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| Prabhupada Letters :: 1973 a.c. bhaktivedanta swami |
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18 May 2007 Friday, 18 May, 1973 Los Angeles My dear Citsukhananda, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your Air Mail Special letter dated 14 of May, 1973, and I have noted the contents. Tomorrow I am going to Dallas because the weather here in Los Angeles is not good for my health. It is too cold and cloudy. So I am going to Dallas to get some sunshine. If the weather there is not suitable, I may come at once to Caracas. However, if the weather is good in Dallas I shall remain there until May 30 and then to New Vrindaban for the corner stone laying for our first temple there. Then I shall come to Caracas from Pittsburgh. Please let me know in Dallas whether or not you can make arrangements for tickets for four to Caracas. Hoping this meets you in good health. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami P.S. I have already come to Dallas and it appears nice 5/19/73 ACBS/jda letters | 10:03 | 18 May, 1973 Los Angeles My Dear Hamsaduta, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated May 12, 1973, and have noted the contents carefully. Thank you very much for your report of the London situation. We can understand from this incident that the most important point is that everyone, especially the leaders, must always stick to the basic regulative practices that I have given, especially 16 rounds each day. So, now what can be done? I expect to be going to London sometime after the first week of June. You may come there at that time. I am very pleased to note that you are opening another center in Zurich. Hoping this meets you in good health. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/jda Labels: Heidelberg, regulative principles letters | 10:03 |16 May 2007 Wednesday, May 16, 1973 Los Angeles My dear Bali-mardana, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated May 14, 1973 and have noted the contents. So now my plans have changed. Karandhara has made arrangements for my physician to come here, thus saving much expense and time. So now I shall remain here in Los Angeles up to the 30th of May, then to New Vrindaban for a few days and then on to London. As soon as you have finished the synonym work on the third canto you can immediately join me wherever I am and we can finish it up in good time. Regarding fourth canto, go on and prepare for publishing as quickly as possible. The first six volumes are selling very well so we may print more volumes and they will also sell. If we can also keep up good pace with Caitanya-caritamrita then we may be able to print one 400 page book per month. Thank you very much for your sincere effort in helping me carry out the directions of my Guru Maharaja. Hoping this meets you in good health. Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami P.S. As you say we are all unqualified, but we become qualified by the mercy of Guru and Krsna. P.P.S. Please find enclosed a letter from Lokamangala dasa Brahmacari. Please do the needful. Labels: health, itinerary, New York, publishing letters | 10:01 |16 May, 1973 Los Angeles My dear Hrsikesa, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated May 8 1973. You are welcome to join us at any moment provided you do so in your original status. You have to immediately leave India for working outside. Hoping this meets you in good health. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami cc: Gurudasa ACBS/jda Labels: Vrindaban letters | 09:59 |16 May, 1973 Los Angeles My dear Kurusrestha, Please accept my blessings. Upon your recommendation I am happy to accept the devotees you have mentioned, Dattatreya das and Rama Tulasi dasi, for second initiation. Now hold a fire yajna for devotees only. Afterwards, in private, play into the right ear, of the initiates, the tape of me reciting gayatri mantra. Teach them how to count on the finger divisions. Hoping this meets you in good health. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/jda Labels: Denver, initiation letters | 09:59 |16 May, 1973 Los Angeles My dear Gurudasa, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated May 11, 1973. I have received the picture of the front elevation of our temple, it looks very nice. Regarding Lalitananda, formerly Hrsikesa, his proposal for joining us does not appear to be very sincere. He wants to keep himself as Bonn Maharaja's man, although he has taken permission from Bonn Maharaja to leave him and join us. Formerly it was reported that he collected money in Bombay as our representative on behalf of Bonn Maharaja and sometimes it is reported that he advertises ISKCON as a department of the Institute of Oriental Philosophy. I think you should not be very much anxious to reaccept him as our man. I have replied his letter and