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First I wish you great success in spiritual life and in the preaching. Jay Srila Prabhupada, Jay Sri Guru Gauranga Radha Vrajesvara.

Surely many topics of the chats are repeated, yet I see that the progress is very slow. For instance, the collection of e-mail addresses on part of the temples and from the different events, to later send them frequently nectar by mail, is too slow. Pancatattwa has this service, but each month he should receive at least 500 new addresses from so many existing temples.

I always collect addresses. People are very thankful when thy receive news from the Vaisnavas. It is just a detail, but fundamental to open a congregation.

Of course, many perhaps want to save their contacts for the local preaching, but don't forget that you don't have your program ready to send news frequently. The correct thing would be that Pancatattwa has a separate list from each centre and area to be able to send special invitations to this group for local events.

In this way the temples will know that if they want to send something to the friends in their area, they only have to send a letter to Pancatattwa and he will send it to them. Besides this they receive the news from my office normally. One also has to distinguish between intimate devotees, friends of Krishna, students in the Vaisnava academy, conscious doctors, conscious scientists, conscious artists, because to each one of them should be sent different things.

Then we have the Vaisnava net in English and news for Vrinda friends in English. Besides this, it is the list that I would like that Radha Caran from Medellin takes care of the students of the yoga course and of the Vaisnava Academy. This list is very important to help the academies. Besides this, in a page of the International Academy one can take courses to graduate in the course of yoga to receive certificate. At the same time, this is a way of collecting with the course of yoga that is sold very cheap by CD-rom. And the tone of each list is of course different. This is important to maintain the interest of the people in this field.

Nowadays, one who receives something from you is giving his mercy to you. Because there is so much to read in this world, to listen to, films, Internet, everything for free. So if a person decides to take time to read what we give them, it is his mercy with us, just like one who permits me to talk about Krishna; he gives me his mercy and protects me. So our duty is to talk so nice and prepare the lists of mail with so much diligence that the people feel encouraged to continue to read the news from the academy, from the notices, etc.

Another large list is the one from El Armonista of Hari Caran, it's about ecology. Peta, for instance, the organisation that defends the animals, is very active and have many fields of action. They report their success etc. Very dynamic and well done. And they sell their conscious making products as nothing. They have a catalogue in colour to sell thousands of articles connected to animal protection.

In the same way we can have many articles to sell via Internet in Krishna consciousness, conscious art, posters, “consciencia aunque duela”, etc. This is old plans of mine, but we have not come to this sophistication. Between Hari Caran and Prakasananda this plan exists since long time. On the other side, Gaura Kesava from Vrindavan, wants to make Vrinda Bookstore online to sell books from India. Very well, I hope that we can come there and be more organized, because working with voluntaries sometimes makes things more slow, but at least with a pure spirit.

These lists are for many souls the only constant connection with the Vaisnavas, because the majority cannot go to the temple on a regular basis. And many don't go by laziness. So the mailing lists of Hari Katha and of the activities of the Guru are to lift us up from Maya at every moment. The lists and the collecting of the e-mail addresses and the transference of them to our offices that take care of this service, is fundamental. The great majority of the devotees are totally sleeping referring to this service, possibility and necessity for many. Well, it is a work to collect the e-mails, type them and send them to Pancatattwa, but to do or not to do it, means that one more soul receives nectar or receives nothing.

And your friends do not receive anything, because you do not do what you have to do. Because only once, and the service is complete. And in each temple and at each event, one has to explain to people the advantage they have in giving their e-mails to us. And a note so that Pancatattwa knows what kind of person it is; devotee, friend, special field of interest. Because if one sends something that they are not interested in, after that they don't want to receive anything more, because reading many e-mails is also work. So this service has to be very dynamic.

Internet is each day a more important forum. In USA the famous malls are being broken, because people buy on Internet more each day, and they have already closed more than 100 malls of many shops.

One has to live with the modern times, even if one doesn’t like, because our children have to live in this world. And they have to preach here. So vanguard, please! One who lives in the past loses the contact with the future, while one who does not accept his past does not have a future.

I hope that with the distribution of the collection of the Vedic wisdom, this situation will improve. Imagine, I received the first donation via Internet Pay Pal from Australia one of these days. Another thing; one has to know how this system of donations works to incorporate it on our pages.

Of course, one has to take care of the organic garden every day for the Lord; that is good, and yet in each temple should be available information of the preaching. Internet is Sri Gauranga’s reaching to each town and village in the world, as he predicted. One just has to connect with the listed Vaisnavas, with the heart of a compassionate devotee. And then they have the chance to make devotional service. Also maybe via Internet or in person. Fortunately there are afterwards chats in edited forms to send to the temples to study there, but in many temples they still do not take seriously to weekly study the notes from the chats, so there all members will be educated, because the vanguard is a little painful if one comes late.

