a.c. bhaktivedanta swami
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| Prabhupada Letters :: 1973 a.c. bhaktivedanta swami |
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1 December 2007 1 December, 1973 Los Angeles My Dear Yasodanandana and Gurukrpa Maharaja, Please accept my blessings. I have two days ago arrived at our Los Angeles Center after going through London and New York. I have been informed by Karandhara Prabhu that you both are presently traveling and collecting money for our Vrindaban Project. I am very glad to hear this. Just today we have received a letter from Guru das that the construction has stopped there due to lack of funds. Somehow or other we must complete this Vrindaban Temple so in this connection we require at least $10,000 per month from the U.S.A. for one year. Karandhara can manage $5,000 per month for the BBT and M-V Fund so I request that you both remain in America for 1 year further and collect and send a minimum of $5,000 per month to Guru das for the Vrindaban Temple. I understand that you are both anxious to return to India for preaching but at this time our preaching must be to first complete the Temple construction. After that is finished up then you may certainly return to India. You are both my older disciples and Sannyasis so I am dependent on yourselves for helping me push on this Movement in this way. Please send immediately $5,000 to Guru das. If you can send more, that is all the better but at least $5,000 per month must be sent by yourselves for the next 1 year. Please confirm that you agree to this proposal. Pray to Krsna that our humble attempts to spread Krishna Consciousness may be successful and that we may always please the acaryas and Vaisnavas by our service. Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/Kda Labels: BBT, collecting, M-V Trust, Vrindavan letters | 18:24 |1 December, 1973 Los Angeles Dear Tamala Krsna Goswami, Please accept my blessings. After stopping in London and New York, we have now safely arrived in Los Angeles. I am anxious to know if there has been any response from the Home Minister of India to the letter I wrote him while I was in New Delhi regarding the Indian Government assisting us in the development of our Juhu Beach Project. Our idea is to construct a hotel for American and European tourists to come and learn about factual spiritual life. While they are coming, there will be foreign exchange and the Indian Government is very much in favor of this. In this way, if we can convince them to help us by granting permanent visas for 100 to 150 of our men it will be a solution to our visa problems. Also, why not solicit a loan from the Government for 2 crores for developing our Juhu Beach Tourist Hotel. We will repay them in foreign exchange. You can point out that we have already invested up to 20 lakhs in foreign exchange so our projects in India are advantageous to the Indian economic development. This is the key to Governmental support in India. Emphasize these points in all dealings with the Government. Please let me hear from you the developments and current news of our India projects. Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/kda c.c. Tejiyas das Adhikari Labels: Indian Government letters | 18:22 |27 November 2007 26 November, 1973 London My Dear Umapati, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated October 30, 1973 and I have noted its contents carefully. As far as your grhastha community committee, I have no objection as it has the approval of Karandhara prabhu and he is there for you all to take advice from. One thing is though that we should not take such meetings and committees too seriously, as in the ultimate capacity our chanting is the only thing that will save us. However, if sometimes devotees should like to come together and chant Hare Krsna and discuss, just as we instituted our Istagosthi program, then this of course I have no objection to. Please offer my blessings to my beloved disciples there, and please extend my well-wisher to your good wife. I hope this letter meets you in good health. Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/mda December Labels: grhastha, Los Angeles letters | 20:01 |26 November 2007 25 November, 1973 Letchmore Heath, England My Dear Damodara Das Prabhu, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated Oct. 31, 1973, and I have acknowledge its contents carefully. I have also received the new copy in which you have enclosed; it is very nice. I am always very much encouraged when senior devotees like yourself and Rupanuga Maharaja are tending to their Lordships. This gives me assurity that our high standard will continue. Thank you very much for this, I am sure that Krishna will give you all intelligence in how you can improve your service to Krishna. Regarding the second initiation of Antardyana Dasi you may hold a fire yajna and play the Gayatri mantra tape for her to hear through the right ear. Thank you very much for your kind words regarding my books. Yes, more and more persons as they are exposed to my Krishna Conscious literatures are appreciating their value, and your greatest manner of showing your appreciation is by your constant increase in distributing them everywhere. I hope this letter meets you in good health. Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Labels: book distribution, deities, Washington letters | 20:00 |25 November 2007 25 November, 1973 Bhaktivedanta Manor My Dear Cidananda, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter and your kind words to me. Thank you very much. I should be returning to Los Angeles the last week of November and I should be more than happy to see you there. Please always try to remember me by my teachings and we shall always be together. Just like I have written in the first publications of Srimad-Bhagavatam, "The spiritual Master lives forever by His divine instruction and the disciple lives with him." Because I have always served my Guru Maharaja and followed His teachings I am now even never separated from Him. Sometimes Maya may come and try to interfere but we must not falter, we must always follow the chalked out path layed down by the great acharya's and in the end you will see. I hope this letter finds you healthy and in blissful serving mood. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/mda Labels: Los Angeles, spiritual master letters | 19:57 | |
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