Letters to the editor

Hare Krsna Gurudev, por favor acepte mis humildes reverencias

Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada!

Todas las glorias a sus sinceros sirvientes como Usted!

Esperamos que su dolor de cabeza se haya ido.

ASA - Ha ido, pero ya allergia, pollen, primavera, la mas fuerte como recuerdo. Luchando minimizar. en fin acceptando utilizar medicina anti-alergica recomendado por Amit. Nuestra docotor.

Y ya la munyeca derecho en dolor. 🙂

Pienso es misma para Vds

Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna.

Sorry for our slowness, we are editing the DCT videos. Sessions 1 and 2 of the Inter-fe dialogue are now available at Asa Audiovisual. The third is on the way.

https://youtu.be/XeLUKBeYDAg

HpS - ASA --- We have a lot of room for improvement, but we can only pray that sincere people will tolerate the lower quality to get the message. I think the originals are still at GoToMeeting. I will try to send you the links by Whatsapp again.

https://youtu.be/cvFSNtjwu3Y

We added a little animated introductory title, please let me know what you think about it.

HpS - Best part of the show!

Regarding the quality of the video: we noticed that the files downloaded from Facebook Asa Carnaval have lower quality than those from GoTomeeting. It is not something we can improve now, but in future videos. I also think that the quality is acceptable. Can you send me the PPT? to the WhatsApp of Ambarisa or to asaudiovisual.....com. I've been searching jayarama.us but couldn't find them.

HpS, TB/BW - We just sent the PPTX to your gmail. There are two more wcl, wold classical literature, but I don't know if we used those?

We also sent the View link to Ambarisa Das's Whatsapp and the GTM Account Name and Passcode. Maybe you can log-on and access stuff directly. Didn't work last time.

Also, we downloaded the first IFD show and then tried to send it by We Transfer. Files sent to

asaudiovisual. . . com 1 item, 415 MB in total ・ Expires on 12 May, 2021

About the language on the YouTube cover: Most of the presentations are bilingual, the animated introduction in the videos is bilingual, but when designing the cover of each of the videos (which is seen as a thumbnail on the Asa channel) The text is very long if I include both languages. So I did them in Spanish. Does this sound good to you? or should they be in english?

HpS - I think English with with little note "Bilingue", no? It is more global language.

Thank you very much Gurudev for your infinite patience and care.

Thank you for engaging us in service.

intentando servirlo,

Vrsabhanu Nandini dd

HpS - ASA - We are pigs, dogs, monkeys and asses trying to be of some service to Guru, Gauranga and Devotee!!!

Such a nice movement.

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Disculpas por nuestra lentitud, estamos editando los videos de DCT. Ya estan disponibles en Asa Audiovisual las sesiones 1 y 2 del dialogo Interfe. La tercera esta en camino.

https://youtu.be/XeLUKBeYDAg

https://youtu.be/cvFSNtjwu3Y

Agregamos un pequeño titulo introductorio animado, por favor déjeme saber que piensa acerca del eso.

En cuanto a la calidad del video: notamos que los archivos descargados de Facebook Asa Carnaval tienen menor calidad que los de GoTomeeting. No es algo que podamos mejorar ahora, pero si en los futuros videos. Igualmente pienso que la calidad es aceptable. Puede usted enviarme los PPT? al whatsapp de Ambarisa o a [email protected]. Estuve buscando en jayarama.us pero no pude encontrarlos.

Acerca del idioma en la portada de Youtube: La mayoria de las presentaciones son bilingues, la introduccion animada en los videos es bilingue, pero al diseñar la portada de cada uno de los videos (la que se ve como miniatura en el canal de Asa) El texto es muy largo si incluyo ambos idiomas. Entonces las hice en español. Esto le parece bien? o deberían ser en ingles?

Muchas gracias gurudev por su infinita paciencia y cuidado. Gracias por ocuparnos en servicio.

intentando servirlo

Vrsabhanu Nandini dd

Hare Krishna Gurudeva, please accept our humble revelations.

ALL GLORIES TO SRILA PRABHUPADA !! and YOU!!

Gurudeva first, and with your permission, we want to start this report by thanking all the devotees, family members and colleagues friends who stood in solidarity with us when they knew that my wife and I were infected with covid in March. Our greatest gratitude to you GURUDEVA and SADAI NIMAI-NITAI for your mercy we can still stay on this donkey and under your guidance purify ourselves to try to please the devotees, you, Srila Prabhupada and KRISHNA himself. The first week was smooth, but the second week was a bit tricky. Thanks to mother Lavanya-mangala for connecting me with an excellent pulmonologist. From April 20, one day before RAMA-NAVAMI we were discharged, JAY SRI RAMA !!!!

