Manipur Trip, Online Ed., Spam

Hare Krishna Dear Gurumaharaja, 
Please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
 
  Yes, we are looking forward to time in Kolkatta and Mayapura (and Manipur).  You coming to Manipur???  Could be nice trip.
 
Yes, I would like to come. 
 
  Your Blog ideas matches mine perfectly.  Like Yahoo Groups.  We just have to approve new members.
 
Manual approving of new users works well as by user names all of them are spammers now (3 to 6 attempts for new account a day).
 
  After SPT meetings in Tirupathi we should be able to plan the visit to Mayapura more effectively.  We hope you get to meet Tandavika and Nitai gaurasundara when they are there!!!!   What is your cell phone.  We won't publish it!
 
My cell phone number is: +917384458243
 
Many interesting things happening last days. 
 
Your servant Prahlad Nrsimha Das
 
    HpS  - AGTSP    paoho    Sorry slow to answer.  Big program after big porgram after...     Cant talk!   {:O)....          Raghupati Das is the SPT Secretary for education.   Maybe you know him. Very nice devotee.  Is doing PhD in Economics now in London.  Before he did the MI on line BhSastri program.    He would like to work with you to develop with area of on-line education in a broad way for ISKCON.   There are many programs and there should be tools that various students and teachers can use and then ways of assesment.    Then, the academic portion of learning should be integrated with the ethical aspect of learning.  Eg. we want to learn humilty along with verses.  Patience, respect...
   .............   then it is all useless unless we are advancing in adau sraddha, sadhu sanga......
                  I will write to you with copy to him.  Please remind me here if I forget.    We would like to stay in involved also.
 
2.    Guru Sannyasi, GBC, Sanga a  and  SPT meetings are from 26 Feb - 6 March.    We fly from Kolkatta to Manipur on the 6th of March at 10.55AM on Jet Connect Flight.              You can try to contact Ekanatha Das 91 94 360 207 63.   About accomodations and everything with the Temple.         We fly from Manipur, Imphal back to Kolkatta on the 22nd Friday on Air India 724.
 
           AGTSP!       Best luck in your Sankirtana, in catching all the innocent people Krsna sends, in keeping pure!!

Sindroma Bi-Polar

11 years, 5 months ago by hps in Hot Topics

[2:26:27 AM] GKD
gurudeva estoy nuevamente en una gran depresion, que me tien estancado...


[10:19:46 AM]HpS
TlgaSP   Pfanrh....   Pero la muerte es un gran depresion para todos, no?    No estoy bromeando.  Es un hecho simple.     La muerte es un depresion super que todo el mundo tiene que experimentar.   De esta manera Vd es mas afortunado que nosotros por que esta experimentando ya y puede practicar.  Claro, voluntariamente puede experimentar eso por siguiendo Ekadasi y otras cosas, pero Vd y otros es una Karma inevitable actual.   Por la pequena experiencia que tenemos la actitud que nos siriva es tomar refugio 100% en cantar Hare Krsna, la Mantra como un barquito en el ocean.  "Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna!!!"    Otra vez, no es bromo, o teoretical. Yo he pasado desafios fuertes y la Mantra, Gauranga kripa, es alla.      Y si puede hacer mas, bailando y ofreciando un flor a sus deidades, muy bien y y y y ....   por la fine posible va a pasar a un nnivel de psicosis, schizofrenia. Es posible o posible VA A MORIR.  Eso es no espera mas de su mismo que puede hacer, pero no dejar ser un serviente del Senor Rama!

Online Education

11 years, 5 months ago by pnd in Sankirtana / Temple Activity Reports, Hot Topics
Hare Krishna Dear Guru Maharaja,
Please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
 
Sometimes I was thinking to cooperate with some nice online education program, so people who come to vedabase.com can take some nice online course. Unfortunately none of the current ISKCON online education programs fit standards I would like to provide.
 
