Letters to the editor

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada 

Dear Guru Maharaja, 

Thank you for encouraged me Always. We visited Chandramukha Swami and he is so happy to be host in Vraja Bhumi,  2hours from Rio de Janeiro,  Brasil,  to the third Congress. Param Padam is organizing the teleconferences meeting to discuss the program in advance. I think he's sending to one old mail yours and you are not receiving their mails. At least from me I will send you Soon more details regarding the dates proposals from Chandramukha Maharaj and Nanda nanda.

HpS - AGTSP!    We received letters from Param and exchanged some.

But the purpose of this URGENT message is an invitation-request:

Could you give one skype lecture (recorded by me also)  for the Jayananda's Thakur appearance which will celebrate here at Santie this Saturday 14th May or,  if is not possible,  for the  Jayananda's Thakur Disappearance celebration the Thursday 19. The lectures are 18:30 hrs.  (Boise is -4 hours) but in the week we suggest to do it at 19:00 hrs.  To give time to the devotees to arrive because the traffic. 

Thank you gurudev for your inspiration.  We are spiritual alive and having even more spiritual health. 

Hare Krishna.

ASA - Ooof!   This Saturday is not possible. We have programs every minute with the Temple Cultural Complex inauguration.

Thursday seems fine.  We looked at jayanandathakura.com and it give his birth day at 27 April 1939, but that doesn't seem correct. He would have been nine years older than us and that didn't seem a fact. also as I understand he came to San Francisco just after graduating in Engineering from the University, so he would have been about 23-years old then.   Hmm?   Maybe born like 1944.

Thursday 19.00 hours = 16.00 for Nashville?

Hare Krsna!

AGTSP

Esteemed GBC Strategic Planning Team,
Paoho....   Thank you for the following letter and invitation. Let us take this moment to organize and express our thoughts on these topics in a manner that we can also circulate for the criticism of others also.

We attended the GSG Sanga which was in 2015 as I remember. We have also attended the last two ILS and one or two other SPT meetings. Administratively we are now a Member of the Latin American Regional GBC, the Executive Committee of the Ministry of Education, have been Temple President for three ISKCON Temples, worked for years with the large scale programs of the Bhaktivedanta Institute and now are acting in our best capacity as Advisor, Administator and Foot soldier for NIOS (North American Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies) which is graced with Tamohara Das as our GBC and Nitai-gaurasundara Das as our President. NGD is Director of a Psychiatric hospital here in Tennessee and his brother is currently President of the nation-wide Indian Lawyers Association.
So . . . we have been involved in the management aspect of ISKCON.

NIOS organized a program jointly with the Indian National Museum on "The Contribution of of Ancient India to Making a Better World". It was innaugurated by Mukundakam Sharma, former Justice of Supreme Court of India and two former Governors of West Bengal. Now NIOS is organizing a very delightful and taxing International Seminar on "Psychology and the Sacred" with the National Library in Peru.

Just writing about this is exhausting.

We have the dates blocked on our Calendar [Feb 6-9] . Of course we can't come to India just for this three day event, but it could fit in with other travel.

In general we feel that ISKCON has become too much advanced in the mode of passion. We also feel that our feelings and opinions are certainly not perfect and want to express them as much for criticism as well as appreciation. One day during the remembered 2015 GSG Sanga the GBC Members were not present and the meetings were amongst Sannyasis who had not much or no GBC administrative posts. The idea that the GBC should look to its Sannyasa community as its source of protection, strategic leadership and ultimate spiritual authority was expressed by several Sannyasis present with citations from Buddhist history etc. Of course, our ISKCON Sannyasa community may not be capable of doing their role properly, but the theory and ideal should be kept and considered the most essential focus of the GBC to develop, no?

When we were discussing this one of the most well know of the Sanga commented that this was all true but if you expressed these ideas publicly then you would be marginalized politically.

In the written evaluations of the meetings requested the following day, I suggested that there was great necessity for more chance for the administratively uninvolved Sannyasis to meet and try to clarify their ideas about their Ashrama and its relation to GBC and Guru tattva, but there was no more meeting scheduled for this. Hare Krsna...

Of course, there are other efforts along these lines with the Sannyasa Ministry but in conversation with them and others, we feel that is a very key aspect of having an effective GBC, Sannyasi, Guru Sanga in 2017.

