HpS - ASA

Esteemed Mataji et al,
Hare Krsna.

AGTSP Paoho.

Thank you so much for your work.

1. Do not think that Peru is unique in the challenges that you are facing in managment. It is different there, and so are the special opportunities, but I face the same things in my personal efforts in North America, and then in the Ministry of Education itself. This is Sankirtan: Carefully doing austerities, purifying our own faults, helping others as we see them by the practical authority of Krsna as He orders us.

2. Best always to write to the Blog first, essential. Then you can present the basic situation as you see it for everyone's benefit, then if there are confidential details they can be discussed in confidence with the appropriate devotees. The Gopis a) Good citizens of Vrndavana, b) Members of their own circle of friends, c) Each with a confidential relationship with Krsna.

So, let's be good citizen's of ISKCON, have good relations as a society, send summaries  to the Blog and then discuss other things in the proper settings.

3. ... I personally think it is best and see that Prabhupada when he was present never had ladies in management leadership positions. They should usually lead society from a different position. On the other hand I don't think it is impossible. Joan of Arc was the youngest person, a girl, to every lead a national army, but usually not a comfortable position.

- We have so few people involved in NIMSAR.
- We don't have any clear formal structure, the money we had for formalizing the structure with the government got invested in Baladeva's visit, as I understand.
- I don't feel that our relation with the National Council clear yet. We wrote a simple answer with questions to them, no.

4. If Mathuresa Das can become Regional GBC Secretary, then I feel that his perspective on Academic Education, Sankirtan, will give the necessary perspective for the effort needed. If not then we really have to re-evaluate the what Nimsar is and hopes to do.

So, I think we should wait to discuss our Membership and Management structure in the Glorious ASA Branch, Nimsar, until things are clear with the GBC, which should happen this month.

O.K?
In any case my personal determination is to always be helping in ISKCON Peru as much as we can. I think that is yours also. I think that that is very common amongst all of our friends, it is just that we have Vasanas, Karma (Under Krsna's Direction More or Less) and so we have to still be in the right postion so that doesn't cause problems.