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URGENT: 4^TH report ART and the SACRED

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Hare Krishna respected Gurudeva, please accept my humble obeisances
¡All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!!
¡All Glories to you!!

By mercy the mercy of Srila Prabhupada and Sadai Nimai-Nitai, we already have the agreement signed and sealed by the Director of the National Library of Peru to perform ART AND THE SACRED from 24 to 26 October 2018. Now, with Walter and Ramón’s help we are writing formal letters addressed to India, China, Japan and Russia embassies trying to get their sponsorship and participation.

Through this agreement we can upload the NIOS bilingual videos to a network of the Ministry of Culture that has more than 500,000 users, but, a requirement they have, is that our video should have more than 1000 visits, so we humbly ask the members of the blog to help us spreading the word and thus meet the goal of more than 1000 visits each. The links are the following:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G25tmFeMRxo&t=3s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dx_aHNMxT4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2IDfcJPg_M&t=20s

HpS - O.K. We visit!

As well, for your South American Sankirtan tour in March-April 2018, we are managing with Jesuit University Antonio Ruiz de Montoya to carry out a conversation about "POETRY and MUSIC, PRABODHANANDA SARASVATI and NAROTTAMA DASA THAKURA: Sacred Art in Classical India in the XVI century ", and the presentation of the film "ART AND THE SACRED, the journey of a pilgrim".

Next week we are going to meet Walter León to start doing the bilingual (printed and digital) promotional brochure of ART AND THE SACRED, we hope to send you the content and design proposals for the second week of January. We are making with Miguel Polo the call to SOLARIS No. 3. and also managing in some institutions their sponsorship in carrying out all activities.

Gurudeva to try to make regular reports I have asked a bhakta for help, he has accepted and will write each ekadasi, with the pseudonym "Ajam, the horse".

Gurudeva, allow me to humbly offer you a few words for your Auspicious Vyasa-puja No 70. On Tuesday the 19^th, we had in our asrama, a beautiful meeting where Héctor Béjar, Oscar Naters, Ana Zavala, Walter Leon, Emma Zevallos and some 10 devotees were present. After puspanjali they were asked to define in two words their appreciation about you and these were their comments:

Héctor Béjar said "Spiritual Quality"

Oscar Naters said "Persistent and wise"

Ana Zavala said "Playful and Kind"

Walter León said "Brave and Spiritual"

And Miguel Polo could not attend, but he said on the phone "Enthusiast and Dialogant Attitude"

Respected GURUDEVA, you are a Genuine Guru because you are a legitimate and exemplary disciple, I humbly ask you to forgive my offenses and my clumsiness, sincerely, I am trying to surrender my heart to you and get a drop of your niskapata-kripa.

Gurudeva, I offer you this poem as a sign of my eternal gratitude

HANUMATPRESAKA SWAMI

He who sends Hanuman as His messenger

In this world you suffer

under a mantle of selfish illusions

Darkness takes over our desires

And it ties us with unbridled lust

You arrived in autumn and turned it into spring

You accompany the Sun that evaporates ignorance

You taught us that dawn is the clue and the key

fruit of Bhakti, son of Bhaktivedanta Swami, star of the dawn

Hare Krishna respected Gurudeva, your insignificant servant, Abhiram Thakur das.

URGENTE: 4to Informe EL ARTE Y LO SAGRADO

Hare Krishna respetado Gurudeva, por favor acepte mis humildes reverencias
¡Todas las Glorias a Srila Prabhupada!!
¡Todas las Glorias a Usted!!

Por la misericordia Srila Prabhupada y Sadai Nimai-Nitai ya tenemos el convenio firmado y sellado por el Director de la Biblioteca Nacional del Perú para realizar EL ARTE Y LO SAGRADO del 24 al 26 de octubre de 2018. Ahora con la ayuda de Walter y Ramón estamos haciendo cartas formales a las embajadas de India, China, Japón y Rusia para tratar de obtener su auspicio y participación.

