A G T S P !
         (((paoho)))
Here we are in ISKCON Boise, Idaho. It was a long hard journey from Denver, Colorado, but we made it. Ananta-rupa Das and Radhika and Gopala, Prabhu Yadubara Das, Panda-vijaya and Adrian are here with other devotees, family, from Vrndavana, Utah, Seattle etc.   We worked like cross-eyed beavers to get our Power Point show on Jagannatha Rathyatra ready for last night . It is posted at the Web-page (4.7MB) and the semi-final revision of Japa Joe (6.4MB) also:

         www.jayarama.us/archives/jagannatha-rathayatra-boise.pptx

         www.jayarama.us/archives/japa-joe.pptx

Now we are getting ready to leave for Rathayatra at 9AM. It is 8.08AM now. We have 17/26 rounds done.

We answer some letters.

We have a packed schedule:
~Today Ratha from 9AM-1PM. Arati-Prasadam (Class?) 1-3PM. Evening Program [Yadubara Prabhu]
~Friday - SB AM with Evening Program by M. Visaka DD 
~Saturday - SB by Srivasa Pandita Das; Picnic - Taking Jagannatha to Vrndavana Forest by HpS; EP Yadubara Prabhu.
~Sunday - Lecture: Appearance of BvThakura by 11AM by ASA.

Things to Do:
1. Sastric Educational Development for Sesa Das and Vraja-bihari Das.
2. MED Web-page with Dinadayal and Rama-giridhari Das
3.1 NIOS - Primary School Franchise Development with Rama-giridhari Das
3. 2 NIOS - Dr. Bandyopadhaya
4. Bh.Vai for San Jose.

5. Stuff on the Calendar each day (like Hawaii Class!).

AGTSP

paoho

Here is a link that Professor Annette sent us of photos from the University program in Ft. Collins, Colorado.

https://plus.google.com/photos/102301315643587258434/album/5894943170505977409

Also, Srila Prabhupada is always citing the Instructions of Lord Rsabadeva. Even in NOI.  They include 5.5.5    easy to remember     and start at 5.5.1...   And he cites them in the Gita at 5.2!!!

The Madrid Rathaytra was a booming success with nice litte cart, hundreds of devotees, maybe 500,000 plus people in the street seeing the parade, clapping, snaping, chomping prasadam!

Now it's 4.50PM.   Busy all day.     Actually went for a walk under the nice trees.  Saw BEAUTIFUL old, elegant, brick homes. Reminded us of Vrndavana!   Ostensibly we were going to to the Dollar Store to look for a frame for a super drawing that Sugopi gave us so that we could give it out as a present at the Education Symposium tonight.   We were wondering if this was all Maya and we should have our "nose to the grind stone" instead.

We found a frame.  Chanted a lot of rounds.  Got refreshed.  Looked at the Dollar Store offerings and then went to the counter.    "How much is that?"

"That will be $1.08"

               Oink!   Oink!                     Whoop!  Whoop!             Honk!  Honk!           Piggy, Monkey, Hamsa here.      AGTSP....   ((paoho)))))))        How are you?   We have a head ache.   AFTER LUNCH we went to the Temple room and chanted 4-rounds.  That's always so super.  It is aftenoon in Vrndavana.  Radha and Govinda are resting confidentially with all Their friends. We are keeping a look-out across the fields that no one comes to catch Them.

Then back to our cave in the ASA Camp.  Bought our Nashville < > Richmond ticket for 26th August < > 3 September.  It is just two hour trip.    Then paid the Visa card on line.   Then Washed our laundry.  Then answered six letters on the Blog.  We do cell phone on the weeked so we get one week old the letters by Monday.  Now we're back up to five days delay and tommorrow well be back to our 3 daze lag.

When will we do the Yahoo mail??????

We have a headache.        Just started to rain, here in Denver.  Smell of wet summer grass.  Thick grey clouds and darkness descending.   Very close to nature here.

