Letters to the editor

Esteemed Lalita-Gopi, Jiva Goswami Das
The plan is to always do a Spanish and English"Solaris", although they can certainly be a little different.
Now we are focusing on distributing the Spanish edition and publishing the English edition.
Now the Strategy is to have a big program on Art and the Sacred in 2018, and a series of regional colloquies on Psychology and the Sacred in 2017, and develop Solaris in parallel with that.
Please make all of this work your own as much as you can.
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On Mon, 8/8/16, Dolores Chavez wrotr:

 Subject: Re: Psych & Sacred Video Links
 
 AGTSP, AGTHPS, PAMHO
 Hare Krsna, GuruMaharaja:
 It
 would be nice then to prepare an article about Art in
 english. So, my
 question is:
 Next year 2017, stills Psycology and the sacred
 and Solaris is going to be
 in Spanish. ?
 Your useless servant
 Lalita
 Gopi DD
 

Esteemed Jayapataka Maharaja et al,
Hare Krsna.     Paoho.     We finished the "Psychology and the Sacred" symposium in Peru with great, great success as your good self knows.   Then we flew to Cusco, La Paz and Cochabamba with Mathuresa Das et al.     The Sankirtan everywhere was intense.
After that an Education Symposium with devotees in Chosica and trip back to USA through Mexico City and Houston.

In Houston...
... we are making great progress in developing this Bhakti-vaibhava Diploma in North and South America, and the Ministry of Education had its 3rd Annual North American Symposium on Education with ISKCON.  All these things are seeing great progress with GBC participation.

Finally, we were able to send the Summary Video of the Peru Symposium to the Latin American Regional GBC address and got nice responses from Guru-prasad Swami, Hanuman Das et al.   Did your Holiness see it?

The link is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smE_l_o9vX4

We also included the Bio-data of the participants as you requested.   We would be very, very enthusiastic to discuss the progress  of these events with your good self as you desire. Basically we are aiming now for a global event in 2018 titled, "Art and the Sacred" which should attract sincere participation from very respected leaders around the world.

MANAGEMENT PERU
I can recount my glories in ISKCON management with Hansadutta, B. S. Damodara Swami, Atreya Rsi Das et al but in general we have excelled in first level work, as something like Zonal Legal Officer.   In that regard we have always been informed about the legal structure in Peru and because of our frequent visits and active work there many people approach us on these issues.
As Sannyasis and also at 68-years old we don't feel too competent to work at the hands on level, but we have an excellent relationship with your good disciples such as Mathuresa Das and Caturatma Das.
We would like to review the structure of the legal and administrative systems in Peru with their help. We have already been through it to some degree for various reasons and our rule has always been that Vaisnava relations come before Management relations. We like everyone in the Yatra but some of the administrative functioning seems extremely precarious.
For example, after working a lot with Yamunesvara, Ganga devi dasi, Omkara, Raghu-varam, Jiva-shakti Das et al, it seems that the National Council has not kept any Record Book of their Resolutions. This is the testimony of the current Secretary etc. This becomes problematic when these Resolutions are referred to as Peru National Law in very critical situations.

So, we would Formally Propose that with your best wishes we, with Caturatma and Mathuresa Das, review the legal structure of the Peru Yatra and make very serious proposals that would be functional in the Peruvian ambience. We feel very enthusiastic about this, even to the degree that we would now propose that unless the National Council rectify its record keeping problems, it should be disbanded and the function assumed by the GBC Secretary.
(Pretty enthusiastic, no?)     -(;o)/\___

