Hare Krsna.
Yesterday like 4-lecture and three dialogs with 40-interfaith vistors, Goswami Academy Teacher's Education, ASA Daily SB class, Temple President, RGD and RKDas about Sastric education. And today almost the same.
Just can't get t regular mail while traveling very well.
Put URGENT in the field if it is or talk to us when we come to your center.
Tomorrow we go to San Jose.
Thursday we change from Startmeeting.com to gotomeeting.com meeting id 737 859 341 may work.
Hare Rama
Dear Maharaja,
pamho agtsp
Apologies for not replying earlier to your last reply. We received immediately and took note of the contents, but have been slow to reply. I declined the speaking invitation on your behalf. No issues there at all. We look forward to doing what we can to assist once your calendar is set.
HpS - Any attention from you all is wonderful. We are waiting until 20th August for Bhag bazaar Gaudiya Matha to make any final decision on the symposium at the end of November, but really looks like it will not happen. Then we are thinking of coming to India from 15 January to 30 March. O.K.??
We have had a challenging few weeks. My better half, Dhanesvari DD, has spent time in hospital and has been on a lot of antibiotics for a mother related health issue. Thank Krishna we have reached stability again now and her health has improved.
HpS - All this is education from Krsna. If we are 16/4 then Krsna can arrange everything! Hope she benefited very well.
I am currently working on several essays for university. Oh, I didn’t tell you yet. I transferred into a philosophy/theology degree. There are two main reasons for this. The first being that the amount of austerity required to complete the computer science degree I was enrolled in (too much general IT stuff) was not justifiable considering the role I have in the sankirtan movement and in career also (which to me is the same thing), the role as an educator.
ASA - That sure seems O.K. to us!
The second, and more deeply rooted reason, being somehow I have cursed myself to approach Krishna through jnana-mishra-bhakti. This is obviously a result of my impersonalism towards Krishna. Anyway, one essay I am currently working on is challenging John Paul Sartre’s 'Nothingness’ that is consciousness, which his whole materialistic existentialism is built upon and which he denies, without good argument, has any non-material foundation or any links to God. I will point out that it’s still a dualism and calling something ‘nothing’ simply shows you don’t understand it. I will present this in a concealed, detached and “academic” way of course. Another essay I am working on is an investigation into Socrates’ relationship with his daemon, his inner voice, his conscience or even possibly the paramatma, who was his guide in his decision making and without whom, according to Plato, Socrates would not have become Socrates.
ASA - Wow!
Although the aforementioned writing tasks are taking my attention, my wife and I are still enthusitaicglly working on the Sacred Art of Indigenous Australians article for Solaris and the presentation for October. We will forward the article to Sriman Abhirama Prabhu on completion. I will most certainly incorporate the Bhagavatam verse you kindly forwarded. https://www.vedabase.com/en/sb/8/5/33
Hope this meets you in good health.
We are chanting Hare Krishna and meditation on how to serve better.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Dhruvananda D
Dhanesvari DD
HpS - And the kids and mothers and fathers and.... ! We are working to assemble Solaris so an article by the end of this month for the magazine is great. Not the finished presentation. Just a presentation of your results so far and where your investigation is taking youi.
Hare Krishna, dear gurudev, Pamho, AGTSP!
The title and first paragraph were like talking to myself, trying to draw attention to an issue that I considere real. At least for the people like me, kanistha adikari. After my rounds and readings, the thought was the same, the feeling was the same. Discourage, desapointment, frustrations is an issue that is real in ISKCON andino.
Of course, I will never leave ISKCON. I was just quoting what you said not long ago. That you were about to leave ISKCON, not Srila Prabhupada, two times. May be I miss understood. The point is that it is very difficult to do my service here. Many problems. So I stopped trying. I don't see how can It changes. 15 years experiencing the same.
So I´m focunsing in my personal development.
I understand very clear what you said about living in ISKCON and I follow all of that. No problem in that department. No 100% percent, but a decent amount.
So, I don´t have much else to say.
Please forgive my lack of intelligence.
your usseles servant,
the LAD
(I hope I can talk to you soon. There are another details, more personal. Thank you very much)
HpS - ASA - Yes, let us talk by Skype etc some time.
