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AGTSP Paoho. This letter arrived with no Letter Text! HpS - ASA

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Letter to the educators coming to the ISKCON Pune conference.

AGTSP paoho I talked with Radha-Krsna Das for 34-minutes today. He is one of our greatest inspirations for work in Sastric Education in North America. We have a team of about five people now and are identifying our situation and how to go ahead.

Reviewing:

1) I think a simple, short answer, test from a good Question Bank of many, many, practical questions from the books is an essential for evaluation eg. what are the three mode, three levels of devotees, three types of suffering.

2) Short closed and open book essay questions oriented to practical application and preaching challenges that test for citations from the books.

3) Association with authorized teachers and fellow Students. This can be on-line in various degrees. With visiting scholars and required attendance in residential programs eg. RKD and I et al are planning a Retreat in Houston at the end of March that would require applicants for Bh. Sastri etc to all attend. Teachers and Students can associate. Students can be properly evaluated.

4) Certain number of hours.

5) Parallel lines of authority. Temples have to keep a standard of Deity worship in terms of the Ministry of Deity Worship, so there should be a standard of hearing and chanting to be certified as a Temple. Other side diplomas should not be granted without Temple perspective.

6) The BOEX at the current moment should be doing 70% academic evaluation and 30% character evaluation unless it is a case where the Teacher is also a part of the relevant Temple.

Offer variety of curriculum for different types of students.

7)All this will take time, my commitment, group work, to implement but we were the first to read one letter from Srila Prabhupada where he responded to Sriman Jayatirtha Das comments that we have discovered that preaching is good in Berkeley by saying "you have discovered that preaching is good in Berkeley because you have made the endeavor there. Anywhere you that you make the endeavor you will discover that preaching is good".

Is this in general line with everyone else's thinking?

Thank you.

HpS - ASA

Dear Guru Maharaj,

PAMHO AGTSP!

I wish I could offer some new images for your appearance day, but it looks like just a letter will have to do for now since the uploaders out of commission...

Now that my chaotic life is finally starting to stabilize, and I’ve had some time to reflect and process all the ideas and experiences that have brought me to this place, I feel more able to say something meaningful to summarize all this silence.

HpS - ASA --- Yes, AGTSP, paoho, very nice to hear from you!! .. but, you life is starting to stabalize must mean that you are advancing in Sadhana Bhakti, no? Otherwise any perception of stablility in Kali yuga is a trick of The Evil One, no?

I’m still here at Kalachandji Dham, I got your Twirl Your Beads compilation last week and read it the other day. I always learn a great deal from the way you apply yourself to the small battles in your Bhajan. I love the illustrations in there from your mailbox gazette too! I heard you’re coming to Dallas in January so I look forward to catching up and I especially look forward to your Sacred Art film.

HpS - No, look at the Calendar in the Kapi Dhvaja. It is always updated. We go to Houston 2-9th with side trip to Mexico City Sunday and Monday for Vyasa puja.

Reivin and I have been working well as a team so far, though it’s taken some time to build the foundation of our relationship. We are so different in some ways and yet I feel like I have more in common with her than practically anyone else. She has been serving here as a Kalachandji-dham vasi for years, taking shiksha mainly with H.H. Kesava Bharati Maharaj for some time, although currently she is studying under the author and astrologer Kavindra Rsi Prabhu, also known as Jamadagni Das, or Jeffrey Armstrong, the lyricist of the Golden Avatar band.

HpS - We knew him a little whem Hansadutta Das was in Berkeley and from our visits to Santa Cruz. That was a long time ago. He was a very brilliant and even passionate person. Long time ago!

Reivin serves a pair of Nitaichandra Gaursundar deities she rescued from a tire shop one time, so we make offerings and chant with them every day. She has been doing some great art-Kirtan in Dallas lately... not long ago her band got to open and sing the chorus “Jaya Vrndavan” during the Texas senate campaign where she was able to distribute a Bhagavad Gita to Beto O’Rourke, a likely presidential candidate in 2020.

As for me, I haven’t had such dramatic success yet, but I’ve got some exciting things in the tubes. My focus has been on understanding my role in the world and the sankirtan movement, which I see as complimentary. I’m working, studying, creating, and maintaining sadhana as best I can while I’ve gotten valuable experience in packing, shipping, storing, and installing artwork; and I’ve made contacts with curators, museums, galleries, and collectors all over Texas. I’ve been stretched too thin to produce very much (or even keep in touch with people) lately, but I’ve read well over 50 books since I moved, in addition to numerous online courses, to develop the conceptual framework and archetypal language of the art theory I’m formulating. I’m drawing on my background as an activist in order to channel the revolutionary spirit of this age in a direction based on personalism, prioritizing self-reliance and social responsibility, which create the best conditions for self realization and Krishna Bhakti.

