Letters to the editor

Hare Krishna dear Guru maharaja,

All glories to Srila Prabhupada,

Please Accept my humbles obeisances.

I would like to tell you that after some months of realizing Garbhadhana samskara, my wife finally got pregnant. She has now 3 monht of pregnancy, and we are very enthusiastic about that.
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Please can you kindly give us your blessings so that the whole process of pregnancy is auspicious.

We have a lot of challenges ahead, like GBC-College residencial and on-line courses, Instituto Jaladuta courses,  some others pratical services, and the baby who is comming at the end of July. (if Krishna wants).

We are very happy waiting for you in Campina Grande. We have 40 confirmed students in the GBC-College's training program. We are working very hard along with Dhanvantari swami in order to make a nice service to all the vaisnavas.

Mathuresh prabhu told me that you asked him to get some informations about the courses of the firts residencial. I have the list of the ourses  but is not completed yet. I soon as  we get all the information, i will sent it to you. Sorry for the delay.

Thank you for all your effort to serve Srila Prabhupada. We are very inspired with you.

You servant, Devaki-nandana das.

HpS - AGTSP    paoho     These are not ordinary children. Krsna does not send ordinary children to be children of devotees. You have great responsibility to protect your child so it can do wonderful things for humanity.

Thank you.
We are working on our participation in the GBC College. With great struggle we finally got to the Consul today in Atlanta and submitted all of our forms for thee Visa. In direct cash it has cost us:

$160 - Application
$16 - Two photos
$13 - Return Mail
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$189 - TOTAL

Plus many, many hours of collecting and delivering documents.

We want to participate in the GBC College as humble members of ISKCON!!!

Hare Krsna, AGTSP,
Paoho...

The idea struck us (ASA) that Chosica, Peru, might be a perfect place to establish Vanaprastha Ashrama. Devotees from around the world could get good Visa arrangments, and then lease shared accomodations there with cultural assets, participate in the Yatra, gardens, asisted living and health care. We know devotees who would like to join.

Hare Krsna, AGTSP,
Paoho ...

La idea nos sorprendió (ASA) que Chosica, Perú, podría ser un lugar perfecto para establecer Vanaprastha Ashrama. Los devotos de todo el mundo podrían obtener buenos arreglos de visas, y luego arrendar alojamientos compartidos allí con activos culturales, participar en el Yatra, jardines, vida asistida y cuidado de la salud. Conocemos a devotos a quienes les gustaría unirse.

Hare Krsna Beloved and respected Gurudeva:

AGTSP, PAMHO

I have already read all the communications that LAD, ART, Isvari, wrote. As I told U in our meeting with LAD using skype... I was worried that if everybody write to U, we might make misunderstandings, double proposals and even tell U wrong information, and just try to satisfy their own programs rather to do a sane itinerary for U.

I have very good communication with Lad, art etc, even the Junta, Jaya Laksmi dd is secretary and she told me about the meeting that they want to have with U today.

So in order to make things more practical, I have already talked with all the devotees mentioned and tomorrow, or the day after I will send U like a first draft of your itinerary.

Just for U to know in Peru Palika dd is the treasurer of HpS's disciples and I am in charge of communications, so I will always try to make things easier for U.

Please kindly forgive any inconvenience.  I was waiting in order to present a decent itinerary. But I guess that it is about time

Thank U Gurudeva 

C U soon

Trying to be useful

Candramukhi dd

HpS - Thank you CMDD. Please send your idea of the current itenarary for Peru. There are also proposals, as you can see, from Gangamayi Devi Dasi and also we have some things we have not posted from Karuna-krsna Das. Mathuresa Das may also have some suggestions since he is also trying to come during this time.

The Calendar seems to be forming up very well, but there is still a lot of space. Of course, we need some flexibility because after we get to Peru there will also be new things developing. I guess it is like practicing for the Rasa-lila.

One point is that we do this job of "Diksa-guru" as a formality, but not a meaningless formality. Usually the principal Siksa-guru becomes Diksa-guru, but for us the Anjana Suta Academy is our more active preaching, Siksa-guru, institution. Our role as ISKCON Diksa-guru with our disciples is important. It is for us a great honor and makes us very humble. So, there is Diksa guru, (Secretary, Treasurer) stuff while we are in Peru and Siksa-guru stuff that then we feel should be the Anjana Suta Academy which is open to everyone, not just our devotees HpS has formally initiated.

Want to form an active branch of ASA in Peru? Can start organizing study programs under UG. It was never disbanded just suspended.

