Hare Krishna Guru Maharaja

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! All glories to you!

I just finished preparing for my class today for the course we have started - Demystifying the Bhagavad Gita. It is a 10 session course on the different topics of BG. We have 16 students (including 2 Westerners who are completely new to Krishna Consiousness). Today's topic is Who is God? There is so much to say about Krishna, but we have only an hour. Apart from the hourly lecture every week, we are giving weekly assignments to the students. Verse memorizations, Practice (Practical aspects of Bhakti. We have introduced Japa, offering and honoring prasadam so far. Today will be Reading and Listening. I have selected two of Srila Prabhupada's lectures for them to listen to.) Preaching (Summarize the session in 3 lines. The hope is, by the end of the course, they will have a 30 line essay on the Bhagavad Gita.).

HpS - Wow!! This is like a university level course. Don't be surprised if all your students are not first class panditas. Third class is still O.K.

This service has been very enlivening for me. It is very close to my nature. Studying the Gita, splitting it functionally into 8-10 parts, creating the lesson outline for the teachers and coordinating with the students and teachers and the authorities in the temple.

Every aspect of it has been enjoyable except for the coordinating part. It is hardwork. Not a day goes by when I don't think of your efforts to coordinate the Education program in ISKCON. And how hard you try to bring this systematic study of Srila Prabhupada's books to all the centers of the world.

We sent out Bhakti Shastri center application to Bhaktarupa prabhu exactly a month ago today. We haven't heard from him in 20 days. I have sent a reminder email every week, but he hasn't replied to any of them. Devotees here are eager to know what we need to do to get the center in Kalachandji Dham. Please guide us Gurudeva on how we should proceed.

Your servant

Srinatha Krsna dasa

HpS - In the beginning I was seeing CC of those letters. Are you still including us? Next one you send to him be sure to CC to me and then we can try to contact him through some personal means that I know.