Some time ago I mentioned the idea about online education to Mahendra Prabhu. Few days ago I asked Vidvan Gauranga Prabhu (our local scholar, he was teaching here under guidance of HG Gopiparadhana Prabhu) if he would like to be part of the project. We spoke like 3-4 hours, we looked at how MIT and Udacity are doing and got inspired more and more. The same day when I visited Mahendra and Pandava Prabhus they told me: "We have to start that online education". Then I told them I spoke with Vidvan that day about it, later to find that they independently of us also spent about 3-4 hours with the same :)
 
Our main ideas/concepts so far:
  • Free education (it is against our conviction to charge for education, only those who will want certification will have to pay a fee)
  • Certification for Bhakti-sastri, etc...
  • To establish the highest quality (both in sense of education and technology)
  • All different levels, similar to Khan Academy (www.khanacademy.org). From the most simple basics, through Bhakti-sastri, Bhakti-vaibhava, ...
  • We would like to work in collaboration with ASA / NIOS if possible.
 
On Friday after lunch we all plan to meet and discuss our ideas to see if all of us have a compatible vision and plan further. 
 
If you like the idea of the project, would you like us to join you?
 
Your servant Prahlad Nrsimha Das
                  HpS - ASA/NIOS - AGTSP   paoho.    You can see we are a little slow in answering because of our life style.   That is the kind of partner we would be.     Ha!   Ha!            Yes, of course we would like to join.    We have been doing a lot of work in this area.   One principle is that Gurukula means place of the Guru. So our whole idea of education is very personal. First principle is Association: Student-Teacher, Students-Students.  Then...   we work on Processes in that ambience,    then ...  we are concerned on learning specific content.   Many other things.     At the end of SB 1.6, Suta tells the sages that now he will try to make them experience the instructions he heard from Sukadeva Goswami the same way he experienced. We are trying to communicate a point of view, attitude, consciousness more that facts, no????        How to do that?     Blogs for new readers to associate with other new readers!  ....

The situation is critical now

11 years, 5 months ago by candra108_mukhi in Hot Topics

Hare Krsna dearest Gurudeva ¡¡¡¡

AGTSP ¡¡¡ PAOHO ¡¡¡
 

Gurudeva the situation in wilson's neighborhood as U told me is really dangerous is not safe for doing service anymore.

on thursday while we were on the master class in schell some criminals made a lot of looting and many many people were injured, arrested, and even a horse passed away (it was a horse from the police). And this looting continued today and all the pujaris were so frightened that no one wanted to make the seva for gaura artik. I can 't go either (law of nature)... that is why I am asking if U can kindly talk with Jayapataka Swami about wilson this property is too old and not attractive at all ¡¡¡

We are having problems with pujaris we do not have enough ¡¡¡ and maybe if we have an attractive new center and altar they may be get inspired ¡¡¡ I am doing my best maybe not but it is difficult to be in charge of something when others do not support and at least communicate when they can not do their service Raghanuga bhakti has to do it and I hate to bother him He is an extraordinary devotee He gives classes, cook, clean, and whenever there is no pujari he has to do it umm I feel that I am taking advantage of him and I really hate that so I guess that to modify the standar is the best rather than to bother others ¡¡¡

thanks in advance

ys 

Candramukhi dd

thanks a lot for your attention 

ys

Candramukhi dd 

             HpS - ASA   -  Jaya!   AGTSP....    paoho..... Thank you for the news.    Is really tough area.    We go with people with cars and when they come out rear view mirrors are stolen.   Or window is broken and case taken from inside.    I understand what may be Jayapataka Swami's idea that once a temple is established it should not be moved, but during Muslim violence Radha Govinda themselves moved.

           Really depends on the inspiration of the Brahmanas, Goswamis like yourselves, what details to take. Seems that the property has day time value during the business hours so someone might want to buy it for that or the devotees might use it for that, then get another location near your house for a permaent center.         Where there are people who are dedicated to stay in Lima get small practical centers.   Have them come t Chosika for festivals and retreats and then move to some place like Chiclayo to live for several generations.

