Letters to the editor

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

    Gurudev, am back in Pune on October 24, 2016. By your best wishes, the trip was super hit.
    Everything done by "Bhakta Prami"-Madav only, he was doing everything and at the end he has
    given me the credit also (for everything). i am amazed how the whole trip went. Literally, he
    was doing everything (i know my limitations)....am still amazed. May be i don't be able
    to forget.

    Spent days at Pakhanjore (North Baster District - Kanker), down town of 195 villages.
    Schedule and programs were back to back (completely packed). Meet with teachers, students, house holders,
    senior citizens etc. Response was un-expected.

    There were many house hold programs.

    Inaugurated a Book distribution center. SP books will be distributed from that center.
    Started weekly house hold programs.

    Hope to visit again in next 4-6 months and continue so. we have to prepare ourself for the
    next trip based on feedback received from this trip. Have to explore similar ways for you and SP.
    we just see the way you are doing and.... we continue....you gives the actual strength. i won't be able to pay you.

    Hope your India schedule / programs are structured now. Hope we would have clear dates.

your fallen servant,
Girivaradhari-Gopal Das

HpS - Thank you for the reports!    Man proposes and God disposes.   We try to give whatever we can, be sincere and Krsna does what He thinks is best.  Draupadi never lost faith that all that was happening was part of a larger plan of Krsna (although she expressed her complaints).   Your report is so nice.

You can see in other letter that the India Calendar is now 77% fixed. The dates for Navi-Mumbai/Pune are basically fixed. Do you have any suggestions then about filling up this time? Of course Rama-giridhari Das has some thoughts and Dr. Samaresh will have some contacts.

We have our tickets: Delhi>Tirupati>Chennai>Kolkatta.

We hope you have good perspective from Krsna to go ahead with your specific preaching and how to fit it into a broad strategy for your life's mission.

Hare Krsna, Prabhu,

I am almost crying thinking of the Temple in Kolkatt, Radha Govinda,B'caris, community, your self etc.
I hope we can have a little place in the Yatra eternally.

I just purchased our ticket.

We arrive in Kolkatta at 1.45PM, on Monday, January 9th, on Indigo 9E-992, from Channai.

Please start to think of service for us. Of course, we are working 100% with Dr. Samaresh. We are developing appreciation of Indian culture, Vedic Culture, Rupa Goswami, ISKCON, Srila Prabhupada, Science and the Vedas and especially this Peru - India connection and Psychology and the Sacred.

I will send you more information as it develops.

Our cellular is.....

From: Acarya Ratna Das_ISKCONKOL 
To: jayarama108....
Cc: Harsh Pradhan, samaresh bandyopadhyay; Mukunda Lila P; Purushottama Keshava Das Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2016 4:29 AM
Subject: Re: HpSwami
 

Respected HH Hanumat Preshak swami maharaj,
Please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
I was very happy to watch small video on YouTube on psychology and sacred 2016. Congratulations for successful event for pleasure of Srila Prabhupada.

We will be very happy to receive your association in Kolkata, birth city of Srila Prabhupada. Kindly let us know your dates of arrival. I hope we can have more positive and fruitful discussions and hope we can move forward in NIOS services.

Thanking you,
Your servant,
Acaryaratna das

On 12-Sep-2016 9:42 pm, "jayarama108...." wrote:

Hare Krsna, Prabhu,AGTSP!    Paoho.   We have not heard much from you for a
long time, but of course you have also not heard much from us either.
Dr. Samaresh tried several times and ways to call the devotee whose phone
number you gave us and it was always, "Out of Reach", even on the weekends.
 Lamentably I could not follow up on that any more.
We really are hoping to get the association of all of you soon.
We have continued with this academic Sankirtan and by the unlimited mercy of
Srila Prabhupada there have been amazing results. The last thing we did was a
Symposium on Psychology and the Sacred in partnership with the National Library
of Peru. This is one of the most prestigious and interesting in the world, with
many ancient manuscripts and intense areas of artistic and scholarly
investigation.
Please, go to youtube.com and use the keywords: psychology and the sacred 2016,
to find a short and little longer, very illuminating, video extract of the
event. The Ambassador of India, the scholars, everyone, wants to develop this
more.
I hope very much that you and everyone can take leading effort in this
Sankirtan, why else call your selves residents of Kolkatta, the City of Joy.
We got a Houston - Delhi - Houston ticket for only $785!    We will be in the
glorious land of Bharata from 1st January to 15th February.  The beginning and
end are tied down with 2-6 January and 7-10th in Tirupati and Madras with
Radhika-raman and Krsna-ksetra for a Vaisnava-Christian Dialog and a Bhagavata
Symposium, University of Madras.
Are you participating in these???
Then at the end like 10-14th February is the Guru, GBC, Sannyasi Sanga in Sri
Sri Sri Dhama Maypura.
What shall we do in between. We have calls from Rama-giri-dhari Das and Goloka
Education, Pune, and Manipur, but we are always very much at your
service!!!What city can be more enlivening than Kolkatta!

