Letters to the editor

From Whatsapp:

Hare Krishna, Maharaj,

Dandavat pranam! 

All glories to sri guru and gouranga! 

All glories to srila prabhupad! 

Dear maharaj, 

This is Isana das from Imphal, Manipur. 

I have taken brahman diksha from your good self in 2012 in imphal. Maharaj, may I have a request to serve you in the long run and take your shelter... 

It has been so long that I would like to contact you and have your sublime association..... Actually maharaj I am serving here at manipur university as guest faculty in the department of sociology. And I am planning to organize an international webinar in connection with the disappearance day of srila sripad Maharaj which is to be sponsored and supported by intellectual forum of North East (IFNE). The theme is on manipur vaishnavism. And I would to request your good self to be one of the main speaker on the life and work of sripad Maharaj. I therefore humbly request you to kindly accept my sincere approach to serve guru Maharaj. If you kindly accept my request, I would like to further intimate you and would like to send you details of the webinar. 

Yours servant, 

Isana das

HpS - ASA - AGTSP!!! Esteemed Isana Das Prabhu, Please accept our humble obeisances.

Thank you for your Whatsapp post. We were getting 400-500 letters a month until we we started this Blog. Now it is down to maybe 150/month, and in general we are getting old and our eyes failing, so we will be doing less and less tying here. We can start to use help from Secretarys.

We had similar request to join in very nice program in Bolivia from very nice devotee(s) there and our response is the same. We have to have the program, calendar development, here is the Blog. Then the ASA community can take up the project.

With the program in Bolivia the communication some how or other broke down. We were receiving topic and time assignments in in Whatsapp and we responded that we could not participate without more developed communication, then finally we got a notice one or two days before the Congress with conflicting timings and an expectation for a 1-1/2 hour presentation on a topic we did not know well!

We tried. We even started trying to do a last minute Power Point show, but everything went beyond even our limited human imagination of how to adjust the situation. It was causing disturbances in our regular ASA programs, so we just collapsed, ran away. 🙂

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We are all actually very small devotees. We must work together in the institution, Srila Prabhupada's ISKCON. More internally we must develop our friends ships. Finally we must have a direct experience (through so many transparent via media) of Srila Prabhupada's awareness of our service. 1. 2. 3.

We are all eternally associated in the Sankirtan movement of Srila Prabhupada. I was the first person to read a letter from Srila Prabhupada to Jaya tirtha Das in San Francisco about different management details and then Srila Prabhupada finished it by writing: You cannot exist without my mercy...

I was shocked by the force of the statement, but swallowed and accepted it: That is what Guru says!

... but then I read the next comment and was even more shocked:

... and I cannot exist without your mercy. This mutual respect, this mutual love, is Krsna consciousness.

So, what we learned from organizing these symposia from H. H. B. S. Damodara Swami and several others, even at the level of Noble Prize winners, is that first there should be personal contact:

Eg. For all the Nobel professors and others who came for the First World Congress in Bombay, Maharaja assigned three PhD candidate boys to see to their accommodation and practical communication.

At our level, we would just need one person who is in personal contact with us and maybe another participant. Ie. we may equal 1/6th of distinguished professor. 😁

Then we have to see if the dates work.

Then the themes.

Then who else is speaking.

Then when a synopsis of our papers and the papers of others is due, so we can all read what others are writing.

Then final paper or PPTX.

Then arrangements for publishing the results.

O.K. Let us do this so the whole world can see the glory of Manipur and benefit.

Hare Krsna Guru Maharaja

Por favor acepte mis rendidas reverencias

¡Todas las Glorias sean a Srila Prabhupada!

Gracias por su respuesta anterior. Intentando contribuir en su sankirtan, continuamos los ajustes para la entrevista del Jueves 9 de Septiembre 4:00 pm. 

DETALLES:

Nombre del evento:   “El viaje de Monkey al Imperio Inca”

Entrevistados --------- Yudhistira Das y Ramacandra Das

Entrevistador --------- Gandharva Das

Idioma ----------------- Español

Plataforma ------------ Zoom

TEMAS PARA LA ENTREVISTA:

***YUDHISTIRA DAS    - Preguntas enfocadas a conocer: 

1) Un poco sobre el entrevistado y su papel dentro de la historia,

2) Acontecimientos memorables generados durante la PRIMERA VISITA de SS Hanumatpresaka Swami al Yatra Peruano.

