Letters to the editor

JAYA SRI SRI GURU AND GAURANGA !!

ALL GLORIES TO SRILA PRABHUPADA !! And his dedicated disciples, like you, who carry his message of Krishna consciousness to all parts of this world.

First of all, we want to thank you-all for the questions and suggestions, made by the ASA Commando, to our report No 5.

Prof. Miguel Polo and Abhiram Thakur Das analyzed them in detail and responded, that is the 1st part of this report (this report consists of Two parts).

Part I: Questions from the ASA team to report No 5 and their respective answers:

QUESTION: ASA-Tom Brown - It's shocking to see the shape of a lonely young woman in tight pants doing yoga poses and a gas-burning motorboat.

Buck White - Look the other way.

ANSWER: Regarding the images on the web, Miguel Polo and Abhiram selected the images with the following criteria: The 1st image, that of the ship, was to represent the material world (a predominantly dark and dirty place), then the 2nd. image shows a person on top of a mountain saluting the sun (everything is clear because he is directly receiving the light of knowledge, represented by the sun) and finally, the 3rd. Image, the blue lotus symbolizes or represents the spiritual world.

Perhaps the interpretation of the images is not clear or does not suggest our intention, therefore, considering TB's suggestion, we have withdrawn them and we have placed a sunrise with the SOLARIS leitmotif “Contributions for a humanity inspired by a new culture of friendship, peace and prosperity ”. (attached a photo of how he has been)

ASA - The Brown Tom - So much nicer, but could we use the rest of Srila Prabhupadas quote:

"humanity can become one in peace, friendship and prosperity with a common cause." https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/1/preface/#bb13378 ?

QUESTION: TB - On the home page where NIOS is presented we did not see a link to the NIOS website: www.NiosNimbus.Org. It's nice, but it seems like scenes from human culture like architecture or festivals would be better, right?

The Brahma samhita verse should be there, right?

ANSWER: Miguel and ARTd agree 108% with this suggestion from TB, so now the home page of the website begins with the verse from the Brahma samhita: https://solarisnios.org/. Also if you click on the face of Socrates or on NIOS it also takes you to the NIOS website: https://www.niosnimbus.org/

ASA - TB - Is this new version posted some place?

QUESTION: ASA-Tom Brown - Wow. We do not remember having heard this thematic axis before. It seems nice, but we cannot see any deeper Vedic basis for selecting these themes. E.g. SB 2.1 would touch ecology very well, but how does that relate to education and ecology? There could be some relationship.

What items have been shipped ???

ANSWER: After the event THE ART AND THE SACRED (2018) Professor Hanumatpresaka Swami suggested as content, for the next three years EDUCATION AND THE SACRED (this covers 2019, 2020 and 2021, that is, numbers 4, 5 and 6 of the magazine). Then, at ARTd's house (October 2019) when SOLARIS was discussed, Professor Ravi Gupta (Radhika Raman prabhu) suggested, due to global importance, adding the topic of ecology and we all agreed.

Since its appearance, SOLARIS has been the basis for the academic events of NIOS (No. 1 and 2 was for PSYCHOLOGY AND THE SACRED, No. 3 for ART AND THE SACRED and 4 for EDUCATION AND THE SACRED). As last year everything was modified by the pandemic (we could no longer do the November 2020 event) so for number 5 we held two round tables to add the topic of Covid-19 in the magazine. Based on these circumstances and the 2018 agreement, Miguel and Abhiram continued with THE EDUCATION AND THE SACRED with the addition of ECOLOGY for the thematic axis of No. 6.

EDUCATION, ECOLOGY AND THE SACRED are very broad topics, therefore, it is necessary to set more specific content so that the authors can write based on them. This is how these three thematic contents arise:

• (A) Education and innovation, the cultivation of the human spirit as the center to build a good society. (EDUCATION AND THE SACRED)
• (B) Pandemics in the world, material problems, ethical and spiritual solutions. (ECOLOGY AND THE SACRED)
• (C) Education and harmony between human beings and nature. (EDUCATION, ECOLOGY AND THE SACRED)

ARTICLES BASED ON CONTENT “A”:

1. Albert Ferrer / From conventional schooling to holistic education. A personal change of course and a paradigm shift (article delivered)
2. Paloma Rojas Vaquero / Reflections on a comprehensive initial education in Art (article delivered)
3. Dwarka / The Bhagavad Gita as a model of comprehensiveness in teaching (delivery August 29)
4. Caitanya Caran / the possibility and practice of communicating spirituality and moral values ​​in the modern world (delivery September 17)