HpS - Hare Krsna!!! Hare KRSNA! We apologize for the delay in responding. We have never had such bad allergy reaction in the past. Little, little, little better today, but now our right wrist is extremely bad. Can barely rotate without howling in the wrist.

Hmmmm?

So typing is very hard, but we are not easily discouraged.

Well, now if we go to the specific points of this report:

Due to the growth and the possibilities of presence of SOLARIS in the academic world, we are currently trying to delegate and establish an organizational structure, useful and efficient for the Sankirtan-academic through SOLARIS. This implies resolving clearly, (as you always say, first, who I am, who we partner with and then the plans) this translates into the magazine collectively developing a strategic plan. The first steps we are taking in that direction are:

• Develop the concept "SOLARIS contributions for a new culture" We plan to hold two Round Tables in May and June, to address this issue, and have perspectives, clear criteria and consensus, okay? All those who wish to participate in the Round Tables can register by sending a request to: [email protected]

HpS-ASA -- Oink! Oink! Whoop! Whoop. You did not answer the first question. It is what is Solaris to you???? With some depth. Also, seems the partners don't mention their motives, perspective.

Why are you motivated by this periodical. Not, "I want to help people and the world." More details.

• SOLARIS is part of NIOS, that means having constant communication, periodic meetings with the board of directors and advisers to refine ideas and establish criteria and objectives to develop a calendar of activities for 2021, which will be executed and evaluated every three months. The reports on this topic are in charge of the monocyte Manuel.

HpS - !

That's all for now, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR EVERYTHING GURUDEVA, her insignificant servant, Abhirama Thakura dasa.

HpS - Why does this attract you? Why do you like doing books and magazines? You could fix automobiles.

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Gurudeva en primer lugar, y, con su permiso, queremos empezar este informe agradeciendo a todos los devotos, devotas, familiares, colegas y amigos que se solidarizaron con nosotros cuando se enteraron que mi esposa y yo nos contagiamos con el covid en marzo. Nuestra mayor gratitud a usted GURUDEVA y a SADAI NIMAI-NITAI por su misericordia aun podemos mantenernos en este burro y bajo su guía purificarnos para tratar de complacer a los devotos, a Usted, a Srila Prabhupada y a KRISHNA mismo. La primera semana fue suave pero la segunda se complicó un poco. Gracias a la madre Lavanya-mangala por contactarme con un excelente neumólogo. Desde el 20 de abril, un día antes de RAMA-NAVAMI nos dieron de alta, JAY SRI RAMA!!!!

Bueno ahora si vamos a los puntos específicos de este reporte:

Actualmente debido al desarrollo y las posibilidades de presencia de SOLARIS en el mundo académico estamos tratando de delegar y establecer una estructura organizativa, útil y eficiente para el Sankirtan académico a través de SOLARIS. Esto implica resolver claramente, (como usted siempre dice, primero, quien soy, con quienes nos asociamos y luego los planes) esto se traduce en la revista en elaborar colectivamente un plan estratégico. Los primeros pasos que estamos dando en esa dirección son:

·        Desarrollar el concepto “SOLARIS contribuciones para una nueva cultura” Pensamos hacer dos Mesas Redondas en mayo y junio, para abordar este tema, y tener perspectivas, criterios claros y consensos, está bien? Todos los que deseen participar en las Mesas Redondas se pueden inscribir enviando una solicitud a: [email protected]

·        SOLARIS es parte de NIOS eso significa tener una comunicación constante, reuniones periódicas con la junta de directores y asesores para afinar ideas y establecer criterios y objetivos para elaborar un calendario de actividades para el 2021, que se ejecutara y evaluara cada tres meses. Los reportes de este tema están a cargo del monocito Manuel.

Eso es todo por ahora, MUCHAS GRACIAS POR TODO GURUDEVA, su insignificante sirviente, Abhirama Thakura dasa.

1. Virabahu Das is an excellent source of illumination from Srila Prabhupada.
2. SVBD is one of our closest friends in ISKCON (if he hasn't gotten disgusted with our bad qualities🙄).
3. He is our GBC Secretary for the Anjana Suta Academy, and Chile, where ASA is especially designed for preaching!