The world needs a new vision of hope for the future to unite people and I feel intensely the time coming when I will have to step up to do what Krishna has been preparing me for all my life.

HpS - You can write for our magazine, Solaris. Once a year so far but includes Nobel Prize candidates and other very nice people. It is really starting to have an impact.

Although in comparison to my time as a brahmacari my adherence to rules and regs is less strict, I chant 16 good rounds every day, I have a commitment to read Bhagavatam by the end of this year, and I have never felt more clearly about who I am, what the world is, and what I’m here to accomplish. Despite the hardship, life is thrilling and full of meaning, and I feel that I’ve finally crossed a threshold in this incubation cycle where soon I will start to see the things I’ve been quietly working on slowly start coming to fruition. I hope that despite all my faults the final result will be acceptable to you and Sri Nrsimhadeva. Now that I’m finally starting to come out of poverty, I’d also like to start making regular donations to your sankirtan if you would be generous enough to send me that information. Thank you so much for all you do, maharaj, you are truly a light in these dark times.

your servant,

Ekāśma Dās/bhakta Eric

HpS - Jaya! I guess you can always send checks, monkey orders, to NIOS; 2129 Stratford Rd.; Murfeesbor, TN 37129, Payable to NIOS, but your pure chanting is the best help and whatever follows from that.

PLEASE - Post a report in the REPORT page here! Maybe we see you in Houston!!! Respects to Reivin et al!

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

All glories to you Maharaja

Obesieances

Sorry Maharaja for don’t write to you before.

ASA - AGTSP. Sorry for not answer more quick!

I still in the temple, now with more responsibilities in the administrative subject, The service of the commandant of the temple are now distribute in three persons. I have more responsibilities in the way to administer the services of the temple. I don’t have the authority to rectify to the devotees, so two other devotees are see the problems with the different persons. Now, we have meeting all the weeks with the presidents and another day with the devotees, for see the necessities and health of us and to how improve the service.

I feel good, I feel happie, i still go to sankirtan to take more souls to Srila Prabhupada.

Now finished the process of the project “Cabildo Cuequero”, the capitulation process.

ASA - What is this??? Espanyol?

I’m Still live, chanting maha mantra, the nectar of devotion, All Glories to Srila Prabhupada. Thank you dearly master, I owe everything to you, you conect me to Srila Prabhupada and take me to Golokavrindavana.

Hare Krishna!

Pd: In a class you said that have you see a paint of Krishna that is very similar to syamasundara, can you send us please? I want to see Krishna!

HpS - Awk. Can't put it here but will put in our web-page for everyone to see: http://jayarama.us/archives/krsna-chin.jpg

Very best wishes with Commando en Temple. Our respects to everyone!!!!! Santiago will save the world!!!

Hare krsna, querido maharaja, por acepte mis reverencias.

HpS - ASA -- TlgaSP. Pfanrh… Respuesta de esta carta que ha ido durante nuestra viaje a Sur. Una mez!

Hace unos días, muchos de nuestros esfuerzos, concluimos nuestra participación en la feria internacional del libro, tanto en el zócalo de la ciudad de México como la Toluca. Siendo esta primera vez en que la BBT participa en estos eventos. Queremos seguir haciendo esto cada año. Ahora estamos buscando más fuentes del libro en los estados cercanos a la ciudad de México. 

Luego de un par de semanas, gracias a la misericordia de krsna, Prabhupada y usted, se distribuyeron 1414 libros:

ASA - !!! 

Libro de 6 krsna 

63 Bhagavad gita grandes 

163 Bhagavad gita bolsillo

Bolsillo de 624 libros 

426 pequeños

85 grandes

11 Maha grandes

33 sabiduría de la india (1er canto de SB) 

2 colecciones completas de Srimad bhagavatam 

2 colecciones de Caitanya caritamrita 

Nosotros seguimos esforzándonos en nuestro servicio dentro del templo de la ciudad de México, nuestras rondas y nuestros principios. Queremos entrar a la universidad en la carrera de pedagogía para tener herramientas para una mejor predica. Queremos mejorar para ser un buen instrumento para servirle. Necesitamos su guía para esto.

HpS - En unos casos Srila Prabhupada anima los devotos continua con su educacion. Otros no. Depende en la persona, su situacion. Toma consejo de los devotos, super alma, experimentar con cosas. Busca buen profesores mas que cursos specificas. Si es buen profesor y ensanya matematica, toma su curso.

Su aspirante a sirviente bhakta hector

HpS - Mas cartas recien! Much lluvia aqui hoy! Sankirtan. Sankirtan.