DEITY INCOME
As Daru-krsna Prabhu's structure dissolved we felt the empire that he had created was too big for ourselves (or anybody) to manage, so we decided to focus on Education and Deity worship.     The Educational work has been moving on and we can make a broader report on that as your good self desires, and we have always been trying to help in the Deity program.
Our disciple, Gaura-gadadhara Devi Dasi, was head Pujari in Chosica for many years and sustained verbal and physical abuse that no girl should be expected to tolerate. Also our disciples have been Head Pujaries in Wilson etc. We gave a lot of help so that Gaura could stay in Mayapura and take Nrsmha-kavaca's full Deity course.
How can we help more in this area?
We were Pujari, Head-Pujari, in San Francisco for years. We have bathed and dressed Srila Prabhupada's original Jagannatha and Radha-Gokulananda over 1,000 times.   Obeisances to Them. Obeisances to Them. 
In terms of $$$ support we have suggested practical programs several times and even implemented them to some degree.
1. Sunday Feast Sponsor.   This program is so, so effective in USA and other places.  There are so many Radha-Mandana bihari expatriot servants that I think it would be very well received to ask them to donate once a year in honor of their family or spiritual events eg. anniversary of their Vedic wedding, children's birthdays, Janmastami. $500/devotee/year would be $25,000/year budget for Radha and Madan-bihari.
Of course, this would need reciprocation. We have already experimented with this with very nice success. For example, the names of the Weekly Sponsors are posted very nicely for all to see at the Festival, fotos and even a DVD of the Festival and the Srngar and even extracts of the lecture given to sponsors. If they get six copies they can share the beauty of Radha-Madan-bihari with their friends. Beyond this, fotos for framing. We did a $1-million DVD of a the history and Puja of RMB with Peruvian director Oscar Natars. He was named Best Director of the year by Hispano-american critics last year. It is National Geographic level and was done during your visit. That could also be in the packet.
2. Also, there are many retired outfits. RMB can be dressed in them one last time and photos taken. Then the outfits can be made into Bead-bags, Book-bags, Baby hats and Vests etc.  We did this and we had to fight people off with a stick when we offered them to the devotees in Houston. You get the paraphernalia and fotos of the Deities wearing them.
Nobody can beat Peru in at least two things: Handicrafts and Tourism.
3. With Puspa-gopal we have been pushing this forward. He took our suggestion and we got 50-nice, NOI size, book bags made up with 1st class, cloth Jagannatha badges on them. Again, they have gone like hot-cakes in Texas and here in Tennessee. We gave like $500 to Puspa for RMB. 
So, that is our suggestion. Sunday Feast sponsors and abundant reciprocation in DVDs, fotos, movies, remnants.

Ooof.   We have been thinking about your questions for a long time.

We love your association so much and hope that we can be of use to you and all of Radha Madan-bihari's servants.
Our phone is +1 209 505-xxxx
Our Skype is hanumatpresaka_swami
But best way to communicate is through our Blog: www.hps.monkeywarrior.com
Hanumatpresaka Swami et al

AGTSP
paoho

Esteemed Regional GBC Secretaries, friends and intelligent Enemies et al.
We received very encouraging letters from Swami Hanuman and Jayapataki Swami. Thank you so much.
After the 'Psychology and the Sacred' symposium, we had intense event like one day, week, after another in Cusco, La Paz, Cochabamba, Chosica and Lima.
Then without chance to lie down to rest for 34-hours we transited back to Houston with 5-hours in-transit it Mexico City, and then five day Bhakti-vaibhava Seminar in Houston followed by this super-intense, "Third Annual Norther American Symposium on Education with ISKCON", here in Houston.
All this stuff has been very intense and very productive.
This is 90% of the reason we have not answered Jayapataka Swami's letter yet and also because we wanted to get our Summary Video of the event up where you could see it. A picture is worth a thousand words [and since a video is 24-pictures per second it may be worth more].

