Letters to the editor

PAMHO

AGTSP

My dear guruji:

Some days ago we celebrated the advent of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, our beloved Gouranga Mahaprabhu.

Here in Radhakund, for seven days, we had a big festival including a lot of activities, among others we had lila kirtan, that is a group of singers chanting the life of Mahaprabhu, we also had kirtan, dancing, prasadam, and holi and culminating the day of Gour Purnima with a beautiful parikrama around Radhakund and after that the abishek of Mahaprabhu.

But, let's write something about the advent of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu extracted from the Caitanya Caritamrta:

"Lord Sri Caitanya M8ahaprabhu, adventing himself in Navadvip, was visible for forty-eight years, enjoying His pastimes.

In the year 1486, Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu appeared.

I offer my respectful obeisances unto the full moon evening in the month of phalguna, an auspicious time full of auspicious symptoms, when Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu advented Himself with the chanting of the Holy name, Hare krsna'.

Chapter 14 of Sri Caitanya Caritamrta ' The Advent of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu".

Hace algunos dias celebramos la aparicuon de Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, nuestro andado Gauranga Mahaprabhu.

Aqui en Radhakund, por siete dias, tuvimos un gran festival que imcluyo muchas actividades, entre ellasila kirtan, que es in grupo de cantantes, aguantando la vida de Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, tambien tuvimos kirtan, baile, prasadam y holi, culminando el dia de Gour a Purnima con un bello parikrama alrededor de Radhakund y despues el abisheka.

Pero vamos a escribir algo cerca de la aparicion de Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu extraido del Caitanya Caritamrta:

" El Senor Caitanya Mahaprabhu aparecio en Navadvip y estuvo visible durante 48 anos disfrutanfo sus pasatiempos.

Aparecio en el ano 1486.

Ofrezco mis respetuosas reverencias a la noche de luna llena del Mes de phalguna, in momento auspicioso con sintomas auspuciosos cuando el Senor Caitanya Mahaprabhu aparecio junto con el cuanto del Santo Hombre, Hare Krishna'

Capitulo 14 del Caitanya Caritamrta 'La aparicuon de Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu".

My dear gurudev, we will be reporting from Radhakund very soon.

Your (trying to be humble) servant

Tungavidya dd

Note: I could not attach pictures.

HpS - You clicked in the Attach Pictures area below? Maybe it is the weak connection in India. Gauranga..................

PAMHO

AGTSP

My dear guruji, please accept my humble obeisances to your lotus (lettuce) feet.

We had recently the festival of Gour purnima, which in Radhakund lasts seven days full of kirtan, lila kirtan, that is chanting the pastimes of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, chanting, dancing, prasadam and the last day parikrama around Radhakund with the host deities, Nitai Gour in picture 1 and abisheka, picture 2.

We also had Gour lila in the mornings and krsna lila at evening, see picture 3, padyavali in the afternoon and a lot of fun with the holi lila.

My dear guru Maharaja, pls bless me to be here the rest of my life so I can relish these festivals and narrate something about them to all of You, so all of the readers can be here in radhakund at least for a moment.

HpS - All your little children bless you, Mataji. May Krsna save you from naughty monkeys! See you soon. Thank you so much for the news but we only see one photo?? ! We see there is another letter!!!

Dear Guru Maharaja

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! All glories to you!

Although your stay in Dallas was very short, we had a wonderful time associating with you. Thank you so much Guru Maharaja for tolerating our faults and accepting our service. We only wish it was longer.

Radhika Raman Prabhu has finished editing the Preface and has started editing Text 1. He has almost edited half of the transcribed files for Text 1. I printed it for you. Please take a look at it when you have some time and give us your feedback. I think it has come out really well. I am currently transcribing Text 2.

HpS - Thank you. Our visit to Dallas was hard work, but good results. Very good results. Yes, we have the hard and soft copy of the files. As you can see from the DTC we are packed with work right now, but this NOI commentary is very high on our list. Thank you so much for working on this.

