Letters to the editor

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........

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’s padmacharan that we are so sorry for the inconveniences caused from our side for the programme fixed earlier. Without the co-operation of Imphal ISKCON we could not arrange such a big external programme at RIMS (Regional Institute of Medical Sciences) and on such scientific topic. Thoubal is too small in comparision with Imphal as it is the capital city of Manipur and the head center of ISKCON Manipur. There are big initiated bhaktas and well educated citizens also. The gathering will be more successful. We are ready to change the timing of the external programme of 2^nd Nov. from 2.00 p.m. to 4.00 p.m. as suggested by Sarda D.D.

The idea we felt during the framing of the programme was Gurujis rest time instead of consested programme. Guruji needs only one hour road journey on the 2^nd for the function and on the 3^rd the Bhaktas’ and Matagis’ sanmelan on NOI with book distribution will be at Imphal ISKCON Mandir and after 12.00 noon Guruji will take rest on the same Mandir. It will be more advantages to arrange prasadam for 100 or more in Manimandir, Imphal than Thoubal in space (area) for meeting and prasadam. Not only that the pujaris of Imphal is more familiar for preparation of ISKCON Prasadam. Next morning Guruji can leave Mandir for Imphal Airport easily, it is only 2/3 kms. In Manipur, we could not say anything in any time (strike/band/bloket). From that point of view, we fixed the earlier programme.

I am nothing; I can't do anything independently, Guruji’s amrtavani will be filal.

Yours fallen servant

Yamunesvara Das

HpS - Jaya!   Sounds very nice.  Land and go to Thoubal.  Very simple. Fresh air. Then next day back for university program....   Then 2018, then 2019, then....   we plan to move to India 2022 and then move to Goloka (We hope) 2024.  Need YOUR blessings also.

Dear Maharaja
PAMHO AGTSP
Couple things for Melbourne:

Seminar
Melbourne is quite conservative. Srimad Bhagavatam classes are text book. Would you like to do a seminar, over 1 or 2 evenings, on Jung and Mysticisim?  It would be Sunday evening 7:30-9:00pm, after Sunday feast class (which you are also booked for) and prasadam. If there were to be part 2 it can be on Monday evening 7:30-9:00pm.

HpS - Hare Krsna! Let us just introduce it in the Sunday Feast and then do it on Monday. Any news from Madhu-manjari Devi Dasi??

Diet
I have passed on your diet to Melbourne but they still are requesting what times would you like the bhoga for Nrsmhadeva. If you could give some approximate times for morning, lunch, dinner so I can pacify them that would be great.
HpS - Is there not general devotee Prasadam after the Morning Program? Basically we could just take then, with them, what they eat, no?

Brisbane:
University of Queensland
Urban Monk program topic request?

“I think a nice topic name would 'The Timeless Vedas', where Maharaj can discuss some of our concepts in relation to the modern life and also possibly explore the Vedas alongside western Philosophy too…  Also maybe one more thing that would be good for the talk would be if Maharaj can provide some practical tips to encourage people to sort of take up the practice of Krishna Consciousness (i.e. mantra meditation, reading).”

If you are happy to go ahead with this topic they will prepare everything, including posters.

HpS - ASA -- What about continuing with "'Science, Psyche and Spirituality - Prof. C. G. Jung and the Mysticism of Ancient India'. Hanumatpresaka Swami [Prof. Huber Hutchin Robinson], world renown in bringing the treasure of classical Indian mysticism into the modern academic and practical life will give thought provoking insights into this tradition with help from the work of Carl Jung and his followers.
Don't miss this very rare opportunity",
Ys Dhruvananda Das

Here are some posters.

I made the hpsBio.jpg  poster just to let people know you are coming. Is it ok? 

The Brisbane Poster is ready. It was made by Madre Bhakti Candrika from Peru. 

Other (program specific) posters are nearly done also. Coming soon...

HpS - The posters look great. Who is this guy? We want to go. Sell books to new folk. Inspire old folk to distribute them!       FINIS>>

P.S We added a foto of Australian Sankirtan man.