URGENT! PND
Hare Krsna!
Need description of your 2015 July to 2016 June NIOS branch Income, Expenses and Balances by Saturday.
Emergency Annual Board Meeting.
Hare Krsna!
Need description of your 2015 July to 2016 June NIOS branch Income, Expenses and Balances by Saturday.
Emergency Annual Board Meeting.
Hare Krsna Dear Gurudev,
Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
All glories to Guru parampara.
Gurudev, in my previous letter, URL : http://hps.monkeywarrior.com/node/6949
we had asked, can we perform "Agnihotra"?
we means to say, can we learn & perform "Agnihotra", other then what we (ISKCON temples)
do Agnihotra for Initiations, Weddings etc. Except these, can we learn & perform other
Agnihotra also? If so what those should be?
your fallen servant,
Girivaradhari-Gopal Das
HpS - ASA --- Ahhh! I don't know much about this. It is not the work of a Sannyasi, more for Grhastha. There are devotees in ISKCON who do this for these different Sanskaras. I think Mukunda Das, the Head Pujari in Vrndavana would know about this and of course there must be Brahmanas in your Yatra who do this. For example there is the Hari Cutting Ceremony and others, no?
Do you have any photos from the book-release in Delhi??? Or do you know anyone who does? We are planning on fixing our India schedule three months in advance. We arrive 31st December so we will start buying the tickets 31st September. Actually we have the tickets and program up until the 10th of January with Delhi, Tirupati, Madras.
Hare Krsna!
AGTSP
Esteemed Bhakta-rupa Das,
Paoho. We hope this meets you well and in the best of spirits! By this letter let us formally end our position as the Bhakti-sastri Examiner in Peru. Rohini Devi Das is still officially the Administrator for the Diploma in Peru, and as far as I know has been very careful to keep the Records for the Diplomas.
A copy of this letter is sent to the President and Secretary of the Peru National Council and I expect they will contact you to see about the new Officials for the Diplomas. Their Candidates for Examiners etc are also receiving a copy of this letter.
If you write in simple English, www.translate.google.com can make the shift from English to Spanish pretty well.
Thank you so much. We will be in India from 1st January to 15th February and hope to see you then.
Your very fallen servant,
Hanumatpresaka Swami
Hare Krsna Guru Maharaj.
Dandavat Pranaam unto your lotus feet.
HpS - All glories to Srila Prabhupada (AGTSP!). We feel that we still have like "lettuce" feet. We still have material desires mixed with our desires to serve Krsna.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada and Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.
PAMHO.
Guru Maharaj, I am inspired by your kind reply and spiritual instruction. As material profession, I am Divisional forest officer and I work in Guwahati. I have to be in this stupid profession every week Monday to Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm.
Although few, I have got the association of some disciples of His Holiness Bhaktiswarupa Damodar Maharaj and His Holiness Subhag Swami Maharaj, at Guwahati. We have regular Bhagavad Gita discussions on Sunday evenings where we exchange thoughts and concepts on Vedanta.
HpS - Very, very, very nice! Expand it to include new people. Expand it to once more a week like Wednesday evening. It does not have to be everyone, maybe just one or two people who live closer to you during the week. Sunday and then once during the week makes a very strong program. Then Krsna can inform us how to make more adjustments (BG 10.10-11)
Guru Maharaj, please grace me to make myself render unalloyed service to your lotus feet through Kapi Dhvaja this time onwards.
I am very pleased to learn about your kind India visit. I am eagerly waiting to have the darshan of your lotus feet. Therefore, I shall certainly come to Mayapur during your period of stay there. So kindly let me know. Also, Guru Maharaj, we have most humbly requested Haridas prabhu to make arrangements for your North East visit.
Again Dandavat Pranam unto your lotus feet.
Your most fallen servant
Krsna Swarup Das
Silchar
HpS - What are you discussing in your Sunday programs? We mentioned to Yamunesvara Das in another Blog letter answered today that we are going to fix start fixing our India tickets with the next few weeks. We have exchanged two letters recently with Hari das Das from Nigeria.
All Glories to Sri Guruji Maharaja and Gouranga Mahaprabhu
Radha Krsna Ki Jay, Goura Bhakta Ki Jay,
Dandavat Pranam,
Please accept my humble obeisanses unto Sri Guruji's padmacharan that in checking in the block (Blog) recently I found one letter heading After India written by Abhimanu Prabhu who is working in Bali in the Bhaktivedanta Academy and Bhaktivedanta Dharma School. I had met one Abhimanu Prabhu who is also an Amirican during my Bali tour. He knew Guruji also very well. Is this the same Abhimanu or another one? I had written letters and send some photos also but he did not communicate me in future. In future, if Guruji reply his letter please mentioned my name as reminder. His mail address also might change or not, but no reply.
