a.c. bhaktivedanta swami
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| Prabhupada Letters :: 1973 a.c. bhaktivedanta swami |
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3 December 2007 Monday, 3 December, 1973 Los Angeles My dear Sri Govinda, Please accept my blessings. Enclosed find the names of the devotees you have recommended for initiation which I hereby accept as my duly initiated disciples: Bryan Davis--Basu-Ghosh das Paul Wax--Pandrika das Andy Frenkel--Sankirtana das Puspu Singh--Yasoda devi dasi Pat Langlois--Subhadra dasi Edie Manischewitz--Virmila dasi Also, find one sacred thread and two mantra sheets for the second initiates. Hold a fire yajna and afterwards the second initiates may listen to the Gayatri mantra tape through the right ear. I hope this finds you well. Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/Kda Labels: Chicago, initiation letters | 14:17 |28 October 2007 Sunday, 28 October, 1973 Vrindaban My Dear Yasomatinandana Das: Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated October 13, 1973 and have noted the contents. So far your arranging to bring other men with you to India for opening a center, that is all right, but if they come as tourists and then go away that is not good. This kind of coming and going is a waste of money. Karandhara can arrange at least one year visa. In that way if you can bring some men here then it will be helpful. But, I think you can get local men here. That is the preaching process. Yes, you can have the gayatri mantra, when I am coming to Los Angeles. I hope this meets you in good health. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/bs Labels: Chicago, India, initiation letters | 14:28 |31 July 2007 Tuesday, 31 July, 1973 Bhaktivedanta Manor My Dear Parasara Das, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter and magazine. Why should we endeavor separately to produce another magazine. Whatever articles are written by our students may be published in BTG by submitting them to the chief editor Satsvarupa Goswami Maharaja. BTG is especially meant to give some facility to our students, to train them to write articles on the philosophy of Krishna consciousness. Our energy should be concentrated on one thing at a time, not that everyone will start their own magazine wasting time money and manpower. Our BTG is there and it is being distributed without financial risk, so submit articles and increase the pages of BTG and increase the distribution also. The temples have now enough literature, and besides that if you simply ask for a little contribution, no one will send. I hope this letter finds you well. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS: hda letters | 06:52 | 28 July 2007 Saturday, 28 July, 1973 Bhaktivedanta Manor My Dear Sri Govinda Das, Please accept my blessings, I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated July 23, 73. I have very much appreciated the pictures of the deities and their surrounding, this is excellent, better than Los Angeles. I have named your deities Kisora Kisori. So go on with your worship and increase it more and more till all Chicago has become aware of Kisora Kisori in your temple. Regarding Gaura Nitai deities either wood stone or metal, it is all right. There should be no complaint, under all circumstances we must chant regularly 16 rounds and attend the morning and evening classes, for Krishna we can work like anything, but one lick done for maya it is useless, overendeavoring. I am going to New Vrindaban and thereafter I shall be happy to accept your invitation for Chicago to meet the Professors as you mentioned. I shall inform you later of my itinerary. So you are doing nicely, especially the deities have attracted my attention. The credit goes to you and your good wife Srimati Srilekha Devi Dasi. I shall be glad to initiate Naiskarini Devi Dasi as Brahmin along with the other devotees that you have recommended. Their names are as follows: Tom--Tamohara Das Adhikari Mireya--Mantrini devi Dasi Lynn Allen--Ranjani Devi Dasi Kathy Ferio--Kalalapa Devi Dasi You may perform a fire sacrifice for the initiated devotees and their beads may be chanted upon by Satsvarupa Maharaja. I hope their all success in Krishna Consciousness, and I am counting on sincere boys like yourself to help me by managing temples all over the world. I hope you and your Good wife are both well. Your ever well wisher A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/hda Labels: Chicago, initiation letters | 06:48 |28 July, 1973 Bhaktivedanta Manor My dear Naiskarmi devi dasi, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 3rd July. You are exactly correct when you write that Krishna has benedicted you with a first class husband. In Vedic society no girl was allowed to remain independent and unmarried. Independence for women means they become like prostitutes, struggling to capture some man who will take care of her. In this way the so called independent woman has to work very hard to make herself attractive by artificially wearing cosmetics--mini skirts and so many other things. Formerly the girl would be married to a suitable boy at a very early age, say six years old. But although a girl was married early she did not stay with her husband immediately, but was gradually trained in so many ways how to cook, clean and serve her husband in so many ways--up until the time of her puberty. So all the time there was no anxiety because a girl would know--I have got a husband, and the boy would know I have got this girl as my wife. Therefore when the boy and girl would come of age