3) Cómo influyó la educación que recibió en el gurukula en su vida actual.

***RAMACANDRA DAS  - Preguntas enfocadas a: 

– Apertura –

1) Conocer un poco sobre el entrevistado y su papel dentro de la historia,

2) Conocer los primeros contactos e impresiones sobre SS Hanumatpresaka Swami y alguna anécdota sobresaliente para el entrevistado.

– Contribución particular al Yatra Peruano –

1) ¿Cuáles fueron las diferentes facetas en las que contribuyo Maharaja de manera especial en el Yatra Peruano?

2) Primera y única visita de SS Hanumatpresaka Swami a Paraguay.

3) Primera visita del Dr Ravi Gupta (Radhika Raman Das) al Perú, provincia de Arequipa.

– Cierre –

Resumen (desde la perspectiva del entrevistado) de contribuciones y motivos por los que considera importante que se continúen o mantengan esas contribuciones.

*** Esperamos poder contar con sus comentarios durante las entrevistas Guru Maharaja.

Gurudeva, Estos son solo los temas generales; las preguntas están dirigidas a descubrirlos.¿Desea que le hagamos saber las preguntas en detalle?

Agradecidos por vuestra misericordia, quedamos atentos a sus comentarios para realizar cualquier modificación necesaria.

Sus sirvientes

-ASA Carnaval Team-

Karuna-Sakti Devi Dasi 

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Hare Krsna Guru Maharaja

Please accept my bows

All Glories be to Srila Prabhupada!

Thanks for your previous answer. Trying to contribute to your [ASA 🐵 🐷 AgtSP] Sankirtan, we continue to set up the interview on Thursday September 9th at 4:00 pm.

DETAILS:

Event name: "Monkey's trip to the Inca Empire"

Interviewees --------- Yudhistira Das and Ramacandra Das

Interviewer --------- Gandharva Das

Spanish Language

Platform ------------ Zoom

TOPICS FOR THE INTERVIEW:

*** YUDHISTIRA DAS - Questions focused on knowing:

.9) Are there candidates for Lord Caitanya's movement in Peru? How to find them? How to communicate the message of Lord Chaitanya to them?

1) A little about the interviewee and his role in the story,

2) Memorable events generated during the FIRST VISIT of HH Hanumatpresaka Swami to the Peruvian Yatra.

3) How the education he received in the gurukula influenced his present life.

*** RAMACANDRA DAS - Questions focused on:

- Opening -

1) Know a little about the interviewee and his role in the story,

2) Know the first contacts and impressions about HH Hanumatpresaka Swami and some outstanding anecdote for the interviewee.

- Private contribution to the Peruvian Yatra -

1) What were the different facets in which Maharaja contributed in a special way in the Peruvian Yatra?

2) First and only visit of HH Hanumatpresaka Swami to Paraguay.

3) First visit of Dr Ravi Gupta (Radhika Raman Das) to Peru, Arequipa province.

- Closing -

Summary (from the interviewee's perspective) of contributions and reasons why you consider it important to continue or maintain those contributions.

 *** We hope to have his comments during the Guru Maharaja interviews.

Gurudeva, These are just the general themes; The questions are aimed at finding out. Would you like us to let you know the questions in detail?

HpS - Our question above is the main focus of the movie. Where is Sita? How can we reach Her in the heart of local people? Other questions should follow this.

Grateful for your mercy, we remain attentive to your comments to make any necessary modifications.

His servants

-ASA Carnaval Team-

Karuna-Sakti Devi Dasi

Hare Krishna, Gurudeva. PAMHO

ALL GLORIES TO SRILA PRABHUPADA !!

All Glories to Hanumatpresaka Swami !!

ASA - AGT all the assembled Vaisnavas!

Gurudeva today at 6 pm our coordinating team met to analyze and finally decide on his stay here in Peru, we also invited Prabhu Janardana and Prabhu Anandamaya to participate.

