Letters to the editor

Querido Gurumaharaja: 
Por favor acepte mis respetuosas reverencias !
Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada! 

Reporte de servicios
II Congreso Norteamericano de educación con ISKCON

- Vrsabhanu Nandini dd ha sido muy amable con nosotros en ayudarnos con la edición del video de invitación. 
https://youtu.be/2Ke92D3WDy0

- Gopi Radha dd, Krsna Kirtana das, Vrajendra Kumara dasa, Lalita Madava están ayudando con la difusión. 
- Por ahora usamos una página de información en Facebook y hacemos invitaciones personales. 
- mantenemos contacto con Govinda. 

Lista de participantes 
Distrito Federal: 
Lalita Gopi dd y su hijo Hari dasa 
Aristasena Dasa
Saranagati Dasi

Monterrey: 
Bhakta José ( estudiante de Psicología enviado por la Junta Directiva ) 
Lalita Madava 

Tulancingo: 
Govardhanesvari dd ( Lic. Comunicación )
Hadai Pandit Dasa ( comenzando Lic. Educación ) 

Algunos devotos están haciendo trámite de visa, Govinda tiene otra lista. 

Itinerario México. 
Distrito Federal : 3 al 8 de Agosto 
Monterrey : 8 al 12 de Agosto. 

INVITACIÓN DE TULANCINGO
Actualmente la comunidad de devotos de Tulancingo está reorganizando el proyecto de un Centro Cultural, en el que la educación y entrenamiento de devotos es una prioridad para este nuevo comienzo. 
Tenemos una comunidad infantil de aproximadamente 10 niños. 

Objetivo a corto plazo: iniciaremos programas educativos semanales para los niños,  para empezar, acondicionaremos un área física en el centro cultural. 

Objetivo a largo plazo:
Construir una escuela avalada por organismos oficiales externos para facilitar la educación de la comunidad y ofrecer a la población de Tulancingo en general una alternativa educativa de calidad que contribuya al desarrollo integral. 

Recurso humano : Devotos con gran interés por el tema: Navakishor das (Líder del Centro Cultural y uno de los devotos con más tiempo dentro del movimiento, en nuestra comunidad); Dinanath das (Lic. En Artes visuales, actualmente es docente); Tania Vargas (actualmente estudiando el 2do año de Piscopedagogía); Nathaly (Lic. E Administración) , colaboradores : Givardhanesvari dd y Hadai Pandit dasa 

Invitación
Una parte fundamental para lograr estos objetivos es sin duda las bendiciones, guía y consejos de devotos con más experiencia en este tipo de programas, por ello estamos comenzando a trabajar para obtener los recursos necesarios e invitar a devotos como Su Santidad Hanumatpresaka Swami . que puedan exponernos en conferencias, seminarios, etc., cómo comenzar, mantener y hacer crecer los proyectos de educación para el cuidado y crecimiento de nuestra sociedad ISKCON.
Atte: Centro Cultural Bhaktivedanta Tulancingo. 

Gurumaharaja queremos preguntarle si además del DF y Monterrey también sería posible visitar Tulancingo para presentar el reporte del II Congreso de Educación junto a sus representantes enviados ( Govardhanesvari dd y Hadai Pandit das ) 

Realmente son pocos días para 3 lugares, nosotros quedamos atentos a Su misericordiosa instrucción. 
Disculpe las ofensas por favor. 
Vuestra eterna aspirante a sirviente : 
Asta Sakhi dd. 

HpS - ASA ---- TlgaSP.  Por favir accepta nuestras reverencias humildes. Si es insuficiente tiempo visitar Tulancingo, pero esperamos encontrar ellos mientras estamos en ciudad Mexico!!

                 HARE KRSNA DEAR GURUDEVA:

                 PAMHO,AGTSP!!

                I HOPE YOU FEEL MORE ENERGETIC SOON.

                WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY PRACTICAL RELATION-SHIP? (YOU WROTTE THIS IN YOUR LAST E-MAIL).

HpS - ASA -- AGTSP Paoho.  I don't have easy access to the last mail so can't make any "practical comment" on what we meant by "practical relationship".  Hmmmm.  

                I WILL DO THE TRANSCRIPTION AS FAST AS POSIBLE...

HpS - ASA --- Don't do it stressfully. Just see how it goes and report, no?

               ON THE OTHER HAND CLAUDIO NARANJO COMES BACK TO BERKELEY THIS WEEK I WONDER IF YOU COULD HAVE AN INTERVIEW WITH HIM, OTHERWISE I WAS THINKING MAYBE YOU CAN HAVE IT BY SKYPE. 

HpS - Who is he??  We will look for him on the internet.

WITH THE DESSIRE TO BECOME SINCERE...

              YOUR ASPIRANT TO SERVANT.

              SANANDA DD

HpS - We also!!

Hare Krsna Gurudeva, pamho, Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada!

