A G T S P !
paoho / bw
Hare Krsna / Hare Rama ... Here we are in the Lima center. It is 2.21AM. We have four rounds done, R[4]. We've done a little NOI-ASA work on the NOI-VVB (NoI Vaisnava Verse Book) listing all the verses cited in NoI.
Yesterday we gave SB class in the morning. It is the SB 2.2.20 series on Kundalini yoga. This matches exactly the Kundalini - Jung symposium that we did in the National Library the last four days. We finished the Symposium with several very big scholars, psyciatrists, dance teachers. We hope the video can be edited. In our presentation last night we just presented Kundalini-yoga the way Prabhupada presents it in the SB section and then made our natural comments in terms of Jung's lectures in 1932. Commenting on our presentation Dr. Eduardo G., President of the Peruvian Freudian Society, made a few by precise comments. He first commented that Freudian psychology dictated a bottom up idea. Matter is evolving to produce the self as opposed to the Bhagavata model that the Soul and Super-soul decend to generate the body. Second he commented that he has never seen any evidence that would justify the idea that the self exists after the death of the body and thus reincarnates.
We gave him the reference for Prof. Ian Stevenson and his book, "Children Who Remember". Later we looked at the Wikipedia article on Dr. Stevenson and the authorities cited seemed to be 70% opposed and 30% in favor of the Dr's. work.
Prof. Hector Behar, former freedom fighter with Che Guevara and now with UNESCO and on the faculty of several Peruvian universities, gave a very erudite and little bit extended presentation on the general theme of the Symposium. He commented that societies need paradigms to be healthy, and more specifically the paradigm must come to a Great Father whose image, archetype, can inspire people. He commented that according to the UN report 800,000 people a year are committing suicide. This is more than all those killed in all the active wars in the world at the present moment. Society is sick. Society is suffering from great mental illness. Specifically Peru is not suffering from the presence of a sick paradigm, but rather from a void of any paradigm.
Several times the idea of another Symposium next year was discussed including bringing scholars such as Prof. Dr. Bandyopadhyay and his good wife.
This is our little ASA sumary of the event.
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After SB class yesterday morning we met with Vrsabanu-nandini and Ambarisa Das, her esteemed husband, and Nandanandana and Jagat guru Das, all very professional cinematagraphers, journalists and preachers. We discussed with great alacrity the basic principles of organizing a second Latin American Congress on Education with ISKCON in Chile end of January 2016. Then we went out into the bustling, hazardous, ancient streets of central Lima and found the Claro store and after 40-minutes in lines we got a local chip for our phone and now have the number 51[Peru] 99 12 98 205.
We then met with the local Temple Council and had a very intense discussion concerning Second Initiations here in Peru. The basic goal is that ISKCON must become a premier entity in guiding Peru with its Brahmnical culture. Many administrative points concerning ISKCON Peru we clarified and the path ahead for the Yatra also more iluminated. The Evening Program with Gaura Arati and BG class for about 25-devotees with a focus on Srila Prabhupada and the necessity to live like th Gopis at three levels.
- Good citizens of ISKCON (Goloka)
- Associate with our personal, like-minded friends (other Gopis)
- Have our own real, personal, living relationship with Srila Prabhupada (Murli-mano-har)
Read a little for the book Prof. Polo gave us, Discovering Spirit in Sound: Chanting by Robert Gass. Sleep at 9.45PM and up at 1.45AM.
O.K. 2.48 AM - Post this, send a copy to Dr. Samaresh and Radhika-rama Das et al and chant eight more rounds before bath, puja, arati ...
