Letters to the editor

Hare Krsna Guru Maharaja.
All Glories to Sri Sri Gauranga Nitiananda!
All Glories to His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada
All Glories to you!
All Glories to devotees

Please accept my humble obeisances to your feets my eternal shelter.

Gurudeva, 16 round ok, sometimes 20, bad quality, have to improve. 4 principles ok.
I have some news, the festival DIWALI goes on, Many things to organize but I doing my best effort to can make all my responsibilities in the better way.
Just starting to work with Srinivasa Acarya in your Webpage.
The devotees give me the mercy to make some service in your visit and I keep fixing some programs in your Buenos Aires Calendar.
Started to talk with JagadGuru Prabhu about education symposium, to present it here in Argentina and for inspire the devotees to go to Chile in January.*Gurudeva I trying so hard to be a educated person, to make of this program part of my personality to be representative of your preaches line. Srila Prabhupada say The purity is the force, you are so worthy of that. Thats make me understand many things about my compromise, please bless me to improve.
Monday -  Mangala Aratik full program and Adi Sri Sri Gaura Nitai Buenos Aires Mandir Breakfast. Have good relationship with devotees of the temple, I really appreciate can associate with them.
Talking to Abhirama and Vrisabhanu about Miguel Polo Book.

HpS - Aaaaah! Very nice.
Next week will start to help with ratha Yatra Chariot.



Gurudeva with all thats services, I not prioritized the Sastras studies and some days I even cannot read :(

The next year I will change my plan and start again to finish the Bhakti Sastri Course. Less service, more service, you agree?

HpS - Maybe you die before that and then you will have to take one birth in Vrndavana as a Donkey with Cakori Radha before you can take birth in ISKCON again. So make big plan for next year but make some little plan for today. Start reading EVERYDAY one page or such from one book: Krsna book, TLC, CC... O.K?  Which book. Read it before you take breakfast  or such.

I have so present one appreciation of Mahatma Maharaja, when I talked some things with Him, he told me I'm not balanced, and it's true.
And the most important thing... I try to make all of this thing with a good consciousness, but I can see I'm not surrender to Krsna, I don't know if I make them with my ego, my mind or what, but I not do them with my heart. And I'm worry about that. Why I'm afraid to surrender to Him? Why I'm so attach to my confort zone? I always meditate about BG 4.42: "Therefore the doubts which have arisen in your heart out of ignorance should be slashed by the weapon of knowledge. Armed with yoga, Oh Bhārata, stand and fight." How my intelligence will cut it if I not use it.  I think a lot about Ma sucah - do not worry. Why I can't just transcend?
Gurudev, I really need your instruction. I know that what I do is not enough.
I feel about the only things who have a real value in my life is whats i do for u, nothing else. Is that feeling false? If it's so strong, why I'm not surrender?  How can I improve my service?
Sorry Many questions.

HpS - Seems you should take little practical steps like the reading plan above! We come to the human form after hundreds and millions of lifetimes. So lets not be disturbed if it takes a few years to be pure devotees.
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Gurudeva, the next week I will start to close all the meetings outside of the temple . Please give us yours and Srila Prabhupada blessings for can make it in the better way.
Gurudev you want to give interviews? Because on this way we can organize it from now with specific times and themes. Please let us know.

HpS - We can usually consult with devotees after the morning and before the evening program, but they should ask their question in class in a general way first.

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Gurudev you're present in each service each japa each moment in my life, I pray to Krsna and to Srila Prabhupada, deeply for stay always focused on your lotus feet, my eternal shelter. Only you by your mercy can show me the way.
HAPPY KARTIK!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry for my long letter. Thank you for your time.

Your disciple who want to be your servant. sorry for all my mistakes in this process. Please give me your blessing to always stay with the devotees.
Rati-Manjari Devi Dasi

HpS - Thank you for the news. Yes, priority. When do you get your rounds done?

Hare Krsna

AGTSP

Al l glories to you Guru Dev

All glories to the Sankirtan movement and misión of Srila Prabhupada

 we were talking wit Sarad Bihari, Nikunja Bihari Prabhu, Rati Manjari and local devotees from Cordoba about the organization and ideas of your calendar to Argentina .

we dont have answer from Jagad jivan prabhu about your visit to paraguay?

