Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna Gurudeva,

Danvadat Pranam

please accept my humble obeisances

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada

I was able to take a few pictures,

and also Abhimanyu Das and Bhakta Cory were able to document and narrate a lot of the Yatra and the festival.

Lordships always look so happy to come and give their mercy imo

link to the video

https://youtu.be/HZRKvBV7Lc0?feature=shared

Your disciple, your servant

Loka Bandhu Rama das

HpS/ASA - Thank you!!!! Chance to see the spiritual world. one of the 16,108 homes of KRSNA in dvaraka.

inspires participation.

also so nice to have your association and lokannatha das association here in boise. amazing how he remembers things from pastimes we had here in boise that stimulate our memories.

more....

Hare Krishna Maharaja, please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Here is the Ratha Yatra poster:

HpS/ASA

Jaya Jagannatha!

The Essence of KC

Taking Krsna from Vaidhi Bhakti to Braja Bhakti

NOI 8

DTC - UT series is coming into the final editing stages.

Of course, there are INTENSE discussions of artistic style etc.

Here are the posts we made to the Directors, Producers et al on WhatsApp:

[9/20/2023 5:02 PM] : Gracias Senyor! We have been struggling to survive the last few days. We are doing programs every two months with NIOS Nashville, but that means that people are coming from Florida, California, renting houses, and so we have intense activity as hosts.

[9/20/2023 5:03 PM] : Then, we were not doing anymore travel, DTC, <<ULTIMATE TRIP>>, after we got back from India but were getting so, so, many requests to travel and visit people.

[9/20/2023 5:06 PM] : Finally, we got our feet on the ground, after like two, three months in our Base Camp, Nashville, and #1) We realized that we cannot travel alone anymore. Those days are done. The travel exhausts us and we get disorientation, vertigo, to even the point that we could black out. So we agreed to visit Richmond (East Coast) and Boise (West Coast) for like aweek each if some one would pick us up and drop us off.

[9/20/2023 5:06 PM] : Did Richmond. Was a killer but so, so productive.

[9/20/2023 5:10 PM] : Now we have been in Boise for 48-hours after an 8-hour, four-airport journey. They have planned a strong cultural program, and people are flying in from Seattle, San Francisco, Atlanta et al to see us. Just spent 1-hour with Lokannatha Das. We worked together with a fantastic traveling puppet theater, "Purnima Puppet Theater", for like four years, and this is first chance we have had to consolidate everything with him. He still has the marionettes in boxes, and has pretty solid Parkinson's disease, but he is a transcendentalists, so he understands that even though his normal bodily functions are disturbed, he can find ways to still use his body to create and communicate by using innovative methods.

[9/20/2023 5:12 PM] : What really, really is happening is that I am staying in touch, building my understanding or our audience for DTC-UT. So I feel that my opinion of winding up the production of the videos and heading into the distribution stage is well informed.

[9/20/2023 5:13 PM] : I think I have one perspective on our audience, one part of our audience. I think Raoul, Pablo, Abhirama have other audience they know.

[9/20/2023 5:14 PM] : Now I have been motivated to show the movies to others and get their unprompted opinions. You saw the strong, favorable review that Gopinatha Das (HP Exec) gave.

[9/20/2023 5:15 PM] : Now I would like to download DTC-India here, and work out a Critic's Screening. Then, for me, I think my perspective on uploading to Vimeo and public marketing would be done.

[9/20/2023 5:19 PM] : Also, in perspective of the whole series, I wanted to see the second half of DTC Spain before forming more ideas and criticisms. Again, I see many options. One that half the studio world has seemed to use is: Studio Cut and Director's Cut. I may not be the best. I think we have some funds to cover our costs for some more editing, but for me and everyone, I think that it is not just money (money is Radha) but also how people see the personal value of investing more time in the series, the project.

[9/20/2023 5:23 PM] : I like criticism from sincere people. It is tough but I like it. I am eternal and maybe my efforts don't deserve a documentary consolidating what I have done in this lifetime. O.K. Jesus and Maria like my efforts 🙂 and are always giving criticism motivated and taking what I have done, we have done, and making eternal improvements. At some point we WILL achieve Escape Velocity and then the whole cosmos opens up to our space ship.

[9/20/2023 5:23 PM] : 💪💪💪🐮

[9/20/2023 5:24 PM] : 🤖

[9/20/2023 5:25 PM] : So... ArtDas... we need another link to download DTC-India. The one you sent has appeared to have expired. We want to show it here. Radhika Raman Das arrives tomorrow or Friday and stays until late Sunday or early monday.

[9/20/2023 5:26 PM] : Then we want to look at DTC-3.

