Letters to the editor

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!! All glories to Guru Maharaj HpS!!

PAMHO..at Your sweet lotus feet.

ASA - We offered too much butter to Lord Nrsmhadeva today out of stupidity. Lettuce feet.

Dear Guru Maharaj,

In all humility, I bow my head at your lotus feet for all the mercy that you have bestowed on your fallen servant.

ASA - ... and we bow our head at Srila Prabhupada's and all ISKCON devotees feet to allow us to do something even though very mean and selfish.

Surely, we would add' Psyche'. Please keep giving us instructions....and the mercy to carry them out.

The programme has been made under the guidance of Prof Samaresh and we are so grateful to Guru Maharaj and Prof Samaresh. The timings have been made in consultation with the Heads of Departments of Psychiatry and Community Medicine, RIMS.

Slightly disappointed about the movie....can we get a glimpse of Peruvian life...a documentary or something? Of course , we will screen the movie in the temple. Would the narrations be in english? Having a strong intuition that a handful of the audience of 2nd Nov would come on 3rd Nov too.....having all faith in Guru Maharaj's ability to attract crowds!!

Slight confusion here....we will have just one external programme ...that is at RIMS. The University is a different organisation.

Talked to  Tustakrishna Prabhu. The cultural programme will  include whatever has been suggested by Guru Maharaj. Will finalise with Prof Samaresh today.

New York.....Peru.....Venus.....North pole......wherever Guru Maharaj leads the caravan...let me always be there too!

I remain,

Your eternal servant,

Sarada Gaurangi DD

Thank you for your immense blessings

HpS - ASA -- LOB movie we will send. It is only with sub-titles, Spanish or English and music. So someone has to look at it several times and practice reading the subtitles with great dramatic voice as they go by.  Would be best to show it last thing in the evening when it is dark?  Do you have a BIG SCREEN.  You can rent, NIOS can make donation for cost.

See Letter from/to Yamunesvara Das for one LOB picture to use for promotion: 8MB. We can even print some of them bigger size for sale.

All glories to A.C. Prabhupada Maharaja and Sripada Maharaja

Gouranga Mahaprabhu and Goura Bhakta Vrnda

Guruji Maharaja, Dandavat Pranam!

Please accept my humble obeisances unto the Guruji's padmacharan that  Dr. Nandalal is a dentist. He is now working as a Joint Director, in the Medical Directorate, Government of Manipur. He is the seniormost devotee of ISKCON though we take initiation in the same year. Before taking initiation, he was associated with the Imphal ISKCON center for the last 10 to 15 years. His wife also taken initiated. He has two sons, the elder is reading Doctor in Delhi (Dental) and the last one is reading 12th Standard or so. I dont know exactly. Now he is also coming Mangal Arati on food with his wife. His life is completely changed after his transplantation of his one of the two kidneys. He is now completely improved though taking medicine rewgularly.

He has dedicated his life fully for the activities of spiritual purposes. But he did not take the openion of other bhaktas or matajis before doing anything. It is the only defect from his side. He bought the bigrah of Jaganath-Baladeva-Subhadra from Puri (Jaganath Kshetra) when he went there but all senior bhaktas and matajis did not satisfy their expectation likewide he is not taking interest the construction of Guruji's Ashram but now he wants to use for any purpose as Guest House.

After all he is good bhakta and uninitiated matagis wants his nature but for the last 15 or more years they are coming in the mandir and no one is ready for taking initiation. Not only that they are not following the four principles of ISKCON.

In my mail also please write and instruct him for the better management of our Mandir and regarding arrangement of Guruji's future visit. As I had already mentioned in my earlier letters that we are planning to extend some portion of Guruji's Asram for Gurujis kitchen and residence of Guruji's helper.

Guruji Maharaja! as You know, Thoubal Mandir has less number of bhaktas and  matajis initiated or uninitiated. We need to start the systems of ISKCON padhati with a full dedicated pujari (Brahmachari / Sanyas). 

We want personal talk when Guruji came to Thoubal about the Navadwip Parikrama before 20 days of Goura Purnima in Mayapur. If Guruji leads our team of 10-15 members from Manipur and some from Tripura, Silchar, Guwahati and Silong it will be the best chance for meeting, discussion, question and answer. We will get the opportunity for serving Guruji for all initiated bhaktas under Guruji Maharaja which we had never available.

Yours fallen servant

Yamunesvara Das

HpS - Thank you for all the nice news. Please give your respects to Dr. Nandulal and ask him how is his health and Sadhana, regular spiritual practices. Ask him if he has any suggestions about our preaching when we visit in just a few months.  Thank you so, so much for your sincere service in ISKCON. I am sure you are buying Lord Gauranga by your efforts.

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.