Gurumaharaj.net has a medium of 100-150 real visitors daily, this means that at least 100 persons come daily to visit us but very few subscribe. I also send again my call to the dearest sannyasis that like to hide instead of being here with me meddling hard in the topic of the day, because they are the generals that should put into practise all of this in the life of the devotees and incorporate it in the temples. I feel sometimes strange sitting here only moving my fingers when one has to use all the body in the service for Krishna.

Well, here comes a very special call to all the integrants of the famous brahmanic parliaments. The brahmanic parliament if for growing as a centre of intelligence and goodness. Protection and planification. They have in their charge the happiness of all the integrants and the dynamism to serve all the public in our field with the message of Srila Prabhupada. This mechanism of the reunion of the brahmanic parliament, is like the forum to learn how to serve better and to be a humble servant of the other devotees. Not a megalomaniac who thinks that he knows everything better and that the opinion of the others cannot be more advanced than one’s own. So it is also an exercise of control and protection for the different leaders. In the same way, perhaps you don't like a leader very much, but if your Guru accepts him in a service, you don't have the right to push him away. Otherwise your ego would be your guru and not your Guru.

This is very important, because many times it is the frictions of the egos of the leaders that put a check on the progress of Krishna consciousness. Srila Prabhupada already warned us that nobody from outside can destroy Krishna consciousness, but from inside, if we are not careful, we can make damage to this mission. So the brahmanic parliaments are a school to - like Canyaka Pandit - be able to advice people in this world on base of Vedic wisdom.

I have released about 50 folders of the collection of Vedis wisdom, but we have material in the Vedas to make easily 5000 different. There is wisdom for all fields, and the brahmanic parliament is a forum of to maintain alive the wisdom in all our proceedings, projects, decisions, feasts etc.

One who is not interested in this, is not interested in helping in the global progress of one entire area, or is afraid of discovering his mayas. A leader of a temple cannot have his mayas hidden. At least the principles have to be free from sin in him. And the transparency and also the accountability. In the start of a temple, these things are working the best they can, but already a temple of 10 firm members or more, has to put the administration out of doubts, or rather, to satisfy everyone. This is basic in having a service of public character. The president of a temple is a public functionary that manages sacred founds. It is very delicate. Srila Prabhupada said that not a penny should be bad used from Lord Krishna.

The brahmanic parliament should work with such perfection like the super computer of a nuclear centre. Because the nuclear centre takes care of the material security of many people, but the brahmanic parliament takes care of the spiritual security of many souls. It is a great spiritual pride that one can be a member of a brahmanic parliament. Many people don't see it that way, because maybe they don't have so much power or prestige as in the material world, but this is the dimension of the spiritual world, and Lord Krishna is the chief and member of all brahmanic parliaments.

Of course, they are not to inflate the material ego; they are of a pure and good nature of serving and serving and serving and serving and serving. So the brahmanic parliaments are no luxury. They are a necessity, and all who want to be members, that want to take responsibility for the growing of Krishna consciousness in this world, are welcome to participate. It is not a parliament of an elite to blowing up on behalf of the guru that arbitrarily manage the things.

So, I really try to make the thing working and help you in my absence. Of course, to have a guru that has the last word is a great help. But more mature is when everyone harmonize with the principles of Srila Prabhupada that do not change, neither will they change in the future.

I am only the person who rememinds frequently what are the principles of Srila Prabhupada. And this is a basis for the future.

Inclusive if other missions would like to participate in our brahmanic parliaments, it would open a space like a World Vaisnava Association at once.

Inclusive if other missions would like to participate in our brahmanic parliaments, it would open a space like a World Vaisnava Association at once, because other members, since then favourable from another mission that are in the same field of preaching and desire to cooperate and to respect what we do, are our friends also. Of course, this also should be in my consent. Of course, for instance Iskcon prohibited their devotees to come to our Ratha Yatra and in Santiago they wrote us that we should not come to their Ratha Yatra. Naturally, with a closed primitive mind one cannot expect much common success. But maybe with the years these things will change.

What I want to say in a future when there will be many missions of my spiritual children, is that I want that these brahmanic parliaments continue to exist because they are for the good of everyone. They are not the least for fighting. Problems are solved only with an advanced devotee from both parts of a conflict. Reunions are there to meet, appreciate, to know what the others are doing, to offer help, to understand projects of experts, etc, and to eat Prasadam together and chant the Holy Names and to make your temple the most encouraging and mature.

The brahmanic parliaments have no president, they have secretaries that assure that everything is executed according to my plans for this forum. That everyone has a chance to present his points and to assure that no unfavourable polemics enter in this sacred forum.

Pragosh Prabhu has a page of the parliaments in Spanish. The address is http://www.geocities.com/parlamentos

I am happy to see more and more devotees to come, but I have to go soon.

Always your well-wisher, B.A. Paramadvaiti Swami