HpS - AGTSP! Thank you. Paoho. No, visit to Paraguay. Is too complicated...

  wed 7 of january

arrive to Buenos Aires

tus 8

you can take a flight to Cordoba and go to Balarama Puri camping, you can meet there with Dhanvantari Maharaja and Param Padam Prabhu and more than 50 devotees.

friday 9

Balaram Puri

 saturday 10

Ratha Yatra en Carlos Paz (cordoba) you can travel with Dhanvantari Maharaja to the festival

sunday 11

we are organizing with one devotee psicologist (Deva Govinda Prabhu) from Cordoba a meeting with all profesionals medical Doctor, psicologist and other profesionals who are very very interest in the vedic culture, yoga and ayurveda indeed this devotee Deva Govinda it s teaching ayurveda to them in a center of healing. so these person  have interest in Jung, the vedic culture and yoga. Deva Govinda Prabhu will be the link and the person who continue in the cultivation of these profesional if you can present the point of view of the Jung conference to them. what do you think?

HpS - ASA - Perfect. distribute LOB, TLC and NOI.

monday 12

Birth day. Happy Birth day Guru dev!!! ASA aniversary

celebration Cake.

We have conection with the profesor of sanskrit in the cordoba university, and probably others head professors in the universitys. if you have interest we can organize a meeting and involve local devotees to continue in contact with them. what do you think? or return this day to BS AS

ASA - Try to invite them for the program on Sunday also, no? Yes, Monday in Cordoba to close things. Meet more people.

 tuesday13 or wed 14

flight to Buenos Aires

ASA - Tuesday.

thursday 15

radio shows: FM mantra and the progam “combustible espiritual”-Ari Paluch- you already be there in those programs.

friday 16

C.G.Jung conference

 saturday 17

cultural festival(indian cultural fest)

sunday 18

sunday feast –education in Iskcon 1-

monday 19

education in Iskcon 2

tuesday 20

wed 21

flight to chile

NOI movie

it s a great idea, if you think that i can participate in the proyect, i will be happy helping in the elavoration of the movie.  we can start with cleaning some noise in the audio, that there are nice coming from a computer recording. i think you have many ideas for this movie.

ASA - Can you all start with the clip about the front page and adjust the sound and add some images. Make it attractive to Carl Jung. Can be simple.

 Report

the sunday 5 of october we present in Villa Giardino , Cordoba in a cultural center the L.O.B movie and Book with a debate, music with nice devotees playing songs and the maha mantra. also very nice prasadam. the place belong to a public librery.  like 22 nice person in the event plus the devotees. they were very happy and with sincere interest, we distribute like 10 L.OB books 5 LOB movies. and some vegetarian books

Vrsabhanu nandini dd and I were invited to participate in diferent radio shows and we had the oportunity to share Krsna and spiritual concepts and invite the people to these programs.

tomorrow we go again to the radio to talk about mantra yoga and Bhagavad philosophy

thank you guru dev for teaching us have to share Prabhupada mercy to others.

we hope to became a better person and instrument 

your servant Amabarisa Das

attached some photos

HpS - AGTSP!!! Sankirtan! Meet people who can meet others. Sankirtan in hell. Planting seeds.

Hare Krsna
AGTSP
pamho

Ok. Gurudev I'll talk with Ambarisa Maharaja Das about the first week. 
I'm starting to prepare the invitations to psychologists and I want to know what you think about if we put 3 simple themes, like topics?
I don't know, 3 important points what you want to talk about in Jung meeting. ¿What are you would choose?
I call to Dhanya Lalita DD to participate with lali, Luis and me in this project. She is psychologist.
¿What jung's book you think we have to start to read for understand your preach w/Jung? To be sincere, I'll recomend it to the psychologyst who will work with us.
Thank You.
 

AGTSP - paoho, please contact Abhirama Thakura Das and get a copy of the Bio-graphy translation of Carl Jung that Miguel Polo has. He says it is much better.

Then read that. It will not only be interesting to see his view of the subtle and spiritual world in terms of the Bhagavata but it will also help you with your own personal psychological issues.

