Hare Krsna!!
Dear Gurudeva,
Please accept my humble obeisances,
All glories to Srila Prabhupada,
Many wonderful things are going on here in Mar del Plata. We feel like the pracetas being blessed by the lord because of their friendly relations to serve him (SB 4.30.8).
I would like to tell you about the preaching perspective for Mar del Plataour local yatra. The vision is developing the Sankirtan movement in the city and the 4th wave varnaasram dharma based in cow protection and brahminical culture in the rural area. For our project in the city we have rented a real loft 8 time bigger than the present one (which is not a loft but a house) in downtown mar delplata, amazing location. There we are going to install beautiful and big neem gaura nitai deities and also SP murti (later we will take him to our rural community). We are going to have bramachari ashram, Sunday school for children, literary coffee, temple room, small conference place and a professional kitchen to deliver lots of prasadam.
Programs to be held there are going to be morning program, Sunday feast, vasinava feasts, SP`s night, reading club (devotees gather every Wednesday to read the small SP books), Bhaktas course held by mahajan das prabhu, krsna deli (prasadam distribution), yoga club (hatha yoga lessons with different teachers), dojo of judo (oriented in the philosophy), and all of SP`s book accessible in the literary coffee. The place is huge, we are going to be able to hold our interfaith meetings there (the place is even bigger than the hotel where we did it last time). The price for the location is half of the one for the present loft with 3 months free to fix the place to our needs.
On the other hand, we have aquired 5 has of land in a beautiful place 30 min outside mar del plata, with small hills sorroundings. The project is called Sri Govardhan “Tierra de Krishna”, there the isthadevas are going to be Sri Sri Radhika Giridhari (who has been installed a few months ago and are know being cared by prabhu mahajan das and his good wife Kamyavana devi dasi), there we are going to build a temple for the presiding deities, bramachari ashram (bramacharis are now in brasil collecting for this purpose), goshala, natural health center, elder devotees house (I will be personally in charge of this 2 areas), matajis house, conference center, school (paramatma level), 7 condos for rent and bungalows for guests and 15 plots for grhastas. We are in the process of presenting the project to the local government in order to be approved, after that we are going to convert the land in what we call here “propiedad horizontal” which will be like an apartment building where one can buy his apartment and you share the common places like temple, gurukula, etc. Many of us had committed to this project for the rest of our lifes. We are going to sell 13 plots of land to finance the main develop of the land.
Once you asked me what you can do to help this project so I humbly request you consider please this proposal. You can establish here for the time you consider convenient to develop an education program for bhaktishastri and bhaktivaibhava, similar to the one HH Dhanvantari maharaj has in northern brasil.
Noticing your present condition, having health challenges due to excessive travelling, and your willingness to improve and set a higher standard for education within ISKCON, maybe is a good idea you settle for a while in a place and work to develop an education program. We can work together with NIOS to establish nice facilities, classrooms, first class internet connexion to broadcast lectures and make Sri Govardhan a pilgrimage place where devotees mostly from latin America can come to study sastra the way you want to establish it.
I see this as a very nice opportunity, we have the land, very good relations with local government, good relations with main religious groups, we have a good leader, community is growing nicely, politics free, we have a radio show for more than one year from now and having perspectives to start a tv show which will bring many sources of funding.
Of course this is the shallow vision of a conditioned soul like me so if you think this idea is nonsense I apologize for that, but if your good intelligence consider it could be possible I will be more than happy to cooperate for this come to reality.
Thank you gurudeva for your constant inspiration. My desire is only to serve you. I Hope your health is improving.
Aspiring to become your servant.
Bhakta Nicasio.
HpS - ASA - Wow! AGTSP paoho. Wow! You must a Congregation of 5,000 devotees and 50-full time people living the Ashrama to be focusing on so many programs. Is it a fact? How many devotees living in the Ashrama!
