Letters to the editor

HAre Krsna!

Here is Abstract for our presentation January ~7th atg Bhagavatam Symposium organized by K. Ksetra Swami and Radhika ramana Das at Madras University.

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ABSTRACT

IRON HORSES AND TALKING WIRES
Teaching Srimad Bhagavatam in the Industrialized World.

Hanumatpresaka Swami (Professor Huber Hutchin Robinson)
ISKCON – North American Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies

Presenter has been studying and teaching Srimad Bhagavatam in the industrialized world in North and South America, Europe and India for over 40-years. This has included programs with Nobel Laureates, ISKCON Temples, Universities, Museums and many others. He will outline three major areas where the message of the Bhagavata has been successfully introduced amongst the highly analytical, mechanized and scientific people of these worlds.

First is the area of Science and the Bhagavata. Here there has been colossal work for many years. The current ripened fruit has been in developing relations with the community of psychologists and scholars who are followers of Dr. Carl Gustav Jung. Jung appreciated Indian mysticism greatly but was also very concerned how to translate these things into a format comprehensible and useful to science. We just finished an intense, international symposium on “Psychology and the Sacred” in Lima, Peru and are scheduled for bigger events of this type in 2017 and 2018. Along with this a journal “Solaris” is being published, and along with other academics presenter is working on a very serious presentation of the Sankhya of Lord Kapila and others in the Bhagavata that will allow practical realization of Bhagavata Sankhya in the scientific world.

Second has been the Approach Through Drama. Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s presentation of the Bhagavata culture as broadcast by our Acharya, Srila Rupa Goswami, especially through his Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu is Gandhava Veda: Music, Dance, Drama leading to ultimate realization of Krsna. This educational approach has been presented using Prof, David Haberman’s standard translations and annotations of the BRS which include the history of Rasa and theater from Bharata Muni to Abhinava Gupta, to Emperor Bhoja, to Sri Rupa Goswami. This in turn can be related with great clarity to a large Western audience through the Western theater tradition of Aristotle, Stanislavsky and Viola Spolin.

Third and finally, Academic Study of the Bhagavata through structured classes on a global basis using direct and distance education techniques. The diplomas given for these studies include Bhakti-vaibhava for Cantos 1-6 and Bhakti-vedanta for Cantos 7-12. Presenter will give a brief overview of this formal academic study and then a specific sample in the form of the natural analysis that students can learn of the very well-formed structure of the Bhagavata.

                     HARE KRSNA GURUDEVA,

                     PAOHO, AGTSP!

                    I HOPE YOU ARE FEELING GOOD...

                    NACHO BAÑERAS ACCEPTED THE INVITATION FOR AN INTERVIEW ONLINE

                    ON A SUNDAY FROM OCTOBER, SO I WILL WRITTE HIS SECRETARY AGAIN

                    AT THE END OF THE MONTH, IS THAT RIGHT?.

                    HE LIVES IN BARCELONA AND IS A FRIEND OF MIGUEL POLO, AND HE IS DOCTOR

                    IN PHILOSOPHY, ALSO HE IS PSYCHOLIST...ETC.

                    ABOUT SOLARIS: I UNDERSTAND THE KIND OF PEOPLE NIOS IS MEANT TO PREACH

                    HAS A REALLY SCHOLAR  TYPE OF PROFILE (WRITTERS, PSYCHIATRISTS, PHILOSOPHERS...ETC)

                    AND THAT  NEXT NUMBER OF SOLARIS SHOULD NURTURE NEXT YEAR´S SIMPOSIUM,

                    SO THE TOPICS ARE OUGHT TO LINK WITH THE ART OF THE SACRED AND BE ATTRACTIVE TO

                    WRITTERS. SO DOESN´T IT NEED TO  TALK STRAIGHT AWAY OF "THE ART OF THE SACRED"? (COULD IT BE

                   THE ART USED TO ACCESS THE UNCONSCIOUS AND THE DIVINE? LITERATURE AND POETRY OF THE SACRED?)

HpS - Yes. Again, first the people,then the topic. Who is on our team? Who is already listening? To whom does Krsna, Parampara, want to talk?  Lord Nityananda and Lord Caitany approach different people.