ARTICLES BASED ON CONTENT “B”:

1. Ravi Gupta / Why we need a Gaudiya Vaishnava eco-theology. (to be confirmed)
2. Miguel Polo / Ethics and dharma, the role of ecology in spirituality. (delivery August 29)
3. Sarad-Gaurangui / Covid-19 in the world, material problems, ethical and spiritual solutions. (delivery September 10)

ARTICLES BASED ON CONTENT “C”:

1. Nicasio Cavilla / Ayurveda: Sustainable Medicine. Understanding the natural cycles for health care. (delivery August 29)
2. José Luis Valencia / Recognizing natural entities is synchronizing with universal consciousness. (I already deliver a trailer, final delivery on August 29)
3. Universidad Católica de Chile / Nature and Zen Buddhism. (Delivery September 10)

ASA-TB - Now it is more clear, though we had to scan a lot of the explanation. Manuel, you are an intellectual too great for us.

Regarding the summaries of “Carl Jung & psychological insights for spiritual growth” and "Shakespeare Revisited, Universal Themes, Spiritual Insight" of the Podcast “The Monk” Chaitanya Charana prabhu authorized their use for the summaries, he said “I think it is wonderful that they are used for SOLARIS magazine”.

ASA- BW - Oink!! 🐷

Another important point, we send to Prabhus Abhisek and Srinivas-acarya the content on the web in English. The part about the authors has been sent to HH HpS and Radhika Raman prabhu, we await your comments.

ASA-TB/BW - Oh! .... We just looked in HpS's Yahoo account and cannot see anything in the VIP, NIOS, HPS1088 or Spam Folders!!

II Part

Trips for the implementation of the Asrama where H. H. HpS will be for 6 months as part of the implementation of the rural project Nueva Aksovan:

Tomorrow Tuesday we are going to see a house in Pachacamac and another in Cieneguilla, according to these visits, on Friday the confirmation of the place will be sent to the blog.

ASA-TB/BW - Wow! Manuel, you are like Terminator 6! Wonderful.

That's it for now, please excuse our limitations and any mistakes or offenses.

HARE KRISHNA

ASA Supreme Undifferentiated Absolute Commando [ASA-SUAC] - We salute you. (Photo Attached). This is wonderful report. What if apes ruled the world and humans were kept in zoos and the jungle? ! So many respects to the Rabbit, Miguel et al, Hector et al.

Six weeks and four days before we arrive in Lima?

What should we bring?

for Monitos

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tears_in_rain_monologue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoAzpa1x7jU

"All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain"

ASA - Thank you! 'maya tatam idam sarvam...'

Hare Krishna Mahara, PAMHO, AGTSP

continuation from : https://monkeywarrior.com/detail/12594/

we have created a file , please see if you can see.

https://1drv.ms/w/s!Aiwe2qLAAyANg4QBxieTDalgbPDMNQ?e=ewdR8U

we noticed that there around 250+ ASA-Special Category B letters.

Do you think we should start tagging it ourself?

awaiting orders,

Horse

TB/BW - Hurray! Horse. Saw the link. Is clear and simple. Can the content of those Category B posts be put into the file that is now posted in the Archives: http://www.jayarama.us/archives/asa-encyclopedia.docx along with any other changes you have made and then sent to us here and elsewhere?

Maybe you can look at the old Cat. B posts, but they may not all be ASA-E appropriate.

Thank you!!!

We think we can make rapid progress with this effort.

Hare Krsna Maharaja and ASA team,

PAMHO, AGTSP!

I hoping everyone is well.

I inform you that tomorrow, Monday, August 9, Indranila dd will give his presentation of SB 3.14.35-36.

She is from Costa Rica and performs service in ISKCON Spain.

Thank you for youy mercy

Sri Nrsimhadeva protect ASA team

ys Isvari R dd

HpS/ASA -- AGTSP. Paoho. We listened to the local, ISKCON Boise, class today. Sudevi Dasi, wife of our Braja mandala Parikrama partner, Sadhu Das, from Malaga, Spain, gave the class. It was very nice.

We thought that devotees could open GoToMeeting.com by themselves, but were later worried that it didn't happen, but then saw on the GTM panel that it seems to have happened!

ASA - Lady's Mandala, can you send the news for next Monday by Wednesday?? How was today's presentation?

AGTSP paoho

In our recent ASA Symposium on Education we were lamenting that no from the Executive Committee or Zonal Reps responded to our invitations to join us, but finally we got to our e-mail after producing the program and then traveling to ISKCON Boise, Idaho, and here is a very, very, very, inspiring letter from Tapan Misra Das, Executive Secretary of the Ministry (and I hope still our very good friend).