Dec 31 - Arrive Delhi 11.35 PM

Jan 1st to Tirupatti - Vaisnava Christian Dialog
5th to Chennai - SB Symposium
9th to Calcutta

Above fixed

18th to 25th, Manipur etc.
25th to Feb 1st, Delhi Vraja
Feb 1st to 8th Navi Mumbai, Pune etc
8th to 10th Calcutta
10th to 14th - Mayapura Guru, Sannyasi, GBC Sanga etc.

14th Kolkatta to Houston.

Please circulate this and start to fill in the details or suggest changes.

Querido Gurumaharaja:
Por favor acepte nuestras reverencias!
Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada!
Con mucha admiración siempre  leemos Sus reportes de prédica y salud. Muchas gracias por el gran ejemplo que nos da. Oramos a Sri Nrsimhadeva por Usted y para que siempre nos mantenga bajo Su refugio.

Gurumaharaja, hace unas semanas tuvimos reunión de hermanos espirituales.
El punto importante es presentarle a Usted la siguiente propuesta para Su próxima visita del 24 al 30 Diciembre.

-Distrito Federal
Sábado 24 al martes 27

-Tulancingo
Miércoles 28
Maha Harinama y distribución de libros.
Breve clase de BG.
Obra de teatro
Jueves 29
11:00 am Celebración de Vyasa-Puja
5::00pm Retorno al DF.

Hemos preguntado y los devotos de allá están muy felices con la idea. Lalita Gopi, Karuna Sakti y Asta Sakhi viajarán a Tulancingo el sábado 29 de Octubre para hablar formalmente con las autoridades, si Usted está de acuerdo .

Ayer hable con Prabhu Dharmaraja y él aceptó nuestra propuesta.

Gurumaharaja, le parece bien la propuesta?

Los devotos de Tulancingo son muy buenos anfitriones, en varias oportunidades están solicitando que Usted los visite pues tienen intereses de desarrollar el área de educación para niños y para su visita quieren inaugurar un nuevo centro de prédica más grande y apropiado para el desarrollo espiritual donde se promueva el arte y la educación.

Nosotros deseamos sinceramente  honrar su Vyasa-Puja, por favor necesitamos Sus instrucciones para que cause satisfacción, carecemos de inteligencia pero podemos esforzarnos, oramos para ser  bendecidos para escuchar las instrucciones con los oídos bien abiertos, tal como fue favorecido Manu por Kandarpa Muni.

Al igual que algunos hermanos espirituales, en algún momento hemos pensado, por qué debo pedir instrucciones públicamente en el blog o en presencia de otros?  En la clase de hoy, encontramos esta cita de Srila Prabhupada, Usted puede iluminarnos por favor.

SB.3.22.7
La realidad es que un maestro espiritual genuino conoce la naturaleza de cada hombre en particular, y los deberes conscientes de Kṛṣṇa que puede ejecutar, y le instruye de acuerdo con ello. Le instruye por vía auditiva, no en privado, sino en público: ......

Perdone por favor nuestras ofensas.

Su eterna sirviente
Asta Sakhi dd.

Posdata:
Prabhu Vrajavasi de Celaya-Guanajuato  (Discípulo de Srila Prabhupada)
Dejó el cuerpo la semana pasada. No se si ud lo recuerda, estuvimos en su casa hace unos años atrás. 