1. Jung's cosmolgy and the achetypes of the Bhagavata.

2. Jung's legacy, who has taken up his work and how has it progressed.

3. Practical techniques of introspection.
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other theme:
My Japa get bad, I will effort to recover soon, sorry for that. My fault it's intolerable. 4 principles ok.
I´ve prepared with one friend, Diwali Fest, where many persons can offer a lamp to damodara, we're so excited.
We rent a place who is close to 2 Bhakti Vrksas here in Bs.As. and the festival is oriented to new people, and on this way if they want to learn more can go there and they will take a "safe" context to be cultivated in KC. 
For all of it happen, we really need your blessing. 
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Thanks for always engage me in KC. Sorry for my many mistakes.
I hope some day please you Guru Maharaja, like you please to Srila Prabhupada. Thanks for be the perfect example.
Your disciple who want to be you servant,
rati-manjari devi dasi

HpS - ASA - Yes, bad Japa is spiritual death!!!!  We will write about NOI movie project. Please watch for it!

Hare Krsna !
All Glories To Sri Sri Gauranga Nitiananda!
All Glories to His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada. 
All Glories to you.

please accept my most humble obeisances.

Gurudeva, how are you? How is your health? Hope it's fine :)

I talking with Ambarisa M D and  Sharad B DD,  to make your calendar:
JAUNARY
14 - WED - Not confirm yet if you will be in Bs.As.
15 - THU - Radio (maybe 2 programs)
16 - FR - Psicólogos. Only prominents like 3 or 4 persons.
17 - SA - cultural day.
18 - SU - Fiesta de Domingo after, educación day I.
19 - MO - Educacion Day II.
20 - TU -
21 - WED - depart to chile.

cultural program will be one of them:
India fest.
Indian embassy. Starting to make contact, not confirmed. 

16 rouns ok. 4 principles ok, started read SB 1st chant. started to cook breakfast to Sri Sri Gaura Nitai in the temple. Organizing your visit, and other programs, please Gurudeva bless me to keep always engaged in Krsna Consciusness and for take the association of vaisnavas.

Thank you Guru Maharaja for give us the chance to serve in Srila Prabhupadas mission.
Hope can always serve U. Each little effort and advance is for your mercy!

ys.
rati manjari dd

HpS - AS - Jaya! AGTSP paoho. Thank you! What about the first week????  Let us see if other devotees have suggestions.

hare krsna 

agtsp

all glories to the sankirtan movement

all glories to the vaisnavas

all glories to you guru dev

we are living in huerta grande, cordoba planing and designing the house where we will and recibe devotees and organize some  programs there.  we dont know is this will we the place for long time to develop our life here but i im trying to live in the present and accept what krsna manifest.

HpS - ASA - AGTSP! Paoho. Then why not plan all your development so that it will also increase the sales value of the property. Then if you move you can sell it and take the value to the next ashrama.

 we are planing and doing open  programs for people of the area and planing cultural programs for october like LOB with the film. we are visiting devotees and helping to organize the activities of preaching here cultivating the love and trust among devotees. the devotees invited me to give lectures so i feel a big responsability and the oportunity to surrender to serve them in that way and strive to be a good instrument and representative of the guru and krsna, giving to other what they gived to me.

 i have to improve a lote to serve you well. my sadhana is not so fix some days mangala arati and good japa and other days just finishing my rounds. i still have a debt of rounds that have left me. 4 principles o.k 

some body problems, but since a remember there are problems. traying to help the "burro" to not bother much

we are talking with sarad bihari, nikunja bihari, param padam and rati manjari about the organization of your visit to argentina and with Jagad guru about the symposium of education in chile.

    ASA - We talked with Abhirama Th. Das for 1-1/4 hours yesterday.. With Peru et al we can co-ordinate a continetal event, such as doing the same programs in several countrys, sharing posters, even people participating in different countries.. He says Miguel Polo has got a newer more excellent translations of C. Jung's biography and is organizing a colloquia of four parts to cover the book and then have discussions amongst the participants.

the Ratha Yatra in Cordoba in Carlos paz will be the 10 of january not the 11. 

HpS - ASA - Noted! Brother Asses birthday is January 12th. Maybe he will help pull the cart back to Vrndavana and then stay there!

 here the link of "ciencia, psique y espiritualidad C.G jung y el yoga mistico de la india"

in Bs As argentina. january 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0xOlNQy0FQ

Vrsabhanu nandini send to you these link 

HpS - Thank you!!!

thank you guru dev for your tolerance, i miss you, hope to see you soon, be complety attach to be your disciple and your instruction, follow your example and Srila Prabhupada mission. thank you your servant Ambarisa das

some pictures added

HpS - ASA - We have a little dialog with Para and Uraguay. Trying to fit them in. Any more details of the travel program for Argentina?

