Hare Krsna Dear gurudeva

PAMHO   ______'0_

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada and U!

First of all i want to apologize for not organizing my time to see you... I really wanted to see you but I was not be able due to work...

This year I'm teaching kids of 3rd grade, a new experience for me.  This is really a great challenge.

Waldorf Pedagogy says that the greatest Divine revelation is a developing human being. If one learns to know about growing human beings, not merely the anatomical-physiological aspects, one learns how soul and spirit flow down into the physical body. Then any knowledge of the human being transforms itself into religiosity, into devotional, awed reverence before that which streams into the temporal surface from Divine depths. That is how we receive that which supports and sustains us as teachers and what children already sense, that which becomes dedication and natural authority.

At this age (9-10 years old), if a child cannot turn, full of acceptance and with venerable respect, to an adult, he or she will not have the crucial guiding force and inner soul-spiritual resilience needed for further inner development such as can be predisposed through religious training in which feelings like devotion and reverence are fed and nourished. “Therefore, we should establish our education and instruction in such a way that, in the class where children cross the Rubicon, between the ages of 9 and 10, we really stand before them so that, through our own morality, through that which we possess of inner veracity and content of soul, we can really be something to children; not merely have an effect as an exemplary model, but that everything we say will be perceived as truth.”

We really like this kind of thinking cause you do not see only the corporeal but also the spiritual. 

In some way it pushes us to keep our sadhana properly. We are very happy for that.

Thanks a lot for all your support and help.

                                                I work, I learn,

                                                I work by learning,

                                                I learn by working.

Your servant

Patraka das

HpS - Thank you for your letter. Some one may live for only a few days. Some one for many years. The best thing is die when we are supposed to within the plan of Krsna and the Gopis. Please write with more news, experiences. Let us meet your students.