Letters to the editor

Dear Gurudeva

Please accept my humble obeisances

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

First of all I want to thank you for being the source of my inspiration without you could not continue in my spiritual life. now we are doing harinama and sankirtana with the groups of Bhakti vriksha here in Mexico Df, there are already 7 groups with a fixed attendance of at least 7 people per group some more and others less, last week were distributed between groups 135 books for them distributed in the week and was a success, all distributed at least 3 or 4 books per week.

HpS - ASA --- So, nice!!

The world manager Seva Svarupa das agreed to come on Tuesday 5 to Mexico to commemorate with us and groups the 20 years of Bhakti Vriksha and recently SS Bhakti Busana Swami, p Hanuman of spain and p Aravinda were given [giving] a sankirtan course and attended by about 54 people.

On my own I keep doing sankirtan and live in the temple, this is the report my insignificant service now

Dear Gurudeva please excuse all my offenses I just want to satisfy you and help you with your service, please tell me how I can satisfy you what do you want from me?  

I humbly ask you to take charge of my life and manage to your will because I do not have the intelligence to take my free allowance.

his servant

Vrajendra Kumara Dasa

HpS - You did not take second initiation, no??  1st is sufficient, but 2nd is also good if you can do it.

If we chance 16-enthusiastic rounds, can say we have association of at least 6-enthusiastic devotees, and enthusiastic morning and evening program, then Krsna will take charge of our life. He will give  us good intelligence who to talk with about things etc.   Keep us in your orbit in this Blog but also get good advice from ISKCON institutional authorities and you will be pushing Srila Prabhupada's movement like anything.

MAYAPURA INSTITUTE

Prabhus, Padmanaya Das, Radhika-n., Atul-k., Rama-giridhari Das et al,

Hare Krsna!    Hope all is well with your Sankirtan.

1. We are still struggle and expanding with Bh. Sastri, Vaibhava and Vedanta in San Francisco, Houston and South America.  Again we are still interested in making a relationship with these centers as affiliates with the MI. Sent some messages on Skype to arrange meeting time with Padmanaya and our director in San Francisco, Srivasa pt. Das, but didn't hear back. Can we have a call? Looks very good.

2. We leave for India Travel on the 27th: Delhi, Indoor, Ujjain, Pune, Navi-mumbai (Australia), Kolkata, Imphal, Delhi.   We would like very much to help develop this Sastri Education anywhere along the route. Of course, we are trying to meet with Radha-shyam Das in Pune et al. Any service for us?
 

  a) There will be official MOE meeting in Ujjain 3rd-5th October and your participation would be wonderful. Tapana-misra and his esteemed wife will be there and can represent the MI in some ways, no?    We also want to get an online meeting if possible for maybe 45-minutes when MI, VIHE, Pune et al can just make a brief presentations (Power Point?) of what they are doing to facilitate P-O-W-E-R-F-U-L cooperation between the academic educators of ISKCON. We can record this and then broadcast it.

  b) We are arrive Kolkata airport from Imphal 12.15PM Saturday November 4th. We want to go straight to Mayapura and sit in your Ashrama (makinging generous donation) to teach and learn until 7th morning. Then we have to go back to Kolkata-Delhi-Houston. HK/HR.

    Can someone, the Radhika-nagara Das, co-ordinate our visit to MI. Tapan is supposed to be there the same time. We can present about "Teaching and Preaching Srimad Bhagavatam in the Modern Academic World". It will be a HOT presentation. The elephants will be crying in ecstacy. The street dogs will sitting at attention with their paws and ears raised, their eyes bulging from their sockets, and the blook running cold in their veins.

From: rodrigo otero 
To: hanumat preshaka swami  
Sent: Monday, September 4, 2017 9:52 AM
Subject: The eyes of the journey - Rodrigo Otero- Hare Krsna!

Dear Maharaj,

It's been a while! I hope you are happy and with great health! Hare Krsna!

I write to you because in the last three years I made a feature film, it is more like a poem-prayer, from the andean perspective, towards our feelings for nature.

Our project now consists on screening this film on september 21st 7:30 pm aprox, world wide, free entrance, and the intention is to generate and transmit our feelings as a wave of energy available for mother earth and for any spiritual deity or entity who may need it or like it. We think films can be ways of moving and transmiting healing energies, from the moment of the take trough editing, and finaly screening it.

We would like to inivte you to share this invitation to anyone inside ISCCON, or NIOS, who would like to be part of this world alternative premiere.