We did 15-minute talks on the NOI after Mangala arati for a few weeks and covered the whole thing. They are on startmeeting.com as listed below and we also downloaded them to our own computer. They were very saisfying to us, that we have said 90% of what we can say about NOI to this point. Maybe we could take the audio and put it to video, no? Put in related images etc. What do you think?

Nice photos!

ASA Afterwords to the NOI
(rev. 140919)

Dial the USA Playback Phone Number:(530) 881-1219, and give the "Meeting#", 992 055 489, and "Ref#" listed below -or- access by the internet address listed below.

NOI-9.1  Ref# 18  http://stme.in/sgL7fApEr

NOI-9.2  Ref# 19  http://stme.in/8yResAHxg

NOI-10 Ref# 20 http://stme.in/gIsviToBz

NOI-10.2  Ref# 21  http://stme.in/Lg6OjmG34

NOI-10.3 Ref#23  http://stme.in/TKAoOQUpv

NOI-11 Ref# 24  http://stme.in/M4h9og1wq

NOI-Pref  Ref# 26  http://stme.in/AwBW2mYEZ

NOI-1.1 (Vegam) Ref# 28 http://stme.in/ZhGlsgMUJ

NOI-1.2 (Vaco Vegam) Ref# 29 http://stme.in/jQG2LEIVm

NOI-1.3 (Mind/Anger) Ref# 30  http://stme.in/ipw1sYIty

NOI-1.4 (Tongue, Belly) Ref# 31  http://stme.in/Isl2mHycE

NOI-1.5 (BSS-Vaco) Ref# 32 http://stme.in/AwEodVijL

NOI-1.6 (BSS-Genitals)  Ref# 33 http://stme.in/hwEAufzgH

NOI-1.7 (Conclusion) Ref# 34 http://stme.in/64nzBW3QT

All Glories to Sri Sri Radha Syamasundara
All Glories to Sri Sri Gaura Nitay
All Glories to Srila Prabhupada

Please Dear Gurudev, accept my humble obeisances
First of all, this report with questions about the congress ends huge. I know that is no the idea, but, i'm sure that with your always essential answers we can do a service much better and we don't bother you too much after this.

·After your last reply we have had two god brothers meetings and the followers news came from it.

· The devotees here are very enthusiastic with the idea to manage this symposia. So, according with our talking with Param Padam and you, the final date for the “I Latin American Congress on Education in ISKCON” is Friday 30th January to Sunday 1st ,ie, your last weekend in Chile.

The updates now:

1) Name and Generals Points

Just for the time I thought quickly in a slogan to accompany the title, and even put the slogan larger than the original title, namely, I Latin American Congress on Education in ISKCON, and is:

“Experiencias y Propuestas en el arte de cultivar el espíritu.”

We thought that this slogan may help to give a general guideline due is the first congress, so in that way we can at least, guide this international meeting, first of all, to the details about what`s really happening right now on the education in ISKCON in this far region of the world, sharing experiences and according these experiences; what is the general proposal for improve, and everything and always in a unity spirit.

But, now I think that it could be a little ambiguous, not too much tangible. So, what do you think about the slogan idea?, Maybe you can propose other one.

HpS - ASA --- AGTSP! O.K. Date is on our Calendar. What about ISKCON and Education: The Oldest Educational System in the World, Meets the Newest Educational Challenges in America.

2) Financial Issues:

Due the enthusiasm of devotees like Priyasakhi, Sri Pati, Raga Sindhu and others, arise different good ideas to get money for bring here the suitable exhibitors and lecturers. For examples, music concert, festival, prasadam, and even, caps and t-shirts. Actually, Raga Sindhu did a budget already with the tickets of the speakers, is more or less USD 3000.

On the other hand, i'm curious with one sentence of your last reply to me: “We can even get outside participation and sponsors because Education in ISKCON is a Premier Program for Global Perspectives in Education..” With outside participation you are referring to other devotees communities or to non-devotees institutions, like enterprises and foundations???? Premier Program for Global perspectives in Education... “in the world”, you say? Excuse me gurudev, I did'n understand that part. But, I agree with the idea to get sponsors.