Awaiting your opinions for our consideration and to carry to our friends at this corner of ISKCON.

Thank you so much for the work you are doing. Practically speaking we see almost no one else doing it.
Your rather fallen servant,
Hanumatpresaka Swami

AGTSP!
Paoho
& BW!

Esteemed Srinivasa-acharya Das et al,

As purr our talk:

HpS - Arrive Friday. Join Nepali zoots!

Saturday morning our regular PdP program on line at 7AM, 4-5 PM Srinivasa Sanga, 6-7PM On line Spanish zoots!

Sunday AM, Informal SB, Kaliya Puja, Donor Ceremony, we do PPTX about 20-minutes.

Monday [every day] informal SB class, PM Balabhadra's Ashrama (bring your tiffin carrier)



Ministry of Education (MOE), North American Regional Symposium on Education with ISKCON
Tuesday Evening - "What is an Educated Man",    
Wed - Where is the Best School?,    
Thu - Save You Self First, 
Friday - ISKCON, Cradle to Oxford with Badri Narayana Das et al, 
Sat Morning = Mayapur TV (ISV) Bhakti vaibhava Master's class by Vaisesika Das, "Preaching Strategies in the First Two Cantos"


Saturday  Afternoon - Lt. Governor inaugurate new hall.

Sunday - All day, closure.

Monday - Back in the aluminum wiener to Nashville.

Hay enlace para Congress Educative en Brazil, Enero.

Espero Patraka Das lo pone aqui!

Pienso vamanos!

Querido Gurumaharaja:
Por favor acepte nuestras respetuosas reverencias! 
Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada! 

Hemos leído Su calendario actual. Estamos muy felices y tan emocionados de tener muy pronto Su santa asociación en Mexico, por unas horas, el día 13 de Julio. 
Por supuesto siempre anhelamos tener Su asociación más tiempo. 

Podemos conseguir un lugar de alojamiento muy cerca del aeropuerto.

Agradecemos mucho esta consideración hacia nosotros. 

REPORTE DE PRENDAS PERUANAS 
En la noche de Sri Nityananda Trayodasi, con el permiso y bendiciones de las autoridades del Templo, se hizo una subasta con las 13 prendas que Ud. envió. 
Con la entusiasta dirección de subasta de parte de Vrajendra Kumara das, la contabilidad de Karuna sakti dd y por supuesto las bendiciones de Usted y todos los vaisnavas, se logró colectar 4,470 pesos mexicanos, equivalente a 846,24 soles, que ya fueron enviados a Sus Señorías Radha Madana Vihari. 

El día de ayer, los  devotos de Perú, enviaron turrones Govinda para las autoridades del templo de México con prabhu Tattva vit.  

Muchas gracias querido Gurumaharaja! 
Por favor perdone nuestras ofensas. 

Su siempre y eterna aspirante a sirviente.
Asta Sakhi dd. 

Adjunto el comprobante de recibido de Perú, me advirtieron no publicar en las redes sociales por cuestiones de impuestos. 

HpS ASA - Hare Krsna! Thank you 1,000,000 tones for your letter. I hope on Braja we can spend eternity together serving Radha Krsna and the eight principle Gopis.

Pujaris should have sent DVDs of Temple.

I hope doesn't take 2-hours to get through Immigration on 13-th July.

We can all go to Houston for a week or two after that?

How is the Manasa et al?

Dear Gurumaharaja, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. We just got back from the Airport, where we missed the opportunity to welcome you on your transit. The Departure area is like a Fort Knox! We were a little late, and rather than going straight for departures, we traced your steps. That is interesting actually, sometimes it is better not to follow in your footsteps, but to understand where you are going, and go there on our own. Every little bit of association holds so much lessons after careful and repeated contemplation, so i am very happy to have met you again. In time we shall see what providence will unfold. We wish you fast recuperation after all travels, and we look forward to drop in on the online sanga realm. Hare Krishna! Your servant, Raghava Pandita dasa.

ASA -- Yes. We were looking for you, but couldn't call. Were staying outside for about an hour drinking juice Prasad.

We have seen your ugly face enough but your son, the next Acharya, we would like to have seen him.

Gonna get another job?