Letters to the editor

Dear Esteemed Guru Maharaj,

Please accept my most humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada and NIOS.

I was very enlivened and enlightened to talk with you today about philosophy. I was very glad to hear of your book club on Carl Jung's the Red Book. I am really fascinated and interested in this from the scientific perspective on the topic of consciousness.

HpS - AgtSP. Paoho. Sorry this has taken so long to answer. We don't really have a book club, but are putting out the reading materials we have taken up and looking to record comments and inspiration on The Monk's Podcast, with Chaitanya carana Das.

That is actually my deepest interest - the intersection of philosophy and science. I actually have taken philosophy courses while doing my D.Phil. (Ph.D.) at Oxford because it was a passion of mine (I have taken some online courses from Harvard back then also when I was a grad student and some philosophy course when I was an undergrad at BSU).

I was even an instructor at Bhaktivedanta College Finland and was teaching philosophy courses (but there are some details about Greek philosophers I certainly still need to learn :) But I got now more interested in material that cannot be obtained just from philosophy textbooks.

I got more interested now in something more practical and meaningful - bringing together concepts of philosophy and science. The majority of the world views the world through the eyes of modern scientific thought, which includes theories such as - string theory, parallel universes, the God particle, the God equation, extraterrestrial life, directed panspermia, but what are these all anyway - they are mathematical representations of concepts discussed in the Indian philosophies of Vedanta or Bhagavata.

That is what I am striving to work on - creating a local community of academicians to discuss these concepts in a book club and lecture series - the concepts of Vedanta and Bhagavata to modern science.

String theory (every subatomic particle being a wave / vibrations), parallel universes, extraterrestrial life, Fred Hoyle's panspermia (implanting of DNA of different species on earth - in Bhagavata, Daksha Prajapati) are mentioned in the Bhagavata.

I have had speakers from Indian Institute of Technology (IITs) in my Vedanta distinguished lecture series at my university Texas A&M University - Kingsville. I am now going to be creating more distinguished lecture series and webinars. Also, I am interested in getting some of these distinguished professors, especially from renowned world-class universities to join together for a refereed peer-reviewed special issue of papers in a journal, maybe Solaris.

This I hope would eventually branch off from the Vedanta lecture series. I strive for this effort because I feel that philosophers and scientists need to connect more. They were one and the same discipline in the past, only now has modern education divided them into different fields.

I believe that I as a scientist (having studied science at Oxford and also some philosophy), I can contribute to the interdisciplinary field of philosophy and science.

I am inspired by your holiness and hope I can learn from great and distinguished thinkers such as your holiness. Whenever I listened to your lectures, it always inspired me.

Sharing some of my personal thoughts,

YHS,

Aja Govinda dasa

HpS - AgtSP!!!!! Paoho. Your efforts sound very nice. If we can participate in some little way please let us know. We are trying to communicate our abilities and areas of expertise in the Kapi Dhvaja and then from there we are giving YouTube links and Monk's Podcast links and then links to representative programs we are presenting elsewise.

Science and the Vedas is one area listed on the YouTube Channel.

Thank you.

Hare Krishna Beloved Gurudeva 🌝🙏

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Hare Krishna querido Guru Maharj ,AgtSP .

Hace mucho no le escribo,no hay mucho para decir .

Tampoco ahora, pero bueno, hubo algunos cambios, nosotros; yo, mi hijo y esposo estamos bien .

Nos vinimos a vivir a Francia hace tres meses ya, estamos pegados a suisa,en el limite. Nos prestaron una hermosa casa demasiado grande .

Pronto, apenas podamos iremos a la granja HK de Tours y también está el templo en paris , todo es cerca si tenés vehículo. Sólo tomar prasadam y oír kirtan, espero el humor espiritual por estos lugares no sea tan ajeno.

Sigo teniendo y temos nuestras deidades Natavara Nitay que nos cuidan mucho.. y son muy misericordiosas. Mi hijo juega con ellas por ejemplo, nuestro estandar es pésimo pero es.. y es hermoso. Abajo le dejó un vídeo hecho por Luis mi compañero.

Creo que sigo aprendiendo y la maternidad me ha prermitido empatizar y distinguir mucho más . Al mismo tiempo me he vuelto muy vulnerable y débil a los miedos.. se lo que me falta..el mahamantra ,pero al mismo tiempo me desprende tanto de este mundo que llega un punto que nada tiene sentido y ahora tengo un hijo , necesito también esa pasión por el mundo.. que te lastima a la vez. Entonces hacemos un poco .. y espero volver pronto.. soy un hipócrita y tengo que tolerarme,pero siento que es lo que está bien para mi.. si estoy muy confundida me gustaría saberlo..

Pienso ,vagamente quizás, que no siempre nos toca ser héroes y hacer todo bien ,eso es muy lindo si.. pero se y siento en mi que soy un sirviente y que estás cosas pasan y nos enseñan.

