Letters to the editor

Hare Krsna Guru Maharaj,

Please accept our humble obeisances. 

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

In advance Gurudev we want to thankyou for being willing to tolerate us and our deficiencies. We notice that we have some organizational abilities but we can also see Krsna engages us in services for which we feel we lack skills in at times. Krsna has a great sense of humor (we were asked to give the Krsna Lounge talk on patience! Ha! Vaisheshika Prabhu gave a class on patience and referenced the Japanese art of Shankankan: focusing on cultivating one value at a time) Please help us refine this schedule Guru Maharaj. We learn a lot by watching your ability to prioritize and organize preaching endeavors first and foremost. 

We have been trying to coordinate with Radhika Raman Prabhu, BSU events center, and other Boise devotees about schedule possibilities. Here are our notes on possible festivals, seminars, wisdom talks, and smaller SB/BG/ Sunday feast preaching opportunities thus far. We remember you had mentioned online seminar/meetings, needing time to interview/film so if the events mentioned below seem to extraneous (we could opt out Friday BG classes for example) please refine.

Murari prabhu would like to know the ideal grocery and supply list (raw milk,l potatoes, for Lord Nirsimha? Any butter, spices, etc) Possibly you can send us a Bhoga/supply list so we are not deficient in any items. Please let us know Gurudev how we can best serve you. Your happiness is our happiness. 🙏

Buck White - ASA - AgtSP!!! Potatoes for baking (white and sweet), carrots, sweet oranges and apples, split peas, salt, butter, black pepper, Oats, some nuts and milk....

Jaya Madan bihari Bhoga.

We would like to advertise the Thursday Krsna Lounge program lecture series (May 19th, 26th, June 2nd and 9th). Please let us know what title would work best for the series and any relevant description. Guru Maharaj you previously discussed CG Jung’s little red book as a focus for these nights or Light of Bhagavat: White cloud wandering monk visits Boise Krsna Lounge. We will make advertisements for the lecture series this weekend. 

HpS - With Jaya Hari Das we caught Nitisara Das and also had some discussion with him.

Krsna lounge can be Floating White Cloud Monk visits Boise. [ ttd ] We will send you the soft file.

Title can be Science, Psyche and Spirituality - The Encounter of Carl Gustav Jung with the Bhaktisiddhanta of Traditional Inda.

What is the self beyond the body

What is the self as a body!

Go back to the world of 19th century Bengali mysticism and the formation of modern psychology with Jung and Freud.

Also we have asked BSU events about lecture hall rentals as well as a professor we know that should be able to secure the event for us l. We are looking at the first week Radhika Raman will be here since school will still be in session. Would Wednesday the 18th of May or Friday May 20th be too soon for a lecture?

Fine, same as above.

Should it be accompanied with a short cultural program before the event?

Always. 10-minutes of energetic Sumo wrestling.

Another option is to schedule the lecture the last week of May or second week of June when Radhika Raman returns.

Too many other things by then. Invite Lounge and BSU folk to visit each others programs.

The only drawback to a June event is Attendance would be lower due to summer school. Please also let us know the title of the lecture and short descriptions for the event Guru Maharaj. We would like to know more details about how long the lecture may be. Is this an event you are interested in Guru Maharaj? If not, we apologize for misunderstanding this outreach program.

All topics above. We will adapt to the audience once we see them.

Another highlighted event is Snana Yathra on May 22nd and bringing Jaganatha and company on the Rathayathra Paluquin through BSU to Julia Davis park on June 5th. We wanted to ask you Guru Maharaj what an appropriate name would be for the event. Festival of India, Boise Bhakti Festival, Festival of Peace or Chant for Peace Festival?

I think you already got some name. We would suggest - The Terrible Jaggernaut Rolls Again - For Five Thousand Years the Festival has been attended by thousands of ecstatic devotees of the Supreme Lord, Master of the Universe, and His beautiful festival rolls over the demons within and outside of crushing them into composte.

HpS - The NitiSara Das is looking, has he mentioned it? For two brothers to do professional video and picture recording of the event. Lot of thoughts about how to organize the parade.

Here is a series of proposed events for your approval:

Arrival 16th of May

16th: Monday evening Spanish class

17th Tuesday Morning SB class @ 8:30 (Or 7:30?) - What is best for you all?

18th Wednesday Morning SB class

(Possibility of BSU evening program on the 18th or 20th)

19th Thursday evening First Krsna Lounge wisdom talk at KCC

20th Friday BG Class/lecture  

21st Saturday Afternoon Temple Vision Meeting/Retreat (time to be announced)

22nd Snana Yathra Preparation lecture and festival

23rd Monday evening Spanish class

24th Tuesday morning SB class 

25th Wednesday morning SB class (we are also available on Wednesday evenings to go on outings that you would like Guru Maharaj to stores, parks, art/office supply places) 

26th Thursday evening 2nd Krsna Lounge program

(Some Boise devotees are traveling to SadhuSanga on the 27th)

27th BG Friday evening off or devotional movie night!

