Letters to the editor

Hare Krisna mi querido Gurudeva,

por favor acepte mis humildes reverencias

TODAS LAS GLORIAS A SRLA  PRABHUPADA.

En estos momentos estoy esperando que me contesten para la compra de la casa.

Ss Jagamohan Das.

HpS - Muy bien!!!   Por favor noticias de su Sankirtan y comunidad aveces!!!!!!    Puede hacer gran cosas.

Hare Krishna Dear Hanumatpresaka Swami! Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

I read that you are looking for artists in Spain... for what do you need them? Maybe I can do something?

HpS - ASA -- AGTSP!      Thank you for your letter. We are participating in this symposium on 'Art and the Sacred'. We want to interview people for our magazine 'Solaris' on this topic.

Do you want to write for Solaris?

Do you know any artists, poets, cartoonists we can interview when we are in Spain 30 August to 11 September?

Three good topics are:

1. With what community do you identify yourself.

2. What is the definition of Sacred in that community.

3. How does that community help you to realize and communicate the Sacred through Art?

Dear Guru Maharaja AGTSP of Pamho it is only because of your mercy that I can have some progress in my spiritual life, please allow me to please you with my impure service.

HpS - AGTSP!   I am in the same relation to Srila Prabhupada as you describe here of your self.

Im doing harinama sankirtan every day traveling through different countries of europe visiting to lord Jagannatha Baladeva y Subadra in Ratha Yatras as the Paris, Czech Republic and Berlin.

Dialy [Daily] we distribute books and we leave from 4 to 6 hours to harinama. the rounds have increase thanks to your mercy, I usually have the opportunity to chant 40 but I am trying to keep a minimum of 20 rounds.

Dear Gurudeva, I try to improve my estate of consciousness and make my service even deeper by begging for yours and Vaisnavas mercy to liberate me from the 6 enemies, the sexual desire constantly attacks me, I externally look as a devotee but internally I am ill, i beg for your blessings to keep me fixed and be able give you a pure devotional service.

HpS - Essential to offer your lust to Deities of Radha Krsna.

Regarding the Giriraja Sila, He is taking care a family of very brahminical devotees, and I feel very happy, they send me pictures every day. please gurudeva instruct me on how I can improve the quality of my service, is it possible that I can get the shadow of your lotus feet? how ?. his disciple Vrajendra Kumara Das

HpS - When you are in Temples where there is Radha Krsna deities then you must to personal service for Them, Arati, look for nice presents for Them, flowers, oil, while you are out.

If not in such a Temple then you must take time to see pictures of Them and offer them flowers, incense, lamp, fragrant oil and food.  They need this because They are playing so enthusiastically.

Them your misguided lust for conjugal relations will diminish. Maybe you take Sannyasa soon.

Nice pictures.

Hare Krisna, por favor Acepte mis humildes reverencias.  Todas las glorias a Srla Prabhupada.

No hay mas casas hechas y Navalakunda sigue en un proceso de tramites que no llevan a ningun sitio, los Devotos ni vienen, ni hacen ningun programa de predica y gracias a que Prema Murti Prabhu manteniendo el lugar esta tiene sentido de momento.

Ss Jagamohan Das.

HpS - Esperamos que resuelven los tramites y la predica desarrolla bien. Predica simplemente es compartir lo que Vd tiene. Prabhupada estaba mostrando como tener la asociacion de KRSNA, Radharani y los Brajavasis...  !   16-buen rondas, 4-principios estrictas... !     Como esta desarrollando comunica de su programa de predica!!

All glories to Srila Praphupada!! All glories to Guru Maharaj!!

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaj!

Thank you so much for the long awaited reply. And so sorry for my late reply. 

Its great news that we will get Guru Maharaj's darshan sometime later this year or early next year. Have informed some of our Godbrothers and Godsisters who are not active in this blog....we share a whatsapp group Monkey Warrior Dynasty!

Last week ,we visited three Vaishnava temples as part of the Sunday Nagar-kirtan programme. It was raining...and the moment we began our Kirtan, led by Banamali Prabhu.....bright sunshine.....amazes me all the time...it has happened so many times....

ASA - AGTSP!!!      paoho.   Subhadra is in charge of the weather, no?

Tomorrow we will be celebrating Rathyatra....the Rath is being newly painted. We are arranging programme on pastimes of Jagannath, Kirtan, dances, martial arts for 9 days till Purna yatra. We will be serving Khichri prasadam daily at the end of the programme. How we wish Guru Maharaj could be with us.

HpS - Here we have been asked to lead the return Rathyatra at the local Ganesha Temple. In Kolkata they were calling it Ulta-ratha. 

Next year will it be possible for Guru Maharaj to spend Holi here at Manipur? It would be transcendental. ....with Guru Maharaj along with the devotees.

HpS - If this body can survive until that time next year it will be a miracle!

Only today, we could get darshan of Jagannath since Snana yatra.....how much we have missed Their Lordships.....today Their Lordships were all smiles...and so were we amidst our teary eyes. We hope Guru Maharaj's eyes are fine by now,

We are preparing Chappan bhoga for Jagannath tomorrow. Please bestow Your mercy upon us dear Guru maharaj.

Your worthless servant,

Sarada Gaurangi DD

HpS - We encountered Jagannatha in San Francisco when we came to the Temple there. We also came in contact with Jayananda Das and the Rathyatra at that time. We have a power point show of Jayananda Das. Maybe we can record the audio and then post it on the YouTube.

Hare Krsna!    Hare Krsna!!!

Take your service from the regulated atmosphere of Dvaraka to the spontaneous love of Braja.

https://www.vedabase.com/en/cc/madhya/13/120

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https://www.vedabase.com/en/cc/madhya/13/160

Reading the Bengali is so intense.