Other countries who will be part are:

Germany (5 cites), Canada (2 cities), Mexico, Scotland, Guatemala, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Argentina, Peru (4 cities), Costa Rica, and others are joining anytime. (Still don't have anyone in US).

Here is the link to our trailer in english. The film is 87 minutes long, for all audiences. For screening I have a 15 GB HD file that can be downloaded. I also have dcp for movie theaters. The film is entirely spoken in quechua, german, french, spanish and english subtitles available.

Hare Krsna!!!

Rodrigo

https://vimeo.com/225506894

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trailer The Eyes of the Journey

vimeo.com

This is "trailer The Eyes of the Journey" by Rodrigo Otero on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

ND: I downloaded the file, updated it with your 3 new articles, updated the names and uploaded it. Please, can you check it. I left the old file 170810 there in case I messed something up.

Another thing... Did you and devotee from MOE thought to publish/share the Journal online? Websites like Dandavats, https://news.iskcon.org, GBC website are possible good places.

HpS - Thank you very much. Would you like to become a Member of the Executive Committee of the Ministry of Education?

ND: I would like although I am not sure I fit in there . What is the job description?

HpS - Have to like teaching and learning the Srimad Bhagavatam et al.

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

(Yesterday) we talked about publishing somewhere your Encyclopedia articles. But we did not finished the topic. I would be happy if I can (try) to do that. If you agree, please tell me what and where should be done.

HpS - ASA -- If we have anything to offer we might put it in this encyclopedia format. We could post articles or revisions to articles here in the Blog and if you could then update (changing the name) the file in the ASA Archivesthat would be great. The current file in the Archives is asa-encyclopedia170810.docx. If it is updated on the 15th of September it will become asa-encyclopedia170915.docx.
Might work?
There were already I think two articles that we posted. They are probably in Category B.  Hmmm!    An encyclopedia according to Brown and White et al.  Maybe other would like to submit articles also!

Another thing... Did you and devotee from MOE thought to publish/share the Journal online? Websites like Dandavats, https://news.iskcon.org, GBC website are possible good places.

HpS - Thank you very much. Would you like to become a Member of the Executive Committee of the Ministry of Education?

And one more thing... I feel really grateful for and appreciate a lot our Monday meetings.

HpS - We feel very grateful for your association and of course those meetings, 8.30PM, Monday, at Startmeeting.com, are especially designed for anyone in Europe to join, or anywhere else - ASA - ABC.

Your servant Namacarya das

Pamho,AgtSP

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaja,

How are you??

HpS - ASA - Pretty good.

How is Sankirtana??

HpS - We struggle to get the books out according to our nature of preaching: Movies, symposia. People we meet while traveling.

Very nice seeing you today at mayapur.tv in Huston.. Always inspiring our spiritual life..

HpS - We wish we could see you-all in Brazil on Mayapura TV.

This opportunity to thank you for the opportunity to have your asosiation [association] in Santiago de Chile...I know and always try to imagine the big effort you are doing to manteing this Sankirtana Program...The Programs in Santiago were amazing.. All of them!!!

HpS - We were amazed. It was really amazing being in Parasurama Das' Dojo facing all their uniformed B'caris in our uniforms.

Krishna is giving me a lot of Mercy, cause your Mercy....

I'm in Campina Grande, Danwantari Swami Jaladuta Institute wright now!!!

Asosiation with Devakinanda das very favorable...Helping me a lot to grow in my personal caracter and my service of lidership...

Starting with bhakti Vaibhaba Study...1.2

Every thing I study takes me to Siksastaka...So I'm preparing PowerPoint of "the 7 stages of purifation and transcendental elevation"....ohhhh is Nectar every thing I study is in the Siksastaka...Is like Nectar of Instruction...Every thing is there...

Serving Maharaja with students...lots of service!!

Mharaja is very merciful with us...

Thanks again for your help....

Next year I would like to travel with you maybe Peru and Chile, or India...if you give me the opportunity to help you with anything I can...

Hare Krishna...

This poor servant

Panca tattva dasa

HpS - Thank you so much for Jaladutta news. Send us more. Respects to Maharaja and Devaki et al. Seven stages of Bhakti is from first verse of Siksastakam? They seem to match the six levels of Bhakti that Rupa Goswami describes in beginning of BRS: Freedom from distress, harmony... songs by Bh. Vinode Th. based upon Siksastakam, no?

Maybe we go to India again in the Spring?

Jaladutta news!