Letters to the editor

February 6, 2019

Hare Krsna dear Gurumaharaja

Please accept my humble obeisances

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

ISKCON Chosica is eager to develop the following programs for which we need your opinion, advice and instruction, for this, prabhu Karuna Krsna has asked me to serve as a liaison with you and be able to report you, acting, in this way, as his secretary. The purpose is to propose the following development alternatives for the temple of Chosica and its community of devotees:

• School of brahmanas: the authority of the temple has the project of founding a school of brahminical education available for devotees from Peru and abroad who wish to be educated within a comprehensive pedagogical program that aspires to the cultivation of academic knowledge, the development of skills and character formation. For this, it has the facilities of the temple and the properties of ISKCON Chosica, for the lodging of those devotees, from Peru or abroad, who wish to take up residence during their formation. The curricular content would be based on Vaisnava theology, comparative philosophy, rituals, arcana and cuisine.

• Development of MOE programs: having made effective the appointment of the regional representative, ISKCON Chosica wishes to become the center of operations of this initiative.

• Development of agricultural project: ISKCON Chosica has a property of 1,000 square meters, approximately available for an agricultural project (permaculture, medicinal plants, spices) and link it with a tourism development project.

Indira Sakti and I are back on Chosica, cooking for Sri Sri Radha Madana Bihari on weekends, attending Mangalaratik on a daily basis and working in our artesanías project.

We await your opinion regarding these issues and any suggestions you may make for the development of an additional program. We look forward to receiving your blessings and instruction in this regard.

Your servant

Gandharva das

HpS - What is your involvement in this? What is your involvement with others in this? Then a plan and then the resources. WHO AM I, WHO ARE WE, WHAT IS THE PLAN, WHAT ARE THE RESOURCES? \'O'/

Hare Krsna dear Gurumaharaja

Please accept my humble obeisances

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

I am writing this message with the intention of greeting you, wishing that your health is well and that your sankirtan is developing in the best way.

HpS-ASA - Thank you. Srila Prabhupada Ki Jai!

I pray for your blessings to be able to best serve the educators and devotees. For now, I dare to send you some ideas about the service:

• First of all: contact and interview educators in Lima (temple programs and independent educators). Ask about their needs, interests and concerns.

• Interview authorities (in charge of educational programs) of Wilson, Chosica and Callao preaching center. Ask about their needs, interests and concerns.

• Request educators a report of their activities for the last two years, including a list of students who have completed courses.

• Visit ISKCON centers in Cuzco, Arequipa and Huancayo, in the first instance, Tarapoto, Huánuco and Puno, later. Ask about their needs, interests and concerns. Identify devotees who have the interest and qualities to take charge of educational programs and organize training programs for them. After a while, I could do they same activities in Bolivia and Ecuador (if they accept our service).

• Register (progressively) the educational programs in the on-line MOE database.

• Cooperate with authorities and you un Bhakti sastri accreditations and GBC courses (Communications, Administration and Conflict Resolution).

• Organize a meeting of educators every two months in order to exchange experiences and report on the results of the representation program.

• Spread Jayam and Viplavah among educators, nationwide, and facilitate their subscription.

I have some questions for you:

• Are this proposals ok? I don't want to interfere with another devotee's service in anyway. In the same way, I'll be defining my duties on the progress.
• With whom should I contact for consultations
• Do you require the report to do so in Spanish and English, or is it sufficient in English only?

Thank you very much, Gurudeva.

Your servant

Gandharva das

HpS-ASA --- First thing is to establish a communication protocol with Tappan-misra Das, Executive Secretary of the Mninistry of Education. I will send a copy of this letter to him and you.

Hare Krsna.

Then I think the plans you have are O.K. Even the order in which you plan to do them is O.K. Meet the Teachers and Educational Administrators and investigate how you can connect them to the Ministry.

Cultural Revolution.

Por favor acepte mi humildes y respetuosas reverencias

todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada

Hare Krsna Maharaja:

Le envio la carta de refugio formal de Piero Torchio, Él realizo los cursos correspondientes.

Él viaja constantemente del templo a su casa en otra ciudad, él no tiene su diploma del curso de bhaktas en santiago, por eso no va la foto.

Esperamos verlo pronto

su aspirante a sirviente

Jagannatha caran das

HpS - Hare Krsna. Super oir de Vd. Muchas gracias su servicio. Es essencial! Vamos a anotar Piero como aspirante. Pero no tenemos carta en nuestra cuenta de Yahoo. Puede anotar los detalles aqui: Nombre completo, fecha de nacimiento, direccion de intenet.

Hare Krishna Gurudev, 

Like it happened me before once, I just delete my long post here, this time clicking Delete all the tabs to the right, but this time I took it much more better. I don't know if Im just in a better mood or really the krodha in the heart is diminishing. So, anyway, I'm going again, still with the Urgent tag but now much shorter and precise.

