a.c. bhaktivedanta swami
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| Prabhupada Letters :: 1973 a.c. bhaktivedanta swami |
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8 June 2007 Friday, 8 June, 1973 West Bengal My Dear Madhudvisa, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated May 23, 1973 and have noted the contents. So you may drop the matter of the house in Malaysia. Regarding Hrsikesa das, he is coming here to Mayapur on the 12th of this month and I shall discuss with him at that time what shall be his engagement. I am very pleased with the book distribution that you are doing there, and I was especially glad to know that 160 Srimad-Bhagavatams were distributed in Melbourne alone last Friday. There is good potency, please try further. Hoping this meets you in good health. Your ever well-wisher, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Labels: book distribution, Mayapur letters | 20:38 |8 June, 1973 Mayapur My dear Karandhara, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated 5/31/73 and have noted the contents. Yes, in Mayapur I am much improved from how I was in Los Angeles. The great advantage here is that there is always open air and a good breeze which is naturally very good for any breathing difficulties. The coughing is almost gone, but still sometimes at night it gives a little trouble. So I am under the treatment of one of the best physicians in Calcutta. I am taking this medicine and am gradually improving. Certainly Mayapur is by far a better place than Los Angeles because you can enjoy the free air here. The climate is not too hot, but a little moist with humidity but on the whole it is very pleasing. Our building is most superexcellently situated, and it is the experience of many respectable outsiders that while the outer atmosphere is unbearably hot, in our building it is pleasing. Regarding your taking sannyasa, I think you are already a sannyasi although not in saffron colored cloth. In the Bhagavad-gita it is said, anasritah karma-phalam karyam karma karoti yah sa sannyasi ca yogi ca na niragnir na cakriyah "The Blessed Lord said: One who is unattached to the fruits of his work and who works as he is obligated is in the renounced order of life, and he is the true mystic: not he who lights no fire and performs no work." So, I know you'll take sannyasa sooner or later but wait for the time when Krsna will decide for this action. You have written nothing about the $25,000 check which I left with you. Whether it is cashed and the business done? I advised Syamasundara. to send you a check for $10,000. Whether you have received it? If not you can advise me. I am anxious to know whether that M-V Trust business (house purchase) is complete. Hoping this will meet you in good health. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/jda Labels: health, Los Angeles, M-V Trust, Mayapur, sannyasa letters | 12:01 |5 June 2007 Tuesday, 5 June, 1973 Mayapur My dear Revatinandana, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated 29-5-73, and accompanying essay, and have noted the contents carefully. Yes, your article is very nice. It is very important that we now expose the nonsense theories of these rascal scientists who assert that life comes from matter. They say that life comes from some chemicals, but they cannot say wherefrom these chemicals have come. Actually, if we examine carefully, chemicals are coming from life, not life from chemicals. Just like the lemon tree. It is producing so many lemons. In each lemon there is so much citric acid. So, due to the presence of life, so many chemicals are being produced. Also, I have experienced, that one of my toenails has come off due to infection, but now my body is replacing that nail with another one of the exact size and shape as the one I have lost. If I have got such a potency to create, then what to speak of the Supreme Living Being lord Sri Krsna. If the sub-living entities can produce so much chemicals then what to speak of the Supreme living entity. This is called inconceivable potency. The living being has got an inconceivable potency to create. I do not know how my nail is coming. And the Supreme Living Entity or God, has got unlimited potency to create. I do not think that any reasonable intelligent man or scientist can deny. Aham sarvasya prabhavo, I am the source of everything, [Bg. 10.8]. Regarding my coming to London for Rathayatra on July 8th, if my health is by that time permitting, then I surely will come there to London. Hoping this meets you in good health. Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/jda Labels: London, philosophy letters | 12:00 |5 June, 1973 Mayapur My dear Patita Uddharana, Please accept my blessings. I have just now received your letter of 16-5-73 along with newspaper clippings. I have also seen some of these clippings when I was in London recently and some devotees from your temple were initiated by me. For the devotees of the Lord there always many difficulties for propagating Krsna Consciousness among the non-devotee demons. But we must learn to tolerate all the difficulties and push on regardless of whatever obstacles we may be presented with. No one can stop this Krsna Consciousness Movement because Lord Caitanya wants that His Holy Names will be spread to every village and town. So go on with the preaching work and keep me informed of your progress. Hoping this will meet you in good health. Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/jda letters | 12:00 | 5 June, 1973 Mayapur My dear Niranjana, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 31-5-73. I have noted the contents carefully. Yes, if you have got the chance, you may come here to Mayapur to see me. I will be here for at least one month, so, if your exam schedule permits, then you can immediately come here. Come with Dr. Rao also. We have serious consultation. Hoping this will meet you in good health. Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/jda letters | 11:59 | 5 June, 1973 Mayapur My Dear Tamala Krsna, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated 6-1-73, and have noted the contents carefully. Yes, Mrs. Gandhi should be informed of all these incidents, how our temple has been dismantled by the municipality. So, what is the meaning of the recommendation of the standing committee. that we should immediately be able to reconstruct at the cost of the municipality. Is it useless? I thought that the standing committee.'s resolution was final but from your letter it appears there is no meaning. What has happened to the new act of February 1973 declaring the tenant of the land to be considered proprietor or owner. Anyway, I have already written to Giriraja my opinion of what should be done. Had it been the case of some Mohammedan, there would have been great riot. But Hindus are such cowards, therefore no action has been done. Regarding Hrsikesa das, he may come here to Mayapur and I will discuss with him what his engagement shall be. He speaks fluent Bengali, so he may teach the local boys here at our school. My health is improving slowly. Hoping this meets you in good health. Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Labels: Bombay letters | 11:58 | |
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