Hare Krishna, dear gurudeva. Pamho AGTSP!
While you are in Spain and India, it will be very difficult for me to follow the programs. I will be able to see the classes at ASA Carnaval. With Raman Reti, we are doing our program personally. She is still in Chile until her return on January 12th.
My leg and hip are ok. I almost walk with no help.
HpS - You can kick small dogs? (Of course, you should not, only threaten them if they are threatening!)
What happened to the MOE website project? I am waiting to be able to help spread the word about MOE's activities in Spanish. Frankly, the information and dissemination is almost nonexistent, and there isn't much interest in education here. We are focused on festivals and deities, not much on preaching and education. There are attempts, but not enough. We must ask ourselves why this is happening, what the mission of ISKCON, of Srila Prabhupada, really is. Perhaps I am wrong in my perception, I don't know. But that's how I feel. I spent your Vyasa Puja at home. I offered blueberry ice cream and carrot cake and meditated a lot on your instructions. My wife gave the main class at the Santiago temple and spent it with the devotees.
I hope to continue improving in my studies and my classes. For now, I've had all the Bhakti Sastri classes in PowerPoint format. I also have the Bhaktas course, which we call Introduction to Bhakti Yoga. I also have all of Cantos 1 and 2 of the SB in PowerPoint format. We are progressing with Bhakti Vaibhava. We are about to finish Canto 2. Next year we will begin Canto 3. your study guides have been fundamental to my classes.
I think we should review the Bhakti Vaibhava questions. I feel that the questions focus on details that aren't very relevant, for example, some Sanskrit terms that we don't usually use. I think the questions get lost in the details and don't address the fundamental and commonly used issues as Srila Prabhupada demonstrated. Again, perhaps I'm wrong.
We hope to see you in Peru and share a little with you in the form of vapu. I think we are doing the vani quite well.
Thank you very much for your patience with me, and I hope to one day please you with my service.
ssLAD
HpS - Jaya!!! Hope you can see some of the severe austerities that our body, buddy, donkey is faced with in this travel. Almost as bad as you are facing!
Makes us love Krsna, no?
Yes, education in ISKCON is in diapers, no? Yet, Harvard and Oxford are worse, no? They are not even teaching people which hand to eat with, what to speak of other bodily functions. IN general they are teaching the mind is the product of the brain and they we actually don't exist.
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I am trying to continue with Atul and the Summative examinations for Bhakti sarva bhauma. The have adopted many strategies in trying to develop education in ISKCON and now it is to get the leaders involved with study, testing, diplomated, then the followers will follow.
Formal education through Srila Prabhupada's books actually works! You can teach.
Then, also, there is the Third Hispanomerican Congress on Education scheduled for Santiago and on line.
After that we will come to Lima with Radhika raman Das so we can do whatever is possible to spark interest in reading books and writing dramas!
Peru is such an artistic place. It should lead the world.