I am learning so much when transcribing and the book is going to be a great addendum to Srila Prabhupada's commentary.

Your servant

Srinatha Krsna dasa

AgtSP!

paoho... Brown and White here. The first day of the Jungian congress was INCREDIBLE. About 600-attended - seventy percent ladies (21-81 years old). The level of scholarship and artistry was amazing. Jung was amazing. Shonu Shyamdasani was like a giant mountain surrounded by other giant mountains. We felt like a little rat at the foot of the Himalayas.

Beverley Zabrieskii also presented and when it broke for lunch we saluted her and had a short but nice discussion.

So many people have made the connection between Jung's work and their work. Jung and Caitanya-vaisnavism would be one more effort (but the best!).

* * *

We do all this in the middle of a war zone. [BANG! BANG!]

1. We are still on an Indian time mode so in the after-noon we tend to crash and then wake up like now - 7.40PM-11.40PM.
2. Our host, Giridari-priya Das (John Patel) is a super, second generation ISKCON devotee, hero, but he is event-organizer for big people in a large retirement community, so he has his schedule and we have to walk softly not to be a burden on him.
3. Getting around is a challenge. We are a 71-year old ass behind the wheel. The GPS map on our Windows Phone is pretty good, but finding Lot 22 on the U.C. Santa Barbara Campus is a little challenging for it. Fortunately they sent us maps and we can remember them and found the parking garage. The event was programmed into the automated parking system but still we lost $5 on the first round with the robot parking attendant.
4. We learned a lot about Jung's timeline. We chatted with a few people but no intense connections so far. People ask who we are, dressed as Sannyasis. We say Bengali Vaisnavas.
5. During the intense Plenary Session in the morning we listened to, contemplated, Prof. Shamdasani and Beverley's presentations but still it does not arouse our heart intensely. Japaiya sada harih. We were chanting on beads the whole time.

Our other ASA and MOE work is greatly reduced. We are trying to find our place in Srila A. C. Bhakti-vedanta Swami's orchestra.

O.K. . . . 12.06AM. Lettuce chant on beads. Vidya-vadu-jivanam. Plans will come from the Name. Bhava, perspective, will come from the Name.

HARE KRSNA. HARE RAMA. JAYA SRI VRNDAVANA DHAMA.

12.30AM

We just finished a three page long DTC. Pushed the wrong key and erased the whole thing! Here it is again (Niscayad - NOI 3). Got to Santa Barbara after a long, hard trip. We are Tom Brown and Buck White, riding Brother Ass.

Every day in Houston was filled with Temple and MOE work, two to three hours, etc.

On the trip here we met Omir from Pakistan, a flight attendant, university graduate, who dreamed of becoming a Monk last night. To our Trained Ear (AGTSP!!!!) his story was so natural, so we told him our story (SB 1.6) and HAD A LOB IN OUR CMDD's BRIEF-CASE and gave it to him with the Web-page address and changed planes. "Write to our Blog!"

In transit between airplanes we got on The Last Great Window's Phone (LGWF) and booked a car ($243 for four days!) and then met Prof. Angelo and Christina Novokovitch in the Boarding Line. They were also going to the Jung Congress. She was Young, Beautiful, Intelligent, Intuitive (Battle Stations, Battle Stations, Alarms, Alarms, Kingon Cruiser 3,000 meters!). Taking our seat we noticed that all the women on the Executive Jet to St. Barbara were Young, Beautiful, Intelligent and dressed in black! Prof. Angelo came back our seat and ofered us some raisins and nuts from a newly opened bag.

At the luggage pick-up we met Prof. again and he walked us to the Rental Car Counter and hung out with us. We didn't have to say anything: Welcome to the family (Awwwk! Alarms!)

Into the rental car with a 71-year old Ass behind the wheel. Almost ran over three other donkeys on the way to Giri-vara-dhari-priyas Das' home.

He is very, very, very nice Gurjurati body devotee, disciple of Bh. Caru Swami.