We have not had contact with him for some time, so we Whatsapped him. Edited message:

AGTSP!  Paoho...  Where are you, Sir?     We are still based in Nashville, but after one year here, with our vaccinations, we went for the weekend to Richmond, Virginia. 

We still have it on our TTD list to palaver with some of the different ISKCON communities in Santiago, 😳, but since we had heard no more rumbles between them it has not gotten done.

We will do it.

Our main focus is just consolidating our Sankirtan stuff (into a movie) before we die. 🦆🦆🦢🦆....

What is your physical address?  We might mail you a sketch book. 📓

Please call, text us, as you desire.

We still publish the Kapi Dhvaja fortnightly and have about 40-people average on-line for Mangala-arati etc.

H. P. Swami, Head of the Anjana Suta Academy.

(Picture of ASA

Supreme,

Absolute,

Undifferentiated

Commando

attached).

Hare Krishna Everyone.

All glories to Srila Prabupada

Humility and tolerance as described by Acharya’s are considered to be two important indicators for spiritual progress.

I want to touch base with one aspect of humility today which helps in every aspect of life which includes relationships like with wife, kids, parents, work or associating with devotees.

Over the years conducting and participating in Bhakti Vriksha programs I have come across different versions of humility from devotees.

Let’s start with our mind.

Our mind is restless, manipulative and tells us how to act in certain situations to be appropriate for particular situation.

Humility does not mean that you have to wear old clothes, drive old car or live in a hut. Everyone lives according to their means and sometime more or below their means. We all have imbibe things while growing up and is actually very deeply ingrained to our system.

If someone tells me to buy 500-dollar shirt I won’t buy it even if I can afford it because I am not raised like that. So we have to understand that outer appearance and the way we live have sometimes nothing to do with humility.

We could be just too attached to money, we could be very frugal and also have hard time doing charity. But if we look from outside we may be considered to be very humble because we know when to fold hands and pay obeisance.

One aspect of humility which I want to discuss today is to look inside and see your faults. Then you accept it and try to rectify it. This process of seeing fault inside and trying to rectify is very purifying process and definitely helps spiritually and helps in relationships.

Another part of humility is that its all or none. If you are humble at the temple, you are also humble in front of your spouse, family and work. It’s a part of you. Otherwise you are just acting out.

I have met lot of people, men or women, who have trouble accepting faults in themselves even after chanting for many years. I am not trying to find any faults with those who are sincerely chanting. My point is If we are able to grow from inside our spiritual progress will be more expedited. 

Hare Krishna

YS

Shitij Kapoor 

HpS - Thank you, Sir!

Hare Krsna!

It seems you have been chanting for some time with some sincere effort and your heart is becoming gentle and wise.

Daksa is an example of someone who did Visnu yajna for many years but he had attachments in his heart that slowed or contaminated his progress. Lord Caitanya explains this in His analogy of the Krpa of Bhakti to Rupa Goswami (CC Madhya 19).

Thank you!!

Hare Krsna Maharaj, PAMHO,

https://monkeywarrior.com/detail/12299/ Tough time in marriage, go-dasa, seems to be our

past. If your grace feels its okay and he likes he can contact us.

HpS - We will keep this in mind. Thank you. Very valuable offer.

JAYA SRI SRI GURU AND GAURANGA !!

ALL GLORIES TO SRILA PRABHUPADA !! and his loyal and dedicated disciples like you.

SS Hanumatpresaka Swami, first of all I want to introduce myself my name is Manuel, I am a monkey,

ASA - It is like at Alcoholic Anonymous meetings when someone stands up and he says, "My name is Manuel R and I am an alcoholic" and then gives a testimony.

(I attach my photo at the end of this report), I perceive myself cheerful, communicative and sometimes a little grumpy, I try to have a favorable attitude to Seva and, in my character prevails more a Ksatriya-vaisya attitude than a brahmana. Prabhu Abhirama told me about the importance of sending periodic reports of the SOLARIS MAGAZINE...

ASA - We know him, good man, but still some room for improvement.

...every 15 days. I have accepted this service for 6 months then we will evaluate whether it continues or not.

So let's start with the report of what is being done and progressing in SOLARIS magazine.