28th Saturday devotee hike/picnic to foothills learning center or Faery tunnel 

29th 11:30 am Sunday school kids meet and greet with Hanumat Presak Swami to discuss history with traveling sankirtan puppet show , the kids will have a puppetshow and tell, and ask questions (in the temple)

30th Monday Spanish class

31st Tuesday SB morning class

1st Wednesday SB morning class

2nd Thursday 3rd Krsna Lounge program and wisdom talk 

3rd Friday BG class at the temple 

4th Saturday Upendra’s home?

5th Sunday Festival of Chariots/India at Julia Davis

6th Monday Spanish class

7th Tuesday SB class in morning  

8th Wednesday class in morning 

9th Thursday 4th Krsna Lounge program and Wisdom Talk

10th Friday BG class at the temple  

11th Saturday Balabhadra’s home ?

12th Sunday Feast lecture 

13th Monday Spanish\English program at Murari and Kamagayatri’s

14th Tuesday departure 

HpS - Looks good. For the classes we would like to do a NoI seminar over the one month. We are sending a PDF of our TPP, NoI commentary and we could just read it over the month.

People can formally register (?) and get certificates.

Sending a copy of the PDF to NSD now. Need your's and Murari Das whats app numbers.

WOn't publish.

Please make adjustments/deletions and additions Guru Maharaj. Please excuse our amateur attempts. These are just proposals but everything and anything can be changed. We look forward to your edits. 🙏🙏

Sankirtan ki jai!

Your servant,

Kamagayatri devi dasi and Murari das

Hare Krsna!!



M. Guru-bhakti Devi Dasi texted:

"Hare Krishna Maharaja & obeisances!

AgtSP!

The dates you mentioned are open & I'm blocking them for you."

HpS - ASA -- AGTSP... paoho.... Thank you so much.

We talked with Sananga Th. D. again about the general Sankirtan program we really hope to develop during this visit, and then he suggested that we certainly talk with your good selves, co-ordinating super successful event.

We arrive 21st June and leave for Madrid 20th July.

We are fixing that Mr. Pablo Rivasplata will also be with us during that time from Peru.

He is the Director of Photography for the movies we are doing.

[The first one is 99.999% finished and very good.]

He is totally profession person, trained in Hollywood, worked for 15-years in Minnesota, director of photography for best television channel in Peru and stayed with us in our Peru Ashrama for several weeks to shoot there.

With him we will be editing work we are shooting now in the USA, and very excellent material from Peru.

During this month we hope to shoot a lot more stuff about the people, history, festivals and buildings in NMD: Temple, Restaurant, Farm, School... !

We will use part of that for our current movie but... ... we were thnking that we can do maybe three more videos about NMD of television broadcast size. Let us say 24" each.

What do you think?

Themes?

The work would be first class quality.

Other thing that we can do is offer "Beginners to Masters Class in Sankirtan Cinema Production".

Of course, Sriman Pablo can do direct training one weekend and say two weeks later the students could come back with projects they have done.

We might have Yadubara Prabhu on line etc.

It might become an annual event for NMD.

Could screen movies every night(?). We have ours and then others may have theirs.

Prizes?

Fees, limited registrations?

So, that is a summary of our thoughts.

S A N K I R T A N !

Perspective from you all? The Sarva???

🌴 🌴🦆🌴

Coordinating with Abhirama Thakura Das about editing the manuscript to 6x9 for Amazon and he said he will get back to us with the manuscript in a week to 10 days. He is working on a homage to an important historian from Peru.

🙂

Hare Krsna Dear Maharaja.

Please accept my humble obeisances

AGTSP!

I hope you and ASA team are very well.

I communicate to you that this Monday 18 April will give the class Vrsabhanu nandini dd, the topic is SB 3.22.18-19.

Note: Tuesday May 10 , Sundari Radhika dd will give the class for Sita devi , please could you give the class then on monday May 9?

Thanks a lot Maharaja

ys Isvari R. dd

HpS/ASA - AgtSP. paoho... so sad did not answer this faster. thanks for your notice in

whatsapp!

our laziness and I N T E N S E travel to Rich Mound gave us more work than we ciuld handle.

if you can, at the end end of each class announce the speaker for the next monday.

