Dear Maharaj:

Please accept my humble obeisances, all glories to Srila Prabhupada!

I hope you´re very well. We are very happy, working in our projects; Visvanath is organizing the temple´s festival, which has been very beautiful.

Since 3 months ago, I started to use the sanskrit set with the kids in the temple here in Santiago, Chile.

Because I live too far and I haven´t had more time, we are doing it every 2 Sundays; the reception has been very enthusiastic even with non-devotees kids.

The program starts with chanting mantras and then I do a small yoga class so the kids can move some, also I teach them some pranayamas so they can be more receptive for the sanskrit class. We end with simple prasada (fruits, sandwich or what the parents brings).

I´ve adapted some activities so they can be funnier for the kids, because we have a large range of age, from 3 to 13 years old. Nevertheless, I always guide myself by the books. It has been a great challenge to do this service as it´s difficult to have all the kids attention for 1 ½ hrs, but they always seems very happy and anxious to learn more sanskrit, besides they love to write in devanagari!

Please Maharaj, we need your blessings so the program keeps working, improving and giving fruits. There´s a lot to do and learn!

Your aspiring servant

Gita Vali dasi

HpS - Hare Krsna!   Thank you so, so much for this news.   We are trying to develop this Sanskrit learning for oursleves also.  Many citations where Prabhupada encouraged it if it was possible. It gives access to so much knowledge, refined understanding of Prabhupada's translations. We are trying to organize the 3rd Latin American Symposium on Education with ISKCON in Brazil, April 2017. Of course, we will try to make this Sanskrit study more available then. We hope that your good selves or others from Chile can come.
We are sure Krsna will give you good intelligence to expand this and engage us as you can!!!