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May 2, 2016

Goswami Academy, a private elementary school, located in Houston-Texas, is seeking applicants for teaching positions, teacher aides and substitute teachers in both the early childhood and elementary level and middle school levels. The post is to fill a vacancy as well as add to our teacher pool for the coming years of growth.

 Seeking qualified candidates and those interested in pursuing a career in teaching and who possess enthusiasm for working with children in a highly collaborative teaching environment. If you are a self-starter who wants to be part of a mission-driven school that provides an opportunity to grow personally and professionally, we encourage you to apply.

Goswami Academy’s follows the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills together with a special spiritual connect feature. We follow a 175 day school year with time off during summer and holidays. This position will begin in August 2016. The successful candidate is required to attend professional development training in July.

Qualifications:

●       Good standing with relevant experience

●      Able to pass local, state, and federal criminal background screenings.

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●      Able to speak, read, and write English fluently.

●      US citizen or possess documentation of right to work in the US.

●      Ability to deliver engaging curriculum

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●      Current first aid and CPR certification preferred.

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 Interested applicants should email current resume to the principal at [email protected]

 Send all correspondence to the attention of Subhra Lind (Principal).

Deadline – Until filled for the 2016-2017 school year and ongoing for the pool

Mission: We inspire academic excellence through a culture of spiritual values in a nurturing environment.

Hare Krsna!

AGTSP

Esteemed GBC Strategic Planning Team,
Paoho....   Thank you for the following letter and invitation. Let us take this moment to organize and express our thoughts on these topics in a manner that we can also circulate for the criticism of others also.

We attended the GSG Sanga which was in 2015 as I remember. We have also attended the last two ILS and one or two other SPT meetings. Administratively we are now a Member of the Latin American Regional GBC, the Executive Committee of the Ministry of Education, have been Temple President for three ISKCON Temples, worked for years with the large scale programs of the Bhaktivedanta Institute and now are acting in our best capacity as Advisor, Administator and Foot soldier for NIOS (North American Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies) which is graced with Tamohara Das as our GBC and Nitai-gaurasundara Das as our President. NGD is Director of a Psychiatric hospital here in Tennessee and his brother is currently President of the nation-wide Indian Lawyers Association.
So . . . we have been involved in the management aspect of ISKCON.

NIOS organized a program jointly with the Indian National Museum on "The Contribution of of Ancient India to Making a Better World". It was innaugurated by Mukundakam Sharma, former Justice of Supreme Court of India and two former Governors of West Bengal. Now NIOS is organizing a very delightful and taxing International Seminar on "Psychology and the Sacred" with the National Library in Peru.

Just writing about this is exhausting.

We have the dates blocked on our Calendar [Feb 6-9] . Of course we can't come to India just for this three day event, but it could fit in with other travel.

In general we feel that ISKCON has become too much advanced in the mode of passion. We also feel that our feelings and opinions are certainly not perfect and want to express them as much for criticism as well as appreciation. One day during the remembered 2015 GSG Sanga the GBC Members were not present and the meetings were amongst Sannyasis who had not much or no GBC administrative posts. The idea that the GBC should look to its Sannyasa community as its source of protection, strategic leadership and ultimate spiritual authority was expressed by several Sannyasis present with citations from Buddhist history etc. Of course, our ISKCON Sannyasa community may not be capable of doing their role properly, but the theory and ideal should be kept and considered the most essential focus of the GBC to develop, no?

When we were discussing this one of the most well know of the Sanga commented that this was all true but if you expressed these ideas publicly then you would be marginalized politically.

In the written evaluations of the meetings requested the following day, I suggested that there was great necessity for more chance for the administratively uninvolved Sannyasis to meet and try to clarify their ideas about their Ashrama and its relation to GBC and Guru tattva, but there was no more meeting scheduled for this. Hare Krsna...

Of course, there are other efforts along these lines with the Sannyasa Ministry but in conversation with them and others, we feel that is a very key aspect of having an effective GBC, Sannyasi, Guru Sanga in 2017.

Awaiting your opinions for our consideration and to carry to our friends at this corner of ISKCON.

Thank you so much for the work you are doing. Practically speaking we see almost no one else doing it.
Your rather fallen servant,
Hanumatpresaka Swami

Hay enlace para Congress Educative en Brazil, Enero.

Espero Patraka Das lo pone aqui!

Pienso vamanos!

Hare Krisna, dear Gurudeva. Please accept my humble obeisances. All Glories ti Srila Prabhupada.

I hope you're fine in all aspects.

I only thank you for your last visiting in Spain. It was very inspired for me. Thank you for your blessings for Manu too.

Manu was born on April 20th at 16:47. The birth was very quickly and good. He was received with "Haribol, Haribol!!" chanting. After that I chanted in his right ear the Maha Mantra Hare Krisna for three times.

Just Before He born I was reading SB 4.12 for Carcika and him, and we were chanting our rounds

He is a very quiet child, he eat a lot in many and short times and listen to me when I do Mangala Aratik in the morning and I read the Srmad Bhagavatam too.

He is a very loved child for us but without attach. Krisna len us His devotee in His huge mercy for we learn more and more.

We hope to know how we teach Manu to be a Krisna's devotee.

Thank you Gurudeva for all. I hope next time we see you again I can speak to you a little more.

Your humble servant, Dandava Das

ASA - Such nice news. All respects to your good wife, Manu's mother. Just keep listening, looking at, Manu and you will see him in a deep perspective, no?   We all come with a lot of history and to help someone we have to understand that history.

Please accept my humble obeisances, All Glories to Srila
Prabhupada!

Have submitted Mata Subhra's posting for staff at her school here in Texas. Hope we may generate many applicants, if you would like some part time work Maharaja just let us know!

your servant in training,

caitanya caritamrta das, anu das

ASA -- Very nice, but I don't know if the letter is readable. Maybe better to cut and paste it into the Body of another Blog post.