Email bhakti sastri course

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Adipurusa.GKG

 

 

Hare Krishna,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

 

Thanks for writing to us. Here is some information about the VIHE Bhakti

Shastri Correspondence Course and below is the application form, which you

are invited to fill out if you are going to join.

 

The course is done by email only. The total duration is up to 2 years (after

which you can certainly continue your studies but some extra fee will have

to be sent again). The course is self-paced, but we recommend that you send

1 or 2 assignment every week, for a brisk progress. You will receive some

study materials by email, get certain home work which you should do and the

instructor will be ready to answer your questions. Some of your completed

assignments could be counted as examination essays.

 

We begin individual courses in "waves" every two months, approximately,

beginning on February 1.

 

Please note that it is not the responsibility of the instructor to push you

time and again if you lag behind. You study for yourself.

 

A recommendation is not a must for taking the course. Everybody can benefit

by studying and passing the exams, and can receive a certificate about their

grades, but those who follow the four regulative principles, chant at least

16 rounds a day, adhere to the standard ISCKON practices and have

references/recommendations from their temple and spiritual authorities are

awarded an official all-ISKCON Bhakti Shastri diploma.

 

For the exam there are several options: (1) do it in Vrindavan, when you

come here -- two sessions 3 hours each, composed of 60 short questions + 5

short essays and 12 slokas; (2) do the above at the end of the whole course

in the temple in your vicinity -- for that you will have to find a temple

authority willing to administer the exam to you and ask them to contact us,

after which we send them the exam and they mail us your answers; (3) similar

to number 2, but done three times, after each of the three modules (which

means that there is less to study every time and the covered course is

fresher in the mind, but it makes for a slightly bigger mailing

expenditure).

 

The fee for the whole course is Rs.9,000 (US$200), or Rs.3,150 (US$70) per

module (I Module: Bhagavad-gita 1-9; II Module: Bhagavad-gita 10-18; III

Module: Nectar of Devotion, Nectar of Instruction and Isopanisad).

 

You can use Western Union for transfering the fee (send it for Andriy

Panasyuk, staying in Vrindavan, India). Western Union also operates online.

Or pay online through www.cash2india.com by choosing "Send a Demand Draft"

and giving the name Andriy Panasyuk and the address as Adipurusha Das, VIHE,

ISKCON, Vrindavan, 281124, U.P., India; phone (0565) 2540228 [do NOT choose

Mathura bank, choose nothing or Delhi, it comes much quicker]. The third

alternative is that you can manually send a Demand Draft, payable to "VIHE",

to the same address.

 

If you have any questions, please write to me.

 

Our website is located at vihe.org

 

Thank you! Hope this helps,

 

Your servant

Adi-purusha das

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Application form

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Devotee name:

 

Passport name:

 

Preferred name(s) for B.S. diploma:

 

Date of birth:

 

Marriage Status:

 

Spiritual master:

 

Year when you came in touch with Krsna Consciousness:

 

Year when you started following the four reg. principles and chanting

minimum 16 rounds of Hare Krsna a day:

 

How frequently do you associate with devotees:

 

Postal Address:

 

City:

 

Postcode:

 

State:

 

Country:

 

Telephone:

 

Alternative E-mail, if any:

 

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