I hope that you are well and that you will have a very good trip . May Lord Nrsimhadeva protect you in all directions.

HpS - ASA - AGTSP!!!   paoho....  We answered another letter on the same topic while we were traveling, no?   Now we can get to this one. We are very busy in Tennessee but at least not traveling every few days!

I continued editing ( slowly) the videos of the NIOS tour 2015. I upload 2 of them for you to see them before I publish. If you wish you can tell us your opinion so we can improve them.

HpS - AGTSP   paoho.  We will look at them tonight when we are at NGD's house. We don't have a good enough connection to watch them from our ASA Office. Thank you. 

1-Trailer Jung:  Argentina (Cordoba y Bs As) y Chile. 

http://youtu.be/GT0XmD6N7cU

2- Trailer Jung Cordoba.

http://youtu.be/rp-Ogjpj7_g

The image quality is not good as the original video, later I'll fix that.

The full conference at the National Library of Chile is also finished but I could not upload it yet. We will do it soon from better internet connection.

HpS - So much of our effort in these Jung's things was based upon starting a dialog with our contacts in Peru. A little bit happened but now it is like 97% stopped.  We are very much re-evaluating our educational efforts. Our Sankirtan has to go on in the association of devotees. With whom do we share our passions for preaching? Srila Prabhupada? Others?   Without Sankirtan everything else has no motivation, especially in the Kali yuga!

Talking about me, I'm not having a good time. The four principles are ok, but finish with the 16 rounds is 10 times harder than before. I do not feel connection with the holy name ... I'm not going beyond the surface and I can not reach deep introspection.  And I feel stupid and lazy because I know what I have to do to improve things ... but  I fail.

Last night I dreamed  that you phoned us and when I answered I heard you chanting japa. So I thought _ah! is FMP´s  time! And I woke up just before the alarm in time to go to Start Meeting.

Muchas Gracias Gurudeva.

P/D: I attached some pictures from the construction of the asram.
My father came a few days with his truck to help us. We collect stones from the way enough to make the foundation.

intentando ser su sirviente/discipula 

Vrsabhanu Nandini dd

HpS - Yes, is very, very nice to see your names in the list each morning.

Text 7  and 8 of NoI talk in detail about this level of chanting, service.

Sometimes we have no Karma-yoga motivation, so we don't chant serve, because it is not our 'nature'. This was Arjuna's situation, no?  He could not walk away from the fight. His karma was there. So, his yoga had to be there. In Chapter Six, Yoga ladder verse (?) Prabhupada says that in the beginning we are attracted to a certain kind of service, but later we fall in love with Krsna. So, if we can come to the Jnana-yoga level that is more secure than the Karma-yoga level. Then I can serve because I understand this is Krsna's desire, even if I don't feel it 'karma'. Of course, that kind of yoga will gradually give you a taste that goes beyond being a girl. You will become a sexless philosopher.
That is interesting thing for Grhastha ashram or even being someone's "daughter".
"My daughter is a sexless, intellectual", but as it goes on that Jnana-yoga enriches our Karma-yoga and then we become a sweet, philosophical wife and daughter. In he beginning there is natually a little tendency toward impersonalism.

Super fotos!  Become the Prince and Princess of your District.

Hare Krsna dear Gurudeva

Please accept my humble obeisances

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

HpS - ASA   ---  This is the third and most recent report that we are reading.

Dear Gurumaharaja, we are working hard in organizing the August event. We intend to support the event with a number of articles written by different devotees in their respective specialized subjects, so that some of them can be read before or during the conferences of Saturday morning and the other will be part of a booklet  published by NIMSAR, in conjunction with the conclusions and commitments. The papers should not exceed 400 words, this is a theoretical or technical input, as appropriate, to contribute to broader perspectives to stimulate discussion. We are on topics such as:

Sanskrit Education in children - Prana dasa
The homeschooling alternative - Arrudha Devi Dasi
Promoting youth leadership in ISKCON - Radhika Ramana Dasa
Sastric personal training education - SS Yadunandana Swami
Education in the grhastha ashram - HH Srila Virabahu
Education in Krishna consciousness for beginners - SS Swami Hrdayananda

. . . and other related topics to be discussed during the conference.

On the other hand, we are moving in the NIMSAR legalization issue before the Peruvian state, there are some alternatives that are driving mother Isvari and Prabhu Abhinanda, all related to the formation of a civil association, initially unrelated to educational issues because that would mean a long process with the Ministry of Eduación. Once the the Association is consolidated  we would extend our activities to educational issues. It is the right and easiest thing , we think.

We are also organizing a conference cycle divided into three main topics: education for children, education for youth and sastric education to be exposed in the temples of Lima and Chosica by members of NIMSAR from June 20 until the last week of July . The conference will promote the event to go so, to make them more attractive we should discuss Prahlada Maharaja, Nimai Pandit and Rupa Goswami, respectively.