                    WE ARE NOT SURE ABOUT WHAT ARE YOU ASKING US TO DO.........ò....BUT IT´S PURIFYING, THANK YOU

                   ASPIRING TO SERVE YOU

                   BHADRA VD & SANANDA DD

                  PS. WE HOPE YOUR PEAR TREE GETS WELL SOON,

HpS - Maybe it was sent here to die a spiritual death and then take birth as a tomatoe in NVM.
We want to build a bridge between the Bhagavata and the West. Starting to edit Hector's article that is exactly what he says!  Please tell us how to do that from your perspective. We just need dates and a little perspective and we can have nice conversations with these people.  Dr. Almendro sent a request for us to join him on Skype. We answered and then introduced ourselves and asked if he knew Shonu Shyamdasani. He has not answered. Remember for interviews, we are like six hours earlier than you all. Thank you!!

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Jaya Sri Krsna!

Esteemed Professor et al,
Hope this meets you indominatable spirits and youthful health energy. We have accomplished our two assignments from our last phone call. First we sent you the ISBNumber and got a response from your mobile. Second we have written the first draft of our Publisher's Forward for the much awaited "Man-Making". We will include the draft below and do some more editing work on it with Dr. Ravi.
1. In general it is still challenging working here with our donkeys 68-years of age, the heat, building etc. but we see it as actually a perfect arrangement by Krsna and we continually are making progress in personal habits and improvement of physical resources to get the NIOS, ISKCON, work done.
2. We have purchased our ticket for India. It took us 3-hours of work!  In the beginning we were coming back with quotations of up to $6,500 for the proposed trip but the final conclusion is that we will fly from Houston, Texas on the 30th of December and then connect with a Spice Jet flight on the 1st January morning to Tirupati. The 2nd is the ISKCON-Indian Christian Dialog of which we have been 90% confirmed as a participant. Then we, Radhika and myself, will travel to University of Madras for his and Kenneth's symposium on current life of the Bhagavata Purana. Scholars such as Srivatsa Goswami and others from Swami Narayana sect and well as academicians will participate. They were very enthusiastic to include your good self in this symposium, but in the end, with the time alloted to plan the program they decided that the Keynote Speaker should be someone with a more direct absorption in the topic. Did you want to contribute in any way to this symposium?
Then we are available until the 10-12 of February when there is a very crucial ISKCON: Guru, Sannyasi, GBC Sanga in Mayapura. We have pressure to visit the North-East again, Pune and of course work with Rama-giri-dhari Das and his Goloka Education. Of course, we are hoping for any direction from you in forming our plan for this time betweent 10th January and 10th February.
We return to Houston on the 14th of February.
Total price of the ticket ... $785.75! ... Jaya Sri Krsna!
3. We have been struggling for one month to contact Rama-giri-dhari Das and of course suffering mental panic, fear and frustration, but our intelligence was advising our mind to be peaceful. In the end, we had two phone calls with RGD and just as we thought, since our three weeks together in Houston, he has been struggling with his 30-employee software business that fell into disorder while he was away to the USA. Then Janmastami came and he was unavoidably drawn onto the three man managing commitee for the new Navi-Mumbai ISKCON Temple. He was sleeping from 3.30-5.30AM only for five days, but in the end his President and 60,000 visitors were satisfied. Now he has promised to get us immediate results on promoting our books and also push on the general development of NIOS and the Goloka Foundation in USA.
4. We are still having serious problems with all of our NIOS files on the computer. We have a back-up but it will not load onto the computer. We will work on this.
5. We are looking at this proposed Symposium on "Art and the Sacred", Peru 2018, as the main focus for our NIOS work. What do you think of this? All of the prestigious and active scholars who participated this year, Ambassador of India are all giving enthusiastic responses to this plan, which they suggested. Solaris should be the main tool for this development. The theme has to be focused since the topic is very broad. Ramon says a grant of $100,000 would not be impossible from a Peruvian bank and Beverly says that participation from the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art is also very certain.
6. In our own writing we have started to read Jerald Larson's "Classical Samkhya" and have written a working Preface to our book on Samkhya. We are using a working title of "Dinner with Dr. Singh, Classical Indian Cosmology in Modern Necessity".

