless, please, my sankirtan, our sankirtan.

Your servant,

Laksmana-agraja das

ASA - This is an example of what you might do? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avanti_Schools_Trust

Hare Krsna, Ladies and Gentlmen,

AGTSP

Paoho. We just posted our NOI Evaluation Question Bank, Phase One, to the ASA Archives. Any comments?

http://www.jayarama.us/archives/tpp-noi-evalu191031.docx

Hare Krsna. AGTSP. Paoho.

We find that it is always a struggle to honor Prasadam properly. We are impulsed by lusty desires born from you passionate, tamasic birth, and from our selfish nature. Then when we are traveling etc. we cannot offer exactly what we want so we cannot honor Prasadam perfectly.

As we see Srila Prabhupada was also faced with similar problems while traveling and even went to the point of vomiting!

Following Jayanda Das - Don't give up trying to improve!

It is 7.06 PM. We have had an 87% perfect day. Some adminstrative, political, shocks. Guess a Sannyasi should engage 20% of his time in such things.

Very weak in the morning. Chanting even 15-minute rounds. Things in Argentina straightening out. Rati, Ambo, Nikunja et all doing a lot of work... Arjuna in Chile.. Jagat guru... .... ... so many. Won't even mention some of the most im[portant.

Catur has been 1111% helpful.

We miss Palika Devi Dasi. She had to go to work in Cusco.

So many devotees.

What is NGD doing.

Worked like a fiend on the letters. Eyes little strained. Now Tiri bhava festival.

Hare Krsna!!!!

Hare Krishna,

Dear Guru Maharaja, PAMHO, AGTSP!

From my personal point of view, the senior disciples should be able to serve better the guru, because that devotee has understood the mood of the guru. If he/she is sincere he or she will be able to serve and get others to serve the guru enthusiastically, not harrassing other aspirants to the service.

We ought to learn etiquete to be closer to the guru and to grasp what he wants and what he needs.

We get proud if we are senior disciples, but it should be the opposite, we should be more humble, and inspire other aspirants to create a warm and fired up spiritual environment to serve guru.

How can we understand? We are so tiny to understand what guru is? Who deserves to be closer to the guru? The disciple with more knowledge or the one with more humbleness?

Your very many fallen servant,

Jagat Bandhu Jagannatha Swami dasa.

HpS - AgtSP!!! Paoho. This is such a common question. So common. How to serve Krsna, Guru, anyone, in the company of others.

First, as you say there is the general etiquette. In the story of the Gopis attracted by the flute of Krsna, we see that they were acting like good citizens of Nanda Maharaja's village. They killed cows, sold yogurt and ghee, and paid their taxes.

So, we keep this Blog. We explain in the Kapi Dhvaja and the DTC posts what is our situation and as much as we are trying to be a guru in ISKCON anyone can write here, and then we take some austerity to travel and anyone can join the classes and ask questions.

Then in the general discussions we can see how we need to make detailed discussions.

O.K. Some times disciples say that we, gurus, Brahmanas, leaders, are favoring a certain person, but often it is just that that person takes the effort to communicate. We answer letters from people who write, in the right way.

In our personal limited way, we have some service we are trying to offer to our Guru, the Guru of everyone in ISKCON, Srila Prabhupada. I think we are giving enough news so people can begin to understand and then write, talk with others involved to guide and help them.

These are some basic thoughts.

We just want to find our place in the Sankirtan team, do our formal service, make friends with other devotees, and ultimately through so many channels we all have to have personal relationship with Srila Prabhupada.

AGTSP. Paoho. No content in letter!