Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna, Dear Gurumaharaja, Pamho, AGTSP
I am writing to inform you that the Cantuta program is almost ready.
Here the program:

Art and the Sacred in Classical India and Ancient Peru

10:00 am Presentation and worship rituals of Traditional Peru and India

HpS - Hare Krsna. AGTSP!      paoho.    Very nice to hear from you...  What is this first section¡?  Someone will say a few words of reception and then there will be an Arati??    That would just be 10-minutes, no?

10:30 am Academic Program
Presentation by Professor Huber Robinson
Presentation of a Professor of La Cantuta
(Each professor will have 20 minutes of presentation and 10 minutes of questions and answers)

11:30 am Artistic Presentation
Presentation of dance and traditional music of India (1/2 hour)
Presentation of dance and traditional music of Peru (1/2 hour)

HpS - This seems too long. These dances are quick concentrated and ten minutes is about the maximum that people can tolerate.

12:30 pm Prasadam (NIOS: Halava, La Cantuta: chicha morada)

We hope everything goes according to plan.

HpS - Have you discussed this with Temple authorities and got their apro pro val?

As always, we have the expert help of Professor Durant and the head of the Art Departament. The program is presented as a collaboration between NIOS and The University.

HpS - We should have asked NGD for his approval! He is President of NIOS. If we follow these formalitys then there will be sufficient rain and Chrylers will fall from the sky on Wednesdays.

I also inform you that at the end of the month I will be collaborating with a social aid project of the university led by our friend Professor Juan Malpartida from the Department of Communications, Language and Literature. The project is to promote and implement popular libraries in the community of Chosica. This includes animation programs such as reading marathons, dramatizations, poetic recitals, etc. Obviously we will try to include Vedic literature. With this we will be little by little fulfilling your desire to make sustainable programs in this university dean of Education in Peru. I think this is an important milestone also in fulfilling Srila Prabhupada's dream expressed in his brilliant preface to Srimad Bhagavatam:

"There is a need for a clue to how humanity can become one in peace, friendship and prosperity with a common cause. Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam will fill this need, for it is a cultural presentation for the spiritualization of the entire human society.
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam should also be introduced in the schools and colleges, for it is recommended by the great student-devotee Prahlāda Mahārāja in order to change the demoniac face of society. "
 

On the other hand I have talked with some members of one of the strongest political party in Chosica to participate as an education and culture advisor. This party is very likely to win the municipal elections and I will talk very soon with the candidate for Major. My sister is working in the party  and she has made all the contacts. I await your blessings for this other project to materialize as it will surely benefit the community and uplift the social and spiritual consciousness of the people and hence the expansion of Krishna Consciousness.
I hope you are satisfied with our service for the glory of Srila Prabhupada and his ISKCON.
Please, your blessings so that everything goes well.
Your servant,
Laksmana-agraja das

HpS - Jaya!     We are struggling to eat properly while traveling!  Maybe we should go back to the Temple at 11.30AM for the noon program with Sita Devi???

Hare Krsna 

AGTSP 

ALL GLORIES TO YOU GURU DEV

thank you guru dev for your visit to Argentina (patala loka), inspiration, effort, mercy, tolerance, happiness, advice, devotion and for engage us in service. 

hope to see you soon in vapu and vani.

here is a link of the video Arte y lo Sagrado

aca el enlace the del video Arte y lo sagrado

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVM3-mI_7g0&t=9s

(please subscribe to suport nios image)

(por favor subscribance para apoyar el canal the nios image)

i will upload soon the Hanuman exercise video

please egage me in service, your servant Ambarisa m das

HpS - AGTSP paoho...  Thank you for your hospitality. What is name and number of Maxi's contact in Lima? Can he introduce us?

If you let us see the Exercise Video before you upload it, no?

Thank you for the ART/SACRED upload. We circulate it!

Hare Krsna Maharaj,
Please accept my obeisances,
Jaya Srila Prabhuapda,

HpS - ASA -- We try to answer a few letters from some of the most sane and most crazy people in our In Box and then when we start to write we remember them and feel VERY, VERY, sad that we have not been able to keep more in contact through Blog mail... but it is also so nice, to be physically in touch with hundreds of devotees on these tours. Hmmm.
Can you kindly give your view on

https://www.stephen-knapp.com/stephen_knapp_cv.htm

Have you ever interacted with him ?

horse
P.S. Sense gratification as indulgence (not neccesity) is symptom of meaninglessness.

HpS - No higher taste and then we have to settle for a lower taste, no?   No playing ball with Krsna and we must play with the Manchester Hooligans!

We looked at Sri Nandanandana Das' website on the link you gave. We have read a few of his books but don't think we have ever met him physically.

