Letters to the editor

hare krsna Mahraj,PAMHO,AGTSP
thank you very much for sharing nice ppt. u r asking for suggestion to help u "Help us develop our writing, pptx, stuff so that it is useful"...

u dont need our help but we do, still u r humble enough to engage us by making us think we are helping u. anyway gracias.

There are two words in ppt Mantra & meditation. I think we have to differentiate b/w mantra meditation and other sort of meditation (like Tratak -focus on flame , focusing on third eye etc.,vipasana) in our opinion-- its like- take an example of muddy water in glass--now if make water still- the dirt will sediment-- it will seem water is less muddy.

in our experience when our mind is heavily agitated ---good sleep,  deep breath, or meditation helps to remove agitation.

ceto darpan --is actually removing dirt itself so that we can hear super soul properly as and see things as they are.[ like putting alum in dirty water]

i think we have to differentiate b/w settling down and clearing of dirt.

secondly. Hare krsna mahra mantra consists everything,  should we focus on theological science, name-form- etc. to stress on importance of japa meditation.

thats for now,
dwarf/dwart

            HpS - Thank you so much.     !!       We knew that once we started this tour, no writing!          Only three days more and maybe we can settle down.  ALways will be writing in Hell seems, so we have to do the best we can.   Your poinnts are very good.  We were aiming at professor Campbell and he read the Japa Joe word document in our archives and there it talks a lot about your points.  Is enough?   Next will be conversation with Carl Jung!

Dear Guru Maharaja, please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

(In start of Ratha Yatra,) what is the meaning of coconut arati and breaking of those coconuts?
Are those smashed coconuts Krsna prasadam ?

Thank you!

Your servant Namacarya das

               HpS -  AGTSP   paoho.   I don't know.  Srila Prabhupada doesn't mention it in any book, so it can't be so important.   One story is that it is to extract all the bad ellements away from the Rathayatra and then smash them, so the coconut is poison.  Another is that it is offering to inspire auspiciousness and then the coconut is good.   Hmmm???   If you ge news let us know.

All Glories to Sri Sri Goura-Nitay
All Glories to Srila Prabhupada
All Glories to H.H. Hanumatpresaka Swami

Please accept my most humble obeisance

Hare Krsna Guru Maharaja, I hope that your health is acceptable and you are finally getting some rest. My name is Ignacio González, from Valparaíso.

             ASA - AGTSP....  We remember you Ignacio.  Your wife, baby and cat!

Now I´m writing to give you some news about the seminars that we have been arranging for your visit in November to Valparaíso, Chile.

We have being organizing at two universities:

1.       With the Santa Maria University (UTFSM), but we haven´t got any answer from them yet… we will keep trying. Anyway this has been the modus operandi for the last 2 years.

2.       We have confirmed a seminar in the Pontifical Catholic’s university of Valparaiso (PUCV) about “el cantar de cantares”. Will attend 3 theologian teachers from the university, to discuss different aspects of the seminar. Here are the links so you can see their curriculums:

a.       Dr. Kamel Harire https://www.dropbox.com/s/au82iix07diyc2k/Curr%C3%ADculum%20%20Kamel%20Harire.doc

b.      Dr. Gonzalo Ulloa https://www.dropbox.com/s/td09udtnrwcev68/Curr%C3%ADculum%20Gonzalo%20Ulloa.doc

c.       Dr. Juan Daniel Escobar https://www.dropbox.com/s/r34qaxsalvbfjgc/Curriculum%20Vitae%20Juan%20Escobar%20%281%29.doc

All public (60) will be university students of this and other universities. Also will be invited different academicians of the university.

The people of the university ask us for a little summary of the presentation for advertising in the university, and also for the theologian teachers that will discuss with you because they want to prepare themselves for you. In addition, do we have an official name for this presentation?

That´s all for now. Anything that concerns, worries or bothers you please let me know, so I can try to repair the situation.

Your lousy servant
Ignacio

              HpS - AGTSP.   AGAIN.    We are still not sure that we are coming to South America this year.  After we get back to Nashville and settle down for a few months and WRITE then we will know for sure.   But this work on Song of Songs is very, very useful.   The title will be The Song of Songs of Solomon and the Bhakti-rasa-amrta of Srila Rupa Goswami.  Is tha O.K?   You have to keep writing about this and talking to us and see that the work is going on.   It seems 87.332% we will be there as planned and 97.11% that any work we do will be published and even if we don't attend the seminar can go on with great enthusiasm.

hare krsna Maharaj, Pamho, Agtsp
will it be possible for your grace to share ppt/doc of seminars u gave in europe ,india and australia?

hari bol
harsh

           HpS - AGTSP...      I don't really remember any new ones we did.  We just used the Sankhya ones and the LOB ones that we already had.    We did the "Bhaktivedanta Library, Overview of all 12-cantos and overview of 1st two cantos also."   I see the bvlibrary there.  I think they are all there.     We are learning about media.    We are acclaimed as Masters of Power Point by esteemed Directors.    O.K.   Even a Dog has his tail.        So we did japa-joes.pptx and that includes reference to japa-joe.doc.  Hmmm?  How does the combination work?   ?    ?

