Dear Guru Maharaja

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

We had one of the biggest Radhastami festivals in Kalachandji Dham. The deities were showered with petals from about 18000 roses as is the annual tradition. About 1300-1500 people attended the festival. It was wonderful.

Srirama and I have been trying to create a framework for a website that will act as the archive for all ASA content which comprises of audio/video classes, ASA Encyclopedia, DTCs, poems, books, movies, etc., of H. H. Hanumatpresaka Swami Maharaja, Tom Brown, Buck White and Uncle Gizmo . As you always say, before we start anything, we have to answer these 4 questions

Who am I,

Who are we,

What is the Plan,

What Resources do we need

Who am I? - I feel the content from ASA is very valuable and needs to be preserved for posterity. This is because ASA acts as a transparent via medium that serves to illuminate the teachings of HDG A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada. It has helped me understand Srila Prabhupada's teachings better. The perspectives of ASA are also unique in many ways that might not be available elsewhere.

From this perspective, I am interested in collecting and archiving the content. We can then later create libraries from the archives on topics we want to highlight. With this as the starting point, Srirama has created a basic website that can act as the ASA archive.

HpS//ASA - AgtSP! Paoho & bw!! Thank you for your letter. Little sorry that it has taken one week to respond, but I guess we are all about the same level of involvement in the Sankirtan of the present season.

Thank you!

Srirama visited us with Mataji and Dasaratha-baby. Was very very intense, ecstatic and productive. I think they also had very nice visit and met so many devotees like Sri Hari, Subhadra, NgD et al!

We had perfect time to sit and go over this project and others.

We were able to discuss some of the fundamental aspects of the idea and some of the practical details. We were of course on the phone with you some of that time.

I think our fundamental perspective is that it the ASA archive, not the HpSwami archive. the Head of ASA has been HpSwami, but we really consider that as a mostly administrative servant role. ASA definitely is open to anyone and everyone within its Sankirtan participation in Srila Prabhupada's ISKCON.

We also discussed that the webpage and periodicals would not archive everything but would in part be resource for links to other things. Eg. we have done a lot of lectures at Nila-madhva Dhama, ISKCON Houston, and they seem to have some value in illuminating Srila Prabhupada and his great followers. So, the webpage would not archive those, but give links of maybe some intelligence.

We also discussed that the webpage might serve as an ASA Archive, like an aggregate, roughly cataloged collection of stuff, and then from that specific Libraries could be generated. Eg. all the stuff on NoI even including links to Hari Pari ara Das' lectures.

Your comments above are some nice. Seem so clear.

We do not feel it is a priority ISKCON project. Distribute Srila Prabhupada's books! Of course, that requires a lot of people behind each soldier in the field.

Personally we don't feel that we need to leave much of anything behind in writing except the advice to chant the Maha-mantras under the shelter of Srila Prabhupada's lotus feet from the core of your heart.

This is a big task and needs a lot of help. I am writing this letter to see if the members in the Blog would be interested in such an endeavor. Once we have a few members who have answered the Who am I and Who are we questions, we can move to answering the planning and resources questions.

I am always grateful for your association and guidance Guru Maharaja.

Your servant

Srinatha Krsna dasa

HpS - AgtSP! Again, we don't see it as a priority project anywhere as near important as what Jambavati Devi Dasi and Asta sakhi Devi Dasi and so, so, many other ASA friends, members and intelligent enemies have and are doing.

Only because Srila Prabhupada is so, so, kind do we feel that it is one small line that directly connects to Srila Prabhupada's march along the path back to Godhead.

Thank you!