All Glories to Sri Sri Radha Govinda

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada,

Dear guru maharaj,

Some news about the program sponsored by NIOS to the Universidad Católica de Chile here.

1- Gandharva das will translate and coordinate the details with the Universidad Católica technical requirements. 

We can say in advance that the platform o the event will be Zoom nad the regular presentation will be of the 20 minutes but you're highlithed in the program at 19:30 hrs. to finish that day and with the prefix "Conferencia" not just presentation. So, we should know if you will have only 20 minutes too. But we don`t know exactly. We will know today.

It would be very nice to have your personal darshana in the first minutes, and desirably throughout the whole presentation and question and answer. Mainly, because is good to let clear that you will be online, with your personal presence there and it won't just a recorded video. 

So, the question is: Is possible for you Gurudev, to access to a different source of internet that evening? Just asking. I thought that maybe the Nitai Gaura Sundar's house, but is workday. Anyway, I think that is possible to have a US number from the Zoom too, just like Google Meet does, and we could check that works.  

The presentations should be ready and sent to them two days before the day of each table.

2- Visvanath Cakravarti Thakur das will be translating and supporting the German teacher, the same one from last year. Here is his profile if you want to check: https://fah.um.edu.mo/staff/staff-philosophy/moeller-hans-georg/ 

3 - Abhirama Thakur das is coordinating the exchange between Solaris magazine and Aisthesis UC Magazine.

4- NIOS and Solaris are sponsors in several items, mainly design, translation.

5- Ambarisha Das and Vrsabhanu Nandini d.d. are working on a promotional and registration videos of the colloquium 

6-OM Bhakti (Lalita Madhava) will give a concert on-line to the program on the first day.

7- The titles of the conferences (in English by courtesy of Microsoft Translation services associated with Office 365) and speakers of every one the three days of the event are in the last part of this report. The important there is that we put the other five participants of the "MESA 2: NATURALEZA Y SACRALIDAD: MUNDO ASIÁTICO" scheduled to the October 22nd, and it will start at 17:30 hrs. (Chilean Time) - that will means 15:30 hrs. Nashville, Tennessee, time. 

I know that now the difference is just one hour, nevertheless, Chile will change to the "Chilean Summer Time" on September 6th, that means that the clocks will move 1 hour forward.

Your particular presentation is schedueled to 19:45 hrs. (Chilean Time.) Details in the final program. The link to the Document is below.

8- A good team is collaborating in this service.

Important considerations

Summary of the theme and dates of each table:

TABLE 1: NATURE AND SACRALITY: CHRISTIANITY - October 7th.

TABLE 2: NATURE AND SACRALITY: INDIGENOUS TRADITIONS - October 14th.

TABLE 3: NATURE AND SACRALITY: ASIAN WORLD - October 21st.

TABLE 4: NATURE AND SACRALITY: ACTION AND CONTINGENCY - October 28th.

They accept my proposal "Govardhana Eco Village - analysis of the keys to the sustainability of the past to rebuild a better future" I was there, and I think that the award the GEV received and other things will like it to this audience. 

I was there actually but If you can give me an advice about this presentation and share with me any contact from them, I would appreciate a lot.

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Despite your table is the third one, I would like to recommend to get the general idea of the second table too. Maybe, we could ask to Carlos Rold to make a summary for you of this table. He's very good in to get the main ideas. 

I said that because the mapuche crisis has renewal in the last weeks. An increment of the Violence in the south of Chile between the police, some mapuche people. And the general people have starting to rediscovering of the deep cultural heritage of mapuche. 

Actually, I'm very impressed for the amazing similarities between Vaisnava and mapuche traditions. So, it would be good for you to be aware of these presentations because it will be there, in ether. Actually, for this reason there is a table focused in indigenous traditions.

Gastón Soublette wonderful video

A good summary of the mapuche culture is in this wonderful video :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N27LAd906yM

An 15 min. interview extract to Gastón Soublette, a Claudia Lira's mentor and one of the 8 or 10 most famous and important intellectuals of Chile nowadays (93 years old and still alive and clear mind)

This interview is in Spanish, however, it has subtitles, and the feature of automatic translation of youtube is very very good to this kind of videos with a good Spanish spoken.

He was in the release of Claudia Lira's book and I broached him, and when I told him about you and your efforst and I told him that maybe you both can talk, he gave me his phone. He would like to know more about a spiritual guru, swami with a western background. 

He lives slightly as a hermit, so for communication, he has just cable-phone, and no smartphone and internet either, so an encounter could be possible in your next physical visit. Or maybe we can try by phone after the event.

Program - Version 1 (Organizers, Instituto de Estética de la Universidad Católica de Chile, Claudia Lira and Elvira Rios, are waiting some feedback from all of us, the speakers, but they think that the definitive version is almost this one, or maybe with two minor changes):

Original Program in Spanish:

http://bit.ly/coloquio-uc-spanish2

Original Program in English:

http://bit.ly/coloquio-uc-ingles2

Thank you guru maharaja, thank you for your training.

HpS - So, the program is 5-weeks from now? Thank you. Maybe we can make it part of a larger program from our side that would complement their program. The Govardhana Eco Village program is very strong. Radhanatha Swami's book is there. I have contact with some devotees there.