HpS - Yes, he is the same person. We were serving together in San Francisco and on many projects for B. S. Damodara Maharaja. We will tell him to contact you as we are in contact with him.
Guruji, I had already mentioned that we are eagerly waiting Guruji's tentative time table of North East India, specially for Silchar, Agartala, Guwahati and Imphal for taking arrangement and air tickets. I think, now Haridas Prabhu also might be in Nigeria so no telephonic conversation and mail.
Not only that, I am eagerly waiting Guruji's final suggestion for going to our Mandir or Not. After Guruji's reply I would arrange a meeting for all the initiated bhaktas for discussion and taking final decision about the modalities Gurujis visit in Manipur.
Yours fallen servant
Yamunesvara Das
HpS - I answered two letters from Haridas Das that he sent from Nigeria. He suggested a schedule that did not leave any time for visits to Bombay, Kolkatta or Vraja. We are taking little time to get opinion of Bombay (Rama-giri-dhari Das), ISKCON Ministry of Education, Kolkatta devotees, so that we can do the best during our six weeks in India.
It is three months until we arrive in India, so it seems that we still have a little time to hear from anybody about their requests, but yes, we should start buying tickets within the next few weeks.
About going to the Mandir, do you mean Thoubal Mandir? As I understand they are keeping an old standard that is not inline with Srila Prabhupada's ISKCON method. Is that correct?
Of course, we would want to ask Banamali Das about his opinion. If he says it is alright and gives suggestions about how to adjust the details, that would be alright. Other wise you can origanize your own programs in your own homes to start with, no?
In any case you can invite people to your home and accept invitations from them and have Kirtan, Lecture (Reading and Discussion), Kirtan, Prasad. Then BG 10.10-11, Krsna will give us intelligence how to expand more and more.
In NOI Text Seven, in the paragraph beginning, "The conclusion is...", Srila Prabhupada paraphrases the Bhakti-rasa-amrta-sindhu verse, "Adau sraddha...". The exact Sanskrit is in BG As It Is Purport to Text 4.10.
This verse describes the different levels of spiritual development. Look at the translation in BG and then the more detailed explanation in NOI and tell us where you see your level of development. Let us discuss this in some detail and you can also discuss it with the devotees there.
We need to become Uttama adhikari devotees as soon as possible so that we can help others!!!
HAre Krsna!
Here is Abstract for our presentation January ~7th atg Bhagavatam Symposium organized by K. Ksetra Swami and Radhika ramana Das at Madras University.
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ABSTRACT
IRON HORSES AND TALKING WIRES
Teaching Srimad Bhagavatam in the Industrialized World.
Hanumatpresaka Swami (Professor Huber Hutchin Robinson)
ISKCON – North American Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies
Presenter has been studying and teaching Srimad Bhagavatam in the industrialized world in North and South America, Europe and India for over 40-years. This has included programs with Nobel Laureates, ISKCON Temples, Universities, Museums and many others. He will outline three major areas where the message of the Bhagavata has been successfully introduced amongst the highly analytical, mechanized and scientific people of these worlds.
First is the area of Science and the Bhagavata. Here there has been colossal work for many years. The current ripened fruit has been in developing relations with the community of psychologists and scholars who are followers of Dr. Carl Gustav Jung. Jung appreciated Indian mysticism greatly but was also very concerned how to translate these things into a format comprehensible and useful to science. We just finished an intense, international symposium on “Psychology and the Sacred” in Lima, Peru and are scheduled for bigger events of this type in 2017 and 2018. Along with this a journal “Solaris” is being published, and along with other academics presenter is working on a very serious presentation of the Sankhya of Lord Kapila and others in the Bhagavata that will allow practical realization of Bhagavata Sankhya in the scientific world.
Second has been the Approach Through Drama. Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s presentation of the Bhagavata culture as broadcast by our Acharya, Srila Rupa Goswami, especially through his Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu is Gandhava Veda: Music, Dance, Drama leading to ultimate realization of Krsna. This educational approach has been presented using Prof, David Haberman’s standard translations and annotations of the BRS which include the history of Rasa and theater from Bharata Muni to Abhinava Gupta, to Emperor Bhoja, to Sri Rupa Goswami. This in turn can be related with great clarity to a large Western audience through the Western theater tradition of Aristotle, Stanislavsky and Viola Spolin.
Third and finally, Academic Study of the Bhagavata through structured classes on a global basis using direct and distance education techniques. The diplomas given for these studies include Bhakti-vaibhava for Cantos 1-6 and Bhakti-vedanta for Cantos 7-12. Presenter will give a brief overview of this formal academic study and then a specific sample in the form of the natural analysis that students can learn of the very well-formed structure of the Bhagavata.