The Zoom meeting was attended by:

m Palika

p Caturatma

m Candra mukhi

p Janardana

p Anandamaya

m Nitya Kisori

p Ramanada Roy and I

At the beginning of the meeting we mentioned that everyone's desire was to serve him in the best way, therefore, by his mercy there was a good devotional and friendly atmosphere. To decide, it was taken into account that the main use of the place is to use it as a film studio and to serve the guests well.

HpS - To serve film makers well!! 🙂

Then the issue of the rains from January to March was discussed and how to act as the case may be. In the end, the entire coordinating team took the floor and ratified their agreement to rent the house in Santa Eulalia. Janardana prabhu also agreed that St. Eulalia's house is more suitable as a movie studio and is more comfortable for guests.

In turn, Prabhu Anandamaya, although he emphasized the issue of the rains and the dangers of the streams that are near the place, did not oppose us renting the house in Santa Eulalia and asked that precautions be taken to attend to all the inconveniences. So by the mercy of you and Nitay-Gaura this issue is definitely resolved.

HpS - AgtSP and his ISKCON.

On Tuesday the 7th we will go with Raúl to see what environments and scenarios can be made and based on that, what lights and other artifacts he would bring and leave for the filming. María is also going to start the implementation of the organic garden.

Hare Krishna, Gurudeva, a thousand apologies for our blunders, his insignificant servant Abhiram Thakur das.

HpS - Yes, so much work packing here and arranging there. We can see in these big movies like Lord of the Rings, there are hundreds of names at the end of the movie and the work just feed everyone is like feeding and army!

With approval from NIOS President, Abhiseka Singh et al we ordered the camera that Raul suggested.

Books are the basis.

Where can we go to find Sita?

Where will we need to build a bridge to return Her to Rama?

All glories to Sri Sri Gaura Nitai. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Please accept my respectful obeisances.

I hope you are well and happy in Krishna consciousness. Best wishes that Guru and Gauranga are always in your thoughts.

Santiago de Chile, spring coming little by little, but even with the temple it remains closed until everything is in order for the new generation of Brahmanas to attend the worship of the deities. Conflicts between devotees to keep the temple open or closed, but thanks to the effort of the administration and the congregation, festivals have been held to achieve Sadhu Sanga that we so much need.

Living somewhat far from the center of Santiago, with my wife and my two children (Radheya 4 years old and Subal 3 years old), trying to introduce the constant example to have a krsna consciousness environment for them.

Following 4 principles and 16 rounds. Mainly I have been involved in providing bhoga and supplies for the deity worship that is taking place in the devotee house.

In particular, it is around second emergency initiations so that the re-opening of the temple is re-established as soon as possible. Personally, I have taken the second initiation test and they are only coordinating what day the Yajña will take place. Gurumaharaja, what would be the procedure to coordinate with you the delivery of the Gayatri mantra. Is it possible that it was done before the fire or maybe after the fire? Excuse this sudden request, but the GBC is pushing for the temple to be opened soon. Maybe the Yajña will be this Sunday, September 5 at 11:30 Chilean time. Otherwise, it is most likely that it will be next Sunday, September 12, same time, everything depends on your availability and what would be your regulations for the delivery of the gayatri mantra to this humble servant.

With you on the mission to Srila Prabhupada and I want you to be well physically and spiritually

RSD

HpS - AgtSP! Pamho.... Narayana Maharaja was supporting Srila Prabhupada giving initiation by tape recorder, saying that Param-gurudeva, Srila Bh. Siddhanta Sarasvati, gave second initiation to devotees in Malaysia by telephone one time.

After the Yajna (we would like to attend by television) have the sheet with the mantras and we can speak them to you and Mataji.

Take Gaura and Nitai to the park for festivals??

Thank you all.

Send kid's art here!



Hare Krsna Guru Maharaja

Por favor acepte mis rendidas reverencias

¡Todas las Glorias sean a Srila Prabhupada!

Orando por que la presente le encuentre bien. Escribo como parte del equipo de ASA Carnaval, agradecemos su atención y guía.