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

Maharaja asked us some bio-data on the participants:
Dr. Ravi SIngh (Nitai gaurasundara Das). Our friend and many of you know him also in Tennessee for many years. He is Director of local psychiatric hospital, excellent devotee. President of our organization, NIOS (North American Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies). He was a leader in RSS in India in his youth but not so active in Indian politics after becoming ISKCON man. His brother is currently President of the Indian Lawyers Association etc.
Dr. Ravi Gupta (Radhika Ramana Das) - He spoke about 'Maps of the Mind'. Ramon said that 'he was pure gold'. Of course, he is very prominent in ISKCON and currently chair of department of religion at his university in Utah.
Ramon Mujica - Director of the National Peruvian Library. EXCELLENT Jungian and philosophical scholar. Great devotee of Santa Rosa of Lima. Great sense of humor. Family has been Ministers and founders of Museums for generations. Visited ISKCON center for three days in a row with his father when a youth.
Dr. Darrol Bryant - He is one of the most active and respected scholars in the area of interfaith dialog at this point. University of Ottawa. Our contacts in India were impressed he was coming.
Beverly Zabireskii - Co-founder of the Jungia Society of New York and the wonderful, powerful Philemon Foundation. They are editing and publishing so many unpublished works by Jung. Prabhupada said that of all the Western philosophers, Carl Jung seemed to have the most sense. She was also drama critic for the New York Times.
Cecilia Monterra - As we know, French sociologist. Married a Chilean businessman. Served as Director of Social Services for Chile. Became disgusted seeing people as statistics, so changed to spirituality and has now several books published by big presses. She said that she knows what is going on in South America and there was no even like this anywhere.

Om Bhakti - Our ISKCON Indian classical musicians from Chile. They have been on grants two times to study in India. One of the best I know in or outside of India. They 'Wowed' the Psych audience and also did 30-minutes at the Yoga day festival with 1,600 participants.
Sudip Chakravorty - He is Ambassador for India in Peru. He gave us help HELP H E L P.   He even paid the hotel stay for Om Bhakti. He was in ecstacy for the program and gave a relaxed, funny Inauguration address that was amazing.

Kalyan-kumar Chakravorty - He was Director of Primary Education for Uttar pradhesh (like 600,000 school kids) et al. We made a fanastic video clip of him while we were in India and it was played with subtitles. He has clear idea of global strategy. Also turns out he is very close friend of the Ambassador so they exchanged several phone calls about the event.

IN PERU
Eduardo Gastelemundi - President of Psychiatric Association. Father founder of one of the best universities of Peru and friend of Ramon since childhood. He organized a meeting with Beverly, HpS and NGD with the Freudian society.
Juan Vega - Director of Graduate Studies at best Jesuit University in Peru. His Director chastised him when he heard about the event that he had not arranged a daytime event on their campus while everyone was there. he did it and Radhika and Darroll went. Never had such serious and intelligent questions, Radhika said.
Bustamantes - Head of Buddhist Society. He said that Nirvana is not Voidism. It is more like concept of Brahman in Hinduism. Very practical answers to questions about suicide etc from audience.
Miguel Polo - Director of Philosophy at San Marcos University. The oldest university in South America. Big congress organizer. Lost becoming Dean by 5%. Very friendly, sharp, Buddhist ethics scholar.
Dolores Chaves (Lalita-gopi) - Senior Professor from second biggest university in Mexico. Gave incredilby informed presentation on meditation in the modern world. Director of the Ethics and Morality training program for her university.
Hector Behar - One of Che Gueverra's generals. Excellent thinker. On the United Nations Committee against hunger. One book a year. Teaching in six universities. on Radio constantly. UN estimate is that 1-million people a year commit suicide. That is more than all the deaths from all the wars in the world. Psychology is a very necessary science.
Some more but stop here.

They all said the next even should be Art and the Sacred and planned for 2018. Then we bring Mahaprabhu's show from Uraguay and art critics from around the world. Of course, psychology will fit in without effort.
We are just like passengers on the boat at this point
There is more, but that is a general principle of where this stands. These are ALL doing people with wonderful followers. It is like preaching to the four Kumaras.
The co-ordinatig back bone is the Journal. Solaris. It is in Spanish and God willing it will come out in English next and then the next issue will go into production. Planning annual now.
Please help us, direct us!
Thank you.

Hare Krsna.

Is this a good start?

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SANKHYA
Dedication to the Gopis of Krsna!
We will write a book about Sankhya.
But for whom will we show our bright face.
The answer is our Mother Devahuti?
Or Sita in Ravana's embrace?

