Letters to the editor

Gloria in excelsis Deo

Esteemed Prof. Juan Dejo, Swami Yadunandana
By this letter let us introduce you too each other and introduce the idea for an excellent project.

Prof. Dejo, Yadu Swami has been a very good friend of ours, and the whole world, for many years. He is Spanish and became involved with ISKCON and this tradition of Bengali, Caitanya, Vaisnavism many years ago. He has been very actively involved with education in ISKCON and a celibate monk for about 40-years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yadunandana_Swami

He recently published an excellent academic study on monastic tradition in our Bengali heritage and now it has been suggested by some very senior academics that a super excellent book would be a study on the contrasts and comparisons between Bengali (Caitanya) Vaisnava and Jesuit Monastic Traditions.

The very strong consensus has been that this would be enthusiastically received by academics but maybe even more so by many common people.

To our understanding the natural human situation is for a substantial number of men not to marry. This has been evidenced in European Christian heritage and of course in Asia.

Happy life, and very useful life.

I could write about this a great deal but here would just like to offer this suggestion and see what you all think about this.

Yadu Swami, We had the honor of meeting Prof. Juan Dejo S.J., Director de la Escuela de Posgrado de la Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya, through the 2016 conference on Psychology and the Sacred that we co-sposored in Peru. I understand that he is very respected educator and administrator in the Peruvian community.

How many young men would decide to pass their lives as Monastics after reading such a book of history and modern reality!

From: David Aguilera. Vsvambara Das - bhaktischool.org
To: HpS (HHR) <[email protected]> 
Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2017 5:25 PM

Dear Maharaja,

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

Apologies for being out of communication. You have caught me at an incredibly busy time as we prepare for our International Baccalaureate authorization visit this coming week. This is the culmination of 4 years of work that will determine if Bhaktivedanta Academy becomes an International Baccalaureate World School. 

I look forward to participating in the conference this year. The June date is much better. Let’s connect after April 1 to discuss how I can best be of service. 

I think Alachua is a natural location for the 2018 conference. Our students perform Shakespeare yearly, so we will plan on putting on a show for you. :-)

Yours in service, 
Visvambhara Dasa
Head of School
Bhaktivedanta Academy
386-462-2886 x1 (office)
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HpSwami

Esteemed Visva-ambara Das et al,
Hare Krsna!!!        AgtSP!!!!     paoho.....      Thank you for the letter.     We hope the accreditation work is very successful.  The Symposium is developing very well as far as we can see.  Again, the dates are Thursday, 15th June to Sunday, 18th June, at the Seattle ISKCON.

We have a very balanced crew now with representation from Pre, Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Schooling. Educational perspective of ISKCON Ministry of Education. Temple Presidents. Grhasta Vision Team. University and Government Educational Preaching. Sastric Education.

Harivilasa Das has taken the post of Anchor-man for the Seattle Temple as we start off and says that they can accomodate about 15-devotees in private homes. Also, the Temple can supply Prasada for a small fee to cover their costs, and the meeting space is perfect.

CONFIRM ACCOMODATIONS
We need to know soon who is going to be coming in their physical body (and who will be participating on line). Now, physical presence, we have confirmed:

Partha Das and Uttama Devi Dasi (Accomodate Two)
Nitya-ananda Das (Accomodate One)
Sesa Das (Accomodate One)
Kartamasan Das (Accomodate One)
Rama-giri-dari Das (One)
Hari-lila Das (One)
Subra Devi Dasi (One)
Ananda-vrndava Devi Dasi (One)
TOTAL T/D - Accomodate Nine

TRAVEL
See if you can travel with another local person. For example, Myself, Rama-giri-dhari and Hari-lila Das will all be coming on the same flight from San Jose. Maybe Ananda-vrndavana Mataji would like to join us. Temple is about 45-minutes from the Seattle-Tacoma airport.

SCHEDULE
Now we are roughly planning:

Thursday - 6-8.30PM - Supper, Reception and Orientation. Possible presenters: Sesa, Harivilasa,
Nityananda, Temple President Seattle, Rama-giri-dhari Das.

Friday/Saturday -  Full-morning Program (SB class), Breakfast, Three lecture and discussion programs each morning, lunch/rest, Workshops in individual interest areas each afternoon, supper and cultural program each evening.

