Letters to the editor

Hare  Krishna, dear Gurumaharaja, Pamho, AGTSP

We've been having this [these] nice conversations on mondays [Mondays] about your sudamerican tour.

HpS - ASA -- We take some time, not all the time, to correct your English!  Please take the time to correct our Spanish.

I'm trying to fix a programme at la Cantuta University. There are always political turmoils, but I think we have to mantain our relationship thinking in [of] the future. We can have exchanges of curricula, teach Vedic Teology [Theology], Arts and music [Music], get formla [formal] certificates on [the subjects], etc. So in this opportunity we can do something about Arts and the Sacred.  That was your idea actually.

HpS - ASA -- Yes, yes, main thing is friendship, not formal classes. We can just visit them and show what we are doing and invite them to join us, to write for 'Solaris',

We need to do something about education within ISKCON in Lima, probably when you are back from Chile. Meetings with ASA -Perú members that continue working on education in the zone and devotees in general that are and want to do more under their particular perspective. P. Karuna Krishna wants to re-open the ashrama in Chosica trying to resurrect some old school things that can still work nowadays.

HpS - ASA -- Jaya!

Mathures prabhu will be here, in Perú, very soon and I'm pushing prabhu Karuna to stablish once for all a head of education for Perú. P. Mathuresh told me that he'll suggest me, but I said that when a take some formal responsabilities I ended up fighting with people. So I want to help in the academic area. In fact, Junta National still don't like NIMSAR, I don't know why, so It'll be controversial if I take again management responsabilities. 

Anyway, we always need your perspective. So we can fix this meetings at Wilson in Lima. 

Also, members of the Chosica Board want to talk to you about your financial development ideas as well. All those things that you always talk about and few people pay attention and do it, like Goura gadhadara or Puspa gopal. They want to implement a formal bussines.

HpS - ASA -- Seems like it may work and be good Sankirtan: Weekly Puja Sponsors, Radha-Mandan-bihari devotional paraphernalia. Nobody can beat Radha Madana-bihari in two things, handicrafts and tourism!

Well, many things more that we can talk tomorrow in our meeting.

Perú needs you more that ever and I want to help you.

ysLAD

HpS - ASA --- AGTSP!!!!    Thank you for your constant efforts. Please go on with your self-realization, because unless you have that you have nothing to contribute in social relations. Of course, in social realizations we realize who we are, the mirror, achintya-bheda-abheda.
Next Monday, 8.57AM we can talk about the Sastric Education programs. Hope others can join us.

Hare Krsna, Prabhu,

AGTSP!   Paoho.   Last we met was at the ILS, no?  The program in Peru with the National Library in  June/July 2018 is roughly as Radhika described it below.

When I was in India in Jan-Feb we all met with ICCR, Lalita-kala Academy and other cultural groups. Yuddhisthira Govinda Das at Delhi Temple described your Sankirtan success with ICCR etc.

ICCR suggested that they could send 5-scholars artists for this "Art and the Sacred Symposium". Beverly Zabriske, who came 2016 says she can get the Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York to come and looks like we also have a very good shot at Francis Clooney, Director of Harvard School of Divinity.

The hang-up has been Peruvian politics, administration. The Director of BNP (Biblioteca Nacional Peruano) has changed three times since January. All favorable but could not get it nailed down for the use of the Library for 2018, although they are the co-sponsor in June for "The Psychology and the Sacred II".

Just yesterday we decided to go ahead trying to get them as our venue, which is very possible, but not to wait. Our other contacts are getting cold.

So, this week we will try to get a hard agreement with the Ambasador, Sandeep Cakravorty. He is our friend. An excellent scholar. Excellent organizer.

With his participation we would then go and fix the five scholars from ICCR. At that time we could also put your excellent art exhibition in the packet for Lokeschandra to consider.

We would have a full exhibition hall at the National Library, or if we have to move to another Venue, probably even a better exhibition space although a smaller presentation hall (350 not 512).

However, we could also investigate satellite exhibits in Cusco, Arrequipa, Trujillo, La Paz etc and/or the show traveling after the program in Lima.

That is why I wanted to contact you now.

I will be in Peru-Chile from the 21st June -- 26th July. Maybe you could even be in Lima then. We have very, very well connected friends who could also get corporate sponsorship from Banks et al.

"Psychology and the Sacred II" will be 26th in BNP and then 27th and 28th June in Jesuit University and San Marcos University (oldest in South America).

How does this fit into your plans??   Perspective?   [HELP]

Even if you can't come to Lima 21st-28th June (then we go to Chile) or 12th-14th July (then we go to Bolivia) or 24th-25th July, we could all get on the phone with the Ambassador, Banks, National Library etc.

Please use the address we are writing from to respond. It gets filtered directly into this kind of work and call or text us at +1 209 505 3219.

If you go to youtube.com and use the keywords, "Psychology and the Sacred 2016" you can see a short and medium size professional clip of the last event.

Thank you,
Paoho
HpSwam - NIOS

From: Martin Gurvich [Mahaprabhu Das]

To: HPS; Ravi Gupta  
Sent: Monday, May 8, 2017 1:47 AM
Subject: Re: Art and Sacred in Peru
 

Sounds very interesting.

We would need to discuss practical issues like:

Dates, venue ( is it a real art exhibition space)

Budget available

Etc etc.

The best exhibit I have is called Forms of Devotion- The Spiritual in Indian Art. We usually get financial support from the ICCR to bring it to different countries. But you would need to see if the Indian embassy is willing to do the needful to get funding. You can see Forms of Devotion website.  www.formsofdevotion.org

We also have a wonderful film that just came our and a 2nvolume set book.

