PAPAMOCANI EKADASI NIMSAR'S REPORT

Hare Krsna Gurumaharaja

Please, accept my humble obeisances

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

HpS - ASA -    Paoho... !.

Dear Gurudeva, we had a week full of activity. On Monday we had a meeting with the national board. I think the balance was positive because the authorities were receptive to our proposals. Actually, they have two fundamental questions: they want to know whether the contents of our courses are related to the courses given by prabhu Jiva-sakti whom they recognize as the manager of education in the yatra. On the other hand, they want us to respect the controversial rule not allowing anyone to take the course of Bhakti-sastri, unless they have been initiated previously. We expressed some dissatisfaction with the standard but they agreed to discuss the item with us before long. In the next meeting, after the Vyasapuja of HH Jayapataka Swami, we will be defining issues related to the certificates backed by ISKCON and the permission to give our courses in Chosica and Lima temples, as appropriate.

HpS - ASA -- Very nice report. Seems to us these are significant points leading to having NIMSAR accepted as a Branch of ASA in Peru.

Yesterday we had a very long and productive day in Chosica where we talked extensively about "the incident" (my temporary resignation). The doubts were clarified, responsibilities were accepted and everything goes forward. We basically discussed the contents and agenda of the worship seminar by Gaura gadadhara mataji, the idea of traveling to different cities for a NIMSAR presentation in Arequipa, Cuzco, Puno, Huancayo and Guayaquil and the organization of the education meeting in August. I will be sending you the progress report as soon as possible.

Regarding to your request here is the result. 

About the duties for the President, Secretary and Treasurer of NIMSAR:

President:

a) To represent the Association before all kinds of people, authorities and public or private entities.

b) Convene meetings of the Board, preside, direct the debates, suspend and terminate sessions.

c) Implement the resolutions of the Board, though it can perform all acts and contracts and sign any documents necessary for that purpose or delegate this responsibility to another member of the board if necessary.

d) Comply with and enforce the decisions of the Board.

f) Tiebraker vote  in ties.

h) Perform such other duties that are inherent in its capacity as Chairman of the Board.

HpS - ASA --- The last one seems to be very ambiguous and I think should be eliminated. What do you think?


Secretary:

a) Attend meetings of the Board and draft and approve the minutes of those.

b) Perform the call to meetings, by order of the President, and citations of the members.

c) Receiving communication from the members of the Board such as notifications, requests for information, amendments, certifications or any other kind of messages.

d) Prepare the documentation that shall be used or considered.

e) Issue certificates of approved agreements and any other certifications, with the approval of the President, and the reports that are necessary.

f) To have the custody of the Archives, documents and books of the Association, except ledgers.

g) Any other functions inherent in their capacity as Secretary.

Again g) seems to be unclear and could be anything, no?

I would and iii) shall be responsible for sending and receiving all official communications of Nimsar

In cases of absence or illness and, in general, when any cause, the Secretary shall be replaced by the Treasurer.

Treasurer:

a) Raise funds of the Association, guard them and invest them in a manner determined by the Board.

b) Make payments, with the approval of the Board.

c) To intervene with his signature all documents of receipts and payments, with the assent of the President.

d) The keeping of accounting records and compliance with tax obligations in time and form, of the Association.

e) The preliminary draft budgets for approval by the Board. In the same way the accountability for annual approval by the board of directory.

f) Any other activities related to their status as treasurer, responsible for economic and financial management.

ASA - Look at BG 10.23!
As we have heard from Prabhupada etc.
1. Treasurer is to keep the assets of the organizations safe.
    All the money received by the Oragnization must be given to the Treasurer and he must deposit it in the bank. Then funds can be released with the signature of both the Treasurer and President.

2. Keep record of where every penny comes from and where every penny goes to.

3. Generate Reports on the basis of 2. for organization and other bodies.

4. Generate Projections on the basis of 3 etc.


About the Statement of Requirements for the Membership in Nimsar:

1. Professional level. Set of academic and technical skills of the candidate able to contribute directly to the development of the NIMSAR project. Example: educators, administrators, accountants, journalists, lawyers, designers, marketers, engineers or technicians.

2. Devotional and vocational level. The applicant must be a devotee, whose faith does not depend on external circumstances, or not affected by the environment.

  • A devotee whose vocation or nature is directed to education and do not do things to please others.
  • A devotee who is a devotee everywhere in the temple, at home, at work, on the street.

3. Psychological level:

  • NOI 3
  • Maturity (liability), mental equilibrium (fortress-Vaishnava etiquette), desire for improvement (evolution or spiritual advancement).
  • It [He] can work as a team (shown).
  • Conciliator.
  • Transparent, confidential and reliable.
  • Breadth of perspective (optional).


