Letters to the editor

All Glories to Sri Guruji Maharaja, Sripada Maharaja and A.C. Prabhupada

All Grories to Sri Gouranga Mahaprabhu and Goura Bhakta Vrnda Ki Jay

Radha Krsna Ki Jay,

Dandavat Pranam Guruji Maharaja!

Please accept our humble obeisances unto Guruji Maharaja's padmacharan that today we three members from Thoubal, including Dr. Nandalal, [went] to Radhakrsna Manimandir, Imphal, and met H H Haridas Swami, Dr. Sarda and some other bhaktas about Gurujis programme, finalised   all programmes but another meeting will be  held for printing of invitation.

As suggested Dr. Samaresh on Guruji's held ground we arranged one programme each on the 2nd and 3rd. On the 2nd the function will be at Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) from 2.00 p.m., not in the University. Next time we will arrange a better function in the Manipur University on any topic suggested by Guruji for the intelectural circles. On the 3rd a gathering of initiated prabhujis and matajis from 9-12 a.m. (two sessions)  to discuss about one of the books mentioned below, book distribution then prasadam. In the night cultural programme will continue.

Both the copies in Manipuri of NOI and LOB are available. Please select one from these two books for collection and distribution among the audence.

NOI is translated by Bonomaly Prabhu and the LOB is translated by Radhamohon Das but the prises are different. 

Now we can't say the exact number of bhaktas will come from Silchar, Agartala, Guwahati and Silong but they are coming.

Yours fallen servant

Yamunesvara Das

HpS - Hare Krsna!    AGTSP!   Paoho...  We can even invite people whom we meet at the RIMS program to come to the Temple program. It can be for initiated, ISKCON, devotees, but they can understand.

If we have two sessions then why not tow books. First, Light of the Bhagavata and then NoI?

Is O.K?

Here is a very beautiful Light of the Bhagavata picture, 8MB, that you can make very big as a banner, or put into the flyer. Just put a notice that it is a BBT picture and all copyrights are reserved.

www.jayarama.us/archives/lob23-78.tif

Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna.

Dear Guru Maharaj,

PAMHO ! AGTSP!!

GM I will be traveling to India for a couple of weeks to visit family. I will be in India till Oct 5th. It was great to see you on a visit to the Bay Area and able to serve you in a small way. Planning to visit parts of Kerala and Ananta Padmanabha Swamy temple there in Thiruvanantapuram.

I would like to join online classes of yours and will make efforts to do so. 

Started SB group study with a devotee Krishna Dharma here. It started with a bang and tapered off for a while. Again trying to be steady in reading SB which runs for an hour. Finished three chapters of 1.1 to 1.3.

Radhika Raman prabhu had given Sanskrit introduction to BayArea devotees during the long weekend. It was amazing especially singing 15 slokas on Prabhupada. Recorded extempore by his Oxford Sanskrit teacher.

your servant

Kolavecha Sridhar Das

HpS - Hare Krsna!!  Why don't you write more often!   We saw the first lecture by Radhika-rama Das, but accepted his advice to not listen to the following lectures.     Haw!     Haw!    Haw!!     We will try to listen to the rest.

Check with Srivasa-pt. Das about the Saturday morning programs. We will be in Pune and Navi-mumbai when you reach India.

Let us stay in touch while we are there!!

Take books for distributing on the airplane etc.

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada! Srila Prabhupada ki Jay!

All Glories to Guru Maharaj HpS. PAMHO...at Your lotus feet.

Hare Krishna

Dear Guru Maharaj,

Finally our faculty here at RIMS have decided on the programme to be held at RIMS as directed by Guru Maharaj and Dr Samaresh. As we desperately want to listen to NOI lectures , we would be blessed to have NOI classes in the morning and evening and so we have kept the RIMS programme at 2pm. The faculty members also felt that it would be better if we kept the film show in the middle of the programme before Guru Maharaja's lecture so that the audience would get a better reinforcement. Have mailed the programme to Dr Samaresh too. The theme of the symposium would be Science, Spirituality and Health. We would be targetting the Medical fraternity .

On 3rd evening , planning for a cultural programme with Mrs Nandini Bandyopadhyay. Requested Gadadhar Prabhu and Tustakrishna Prabhu too. Programme will be especially for the devotees coming from other states...the least that we can offer...this time.....

 Tustakrishna Prabhu is training young boys in martial arts and he can be a very reliable devotee for the Peru-Manipur venture. Trying to identify some devotees as well . Talked to Mataji Ras Leela too , she is a martial arts performer .

About the temple programme.....on LoB....will have to inquire Banamali Prabhu about Manipuri copies. About NOI, Prabhu said last time that he has a sizeable number of copies.

Continuing our classes with H H Haridasa Maharaj....it has been a great spiritual experience for me.

I remain.....your servant,

Sarada Gaurangi DD

HpS - ASA -- Hare Krsna!   All your hard work is seeing results. Have you seen the program that Dr. Samaresh designed?   It seems very good: Short cultural program, three presentations, and then cultural program and refreshments.

The movie we have would not be good for the university program: Wrong time of day, only subtitles (English), cultural, not academic.
Again, might want to show it at the Temple program if someone rehearses the narration carefully.

