Follows the letter we just sent off to our local scholars:
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Jaya Sri Krsna!
Esteemed Murfreesboro Pandits and Mahatmas,
It is such a great pleasure to be even writing to you and what to speak of being able to collaborate with any of your good selves in the near future.
Of course, we are Hanumatpresaka Swami, Professor Huber Robinson, from our NIOS - North American Institute for Oriental and Classical Culture.
NIOS has been having excellent success in accomplishing it's mission of offering classical culture to the modern world.
Very specifically we will continue with our 14th Annual Symposium on the Cultivation of the Human Spirit, again hosted by our President and his good wife, Ravi and Meena Singh at their beautiful garden grounds, 2129 Stratford Road, Mufreesboro, TN 37129, on Saturday September 6th from 3.00 - 5.00PM. From 6AM to 6PM there will also be this traditional, Akandha sankirtan, continuous, melodic, sincere chanting of the Holy Names, to which everyone is also invited.
This year our Symposium Topic is, "The Glories of the Holy Name: Theory and Practice".
There is a very excellent chapter on this in the extremely popular 15th century classic, Caitanya Caritamrta:
http://vedabase.com/en/cc/antya/20
Besides this, your humble servant, HpSwami, will be based in Murfreesboro until we take off for six weeks in South America at the end of December and we would be delighted to discuss any of the varied projects in which we are engaged and any other topics that would be of use.
- Vedic Education: We are principal partners in developing a whole educational system in North America which already has five primary schools and is just starting a franchise pre-school system.
- Carl Jung and the Bhagavata Culture: This is our personal passion and we find it a very, very practical way to make a bridge between East and West with reactions from University students, faculty and even Nobel Laureate candidates.
- Local Life: We have a regular program in the Global Mall in Nashville. We are working to establish an outreach program on the MTSU campus and have a lot of response from foot traffic from our presence in our office behind Toots. Of course, September 6th is the Celebrate Nashville Festival which gets about 20,000 people together to experience cultural diversity.
- High End Academic Publishing: Our next scholarly work, The Contribution of Ancient India Toward Making a Better World,is just about ready for release. It includes contributions from several esteemed Professors, University Chancellors and Supreme Court Justices and Governors of India States. Fortunately it is edited by our esteemed friend and adviser, Professor Samaresh Bandhyopadyay of Calcutta University, a very, very renown Indologist.
Please call us as you can,
+1 209 505-3219
Thank you,
HpSwami - Professor H. H. Robinson
GENERAL SECRETARY NIOS