Letters to the editor

Hare Krsna Dear Gurudev,
    Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.

ASA - Hare Krsna/ Hare Rama

    All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
    All glories to Guru parampara.

    Gurudev, i am in talk with a NGO for your preaching program. Trying to get details
    like - how it could be useful for you & ISKCON Education Ministry.

    As the talk is in very initial stage so would keep you posted as we get details.

    Thank you so much.

your fallen servant,
Girivaradhari-Gopal Das

ASA - We just sent the suggestions for travel and visiting dates. Very late, but that's the best we rate. Where are Krsna, where are the Gopis, where is Vraja dhama?  We must all talk to people who can push these songs along.

PAMHO AGTSP

Updates

Baby:

We had our second Daughter Sarasvati, born on 20 October. We spent some time settling in after her epic arrival.

HpS - Ooof!     Wonderful.   Wonderful!   Sankirtan!

Melbourne: A let down to me, the temple president in Melbourne did not alert all his staff and they have double booked for the time that we want to be there. I communicated directly with TP to arrange this visit and he gave his word. On seeing the new events booked for the same time, I conducted some inquiry and discovered that no one, or not the right people new about us coming. This is unfortunate but maybe also fortunate. I don’t know.

I think we should consider going to Sydney instead of Melbourne, unless you have any particular wishes to be in Melbourne. HH Kadamba Kanana Swami has quite the following in Melbourne and will be there from 13^th-22^nd October and his schedule is busy. Please let me know what you think. You have some disciples in Sydney, Canberra. Maybe between them, the temple and Govindas kirtan restaurant, we could arrange some nice programs there. I was talking with one devotee who does some very small preaching at a University there so maybe we could do something with them also.

If you like this idea we could simply change you Mumbai flight to land in Sydney on the evening of the 12^th, leave Sydney on the 17^th, then carry on with the rest of the schedule as normal.

Waiting to hear from you.

Your impotent servant

Dhruvananda Da

HpS -    'are Krsna, Mate!     Interesting.       Trying to change these international flights six weeks before the travel can be super, super, super expensive and difficult (but not impossible (if you can do the Krsna-kaliya step)).

What if we just keep the Australia arrivals and departures the same and just spend a day with Maharaja and his program and then move on with our internal travel?

Thank you so much for your efforts. From our experience this is tough work and in the end Krsna arranges where He wants us to go and whom He wants us to meet.

Our respects to Dhanesvari Devi Dasi and everyone!  We will also see if anyone offers suggestions here in the Blog.

From: Purushottama Keshava Das <[email protected]>

Respected Hanumatprekshak Swami Maharaja,

Please accept my humble obeisances.

Hare Krishna.

We are very happy to hear your preaching programs and success stories. We are specially happy about your upcoming India and Kolkata visit.

There is some confusion regarding the dates of stay at Kolkata. In your mail, you have mentioned 26th to 30th November. I feel it is actually 26th- 30thOctober? Please confirm if it is 26th to 30th October.

Should I book room on these dates?
HH Radhanath Swami will be conducting Annual Kartik Yatra at that period in Mayapur and Kolkata. It is scheduled from

19 to 27 October in Mayapur 
and 28 to 31 October in Kolkata.

So most of Kolkata devotees will be busy in that from 18th October to 1st November.

Please let us know how can we serve you.

Your aspiring servant, 
Purushottama Keshava Das
ISKCON Kolkata

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HpS - ASA - Hare Krsna!  So, very nice to hear from you.

Yes, we are scheduled to be in Kolkata from 26th to 31st OCTOBER.

We arrive at Kolkatta airport from Australia about 1AM. Very, very early in the morning after about 20-hours of travel. It is the best ticket we could get!

So, if you can arrange transportation from the airport that will be greatly appreciated by our body, and accommodation in Temple Complex for 26th to 31st night.

Then 1st Nov we have a flight from Kolkata to Imphal at 9AM.

It will be very nice to get association of Radhanatha Swami and the whole Yatra. We will in many ways just be recovering from the Australia travel and working with Dr. Samaresh, but as much as we can be of service to you and Kolkata Yatra in the kinds of preaching that we are doing that is also 100% fine. It is kind of like finding our place in the Rasa-lila, no?

Your phone is still +91 842 xxx xxxx?

Please do not burden your self with our passions but as there is time let us know about everyone: Acaryaratna, Doyal, Mukunda...

Hare Krsna Dear Gurudev,
    Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.
    All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
    All glories to Guru parampara.

    Gurudev, As you have two slot for Mumbai as below.
    1. October 05 to October 09, 2017
    2. October 21 to October 25, 2017

ASA - Hare Krsna!    We apologize for three week delay in answering this letter. We had hard time fixing things with Bombay side. Finally got perspective fixed with Rama-giri-dhari Das and Navi mumbai:

We are finished in Ujjain on the 4th of October. Then we can be available in Pune/Bombay from 5th to 11th October.

