Dear Prabhus:
Jaya Srila Prabhupada!
Let me share with you a small report of our humble service to the Srila Prabhupada ISKCON Mission.
Introducing Krishna to Academia in Mexico and the World
By Hare Krishna Dasa
After 27 years of distributing books on the streets and preaching Krishna consciousness through the media in the famous university town of Saltillo, Coahuila (Northeast Mexico), by the grace of Srila Prabhupada, I felt inspired to complete my academic studies in 1998, graduating with a degree in Linguistics and Literature from the Autonomous University of Coahuila, and then a PhD from the International Euro-American University in Philosophy of History Applied to the Culture and Religion of Krishna.
I earned achievements such as the University Merit Medal of my generation, selling Bhagavatam and Bhagavad-gita sets and other books of Srila Prabhupada to faculty members, organizing lectures of learned devotees and sannyasis, and gaining great acceptance and prestige for ISKCON and Srila Prabhupada. We then began a series of programs that lasted up to 10 years.
In our local academic institutions we held an International Symposium on Social Sciences, Globalization, and Cultures of Resistance at various universities and cultural centers in the Coahuila government. Devotees such as Sri Nandananda Dasa, Vrindavana Dasa, and other Indian scholars and politicians came to give lectures in the first decade of the 2000’s, bringing great recognition to Srila Prabhupada’s ISKCON mission.
Also, by Srila Prabhupada’s grace, we were able to publish several books and papers in both Spanish and English on historical research on Krishna, such as the antiquity of the Srimad Bhagavatam, in specialized journals.
Reference: Global Journals – GJHSS Vol. 14, Issue 2
And my most recent book in English, where we present all these discoveries, is: Krishna and Indological Studies. An Epistemological Review.
Reference: Amazon – Krishna and Indological Studies.
This book can be purchased online.
In addition to these works, I have also been invited to speak at international conferences on Sanatana Dharma, such as the one held by the Visva Hindu Parishad in April 2023 in Washington, D.C., which can be viewed at:
Watch on YouTube
This lecture was very well received by the scholarly community and believers of Vedic Dharma. We are currently working on a research project that will be published as a book entitled: The Hare Krishna-ISKCON movement in the face of Post-Marxism Wokism or Progressivism: Confrontation, Acculturation and Resistance.
It explores and presents evidence of this social phenomenon, which has become a focus of study by scholars in the American Continent and Europe, such as Oxford University and the Oxford Society. This is undoubtedly a fascinating and educational topic. We hope to have it ready in English soon, with commentaries from specialists.
All this and more, Sri Krishna has given us the opportunity to serve Him in Srila Prabhupada’s sacred mission.
Those interested in seminars and classes can contact me at:
horacioarganisphd@gmail.com or
iskconsaltillo@yahoo.com.
Hare Krishna das A.
Bhakti-sastri
Sacerdote Brahmana
Presidente de ISKCON Saltillo
Radha Govinda Mandir
Source: https://www.dandavats.com/?p=116070
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