HPS - We would like to help Tulan but too much travel for our body. Better stay in D.F.

Yes, we heard he left his body. Many people here mention it.

Some days we do Seminar on Sankirtan, book distribution?

Hare Krsna Beloved Gurudeva

AGTSP

Pamho

I hope this meets U well

On July 2016 I applied for an american visa on october 17th I had my interview and today I received my visa !!!!!!

I bought a ticket to Houston.. I will be there from dic 4th to dic 14th.. So I will have your association!!!! Jaya.. I am also excited to meet Radha Nila Madhava in person. And my Godbrothers there.

I have a problem I am a little embarrased .. I was asking for help to Govinda pramonandini for accomodations.. but she does not asure me for proper accomodations.. Do U know who may help me???? Guest house is $50per day $700 just in accomodations is too much. Sorry GM for being so insolent in asking U for some help.

Also I would like to talk to u in Houston about the future of my professional life... I have some important questions that I will like to discuss in person.

We are ok actually PRETTY GOOD. Last year was very very hard for me but little by little by radha's mercy and yours I am 95%recover

Thank U all so much

See u soon

Your useless servant

Candramukhi dd

HpS - ASA -- Very interesting. AGTSP.  I guess we will be there during the 50th Anniversary and Gita jayanti.  Yes, calendar says 8-12th Dec there for us. Of course, Govinda p. Dasi is principal person to help. Jiva Goswami Das lives some distance from Temple and has his wife and daughter to accomodate.

Hari-lila Das lives about 20-minutes from Temple and we can't check with him because he is in India until the 7th.

In any case you should get in touch with Caitanya-caritamrta Das and his esteemed wife Subhra Devi Dasi. He is our disciple for long time, contractor, working with Temple projects. She is Principal for the Goswami Academy, Disciple of H. H. Bh. Caru Swami and very excellent, professionally certified and lots of word in public schools as a Teacher and then school Principal. She is very cheerful and intelligent person and because of you PhD in education, everything you should be in touch with her.

Maybe got visa but no place to stay!    Yet, good chance to show interest.
I will send a copy of this letter to them with copy to you.

...   Sent ... 

Super-girl goes to Houston! (For Krsna).

Hare Krishna Maharaj,

Pamho. AgtSP.

 So the temple president of DC has a few points that are outlined for Sunday talks. She likes to gear the speakers toward more unfamiliar audiences (we have a pretty big yoga community here). I was going to email this to you because she and VrajVihari would like to be cc’d on it. But I explained and gave her a brief synopsis of Psyhology and the Sacred and she was thrilled to hear it.

The talk is limited to 30 min with an additional 15-20 min Q&A period.

She did say that the Saturday prior will be open if you would like to host a workshop or lecture of any sort? Please let me know if this is something you’d like to consider.

HpS - You me and NGD just talked about this. "From Cradle to Cambridge - Education in ISKCON. Hanumatpresaka Swami has a long history of working int the area education in ISKCON which include deep involvement with H. H. B. S. Damodara Swami and the Bhaktivedanta Institute, Ranga-niketana - Manipuri Troupe. He is on the Executive Committe of the ISKCON Ministry of Education, and with his own ISKCON institution, NIOS, he has just participated in a profound, intercontinental symposium on Psychology and the Sacred with the National Library of Peru.

He will also report on Sunday school commercialy successful ISKCON Pre and Primary Schools etc. Come for general overview and opportunity to get involved in very practical programs.

Currently we have UMD lined up for 11/11. I’m not familiar with the school but they have a strong bhakti club and I’ll reach out to profs who may try to stage something bigger.

HpS - Let him see our youtube.com clip of  "Psychology and the Sacred 2016", then we can talk with him personally and design a custom program.

Awaiting to get contact of hindu chaplain from Georgetown. He himself has a doctorate in theology so may be a good source of reaching out to dept.

HpS - Again, follow up NGD suggestion of contacting his friend, Dr. Shaligram Shukla in Sanskrit.

Will keep you updated!

*just to clarify—when I send a group text, you can see them right? Cause subala prabhu hasn’t responded either.*

HpS - When you send a group Text we only see your name and when we respond it only shows you as a recipient.  Hmmm.    Robots for Rama.
Thank you so much for your effort.