Letters to the editor

Hare Krsna dear Gurumaharaja

Please accept our humble obeisances

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

I give you the report of the Symposium, I hope I am not overlooking any important information.

Goals

• To consolidate ASA's efforts in education: the different branches were integrated (ASA Carnaval, Argentina and Chile. Why not ASA Peru???)), who contributed in advertising and transmiting the event in social media / ASA also contributed with their member's dedicated presentations (SS Hanumatpresaka Swami, LAD, Candramukhi dd, Priya Sakhi dd and Gandharva das) / and cooperated with MOE representatives organizing the event.
• NIOS participated as sponsor and support (mainly in the hands of ARTD, with whom a fluid and effective coordination was maintained).
• The development [of] the 3 major topics proposed by you (Who is an educated man? What are the Steps on the Educational Ladder? Books are the Basis, The Bhaktivedanta Library, Srila Prabhupada's Four Diplomas. Daivi Varna Ashrama Dharma.

ASA - This is more than three topics! 🐵

• The presence of the MOE in the region is consolidating, presenting itself as an institution sincerely interested in education development, with initiative and the support of a work team that carried out the project.
• It has been possible to form a community of educators and devotees committed in education service, as a result of the event, the Facebook page is maintained with 190 members.

Technical information:

• 20 event days / 19 participants / 4 presenters / 3 translators / between 30 and 60 devotees attending each day

To improve:

• There were presentations that repeated part of their content (curator error).
• There was some inexperience in handling broadcasts on Zoom and Facebook (we have learned a lot!).
• We consider that the event can last half the time for future occasions.
• Simultaneous translations can be substantially improved to integrate English-speaking devotees.
• The lack of interest on the part of the authorities was overwhelming. The authorities of Chile and Bolivia participated permanently, but they were the exception.

ASA - This verse is perfect perspective for this situation, no? https://vedabase.io/es/library/lob/21/

What follows:

• First of all, talk with you and receive your instructions and suggestions in this regard (we will be in Chosica from February 3 to 12).

HpS - Of course, with Pandemic etc this will not happen, but we had and excellent discussion with Bali-mardana Das and now we will work on PanAmerican symposia: Preliminary from Houston (within March 7th-17th) and Robust first week in June from Boise, Idaho.

We need more meetings, maybe periodical, web page.

We will visit Spain July to October.

• A permanent committee composed of the 4 representatives and 4 education leaders will be created to develop the necessary strategies.

HpS - Super! Please introduce them in the Blog!!!

• A way will be sought to further integrate the educational community in Latin America, through other similar events, seminars, diplomas and the training of new teachers.
• The possibility of publishing an online magazine (every three months) that provides information and constitutes a basis for reflection on these issues is being analyzed in order to attract more devotees committed to this service.
• Find a way to integrate and involve local authorities, who are not very interested in educational development.

Thank you very much for your help

Your servant

Gandharva das

HpS - ASA - Thank you!!! We agree like 97% with you analysis of the event. We heard continuous praises of the program.

If people are reading the books then they must be buying them.

Read to learn. Learn to teach!!!

ASA-e; bhaktivedanta library; nod; wod; spanish

AgtSP.

Waves of Devotion by Dhanurdhara Swami, is, to our mind, and essential book for understanding Nectar of Devotion, by Srila Prabhupada, from Bhakti rasamrta sindhu by Rupa Goswami.

We saw to translation into Spanish and asked DS if it existed. He answered, no, and said we could translate and distribute it for free or any income that we needed for our costs.

We asked some devotees to do it but nothing happened.

Mitravinda Devi Dasi asked to help.

LaD said that Param padam has a a copy translated.

We asked him and he sent us translation of the Eastern part of WoD.

As far as I know there was an old version of WoD that was later extensively edited and DS's editors asked us to destroy and copies of that.

Is the Spanish translation from that?

Asked LaD to contact MvDD.

Waiting for their response.

HpS -ASA.

22 01 14

ASA-e; Kapi Dhvaja; Letters to the Editor

Hare Krishna Guru Maharaj

Please accept my humble obeisance in your Divine lotus feet...

HpS - All glories to Srila Prabhupada! We have feet very similar to yours, I think, maybe just a little older!

All Glouris to Shrila Prabhu Pad ji

All Glouris to your wonderful service..

We want to Wish you A Very Happy New year and Very Happy Vyas Pooja Day...

After reading your so many letters and instructions..

Feeling like.. we are so Fortunate to have a Guru like you...

Maharaj I want to share some things about me..

HpS/ASA - ! ! !

When I started reading Shrimad Bhagawatam..some devotees want to listen..

So, we setup a call..

Everyday in afternoon I read in Hindi and 28 devotees listen..

It was the time 2017 Dec to 2019 May...

After that I read so many books ..

Sometimes we read C.C. also..

But I feel I Love Shrimad Bhagawatam..

So, Three months back again I started with my children.