Another Committee Member writes:

Other Member writes:

Minutes of meeting for NIOS campus:

1) identify real estate agent

2) identify the bank for loan

3) formation of the board of trustee

4) Plan the property lay out

5) start building low cost designer housing

6) gaushala

7) workshops

8) organic farming

9) water harvesting/storage

10) bio gas and bio composting plant

11) fruit trees

12) cottage industry of soap, honey, etc

13) wind and solar energy production plant

14) Sewage treatment plant

Note: I am planing to retire from GLA job and visit Houston/Nashville around Dec -Jan to work on the development of the NIOS campus. 

All are requested to give feedback on this. So that we may chalk out a time line for each of the action item by the end of Nov 2023.

HpS/ASA - This is wonderful.

We were at Rama ghata during the Braja mandala prikrama and this management process came to us:

1. Whom am I?
2. Who are we?
3. Whats the Plan?
4. What Materials do we need?

We applied it with great success again and again, and then Srinivasa Das showed us "From Good to Great", a first class business administration text that they were using for Micron.

It was almost identical principles identified in corporations that had gone from being members of their industry to leaders.

So, first question would be:

Why do you personally want NIOS to develop a Campus?

🙄

Committee Member writes:

Found this interesting page on insta. They bought some land and host clay-building workshops. People pay and learn to build with clay (they pre design a basic structure). Love the natural building material idea, looks and feels stunning:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CwVrf5xBQI7/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==.

Just an idea for later stages of our campus development…

HpS/ASA - Yes! Another comment from another Committee Member.

Will ut more thoughts there.

Specifically, this is very nice. Especially if there is proper clay on the site!

Also, we saw straw bale construction!

Hare Krishna Gurudeva!

PAMHO AGTSP

I hope you are well and in good health. I still have insomnia and I think it is due to the nervous system, which has 2 basic tones, passive or excited... but I will share this matter and those related to my health in another letter.

HpS/ASA - 👍

The reason for this letter is to tell you that the festivals of Krishna Janmastami and the following day Srila Prabhupada's Vyasapuja were phenomenal and grandiose.

HpS - ASA --- !!!!

For Krishna Janmastami, La Reina Cultural Center (a commune or sector next to Las Condes) was rented, with capacity for 300 people the main hall was full, artistic displays, Om Bhakti, traditional dances, abhishek and all the worship; Srila Prabhupada's Vyasapuja was performed in the large hall at the back of the temple which was also full, more than 100 devotees.

HpS/ASA - Now.... a six story tall, marble temple with gold filagree?

For that day the Chilean spiritual family of H.H. Hanumatpresaka Swami entrusted me with the mission of making the garland that is offered on behalf of You for Srila Prabhupada.

HpS - Wow! Champa flowers from Paraguay??

On Thursday morning I went to buy the flowers at the central market, I chose yellow roses, pink roses for the center of the garland and a type of white chrysanthemums that here they call "mavles or mables", I still can't understand what this flower is about...

I was in coordination for this service with your disciples Havihsara DD, who received the donations from the spiritual family, and Priya Sakhi DD who, like a good elder sister, gave the initiative and was always aware of all the management.

During the feast for our savior and acharya, Srila Prabhupada, the person in charge of offering the garland to Prabhupada was your disciple Manjuali DD, wife of Lalita Madhava D, who was playing instruments during the kirtan.

Our president Jagad Guru Das preaching on the stage very skill presentation. Your disciple Arjuna Das was attending the deities and assisting the pujaris. I attach photos and videos.

At the end of the feast, the representatives of the spiritual family decided to give the garland to David Arancibia, a well-wisher and follower of yours who for years worked on the productions of your public events in Chile doing sound engineering, DJ David ki jay!

HpS - We don't remember him??? 😥

That day I felt that so many garlands were suffocating Prabhupada (later garlands continued to be offered to Him), and I think that perhaps it could be organized that for this special event in the year,

Srila Prabhupada's Vyasapuja, make groups of 2 or 3 spiritual families that everyone pool the money and offer a majestic and opulent garland, then fewer but even more opulent garlands are offered and it is less uncomfortable for Srila Prabhupada, it will also be cheaper for each devotee involved and for each spiritual family, thus it could be requested that each family makes a collective donation for the temple and the production of the festivals (Janmastami + SP Vyasapuja), apart from the individual donation that each one usually makes.

They are just ideas, they may not be good if put into practice.

In a next letter I will tell you about the following issues, I will probably send a single letter for each topic, so they will be shorter letters than I use to write (hope so):

- regular temple service

- bhakta and disciple courses to be able to apply for formal shelter

- music project

- personal life

Thank you very much for everything, Gurudeva, please accept my respecftul obeisances, all glories to Srila Prabhupada!!!

Your aspiring servant,

Carlos Rold

HpS - You are a journalist!!! I'm sure everyone reads these letters with great interest.

What is last Temple President doing!! Cannot remember his names! Aaaaah!