Back in the car. Off to the Bank. Almost ran over six other donkeys: Can't send wire transfers to Peru after 1.00PM. Awwwk! The Congress is daily starting tomorrow.

Back to our Campsite: Fruit, nuts, raisins, 1955-historical documentary on YouTube. Crash (As usual, one week later, we still have Jet-lag!) and up at 11.01 PM to bashfully greet GPD going to bed (like a sane man).

12.43PM - Rewrote this DTC. Saved it to PND's Blog three times, mot just the clip board.

We feel guilty that we are not great devotees. Guess we are neither great nor gruesome devotees. Just devotees. We push when the modes are light with our Satsvarupa Goswami like character. AGTSP, we are all becoming great devotees.

CALENDAR - !! Today is Amavasya here, not in Delhi. Kapi-dhvaja goes out today with Viplavha, $$$ etc. etc. Will be time to wire money on Friday. Leave the conference.

Now let us find water. Sri Visnu. Sip it and chant five rounds, review ART Das "Art and the Sacred" video, M. Champaka-lata Devi Dasi's "Gurukula Standards" proposal, nap and FMP.

Hare Krsna. Rewrite. 1.00AM

Hare Krishna Gurudeva, please accept my humble obeisances

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!!

All Glories to Hanumatpresaka Swami!!

1.      By the Mercy of Nitay-Gaura we have resumed relations with the Embassy of India for, the sending to Calcutta, of the DIPLOMA OF HONOR and CHARTER OF RECOGNITION of the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences of the University of San Marcos to the Dr. Samaresh Bandyopadhyay, this could be achieved by showing the ambassador, with photos and documents, how the Embassy of India has always participated in our events (this favors its prestige and the bi-national relations between Peru and India).

HpS - Thank you for this effort! It is so valuable to all of us. Please send our regards to His Excellency and tell him that we are at his service and hope to meet him in June.

2.      On Tuesday, March 26, we had a very good meeting in the rectory, specifically, we are fine-tuning the FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT the National University of San Marcos and NIOS. There is an important difference between the previous agreement, which was a SPECIFIC AGREEMENT between the School of Arts of San Marcos and NIOS, however, this, FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT, is with the University of San Marcos represented by the Rector and NIOS (that is, with this Framework Agreement, NIOS can carry out academic and cultural events not only with the Faculty of Arts but with the more than 60 faculties that San Marcos has), Thank you to Krishna Tuesday April 9 (day of the Apparition of Ramanuja acarya) we will be signing the Convention .

HpS - Again, thank you, Miguel, everyone. With one signature so many weeks of hard work is finished. Of course, with this agreement we can proudly approach so many other institutions.

3.      JAYAM No 3 we could not present it in Gaura-purnima (two articles were missing) for his mercy we hope to make it as an offering for Lord Ramacandra in Ramanavami.

Next, the content of JAYAM No 3:

1. GRADUATE STUDIES IN KRISHNA BHAKTI GROWING. By SG Garuda p. (USA)

2. SASTRICOS STUDIES AND HIGHER EDUCATION. By Karunya Nitai (Ecuador)

3. A BHAGAVATA PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION. By Radhika-Ramana (USA-India)

4. IS UNIVERSITY EDUCAITON A SIN. By HpS (USA)

5. THREE SCENARIOS OF THE SASTRICA EDUCATION. By Gopi-Radha d., Govinda Pramodini d. and Lalita-gopi d. (Mexico)

6. HOW OTHERS TEACH. By Patraka d. (Peru)

7. EMPIRICAL REALITY IN SĀŃKHYA PHILOSOPHY. By Ṛṣirāja d. (India)

 HpS - Tapan misra Das, President of Executive Committee of MOE is in touch with Gandharva Das now, who is Regional Representative of MOE in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia.

