Hare Krsna SS Hanumat Presaka Swami,
PAMHO. AGTSP.
We feal that your health is not well. The deterioration of the body it is unavoidable all we pass through it. We pray to Krsna to improve your health .We have your good partnertship for longer.
Here our report:
1.-LAD continue teach course Disciple of ISKCON in Chosica Temple. It is for 2 months.
2.-Karuna Krsna d (Secretary of National Council) said me he will write to you and answer his [YOUR] letter.(the letter send to National Council).
3.-We send a brief report of NIMSAR to SS Jayapataka Swami (by whatssap).
HpS - Do you know Atmananda Das and Divya-priya DD? He told me to work with them. I have exchanged letters with them one time and was very friendly and enlightened about situation in Peru.
4.-Talking with devotees authorities about education in ISKCON:
4.1 There is a confusion about of what they think that preaching is the same as education in the sense of that all students must become preachers. With this logic, therefore if there is not preacher is fault of NIMSAR or that we going to take preaching.
HpS - Preaching means teaching, but there are many ways to do it, no? Yad yad acarati srestha: For the common people the preaching is done by the twice born by there example. The mother explains things to her children. Yamaraja preaches to the Yamaduttas after they return for trying to arrest Ajamila. Scripture is the basis of all these things. The twice born Prabhupada wanted to have this Bhakti Sastri level, but for people who only take first initiation, they don't need to get this knowledge formally. They need to get it informally like through puppet shows and hearing discourses by the Brahmanas put into their language.
4.2.-They say Most of NIMSARs members hasn't lived in ashrama so they dont have certain about maturaty to teach.
HpS - Of course there will be so many personal opinions and we shoudl deal with them like that, no? Individidually and personally, but then as an institution we need to have public discussions, then make public statments and rules and regulations. It is the second class relationship, administrative, like Arjuna.
4.3.-There has not been a good attitude for some members to authorities.
4.4.- Authorities need teachers for ashrama. And for this Karuna Krsna d give seminars for temple of Chosica y NIMSAR only courses.
HpS - We don't understand the grammar in this???
5.-Some good devotees have recommended that NIMSAR is low profile for some time (coulb be to April).
6.-What requirements need NIMSAR for enroll in web of MED (Ministery of development of the education)????
HpS - MOE (the name has changed) has the Board of Examiners, and different Temples, ISKCON institutions, can be registered as Bh Sastri, Bh. Vaibhavi centers etc. The information is on the web site. It is rather disorganized to my point of view, and I am a Member of the Executive Committee of the MOE: http://iskconeducation.org/category/schools/iskcon-board-of-examinations/
I would say that education in ISKCON is just as disorganized on the global level as it is in ISKCON Peru. So we have to each fly our own airplane: Understand what is the goal of education and how to achieve that, then do that as friends with others and then also work on developing it in our institutional roles. GBC Secretaries also have friends within the institution.
With afecction
NIMSAR team.
HpS - Thank you very much for your letters!!! We seem to be making real progress! Now to more mail!