Saturday was a PACKED home program,  22,000-18,000,000 Godzillion people.  Many good Bhajan leaders.  About five hours time out and back.             Sunday feast was divided between me and Kratu Prabhu.  We did "Hamlet and Arjuna", by popular resquest.    You see, we know how to do this stuff pretty well, now.  Many years seeing audience reactions so now we need to take all these shows and write them down, and make suggestions for others to get to work.   Western Dudes can appreciate Shakespare, directly or indirectly.  You can't be considered a great literary figure in Western culture unless you do SOMETHING in relation to Shakespear.     Its like writing a Vedanta sutra commentary.

Lots of people we have not seen for years here.   Lots of ideas in the letters.  I think we do about 2-letters in 15-minutes.  If we are worth $200/hour then that's $25/letter, no?  Actually with Ashrama, internet connection expenses I think its about $35/letter.   Its worth it.  Nice news from people and then we can of course easily make nice comments.

             This rain is nice.  Hot here and then the rain gives variety.  Denver is actually a very mystical and nice place.    If you drive for 15-minutes in any direccion you are in the country and then it is 8-hours to the next big city.   Open, open, open high, dry hills and mountains.  Lots of cattle ranchers.         Your mind always keeps the ambience in the background, so there is a feeling of room to breathe.

O.K. We read some Sticks and Stone!

  A G T S P !    (paoho)         We arrived in Denver!         All Wednesday morning in Houston we were packing, final emergency meetings and then to the airport. Cramped...   in the aeroplane. A beautiful young girl sat next to us.   Booooop!   What a wonderful view out the plane window.....    Never even looked at her face.         Landed.         Lost in the Denver airport.  Giant place.        Found the Train to the Baggage area.    Choo!    Chooooo!     Chooo!              Monkey swung on the bars and straps on the way there.   People looked at him without too much aghast.  "After all, Marge, he's a monkey."

    Got phone call from Bhakta Adam: "Waiting for you in the waiting area.  Call when you got your bag."...........   Sine said, "Your Bags on Carousel 5", but actually they were in Carousel 6.   Waited.  Chanted.  First bag came.      ...      ...      ..   Second bag didn't come.  Maybe it got left on the airplane that has now go to San Diego...   Waited.  All the people gone, three bags on the carousel, but not ours.     "Excuse, me Miss, my bag is not here".   "What is your name?".      "Here this is your bag!".....   Oh, my God, how embarrassing.  I didn't recognize it upside down!   O.K. Call Adam.  Go outside.  There are six different pick-up lanes...  "May I help you?"       "Yes, my friend is coming to pick me up.  Which lane should I go to?"...

You have to go one level down.   This is only for buses and taxis.

          How do we get there?

Go back inside or take the stairs there.

            Plunk!    Plunk!     Plunk!  ....  Bouncing our two bags with 25KGs of books down the stairs.    Cut our ankle a little....      Found a space by the curb.  Bh.  Adam sees us.  Loads us.  Its rather hot.   Off we go!!                 asDFgh@#$5^

BA:   Oh, goodness.   The engine is overheating.

         We stopped by the side of the road just outside the BIG TERMINAL  117 cars/minute are roaring past us.   Look at the engine.  The water is boiling.  (Its rather hot in the sun).   Then . . . .    a police car pulls up.  Real big, nice black police guy, asks intelligent questions and then says that the BIG TERMINAL has free towing to the gas station nearby.  O.K.  We call Bhakta Noah and he and all the B'caris will load into the van and pick us up and we can go directly to the program in Boulder.           Tow truck comes. Lifts the front of our car starts to pull it...   SREEECH!    The back tires are locked in 4-wheel drive and wont turn.  He puts it down and puts special wheels under our wheels and starts to pull it.....   Thunk-itty!    Thunk-itty!            One of his special tires is flat...    It disintegrartes in smoke and the tow truck calls a tow truck.   We get to the gas station.  Sit under a tree.   The big black police guy is a Deacon in a Baptist Church.  He takes a book and all in all we talk for about 20-minutes.  He is a Madhyama adhikari.  Very nice guy.  He says he's really looking forward to reading our book.  Tells the Gas Station people to take good care of us.

Krishna, did you arrange all that for us to meet this guy????