Now they are enjoying.

We read 10 Sholka daily after evening Aarati.. please bless us Maharaj..

HpS - Do you read the Sloka with the Purports by Srila Prabhupada?? Discuss with children et al?

We are following all your instructions..

We are chanting

Following regulative principles..

Listening lecture..

In Temple..

We cooked every Friday 100 devotees for college station..

Every Saturday we cooked sweet for 500 devotees for Sunday feast..

For Sunday..

In morning Mangala Aarati we cooked for 70 devotees..

After that...for evening Sunday feast prasadam we cooked for 500 devotees pooris and pakoda..

And we do packing and serving prasadam also..

HpS - Thus the world changes and people start to act like animals and maybe put away all their atom bombs.

And each and every big or small festival..we help in cooking, packing and serving prasadam..

I am learning so many things from so many senior devotees. ..

But I can not cook for Shri Shri Radha Nila Madhav without your mercy..

HpS - Of course, we cook for Them when the Gopis want us to do it. Me or some else is just one instrument in the big machine.

I am begging your mercy... please bless us so we can do more and more service in temple..

Today is Very special day for you and us..So please bless us...so we can engage birth after birth in Shrila Prabhu Pad ji service..

In Mahaprabhu mission..

Eagerly waiting for your Darshan and association..

Your servants

Sumitra, Devendra Sharma

Houston Texas..

Thank you..

>'o'<

HpS - We did not see your letter. We were looking for it. . . . Little sad, worried. Then we wrote Saranga and Gopinatha, and Saranga told us that you had posted it here about a week ago.

We looked and looked and found it 5-days ago.

Perfect letter. Perfect content, like a well made pakora, puri and sweet... but ... (Small devil smiles)... our Secretaries didn't notice it because it was not packaged and labeled properly.

If the prepartion is for Jagannatha or Lord Nrsmha deva it must have a different label than for Nila Madhava.

Each fortnight (purnima and amavasya) we publish our News, the Kapi Dhavaja in our web-page.

[If you follow us on Twitter as "huber_robinson", the secular name of our body, then you will also get a link each fortnight for the KDH].

There is one section in the KDh titled "Letters to/from the Editor". In there we put a fortnightly Priority Code that you can, must, put in the Title of the Blog Post to get priority attention from our Secretaries.

We, HpSwami/ASA, want to answer all the letters immediately but we don't have time.

Right now we should be spending time with Jagannatha Carana Das, Priya-sakhi Devi Dasi and their children, but we take some very, very important time to explain this communication process (like packaging a very nice cauliflower pakora) for your good self and so that it can also go into our Anjana Suta Academy, Encyclopedia.

What you put in the Title field this time: FMP-PC, is the name of the Priority Code (Full Morning Program - PriorityCode) that we give out during Mangala Arati Japa on line to anyone who asks. Anyone who joins us for Mangala arati, Queen Kunti reading, Japa, can get a Priority Code.

[The ducks that come closer get more bread]

That is like packaging the recipe and distributing the recipes instead of the pakoras. A lot of people do this, so we are trying to make our little system clear.

Is O.K.?

Your letter is very good. Very, very good. Initiation on 12th March?

But, the packaging was not correct: Look at the Kapi Dhvaja at our web page: www.JayaRama.US ... News .... Letters.. before you send the letter and put the PC in the Title of the letter.

The Monkey and Piggyy will give it priority.

Otherwise we may all have to come back for three lifetimes before we get to offer a little lunch to Nila Madhava and the Gopas.

O.K.

Also... The "Letter Type" is not really correct. Should be "Personal Sadhana" not "Category B". We add Cat B (Meow) for stuff that should go into the ASA Encyclopedia.

In any case, we all found each other because we are all a little bit sincere and SRILA PRABHUPADA really has lotus feet.

Thank you so much.

Thank you so, so much. This work is changing the world!!!!

PAMHO

AGTSP

Radhe radhe my dear guru maharaja

Just a note to inform you that on December 10th took place the opening of the house of Krsna Svarupa in Radhakund.

HpS - We suggested he call in New Asokavan!

Vanamali prabhu from Imphal was doing the griha prabesh pooja, there were kirtan lead by Vipin prabhu and Indumukhi mataji and Krsna Svarup offered us bal bhoga.

It was a nice program.

HpS - ASA - It sounds like a celestial program! We would be your neighbors.

Tungavidya Devi Dasi

Hare Krsna Dear Maharaja and ASA team.

Please accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

All glories to your sankirtana!

I hope your ass brother is fine.

Please Maharaja, I ask a favor, could you send me a video where you say what Bhagavad gita for you, or some passtime with the Bhagavad gita or what BG change your life.

This video is for BBT please .