We may take charge of the institution if it is too corrupted and work to reform it for the welfare of all. We felt the GBC body was too corrupted to times. Many people felt that, so we went to Srila Prabhupada directly, but in the end the institutional problems were resolved. We could and are making the same mistakes.
Good luck in serving Srila Prabhupada and his expansions. Strangely I received idential letter from Cusco the same day, and here in Houston the night before. I don't think it is necessarily an Andean problem only. It is the nature of things in the material world. Peru has its style..
Hare Krsna.
Brother Ass can barely read the screen sometimes. It is hard to hear what people are saying.
We had no pause in workd from 3AM - 1PM. 1000 people came for Mangala arati etc. It happens second Saturday of the month. We felt we had to do a lot of work to help the Kirtan achieve effective standard. Ability to produce good rhythm is an indication of our connection with the Super soul. In the neophyte stage it is lacking so it is impossible for everyone to sing and dance in close unison. Then there is lack of food for the soul.
Then... class for 80-100 devotees from 7.30-8.30, then online for another pack from 8.30-9.30, the individual questions and work on telecommunications with Srinatha K Das, Aja, and disciple of Sankarsana Das.
Nap. Lots of sugar in the Prasad! Letters and now some milk Prasad and then meet with Srinatha K. Das et al from 5.45-6.45 PM. 7PM Arati, class discussion, etc.
Hare Krishna Gurudeva, please accept my humble obeisances
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!!
All glories to Hanumatpresaka Swami!!
In this report we are going to focus on the Schedule for the publication of SOLARIS No 3 and the proposals of topics for the talks and workshops.
EDITORIAL SCHEDULE OF THE JOURNAL SOLARIS No. 3
1. Final date for the delivery of articles: SEPTEMBER 9
2. Orthographic correction and adaptation APA 6: SEPTEMBER 16
3. Spanish translation of articles in English: September 16
4. Orthographic correction and adaptation APA 6 to the translated articles: SEPTEMBER 19
5. Design and layout: FROM SEPTEMBER 16 TO 19
6. Cover design: FROM SEPTEMBER 18 TO 19
7. Pre-press and design closing: SEPTEMBER 21
8. Printing: SEPTEMBER 24
PROPOSALS OF THEMES FOR THE CONVERSATORIES AND WORKSHOPS
Proposals of the mother Lalita-gopi
1) The process of configuring political, artistic, literary and educational processes of peaceful resistance according to the ethical dialogue in our times.
2) Interdisciplinary models for the creation of a democratic civil society and the inclusion of art.
3) Artistic culture with national interlocutors of the different social and organizational levels (government, state, municipality)
4) The artistic culture in the context of civil associations, NGOs and social institutions.
5) The relevance of art in work environments, family; of school coexistence in the formation of the person.
Proposals by Miguel Polo
1) The importance of education in art.
2) How we understand the sacred today.
3) Art can bring us closer to the sacred.
4) The Sankhia [HpS - This is "Sankhya"] and the Sacred.
Proposals by Oscar Naters
1) The initiatory experience in the sacred and in art.
2) The variants to the sacred-religious binomial.
3) Everything sacred is religious and everything religious is sacred.
4) Finding the spiritual in the material.
Proposals by Abhiram Thakur das
1) How the sacred manifests itself in painting.
2) The art of reading and spiritual awareness.
3) The everyday in art and the sacred in the everyday.
4) Music and Faith: the relationship between art and transcendence.
5) Stanislavski's magical yes in the theater and in the sacred.
6) Singing and dancing, the natural way to experience the Supersoul.
In the next report we will start presenting the sketches of the designs and the specific proposal of the activities of September and October for the academic Sankirtan.
Hare Krishna respected GURU-MAHARAJA, his insignificant servant, Abhiram Thakur das.
HpS - Thank you for this Report. We will send it to Kalyan-kumar and Dr. Samaresh.
We have 10-weeks until the symposium so we will have five more letters from you and five more chances to respond. The chronogram for Solaris will go into our ASA Calendar.
We think that this project, Art and the Sacred, can arrange that "...humanity can become one in peace, friendship and prosperity with a common cause." (http://www.vedabase.com/en/sb/1/preface). We will write about and would like to present the same, Realization of the Darling of Vrndavana, Sri Krsna, through Artistic Singing, Dance and Drama. We are all connected and all we have to do is be good then our connection with others, even a few other, will produce good.