Possible presenters (Theme):

1.   Partha-Uttama (Educating in VAD, Grhastha-ashrama, how it should be implemented in our Primary, Secondary schools etc.),
2.   HpSwami-Harivilasa (Philosophy, Strategy for Education),
3.   Vaisesika Das (Education for Book Distribution in Primary, Bhakti-sastri etc.),
4.   Visvambara Das-Synergy School Leader (Primary+ ISKCON Schools in North America)
5.   Sastric Education (Hari-lila Das, HpS, Srivasa Pandita Das, Govardana Das), University Level Studying and Preaching (HpS, Radhika-ramana Das).
6.   Poster Session (Many people get three minutes to introduce themselves, then can stand by their "Poster Display" which will all be up for the entire symposium so attendees can pass from display to display to ask questions.

Each Lecture Discussion Program would be about one hour with no more than 25-minutes in the first pass and then discussions. Presenters can submit Abstracts by end of April and a full document by end of May. PLEASE add subtract adjust this list, workshop list!

Sunday - Breakfast, Closure, Fixing Final Action Items, Fixing Standing Committees.

We are also expecting physical confirmation and on-line participation from Ananta-rupa Das, Boise, M. Arrudha Devi Das, Srivasa Pandita Das, educators from Mexico, Peru, Chile, Argentina. Maybe 75-local Seattle devotees and 85-on-line. Everything will be well recorded.

O.K. That's our news now. The result depends on everyone making personal commitment. We will be in Spain from 1-12th of April, but should have some communication. We will be in Boise and San Jose for one week each before Seattle and we expect to be working on all these themes there, so the fun starts now!   Ten weeks of communication, demonstration, integration and Spifibivication for The Witch.
ISKCON Ministry of Education, Ki Jai!    ISKCON's cutting edge Sankirtan team.
Radha-Nila-madhava, ISKCON Seattle, Ki Jai!

HpS - Mnistry of Education, Anjana Suta Academy, NIOS

P.S. Grhastha Vision Team et al: What do you think of the video of The Taming of the Shrew with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor for the Cultural Program one evening?  Let's have fun. Let's see rapid progress.

HpSwami - 209 505-3219. [We get texting even while in Spain.]
Harivilasa Das - 425 499-6408.

Hare Krishna Dear Gurumaharaja,

Please accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Got reply from Spanish BBT. Waiting for book. Once we got it we will start to import it.

Prahladanand Das

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ASA - HpS --- O.K!   We look for Editor's

HpS - ASA --- Can you put TLC up on Vedabase.com in Spanish???

Prahlad-nrsmha Das -- Yes. I will write to Spanish BBT if they can send me latest files for TLC.

My wife can import TLC book if nobody will be available, but it will be better and faster if Spanish speaking devotee could import it. It is very easy (non-technical person can learn in few minutes), yet time consuming task.

Would you like to help us with posting message on blog to get some helpers? Maybe some devotees will like to help and can import TLC and any other Spanish books, as for new version everything needs to be imported to have paragraph synchronization with other languages and also we got files for Srimad Bhagavatam where many errors were corrected.

HpS - ASA --- This is fantastic opportunity, no?  Join Vedabase.com.

Dear Maharaja

PAMHO. AGTSP. All glories to your service.

Firstly I must apologise. I was having trouble with my Internet connection while attempting to post my last letter (first world problems) and posted several versions of the same letter. I was not getting any conformation so I was concerned that the letter would not arrive. The last attempt I just copy-pasted the body of a word document and forgot to add formalities. I am very sorry for the disturbance.

HpS - ASA - Hain't no disturbanz, Mate!

HpS - AGTSP paoho.  Thank you! Have you seen our clip on YouTube of the last big program?

Yes. I have also subscribed to the NIOS channel. You didn’t appear in the 10 minute video?

HpS - ASA -- Radhika says enough.

HpS- When should we come? September??

I think September would be great. September takes up a good part of the second semester but we must be aware that Sat 23^rd Sep – Tue 3^rd Oct is mid semester break so generally Universities are rather quiet at this time. Maybe we should aim for the first 3 weeks of September?

HpS - ASA -- Durga Puja is Sept 26th.
Rama-vijaya is 30th.
Bengal is on holiday until 30th, I think.
So, 29th August, Radhastami in Hawaii, 3rd September in Australia, Vamana-dvadasi and three more BIG holidays.    Hmmmm?????  Any comments from anyone????