there is a copy enclosed, which will speak for itself. Another thing, I beg to bring to your notice that the sister of your wife, she's now in Maya. Her husband reported that she is regularly eating meat and doing all nonsense. She's coming to Vrindaban to see her sister. Maybe she is going with poison arrows, so be very, very careful when she comes there. The world is full of danger and still we have to push on our Krsna Consciousness Movement. So always remain fixed up chanting the maha-mantra and following the regulative principles, because Maya is very strong. Have you taken delivery of the document "deed of gift" of the land from the registrar's office? The receipt is there in the file box so if you have not taken delivery as yet get it and keep it carefully. Hearing from Ksirodakasayi I reported this fact to you long ago, therefore, I'm anxious to know whether the deed of gift has been taken delivery. Hoping this meets you in good health. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/jda Labels: Gaudiya Math, land, maya, Vrindaban letters | 09:58 |15 May 2007 Tuesday, 15 May, 1973 Los Angeles My Dear Madhudvisa, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated May 7, 1973 and have noted the contents. I am glad to hear that some progress is being made for getting that house in Malaysia. Please keep me posted as things progress in this regard. Hoping this meets you in good health. Your ever well-wisher, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami P.S. That Lalitananda Vana, who was formerly Hrsikesa Brahmaly (?) my disciple, wants to join us again. Can you give me some information about him as you met him several times in Bombay. Labels: Australasia letters | 09:59 |14 May 2007 Monday, 14 May, 1973 Los Angeles My Dear Gurudasa, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated 6/5/73. I have noted the contents carefully. I have already sent you one letter dated May 11, 1973 as well as a copy of a letter sent to Madan Mohan Goswami by registered post that same day. I trust you have received that letter by now and you are proceeding as per my instructions therein. First of all ask Gaurachand Goswami that he is taking the money on account of two rooms occupied by me, now Madan Mohan Goswami has asked up to vacate, so clearly understand from him what is our position. Whether he is going to accept the money continually or does not like to accept it. So on hearing this statement, if he says that he'll not accept and we must vacate, then it is to be understood that all the Shebaits have combined together to evict us. Then we'll have to take the matter to the rent controller court as I have already advised in my previous letter. In India we have got experience, there are so many cheaters. So be very careful of them and do everything carefully, keeping in touch with all the senior members and do the needful. I am advised by my Calcutta physician that I should go back to India. So I am returning and will reach in Calcutta sometime next week. Ananda Pandu wanted to stay with me, so if he likes he can come to Mayapur where I shall stay. Offer him my dandabats. So far as Mr. Sarkar, our engineer, is concerned, if he becomes too much of a disturbance then you may dismiss him. Hoping this meets you in good health. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Labels: health, itinerary, Vrindavan letters | 20:38 |13 May 2007 Sunday, 13 May, 1973 Los Angeles My dear Bhavananda Goswami Maharaja, Please accept my blessings. Since I posted my last letter to you and Jayapataka Maharaja, jointly it has been decided that I'm returning to India by the 22nd or 23rd of this month. I think you have already been informed by Karandhara Prabhu. The reason is my health is broken down. Last time when I was in Calcutta, the great ayurvedic physician Bimalananda Tarkatirtha felt my pulse and he said there is something very wrong within me but I left the next day. Unfortunately since I have come to the Western countries beginning from Zurich (Switzerland) then to New York then Los Angeles, but everywhere the climate is not at all suitable for me. I have received one letter from Madhavananda who was instructed by the physician that I should come back to India immediately. So I am coming back, and I will stay at Mayapur. Last time when I was there I left with you some instruction namely fixing the closet doors, iron bars on the windows and I hope you have these all finished by this time as well as the toilet facilities. I was pleased to learn from Madhavananda that he collected Rs. 42,000/. in one month for Mayapur construction. I hope things are going on nicely without any scarcity of money. Hoping this meets you in good health. More when we meet. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/jdd Labels: health, itinerary, Mayapur letters | 20:37 | |
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