AgtSP!!!!!     Paoho....   More news when it is ripe!

9th Report of THE ART AND THE SACRED

Hare Krishna Gurudeva, please accept my humble obeisances

All glories to Srila Prabhupada !!

All glories to Hanumatpresaka Swami !!

First of all, allow me to apologize for this long absence in sending reports to the Blog. I speak with you every week, but, I know that your communication and organization system of your Sankirtana revolves on the basis of the Blog, therefore, I sincerely ask you to excuse me for this long delay, I will try to be regular by sending reports every two weeks.

HpS - ASA -- Yes!   Thank you so so very much. I guess the main point is that we, Hanumatpresaka Swami, only have a small part in the organization these programs in the Anjana Suta Academy. We apologize that we have not been able to communicate that enough.

Especially in "Art and the Sacred", it very much depends on working with NIOS, as a branch of ASA. Unless we get regular coordination of the work through this Blog we will get into very big problems. Now with just three months until this program things are becoming crucial.  This work is so important for all of ISKCON. This program is one of the premier programs in all of ISKCON.

In relation to the advancement of ART AND THE SACRED, this is the program that we are advancing:

I INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ART AND THE SACRED

October 24, 25 and 26. Mario Vargas Llosa Auditorium, of the National Library of Peru.

PROGRAM

Next week we have a meeting with Ramón Mujica to refine the names of the Symposium days (welcome suggestions). And then with Miguel Polo to see the progress of SOLARIS No. 3, Krishna through, we hope to have the magazine ready in mid-September.

The brochure of THE ART AND THE SACRED have already been received by Beverley in Bogotá-Colombia, there they will distribute them in the VIII Latin American Congress of Jungian Psychology.

For the artistic presentations we have a good reception with the embassies of India, Japan (Flute and Harp) and China (Erhu, the Chinese violin), also our Sufi friend can present a dance of 10 minutes.

That is all for now. Hare Krishna respected Gurudeva, his insignificant servant, Abhiram Thakur das.

HpS - Yes, just 13-weeks to develop all of this. Even less since a lot of the work should be done in Solaris.
We sould suggest that we focus on Solaris to organize the participation, who will join us, and what will be the content of the Symposium.

Participation
We want to reach new people and get them involved with our programs, our ideas, our books, our community, our discussion. We want to involve the ISKCON National Council.

We want to develop more relations with old friends.

Content
You list the event as just these three days in the evenings. Won't there also be other pre-events and even events during the day?

Who has confirmed attendance? How will we host them?

Is your budget suficient?

Please send copies of the contract with the National Museum to the Blog. It is essential. We really HAVE to have these in your next report if we want NIOS to participate. They are a slow bunch in many ways.

We would suggest we start and finish each evening with a musical/dance item and then divide the rest of the evening into two parts as you have done, but we would suggest starting with a longer presentation, say 40-minutes with one presenter and then 20-minutes for questions and answers with the audience and the other participants. Of course, we want to have audio record of everything so we can make movies, articles for Solaris.

In the second half we have would suggest three panelists of twenty minutes each and then twenty minutes of questions and comments by other panelists and the audience.

Themes can answer Hector's three questions:

1. Describe the community with which you identify yourself.

2. Describe what is sacred in that community and

3. Describe how Art allows members of the community to realize the Sacred.

To this we could add the topics:

4. Describe how Art in your life and community, or in the life of some one else, for example, Stanislavskii,  has or is being used to realize the Sacred and to communicate the Sacred to others.

5. Can the world be happy, free from wars and violence, without profound realization of the Sacred through Art?

Esteemed Blog members. Please join in this project. Help the Thakura and his marvelous associates: Nitya-kishori, Luis Tunino et al.

Organize this Symposium in other places, Arrequipa, Chile.

We will arrive Lima about the 24th September. We would love to join other events for this topic in Lima and I think we would also go out to La Paz and Arrequipa. We are discussing this with Mathuresha Das.

What do the members of the National Council etc. think.

24th October we would go to Santiago and come back about one month later. Stay in Lima maybe only one or two nights.

Thank you again. Thank you for the pictures. Hope your family, body and business are go very well.

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9no. Informe de EL ARTE Y LO SAGRADO

Hare Krishna Gurudeva, por favor acepte mis humildes reverencias

¡Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada!

¡Todas las glorias a Hanumatpresaka Swami!

En primer lugar, permítame disculparme por esta larga ausencia en el envío de informes al blog. Hablo con usted todas las semanas, pero, sé que su sistema de comunicación y organización de su Sankirtana giran en base al blog, por eso, sinceramente le pido me excuse por esta larga demora, tratare de ser regular haciendo envíos cada dos semanas.

En relación al avance de EL ARTE Y LO SAGRADO este es el programa que estamos avanzado:

I SIMPOSIO INTERNACIONAL EL ARTE Y LO SAGRADO

24, 25 y 26 de octubre

Auditorio Mario Vargas Llosa, de la Biblioteca Nacional del Perú.

PROGRAMA

La próxima semana tenemos una reunión con Ramón Mujica para afinar los nombres de los días del Simposio (bienvenidas las sugerencias). Y luego con Miguel Polo para ver el avance de SOLARIS No 3, Krishna mediante, esperamos tenerla lista la revista a mediados de setiembre.

Las separatas de EL ARTE Y LO SAGRADO ya las recibió Beverley en Bogotá- Colombia, ahí las van a distribuir en el VIII Congreso Latinoamericano de Psicología Junguiana.

Para las presentaciones artísticas contamos con una buena acogida con las embajadas de India, Japón (Flauta y Arpa) y China (Erhu, el violín chino), también nuestro amigo sufí puede presentar un baile de 10 minutos.

Hare Krishna respetado Guru Maharaja, su insignificante sirviente, Abhiram Thakur das.