We are suggesting that we take the Jet airways flight from Indoor (closest airport to Ujjain) to Pune, Thursday the 5th of Oct. This is a TERRIBLE time to travel but seems the best option. Hare Krsna:

2:05pm - 3:15pm, Jet Airways, IDR - PNQ, Nonstop

Then we drive to Navi-mumbai/Mumbai on Sunday the 8th. We could do the Sunday Feast in Pune or Bombay depending on which will be the most effective. Then we have Monday-Wednesday in Bombay area. Our flight to Australia is 11.30 at night on Wednesday.

Of course, we are at your service and a lot of our visit is to just see you and the Harsh et al.

HpS - ASA

 Hare Krishna.

 We have the same situation that we always have when  travel.  We are hit by so many people that we don't have the private time for mail, Blog. So, if there is something Urgent then put"urgent"in the Subject field and we'll get in quick.

 Otherwise we should get to it next week.

 We really enjoy the mail. Touches por heart.

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

Hare Krishna.

PAMHO Guru Maharaj......the Lettuce feet is forever trying to leap thousands and thousands of oceans!!How do we get a glimpse of them??

Just talked to Dr. Samaresh. Will call him back later in the evening to get the details. Time.....time.....oh! sweet time...you are just the stumbling block....3 days....just 3 days...I feel like crucifying myself!!

Would like a cultural night for an hour or so....the movie can be screened....Ras dance....martial arts. Was thinking of involving Clinical Psychology staff and Psychiatry doctors for a seminar...Dr Samaresh will be able to guide us better.

1st Nov is such a great day to arrive at Imphal......Hari Uthaan....earlier we used to see carts being drawn in the middle of night ...with aarti . We still do that..but on a very small scale. We had been specifically invited by one of my friends to hold a kirtan at their house . They have a temple.....dates at least over 100 years...much older than that....we are going to have kirtan there. Would Maharaj be too tired to lead the kirtan there ...that would be in the evening?

Thank you so much for the lovely foto!!! That would be a lot better than being crucified!! hahaha....

Will call up Yamuneswara Prabhu soon.

Your hopelessly helpless servant,

Sarada Gaurangi Devi Dasi

P.S. We will surely reimburse the tickets.....so sorry for not being prompt enough. Please forgive me.

HpS - ASA -- We talked with Dr. Samaresh and he suggested that we suggest a few titles for one external lecture. The time is short so a lot of it will be be with personal dealings with disciples friends et al. Of course, people can join US when we are in the other parts of India also. The external University program would of course be open to ISKCON members, no?

Prof. said that you wanted something new for Manipur, something that had not already been done in another part of the world, but we would like to show the work that is going on in other parts of the world and how Manipur can make a very significant contribution to these programs.

1. Science, Psyche and Spirituality - The Encounter of Prof. C. G. Jung with the Mysticism (Yoga  (Bhagavata Culture))) of Ancient India.
This and the following title run on parallel lines. Depending on the audience we can give a brief introducion to Carl Jung and the making of modern psychology down to cutting edge devlopments, the case for Platonic Ideala, Kantian Categories or Nietszche and Jung's Archetypes which preceed rational life and are extremely well presented in the Bhagavata tradition of Sri Caitanya and his followers to the present day. This includes the work from the previous years, current year and next year from Peru etc.

2. Psychology and the Sacred.|
See above.

3. Cultivation of the Human Spirit, Light of the Bhagavata.
This is a symposium based upon the BBT Light of the Bhagavata that was originally designed for a Conference in Japan in about 1962 on Cultivation of the Human Spirit. It has first class two meeter art pieces in the finest Chinese traditon. A 35-minute movie by the winner of the Latin American Oscar Awards for Best Director and of course the Bhakti-vedanta Purports to the Srimad Bhagavata Texts.

4. Aristotle and Bharata Muni, the Contrasts, East and West, in the Nature and Role of Theater in Society.
This is the natural follower of Seminar (1) above. All of these can be adjusted to Manipuri character and intellectual character. Dr. Samaresh has seen it in the Gaudiya Math presentation. It is very practical and would inspire Manipuri people to ofer their culture to the entire world.

5. Art and the Sacred - A Pilgrims Progress.
This is the next big project NIOS is undertaking. How we must fill our world with art that will define and inspire us to experience the spiritual aspect of our being. It is aimed at being an epic movie with participation from colossal artists and scholars. Manipur could join this and the presentation would introduce the audience to the current content of the project and participants.

HareKrsnaHareRama!