Por medio de este convenio podemos subir los videos bilingües de NIOS a una red del Ministerio de Cultura que tiene más de 500, 000 usuarios, pero, un requisito que nos piden, es que el video tenga más de 1000 visitas, así que humildemente les pedimos a los miembros del blog que nos ayuden a difundirlos y así cumplir la meta de más de 1000 visitas de cada uno, los links de los videos son los siguientes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G25tmFeMRxo&t=3s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dx_aHNMxT4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2IDfcJPg_M&t=20s

También, para su gira de Sankirtan a Sudamérica en marzo-abril 2018, estamos gestionando con la Universidad Jesuita Antonio Ruiz de Montoya hacer un conversatorio sobre “POESÍA y MÚSICA, PRABODHANANDA SARASVATI y NAROTTAMA DASA THAKURA: Arte Sagrado en la India Clásica del siglo XVI” y la presentación de la película “EL ARTE Y LO SAGRADO, el viaje de un peregrino”.

Con Walter León nos vamos a reunir la próxima semana para empezar a hacer el folleto bilingüe (impreso y digital) promocional de EL ARTE Y LO SAGRADO, esperamos enviarle las propuestas de contenido y diseño la segunda semana de enero. Con Miguel Polo estamos haciendo la convocatoria a SOLARIS No. 3. También estamos gestionando en algunas instituciones su auspicio en la realización de todas las actividades.

Gurudeva para tratar de hacer regular los informes le he pedido ayuda a un bhakta, él ha aceptado y va a escribir cada ekadasi, él va a escribir con el seudónimo “Ajam el caballo”.

Gurudeva ahora permítame ofrecerle humildemente unas palabras por su Auspicioso Vyasa-puja No 70. Nosotros tuvimos en nuestro asrama el martes 19, una bonita reunión donde estuvieron presentes Héctor Béjar, Oscar Naters, Ana Zavala, Walter León, Emma Zevallos y unos 10 devotos. Después del puspanjali nosotros le pedimos que definan en dos palabras su aprecio a usted, estas fueron sus respuestas:

Héctor Béjar dijo “Calidad Espiritual”

Oscar Naters dijo “Perseverante y Sabio”

Ana Zavala dijo “Lúdico y Bondadoso”

Walter León dijo “Valiente y Espiritual”

Y Miguel Polo no pudo asistir, pero por teléfono dijo “Entusiasta y Actitud Dialogante”

Respetado GURUDEVA usted es un Guru Genuino porque es un Discípulo genuino y ejemplar, humildemente le pido que perdone mis ofensas y mis torpezas, sinceramente, estoy tratando de rendirme de corazón a usted y obtener una gota de su niskapata-kripa.

Gurudeva le ofrezco este poema en señal de mi eterna gratitud:

HANUMATPRESAKA SWAMI

Aquel que envía a Hanuman como su mensajero

En este mundo se sufre
bajo un manto de ilusiones egoístas

La oscuridad se apodera de nuestros deseos

Y nos ata con lujuria desenfrenada

Usted llego en otoño y lo convirtió en primavera

a Usted lo acompaña el Sol que evapora la ignorancia

Usted nos enseñó que el amanecer es la clave y la llave

fruto del Bhakti, hijo de Bhaktivedanta Swami, estrella del amanecer

HARE KRISHNA QUERIDO GURUDEVA, su insignificante sirviente, Abhiram Thakur das.

HpS - Tan mucho depende en esta momento si Oscar puede relacionar bien con Hector y podemos producir esta collection interelacionado de Kalyan, Hector (Radhika y Beverley) pronto.   Proxoma Ekadasi.

hare krsna 

agtsp

agthps

there is a person, maybe you know him, sir ken robinson, a British educator, writer and lecturer. Doctor of the University of London, researching on the application of theater in education. he live in Los Angeles now

looks like trough his knowledge and experience he realize some ideas of the vedic culture; like we are not tabula rasa and each person have his own personal hability (varnaasrama?)

he could participate in solaris or an interviw. look s like an interesting person. i just look something  in youtube. we can try to contact him. what do you think?

here some links in youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6MNTXi82GM

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Robinson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPB-41q97zg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9LelXa3U_I

thank you guru dev

your servant Ambarisa das

HpS - ASA ---- Thank you so much for your essential contributions. We just got to this after this trip to India. The wikipedia article is great. Now we will look at the youtube links when we get a solid internet connection!  If anybody else looks at them and sends a review to the Blog that is also great. Sankirtan. Bridges between people. After we see the youtube we can maybe open a dialog with him.