PROGRESS IN THE INDEXATION OF SOLARIS IN LATINDEX

A section of CONCYTEC-Peru (National Council of Science, Technology and Technological Innovation) It is the representative of LATINDEX in Peru. LATINDEX is the first important database to which we are applying to be indexed by them (we have good communication with Professor Bolaños who is in charge so that will help in the management) he suggests that this year we make a magazine in October or November and that we complete all that remains to be evaluated and that from 2022 if we publish 2 magazines a year (one in May or June and another in October or November), I particularly agree that we still have several requirements and formalities to meet and we are already April, SO THE SUGGESTION IS TO MAKE A NUMBER IN OCTOBER OR NOVEMBER what do you think?

ASA - Seems good. Seems like a possibly good pace for such and important project. 

TEAMS THAT HAVE BEEN FORMED ACCORDING TO THE CHARACTERIZATIONS OF THE INDEXATION

1. TECHNICAL TEAM FOR THE SOLARIS WEBSITE AND FOR EDITING TOPICS AND CONTENTS

We have read the LATINDEX regulations and according to their characteristics we have formed a technical team that according to their knowledge, experiences and skills can help to complete the formal requirements (for example, in the case of Bhakta Marcos, professor at the Complutense University of Madrid, he is a lawyer and he is dealing with the legal rules corresponding to the magazine, there are several, he includes ethical rules (for example, if we subscribe to Creative Commons 4.0 to share our articles for free, as long as it is for non-commercial purposes (they would only cite to SOLARIS in a technical way) And so we will share the content of the magazine with other researchers and intellectuals in the world.

Purnamasi and Nitya Kisori are writing all the formal information on the website (in Spanish and English). I participate in the part in Spanish and I provide you with all the documents that we have drawn up in previous years (invitations, model agreements, etc.) that material is serving as the basis.

The website is 90% ready, (Bhaktin Sandra Salazar, (a student of prabhu Gandharva has participated in a very creative way in this part).

What we are also working on is how to manage social networks and how to integrate NIOS and SOLARIS in a harmonious way. any suggestion is welcome. please, write us to this email: [email protected].

ASA - Very nice. It should be clear that Solaris is a journal of NIOS, no?

2. HISPANIC COMMUNICATIONS TEAM

Here each Hispanic country has its representative, our current challenge is to develop a communication strategy for the magazine. Another challenge is to make AN ATTRACTIVE AND CONVINCING BILINGUAL DIGITAL DIGITAL BIPTIC to encourage magazine writing. After the first indexing, we will no longer invite them to write on the contrary, we will have many authors who want to publish articles because in universities they pay professors to publish in indexed journals, so they improve their level, professors and universities improve their classification. Prabhu Abhirama has set himself the challenge of developing the concept: “SOLARIS Contributions for a new culture”. Everyone is invited to participate, please those who wish to do so can write to us at the e-mail: [email protected]

3. SOLARIS TEAM IN INDIA

Here is the participation of Mother Sarad Gaurangi Devi Dasi from Manipur University who is going to write an article on health, the pandemic and spirituality and Professor Harsh Pradan from the University of Banaras. Mother Purnamasi is the co-coordinator with ARTd. There we have the valuable contribution of Albert Ferrer (he is from Barcelona) but he has an important educational Asrama and a project that is on the way to becoming a University in India, He greatly appreciates SS HpS and will write in this October issue of SOLARIS.

4. SOLARIS TEAM IN USA.

The members are: Srinivas-acarya, Srinath Krishna, Radhika Raman (according to their possibilities) and we hope that there will be an Aja-Govinda, current NIOS secretary of communications.

The co-coordination is with mother Nitya kisori and ARTd. As I understand it, the ideal is that of the 12 or 13 articles in each issue of SOLARIS, at least 5 or 6 are articles that are written in English (that is, written by English-speaking teachers, not translating from Spanish to English, we have already tested that does not work well). In Latin America we already have a certain important presence in some intellectual circles, but in the US, Europe and India we are still lacking, so if 50% of the content is in English that will help to have a greater presence in the US, Europe and India.

ASA - Please bump HpSwami to give names of English speaking scholars and devotees. There is bvery nice devotee in Ojai, California and Chaitany-carana Das from India et al.

I will end this report with a quote to Albert Einstein: "The study and, in general, the search for truth and beauty make up an area where we can remain children all our lives."

That's all for now the Holiness of him, thank you very much for inspiring us to find our place and be helpful and favorable in Sri Rama's army. JAY SITA-RAMA-LAKSMANA-HANUMAN !!!!

NOTE: Sorry for the grammar mistakes, I used, the Google translator to make this report.

ASA - We edited it a little bit. Super. We can share this with NIOS members etc.

Now we wait for number two. You don't have to write as much because these can form a series.