Of course, Jayapataka Swami, Virabahu Das, Bhakti-bhusana Swami all have there personal perspectives on these things just as you do.

TOO MUCH FUN!!

Note: First picture CMDD, second picture Tom Brown.

Hare Krishna,
Pamho, AGTSP.

I writing to you because I read a letter from your disciple Prahlad Nrsimha Das on the blog. He tell us about his work in Vedabase and says he needs help for importing Spanish. I would like to help, but I don't understand what is the support PND needs for Vedabase. So I would like to know what is the specific service and I hope then be able to know how to help.

Yes, every help is needed.

We need help with importing all Spanish books. It is simple process, but takes time.

You can see short example video of how it looks on importing Hindi BG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klsJLWfHfns

If you or anybody else could help it will speed up all process and we will be able to fully switch into new version.

I will write yu also directly to your email, if you didn't get anything please send me a message. My email is [email protected]

Your servant Prahlad Nrsimha das

Hare Krishna Namacarya Prabhu,
Pamho, AGTSP.

Thank you for letter.

However there is one thing that is lacking and I noticed several times but never bothered to pass on the feedback. The presence of vedabase.com in google search results for gita and bhagavatam verses is pretty week [weak]. Most of the times non BBT affiliated sites are at the top and I rarely see vedabase.com.  For instance check these links that search for 'bhagavatam' and 'bhagavad gita' key words:

I am aware of this. Have plan to optimize everything for search engines. Will work on it after search for new version is online.

Once we import all books from .com we will redirect everything to new version which will be that time optimized.

Your servant Prahlad Nrsimha das

Suggested Editing?

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: The Best Basis

ISKCON New Vrajamandala community is a rural project situated about one hour north of Madrid, Spain. The current President, H. H. Yadunanadana Swami, and community are focusing on education as the basis of their community development. Maharaja was initiated in 1978 by H. H. Satsvarupa Das Goswami and took Sannyasa in 2009. He was Principal of the Bhaktivedanta College in Radhadesa and Member of the Executive Committee of the Ministry of Education.

One history explains that the NVM complex was constructed by the Minister of Health to the Spanish Dictator, Francisco Franco (1892-1975) and used as a summer retreat. I had three swimming pools and hundreds of acres of land for horse-back riding. Weekend educational retreats in Sastric studies and specific occupational skills, Puja etc are now organized there. Children from Spanish schools come for a program called, “A Day in India”, and get to milk a cow and offer incense to Their Lordship’s Govinda Chandra. Breakfast and lunch are a rural feast and the peacock is waiting to take your remnants.

In 2017 Maharaja and the devotees chased the spiders out of three of the lower patio rooms, and cleaned, painted and outfitted three sunny rooms as class rooms for a pre-school program. The progressive model is that they will add one level of education each year. This worked in Manipur for H. H. B. S. Damodar Swami and after 12-years his students were winning State competitions.

The core teacher is a devotional jewel, Mani-manjari Devi Dasi, who joined as soon as she finished a teaching commitment with the Avanti School in Vraja. She has been teaching professionally in the secular world for ten-years and is certified by, and well associated with, the professional educational system in Spain known as NABSS. NABSS is a British system fully authorized and appreciated by the government of Spain. She is continuing to enhance her accreditation to primary school level by taking distance education courses from the NABSS facility in Valencia.

NVM and Maharaja are also integrating with the Avanti School Trust, headed by Navin-krsna Das in England, through their pre-school system, Little Avanti Nursery School.

Several very qualified families have already moved to the community to enroll their toddlers and engage their skills in other community services. NVM is minutes away from the picturesque small town of Brihuega where one ISKCON favorable gentleman runs an excellent health spa. He sends clients to NVM as a weekend retreat and some community devotees are taking work with him. Carpooling to Guadalajara (pop. 84, 803) is less than an hour and quite practical for devotees living at NVM for developing their own businesses, or working for municipal or business entities.

Let us finishing by contrasting Maharaja’s and the NVM communities strategy with that of Aghasura.

“Aghāsura was instigated by Kaṁsa, so he had come with determination. Aghāsura also thought that when he would offer grains and water in memory of his brother and sister and kill Kṛṣṇa and all the cowherd boys, then automatically all the inhabitants of Vṛndāvana would die. Generally, for the householders, the children are the life and breath force. When all the children die, then naturally the parents also die on account of strong affection for them.”, https://www.vedabase.com/en/kb/12 [italics ours]

So let us suggest that when the children live and thrive the householders also live, prosper and preach with great success and introspection.

http://centres.iskcon.org/centre/new-vrajamandala-spain/