Uddhava delivered the message of Sankhya,
To Radha from Dvaraka Shyama,
It was not well received by the Gopis,
But did they love it as His kind Sankirtan?
RECLAIMING THE KIDNAPPED KIDS.

CHAPTER ONE
Suzy is dead, our neighbour's brown Spaniel, teaching us that death is where knowledge begins.
Albert Camus said that and a Nobel Prize was his product, but did it save him from Sin?

Suzy is dead my small fellow, are you next in the Grim Reaper's plan?

Frightened  thoughts turn to Sankhya, described as the origin of Veda, raking up leaves with rubble but separating the wheat from the chaff. Is each parsed soul immortal? On that stone can we stand?

GOD HELPS THOSE WHO HELP THEMSELVES.

CHAPTER TWO
Piglet Preaches to Monkey.
After all these years, and all this work. Bhagavad Gita (7.4) is our starting point.
More elaborate description is there in the Purana, Srimad Bhagavatam by name, but B.G. 7.4 is where we will start this refrain. It starts with the most gross existence then rolls the carpet back in.
First, my Lady, is Earth, which is distinguished by it's characteristic smell, but Earth is a product of Water that always sits on the tongue. So we taste life in total as the Sunday, with carmel the vanilla is fun.
Yes, we are presenting a Subjective world. We must take responsibility for our lives.
Before Water, Earth and Vanilla Bars, there is red, flame, colour: Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Ether. These are the gross analysis of matter. The tub of which our body is made, but these terms may have been clear too the English but we need them in modern terms to be re-said.
From the top it easier, following our William Blake. When the falling souls take to burning light the first gross element of our body is space. Every body occupies space. If you don't think this is an acquired element, product of mind, then look at the professor Hall, Edward Thomas, by name.
Any Upper Division psychology course will show you the same thing. We laugh at Physicists with their bullets and bludgeons and bombs. They claim their science as empirical but they haven't the slightest how much sight can be wrong.
Every body occupies space.
Then a portion of that space is textured - hard and soft, heat and cold.
Prana, Chi.
Hold the cantaloupe in your hand and now my giant you can understand.
We have a blind man's world, but Fire means that the Texture shows Colour. The red flame in the fireplace may burn my hand.
Space, Texture, Colour manifest one from the other making our world, guts, lust, science, rust.
For example, we see the Kjeldahl apparatus as if it was made of glass, brittle. When the psychologist knocks it on the floor you jump, but it is an imitation, made of plastic, so it bounces and your heart takes a sigh out of its jump. We always see things as if they had a certain texture like brittle or smooth.

CHAPTER THREE

SANKHYA
We will write a book about Sankhya.
But for whom will we show our bright face.
The answer is our Mother Devahuti?
Or Sita in Ravana's embrace?

Uddhava delivered the message of Sankhya,
To Radha from Dvaraka Shyama,
But it was not well received by the Gopis,
But did they love it as His kind Sankirtan?

Hare Krsna!   Hare Rama!

We hear a lot about divorce, no?      Well, we should be cautious enough not to get married before we have made some practical decisions about our marriage partners. Get the opinion of six good (devotee) people about the match before you get hitched.

Then, don't take your marriage as your soul-partner. God is your lover, not your wife. Your wife (your husband) is like your automobile. You will use it for some time but in the end it will go its own way. Divorce creates a chaos for the kids and everyone. So better to just accept the kind of auto you have and adust. Rainy days can be just as productive as sunny ones.

If you really are crazy (we were) then you may get married for a second time. Yeah, this is not permitted, but it goes on everywhere, so why not be civilized about it. Get a legal divorce with your first wife and a sane economic settlement, and make it clear that you are not getting divorced. You love here as much as ever and maybe she sees the situation and even picks out your second wife.
Marry the second, the two ladies don't talk for one year and then they become the best of friends and gang-up on you to get their way and you visit both homes and both kids.

Do you want our advice in these matters?
Then you have to keep us informed. We can't do much if we hear after seven years that you have been having problems and now they are exploding. We need to be involved in small regular dialogs, other wise we can't jump in when things have built up to a catastrophy and make a magical solution.

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