He seems to be a very nice devotee with obviously strong literary inclinations. We were glad to read his webpage and hope that we can interact with him more.

We hope to have better Blog connection next month.

If anything Urgent happens, please write!!! We are your servant.

Dear Maharaja

PAMHO AGTSP

Transmission from down-under. You are currently down-under-and-over in Chile. We have been watching some live streams. Of course we are regularly drinking the nectar of your soundcloud lectures also. We will make a serious effort to join your startmeeting live lectures when they recommence.

HpS/ASA - 'are Krsna, Dhruva' Das et al! Is so nice to hear from you. We really feel separation from all the friends and Yatra in Oz. We were listening to Atul-Krsna Das in the MOE meeting a few days ago and it was shocking how much you and he sound alike and also your fully gentlemanly comportment.

Dhanesvari DD is doing well. Her heath is improving. But still our new child Sarasvati is not letting her sleep much in the night. We support her as best we can by taking baby for Japa walks during the day to give mother opportunity to rest.

ASA - Super. These children are potential, giant light-houses in the Kali-yuga if they are given good protection to grow up properly. All respects to the Mother.

Our eldest daughter Suryani loves gurukula preschool and is developing nicely in life. 

We gave interactive Bhagavad Gita class at ISKCON New Govardhan last week entitled “Science, The Psyche and Yoga”. The verse was BG 5.4 and after a short discussion on Karma-yoga we argued that modern science has become predominantly atheistic due to its lacking the finer elements of Sankhya-yoga within its scope i.e. mind, intelligence, false ego, atma and paramatma. If matter is all we look for, then matter is all we will see.

ASA - And in this case only gross matter, not even much subtle matter!  and even then third class gross matter, visual data, not even tactile or acoustical concern!

Why is it customary to call non-devotees “Karmis” if Prabhupada and previous archaryas translate karma-yoga as “devotional service”? Is a karmi a fruitive worker without the “yoga” required to link to the supreme or is it a made-up-devotee’s-superiority term?

HpS - I see a great analysis of people in NOI 10, "karmibhya...". Then most people are Vi-karmas. They are fruitive workers who do not follow any Vedic Acharya even like Jesus, Mohamad, Confucius... Karmas are actually nice people. Krsna likes them. They follow the rules of some scripture.

Yogis are above Karms or Jnanis. They are linking to Krsna. It maybe by connecting their Karma (Karma yoga eg. want to enjoy food, but connect that pleasure with some process of religion, yoga), Jnana yoga (this is Jnana yoga we doing right now, no?). When we are working directly on why we are doing intelligent things it is Bhakti-yoga. How to change our motive. So Karmis and Karma-yogis are different groups. The Karmis do it for themselves. The Karma-yogis do it for Krsna (maybe without much logical understanding of what is going on, Jnana-yoga).

We are scheduled to give a Sunday feast class in a few weeks at ISKCON NG. We have inspiration to present “Dance with Destiny” in which we will attempt to interactively present the relationship between free will and determinism from the perspective of the glorious Bhagavata philosophy and practice. 

We have also inspiration to design a workshop entitled “Slaying the Dragons of Doubt”. In this workshop we will invite participants to bring a list of their biggest doubts, past or present, or the biggest challenges they have come across towards the existence of God or towards the establishment of Krishna as the supreme. If they have somehow overcome these doubts already they are invited to share how they achieved it and if they have not we will be working on them together. We believe that we can shed light on each other’s dark patches. We also believe, through experience, that great power comes from honestly addressing doubts.

Some example challenges might be;

1. The problem of Evil
2. Criticisms of religion as “Other world” theories and the lack of care placed in “this world”
3. Interpretations of Vedic cosmology and Hare Krishna hell!!!
4. Fall of the Jiva
5. Why did God create us only to serve Him?

God knows what other interesting topics might come up.

HpS - Super, but some interesting publication as a result for this Blog!! Broader community.

A devotee friend of ours who owns a vegan café in Byron Bay has invited us to do some presentations at the café. Bryon Bay is a beautiful and popular beach town approximately 45min from our location. We are very enthusiastic for this service opportunity. We take great inspiration from you Maharaja, your kindness upon us. We are even developing taste for PowerPoint shows.

HpS - ASA - You are like Lord Siva. You see people's bad qualities as good qualities.

Maharaja, specifically I am writing to request some seva, some association. My good wife has given permission for me to travel. Can I possibly assist you with something this year in USA maybe or anywhere else you see fit. I see you will attend MOE in Alachua late June or maybe even the Nashville annual festival? I could wash and fold cloth, sweep floors, carry bags, anything at all.  