About the NIMSAR members and their status:

  • Founding members (honour title, no vote or opinion): Rohini dd, Goura gadadhara dd., Candramukhi dd., Yugala Kisora dd., Laksmana-agraja dasa, Patrak dasa.
  • Board of directory (vote and opinion): Laksmana-agraja dasa (president), Gandharva dasa (secretary), Isvari dd. (treasurer). 
  • Directory (vote and opinion): Laksmana-agraja dasa, Candramukhi dd., Isvari dd., Abhinanda dasa, Yugala Kisora dd., Goura gadadhara dd., Patrak dasa (temporary resignation) and Gandharva dasa.
  • Advisory board (to be confirmed, only opinion in specific issues): HH Hanumatpresaka Swami, HH Jayapataka Swami, Mathuresh dasa, Baladeva dasa, Om Kesavaya das, Govindanandini das, Omkara Krishna das, Vindiabali dd., Duiya dd. Gangamaji dd., Yamunesvara dasa and Jiva sakti dasa.
  • Staff members (no vote or opinion): Padmavati dd., Nitya Kisori dd., Lila Sakti dd., Goura Karuna Sakti dd. and Bhaktina Isabelle.

We are waiting for your opinion and suggestions. Hoping you're in good health.

Your servant

Gandharva dasa

NIMSAR Secretary

HpS - Hmmm.    I am used to how it is done in USA. The ultimate authority is the Board of Directors. They chose the the Officers: President, Secretary, Treasurer [and others, eg. Vice-Presidents with specific port folios]. They give general and specific instructions to the Officers. Of course one can be a Director and Officer also.

President - Chief Excecutive
Secretary - Communication
Treasurer - Assets

Directors, Officers and Members
Members can be classified in different ways, but one important distinction should be Voting [for Directors] and Non-Voting Members.
What about this model?

This is very important work, but main thing is that we all chant Hare Krsna, Dance and honor Prasadam.

bhakta from in need of mercy 8

Hare krsna Hanumatpresaka swami maharaj

dandavat pranam at your lotus feet.

HpS - ASA --- Oink.   AGTSP.

dear maharaj

It is my great fortune to hear you in starmeeting .com singing guruastakam and chanting japa . Krsna and you maharaj have  so nicely arranged for unfortunate souls like me to remain connected with you. It is my bad karma that i am not getting personal association with you but now through startmeeting even i can expirience the power of sabdha brahma comming from you maharaj. Thank you very much .

Maharaj i have a request . Can you please traslate in  few words in english also on  the class that you give in spanish after japa is done if possible.  Sorry for making this request.

HpS - ASA - Yes, we will look to see if we have a bi-lingual audience in the future.

I also wanted to know maharaj how can we chant our rounds with the mentality of trinad api sunichena ...i mean when i do a nice round (according to me ) i feel puffed up ..i mean i feel like i chant so well ....then again the inner loving  warm emotions go away ..is there a way in which i can remain humble while chanting my japa.

HpS - That's the whole goal. If we chant with humility then the SPOG is dancing on our tongue. So it is not such an easy thing. The whole Srimad Bhagavatam is your answer.

Follow the four principles, hear SB regularly, and then it will be easy to see how much is your effort and how much is Maya and Guru.

Thank you very much for the japa session . It feels great chanting along with you.

Thank you for everything maharaj.

dandavat pranam

rituraj majumder, shillong

UG: Shillong is the capital and Hill station of Meghalaya, one of the smallest states in India. It is situated at an average altitude of 4,908 feet above sea level, with the highest point being Shillong Peak at 6,449 feet. Shillong is the 330th most populous city in India with population of 143,007.

It is said that the rolling hills around the town reminded the European settlers of Scotland. Hence, Shillong is known as "Scotland of the East". The population density of the state of Meghalaya is 342 people per sq mile.

Mexico = 142/sq mi

See following photos.

Spain News and Calendar

Hare Krisna Gurudeva. Please, accept my humble oberisances. All Glories to Srila Prabhupada.

I hope you're fine.

We just arrived from our program in Tarragona, Catalonia. A very nice program on last Saturday and Sunday: We had a workshop about Karma, other one about Kirtan Yoga, other one about Forgiveness, other one about Japa, Hatha Yoga and Ayurveda: Pindas. I'm going to upload some pictures. Some devotees came from Barcelona, and it was wonderful.

It's fantastic you come to Spain end of May. Do you know the dates exactly?

