Hare Krishna!!
ALL GLORIES TO SRILA PRABHUPADA!!
AND TO HIS SINCERE AND DELIVERED DISCIPLES LIKE YOU!!
As an offering to Narottama Dasa Thakura, our great acharya and exponent of how poetry and music can serve as educational tools for the transmission of spiritual, philosophical and devotional knowledge, this October 21st, the day of his Glorious Tirobhava, we will begin the International Symposium Ecology and the Sacred, reconnecting our consciousness with its essence.
Attached I send the promotional poster.
The program to be developed is the following:
MONDAY, OCTOBER 21st / Opening of the Symposium
11:00 hrs: Inauguration and 1st Conference (In-Person and Online)
Topic: FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTS OF A VAISNAVA ECO-THEOLOGY.
Speaker: Ravi Gupta (Radhika Raman Das)
Commentator: Miguel Polo
Moderator: Alejandro Salazar (Abhiram Thakur das)
13.30 hrs: 2nd Conference (Online)
Topic: PERSPECTIVES OF A NATURAL NUTRITION TO LIVE IN HARMONY.
Speaker: Guillermo Sepúlveda (Gunavira das)
Commentator: Javier Armijo (Jagad-guru das)
Moderator: Alejandro Salazar (Abhiram Thakur das)
18:30 hrs: 3rd Conference (Online)
Topic: RETHINKING THE IDEA OF NATURE.
Speaker: Miguel Polo
Commentator: Héctor Béjar
Moderator: Alejandro Salazar (Abhiram Thakur das)
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22nd / Closing of the Symposium
11:00 hrs: 4th Conference (Online)
Topic: PANTHEISM - THE FIRST STEP IN SPIRITUAL LIFE
Speaker: H.H. Hanumatpresaka Swami
Commentator: Héctor Béjar
Moderator: Alejandro Salazar (Abhiram Thakur das)
13:00 hrs: 5th Conference (Online)
Topic: UNIVERSITY SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND SPIRITUAL ETHICS: A RESPONSE TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS
Speakers: Clara Krafft and Dolores Chávez (Lalita-Gopi D.d.)
Commentator: Alejandro Salazar (Abhiram Thakur das)
Moderator: Javier Armijo (Jagad-guru das)
18:30 hrs: In-person and online screening of the Film: DIARY OF A TRAVELING CREATURE, THE ULTIMATE TRIP - INDIA STATION (Director: Raúl Zevallos)
Round table / Topic: A SPIRITUAL JOURNEY AND A DOCUMENTARY ADVENTURE
Speakers: Raúl Zevallos, Ravi Gupta (Radhika Raman Das) and Alejandro Salazar (Abhiram Thakur das).
Closure: Final words and thanks.
Data for online connection via Zoom:
Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81240514475?pwd=BlTkEn9SDnUNObdf3LHuexzWkbstzw.1
Meeting ID: 812 4051 4475
Access code: 108108
Any suggestion and/or contribution are welcome. Please give us your blessings so that we can distribute the Srila Prabhupada and NIOS Book’s and thus connect many innocent souls with Krishna Consciousness.
A brief reflection to conclude this report, in the purport of Bhagavad-gita (2.14) Srila Prabhupada says: “A devotee knows that everything is under Kṛṣṇa’s control, and therefore accepts changes, difficulties and challenges as part of Kṛṣṇa's plan for his purification”.
According to my small understanding, NIOS is going through a process of changes and adaptations due to the fact that you are now focused mainly on Kirtaniya sada Hari, which implies that you have left all your administrative positions and are also no longer making trips to Latin America. Please help us understand what Krishna's plan is in NIOS and how we should act according to that plan. Thank you so much.
Happy and useful month of Damodara.
Bhakta Manuel.