Atendiendo su respuesta a nuestro mensaje anterior nos permitimos comentarle:

1) Entrevista con Prabhu Daru Krsna: Él dijo que no puede antes de las 6:30 pm. Entonces:

A) Prabhu Gandharva platicará personalmente con él para ver si existe la posibilidad de realizar la entrevista algún otro día a las 4:00 pm. Guru Maharaja ¿hay algún otro día y horario que usted quisiera sugerir para este encuentro?

HpS - ASA = Most days we are free at 3-4PM except when we are traveling. Those dates are on the ASA Calendar in the Kapi Dhvaja. We will update it in 2-3 days.

B) En caso de que no sea posible para Prabhu Daru Krsna, Quisiéramos plantear la siguiente opción: 

*¿Le parece bien que la entrevista con él sea “Grabada previamente”? 

* Prabhu Gandharva Das tenía planeado visitar al devoto, por lo que aprovecharía la ocasión. (El será el entrevistador)

*La presentación al público podría ser como sigue:

- 1ra parte Entrevista grabada con Prabhu Daru Krsna

- 2da parte Entrevista en Vivo con Prabhu Jiva Sakti (Él recuerda y ha recopilado datos importantes sobre su primera visita al Perú)

- Esperamos que ambas secciones puedan contar con sus comentarios Maharaja.

- Fecha y hora por determinar -

HpS - This seems nice. We could make comments on the interviews. They could see them and maybe make more comments.

Our whole purpose is investigating building bridges from ISKCON to the nation of Peru. Looking at the past is only useful if it guides us for some Sankirtana in the future. Where is Sita? Is She being hidden in Peru??? Etc.

2) Respecto al jueves 9 de Septiembre 4:00 pm, tenemos la siguiente propuesta:

Entrevistados ------      Ramacandra Das y Yudhistira Das 

Entrevistador ------      Gandarva Das

Esperamos contar con sus comentarios Gurudeva.

(Si usted aprueba esta opción, en breve le enviaremos los temas centrales de la entrevista y posibles preguntas.)

HpS - Otra vez aparece bien!

Muchas gracias, quedamos atentos a su amable instrucción.

Sus sirvientes - ASA Carnaval Team –

Karuna-Sakti Devi Dasi

HpS/ASA - Thank you many. Making a movie the whole world can dream in !! 🚀 🐷 🐵 😐

P.D adjuntamos foto reciente de Yudhistira Prabhu (Joven Gurukuli que le sirvió durante su primera visita Guru Maharaja ).

Hare Krsna Gurudeva

Pamho, TLGASP!!!

Gracias por la respuesta… Nosotros nos estamos moviendo mucho, no tenemos un lugar fijo de residencia, entonces programamos nuestras actividades semana por semana. A veces estamos lejos o en Sankirtan y no atendemos el teléfono, pero los mensajes de WhatsApp los respondemos el mismo día en el momento o por la noche.

Yo le comunique a Abhiram Prabhu hace dos meses cuando volvimos a Lima que estábamos a disposición, hace más de un mes le pedí un pequeño presupuesto para ir una semana a Chosica a buscar un lugar, mientras Abhiram seguía buscando al Sur… Al no tener una respuesta positiva sobre el presupuesto, nuestra búsqueda fue limitada. Pero hace más de 15 días le comunicamos a Abhiram sobre la propuesta del Campo Escuela Scout, y días antes de su última reunión yo me comunique con él por teléfono para invitarlo a la reunión con el gerente del club este martes 31 que acaba de pasar… En toda la conversación, nunca me mencionó sobre las reuniones de toma de decisiones.

ASA - Interesting. Seems you me and Abhirama Th. Das can sit and discuss this once we get to Peru and hopefully realize our faults and not make the same mistakes twice.

O.K.?