From: HpS (HHR) 
To: Badrinarayan Swami ; 'Vaisesika Prabhu' ; Boise Temple; Sesa Das 
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2017 1:48 PM
Subject: Re: Urgent Good News

AGTSP

Thank you for your letter, Maharaja, GBC Secretary,

Paoho.

Hp Swami, the situation in ISKCON Boise, Ministry of Education, GBC College, ISKCON Srila Prabhupada: We are looking at this from specific example to broad, grave impact.

We are dealing with this personally, we hope well, but we have to have institutional help to get institutional results at this point. As best we can understand how to move forward we should make a:

FORMAL COMPLAINT to you as GBC Secretary that the Temple in Boise is not maintaining regular Srimad Bhagavatam classes for its members and should be put on probation as an ISKCON Temple.

We are making this complaint for what we see as the welfare of all concerned. We hope to learn from this situation. Our complaint may be wrong. We hope everyone takes this in a friendly capacity, and we hope working on this situation will have waves all across ISKCON.

We don't expect any quick results. If you can respond that as GBC Secretary for ISKCON Boise, you have received our Complaint and have asked the Temple President to Respond within 30-days that is fine for us. Very fine. Then we have a practical basis for institutional discussion of the matter.

We want a healthy institution, we want friendly dealings, we want to face our Guru Maharaja at the end of the day and say that we are trying to work properly in his institution and Sanga.

Again, as a Sannyasi, we try to only deal in these administrative matters in a general sense, so we are publishing all these communications on our Blog so our Students can hopefully how to deal with our very, very, very glorious institution ISKCON and deepen their relations as a Sadhu sanga also.

HpSwami

Hare Krsna! Hare Rama!

2017 dec 6
ASA-Encyclopedia; Guru-tattva, Confessions of an ISKCON Guru

We must confess that we have had a very deep rooted attachment to vanill ice cream. That is the kind of 'guru' that we are. No meant, no fish, no eggs, [maybe chocolate coated peanuts while starving while traveling], but vanilla ice-cream at times. That is a Madhyama-adhikari, no? He s(he)it has material attachments, but they are under some regulation and they are diminishing.

In the beginning when we were Brahmacaris, treasurer of the San Francisco Temple, we explained our problem to Bhakta Das, the Temple President and he said that it was nothing in comparison to the service we were able to give him and the Temple. Control our lust as much as we could.

O.K. but still we felt guilty. Under great pressure we could even honor quarts of the evil white stuff. Then a few years ago we heard H. H. Bhakti-caru Swami say that he had one time come into Srila Prabhupada's room crying, and Srila Prabhupada asked with some shock. "What is wrong"?

He replied, "Srila Prabhupada, I am so sinful"!

"What did you do"? !

"Srila Prabhupada, you are sending me to Calcutta for work and I am again and again falling in Maya and buying milk sweets, Rasagullas"!

He said, Srila Prabhupada laughed and said, "Don't worry, it will go away!"

We felt relieved that the situation was so similar to ours.

They say that Srila Prabhupada said that a B'cari should eat cheese only once a week, but then seeing how we Western buffalos were so weak without it he even permitted it daily. Of course, that does not mean it is good for your health and it will shorten your life, but cats and dogs will be cats and dogs, even for Krsna.

O.K. That's our greatest gross sin. We may all have deep seated addictions. They may not be so sinful but just need to be purified. We need to eat late at night, so we have to learn to eat potatoes late at night instead of pizza.

Any comments?

Hare Krsna! Hare Krsna!

HpS -----    Is little Audi!     Hey, we just noticed, "NIOS" is not mentioned like in old page

I wrote you email some time ago about it. Devotee from BBT Copyrights contacted me with strange email and one point was complaining NIOS is mentioned there. So to avoid any problems I changed message to their liking. Didn't get any reply after that.

HpS - Aaach!  Thank you.

So you are right on the border with Austria, no?    SANKIRTAN!

Yes, suppose to be few kilometers from Austria. But we are not going there as without car is impractical to travel to Austria for us.

HpS - Thank you! Please engage us in your wonderful service.

Dear Hanumat Presaka Maharaj:

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

I received the pin drive [With Oscar's LOB Movie etc]. Thank you very much for making this effort. The movie is a thing of beauty with a critique of modern times / Kali Yuga as well. I am sorting through the Power Points—I have already found some items I can use.

Thanks again and I hope this finds you well wherever you are traveling / preaching.

Your servant,
Badrinarayan Swami