Devotees sought for research work

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Dear Readers,

 

Namonamaha. Jaya Srila Prabhupada!

 

The "pramana group" sub-committee of the "Research Committee" of the SMPDC

(Sri Mayapur Project Development Committee) is seeking the services of

devotees who would be interested in participation in assisting with ongoing

research work into "the shape of the universe" the findings of which will

contribute to constructing the "model of the universe", according to the

concepts found in vedic and vedic supplimentary literatures for the "Temple

of the Vedic Planetarium" to be constructed in the future at Sridham

Mayapur.

 

Specifically we are looking for devotees who can read in English or any

other vernacular (wherein they may find these books already translated from

the Samskritam) and identify "relevant shlokas & passages" therein.

 

In fact research work is already in progress on this, and several devotees

are already participating. We'd like to speed up the process, which entails

expanding the number of researchers. We have a budget earmarked for the

purchase of the necessary literatures, and we will air mail the books to you

after we've finalized your participation in this endeavor. We hope that

your participation will be voluntary: at present we have no budget for

rumenerative participation.

 

Of course, the research program requires coordination and we will have to

make final decisions on who researches which purana or upapurana. We

already have devotees researching the Mahabharata, Valmiki Ramayana,

Bhagavatam, Vishnu Purana, Matsya Purana, Brahmanda Purana and Markandeya

Purana. We'll need help with the rest of the Mahapuranas and all of the

Upapuranas. Just in case you are curious, once we finish researching these

shastras, we can proceed to research the various "jyotisha granthas", or

astronomical treatises.

 

Any devotee interested in working on this project kindly contact me via

private e-mail at your convenince. If you don't know me personally, it

would be best if you would inform me of a possible reference from an ISKCON

temple president, sannyasi or senior devotee.

 

Thanks in advance for your kind consideration and possible participation in

the projecct.

 

Hope this meets you well.

 

das,

 

Basu Ghosh Das

For the "Pramana group" subcommittee

 

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