Thank you?
Got enough money?
11avo. Informe de EL ARTE Y LO SAGRADO
En este informe nos vamos a centrar en el Cronograma para la publicación de SOLARIS No 3 y las propuestas de temas para los conversatorios y talleres previos y simultaneos al Simposio Internacional El Arte y lo Sagrado
CRONOGRAMA EDITORIAL DE LA REVISTA DE SOLARIS No. 3
PROPUESTAS DE TEMAS PARA LOS CONVERSATORIOS Y TALLERES
Propuestas de la madre Lalita-gopi
Propuestas de Miguel Polo
Propuestas de Oscar Naters
Propuestas de Abhiram Thakur das
En el próximo informe vamos a empezar presentar los bocetos de los diseños y la propuesta específica de las actividades de setiembre y octubre para el Sankirtan académico.
Hare Krishna GURUMAHARAJA, su insignificante sirviente, Abhiram Thakur das.
Hare Krishna,
Dear Gurumaharaja
TLGASP, PAMHO
Thank you very much for your merciful response, we will do what you instructed us. A few days ago I talked with Prabhu Raghuvaram das, we talked about many things and one about a subject in parricular, a Report of the National Board of Isckon Peru in which a program was canceled in a city, Huánuco, and that was not authorized . On the occasion of that report many commentaries came out of devotees in favor and found, in our opinion the Board acted well, but for some it will not always please them. The point is that there is a problem, that goes back many years even the time that I knew this Srila Prabhupada's Glorious Movement, situations that never changed and instead that helps us grow as an Institution, it makes us go back. Then, with all this, you see that there is a vacuum, a bottleneck, that does not let things flow. we come to a conclusion that there is a broken relationship between Authority and Community, there is no good communication, which causes many problems and disorganization. Then we thought, in my last one of my functions was to be the lasso between the Management and the Personnel, I listened to problems, doubts and solved them, and everything started to improve, there was an adequate work environment, the impasses resolved and everyone was calm making their service. So we keep thinking, what is needed is a Human Resources office, where there is a devotee responsible for organizing and joining this bridge between the Authority and the Community. I do not know if this is already done, but I think it can be improved. There are devotees who for some reason have moved away, temples without devotees and the few do not get along at times. It is necessary to look for that conciliation, the solution is not to move away but to change the mentality. There are many devotees who feed the ego to other devotees, many times oneself, and when they see their reality, they realize that everything is false, fallen free. Dear Gurumaharaja, we know the area, I have been part of a problem, we understood it and we feel that we have the solution to this, so please pray, allow me to be able to take care of this service, it will be gradual, we will start in Cusco later in other cities, the intention is not to cause problems to the authorities, but to support channeling these bottlenecks, everyone must speak the same language, DEVOTIONAL SERVICE. For this we want to talk with the devotees of the National Board and talk about this service, which will try to enumerate the devotees, current situation, service, temple to which you belong, etc. We do not want to be part of the board, we do not want power, fame, what we want is to serve the devotees. Dear Gurudeva, I thank you again for your merciful time, we hope you can give us your permission for this service, we have the experience, if so, we will also beg for your blessings. May the mercy of Sri Krishna always be poured out on you.
Your foolish sinviente
Govardhana das
HpS - ASA - You see the letter from Laksmana agra ja Das? It is really strange, divine, that you both are talking about the same situation, but independently.
I was in a similar situation once, even now we remember, twice. I was feeling frustrated with my administrative authorities, associates, and my GBC Secretary , Sesa Das, said, "They are people, Hp Swami!" "Hummmf!" thought I. I had forgotten that. They are just as sincere as am I but in a different service with different personal resources. The more cruel they are the more it means they are suffering and need our mercy. Cruel husbands, wives, mothers, presidents, followers.
Chant Hare Krsna and you will get intelligence.
I think if you can talk with a few local presidents etc and work with them as consultants that will help. Of course, we can always talk personally to anyon. You can call yourself an ISKCON Human Resource Officer, no? That is on the order of Lord Caitanya, no?