Video: Trailer EL Arte y Lo Sagrado 2018 - Santiago, Chile

https://youtu.be/6ethHYLATU0 (1:08 min)

Original archive: 292.3 MB. Download linke here:

https://mega.nz/#!uIBhVaRD!r4LtfJNjSdUWrUzbMIKhbcxZp0BHORP-VXQVRb0zomI

Just in case you need to show in larger screens. 

Video: EL Arte y Lo Sagrado 2018 - Santiago, Chile

https://youtu.be/5UFP9nL7TKk (9:36 min) With English subtitles encrusted, translated by Srutipriya d.d, the profesional translator devotee and who translate a few of your lectures here.

Original archive: 2.65 GB. Download link here:

https://mega.nz/#!vUInGIJR!GoGS4A2xZaQciAjq3C1-y806CiVXLMGCUwAbj6e-jJY

The letter is urgent because you mention the video in the last Kapi Dhvaja and due you are in India, it would be useful if some people could see the summary of the event there.

Learning

Certainly, if we want more videos and better, besides invest more, we should give the guidances to the video maker/editor before the event and with more detail.

ASA - Super, Super, Super. You can see we are pushing Education and the Sacred in San Marcos in Peru. Plan to go to Peru and Argentina in June July.

Personal

We are happy, Carolina is happy with Rasarani, and all the doctors say that she is very strong and is growing up very fast. Our interest in going deeper in our understanding of the Krsna Consciousness is increasing. This is very interesting sensation. We are eager to know more and more about Krsna and just that, is a source of joy. Sometimes we feel that we advancing a little faster than before. This feeling is a Maya trap also?

ASA - No.

Finally, I can't say goodbye, without saying to you that Your association is one the wonderful things in the year, every year. We had the crazy idea to go with you to India this time, and try to contact Radhanath Swami at Mumbai this year with Carolina and Rasarani. We recover our sanity after a while.

Please accept my attempt of humble obeisances. 

Your servant, Jagad Guru Das.

Hare Krishna.

HpS - !!!! Hope the Kapi dhvaja has enough news for you. You efforts and communication are wonderful: Rodrigo, Arjuna, Carlos, ladies!!! Everyone in Chile is such great devotees. Parasurama, Vsvanatha, Amara, Machiavelli . . . . . . . . . Become self realized, build your character and preach.

Hare Krishna Dear Gurumaharaja,

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

Can you add "Or Click Here to Browse for Photos" to where it says "Drag photos here". 

Done.

To make things more easy I have added one button on letter create page. So there is now 'Save' and 'Save & Attach Photos'. So if somebody uses second one he is directly sent to photo upload page.

There is also new menu item 'My letters' in top menu (next to 'Sign out'). It redirects to page where are letters from specific user.

Fixed bug edit page of letter when 'Letter type' was empty if letter has more than one type.

Mini report

Few weeks ago mangala arati attendance in our temple was not so big (2-3 people). Now we are up to 14 devotees there. 🐒 🐒 🐒 🐒 🐒 🐒 🐒 🐒 🐒 🐒 🐒 🐒 🐒 🐒

I rented table in coworking place. It is 4 minutes walk from Govinda Restaurant, where my wife works. It is very nice space here and very good mood for working. And all people here love Caitanya/sezami halva :)

Started to develop offline reader on Android. Later will work on iOS, Windows, Mac and Linux too. And people will be able to create own library packages with own texts. Still long way to have it released, but I am already using it for reading.

The Supreme Undifferentiated Absolute Commando of ASA has therefor bestowed the Golden Banana of Everlasting Fame upon P. N. Das. May he prosper and go to Goloka ASAP!

I am very happy for the award and that I can be somehow useful.

Your servant Prahlad Nrsimha das

HpS - ASA --- Actually we all fall at your feet and thank you for your mercy. It is so great that we cannot properly describe it. It keeps ASA alive. Wait for more news as it comes. Best wishes for all your Sankirtan.

Hare Krishna, dear gurudev, Pamho, AGTSP!

I hope you see my anual report. Anyway, not much new to say.

I've just finish my master degree. 6 months to complete my thesis and doctorate in agost.

HpS - You've finished it? Got the Master's Diploma!!? Start Doctorate in August?

Distributed some books and prasadam for december marathon.

Inmediatly, I went to Cuzco to give some seminars. Expended some quality time with devotees.

Helped GG with her Cuzco farewell...many thing to arrange for her travel to India in February.

Now in Chosica, heading to the airport in a couple of hours for the annual festival in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Mathures prabhu invited me since Bhakti Prabhupada Maharaj couln´t make it.

More opportunities to preach to devotees with seminars, workshops and Pada padma clases.

Please, send me blessing to continue preaching as you and Prabhupada wanted.

This year I may teach in a secundary school. I've just applied to several. it´s very nice to talk to young people. I was invited to a talk to secundary students and it was wonderful! So I wanted to teach in an school again. Let's see what Krishna sais about it.

Thanks for listening.

See you soon.

ys LAD

HpS - Thank you so much for this news. We were worried because we had not heard from you. You got the Master's Diploma and now you start the Doctorate?