Usted es una gran guía para mi y alguien a quien sigo comprendiendo por la gracia de krshna ,sin embargo espero en algún tiempo poder estar más cerca .

Hasta la proxima GM

Yamunatiravana dd

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Hare Krishna, Dear Guru Maharj, AgtSP.

I have not written to you for a long time, there is not much to say.

HpS - As long as we can breath we can chant, and chanting will take us to another realization of what is actually happening. Jaya!

Not now, but hey, there were some changes, us; me, my son and husband are fine.

ASA - ! 👍

We came to live in France three months ago now, we are glued to Switzerland, on the edge. They loaned us a beautiful house that was too big.

Soon, we will hardly be able to go to the HK farm in Tours and there is also the temple in Paris, everything is nearby if you have a vehicle. Just take prasadam and listen to kirtan, I hope the spiritual humor around these places is not so foreign.

I still have and fear our Natavara Nitay deities who take great care of us .. and are very merciful. My son plays with them for example, our standard is lousy but it is ... and it is beautiful. Below is a video made by Luis my partner.

I think I'm still learning and motherhood has allowed me to empathize and distinguish much more. At the same time I have become very vulnerable and weak to fears .. I know what I lack .. the mahamantra, but at the same time it detaches me so much from this world that there comes a point that nothing makes sense and now I have a child, I need also that passion for the world .. that hurts you at the same time. So we do a little bit .. and I hope to come back soon .. I am a hypocrite and I have to tolerate myself, but I feel that it is what is right for me .. if I am very confused I would like to know it ..

I think, vaguely perhaps, that we don't always have to be heroes and do everything right, that's very nice if ... but I know and feel in me that I am a servant and that these things happen and they teach us.

You are a great guide for me and someone whom I continue to understand by the grace of Krishna, however I hope at some time to be closer.

Until next GM

Yamunatiravana dd

HpS - If Krsna wants you to abandon your child that is the best, but usually He is very, very practical. Chant one round every day, no???

HARE KRISHNA

Pamho

Algtsp.

It has being a long time i didn´t report with you, so pls forgive me.

I want to share with you what i am doing now.

well, I am learning bharatanatyam Dance, one and half year already, i am just so happy that this opportunity came to me. Hare krishna mathaji and Ananga manjari dd are my teachers "GOPESVARA ARTS" , they are a big inspiration, lovely people, so kind and great vaishnavis. i feel blessed.... Jai ho!.

HpS - So nice to hear about their character!!! So nice to hear from you all.

I am learning Yoga with Holi Yoga brasil, my teacher is Sri isvara das one of the elder brothers.

I want to dedice my life to Bharatanatyam, Music meditation "KIRTAN", Asthanga/Hatha Yoga and bhakti yoga.

HpS - Seems fine ---if---- you chant 16. follow 4. Then it will be a spiritual trip (successes and failures). Hanuman going to Lanka!

My father has a small business and we work together, we sell kitchen items and different stuff "Bazar".

My health is pretty good now thanks to krishna, i recovery with Ayurdeva medicine and natural medicine and my favorite doctor is my mother Rai kishori dd.

These last two years were very difficult but with the association of my family and the devotees, things improved. it is a great blessing to have Vaishnava friends and family, it is a blessing to practice Krishna consciousness. Jay all glories to Srila Prabhupada.

I hope to meet you soom in vrindhavan, Mayapur, Perú or somewhere.

Vanca kalpa!!!

HpS - Very nice. You are really a very fortunate person. Very. Take all the challenges as the same as Arjuna faced them. Next Blog post.... Come with us.

Hare krishna Dear Gurudeva,

Pamho,

AlGTSP.

I saw in the list of the disciples' database the name of my father is different and my name is misspelled.

My name is David Yallico Torres ( Caitanya-candrodaya das).

HpS -Correction posted to our laptop file, rev. 2021 aug 17. Posted to Aylic and WWW.JayaRama.US soon.

Thank you so much for helping us to to our Diksa Guru service to Srila Prabhupada.

we thought my dad's name was Anuraksa das and i saw in the list that is Aruna-aksa das. ( Romulo Alfonso Yallico Andia)

ASA - Udillo aruna puraba bhage.... Krsna has eyes, "aksa", that at red like the rising, "aruna", sun.!!.

Vanca kalpa

Dandavat pranam.

So good to hear from you. You also took second initiation, no? What date? How is your standard? How is your Sankirtan??

Hare Krishna Maharaj. Dandavat pranams.

Would you be kind enough to email me. [email protected]

I have been trying to reach you but have been unable to find a contact detail for you :)

Hare Krishna

From Tom

HpS/ASA - AgtSP. Esteemed Tom, who are you?

Wikipedia lists a lot of Toms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_(given_name)

I am afraid that you might be an automotive telemarketing robot (Try Our Motorcar), so we hesitate to give you our email address until we know more about you.