HpS - ASA - I am not sure exactly what I meant, but as we develop we could ask people like the GBC to suggest sponsors for some of the expenses. In Texas we charged $50 for each participant and gave Becas, Scholarships for poor people.

Finally, in relation with this point. We could see the fees in the North American Symoposio (NAS) were $51, so, our question is: We should reply this system; to ask fees and give a CD with all conferences?. May be $40 here. My other question: Is the same price to the tele-conference participants, international visitors and local devotees? The prasada were included?

HpS - ASA - Aaaah!  We are thinking the same way. Prasadam and accomodations were separate, so teleconference and gross presence were the same fees.

3) Speakers:

[Suggestions withheld until they are contacted]

In relation to speakers we have some proposals and questions:

• The titles and topics of their conferences should be suggest by us or is their decision?

• Is possible to have for this Congress some of the speakers from the last NAS in Houston? With Ambarish we talked that there is a special interest in Urmila, and his [her] experience with school children. Is possible that she can visit Chile in that time?. Or Sesa Prabhu or Prana das?

• Also, i'm starting a contact with IES (Iskcon Educational Services ies.iskcon.org) from London to other teleconference if is possible. They have a experience in formal education but, maybe the devotees from Canada also can.

• What is your opinion, considering that the topics will cover all educational level, pre-school, et al, to Invite some leader in Education from the Adventist church, famous here for their vegetarianism and to win the chorus contests and other arts. In just one presentation we can know more deeply their success experience (www.educacionadventista.cl) and some of the legal issues to install a school here.

1. Other Points

• In relation with your question: Also, so many people can attend if it is done well by tele-conferencing. Are you familiar with that in Santiago? Honestly, we are not familiar with tele-conference system here. Just webex thank Param Padam and you, Starmeeting thank you, and the new and improved hangouts from Google, and a little ustream. Is just that.

• I designed two ads. One of them is for webs, lika a banner to put in iskcondesiretree webpage, and other local ISKCON websides. The other one is bigger and include the faces of some speakers. (I'm sending the last one poster to your mail now because like I told you, we don't want post publicly the names and either pictures of the speakers yet. Also, I will send in that mail a tentative general program).

• Mainly the publicity of this event will be on internet but we are thinking other methods like to send physical invitations to the congregations from other temples in the region.

• Excuse us guru maharaj for our over dependence of you, clearly we are a third class of disciple :'( .

Finally, and on complete other hand: in relation with the external programs (between 26-29 january). It will be two, and our dear and kind Rodrigo is responsible. We had a good interchange of ideas and information in the last meeting, the last sunday. But we will notify you about that after this Congress issues.

Thank you very much for your patience, time and attention.

My eternal reverences to you dear gurudev,

Jagad Guru Das

                      HpS - AGTSP paoho. How is the Brother/Godbrother. San Carlos????
From our Experience in doing this with BSDamodara Swami, BI et al.

1. Make a formal Organizing Committee. I nominate you as the Working Chairman and local GBC as Honorary Chairman.

2. Get a responsible Communications Secretary that you can work with.

3. Get a Treasurer.

4. Get and Advisory Board. I recommend us, Param-padam and anyone else who agrees to help.

5. I would focus on the theme of a) Identifying who "we" are and "what are our personal passions in education", b) How we can communicate effectively eg. letters, blogs, web-page, periodicals, meetings and c) make a calendar for planning a better meeting next year.

We only have a little time for this first event, so we should only try to do a little: Meet each other, make ways to effectively communicate. Plan the next meeting with more details.

Friday evening - Reception. Get to know each other.

Saturday morning - lectures

Saturday Afternoon- Workshops

Saturday Evening - Entertainment

Sunday morning - Closure.   This is one model.

We can present "Philosophy of Education: Basic Goals and Methods".

Have summary of local, regional and international education realities in ISKCON.

If outside people want to come or are needed then O.K. Other wise, next time.

Next time Thurday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday.

Is O.K?
In Peru Laksmana agraja Das is President of NIMSAR and Candramukhi Devi Dasi is very active. Patraka Das can get you in touch with both of them.

You need three major presenters and three workshop leaders and many people who can make short, 5-minute presentations and ask questions. Record it well. Edit it a little bit, get it out and start planning next year.