a.c. bhaktivedanta swami
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| Prabhupada Letters :: 1973 a.c. bhaktivedanta swami |
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17 August 2007 Friday, 17 August, 1973 Bhaktivedanta Manor My Dear Vamanadeva, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated August 12, 1973, and I have noted the contents. I am referring your letter to Satsvarupa Goswami since he is the GBC Secretary for your zone. I have made him in charge of Gurukula so he is competent to answer your question, please write to him in matters of management I hope that you are feeling well. Please offer my blessings to your good wife Indira dasi. Your ever well wisher A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS:hda letters | 10:49 | 17 August, 1973 Bhaktivedanta Manor My Dear Karandhara, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter date August 11, 1973 and the duplicate deposit slips. I herewith send you three more checks; 1,111.00 300.00 108.00 1,519 US DOLLARS All of them may be deposited in my investment account No. 8-80613 Bank of America 366. I hope this letter meets you well. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS:hda N.B. Syamasundara Prabhu is still unable to pay because the things are not sold yet. Let us wait & see. In the investment a/c they do not receive less than $100.00 at a time. Labels: bank, Los Angeles letters | 10:47 |17 August, 1973 Bhaktivedanta Manor My Dear Nityananda, Please my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated August 14, 1973. Regarding the deity installation you may consult Satsvarupa Goswami your GBC secretary for this. I have appointed these GBC men to oversee and manage all the affairs of the society giving me relief to do my translation work fully. On your recommendation I accept Srimati Hamsini Devi Dasi for second initiation. Please find the Gayatri Mantra enclosed. I hope this letter finds you well. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS:hda Labels: GBC, initiation, New Orleans letters | 10:46 |15 August 2007 Wednesday, 15 August, 1973 Bhaktivedanta Manor My Dear Tejiyas, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated August 1, 1973 and I have noted the contents carefully. If you make some of the big Government officials interested in our movement then our strength will increase. Because we are in the material world sometimes we require that help. Another point is that if a government officer becomes our admirer or member then many others will follow, so try to make them sympathisers. It is good news that you have got the L.I.C. ground for holding our festival, maybe I shall be back in India at that time. Last time the L.I.C. festival was unique and successful many gentlemen wanted to increase the period, so try for the maximum period provided with Prasadm distribution. If possible arrangements should be made so that the kitchen can continue to cook and Prasadm distribution may go on continuously, in Delhi this is not difficult. If you do so the richer section of the public will contribute food grains, flour, Ghee etc. Your Idea to get our men made as official government guides is nice, also if the government agrees to build one or two room in our temple that will be good. If respectable gentlemen become interested in our Krishna Conscious Movement then our temple in Vrindaban will stand first, because all other temples in Vrindaban gather general mass of people without philosophical understanding. Some 50 years ago some Christian priest went to Vrindaban and inquired from many residents why Krishna enjoyed Rasa dance with others wives which is against the Vedic principle, but nobody could satisfy him. On this point my Guru Maharaja said that Vrindaban is inhabited by neophyte devotees. So we wish our temple will be able to reply anyone in the matter of Krishna Consciousness, then many modern philosophers and scientists will come to Vrindaban, that will be very much prestigious. I hope this letter meets you well. Your ever well wisher A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Labels: neophytes, prasadam distribution, Vrindavan letters | 10:46 |15 August, 1973 U.K. 15 August, 1973 My Dear Madhudvisa, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter and check for 1111.00 dollars. Regarding the old lady blessing the king, although the part of a constable is not very big, but the blessing is big always. Just as Krishna wants from his devotee a little flower, a little leaf, a little water, or a little fruit, these things are not very big things. Still if a faithful devotee offers to Lord Krishna with love and service, Krishna accepts them very gladly. So Krishna's gladness and the devotee's love and sincerity, they are taken into consideration. Similarly when a person offers something in sincere faith and love that is always welcome either by big or small men. So as you are spreading Krishna consciousness in Australia. Hamsaduta is also spreading in Germany. He has got eight vans and they are out regularly preaching sankirtana and selling books and he is now well to do even financially, and I hope you are also well to do, otherwise how you can promise for the next year 11,111.00 dollars. It is very nice. So you continue this system of preaching village to village by increasing the number of Sankirtana parties, it will be appreciated by Guru Gauranga. Do it nicely, you are a fit person, Krishna will bless you. I hope this letter will meet you well. Your ever well-wisher, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Labels: Australasia, sankirtan letters | 10:46 |15 August, 1973 Bhaktivedanta Manor My Dear Jagadisa, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated August 1, 1973 and I have noted the contents carefully. The book fund debts should always be cleared very quickly, otherwise how books will come out, so always pay regularly as you collect. To install Deities in a moving vehicle is not very good. There is always danger of falling and breaking. Sudama already has experience of this. Why is Deity worship being introduced? It should not be introduced because it is very difficult to maintain the standard under such circumstances. If you have picture of Guru Gauranga that is sufficient. You are wondering if you did the right thing by giving the Deities to Sudama, so the answer is no. The deities may be brought back and worshiped in the temple as before. The idea of traveling Sankirtana is to distribute books not to do Deity worship, it is very difficult to maintain the standard of Deity worship in the temple, how will it be maintained in a truck? Another thing is that opening temples should not be encouraged at this time. Subala did the same thing in Santa fee years ago, why again he is doing the same thing? Hamsaduta in Germany instead of increasing the temples and Deity worship he has increased the Sankirtana parties. He is running on eight New buses and distributing large quantities of literature, this is more important. Neglectful Deity worship means offense. So make propaganda in this way, but in the bus there should not be Deity worship, simply the picture of Guru Gauranga. I hope this letter meets you in good health. Your ever well wisher A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Labels: deities, sankirtan, Toronto, travelling letters | 10:44 |15 August, 1973 Bhaktivedanta Manor My Dear Tamala Krishna, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 9th August 1973. I am sending you the copy of a letter sent to Mahamsa that was sent to you in reply to your letter of 2nd August which should explain everything clearly. I hope this letter meets you in good health. Your ever well wisher A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS:hda NB. Mr Pulla Reddy gave us the land as a donation and why he is making now this land as a trust property, why not outright gift land? These are very important points. I have not heard anything from you about Mayapur and Bombay affair. If Mrs. Nair is not definite of selling to us, then what is the purpose of transferring the required money to India. I can transfer the money immediately on hearing from you. I have already written you one letter from Paris. letters | 10:42 | |
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