O.K.
We follow with the Draft of our Foreword, chant 4-more Japa malas and answer of mail.
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FOREWORD
Man Making
NIOS is very proud to be presenting its fourth book in the form of this “Man Making [ttd]”. We were able to start this publication series in co-operation with the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust and publish a beautiful, full-color illustrated, bi-lingual, edition of Srila A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami’s, Light of the Bhagavata. Light of the Bhagavata stands as an excellent presentation of Srimad Bhagavata, Canto 10, Chapter 20: The Rainy Season and Autumn in Vṛndāvana. NIOS has expanded this into a Symposium titled, Cultivation of the Human Spirit, which has been presented at many universities and prestigious cultural and academic centers throughout the world.
Then this series of three books: Pracyaprajnapradipa, Bharata sanskriti and now Man Making, which take us into the strict and awe inspiring world of Ancient Indian History and Culture as seen through the eyes of some of best current scholars in this field.
Besides these four books, several excellent and relevant movies with Oscar Natars, selected Director of the Year in 2015 by the community of Latin American critics, NIOS has also produced the first edition of what we hope to be its flagship Journal, Solaris. This was totally integrated with the Symposium on Psychology and the Sacred realized in partnership with the National Library of Peru in June 2016, and has received enthusiastic interest from all parts.
We hope to continue this work, do something very good for the world, and invite everyone to join us. The “Man-Making” of course touches with excellent papers on the most essential topic, Education. Without proper education, no other field of knowledge can flourish. These papers were originally solicited and many then presented at the formal release of “Bharata-sanskriti” in May of 2015.
Thank you,
Dr. Ravi Gupta
President, NIOS
 

Hare Krsna,
Thank you, SIr.  If we can help or be helped in any way by your work then please let us know.  We will send general updates without a doubt. In January we will be in India for a program on the Bhagavata Purana with Ravi Gupta and scholars from all over the world that we are organizing at the University of Madras.

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On Sat, 8/27/16, Darrol Bryant <[email protected]> wrote:

 Subject: RE: HpSwami, Hello.
 
 Hi
 
 Thanks for the update...  I think often of our
 meeting in Peru...  Since returning I have been busy with
 the editing of a volume on Practices of Compassion: An
 Interfaith Exploration...  It grows out of a Conference
 initiated by the Ven Doboom Tulku that I organized in
 Hyderabad in January 2016...  And I have also completed my
 Out of Galilee: the History of Christian Thought as a Great
 Conversation.... 
 We have had a hot July and
 August, but I have just returned from a week in Northern
 Ontario communing with the water, woods, rocks, and loons
 ....  It was wonderful...  Away from phones and internet
 and just being present to this glorious creation...
 
 All the best,
 
 Darrol
 
 
 
 
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 From: HpS
 Sent: Friday, August 26, 2016 8:03 PM
 To: Beverely Zabriesky; Darrol Bryant; Radhika
 Ramana Dasa Ravi Gupta; Nitaigaurasundara das
 Subject: HpSwami, Hello.
 
 Jaya Sri Krsna!
 
 Esteemed Scholars, Friends et al,
 We are first concerned that you are all well
 and in the best of spirits. We have not heard from Jungian
 Psychology in New York or Inter-faith Dialog out of Canada
 since we parted in Peru!  We wrote to Beverely and called
 once but have not heard. Any problems?
 
 We have continued with our little efforts to
 illuminate the world while also being seduced to some degree
 by the forces of darkness in the form of too much nighttime
 orange juice and ice-cream.
 
 Ramon continues with great enthusiasm in these
 educational lines we saw blossoming in Peru. With the new
 President and his newly appointed Minister of Culture, Ramon
 may continue as Director of the National Museum for another
 five years, but in any case he has already been directly
 invited by the new President to be his Director of the
 Bi-centennial events for the anniversary of Peru's
 liberation from Colonial, political, domination. Of course,
 the question of liberation from intellectual and cultural
 domination immediately  arises and to this extent he is
 very, very open to literary or other contributions from
 Indian or other perspectives that address this issue in very
 practical ways.
 