Mrs. Bandhyopadyay is a little weak so the invocation to the University program may be enough for her. Please consult with Dr. Samaresh about how much she can do. 
In general, the Temple program, we can invite all the people from the 2nd for it on the 3rd, no?  Then LoB would be good basis. We have beautiful art, 2x2 meters. Excellent purports designed for Oriental, Manipuri people, and it introduces them to something they can take up on a long term basis. Pung Cholam, Martial Arts, closing with Krsna's dance in the Vasant Rasa, solo?

Please fix all this with the Dr.

Can we have "Psyche" in the title?  It makes it very hard for us unless people are coming expecting a good component of psychology,.

Thank you!

We want to record this. Edit it in Peru and submit it to WHO.

Then we do a BIGGER one and you can go to New York for three months with the United Nations.

Hare Krsna Dear Gurudev,
    Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.
 HpS - ASA -- And to your lotus feet!
    All glories to Srila Prabhupada. [ASA !!]
    All glories to Guru parampara.

    Gurudev, i have updated temple authority for your Pune Visit ( October 05, 2017 - October 08, 2017).

    October 05, 2017 (Thursday) - Arrival at 3:15 PM (Jet flight). Maharaj wish to have a program / class that evening on "Light of the Bhagavata".
    October 06, 2017 (Friday)      - Need to fix schedule / class.
    October 07, 2017 (Saturday)  - Need to fix schedule / class.
    October 08, 2017 (Sunday)    - will leave for Mumbai after breakfast. So we can have one more class.

    Diet plan also has been shared.

    Thank you so much Gurudev, would keep you posted the update.

your fallen servant,
Girivaradhari-Gopal Das

HpS - Thank you. Then we will all go together to Navi-munbai and with Harsh et al burn down the town.E xtatic Kirtan.

MAYAPURA INSTITUTE

Prabhus, Padmanaya Das, Radhika-n., Atul-k., Rama-giridhari Das et al,

Hare Krsna!    Hope all is well with your Sankirtan.

1. We are still struggle and expanding with Bh. Sastri, Vaibhava and Vedanta in San Francisco, Houston and South America.  Again we are still interested in making a relationship with these centers as affiliates with the MI. Sent some messages on Skype to arrange meeting time with Padmanaya and our director in San Francisco, Srivasa pt. Das, but didn't hear back. Can we have a call? Looks very good.

2. We leave for India Travel on the 27th: Delhi, Indoor, Ujjain, Pune, Navi-mumbai (Australia), Kolkata, Imphal, Delhi.   We would like very much to help develop this Sastri Education anywhere along the route. Of course, we are trying to meet with Radha-shyam Das in Pune et al. Any service for us?
 

  a) There will be official MOE meeting in Ujjain 3rd-5th October and your participation would be wonderful. Tapana-misra and his esteemed wife will be there and can represent the MI in some ways, no?    We also want to get an online meeting if possible for maybe 45-minutes when MI, VIHE, Pune et al can just make a brief presentations (Power Point?) of what they are doing to facilitate P-O-W-E-R-F-U-L cooperation between the academic educators of ISKCON. We can record this and then broadcast it.

  b) We are arrive Kolkata airport from Imphal 12.15PM Saturday November 4th. We want to go straight to Mayapura and sit in your Ashrama (makinging generous donation) to teach and learn until 7th morning. Then we have to go back to Kolkata-Delhi-Houston. HK/HR.

    Can someone, the Radhika-nagara Das, co-ordinate our visit to MI. Tapan is supposed to be there the same time. We can present about "Teaching and Preaching Srimad Bhagavatam in the Modern Academic World". It will be a HOT presentation. The elephants will be crying in ecstacy. The street dogs will sitting at attention with their paws and ears raised, their eyes bulging from their sockets, and the blook running cold in their veins.

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!! All Glories to Guru Maharaj HpS!

PAMHO at Your Lotus feet....Dandavat Pranaam!

Dear Guru Maharaj,

While we wait for Yamunesvara Prabhu's reply, may I update your good self about the programme to be scheduled at RIMS. Had a talk with the Head of Department of Community Medicine, Professor Brogen and he suggested that adding SPRITUAL HEALTH would be a very nice theme, something like  SCIENCE, PSYCHE and SPIRITUAL HEALTH. Dr Brogen says , very soon the WHO will incorporate Spiritual Health as another aspect of health and will be introduced in our teaching curriculum.

HpS - O.K.

Will be having a word with Dr Gojen, a leading Psychiatrist here. Probably, together with ISKCON, we will incorporate these 2 departments. Surely , we will have a Chief Guest, probably the Director of our Institute....still have'nt finalised on that. Can we send letter of invite to Prof Samaresh this week Guru Maharaj? Professor wants it ASAP so that he can apply for leave as soon as possible.

HpS - He will come with his good wife, Smt. Nandini Bandhyopadaya. She is a very delightful respectable lady and as there is time I think you can also put her to good use. She is Bhajan singer with harmonium. Directs the cultural programs for the annual civic festivals in Lake Town. Like Vice-President of All India Ladies Relief Fund.
If you and Dr. think it is useful for him to come, we think it will be fine. We can make a lasting step forward for Krsna consciousness.

We are having daily classes with H.H. Bhakti Ananda Haridas Goswami, starting at 5.30am for Bhakti Sastri preliminary classes and SB class after Guru Puja. Feeling Your immense Mercy of which we would remain forever indebted.

Your most fallen,desperately seeking Your mercy forever ....hopeless servant,

Sarada Gaurangi DD

HpS - ASA -- Hare Krsna!!!!  Sankirtan........