Sankhya-Preface

9 years, 6 months ago by hps in Special Category B

Our greatest personal focus now is the writing project Prefaced below. We take this up with Radhika-ramana Das' assurance of help and of course all of you who read this now.
AGTSP!!!     paoho...

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DR. SINGH’S DINNER PARTY
A Multi-cultural View of Sankhya
(Science and Engineering in the Vedas)

Preface

Are your Top-hat and Tails straight?  Is your wife’s bouquet in bloom? We are going for a dinner party, both remembered and imagined and our host shall be Dr. T. D. Singh of the Bhaktivedanta Institute. We sat at such tables with such distinguished guests as Prof. Henry Stapp of the Livermore Laboratory; Dr. T. D. Singh, both Doctorate in Chemistry and traditional Bengali monk; Nobel Laureates Charles Townes; Sri John and Lady Eccles; Dalai Lama et al. Our aim is to build at least a little foot-bridge across the chasm that separates the cosmology, medicine, physics, psychology of the West from the East. Over this bridge we think that many valuable items like the rare perfumes and crystals goblets unique to China and Venice may pass, for the unprecedented benefit of our beleaguered modern world.

Who are these Monkeys in splendid livery who hold the door open to this enchanted carriage? Let us see how that is revealed as the different phases of the night progress, but at least let us say that scholarship in theology, Indology, electrical engineering, biology and psychology from Oxford, Berkeley and the far distant Calcutta University shall not be lacking.

Urgent SP appearance

Hare Krsna Beloved Gurudeva

AGTSP

PAMHO

I am writing because at least 10 devotees wrote to me asking for your offering to SP.

I remembered one or two. I just answered that all is in the blog

Gurudeva may u be so kind and post your offering to SP

Thank   U so much

Trying to be useful

Cmdd

HpS - AGTSP!   Paoho....   I can't find our 2016 offering. Some things got misplaced when we left the other computer in Peru and then moved to this one. So, we will write a new one right now and post it. I hope it is useful.

BhVai Development with Vaisesika Das

9 years, 6 months ago by hps in Special Category B

Hare Krsna, Prabhu,
AgtSP. Paoho.   Here we are back in our cave in Nashville and gradually getting everything sorted out. The symposium in Peru, "Psychology and the Sacred", was incredible. Now everyone is aiming for a global event in 2018, "Art and the Sacred".
We all listened to your 3rd Canto lecture and then had a discussion on it the following Saturday.
We made up up study questions for each lecture, and the links to listen to them on-line. You can see these Guides at www.jayarama.us/archives/godfather-diploma. Your's are at the bottom at "gf-vais...".
T H A N K   Y O U!

Canto Four?
      Maybe do that about Radhastami? About September 10th?

Your analysis has been very instructive. We think these lectures can be used by all the BhVai programs.
Can you look at more specific situations in Canto Four? In the gf-vais-sb3.docx above I went though a bigger list of the specific preaching encounters in Canto Three. Of course, we had no time this pass to look at each one, but even looking at a few was so amazing. If you could consider several of them and the specific situations and people involved as examples for us to take to heart that might be supper useful to us Sankirtan Slows.

Second thing is that we discussed first getting the educational content of these Six Cantos together, and then addressing the record keeping and educational administration. For our group the Tests are all over the place, if anyone has a copy at all. So this has to be be cleared up, and the same problem exists there for the two groups after us. So, maybe you, me, Hari-lila Das, who is running things in Texas, and our great Hero of Education, Srivasa Pandita Das, can get together for a few minutes by phone and make some strategy for correcting these problems.

For our way of mind, it is just as hard to develop an educational system, as it is to build dozens of Temples! Your association in this perspective has been so, so, so important for us.

URGENTE To le you know how are we doing...and to ask about visiting you.. and you visiting Spain and Jung Preaching.

9 years, 6 months ago by Sananda in Personal Sadhana Reports, Special Category B

                   HARE KRSNA DEAR GURUDEVA,

                   PAOHO, AGTSP!!

                    WE ARE WRITTING YOU AS PROMISED IN THE LAST TEXT...

                    WE DON´T KNOW ABOUT DATES  FOR YOU TO VISIT SPAIN YET, WE WILL CHECK AGAIN SOON.

HpS - ASA ---  Hare Krsna!   I guess we will be in India from 10 January to 15 February, so we could visit The Spain, coming our going.  Which is best?

                    THIS MONTH YADUNANDANA MAHARAJA IS PUSHING US TO KEEP MOVING FORWARD

                    IN OUR STUDIES (SB SECOND CANTO) AND ALSO HELPING US TO BECOME CLEAR ABOUT

                    OUR LIFES BY CREATING A PERSONAL MISSION STATEMENT (AND FAMILY MISSION STATEMENT).

                    LOKANATHA PRABHU IS TAKING US OUT FOR HARINAMA TWICE A MONTH.

                    WE ARE LIKE DOGS DEPENDING ON THE MERCY OF THE DEVOTEES.

                    WE WANT TO WAKE UP AND DO SERVICE.

                    LIVING JUST ACROSS RADHA GOVINDA CANDRA (AND G&N, L&N AND SP) IS QUITE A HAPPY LIFE, WE

                    FEEL TAKEN CARED OF BY THEM, WE REALLY DO. FEELING GREATFULL FOR SUCH CAUSLESS MERCY.

                    CAN WE COME AND VISIT YOU? HOW IS THAT? IS IT LIKE A SCHOLARSHIP OR SOMETHING?

HpS - ASA -- We have a little mobile home with a little room etc. It is freezing in the Winter and Buring in the Summer, but Nitai-gaurasundara Das also has so place in his house for guests. We are trying to develope a permanent program on the Campus (Middle Tennessee State University), with a "Krsna House" near the campus. One could apply for grants to do a Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Education or Mass Communication (selling Coca-cola etc) as a Foreign Student, the study there, preach and get association of ourselves and the other devotees here.

                     HOPING THAT YOU ARE FEELING OK ( WE HAVE KNOWN A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE UNPLEASANT ISSUE IN PERU)

                     YOUR SINCERE ASPIRANT TO SERVANT

                     BHADRA VARDHANA DAS AND SANANDA DEVI DAS

HpS - We are trying to get a little bit involved in the politics of ISKCON to help push things forward, so it is quite natural that we get our feelings twisted a little bit as a result. If you want to have kids you have to suffer, but the result can be pretty nice.

Do you have copies of SOLARIS?   You can meet with Enrique Galan and give him copy and discuss with him. Dandha's boy friend, Editorial Ciruela (the one that publishes Jung's works and Journey to the West), and then we can get contacts from Ramon. He is Director of the National Library of Peru and Member of the Cervantes Foundation.

Jung is such a natural base for a bridge from East to West.

Your Deities need a roof!

NIOS Strategy

9 years, 6 months ago by hps in Special Category B, Calendar Development

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
 

HpS - Management Peru


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