O.K. Brahmacaris show up.  All in Safron, Noah, Matthew, Adam, Peter.  Notice anything unusual about their names.           Boulder after 45-minutes.  High class college town.  All kinds of young, vegetarian people.   About 40-devotees sittinng in the park chanting.  Very, very nice. Taking with people.  Rather hot and Rather exhausted.   Back in the van....   get to to our room at 9.30PM  (10.30PM Houston).    Little rustic, but in the Ashrama!   The internet doesn't work!!   "Well ask Bhakti Joseph tommorrow".

             Body starved.....  Prayed to God, Lord Nrsmha Deva to help us!!!!   We ate three nice cookies and took rest.  Couldn't get on Japa Joe...    Woke up at 1.15AM  but mostly rested...             Morning program.  One hour to get internet going. 19-rounds done.  NO SB CLASS!  (Jaya!   We are learning).   Where is laundry.  Where is President?       Where is Krsna House for program tonight.           Listen to M. Urmilla's Class from Hawaii.  Tommorrow we give class.            Internet from the Ashrama is only 2-bars.  Doesn't deal with Webex...  Trying to get key so we can get into the Temple Room at 1.25AM for Japa Joe.

       ... O.K.      Radha Govinda's arati for noon has just started.      They are beautiful.  Denver is beautiful.   5,500 feet high.  NOTHING in any direction from here.  Cowboy town.  Lot of people we haven't seen for 5-10-20 years!

        Let's go take bath.  Wash our clothes.    See if we can do e-mail from the ashrama.  We've finished the first draft of the Japa-Joe Powerpoint show.  Now we are starting a Word document of a Dialog with Carl Jung.    We have to see how our energy level works out as we put writing in the forefront and then we can see how we are going to travel.  Maybe we just go to South America for two weeks only....    Travel can be good and bad for writing.  We have to really put writing in the front.   It's going to be hard.  It requires surrender and harder work than we are doing!!      Thank you.   .     Your life is the same I bet..! !         AGTSP!!!!

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<big>                                Got the "Kapi-dhvaja" off today before Mangala-arati. It was a little tight but caught everything. We're distributing NOIs at all the programs. Hari-lila and Kuvera Das arranged the books. We autograph them... O.K.   Krsna kills...   ...   See you at Japa-Joe!</big>

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AGTSP...  paoho.   We don't have any heart arythmias but now we have a lot of stomach cramps.  Probably means we will dye of stomach canser by January 2014.

We are running as fast as we can.  Honestly we didn't waste a single moment today. We wrote a draft for a NIOS-News.  We'll put it below.  Now we have to go to the evening program in 4 minutes. Got 20-rounds done.  No letters today!

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North American Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies

304 Astor Way; Franklin, TN 37064; USA

WWW.Bhakti.Org

NIOS-News – June 2013

What do we have to wonder? If we entertain with even a little bit of sincerity such great classics as India’s Vishnu-puran then we can begin to see the light in life, but that is just the beginning. Do you have high aspirations in life our esteemed Readers? Where did they come from? Unless the Supreme itself favors us how can we go beyond the rational aspect of the mind?

(Werner Heisenberg from his book, Wolfgang Pauli’s Philosophical Outlook)

Very early in his career Pauli had followed the road of skepticism based on rationalism right to the end, and he then tried to trace out those elements of the cognitive process that precede a rational understanding in depth.    Quantum Questions, Ken Wilbur, Shambala, 1984, Pg 158

To this end, your humble servants, your fellow friends and members of NIOS, continue to work to organize symposia and publications. At the date of this issue of NIOS-News let us mention the following efforts.

Annual Symposium on Cultivation of the Human Spirit

NIOS 14TH Annual Symposium on Cultivation of the Human Spirit
14th September 2013
Murfreesboro, Tennessee

Theme: LADIES FIRST
Let us consider the primacy of the compassionate feminine nature in approaching the most intimate aspects of Divinity as personified by such ladies and Laksmi, Mary, Kahdijah, and also the primacy of developing a good idea of education and opportunities for character development for girls so they can play their primary role in creating a world where we can be one in peace, prosperity and friendship with a common cause.