ASA - None of these two programs are too developed yet, but nice program for the whole family, or you as the family camera man, might be "Art and the Sacred", end of October in Peru. You could start to organize that work in Peru and then come as a representative(s) of "Art from the Land Down Under Over".

Prostrated at your feet

Dhruvananda Das

ASA - Proscribed at your feet. We could start working on getting a formal invitation for you from Peru and then getting formal links with government, universities in Australia.

Hare Krishna, dear (Dear) Grumahaja (Guru Maharaja), Pamho, AGTSP!

ASA - The same to you!!!  AgtSP. Paoho...

Well, I think there´s a little confusion regarding to Chosica program.

I've being talking to Nitya kinkary mataji about the program. Karuna Krishna prabhu is arriving soon from Brazil, so everything have to be confirm with him.

Coordinations are not very well and trying to explain that it is like a useless exercise. 

Anyway, M. Nitya and I were trying to emsemble different things waiting for P. Karuna. I presented your first suggestions but M. Yugala changed most of it. I don't now why.

ASA - Maybe see is applying what she, me, Gandhava, KKD discussed at the retreat before we left Lima.

This is the picture so far with my suggestions also.

Friday 2o you arrive and stay in Callao

Saturday SB class in Wilson. I suggest that you can stay for a little while there talking to people and go to Chosica and rest a little so you are ready for the evening program.

HpS - Yes, but probably chance to meet with people on Friday. Then, yes, Saturday SB in Wilson seems fair. Saturday in Wilson, Sunday in Chosica (A different kind of city).

According to M. Yugala...

Saturday

9.30 am (you are not there) art exposition in Chosica

11.00 am presentation of the matajis (you suggested that for sunday)

2.00 pm Workshops for matajis the whole afternoon.

6.00 pm programa cultural

6.30 gourartik

7.00 movie.

But we have at 4.30 to 6.30 our Harinam program every saturday. So you can start your participation from there if you want.

It's confusing. That's why we think we have to talk soon by skype.

ASA - Last I heard from KKD, M. Yugala Dasi was going to organize the program. That's O.K. with me only this one change of giving SB class in Wilson in the morning.

Sunday

whole morning program

After Govinda... 

9.30 am Initiations (includes a class)

10.30 kirtan yoga by temple devotees

12.30 Rajbhoga

1.30 Presentations of the Program "Your Week with RMV" (Mataji've been working with a team).

2.30 prasadam

3.30 M. Yugala presents .....prize giving ceremony of art exposition.

4.00 cultural program

Monday

Mangalartik with you and then we get ready for La Cantuta

La Cantuta 

10.am to 12.30 am

Featuring You, Professor Borja, Professor Durand, Parama Karuna d, Caitanya candrodaya d, I, etc. We can talk about details later.

meanwhile in the temple....BG class, Abhiseka, Rajbhoga artik

After la Cantuta....

1.30 after Rajbhoga You give a class about Srimati Sitadevi

2,30 prasadam

heading to Lima

Well, I'm sorry for the mess.

ASA - Whatever the Temple Authorities decide. We can be available from Saturday morning until Sunday afternoon, then finishing the program in La Cantuta in time to join the program at noon time in the Temple!

Yes, let's have a call: Blue Baboon and Tom Brown!

Actually I told the Junta that this is Chosica program and you only present suggestions. Its up to them. That's what I think.

We can talk very soon to clarify it as soon as you can. If you think is necesary.

Please send me day and time to talk, if you want, by my new skype account...Luis Miranda Blanco. 

I think you are two hours ahead us, Perú.

ys LAD

We just typed a one page DTC then lost it all.

Try again. Niscayena.

But we can't write the same thing again.

Always fresh. Can't step in the same river twice. 

Brother Ass is obviously tired, buy he is getting so much energy from being able to join this Sankirtan movement in a very humble way.

We can accept that we are one of the smallest ISKCON devotees. Look what these P'pada movie devotees are doing. There has never been promotion for a non-comercial film like this in Argentina before. People are thinking that this must be a man, movement, that has tens of thousands of actual followers!

Well, to be a real follower you must be a paramahamsa, celibate!!  Rare!

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Many babies here in Cordoba.  They fall on the floor and crack their heads. They want to play with, chew on, the Puja paraphernalia and cry 25-times a day in frustration and rage, but they have so much potential.

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What is the think that only you know about Krsna. Guru, Radha, everyone wants to hear about it, but you have to find it again and again. Unless you can preach, teach, contribute that you will not be happy!

Saw was Turkish man and his family that just say they have made big advancement into translating the Voynich manuscript. We can only hope that big archaelogical secrets of the Cult of Vasudeva and Sankarshana (Krsna and Balarama) are unearthed.

Art and the Sacred...... Your Art and the Sacred!!!! !!!