Viplavah 2019
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Contents VISION STATEMENT ...........................................................................................................3 MISSION STATEMENT ........................................................................................................3 MASTHEAD .............................................................................................................................3 Message from the General Editor ............................................................................................4 Message from the Acting Editor ..............................................................................................4 ARTICLES ..................................................................................................................................4 NIOS MEETS NANTES .......................................................................................................5 Bhagavatam for Teens: Bridging the Gap for the Second Generation ..........9 The Deep Gaze ...................................................................................................................11 PROJECT REPORTS ..............................................................................................................10 Bhaktivedanta College, Belgium .............................................................................12 Centro Studi Bhaktivedanta, Italy ..........................................................................14 Bhaktivedanta Institute for Higher Studies, USA .............................................16 ISKCON Ministry for Cow Protection and Agriculture ..................................18 VedaBase.io ........................................................................................................................20 BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS ..............................................................................................21 Selected Bibliography ...................................................................................................22 CALENDAR ............................................................................................................................23 NEXT ISSUE ............................................................................................................................23 2 VISION STATEMENT To provide Krishna conscious education of high quality to everyone through temples, educational institutions and various global initiatives. MISSION STATEMENT To develop comprehensive educational systems globally, that foster higher spiritual values, fulfil the needs of ISKCON members and the larger society bringing about excellence in all areas of human life. We aim to fulfil this mission by 1. Empowering and supporting educational initiatives and collaborations among educators, educational institutions and professionals 2. Establishing and monitoring high standards of Vaisnava education 3. Supervising the development and execution of educational plans and ensuring they are delivered to high standards and 4. Understanding and fulfilling the educational needs of the Krsna conscious families 5. Making every temple as an educational centre and a centre of excellence. MASTHEAD Viplavah is a Journal of the Ministry of Education of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, Founder Acharya His Divine Grace Srila A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Minister of Education: H. G. Sesa Das Executive Director: Tapana-misra Das Core Committee: Hanumatpresaka Swami, Sesa Das, Atul-krsna Das, Rama-giri-dhari Das, Tapan-misra Das, Champaka-lata Devi Dasi, Indira-sakhi Devi Dasi, Acting Editor: H. H. Hanumatpresaka Swami Editorial Board: • H. G. Indira-sakhi Devi Dasi • H. G. Rama-giridhari Das The first issue of the Journal was published Janmastami 2017 with plans to publish four issues each year. It is driven out of North American and the Western Hemisphere but is aimed at serving the educational needs of ISKCON globally. We hope it inspires many regional and topical journals, such as Jayam which is now being published in Spanish. Ministry Web Site: iskconeducation.org For Correspondences: Secretary, [email protected] 3 Message from the General Editor as their profession and even passion can prog- ress on both lines in a kind of DNA spiral dance. The potential of the Vedic, Sanskrit, heritage for stimulating and feeding higher education is awesome. Just as one technical note we were hoping for in- put from the Ministry’s Executive Secretary, Ta- pan Misra Das, for this issue, but we received a note from him that he is in Malaysia with a sud- denly collapsed lung. We feel certain that he is an example of a person working to educate him- his is an interesting issue. It has been stim- self so that these inevitable calamities of life can Tulating working with “Professor Gupta” as always be mined as clouds with a silver lining. Editor for this issue and receiving his commit- ment to edit next year’s academic issue. We only Hanumatpresaka Swami (Prof. Huber H. Robin- hope that more people who hold positions in son) – ISKCON Ministry of Education, Ricardo ISKCON as their religion and university posts Palma University (Lima, Peru) Message from the Acting Editor articles written by devotee-scholars who have dedicated much of their life’s work to higher education. They are a diverse group—among them, you will find professors, farmers, school- teachers, artists, sannyasis, and administrators. This is both encouraging and fitting, because education is something that permeates, or should permeate, every profession, institution, and age group of a society. How does a farm- er pass on his or her wisdom about climate and elcome to the second annual issue of Vi- crops to the next generation? How does an artist Wplavah focused on higher education! In ensure that the ability to create and appreciate this issue, you will find a variety of interesting art is perpetuated in society? And how does a 4 religious institution preserve and distribute its announcement of an exciting new book on cow values to a broader public? All of this happens care written by Krsna Ksetra Swami and pub- through education. Indeed, education cannot lished by the highly respected academic pub- be restricted to a single department or a single lisher, Palgrave Macmillan. We have also pro- profession. It should be part of the very fabric of vided a list of other recent scholarly books that a healthy society. might be of interest to our readers, including the first-ever academic study of Kavi Karnapura, as In this issue, you will find a wide spectrum of well as a book on the social impact of Caitanya educational approaches. The essays are grouped Mahaprabhu’s movement, written by the noted into three categories: Articles, Project Reports, scholar Joseph T. O’Connell. and Book Announcements. The first group in- I am deeply grateful to H.H. Hanumatpresaka cludes an article by H.H. Hanumatpresaka Swa- Swami (Prof. Huber H. Robinson) for his sig- mi on Carl Jung and Gaudiya Vaisnavism, an- nificant guidance and encouragement during other article by Gopika Kanta Dasi on helping the editorial process, including commissioning adolescents make the Bhagavatam relevant to articles. We wish to thank all the contributors their own lives, and a third article by Gandharva to this issue for producing such interesting and Dasa on the relationship between art, spiritual- useful articles, despite their busy writing and ity, and education. The second group includes travel schedules. Finally, we wish to thank you, reports from several different institutions of our learned readers, and apologize for the short- higher education connected to ISKCON around comings in this issue, which are entirely my own the world: Bhaktivedanta College in Belgium, responsibility. Nevertheless, we hope that you Centro Studi Bhaktivedanta in Italy, Bhaktive- will find this issue thought-provoking and use- danta Institute for Higher Studies in the United ful in your own work as an educator. States, Vedabase.io on the web, and the ISKCON Ministry for Cow Protection and Agriculture in Radhika Ramana Dasa (Professor Ravi M. Gupta Ecuador. The third group of essays includes an - Utah State University) ARTICLES NIOS MEETS NANTES Hanumatpresaka Swami* he door opened and out came a very conge- was lined with books and beautiful artifacts to Tnial scholar. We had some trepidation be- the ceiling. The fresh morning air of Buenos Ai- cause before we’ve met some powerful Jungian res came in through the window, cars hummed scholars but some have been chain smokers and by as they went to work. There were ourselves, others angry and arrogant. Hp Swami and three young students. Ooof! “Have you heard of E. T. Hall?” Quite a relief. Then Professor Nantes took us across the Baroque lobby into his office, which “Have you read Jung in India?” * ISKCON Ministry of Education, Secretary General of the North American Institute of Oriental and Classical Studies NIOS, Traveling professor of the Ricardo Palma University (Lima, Peru). 5 We have been trying to meet Dr. Bernardo and you are motivated but don’t know how to Nantes, the founder of Fundacion Vocacion approach Prof. Jung and his followers in more Humano, Dean of Universidad del Salvador, depth. Of course books are the basis, so here is translator of C. G. Jung’s Redbook for three a suggested reading list. It’s interesting that ev- years ( and Shonu Shyamdasani of the Univer- eryone who I know who has read the books has sity of London, co-founder of the Philemon also found them challenging for