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Hare Krsna, Maharaja and devotees.

PAMHO. AGTSP!

Tomorrow Manasi Ganga D. D. will be giving the SB class:

• https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/3/14/18/
• https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/3/14/19/

Entitled: The best half of a man's body.

Thanks.

Dear Guru Maharaja

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! All glories to you!

I want to first apologize for not writing sooner.

ASA-HpS -- In harmony, we want to apo logize for not answering sooner!

You sent me the TPP edited document a couple of weeks back and I went through a little bit of the edited document only today.

Last couple of weeks have been crazy. My father in law got COVID in India. He lives in Nagpur and there was sever shortage of beds, oxygen cylinders and other medication. Divya Sri's cousin took him in a car at 5 am in the morning and after trying to get beds in several hospitals, finally got a bed at 8 pm. In the mean time we were calling people who were selling oxygen cylinders from here to get something. Thank fully by Krishna's mercy, he is discharged now and is doing fine.

HpS - https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/1/15/41/#bb16816 . Why we have not learned to act like Maharaja Yuddhisthira?? In the paragraph it directly talks about "life breathing"! Amazing. Fly around in the sky without air. Learn to drink and eat a subtler fare!

We had several devotees from Krishna House visit us this week and a few of them tested positive for COVID. Now the temple is back to lockdown again for a week. I feel too much of my environment and mind space is occupied with COVID rather than Krishna katha. Thankfully, with the service of teaching the Bhakti Sastri course, where we are currently doing Chapters 7-12, the association with Bhagavad Gita and Srila Prabhupada's purports are at least helping me contemplate on Krishna rather than just COVID.

But I can definitely feel that my Sadhana standards have dropped over the last two months. I feel very fatigued both physically and mentally. We are somehow pushing through because of your mercy.

I think the TPP has come out really well. I like how you have changed the font size of the pull-in quotes. It is now very clear to differentiate/visualize your commentary from the quotes. I have some thoughts on the other steps that need to be taken to publish the book. I would like you feedback on them.

1. Can we forward this to Abhirama Prabhu so that he can start typesetting? That way he can show you samples and we can finalize the formatting and design in parallel and when you finish the rest of the editing, the typesetting will be done very quickly since we have finalized the design.
2. We also need to think about the front and back cover design. Should we ask devotees in the blog to send in their designs from which you can choose Guru Maharaja? If we can do these things in parallel, we can get the book out as soon as your editing is complete.

HpS - ASA - We just sent another copy with our new edits to you and Art Das and R. R. Das today. Largely so that it doesn't get lost. We've edited all the Texts and most of the Appendices. Need to finish our ASA index and the BhVai question bank. We did more format editing.

Any comments are very nice, but if no time then after we finish the Appendices we can talk with ArtDas about the format. He is professional.

We would also like to come and see you when you visit Houston. Srirama Krishna Das will also be with us and we are planning to come there on the weekend (22-23 May). We wanted to know if it is ok for us to come and see you in person?

HpS - We pub lished the current calendar for the visits. 19-23AM we are in Nila-madhava Dhama. Then we go about 10AM to Sugar Land. Hard to associate there, but in NMD we can chat outside with proper social dish stance, no?? Call us on the Tele Phone if needed!

Respects to the Sri Rama Krsna Das et al.

Your servant

Srinatha Krsna dasa

Dear Guru Maharaj,

Please accept my most humble obeisances.

All glories unto you, NIOS, Srila Prabhupada, and our Acharyas.

Though you are so busy in so many great projects, you still take time out to hear us and guide us!

ASA - Actually we are trying to focus on just one central projects now: DTC-UT movie. Categories:

1. Interfaith Dialog.
2. Science and the Vedas.
3. World Classical Literature.
4. The Bhaktivedanta Library.

We are very fortunate to have your holy association and your guidance and blessings to progress on the Seminar Series on Vedanta and Science. We will meet and discuss it and come back to you with a proposal on how to proceed.

Your aspiring to be humble servant,

Aja Govinda Dasa

HpS - Thank you!!



Dear Guru Maharaj:

Please accept my sincere regards and obeisances unto you, NIOS, Srila Prabhupada, and all our Acharyas.

HpS - !!!! -[;0]/\___

As I am currently working as an Assistant Professor, faculty of Texas A&M University in the Kingsville, I have hosted and chaired conferences and facilitated seminars.

I have been working on developing a Distinguished Seminar Series on Science and Vedanta as part of my faculty position job. I have been developing this in collaboration with professors from universities in India and around the world.

In that role I wanted to request you to please kindly consider if it is possible for NIOS members to pursue an academic collaboration with the Texas A&M, Kingsville and Vedanta organization of this university, on establishing a Distinguished Virtual Seminar (webinar) series on Science and Vedanta.

NIOS members Amit Prabhu, Srinivas Acharya Prabhu, and Rama Giridhari Prabhu have expressed interest in this and are interested to form a sub-committee to create a proposal for such a seminar series and eventual conference.

If possible, I can work on developing a dedicated web page and posters. We can invite guest speakers on an online virtual meeting platform and host seminars and webinars all online with student and faculty participants from multiple universities across the world (South America, North America, Indian subcontinent).

This could later be extended to be a virtual conference with proceedings and publications, inviting faculty and students to present papers and publish their papers in the NIOS Solaris journal.

The reason I suggest this is because I have previously organized virtual conferences in which I am a local chair in the field of science and education and also part of a distinguished virtual seminar series hosted by my department, through which I gained experience in hosting these online.

NIOS has great many contributions and publications in the field of theology and religion and education, and this would be an effort to further extend these contributions into the science and education fields and disciplines.

Please consider this as a suggestion for a request to consider a possible academic collaboration between NIOS and Texas A&M, Kingsville.

Thank you,

With my sincere regards,

Dr. Ayush Goyal

Assistant Professor

Texas A&M University - Kingsville 

HpS - Thank you, Sir! We hope that our ASA members who have interest and ability in these areas will join us.

I would say that, Yes, certainly we, HpS, ASA, can join and help. Go ahead with the NIOS committee and post some results and messages here are and we can develop it.

We are consolidating our efforts in "Science and the Vedas, Interfaith Dialog, The Bhakti-vedanta Library, World Classical Literature" through a series of on-line PPTX that we have done. They are being posted at our YouTube Channel - asa audio visual. The IFD are up and some others but I think the Science and the Vedas are not yet edited and posted.

These are areas where we can contribute, but as the dialog develops we might be able to contribute in other areas.

We look at ourselves as pioneers, researching possible areas of benefit in these dialogs. So, we did not go into great detail. That is for others.

So, please go ahead with the NIOS committee. Let us watch for the YouTube extracts of our, HpS/ASA, possible contributions, and if we can facilitate more please write again!!!

HpS - Tom Brown - Buck White and Prof. Guy Gismo PhD (Doctor of Phalocracia).

On Saturday, April 24, Ramananda ACBSP wrote:

Sorry I didn’t get this to you earlier. Can you PLEASE do class this Thursday?

https://e-sanga.org/classes/srimad-bhagavatam-3/

HpS/ASA - AGTSP!! Paoho..... Sorry it took us so long to answer! Yes. It is a great pleasure and honor. We will try to listen to the Umilla Devi Dasi the day before also.

Any other way we can contribute to your Sankirtan, let us know.