Call for Papers: As with previous years NIOS by this announcement is requesting any interested persons to submit papers for publication and presentation at the Annual Symposium. For more details, sample contributions and inspiration please correspond with Hanumatpresaka Swami (Professor Huber Robinson) [email protected]

Event:

·         Also as usual the academic section will be accompanied by the traditional Akhanda Sankirtana, 12-hours of continuous, melodious chanting of the Maha-mantra, Hare Krishna / Hare Rama.

·         Also meeting of Organizers for a 2014 symposium on educational development to be co-sponsored by NIOS is planned. Again, at this time contact Professor Robinson for any information about the event.

NIOS Publications

·         Felicitations Volume: Through the super human efforts of many people the much awaited copies of PRACYAPRAJNAPRDIPA – Professor Dr. Samaresh Bandyopadhyay Felicitations Volume on Early Indian History and Culture have arrived in USA. Anyone interest in purchasing copies please contact Thanu Subramanian at [email protected]. The volume is over 600-pages with contributions from Former Minister of Education of India and many esteemed scholars. Obviously we are extremely short of help to do the proper promotion work for the volume in both India and USA. If you can help in this regard please contact us.

·         Museum Volume: The volume featuring the contributions to the symposium co-sponsored by NIOS and the Indian Museum in Kolkatta, May 2012, is nearing completion and represents an extremely interesting compendium on the current thinking on the symposium topic by some of the most representative minds of modern India and abroad: The Contribution of Classical Indian Culture Toward Making a Better World.

·         Every Bear Can Dance, the astonishing biography of an evangelical ISKCON book distributor, Jambavati Devi Dasi, is complete in both Spanish and English in both an dramatic audio and printed format. Again it lacks help to promote and distribute it but preliminary reviews all come back the same way, “Could not put it down”.

NIOS On Tour

Hanumatpresaka Swami, Professor Huber Hutchin Robinson, returned June 1^st from a heroic four month tour through Europe, India and Australia. This included over 25-airplane jaunts, bone-wracking jeep journeys into the remotest and unpaved villages of Assam, Manipur and Burma, forming a part of India’s culturally rich Northeast provinces. Numberless symposia on the NIOS favored Light of the Bhagavata, profoundly well received lectures at Australia’s premier Monash University, Kolkatta’s Rabindra Bharati University, University of Madrid and the Bhaktivedanta College in Belgium. Of course, the credit for all these events goes to legions of highly elevated souls, but we especially want to thank Professors Ian Mabbet of Monash University and our own Principal Advisor Professor Dr. Samaresh Bandyopadhyay.

Plans

·         With the good aegis of our Principal Advisor NIOS hopes to soon establish a formal relation with Rabindra Bharati University in Kolkatta. This would especially allow for publication of extremely interesting and as yet unaccessible classical literature.

·         Very progressive meetings have been realized between directors of the Goloka Trust from Mumbai, India, and Professor H. H. Robinson and Abhiseka Singh of NIOS. http://golokaeducation.com/ . These reveal that NIOS has a very bright future with Mr. Singh and his youthful friends joining for developing classical education all across America in the form of primary school franchises. These would compare with such schools as the Montessori or Waldorf schools. This would include consulting for local primary and later secondary and even graduate school development, text-book and curriculum development. Of course, this is so popular because India at its core has great gifts in education and character development to offer the world.

·         Programs in South America are going on with hopes of a tour by Hanumatpresaka Swami in the Fall of 2013. This would include, of course, our old friends, Ricardo Palma and San Marcos University in Lima, Peru; Federico Santa María Technical University, the “Cal-tech” of Chile and programs in Bolivia, Ecuador and Argentina. These are not confirmed yet since Professor Robinson is really stepping back to make first consideration writing and publishing. His current focus is a presentation on SANKHYA: Classical Oriental Philosophy of Nature.

·         Locally, in Tennessee, besides its annual symposium, NIOS has been again invited to participate in the Celebrate Nashville Festival, which it has helped to pioneer, on the 5^th of October; and continues its active efforts to develop good academic and cultural relations with local scholars and universities.

Words of Illumination

Let us close this copy of NIOS-News with profoundly appreciated words of enthusiasm and direction from Professor Dr. Samaresh Bandyopadhyay, Principal Advisor of NIOS and Dr. Ravi P. Singh, President…