     HpS - ASA - It is updated on the ASA calendar: www.jayarama.us/kd/cal.htm

But details:

We arrive in Brussels 7.50AM May 7th. Then we need a flight to Spain, [from that big airport (BRU). The Charlet airport with Ryan air is like 20 miles away and difficult to get to!] with return to BRU on Friday the 22nd, early.

Then we can stay in Spain, Madrid...   until 15th, Friday, then we need a ticket to Florence or Pizza, Italy to arrive by noon time on the 15th of May. Returning to Spain on the 18th Monday.

O.K?  Can you look?

It would be fine to know when for preparing some programm in the University, if it's possible or in other places. How long you will be in Madrid? Do you have already your route in Spain? How can I help you about this?

I'm waiting your answers and comments.

Thank you.

Your humble aspiring to servant.

Dandava Das

HpS - Sri Sri Sri Radha Govinda Candra, Ki Jai!!!

MADRID

Please, accept my humble obeisances, dandavats. All Glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Sorry for not write you in all this time!! I hope that you are fine!! How was your trip¿? And your health?

Here in Madrid all is OK, my principal service now is the pujari (Jiva the cooker is teaching me how to dress), cooking and wash the pots of the breakfast.

Some months ago, we were doing bhajans in one of the most importants streets of Madrid (Fuencarral), the experience was amazing but the police don’t allow to do more bhajans in this place maybe in some months we can start again with the program. Dandava wants to develop some programs of this type, for example, now we are starting to go to some yoga centers to chant the holy names.

I continue with Bhakti Sastri and i want to start to be more profesional with the kitchen and create some courses of cooking in the temple.

One of the most important things that i discorvered some weeks ago is that if you aprreciate and love the  people your preach will be better and when the people know that the interest that you show for them is real and you dont look for any personal benefit they will take you more seriously.

Some days ago, i made a big mistake cause in a class i said some words that could do that some new people go out of Krishna Movement, fortunately they still continue with us. Jaramara teachs me that one of the most important things that  we must to do is to try that the new people that are coming to Hare Krishna feel atraction for this movement.

I’m trying to put all my faith in Harinama Sankirtan is the process for this yuga isn’t it¿?

   HpS - ASA - Yes, but that are many postions in the Sankirtan movement and we have to find which one as best for us.

Aindra Prabhu said that nama japa it’s like to take a tablet but nama sankirtan is like an injection… I  find a lot of inspiration in Aindra Prabhu, he has a lot of faith in the holy names. 16 RONDAS ENTUSIASTAS!!

HpS - Some people like Japa more than Sankirtan, some like Deity worship more than either one. 

Your servant Mantri Rama Das

HpS - You report is so nice. There is a letter for Dandava. let us answer it together.

final maraton!

Querido GM amho AgtSP

Ya terminamos la maratón de sankir tan en Colombia se distribuyeron casi 8000 mil libros‏.

   HpS - ASA   -  Si, AGTSP!!!!   Pfanrh....  8000 mil = 8,000,000 libros???

gracias a sus bendiciones‏

en Abril es la maraton por Ud GM va a ser en chile

mi inspiracion principal es saber q cuando salgo a sankirtan me estoy asociando con ud, solo salgo y s q ud hace todo el trabajo de predica.

gracias amado GM 

porfavor permítame ocuparme siempre en sankirtan‏

ASA - Permítanos seguir sus pasos!   Una historias de Sankirtana para nuestra Blog.

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On Sunday, March 15, 2015 11:27 AM, Radhacharan Das <[email protected]> wrote:

Dear Maharaj,

Hare Krishna!

PAMHO, AGSP

Thanks for you mail, Swamiji,

Please let us know when you are arriving India and when you will be visiting Manipur? Please guide us in all your possible ways and at all times.

Your servant in Srila Sripada's services,

Radhacharan Das
ISKCON Manipur


15 March 2015

Hare Krsna!

Esteemed Radhacharan Das

Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada, Bhakti Svarupa Damodara Swami and all the Manipuri Bhaktas.  It is so, so, so nice to hear from you. The only person who regularly writes to us, writes to us, is Mukta - Yamunesvara Das from Thoubal.

We will be in Delhi from 7-12 May but will be too short to go anywhere else. Then we expect that we will be in India for a few months starting February 2016.

Of course, we always want to help the Sankirtan in Manipur and expand the glories of Manipur to the rest of the world.

We are doing a lot of work with the Ministry of Education for ISKCON - Primary Schools, Universities...

How is your Japa vrata, Temple and schools and Manipur?

Our respects to Ekanatha, Bana-mali, Sadhu, everyone!