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We are in Peru.  Busy as ants.   MOre news soon!

Here is letter we wrote to Dr. Samaresh!

Esteemed Doctors, Professors, Samaresh Bandyopadhyay and Ian Mabbett,

We hope this letter meets you well and in the best of spirits.   We write you from the mystical land of Peru.   This weekend has been typical.  Jayapataka Swami, one of our most senior men has been visiting.  He recently had a brain stroke and was diagnosed to die, but didn't, and to the contrary is traveling and preaching.  His body is practically dysfunctional but his consciousness is so lucid, homourous, determined, that he is a living example of the distinction between spirit and matter.  Of course, with his visit, 300 more devotees from surrounding area have also visited!     Then the city turned off our rustic water supply for two days in its regular function.

Then, simultaneously, we have and obligation of one week of courses with the National Education University, where teachers are trained, with Isopanisad for Philosopy, Light of the Bhagavata (Srimad Bhagavatam 10th Canto, Chapter 30) for Literature, as well as dance, drama, music.

Also, we have a $10,000 contract with two of the very finest geniuses of Peru to make a television documentary on our Indian culure in Peru and they are filming all these things as well as the Murti puja on the altar.

Also, we have our regular curriculum development for Gita, Bhagavata etc. with 150-students/

And, we are producing this WONDERFUL homage, book, for Professor Samaresh!

We are surviving.

Our book designer has been working very hard.  He has done hundreds of books and he is very enthused with this book, but he comments that it is challenging because it is an anthology from many sources.    The first problem was that all was in Word format and Word is not a professional formating tool.  The fonts, location of the pictures and so much more can move, change, when you change computers.

So we were passing everything to In Line with is professional tool.  Five days ago after working furiously on the book, he was going back to home, parked his car at 10PM, was called over to one side by a security guard, a second man came out of the bushes, put pistols against his stomach and took his computer and all the books files!!

O.K.   Back to earlier copies!

However, in these next few weeks, since we can sit together we hope to make much, much more progress.

I want to get a rough general format for the book so you both can make any suggestions for corrections.   Then there are so many details in each article.  For exmple, some articles have lost italics so those need to be replaced.

We want to produce a book that will be esteemed by Vice-Chancellors, all. Then we hope that the majority of the distribution can be at that level.

Please contact us as you see fit, and I hope very sincerely to have some very substantial result in a short time.

Your humbler servant,

Hanumatpresaka Swami

Professor Huber Robinson

NIOS