HpS- Once you have some Participants, Organizers, who are a little interested we can talk to them personally and see what their interests are.

Yes. I’m currently gathering contact details of the organisers and will forward them shortly_.

_{HpS-ASA -- If possible just meet some people personally and introduce yourself, and then give them the link to the Peru conference and then if they want more we can have a conference call etc.}

HpS - We could do a Tour with the same theme the whole way. Academic program and cultural program, distribute. Also, Conference on Cultivation of the Human Spirit is also good, Light of the Bhagavata.

Distribution TLC. NOI.

This all sounds great. Excitement is developing here awaiting your visit. 

HpS- Krsna has two dogs, no?

Yes I heard this twice last week. I didn’t know that before. Bonney the Bulldog is a great devotee. She does Japa with me everyday.

Your Servant

Dhruvananda Das

HpS-ASA -- As far as we can understand we have to keep ourselves pure: rounds, regs, Sadhana; the Govinda sends innocent people for us to enlighten; and they have to be patient to listen to us >>=====>SANKIRTAN.
Go to Dog Shows and WIN!

RR
Remembrances of Das Raktaka
One time we were in Fazilka with RD, his home town. It was small. You could pass from one side to the other just by walking in 20-minutes. He took us to the Hanuman Temple. It is the biggest temple there. Maybe three stories to the flag. He told us that they were very, very poor when he was a child. Exiles from the civil war in Pakistan. He would go on Tuesday night as a little child with friends. That is the special day of worshiping Hanuman. Many people would come that night and the would beg Maha-prasad. In the morning he would have a big bag of it and his Mother and Brothers and Sisters would try to con him into sharing it with them, but he was very greedy and kept most of it for himself.

Hare Krishna Gurudeva, please accept my humble obeisances,

All the Glories to Srila Prabhupada!!

All the Glories to Hanumatpresaka Swami!!

This is the report of everything advanced in the Solaris Magazine number two:

Solaris Magazine - 2nd edition

Solaris Magazine is an annual multidisciplinary journal (mainly education, philosophy, psychology and art) whose purpose is to develop the cultivation of the human spirit. We hope to publish our second issue by mid-May 2017. In addition to articles the magazine can publish notes, poems, short stories, biographies, as well as drawings and illustrations whose contents are related to the central theme. All material should not have been published before.

1.- CONTENTS

Main theme:

Psychology and the Sacred (80%) Art and the Sacred, Call (20%)

ARTICLES DELIVERED

1. Claudio Naranjo: Asceticism and sexuality: The mystery of the erotic hermit.
2. Miguel Polo: Skepticism and Religion in India.
3. Dolores Chávez: Three dimensions for the diagnosis of a spirituality in crisis: the systemic unsustainability.

ITEMS TO BE DELIVERED

1. Official Convocation to the International Symposium ART AND THE SACRED.
2. Comments from different personalities about the importance and necessity of the mega event THE ART AND THE SACRED. Claudio Naranjo and Héctor Béjar have also written, have also pledged to write Dr. Ramon Mujica, Dr. Delfina Gonzales del Riego, current National Director of the BNP, the ambassador of India, China and Egypt and Beverly Zabriesky.
3. SS Hanumatpresak Swami: His article is not yet titled.
4. Darrol Bryant: The Sacred, the Human, and Modern Psychology: Towards a New Encounter.
5. Ramón Mujica: Reflections on Psychology and the Sacred.
6. Juan Dejo: Mind and spirit in Jesuit spirituality and its validity in the post-Christian world.
7. Victor Krebs: Empathy in Psychology and the Sacred
8.  Héctor Béjar: The paradigms
9. Eduardo Gastelumendi: Hate and recognition; Revenge and forgiveness
10. Juan José Bustamante: Compassion and Wisdom, axes of Buddhism.
11. Erick Devoto: The Rebirth of the Spiritual in the Postmodern Age.
12. In the part of Art the master Juan Pedro Egoavil: Oil and drawings of his pictorial sample "The Spiritual Journey"

2.- ABOUT THE NUMBER OF PAGES AND THE STYLE OF THE ARTICLES

Items should be short essays of 3 to 6 pages American letter, simple spacing, arial font 12 points. The ideal would be to include images or illustrations of the same, to better communicate their ideas, but if it is only text is also acceptable. For those who make appointments use Apa 6.

