All Glories to Srila Prabhupada! All Glories to Guru Maharaj HpS.
Hare Krishna.
PAMHO Guru Maharaj......the Lettuce feet is forever trying to leap thousands and thousands of oceans!!How do we get a glimpse of them??
Just talked to Dr. Samaresh. Will call him back later in the evening to get the details. Time.....time.....oh! sweet time...you are just the stumbling block....3 days....just 3 days...I feel like crucifying myself!!
Would like a cultural night for an hour or so....the movie can be screened....Ras dance....martial arts. Was thinking of involving Clinical Psychology staff and Psychiatry doctors for a seminar...Dr Samaresh will be able to guide us better.
1st Nov is such a great day to arrive at Imphal......Hari Uthaan....earlier we used to see carts being drawn in the middle of night ...with aarti . We still do that..but on a very small scale. We had been specifically invited by one of my friends to hold a kirtan at their house . They have a temple.....dates at least over 100 years...much older than that....we are going to have kirtan there. Would Maharaj be too tired to lead the kirtan there ...that would be in the evening?
Thank you so much for the lovely foto!!! That would be a lot better than being crucified!! hahaha....
Will call up Yamuneswara Prabhu soon.
Your hopelessly helpless servant,
Sarada Gaurangi Devi Dasi
P.S. We will surely reimburse the tickets.....so sorry for not being prompt enough. Please forgive me.
HpS - ASA -- We talked with Dr. Samaresh and he suggested that we suggest a few titles for one external lecture. The time is short so a lot of it will be be with personal dealings with disciples friends et al. Of course, people can join US when we are in the other parts of India also. The external University program would of course be open to ISKCON members, no?
Prof. said that you wanted something new for Manipur, something that had not already been done in another part of the world, but we would like to show the work that is going on in other parts of the world and how Manipur can make a very significant contribution to these programs.
1. Science, Psyche and Spirituality - The Encounter of Prof. C. G. Jung with the Mysticism (Yoga (Bhagavata Culture))) of Ancient India.
This and the following title run on parallel lines. Depending on the audience we can give a brief introducion to Carl Jung and the making of modern psychology down to cutting edge devlopments, the case for Platonic Ideala, Kantian Categories or Nietszche and Jung's Archetypes which preceed rational life and are extremely well presented in the Bhagavata tradition of Sri Caitanya and his followers to the present day. This includes the work from the previous years, current year and next year from Peru etc.
2. Psychology and the Sacred.|
See above.
3. Cultivation of the Human Spirit, Light of the Bhagavata.
This is a symposium based upon the BBT Light of the Bhagavata that was originally designed for a Conference in Japan in about 1962 on Cultivation of the Human Spirit. It has first class two meeter art pieces in the finest Chinese traditon. A 35-minute movie by the winner of the Latin American Oscar Awards for Best Director and of course the Bhakti-vedanta Purports to the Srimad Bhagavata Texts.
4. Aristotle and Bharata Muni, the Contrasts, East and West, in the Nature and Role of Theater in Society.
This is the natural follower of Seminar (1) above. All of these can be adjusted to Manipuri character and intellectual character. Dr. Samaresh has seen it in the Gaudiya Math presentation. It is very practical and would inspire Manipuri people to ofer their culture to the entire world.
5. Art and the Sacred - A Pilgrims Progress.
This is the next big project NIOS is undertaking. How we must fill our world with art that will define and inspire us to experience the spiritual aspect of our being. It is aimed at being an epic movie with participation from colossal artists and scholars. Manipur could join this and the presentation would introduce the audience to the current content of the project and participants.
HareKrsnaHareRama!