We must have missed it because it came after we had alreay dove into the ocean of organizing the event and could not check our Yahoo Mail.

On Friday, July 30, 2021, 10:23:10 AM MDT, Tapana Mishra Das wrote:

Respected Maharaja, Dandavats. Jai Srila Prabhupada.

I am most grateful for your email. Please let me know which slot you would like me to join for. I will try my best to do so. Your servant, Tapana Mishra dasa.

HpS - ASA - Thank you, Prabhu. We hope to talk soon.

Hare Krsna Beloved Gurudeva:

AGTSP, PAMHO

I was eager to write to You a long time ago. When I got initiation back to 2004 I started to be a pujari right away. Besides that I was always enganched [engaged] in the temple service trying to keep good communication with the authorities. And so forth,

Years passed and I do not know if I can use the word "corruption" (you can delete it if you think this word is unappropiate) corruption within some temple authorities. These things affected my utsahan and even if I continued with my service, and I recalled all the things that you had to put up with within all these years in ISKCON my faith is not as strong as yours. I am aware that if I continue chanting Krsna will give me the intelligence to continue with utsahan.

HpS/ASA - AGTSP! Paoho. I think corruption is O.K., if we are willing to apply it to ourselves. Another word might be alloyed . I can see it happening to myself all the time.

Some may fall into vanity.

Some into pizza-fudge.

Some into sexo-illicito,

By Diti was certainly smudged.

Yet it they are still all corruption, alloyed, service.

The the thing that affected me the most was how the authorities handle the repainting of Gaura Nitai!!!!

I sent pictures comparing the deities in the past and now. We can tell the difference, I offer money to cover all the expenses and a team to work. I do not know why they are so stubborn :(

HpS/ASA - Neither do we. 😮

One time Jaya Tirtha Das and one senior Mataji were arguing over how Rukmini Dvarakadisha should be dressed, so they to the quarrel to Srila Prabhupada and as we heard it, he raised his hand with a smile and laughed and said that it was a matter of personal taste. He was not going to get involved.

Maybe that. Maybe something else.

Or maybe I am. The thing is that I have no forces to pursue this. My heart is broken 💔 in thousand pieces when I saw how They look today.

I guess that is time for me to let go.

Moreover it's not just me.

Other devotees do not agree either. But "they have the power"

ASA/TB - Does this apply??? https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/6/18/#bb43711 Can we do a sacrifice to "kill Indra", make disciples who can seize government power in our Yatra, so we can serve Visnu the way we want to serve Him???

My faith in You is intact, but I am trying not to exposure as I did in the past. I listen to your classes but in recordings. I join FMP, my participation in the chat is limited. I know that I am not a top-notch devotee. Nevertheless, today I read a message in Spanish that says: Lo importante no es lo que has logrado sino en lo que te has convertido

"The important thing is not what you have achieved but what you have become" For me the important thing is that I continue being part of ISKCON.

HpS - There are many rooms in the house that Srila Prabhupada is building so that in it the whole world can live, no? So, yes, we will NEVER leave ISKCON. Iskcon has absolute no meaning unless Srila Prabhupada is recognized as the Founder, Foundation, and Acharya, current leading authority.

We all have a right, necessity, to direct communication with him [though so many transparent via media].

Nowadays, for me is more important to keep my spiritual life and my contact with you rather than stand out among the devotees. I have the feeling that I do not have anything to show. I guess in the past I had that necessity to do that. I was immature. Maybe I still am. I just have the duty to tell you.

HpS - Thank you. We are all people. We all feel that the crew is not complete without CMDD and if the authorities see that you have been preaching to a dwarf B'cari who is coming to the Temple during Janmastami festival, they should probably look out.

I want to keep a low profile like Patrak d, Madhumanjari dd. Both are great devotees and serve you, but I I can tell that they are not eager to show off.

I continue giving classes in ISKCON Chosica, and leading kirtan 2 sundays a month

4P

16 rounds ok

Thanks in advance Gurudeva

Trying be your disciple

CMDD

HpS - I hope you have practical faith in us. You have faith in your dog, Ulysses. He will certainly protect you and your sister and cats, but... he is a dog and you do not expect him to do more than that. Jatayu was an eagle and he tried to protect Sita when no one else came forward but he could only do it half way.

Be more enthusiastic to see Gaura Nitai with a face that pleases their Mother's heart.