3.- The last delivery date of the articles will be April 19, 2017.

Note: Send all communication about the magazine to [email protected]

Gurudeva if any devotee wants and can collaborate with poems, drawings or paintings for this issue of the magazine are welcome.

On Wednesday we sent our report of the advances of Psychology and the sacred II and Art and the sacred.
This is everything for now Gurudeva.

¡Hare Krishna!! His humble servant, Abhiram Thakur das.

Note: Please excuse my errors in English I used the Google translator for this purpose.

Revista Solaris – 2da edición

La Revista Solaris es una revista anual multidisciplinaria (principalmente de educación, filosofía, psicología y arte) cuya finalidad es desarrollar el cultivo del espíritu humano. Esperamos publicar nuestro segundo número para mediados de mayo de 2017. Además de artículos la revista puede publicar notas, poemas, cuentos, biografías, así como también dibujos e ilustraciones cuyo contenido guarde relación con el tema central. Todo el material no debe haber sido publicado antes.

1.- CONTENIDO

Tema central:

La Psicología y lo Sagrado (80%) El Arte y lo Sagrado Convocatoria (20%)

ARTÍCULOS ENTREGADOS

1. Claudio Naranjo: Ascetismo y sexualidad: El misterio del ermitaño erótico.
2. Miguel Polo: Escepticismo y Religión en la India.
3. Dolores Chávez: Tres dimensiones para el diagnóstico de una espiritualidad en crisis:  la insostenibilidad sistémica.

ARTÍCULOS POR ENTREGAR

1. Convocatoria Oficial al Simposio Internacional EL ARTE Y LO SAGRADO.
2. Comentarios de diversas personalidades acerca de la importancia y necesidad del mega evento EL ARTE Y LO SAGRADO. Ya escribió su comentario Claudio Naranjo y Héctor Béjar, también se han comprometido a escribir la Dra. Delfina Gonzales del Riego, actual Directora Nacional de la BNP, el embajador de La India, China y Egipto.
3. SS Hanumatpresak Swami: Aun no tiene título su artículo.
4. Darrol Bryant: Lo Sagrado, lo humano y la psicología moderna: Hacia Un Nuevo Encuentro.
5. Ramón Mujica: Reflexiones en torno a La Psicología y lo Sagrado.
6. Juan Dejo: Mente y espíritu en la espiritualidad jesuita y su vigencia en el mundo post-cristiano.
7. Víctor Krebs: La empatía en la Psicología y lo Sagrado
8. Héctor Béjar: Los paradigmas
9. Eduardo Gastelumendi: Odio y reconocimiento; venganza y perdón
10. Juan José Bustamante: Compasión y Sabiduría, ejes del Budismo.
11. Erick Devoto: El renacimiento de lo espiritual en la Era Posmoderna.
12. En la parte de Arte el maestro juan Pedro Egoavil: Oleos y dibujos de su muestra pictórica “El Viaje Espiritual”

2.- ACERCA DEL NÚMERO DE PÁGINAS Y EL ESTILO DE LOS ARTÍCULOS

Los artículos deben ser ensayos breves de 3 a 6 paginas carta americana, espaciado simple, tipo de letra arial 12 puntos. Lo ideal sería incluir imágenes o ilustraciones del mismo, para comunicar mejor sus ideas, pero si solo es texto también es aceptable. Para los que hagan citas usar Apa 6.

3.- La fecha de entrega última de los artículos será el 19 de abril del 2017.

Nota: Enviar toda comunicación acerca de la revista  a [email protected]

Gurudeva si algún devoto quiere y puede colaborar con poemas, dibujos o pinturas para este número de la revista son bienvenidas.

El miércoles enviamos nuestro reporte de los avances de La Psicología y lo sagrado II y El Arte y Lo sagrado.

Esto es todo por ahora Gurudeva.

¡Hare Krishna!! Su humilde sirviente, Abhiram Thakur das.

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HpS - AGTSP paoho.  Only thirty - nine days to write our articles, but we can do something. Who will pay the publishing costs?  How will you publish it?  It sounds very nice. We hope some articles come from other sources, Spain, USA et al.

We will write.