News of the MOE

8. REPORT OF THE INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION SYMPOSIUM, February 26 and 27, MAYAPUR-INDIA. By Mathuresa d. (Bolivia)

9. REPRESENTATION OF THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION IN ECUADOR, BOLIVIA AND PERU. By Gandharva d. (Perú)

To finish this report, we spoke with Miguel Polo and the Rector's adviser about which date is best for you to come to Lima, to do the preliminary events to the International Symposium THE EDUCATION AND THE SACRED (to be held the last week of October or the first week of November) and our suggestion is that you come from the first fortnight June, is it ok?

HpS - Then June 1st to 15th for Peru and end of the month for Bolivia, then.... Argentina in July.

 Hare Krishna GURUDEVA, your insignificant servant, Abhirama Thakura dasa.

2do. informe LA EDUCACIÓN Y LO SAGRADO

1.      Por la Misericordia de Nitay-Gaura hemos retomado las relaciones con la embajada de la India para el envío a Calcuta de la DIPLOMA DE HONOR y CARTA DE RECONOCIMIENTO de la Facultad de Letras y Ciencias Humanas de la Universidad de San Marcos al Dr. Samaresh Bandyopadhyay, esto se pudo lograr mostrando, al embajador, con fotos y documentos, como la embajada de la India siempre ha participado de nuestros eventos (esto favorece a su prestigio y a las relaciones binacionales entre Perú y La India).

2.      El martes 26 de marzo tuvimos una muy buena reunión en el rectorado, específicamente, estamos afinando el CONVENIO MARCO entre la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos y NIOS. Hay una diferencia importante entre el anterior convenio, que era un CONVENIO ESPECÍFICO entre la Facultad de Letras de San Marcos y NIOS, en cambio, este CONVENIO MARCO es con la Universidad de San Marcos representada por él Rector y NIOS (es decir, con este Convenio Marco, NIOS puede realizar eventos académicos y culturales no solo con la Facultad de Letras sino con las más de 60 facultades que tiene San Marcos), Krishna mediante el martes 9 de abril (día de la Aparición de Ramanuja acarya) estaremos firmando el Convenio.

3.      JAYAM No 3 no la pudimos presentar en Gaura-purnima (faltaron entregar dos artículos) por su misericordia esperamos hacerlo como una ofrenda para el Señor Ramacandra en Ramanavami.

A continuación, el contenido de JAYAM No 3:

1.      CRECIMIENTO DE LOS ESTUDIOS DE POSGRADO EN KRISHNA BHAKTI. Por SG Garuda p. (USA)

2.      ESTUDIOS SASTRICOS Y EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR. Por Karunya Nitai (Ecuador)

3.      LA FILOSOFÍA BHAGAVATA DE LA EDUCACIÓN. Por Radhika-Ramana (USA-India)

4.      ES LA EDUCACIÓN UNIVERSITARIA UN PECADO. Por HpS (USA)

5.      TRES ESCENARIOS DE LA EDUCACIÓN SASTRICA. Por Gopi-Radha d., Govinda Pramodini d. y Lalita-gopi d. (México)

6.      CÓMO LOS OTROS ENSEÑAN. Por Patraka d. (Perú)

7.      REALIDAD EMPIRICA EN LA FILOSOFIA SĀŃKHYA. Por Ṛṣirāja d. (India)

Noticias d

el MOE

8.      REPORTE DEL SIMPOSIO INTERNACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN / 26 y 27 de febrero / MAYAPUR-INDIA. Por Mathuresa d. (Bolivia)

9.      REPRESENTACIÓN DEL MINISTERIO DE EDUCACIÓN EN ECUADOR, BOLIVIA Y PERÚ. Por Gandharva d. (Perú)

Para terminar es

te informe, conversamos con Miguel Polo y la asesora del Rector acerca de que fecha es mejor para que usted venga a Lima, para hacer los eventos preliminares al Simposio Internacional LA EDUCACION Y LO SAGRADO (a realizarse la última semana de octubre o la primera semana de noviembre) y nuestra sugerencia es que Usted venga la primera quincena Junio, ¿está bien? ¿Es posible?

Muchas

graci

as GURUDEVA, su insignificante sirviente, Abhirama Thakura dasa.