Ys

Mahaprabhu dasa

On Mon, 8 May 2017 at 06:04, Ravi Gupta  wrote:

Dear Mahaprabhu Prabhu,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

I hope you are well. I am writing to you in regard to the possibility of an art exhibition in Peru. My Guru Maharaja, Hanumatpresaka Swami, is organizing a symposium on "Art and the Sacred" in collaboration with the National Library of Peru, the Jesuit University in Lima, the Indian Embassy, the devotee community in Peru, and other organizations. We will invite scholars from South and North America, and I am also planning to participate. The event will happen about a year from now.

Last year, Maharaja organized a similar symposium on "Psychology and the Sacred," hosted by the National Library, and it was a great success with excellent academic presentations, cultural programs, and full house audience. We will build on that success for "Art and the Sacred" next year.

Maharaja and I have seen your wonderful exhibitions of sacred art (in Radhadesh and Florence). We thought that this would be an ideal opportunity to bring a traveling exhibition to Peru, as you have done at other places.

I wanted to connect you with Maharaja to begin the conversation and explore possibilities. I have copied Maharaja on this email.

Thank you,

your servant,

Radhika Ramana dasa

Hare Krsna Dear Gurudev,
    Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.
    All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
    All glories to Guru parampara.

    Hope you are good in health and doing well.

HpS - Health of body is O.K.  Health of soul needs work!

    Introducing - Venkatesh Bhandary.

    Name : S Venkatesh Bhandary
    Date of current birth: 15th January,1994
    Current family: Based at Suratkal, Mangalore(40km from Udupi Dham), Karnataka state, South India

    Languages: English, Hindi, Konkani(Mother tongue), Kannada, Tulu.

    Upbringing at home was in a pious 'brahmin' family environment, Gowd Saraswat sect, a branch of the Madhvacharya lineage. But there weren't
    much spiritual inputs at Home, it was all pious rituals. Real Good fortune arose when he got an ISKCON devotee's association in class in 11th
    &12th Grade(2009-2011). Philosophy was attractive, but couldn't really pick up as he was still doubting if the organization was authentic. The most
    significant touch came when he heard from an ISKCON initiated devotee, HG Haripad prabhu(ACBSP) at a students program(26th January,2013)
    hosted by student devotees at Manipal, Udupi- That was close to his engineering college. Simultaneously, he got in touch with student
   devotees(C/o ISKCON Pune) at National Institute of Technology,their center was 20min walk away from home.

    As you confirmed over call for to share the blog details so I would forward blog details to him for his direct communication with you.

   your fallen servant,
  Girivaradhari-Gopal Das

HpS - Jaya! How is your own perspective?  Are you looking to take Sannyasa in a few years? Thank you for introducing us to a new friend!

Everything in your answers is perfect. Krishna. You know we were just thinking about our friend's dj name which is dj Gismo from Bomfunk Mc.. :) , yes we were talking about Gremlins, and my friend said we should watch it again maybe one day :) . You certainly have it!! HARE KRISHNA

HpS - ASA -- AgtSP!!!!!
[See the Watch]

Hare Krishna Maharaj,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Following is the summary of 1.3.1 and 1.3.5 as discussed this Sunday.

Verse summaries:

V1: 

• Describing Karnodakasayi Vishnu and 16 principles .
• Living entities are predominated enjoyers.
• Mahat tattva is a cloud in the clear spiritual sky of spiritual world.

V2:  

• Into each universe Lord enters the Garbhodaka Sayi Vishnu.
• Lotus stem that comes from the navel of Garbhodaka Sayi Vishnu is the resting place of 14 planetary systems.  On the lotus Lord Brahma resides.
• Gabhokasayi Vishnu is at the bottom of all the planetary systems. 
• Kshirodakasayi Vishnu is an expansion of Garbhodakasayi  Vishnu.
• Atheists believe in Prakrti but not Purusha.
• Material nature cannot produce anything without Purusha. Women can’t have children without man.

V3:

• This verse describes Virata Purusha.
• Worshipping this is indirect worship. Paramatma is the soul.    
• Epistemology – In the material world also we do not always see things with our eyes. We get the knowledge through other means also.

V4:

• Lord is always visible to the devotees whose eyes have been anointed with the tinge of devotional service. 
• Only with patience and perseverance can we realize the transcendental subject matter regarding the Absolute Truth and His different forms.

V5:

• From Ksirodakasayi Vishnu  all incarnations come.
• From Garbhodaka Sayi Vishnu Brahma and other demigods come.
• Garbodakasayi Vishnu is the Paramatma of the universe. Kshirodakasayi is the paramatma of living entities.

Thank you for your association Maharaj.

Your servant,

Sundari Radhika dd.

HpS - So nice to read these.  We are trying to develop this program!!

Hare Krishna Maharaj,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Following is the summary of 1.2.30 and 1.2.34 as discussed last Sunday. Sorry for being Late Maharaj.

Verse summaries:

V30:

• He is all-spiritual and has nothing to do with the qualities of the material world, which are qualitatively distinct from the spiritual qualities of the Lord.

V31:

• In the Vedic literatures it is said that there are two birds in one a tree. One of them is eating the fruit of the tree, while the other is witnessing the actions. The witness is the Lord, and the fruit-eater is the living entity.

V32:

• One is required to approach the proper spiritual master with receptive ears only, and thus divine existence is gradually realized.

V33:

• The gross material body is based on the conditions of the subtle mind, and the senses are created according to the desire of the living being. 
• He is so kind that He constantly remains with the living being as Paramatma and always tries to convert the living being towards the real happiness.

V34:

• The Lord Visnu incarnates Himself in each and every one of the universes, planets and the society of living entities. He manifests His transcendental pastimes amongst them just to create the desire to go back to Godhead.

Your servant,

Sundari Radhika dd.

HpS - Thank you, thank you!