Your send me the video through whatssap of Abhirama p

Thank you very much

with all aprecitaion and affection

ys Isvari R dd

HpS - ASA ---- AgtSP. We tried to record your clip as part of the class this evening. Here is the link. Will this work?

https://transcripts.gotomeeting.com/#/s/351eb05b24fbf72124f3c382daf0a5bb651eeb70bc3dfacc1e48708e856dcac4

Querido Gurudev: Pamho. TgSP y sus seguidores fieles.

Teniendo en cuenta que está sobrepasado de servicio trataré de ser conciso.

En primer lugar quiero decirle que es una gran alegría saber que vendrá en 2022 y pienso que la fecha prevista para venir a España me parece buena. Aunque Julio es, posiblemente, el mes mas caluroso del año, en NVM ya suele tener noches y mañanas agradables. Además a partir de esa fecha el calor suele ir remitiendo. Por otro lado si se quiere hacer algo en las universidades, que estaría muy bien, pienso que Octubre sería bueno. A finales de septiembre se empiezan a incorporar los alumnos, así que si se quiere hacer algo tendría que ser a principios de octubre.

Leo el blog y el KD regularmente y pienso que el blog es uno de sus servicios mas importantes, ya que se establecen respuestas filosóficas a la mayoría de problemas que solemos tener y mantiene a los discipulos en una sintonía común, además de informados de su sankirtana y del sankirtan de otros devotos. Cuando el seguidor del blog recibe contestación a sus cartas, generalmente, es una inyección de entusiasmo en su vida espiritual y aumenta su sentimiento de "pertenencia" a la familia de ISKCON. Sinceramente pienso que ya hace tiempo que tendría que haber recibido ayuda en este servicio de contestar las cartas.Tal como Prabhupada lo hacía pienso que es lo ideal; el era el devoto más práctico que conocemos. No entiendo porque usted tiene que leer las cartas en el ordenador y contestarlas en la pantalla. El cuerpo y la mente ya no dan para tanto. Usted puede estar sentado en un sillón o una mecedora y un devoto va leyendo las cartas y usted va dictando la contestación. No parece muy complicado.

En cuanto la "Tava pache pache" he leido unas páginas y parece una aportación muy interesante para la comunidad vaisnava. Pienso que antes de imprimir la versión en español hay que mirar muchas veces y evitar todos los errores posibles. O hacer una impresión pequeña que luego pueda ser revisada y perfeccionada mas adelante. Aunque un devoto no le da mucha importancia a los errores, es cierto que cuando vemos un error en un libro la edición pierde algo de credibilidad.

No lo entretengo mas de momento.

Esperando que su conexión con Paramatma sea fluida se despide

su sirviente

Jayanta das

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Dear Gurudev: Pamho. TgSP and his loyal fans.

Bearing in mind that he is overworked I will try to be concise.

HpS - AGTSP! paoho. We try to fix priorities and not be overworked. 🙂

First of all I want to tell you that it is a great joy to know that you will come in 2022 and I think that the scheduled date to come to Spain seems good to me. Although July is possibly the hottest month of the year, NVM already usually has pleasant nights and mornings. Also from that date the heat tends to subside. On the other hand, if you want to do something in the universities, which would be very good, I think October would be good. At the end of September the students begin to join, so if you want to do something it would have to be at the beginning of October.

HpS - Now it seems the best we can do is 15 July to 1st October. Ten weeks.

I read the blog and the KD regularly and I think that the blog is one of its most important services, since it establishes philosophical answers to most of the problems that we usually have and keeps the disciples in common harmony, in addition to being informed of their sankirtana. and the sankirtan of other devotees. When the blog follower receives a reply to his letters, it is usually an injection of enthusiasm into his spiritual life and increases his feeling of "belonging" to the ISKCON family. I sincerely think that he should have received help in this service of answering the letters a long time ago. As Prabhupada did, I think that is the ideal; He was the most practical devotee we know of. I don't understand why you have to read the letters on the computer and answer them on the screen. The body and the mind no longer give so much. You may be sitting in an armchair or a rocking chair and a devotee is reading the letters and you are dictating the answer. It doesn't seem very complicated.

HpS - Prabhupada didn't start that until he had many disciples, and could have one of them travel with him as a trained secretary. Definitely we will have to be using secretaries if our Sankirtan continues.

As for the "Tava pache pache" I have read a few pages and it seems a very interesting contribution for the Vaisnava community. I think that before printing the Spanish version you have to look many times and avoid all possible errors. Or make a small print that can later be revised and refined later. Although a devotee does not give much importance to errors, it is true that when we see an error in a book the edition loses some credibility.

HpS - Yes! Thank you. The Nobel Laureate in literature, Albert Camus, said that unless you review your work at least six times you are a coward. The English version has passed through these phases and now it is ready to be distributed to critics for their comments. After including their suggestions we will go for mass distribution. With your help we can try to pass the Spanish edition through the same stages.

Thank you! 🙏 🐰

I am not entertaining [detaining] him [your good self] anymore for now.

Hoping that his connection with Paramatma is fluid, he says goodbye

his servant

Jayanta das