Hare Krsna Maharaj and TB
PAMHO, AGTSP.
hope you are well. we are fine trying to serve parampara with our mental and bodily diseases to some degree, hope things are better as time pasees.

we expect some thing unprecedented may happen in Jan 2014. [Maybe monkey and piggy may retire]..
anyway this paper from Ame Pys Assoc. talks about the emerging perspectives http://sonoma.edu/users/s/smithh/psy380/toc/posts/values.pdf

a new term call positve pyscho is mentioned here. becasue till freud and only people with mental problems were studied in pysc labs.  This paper also talks about philo asssumptions the theory have

i understand this paper can be useful to you if you were to continue preaching in areas you did a year back.

but we dont know about your long term plans. still we are sharing it.

we thank you for  giving so so so much association through webex, letters, japa.
we are eternally indebted to you. we dont know if we can be come formal candidate before you stop giving intiation. but still we would continue to serve you in whatver possible way.

regards,

dwarf trying to follow TB,BW and HpS.
         HpS - ASA ----  Jaya Thank you.  We will read the letter.  We are at Hari-lila's home. It is 11.51AM.  We got here at 11.15AM.  Had lunch, adjusted luggage, doing mail and then we will be on the airplane to Denver!    We stay in touch.       Thank you very much for all the support you are giving us.  Honestly, you have helped a lot and your dedication to Krsna is not unnoticed by His friends.         O.K.  Pack up and go to Denver!

En cuanto a lo de las reuniones  del Consejo Rector con todos los devotos es  un consejo muy sabio, se ha vuelto una necesidad. Como mínimo cada vez que se reúna el Consejo Rector ( 3 ó 4 veces al año), tener también una reunión con todos los devotos. Además de los Istha Gosthis que aconsejamos sean cada mes. Pienso que antes de tener la reunión formal del Consejo Rector, tendremos una reunión el Consejo Rector y todos los devotos.

Sí, siento la presencia personal de Srila Prabhupada en ISKCON. Por eso ISKCON saldrá adelante, porque SP sigue guiando personalmente, aunque algunos solo podamos oirlo o verlo a traves de libros, otros devotos, ect. Pero pienso que cualquier dia él personalmente me podrá decir: " Jayanta eres tonto. Tienes que hacerlo mejor".

Me he tomado la confianza (creo que la última) de reflexionar sobre un tema del que se oye mucho y se habla poco:

“Amor y Confianza: El cuidado de los devotos”  

(En ISKCON o en el Templo no hay amor)

Esta es una frase muy escuchada en nuestra sociedad de devotos

         HpS - ASA - TlgaSP.    pfanrh.   Oink!   Oink!     Si!    Pero no de nuevo!      Desde mi primero visita al Templo de San Franciso estamo oyendo esta queja ...  de unos.   Pero de otro lado hay muchos que aprecian el refugio del ISKCON, Srila Prabhupada, Devotos, Administracion, Pujaris, Deities!!

y, se suele utilizar para mostrar cómo, a veces, la iskcon, o sus líderes, puede ser crueles o abusivos  con los devotos.

Pero no es menos cierto que a veces tenemos unos conceptos limitados sobre al amor y sobre a quién tenemos que cuidar; porque a veces da la sensación que sólo debemos cuidar a los devotos  que tienen un perfil social bajo en la institución. Me refiero a los devotos que no tienen cargos administrativos. Muchos de nosotros pensamos que GBCs, Presidentes de Templo,  gurus, etc no necesitan de este cuidado porque damos por hecho que ya lo tienen.

         ASA - Oooof!   Es un hecho!    Mu bien!   Tomar papel de Presidente y a veces estamos es mucho, mucho, mucho stress y tolerar mucho mucho abuso de unos de los "siguiedores". Pero, en conclusion es nuestra experiencia ser B'cari, Madre, Presidente ......   Todos los devotos en ISKCON sufren igual y son iguales glorioso.  No papeles pequenos en ISKCON, solamente actores pequenos!!

   Creo que nadie puede demostrar que no  todos necesitamos de la ayuda y el amor o cuidado de los demás. Incluso, a veces, el estar en un cargo y, por lo tanto, bajo la observación de muchos devotos y bajo la presión de muchas otras situaciones, hace que muchos de los líderes de la institución necesiten de mas” amor y confianza, y cuidado” que otros devotos que no están bajo esa presión.

Antes de seguir  quiero analizar lo que es el amor desde mi propia perspectiva.

       ASA - Hare Krsna!   Y esta buen carta de Jayanta Das continua para muchas, muchas mas palabras.  Otro carta de Jara-mara-hari Das, y la misma estamos eliminando la mayoria, por que...      por que.....    somos Monos!!!!!           Pensamos los puntos de Jayanta Das son super...  Pero honestamente no podemos digestir mas en un momento!    Lamento!      Estupido!!!!     Mo No!            Entonces, misericordia, si piensa nos merce,    otro carta en esta tema con la proxima parte!

Vuestro sirviente

Jayanta das

          ASA - Vuestra seriente, Buck White (Puerquecito)   P.S. Hermoso foto!!