 "Solaris" magazine is going out in
 Spanish and we are already expanding our dialog with
 Trans-personal Psychologists. We are quite advanced toward
 publishing the English edition. Our current strategy is to
 work toward a world-wide symposium in 2018 on "Art and
 the Sacred", and during 2017, smaller, effective
 dialogs with professionals in the area of "Psychology
 and the Sacred". "Solaris" would be the
 backbone of developing all this. Very personally we are
 starting to work very seriously on a book on
 "Sankhya", which is the whole cosmology of the
 Vedic wealth. We are enjoying the help of Alejandro, Miguel
 Polo  and Professor Ravi Gupta. We hope to do something
 very useful.
 
 Our heath is
 pretty good for 68-years old. Our office/Ashram was invaded
 by sometimes mean spiders while we were gone, but we seem to
 be winning that war. Our religious institution, ISKCON, is
 growing. For example, receiving a robust personal letter of
 congratulations from the new Prime Minister of England, and
 of course, along with that facing new, very serious
 challenges that are complete different from the ones that it
 originally faced as a young evangelical movement (God's
 Marines).
 
 What is your
 news?    We are based in Nashville until January 1st, then
 go for some Symposia and other work in India until third
 week of February. This October-November, we will be in a
 little tour of Chicago, Richmond, Raleigh and D.C. Any work
 we can do for you?  We would certainly like your help in
 this "Solaris" and other work!
 
 Sincerely,
 Hanmatpresaka
 Swami
 Prof. H. H. Robinson
 NIOS
 

Dear Huber ( as your mother called you). Eduardo, Ramon, Alejandro, Ravi Gupta, and Ravi Singh -(altho I do not have his email- please forward to him)

There has been a shameful delay in my writing to send my extreme appreciation for having been part of a most excellent project and experience with you all in Lima.  

Your unusual confluence of energies produced a most compelling program. I was glad to be part of it.

I am sorry for not writing sooner. This has been an intense summer so am just now settled enough to gather my thoughts.

It was a pleasure to be with the kind and generous  Nios group, to be with Eduardo and Guida in Lima, to meet the attentive and shepherding Alejandro, to glimpse the full personality of Ramon.

I learned a great deal from Ravi Gupta, and felt at ease with the gracious Ravi Singh group.

I received your idea for a conference on art and the sacred while here on Naoshima, an art island in Japan's Inland Sea. It is extraordinary,  a Tadeo Ando mix of buildings and outstanding art on this island and several of the surrounding ones. There are works here be De Maria and Turrell that are religious experiences. It is an artlover's paradise.

Four years ago, I was part of the art and psyche working group that produced a four day conference in New York: Art and Psyche in the City. It was an excellent conference with artists, art teachers and critics, curators, art therapists, and analysts interested in art. I could send you the program to see what we organized if you like.

The visual arts are certainly a huge field. Are you thinking of focusing on the visual? or interested also in music and dance and literature?

If you proceed with this plan I could offer you some fine speakers. Kenneth Soehner, the chief librarian of the Metropolitan Museum Watson Library, and John Haworth, current director of the Museum of the American Indian in New York, He is very active in work with indigenous peoples and also in truth and reconciliation efforts.

One artist who it would be a coup to have involved is the video artist Bill Viola.

So yes your idea for the next conference is stimulating.

Next week is the Jungian International Conference in Kyoto, and then back to NYC mid September. If any of you come to New York, please let me know in advance as it would be a pleasure to greet you.

Once again I thank you for your invitation, for your kindness to me while there, and for allowing me to participate in such a fine enterprise.

With appreciation and the very best wishes,

Beverley Zabriskie

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HpS (Huber)

Jaya Sri Krsna,
We got your letter. Thank you. We have been drowning in our work also.
Thank you so much for your words.  We hope that you and your community can be excellent source of strategy for this 2018 conference that it can do great good for this world.   We were thinking of all art.
Marshall McLuhan: Art is whatever you can get away with.
We will send more news soon. Very best of wishes for your work.
Our dream in life is to be able to have a few words with Shonu to clarify his thoughts about Jung, India etc. Maybe you can find some chance for a little concentrated exchange with him.
Thank you.