    We wrote to Jagajivana.  He is the best way to contact Maharaja.      I think Maharaja coming in November so be ready with a practial plan and a respected group that support it and then Maharaja can make a good decision.

Gaura Purnima dates - Conclusion

11 years, 6 months ago by saranga-das in Hot Topics

Namaste  Maharaja,  Jaya  Srila  Prabhupada!

1. Reference is made to my last post on this subject made July 2nd, 2012 (Posted 6:16 PM -0900 by saranga-das).

2. In final preparation to bring this subject to a higher level inside Iskcon GBC, I discovered that only six (6) full moons actually fall definitively inside the 12 signs of the Hindu sidereal (stars) zodiac. The remaining six (6) fall between 2 signs of the zodiac.  Of  those  in this  category, Gaura  Purnima  is one of them (nakshatra Pūrvaphalgunī in the actual time of Mahaprabhu's  birth).  In the other 2  years of the 3 year lunar  cycle,  Guara  Purnima  falls in the sideral zodiac of  Virgo and only in the final  year  falls in the zodiac of Leo.

3. However, if one looks at  the  constellations  in the night sky all of them fall in  Leo!  Don't be confused by this. Constellations   DO  NOT = Signs of the sidereal zodiac. The signs of the sidereal zodiac are defined in 30 degree portions of the celestial  equator  which totals 360 degrees. As an astronomer, I had to learn  this  fact  of Hindu  astrology. Good thing I carefully researched this. Therefore, as far  as  Gaura  Purnima  dates go, everything is  OK.

4. However, I did definitively discover  that  the method used to determine the lunar intercalation (adhika masa) was only right once from the period of Gaurabda  513 to 526. This  is  an  important discovery because from the time the GBC version of the Vaisnava  Gaurabda  calendar calculates the adhika masa (extra month) till the correct one, all the holidays of the lunar calendar are wrong! There is one partial exception and that has to do with Ekadasi. I say partial  because  the Ekadasi  is  OK except  for the named  Ekadasi.

5. For this  year, the  calculation  was  off only one month and as October 16, 2012  the lunar months  are as they should be.  In  other  years, the error is  greater but  never affected Gaura  Purnima  but 4 affected  Janmastami.  More on this  in a later post.

6. I hope this  clarifies  issues with the GBC  Vaisnava  calendar  thus  far examined.

Ys,  Saranga  Thakura  das

          HpS - ASA --  AGTSP   paoho.  It's interesting to hear your words. But we lack the general background to put too much action juice into them. If I told you that we have to meet with Laksmana agra Ja in about 45 minutes you wouldn't know if Laksmana was a man or a women, if it was in Lima or Chosika and what the topic was.
         See what I mean?  Your investigation is honestly very interesting and your reports of conversations with Sri-kara Das interesting!   There are non-ISKCON Hindu panditas who also calculate the Adhik mas, no?
          For example, we are now celebrating Vijaya-dasami, tommorrow. So I guess we could all agree that it is Dasami, but your conclusion is that this is a different month of the lunar calendar, no????

URGENT

11 years, 6 months ago by Bhaktina Romi in Hot Topics

All Glories to Sri Sri Gaura Nitai
All Glories to Srila Prabhupada
All Glories to your lotus feet
All glories to devotees

Please acept my humble obeisances.

Gurudeva I send you a e-mail the oct 15 to j
[email protected] from [email protected].
The title is Instruction it sent with copy to Madhavendra Puri.
Please read it when you can. I wait for your reply full of wisdom.

Om ajñana.timirandhasya jñanañjana-salakaya
caksur unmilitam yeja tasai sri-gurave namah

surrender to your holy lotus feet
Bhaktina Romi

HpS -  AGTSP   pamho.   Ahhh!   I saw it with some spam, and I looked at it, but I seem to remember that it was corrupted??!  And I couldn't answer. I thought it was you!!   Can you send again??!!