Letters to the editor

      AGTSP
   (((paoh)))
We are in Santiago still....  HAve a headache from life...  but we are still alive and fighting in Srila Prabhupada's army!        Here is a letter we just wrote to Professor Samaresh.

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From: Samaresh Bandyopadhyay <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2012 2:21 PM
Subject: Re: Urgent Nice News

Revered Maharaj,
how are you now?
Hope you have seen copy of my letter to Prof. Mabbett forwarded by
me.Iam expecting a call tomorrow at 9-30 pm tomorrow from you.What is
the progress as regards the announcement made at the seminar of the
Indian Museum ?
Best regards,
S.B.

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HpS - 21 November 2012

Santiago, Chile
Esteemed Professor. It is so nice to get your association. Whenever I do it makes me think of Kolkatta and our life there. I think it is a participant in the eternal pastimes of Sri Gauranga and all his associates.
We just finished forwarding all the letters, paper, bio-datas, that I sent to you to Harsh. Then by Superior arrangement he called me by Skype as I was just sending the last paper. It has been so, so, so frustrating to communicate from here. The interent freezes again and again or doesn't repsond at all. So it took one hour to forward everything but it seems that it has all come intact. He already open Dora Bazan's paper.

We discussed how to stay in touch for the editing. As I mentioned we still have Ruben Devoto's paper and Miguel Polo's. We will work on them, but the six sent are very substantial.

I also received the copy of your letter to Dr. Mabbett and I have written with this information and perspective to our disciples and ISKCON authorities in Australia asking them to fix our travel schedule now. It seems that we will be all over the country so we will be able to meet very responsible people there, and maybe even do pubishable interviews with them on useful topics. We have done this before and the results is very nice.

Our health is functional. Half the city is suffering from allergy. It is Spring here and of course this is very great problem for us. We are following a strict diet and that has reduced it to manageable level!!

Here we have three major presentations as well as many minor ones. The major ones are Hamlet and Arjuna, the LIght of the Bhagavata, and Socrates and Maharaja Parikshit. The first one was at Universidad Fedorico Santa Maria. Everyone comments that it is the premier Science and Engineering school in the country and as you would expect their Humanities program is very first class and oriented towards practical application. Such brilliant students.

They loved the introduction to Socrates and the death of Maharaja Pariksit. Now it is developing that everyone is very enthused by the idea of next year organizing a big symposium here, and Peru, and USA on the Song of Solomon in the Bible and the Rasa literature of Rupa Goswami. Hamlet, Socrates, Solomon. We have passed through Karma yoga with Arjuna and Hamlet, we have achieved liberation from Socrates and M. Pariksit, but very practically the question is, "What do we do after liberation?" This was no doubt to the Bible Saints nor to Sri Rupa. Here we come to the esoteric life of the soul in Bhava and Beatific States of Consciousness. The response has been very strong amongst students, professors and administrators.

As our chief advisor, what do you think?

Monday we have a private presentation at the National Museum with the Ambassador of Indian and others and there we will present this idea for next year with an international committee.

I guess that is the basic communication. We are winning the battle to stay alive. We are as always very, very busy with individual consulting for disciples and devotees, internet is infernal, our Museum book is progressing by your's and Harsh's mercy, plans for practical NIOS work are progressing . . .

.... we are very involved as Member of the Executive Committee for ISKCON Ministry of Education. It is as disorganized as anything but many very successful programs are developing throughout the whole world. A realistic estimate is that ISKCON now has to serve educational needs of about 25,000 children and youths, alone.

...... our calendar is that we will be in Santiago until 28th. Then two nights in Lima, Peru. Then 5-days in Ecuador, the little country to the North. Then one day in Lima again and then in Tennessee from 8th December to 8th January.

... We will try to fix an exact day to try to reach the Nil-kamal or your cellular at 9.30PM.

..... When we get back to Lima we plan to take the letter of respect for you from San Marcos University in hand and then we deal with it practically from USA. 

Thank you so much. Now have 8-letters to answer if the internet will just co-operate. Seems really is better just to be a Bobba living in a hut in the jungle at the edge of a village and work from there!

  TLGASP   pfanrh.    Respondiend a cartas hasta 6 dias pasado.  SUUUUper occupado con programas en las universiadaes.   consulataciones para 20 devotoos cada dia.  voz ronca ca ca!   Pero muy bien.  Ya vamos a BhVai con devotos de San Jose en WebEx!

            AGTSP   paoho.  We are so hoarse that we can't talk.  Many very, very intense, usefule programs here with the universities.  About 25 consulations with devotees daily and work with Dr. Bandyopadhaya and NIOS,      Bhakti Vaibhava and Ministry of Education....     So far things are pretty balanced.  We have repsonded to letters up to 6 days ago...   now we go to our Saturday BhVai, WebEx class!!!

HPS: Also, exciting letters from the politics in Peru.  Keeps us awake.  Is so similar to what happened in Texas.

NaD >>> PAMHO AGTSP

What is the kind of politics that keeps us awake? To me comes in mind 2 possibilities: ISKCON politics or/and world politics. 

              HpS - ASA -  Jaya!   Iskcon Politics.      We are working in Education so it is the Education politics.   Working as an educational team, but also the relation between the Yatra and the school.   In most of the Western led schools, Mayapura Institute, VIHE, Radha desa, Oxford Center.   the School is a separate body in harmony with the local Yatra.   But in Indian   units I think the education is a PART of the Yatra, lile Radhaatha Swami's zone etc.         This is old story.   SB 1.17 near the end talks about the conflict, sympathy between Sanyasis and Kings.  Is healthy politics to keep us awake.  We are passionate, not always in pure goodness.   So that can be O.K.   we can use it for Krsna and not fall asleep!