🐵

TLGASP. Estimado Jayanta Das, por favor, descupla nuestra inabilidad. Aparece despues de escribir una respuesta a su carta no hicimos enviarlo.

Aqui es.

Kapi Dhvaja en production.

Unas comentarios acerca de viaje a Espana [Kolkata/Manipura/Delhi/Braja?] en la carta hoy de Ambarisa Das.

Nos vemos.

Hare Krsna.

Hare Krishna Gurudev : Pamho. TGSP y sus seguidores fieles. Ve

Acabo de ver en K.D. que tiene el vuelo a España el dia 20 de julio. Pienso que si va a estar más de dos meses por aquí, creo que se podría viajar en plan tranquilo. Si se encuentra bien de salud y, si hacemos los viajes no muy largos de tiempo, se podría visitar Madrid, Barcelona, Malaga y, quizás, Portugal. ¿Que opina?

HpSwami - Pfanrh... Estamos pensando esta estado en España podemos ir

Habría que hacerlos dejando espacios entre ellos y haciendo escalas en alguno de ellos. Quiero saber su opinión antes de pensar en los arreglos. Tampoco sé muy bien lo que conlleva la grabación del documental en cuanto a tiempo y en cuanto a contenido. Tenemos tiempo para pensar, pero podemos ir perfilando los objetivos. Gracias

Su sirviente (algo descualificado)

Jayanta das

Hare Krsna

AGTSP

All glories to you Guru Dev

Whenever I want to communicate with you, the feeling of gratitude flows in me. Thank you very much Guru dev for your example, guidance, tolerance, patience, love and dedication to inspire us and show us how to be devotees in this beautiful path to one day be fully Krsna conscious.

HpS - https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/you-cant-make-a-silk-purse-out-of-a-sows-ear

Srila Prabhupada can do it. We are an example.

AGTSP.

Jay Sri Sri Radhe Syam, Jay vrndavana dham.

Regarding the films that are being produced so beautifully about The Diary of a Traveling Creature the ultimate trip, together with Vrsabhanu Nandini we have seen the chapter of your stay in Peru. Also, as we have mentioned in other communications, we would be willing and are preparing to assist you with filming in Spain and India. If you still believe that we can be useful, we are here at your disposal.

We would travel the 3; Vrsabhanu Nandini, Hari vamsi Dhari and I. We can both record and edit. Eventually also record sound.

Our equipment is Full HD (2 cameras). Some microphones, audio recorder and accessories (tripod, etc).

ASA - HpS --- Raul has been recording in 4K but that seems to be something to consider. Eg. we could get a 4K camera in Spain, or just shoot at lower density... ??

we are available to help and collaborate in whatever is necessary.

thank you very much Guru Dev.

Your servants Vrsabhanu Nandini DD Ambarisa M Das

HpS/ASA -- We are just consolidating: Getting ready for the time of death. Of course, none of know when we will die, so you, all of us should be consolidating. Chanting one Maha-mantra for each breath. Paying Krsna for the air.

Things are in some Chaos.

Battle of Kuruksetra.

Maybe ASA/NIOS do the second, third, fourth movie maybe not.

Big factor is how the first movie is received.

In any case, plans and work is there for 2-4.

Can you fly from BsAs to Madrid through Miami???

Maybe you can't get transit visa, or transit permission in the airport.

Otherwise is twice the price.

I will call you.

Now.

🐵

Hare Krsna

AGTSP

All glories to you Guru Dev

Siempre que quiero comunicarme con usted, fluye en mi el sentimiento de gratitud. Muchas gracias Guru dev por su ejemplo, guía, tolerancia, paciencia, amor y dedicación para inspirarnos y mostrarnos como ser devotos en este hermoso sendero para ser algún dia plenamente conciente de Krsna. Jay Sri Sri Radhe Syam Jay vrndavana dham.

Con respecto a las películas que tan hermosamente se están produciendo sobre Diario de una criatura Viajera the ultimate trip, junto a Vrsabhanu Nandini hemos visto el capitulo de su estadía en Peru.

También, como hemos mencionado en otras comunicaciones, estaríamos dispuestos y nos estamos preparando para asistirlo en la filmación en España e India. Si aun cree que podemos ser útiles, aquí estamos a disposición.

Viajaríamos los 3; Vrsabhanu Nandini, Hari vamsi Dhari y Yo. Ambos podemos tanto grabar como editar. Eventualmente también tomar sonido.

Nuestros equipos son Full HD (2 camaras). Algunos micrófonos, grabadora de audio y accesorios (trípode, etc).

 Estamos a disposicion para ayudar y colaborar en lo que sea nesesario. muchas gracias guru dev. sus sirvientes Vrsabhanu nandini DD Ambarisa M Das