Letters to the editor

Letter to the Editorial Board:

Hare Krsna, Prabhus,

AGTSP.  paoho.   Attached is the first draft of Viplavah 2018[3]. It is late because we are selfish, hypocritical, little demons and also because of this eye infection.

Saw Doctor Frank Gowota today and he said that was viral conjunctivitis and is mostly cured now but there is still some inflamation of the cornea so take this steroid for about a week and you should be able to see straight again.

Until then the screen looks blurred and it hurts to read and write, but we go on.

So attached is the first draft. It is going to be a good number. Jiva Goswami Das is already joining us as a future Assistant Acting Editor. He is in Houston and is rumored to have a wife and daughter but nobody ever sees them. <img alt="Emoji" data-inlineimagemanipulating="true" height="16" src="https://s.yimg.com/nq/yemoji_assets/latest/yemoji_assets/1f601.png" title="Emoji" width="16" /> He is like the Gopis in Vraja, they think they have husbands.

Please look through it and when you find your name inserted next to "TTD" please do the thing suggested or something vaguely related.

Also, please give General Opinions.

HpS - ASA.

P.S. We are still shooting for a release date of 29th May. I was thinking we can get someone in North America to format it. Caitanya-caritamrta Das in Houston is great candidate. Copy of this letter to him.

Hire Locally.

Hare Krsna, Prabhus and Prabhinis,
TB, here.

We just finished our Daily SB class from the ASA camp in Murfreesboro. Last year at the North American Symposium on Education in Seattle we gave SB class in the morning and noticed how Srila Prabhupada included it as a requirement in our society. Our realization was that all the Bh. Vai., Bh. Vedanta, study systems that we are developing are very weak unless they include, are even based upon regular, daily SB classes amongst the Yatra. That is how we would primarily identify the Yatra. Not primarily as those people who attend worship the the Deities in a certain Templel building.

Of course, this is a big topic, but here we are just giving a summary.

The main thing was that we were tired. We are confused by our Sankirtan battles but as a regulative principle, order of our Spiritual Master, we had to have Daily SB class. We have tried with several different Yatras/Temples to get this going but have not been able to do it. We even went to the local GBC and could not get a satisfying arrangement. Now we are going to two or three other GBCs and the Ministry of Education, and as they also seem to be confunded like this as others, then we have a right to go to Srila Prabhupada directly. We have a right, responsibility to start it here in our ASA. So, we did it.

It was hard.

Yet, we have finished one week.

Have you got a Bhakti-vedanta curriculim going??

No. We are first going to keep our taste and satisfaction in the matter. Then we are going to see how others join us and learn what is there taste and satisfaction and Sankirtan needs and then out of that a natural system will develop. May take some time but it will have a very strong foundation.

That was our deep realization and satisfaction today. We were not attending, doing the class out of our head. It was coming straight from the heart. "Sraddha sabda..." and we were feeling sure that we don't have to think, speculate, at all how to expand the class. The class, Bhakti-yoga, will do that automatically.

Maybe you can join our class. Maybe you can't but then maybe our class will inspire others.

What do you think?

We could say more but what is your perspective?

BTW, I did a post some time ago giving a longer overview of the books:

https://www.ashishdalela.com/2018/02/26/impatient-guide-books/

Hare Krsna
agtsp 
all glories to you guru dev
thank you for engage us in service
this is the link for the art and the sacred documentary film with  english subtitles.

https://youtu.be/TpKoStcKmBo

People  watch this nice documentary film  with beatiful and deep interviews! Please subscribe to the chanel Nios Image to support it, thank you.

yours Ambarisa das

ASA - AGTSP!    paoho......   Thank you. Please distribute this link and invite people to participate with articles on "Art and the Sacred" for our magazine 'Solaris' and the Symposium 24-26th of October in Lima, Peru.

Write to this Blog with ideas of how to perfect this project.

See SB 1.5.11 ...descriptions of the transcendental glories of the name, fame, forms, pastimes, etc., of the unlimited Supreme Lord is a different creation, full of transcendental words directed toward bringing about a revolution in the impious lives of this world’s misdirected civilization.

1.5.22 ... Human intellect is developed for advancement of learning in art, science, philosophy, physics, chemistry, psychology, economics, politics, etc. By culture of such knowledge the human society can attain perfection of life.

What is the best book to read? Here is a quick summary (of his excellent books) -- 

-- Godel's Mistake, Quantum Meaning, and Moral Materialism are very technical - primarily focused on science and not for a beginner

-- Signs of Life is focused on Evolutionary Theory and its alternative -- again not a topic if you are not keen on this subject

-- Mystic Universe is specifically focused on cosmology -- but you mentioned already this is too involved 

-- Sankhya and Science is all about philosophy of science -- especially about the philosophy of empiricism and its revision in Sankhya

-- Uncommon Wisdom -- this is a scientific critique of atheism by picking out the scientific problems in the ideas on which atheism is based

-- Six Causes -- this is a quick survey of Vedic philosophy of creation -- after a while it gets somewhat in depth, but it maybe a starting point

-- Is the Apple Really Red? -- this is meant to be an introduction -- it is a short about 100 page book and comprised of 10 short essays

There are 10 short essays, and each essay is self-contained (almost). Here is a essay by essay summary to see what the book is about:

https://www.ashishdalela.com/books/apple-really-red/

I joined your website and Yahoo groups. Will see how I can best contribute! 

Hare Krishna!

Ys, Rsiraja das

Hare Krishna Dear Gurumaharaja,
Please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

I just read your post from 19th April. (https://hps.monkeywarrior.com/node/9269)

Paoho.  Can you write an article on Vedabase.com for the next Viplavah. Publishing date is end of May. So need the article in a few weeks so we can edit a little.

I am going to write it and will send it.

Your servant Prahlad Nrsimha das 

HpS - Hare Krishna! Thank you. I think we sent an email. Did you get it? What is your current email. We won't publish it.

Please tell us a little personal history, history of Vedabase.com  and history of Srila Prabhupada books on line and plans for VBC and suggestions for a strategy for BBT and education on line.