Letters to the editor

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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 They are editing and publishing so many unpublished works by Jung.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.

We love you very much and want to be of service.   Talk to us in the Blog.

Hare Krsna Su Santidad Hanumatpresaka Swami.
Por favor acepte mis humildes reverencias!
Todas las glorias a Srila Prabhupada! 

Le escribo con motivo de la recomendación para refugio formal de: 
Bhaktin Diana Karla González Ramírez 
Nacida el 04- nov- 1994  
Vive en el templo de ISKCON CIUDAD DE MÉXICO como devota interna por 5 meses, desde el 31 de diciembre de el 2015.

Aspira tomar refugio en Usted desde el año 2013 

Lleva 2 años cantando 16 rondas, 8 meses siguiendo los 4 principios regulativos y práctica del sadhana. 
Tiene muy buena actitud en la práctica del servicio devocional y en el respeto a sus autoridades. 

Nos gustaría  que tuviera la oportunidad de servirle formalmente, si usted lo considera apropiado. Muchas gracias por tomarse el tiempo de leer esta carta.

Su insignificante sirviente: Dhramaraja das
Presidente del templo de ISKCON en Ciudad de México

HPS - Sriman Dharmaraja Das es gran placer pensar en Vd. Esperamos nos vemos pronto. Aparece muy bueno para Diana ser un Refugiada en ISKCON. Podemos hablar con Ella mientras pasamos por Mejico 13 Julio?

Asta sa. D.D. Hare Krsna! Va a dejar Su cuerpo pronto! Ya merece. Muchas gracias para las cuentas. Estamos distrusndo unos, no son muy bien de esta forma. Estamos volviendo con Laluta gopi con $100 Como donativo, Prasad, para el devoto Como puede cambiar con nudos entra cada cuenta y no hilo eladtico.

Hare Krsna!!

Hare Krishna beloved and esteemed Gurudev,

Please accept my humble obeisances,

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Recipe:

1 part of tosted unsalted peanuts

1 part of peeled sunflower seeds

1 part of mascabo sugar or honey

dried grated coconut 1 cup per kg of prep.

Blend the peanuts and the sunflower seeds. Put in a bowl, add the honey or sugar. If sugar add a little water. Then make balls or patties. Pass them through a plate with the coconut.

Answers to my previous letter,

I cook for my deities of Gaura Nitai 100% externally 10 % internally. Usually we cook for ourselves and offer it to the deities.

ThE Glorious MDP Yatra team are:

Mahajan das (BTS) and his wife Kamyavana dd ( DAS), Arjuna Sakha das (HDG) and his wife Krisna Prya dd (GDG), Jaya das (GDG) and his wife Kamala Sundari dd (mahatma das), Mathura dham dd (DAS) and her husban d prabhu Mario, Govinda lila dd (HDG) and her husband Matsya Lila das (BMS), Kirtida Jivani dd (KKS), Radha Raman das (JPS) and his wife Giselle, Cidrupa Nitai das (JPS) and his wife Guadalupe, prabhu Matias ( you met him in chile few years ago), prabhu Lolo and his wife Jagannatha Prya dd both ( BDDS), Our bramachari Jagan Nivas das ( BDDS), prabhu Juan (BDDS), Acyuta prya dd (BSG), Gauranga prema das and his wife  Rasa lila dd both (GDG), Mahabandhu das and his wife Madhava Mohini dd both (GDG), prabhu Daniel and his daughter Cintamani dd (CMS), Jivananda das and his wife Candra kanti dd both (GDG) and many more to come.

here there is a link for the play we made for Rama Navami. Now we are preparing Gita concised for Janmastami and to play it in different theatres. Is from our youtube channel. We upload all the lectures at el loft.

https://youtu.be/akDEyWIhqSM

https://youtu.be/MFRoNMiXSgo

Thank you so much for your inspiration gurudev,

Your fallen servant,

Nikunja Bihari das.

HPS ASA -- Thank you for the list of devotees. Big team. You can change the world. We opened asked reviewed the Link. It is very informative as a record. What I saw. To go from live show to a video is definite work, no?

You have to edit and even better, take some time and directly film the scenes as you are going to show them. E.g. close-ups, cutting from face to face. It can be worth the time. Maybe you have a five minute summary and the whole recording as an archive. If you have two cameras for the live recording that is super. Then you can do very simple editing between the two and her six times the effect.

"The movie is a snake made of sound where we hang visual images", Eisenstats

Turn your community into a movie company!