Finally, next sunday we will be coming together with the  NIMSAR partners group to work on the themes of youth leadership in ISKCON, we believe that this issue is important and we want to clearly focus our efforts on young people. We read in an article published by Kaunteya dasa, through the Ministry of congregational development of ISKCON, that successful religions prevail in time because they have managed to integrate their young efficiently, giving them responsibility and giving them voice in making certain decisions.We must consider how education and NIMSAR can contribute to the solution of this problem removing it from the administrative and policy to make it a dynamic educational need.

Gurudeva, we look forward to your comments
I hope your travels are turning positive.
We always pray to Nrsimhadeva for your care.

Your happy servant

Gandharva dasa

HpS - AGTSP.   Have you seen our Blog reports of the educational work in India and Radha-desa and the work for the Congress here at the end of July?  Unless Srila Prabhupada's books are integrally and obviously a part of these events it becomes too weak to satisfy the self. We are supposed to discuss all this with Laksmana and Abhirama Das tomorrow. Seem you should contact Mother Lalita-gopis Devi Dasi about coming for the event from Mexico. She and other Mexican devotees will attend the Houston meetings July 31st, preach about them with us the week after in Mexico and so maybe she could just continue with the same thing in Peru with a recreational visit also.
The topics you have chosen for the above persons seem good don't always  seem to match with their current passions. You should make personal contact with them before you give them an exact theme, no?

Personally I like your association, Laksmana's association, Yugala's, Omkara's, Yamumesvara's, Om Purnam's, Patrak's, Raghunatha's, Miguel Polo's and so many devotees in Peru. We would eternally want your friendship, service association, ever expanding, but these institutional things seem to be lacking basic principles, no? Again, for example, ASA does not have a letter of approval from any ISKCON, GBC approved, organization in Peru - not the national Junta, ISKCON Chosica...  We asked for this months ago and explained that it is not proper for us to do programs as a branch of ASA in Peru without this authority. So at this point we should formally stop all programs in Peru, such as NIMSAR, as "Branches" of ASA until that relationship is clear, no?

What do you think?

We can still meet as friends without formal approval, but ISKCON in Peru has to be organized enough to deal with things at this level of institutional reality or really in our opinion we should communicate with the GBC that the Yatra is dysfunctional. This is our opinion. We are asking for your opinion and the opinion of others. I think that we, ASA, based in Tennessee are acting properly in this regard. We have a formal and functional relation with our GBC Secretary, Tamohara Das, and our local branch, NIOS.
Waiting eagerly for your thoughts.

HpS, Tom Brown, Buck White et al.

Hare Krsna dear Gurumaharaja

Please, accept my humble obeisances

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

I am writing to you hoping you're in good health and that your sankirtan is thriving. During the last two weeks, we have not been very active. We have been sending invitation letters and talking to exhibitors about the topics they will develop.This Sunday we will meet a second time with young people who collaborate with us in the organization. After this meeting some points will be defined .

I have a question for you, concerning to our responsabilities beyond the congress:

Should NIMSAR take responsibility for overseeing initiatives during the event? Or should we limit ourselves to promote these programs apart from keeping the results?

HpS - AGTSP. We don't understand the question so well.  I guess anyone can make an initiative but then it should be co-ordinated with the local authorities and once there is a clear letter from the local authorities about NIMSAR's position in the Yatra then it can also oversee, evaluate etc. the initiatives that different people present from the administrative side.
So very nice to get letters each two weeks from you. Always be enthusiastic.

I say goodbye to you, Gurudeva.

your servant

Gandharva dasa

HpS - ASA ---  AGTSP  paoho.   We couldn't answer much mail while we were in India and Europe for one month so now we have these two reports and the latest one.           Oh, goody, goody, goody!       Just like unopened birthday presents.

Hare Krsna Gurumaharaja

Please, accept my humble obeisances

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

I tell you that we move forward in organizing the August event. Laksmana Prabhu-agraja  will be showing the progress these days. The work is progressing quite well, we have reached important agreements and we are engaging some young devotees in the organizational part and for the development of the congress. We are excited to conduct an event that has an effect on the the community. It is very important to design the post-conference activities so that this project has a real effect on the future. NIMSAR think it plays an important role in monitoring the agreements obtained. We must be very focused on that.

ASA - AGTSP!!      Yes, pre-event, event, post-event work, but we still don't have any letter from the Peruvian National Junta accepting NIMSAR as an official ISKCON preaching organization in Peru. Did you send it to us? Without their approval we really can't do anything there. We mentioned this before, no?

Moreover, Gura Gadadhra dasi begins the worship seminar this Saturday at the temple of Lima,  devotees and authorities are awaiting our actions as a result of the conversations we had with them. We have to support this in the best possible way. I will send you details in the coming weeks.

I hope all is well with you and your sankirtan, Gurudeva.

Saying goodbye with affection

Your servant

Gandharva dasa

HpS - O.K. We look at the next two letters.