Nosotros podemos entender que el Campo Escuela de los Scout no representa el lugar idóneo para su estadía Gurudeva. Pero pienso que debemos considerar la estadía en Santa Eulalia, como se lo mencioné a Abhiram Prabhu hace más de un mes, que deberíamos descartar Santa Eulalia por ser un lugar de riesgo. Y esto puede ser confirmado por aquellos que hemos vivido en Chosica por un tiempo. Todos los años, la temporada de lluvias en la sierra se activa desde diciembre, y continúa hasta un poco más de marzo. Esto provoca huaycos o deslizamiento de tierra de los cerros de Santa Eulalia y Chosica. Entre el templo y Santa Eulalia hay por lo menos 5 quebradas donde desciende el huayco atravesando la carretera central hasta el tío Rímac… Eso significa el corte del acceso para Chosica de Lima… o de Chosica a Lima… Santa Eulalia queda cerrada sin acceso de ida o de vuelta. Santa Eulalia es un pueblo pequeño que no tiene hospital ni mercado… En caso de emergencia médica por Covid, no podríamos llegar al hospital de Chosica por los huaycos… menos a Lima… Hay emergencias que el hospital de Chosica no trata y tienen que llevar a los pacientes a Lima. Pero cuando hay Huayco no hay posibilidad de llegar… y el suministro de agua puede estar cortado incluso por semanas en todo Chosica y en Santa Eulalia la situación es más delicada.

Este año los especialistas han pronosticado que va a haber fenómeno del niño, cuando eso sucede, la situación que acabo de mencionar se agrava con dimensiones muchas veces de tragedia en la zona de Santa Eulalia.

Esta es nuestra última sugerencia con respecto al tema de la residencia, espero que se consideren los riesgos del lugar.

Por favor perdoné la impertinencia.

Su aspirante a sirviente AmD.

HpS - From both your's and Janardana Das letter it seems that neither Chosica nor Santa Eulalia are good. Basically it seems that none of the suggestions by any of us are good. 😁

Gandharva, you, Abhirama, Gadai.

Our stomach jumps and we want to become frustrated and renounce visiting Peru completely. 😠

🙂

Srila Prabhupada had the same challenges, no?

We sent a Whatapp message to The Thakur to look at you previous message, but it seems to me that this time, considering everything St. Eulalia is the best we can do, but . . .

. . . I think my opinion is at maximum 75% perfect.

So, THIS TIME, I will send another notice to ArtD prabhu to look at these final comments and then chant Hare Krsna, and make a decision, and that we all pray that Krsna gives him good intelligence and compensates for any fault there is in our efforts.

O.K.?

Hare Krsna Gurudeva.

Pamho, tlgasp !!!

Thanks for the answer ... we are moving a lot, we do not have a fixed place of residence, then we program our activities week per week. Sometimes we are far or in Sankirtan and do not attend the phone, but whatsapp messages are answered the same day at the time or at night.

I communicate to Abhiram Prabhu two months ago when we returned to Lima that we were in hand, more than a month ago I asked a small budget to go a week at Chosica to look for a place, while Abhiram was still looking south ... not having a Positive response about the budget, our search was limited. But more than 15 days ago we communicated to Abhiram about the Scout School field proposal, and days before his last meeting I communicate with him on the phone to invite him to the meeting with the club manager on Tuesday, 31 he has just passed ... In all the conversation, I never mentioned me about decision-making meetings.

We can understand that the Scout School field does not represent the ideal place for your Gurudeva stay. But I think we should consider the stay in Santa Eulalia, as I mentioned it to Abhiram Prabhu more than a month ago, that we should discard Santa Eulalia for being a place of risk. And this can be confirmed by those who have lived in Chosica for a while. Every year, the rainy season in the Sierra is activated since December, and continues until a little more than March. This provokes Huaycos or landslide of the hills of Santa Eulalia and Chosica. Between the Temple and Santa Eulalia there are at least 5 Quebradas where the Huayco descends through the central road to Uncle Rímac ... That means the access cut for Chosica de Lima ... or Chosica to Lima ... Santa Eulalia is closed without access or back Santa Eulalia is a small town that has no hospital or market ... In case of medical emergency by Covid, we could not get to the Chosica Hospital by the Huaycos ... less to Lima ... there are emergencies that the Chosica Hospital does not treat and have to take to Patients to Lima. But when there is Huayco there is no possibility of arriving ... and the water supply can be cut even for weeks at all ChoSica and in Santa Eulalia the situation is more delicate.

This year the specialists have predicted that there will be a child's phenomenon, when that happens, the situation that I have just mentioned is aggravated with dimensions many times of tragedy in the area of ​​Santa Eulalia.

This is our last suggestion regarding the issue of residence, I hope that the risks of the place are considered.

Please forgive the impertinence.

Your AMD servant aspirant.