a.c. bhaktivedanta swami
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| Prabhupada Letters :: 1973 a.c. bhaktivedanta swami |
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1 September 2007 Saturday, 1 September, 1973 Bhaktivedanta Manor My Dear Karandhara, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter and enclosed bank slip for 250.00 dollars. I have not as yet received the bank slip of another 1,400.00 dollars, I hope you have already deposited the same. I am expecting the receipt voucher at any moment. Regarding initiation of the new devotees, I am sending herewith the names against each of them, the beads may be chanted upon by you and delivered by regular ritualistic ceremony. For second initiation find herewith the sacred threads duly chanted by me and you do the rest work. My schedule of program is as follows; Sweden on the 5th September after returning I shall go to Japan by the 15th via Tehran and India. Then from Japan I shall return to Los Angeles via Hawaii, estimated by the 10th October. Certainly at that time I shall drive on my Rolls Royce car with great pleasure at least for three months. Pray to Krishna that I may execute my touring program without any disturbance. I hope this letter will meet you in good health. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS:hda Labels: bank, initiation, itinerary, Los Angeles letters | 15:56 |31 August 2007 31 August, 1973 Bhaktivedanta Manor My Dear Jagadisa, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated August 24, 1973, and I have noted the contents carefully. Regarding the Regina temple, if it is already opened then maintain it, otherwise we should not open more centers at this time, especially in the smaller cities, it is better to go there with traveling Sankirtana parties, that was my point. And the deities in a moving vehicles is all right, providing they are cared for properly, so do the needful. Everything has to be done expertly that is my point. Otherwise your report is encouraging to me, I always look forward to hearing from you. I hope this letter will meet you in good health. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Labels: deities, Regina, sankirtan, Toronto, travelling letters | 15:55 |30 August 2007 Thursday, 30 August, 1973 Bhaktivedanta Manor My Dear Hon Pei Das, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 15th August, 1973, and I have noted the contents carefully. There is no question of giving anything up in Krsna consciousness. That is the sum and substance of the Bhagavad-gita. Arjuna also thought like that "I shall not fight and fell silent" but Krsna did not approve of this sentimental attitude of the Great Arjuna. The whole Bhagavad-gita was spoken to Arjuna simply to convince him that he should work for the satisfaction of Krsna. Therefore Krsna plainly says, "Whatever you do as work, whatever you eat, or give away in charity, do it for Me." This is real Krsna consciousness, to work for the satisfaction of Krsna. So you have good opportunity to serve Krsna by your nice education, go on finish up in the university and simultaneously follow the regulative principles, chanting 16 rounds, and associate with the devotees as much as possible. Your talents can be utilized for Krsna and in due course of time how this is so Krsna will reveal to you more and more. So do not be worried, be jolly in the service of the Lord. I hope this letter meets you well. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Labels: Bhagavad-gita, Melbourne, study letters | 15:55 |28 August 2007 Tuesday, 28 August, 1973 Bhaktivedanta Manor My dear Cittahari, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated August 15, 1973. On your recommendation I am happy to accept Brian Lloyd as my initiated disciple. His name will be Bhutanath das. You can instruct him on all matters of philosophy and regulative living, attending class, Sankirtana, book distribution. As president of the temple you have very much responsibility, so never forget that we are acting as agents for the Supreme Lord so our standard must also be perfect and then automatically anyone that comes in our company will become perfect in no time. I hope this letter meets you well. Your ever well-wisher A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Labels: initiation letters | 15:54 |28 August, 1973 Bhaktivedanta Manor My Dear Bahudak, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated August 6, 1973 and I have noted the contents carefully. When I hear about the Sankirtana Buses that are moving all over the world then I think that we are becoming like a gigantic guerilla warfare movement fighting with maya. This traveling in buses is the best means to drive away maya and establish Krishna consciousness all over the world. After all the whole world is the property of Krishna, but temporarily it is being illegally occupied by maya's agents. Flood them with kirtana and books, this is the best weapon, increase the number of buses that will be your success. The new initiates are named as follows: Peggy Flyn--Purnamasi Dasi, Garry Pennington--Punderikasam Das. I am also enclosing one sacred thread and mantra for Ganapati Das. You may proform a fire ceremony and distribute prasadam feast. I hope this letter meets you well. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Labels: initiation, sankirtan, Vancouver letters | 15:54 |28 August, 1973 Bhaktivedanta Manor My Dear Prahladananda, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated August 12, 1973. I am enclosing herewith the sacred threads and Gayatri Mantras as requested by you. Hold a fire sacrifice amongst yourselves and prepare a nice feast and distribute to the devotees. Yes that is nice that you are distributing many books. I do not want money, or buildings or anything else, I simply want to see that my books are being distributed and because you are doing that I am quite happy. I hope this letter finds you well. Your ever well wisher A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS:hda Labels: Austin, book distribution, initiation letters | 15:53 |28 August, 1973 Bhaktivedanta Manor My Dear Satsvarupa, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated August 22, 1973. You are the only one sending in reports, so I thank you very much for your diligence. If you can arrange for meetings with Professor Dimock and other professors then do it for the month of October and I shall come. Krishna is very kind upon you because he has given you so many responsible tasks. So always think of the Lotus Feet of Sri Krishna and you will find no difficulties in executing the tasks allotted to you by Krishna. Bhaktivinode Thakura used to say all difficult tasks he had to execute for Krishna were considered as great pleasure for him. Regarding the criticism from others, that may be there but we have to follow our own principles. Syamasundara was too attached to his daughter and therefore he took her back, but it is not good. Kindly see that the principles are being followed, deity worship, sankirtana, chanting etc. If we maintain these principles rigidly there is no question of fall down and without any difficulty our progressive march will advance. I hope this letter meets you in good health. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami letters | 15:52 | 28 August, 1973 Bhaktivedanta Manor My Dear Kirtanananda, Please accept my blessings. I beg to __ receipt of your telegram recommending new initiates. Their names are as follows: Robert--Vahna Das Joanne--Visvadhika Dasi Richkin--Mahabuddhi Das Robert--Padmanyayana Das George Crocker--Cirantana Das Frank Chiesa--Candramauli Das Ken Karpovich--Krsnasravana Das Rachel Sullivan--Vedajanani Dasi I am happy to hear that your program was successful, here also we had some nice programs, and in Amsterdam we also staged a nice festival. So this festival program is very very important and it is especially effective for the mass of people. So go on making festivals and make everyone in America Krishna conscious. I hope this letter meets you well. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Labels: festivals, initiation, New Vrindavana letters | 15:51 | |
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