a.c. bhaktivedanta swami
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| Prabhupada Letters :: 1973 a.c. bhaktivedanta swami |
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15 March 2007 Thursday, 15 March, 1973 Calcutta My dear Tejiyas: Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated March 12th and have examined it with great pleasure. This program of approaching MPs is very very important. If you can get this petition approved, that would be a great boon to our movement. Even if 15 or 20 MPs join our Society that will be a new chapter for us. And your petition is very attractively worded. Actually India is the spiritual leader of the world but the fools and rascals are trying to sabotage the position. Your school preaching is very much welcomed by me. We are in need of new recruits to carry out so many ambitious programs here in India, so if you can infiltrate the school system as you did in America that will be a great service. Yes, this program for the factories I have already outlined. Let the labor-management disputes be finished by prasada and regular kirtanas with temples right on the premises. Your statement that "no intelligent man can resist becoming the member'' because of our books is a very good observation. Now these beautiful books have become the firm basis for our movement and any intelligent person in any part of the world cannot but fail to admire them. Devotees there or visiting must follow our regulated principles under your direction or they need not stay. Devotees should not be in India on their own business or on a whim, they should have our GBC approval. Everyone must be favorably engaged. I hope this meets you in good health. Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/rdg Labels: India, life membership, New Delhi, preachers letters | 04:47 |15 March, 1973 Calcutta My dear Karandhara: Please accept my blessings. I have received your two letters dated March 3rd and March 8th, with enclosures. Trivikrama Maharaja has written me one letter about his going on a bold preaching venture to Belfast, and it is a noble proposal. But I want him to first, with your cooperation, get our Tokyo center registered properly and train up a president before he goes on to another place. I have received some first-class publications of our Isopanisad from Hamsaduta and he is also ready to print Bhagavad-gita. And now you tell me that Macmillan, such a big big company, cannot keep up with our men. This is very encouraging news. I have just finished Gita Gan, a verse by verse translation of the Gita into Bengali, and now I am working daily on the Caitanya-caritamrta. Now I am more and more wanting to work on my books and diminish all this travelling. So I am more and more depending upon you GBC. Of course you GBC are in training, but you are all the hope for the future of our movement. So I am glad to hear that my quarters are being readied nicely and that you have purchased me a comfortable car. My program is to leave for Mayapur in the morning and be back by the 19th and on to Hyderabad on the 23rd, then to Bombay by the 26th. From then my program is not yet fixed up. I have received one nice invitation to go Johannesburg and if they can supply the visas in time I may go there, otherwise to London by the 1st and on to L.A. I hope this meets you in good health. Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/rdg Labels: GBC, itinerary, Los Angeles, publishing letters | 04:47 |15 March, 1973 Calcutta My Dear Jayatirtha, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge of your letter dated March 7th. Yes, you may perform the marriages in the Temple room, but after the legal marriage has lasted at least 6 months to a year. Then we can know they are faithful and serious. Yes, I will be glad to attend an engagement in a hall filled with 4,000 people, but I cannot fix a date for my arrival in L.A. at this moment. By the 16th I shall be going to Mayapur and then on the 22nd to Hyderabad until the 26th to Bombay. After that my program is not presently fixed up. Yes, because you have recommended them I accept all of the devotees for first and second initiations. The sacred threads will be coming under separate cover; for the others, their new names are listed below: Bay - Bahloka das Billy - Banamali das Harold - Hasyayuk das Jim - Kuvera das Larry - Laksmana das Mike - Mahajana das Roy - Ramlal das Arlene - Kirtida Kanyaka Cheryl- Saranagata dasi Cindy - Bhagavacittarupini dasi Gerry - Rasapurnada dasi Nancy - Rasaparayani dasi Ronda - Revati dasi Theresa -Tarani dasi Hope this meets you in good health. Your ever well-wisher, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Labels: initiation, itinerary, marriage letters | 04:46 |11 March 2007 Sunday, 11 March, 1973 Calcutta My Dear Govinda dasi: Please accept my blessings and I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated the 24th February 1973. Gaura Nitai Deities may be approved and ordered by the local Temple presidents with consultation of the GBC. There should be at least three or four brahmanas available. So there is no need to delay any shipments if these qualifications are met. I have seen the little booklet of the lecture by your good husband, but I have not been able to read it yet, but especially I like the comparison between nirvisesavad and savisesavad, the difference is shocking. I hope this meets you in good health and spirits. Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Labels: deities, publishing letters | 04:38 | |
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