Hare Krishna, dear gurudeva. Pamho, AGTSP.

ASA - AGTSP. Paoho. Can you please edit this into a shorter letter with the themes more concisely arranged? 🙂

The year is already ending and we need to do an evaluation, perhaps.

I think it was a good year. I got married and it raised my bar in my service. On that side everything is fine.

I end the year with a lot of service in the area of ​​education. I have 5 study groups. So I have classes practically every day. Now I am helping Gandharba prabhu a little bit in the excellent work that he is doing. On the one hand I am helping a little in the education congress and also in adjusting the themes of the Bhakti Sastri and the Bhakti Vaibhava.

I hope to keep busy about it for the rest of my life, which is not long.

We are trying to form an educational group to continue working in education and preserve the legacy of ASA in that area. That is one of our goals. We look forward to meeting with you for some advice on this educational endeavor.

We are aware of our differences, Gandharva and I, but what unites us is greater.

In the educational congress I will participate with a topic that I am passionate about, which is teacher-student interaction. Basically I am guided by the idea of ​​ASA, which is also mine, of the priorities in the study: association, process and content. I will cite some scholars who handle a very similar idea and my own experience as an educator and university student for more than 40 years, including my 20 years within ISKCON. I will present my own perspective. You mentioned that an educational project is based on the enthusiasm and desire of the teachers, or something like that. We have a lot of that. I hope to learn a lot from the great educators who will participate. I consider myself an eternal student. And from time to time I share a little based on what I understand.

I will participate online and associate with you and visiting devotees whenever I can see you at the temple, Vyasa puja, etc. I think there are many people and activities in Santa Eulalia and I don't want to be an insect on the king's throne. Besides, I am too old for discomfort and my wife does not like the tumult very much.

Returning to the educational topic, I share the concern of you and other great devotees like Yadhunanda Swami and HDG in the development of the educational area.

We face tough challenges. How to get authorities excited and supportive of education? How to get devotees interested in their education? How to make the temples giving proper importance to the SB and BG classes? How to make people see us as a SB-based culture? How to get educational institutions interested in spiritual cultivation? How to be aware of and apply what Srila Prabhupada told us in the SB's preface?

ISKCON resources keep going to great constructions and rituals, which is very good, however there is no work on building colleges, universities, libraries. I see with some shame how other religious groups are making decisive progress in the educational area and we continue to emphasize the ritualistic part. What little there is in education is due to private efforts. So should it be? Education is on its own.

I think your legacy that will be reflected in your film can go further. Continue developing your Sankirtan. Gandharva and I think that it is best to continue developing education trying to have a good relationship with authority, trying to inspire them and inspire devotees who want to educate themselves and help in this great task.

I don't know what will happen in the future, when you leave, when Yadunandana Swami leaves. I don't know, but we can continue to be a voice crying out in the desert.

His servant,

Laksmana-agraja das