there was no chance of illicit sex-life. And the pychology is the first boy that a girl accepts in marriage, that girl will completely give her heart to, and this attachment on the girls side for her husband becomes more and more strong, thus if a girls gets a good husband--one who has accepted a bona fide spiritual master and is firmly fixed up in his service, automatically the wife of such a good husband inherits all the benefits of his spiritual advancement. So you are fortunate. Go on in this present attitude, serve you husband always and in this way your life will be perfect, and together husband and wife go back home--Back to Godhead. I hope you are well. Your Ever Well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Labels: Chicago, marriage, women letters | 06:46 |27 July 2007 Friday, 27 July, 1973 Bhaktivedanta Manor My dear Spiritual Sons and Daughters, Please accept my blessings. On the recommendation of Govinda Das I have duly accepted you as my disciples. Human life begins when there is systematic education in the science of God consciousness. Just some days ago I was discussing with Professor Alister Hardy-- Head of Religious Experimental research unit Oxford, it was his opinion that the problems of human life are over-population, environmental pollution etc. But from Bhagavad-gita we understand that God is the father of all living beings, so the father must be competent to provide for all the children, and in the case of the Supreme Father this is actually so - we get it from Vedic Literature, nityo nityanam cetanas cetananam - "Amongst all the Eternals there is one chief Eternal Being and he is engaged in supplying and fulfilling the desires of all the others." Therefore our conclusion was that the real problem is not over-population or pollution, malnutrition etc., but the actual problem is Godlessness. So you are all intelligent boys and girls--therefore my request to you is that you study this science of Krishna Consciousness and solve all the problems of the world by systematic propaganda as far as you are able to do it. I have already given your names in the letter to Govinda das. I hope you are well. Your Ever Well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami, ACBS/hda Labels: Chicago, initiation letters | 06:47 |25 April 2007 25 April, 1973 Los Angeles My Dear Sri Govinda Das Adhikari: Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated April 24, 1973 with enclosures. Your report has given me unbounded pleasure and I very much appreciate your activities. Your university program has given me much satisfaction, so you try to continue it. Yes, they must appreciate my Bhagavatam because it is nothing business but is a matter of realization. Regarding purchasing apartment house, M-V Trust will immediately purchase and monthly rent may be paid into the Trust. Now you immediately send me scheme and description of a suitable building, and I will send Karandhara Prabhu there with the down-payment to finish the transaction. Your paper also I like very much. It is very nicely done. But, as we have the Back to Godhead paper,* if the men can be used elsewhere in pushing on this movement there is no harm. I want that all you boys use your American intelligence cooperatively in spreading this Sankirtana movement. You are doing solid work in Chicago area and I thank you very much for assisting me in this way. I am pleased to accept the two boys Sandipani Muni Das (Chris) and Madhavendra Puri Das (Michael) as my initiated disciples. You can send their beads with a copy of this letter to Satsvarupa Das Goswami for being chanted upon. I look forward to hearing from you at your earliest regarding the apartment house. I hope this meets you in good health. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/bs *you have talent to write, please go on writing articles for BTG. Labels: Chicago, initiation, M-V Trust, preachers letters | 13:17 |7 April 2007 Saturday, 7 April, 1973 New York My Dear Govinda dasa, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated March 25, 1973, and have noted the contents with great satisfaction. The report of book distribution going on in Chicago is very pleasing to me. As you know, our Chicago center is one of the most important. Please continue to use your intelligence to find out how to distribute my books more and more. I am especially pleased to learn that you are introducing my books as textbooks in the colleges. We especially have to try to attract the educated young men and women in your country so that in future there will be many strong leaders to keep our Krsna Consciousness Movement strong. I am also very pleased to learn that you have come out successful in stopping the police from arresting our men and stopping our sankirtana activities. Your sankirtana program, the report of the Lord Caitanya festival and the very nice newspaper article that you have sent are all indications of your sincerity in trying to put full effort to push on Lord Caitanya's sankirtana movement. Upon your recommendation I am gladly accepting Peter Laudert as my initiated disciple and as you have requested am sending him a letter (enclosed). Please have Kirtanananda Maharaja chant on beads for sanctification and you may hold a fire yajna. Regarding my coming to install large marble Radha and Krsna, yes I will be very pleased to come. Hoping this finds you and your wife and son in good health, Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/jda Labels: book distribution, Chicago, initiation letters | 17:58 | |
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