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5 December 2007 Wednesday, 5 December, 1973 Los Angeles My dear Sukadeva, Please accept my blessings. I am in receipt of your letter dated December 4, 1973. Thank you very much for increasing the book distribtuion in Seattle. My Guru Maharaja was most pleased to see books distributed so continue to increase it more and more. Yes, your debating program is approved by me. If we study the Bhagavad-gita thoroughly we can defeat all philosophies. Yes, I can come to Seattle. I am going to Mexico City and Chicago to return to Los Angeles around December 24th. So after that we shall consider coming there. I hope this meets you well. Your ever well wisher, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS:kda Labels: book distribution, itinerary, Seattle letters | 14:23 |5 December, 1973 Los Angeles My Dear Bhagavan, Hamsaduta, Mukunda, Madhudvisa Maharaja, Please accept my blessings. I have arrived safely in Los Angeles by Krsna's Grace and everything here is going nicely. Now, as you know we require some men for India. Karandhara informs me that you have declined to send any. Our programs there are important and there is a great need. We have not captured very many first class men there so we must import. I am requesting therefore that you send at least one or two first class men from your zone. They should apply for one year entry visas. They should not go on tourist visas. Kindly make arrangement for this. My program is to visit some of our U.S.A. branches for some time, keeping Los Angeles as my home base and then to return to India by Lord Caitanya's Appearance Day. I hope this meets you well. Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS:Kda Labels: India, itinerary, Paris letters | 14:20 |11 November 2007 11 November, 1973 New Delhi My Dear Mukunda Das: Please accept my blessings. I beg to inform you that I am fixing my program for going to Nairobi from Bombay on November 23. From Nairobi I shall return to Los Angeles, so if you can arrange a meeting with the Pope then I can stop off there in Rome. So please inform His Holiness the Pope that I shall be returning to USA via Europe sometime after December 1, so if a meeting could be arranged at that time it would be very nice. I am sending a copy of this letter to Dhananjaya in care of American Express, so you can consult with him and do the needful. I hope this meets you in good health. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/bs cc: Dhananjaya Das, American Express, Plaza di Spagna 38 Rome, Italy letters | 05:21 | 9 November 2007 Friday, 9 November, 1973 New Delhi My Dear Dinesh Candra Sarkar: Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated 21/10/73 in Bengali and have noted the contents with thanks. At present I am in Delhi. I left Bombay on the 1st after finishing the land dispute there and shall return to Bombay again on my way to Nairobi by the 23rd instant. Then I shall return back to USA via Rome and shall come back to India in the month of March during Lord Caitanya's Appearance Day. For the time being I am keeping my health fairly well. Certainly I was sick when I left Calcutta for London, but I improved my health there. So after all, this is an old body. I am 78 years, and still by the grace of Krsna it is going on. So I am very much thankful for your enquiry about my health. I am glad that sometimes you are going to the temple, and are staying to take prasadam. So when I shall return there we can talk more. I hope this meets you in good health. Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami letters | 05:25 | 7 November 2007 7 November, 1973 New Delhi My Dear Karandhara Das: Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated October 25, 1973 and have noted the contents. So far yourself is concerned, whatever is done is done. Now go on with your duty and do it nicely. You are an intelligent devotee. You can understand. Now one thing for Caitanya Mahaprabhu's Appearance Day, I want that there be published one volume of Caitanya Caritamrta. You have got the Adi lila from Chapter Seven onwards. So at least one volume must be published of 400 pages, hardbound edition. Copies must be there in Mayapur for distribution on the appearance day. So please arrange for this. Another thing is that now my program is fixed up for going to Nairobi on November 23, instant, and from there I will return to Los Angeles via Rome. I will stop there for two days for meeting with the Pope. So I may request you to send one ticket for Pradyumna (P. Sherbow) Nairobi-Rome-Los Angeles. I hope this meets you in good health. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/bs N.B. I have received the two bank slips for $298.20 and $200.00 Also enclosed is one letter to Tusta Krsna. Labels: itinerary, Los Angeles, publishing letters | 05:17 |31 October 2007 31 October, 1973 Vrindaban My Dear Karandhara Das: Please accept my blessings. With regard to my letter dated 23/10/73, you may postpone sending Nitai Das here, because my program for Africa and Australia is not yet fixed up. So I may be returning to Los Angeles sooner, so it will not be necessary to go to the expense of sending him here. He can meet me in Los Angeles. Anyway, I will inform you of my program as it is fixed. Tomorrow I start for Delhi. The new address there is ISKCON, G 12 Anand Niketan Extension, New Delhi 110023. I hope this meets you in good health. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/bs Please read the articles contributed by my godbrother Sri Dr. B.L. Kapur. How they are liked by our readers? Labels: Gaudiya Math, itinerary, Los Angeles letters | 14:31 |20 October 2007 Saturday, 20 October, 1973 Bombay Bhaktivedanta Manor My Dear Mukunda Das: Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 5/10/73 as well as the copy of the letter from the Indian Deputy High Commissioner. Regarding my seeing the Pope, now I am India, and then I shall go to Africa, Australia, Hong Kong, and U.S.A. So it is not possible to go there at this time. It can be postponed to a future date. I shall let you know. I am glad to hear that your Sunday program is successful. One thing is that you should keep everything very clean. That is the first business. Every room should be as clean as a mirror. The prasadam room should be immediately cleaned after taking prasadam, otherwise you are inviting rats. Be careful. I hope this meets you in good health. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/bs Labels: cleanliness, itinerary, London letters | 14:25 |20 October, 1973 Bombay Dear Sankara Pyne: Please accept my blessing. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 15/8/73 and I thank you very much for it and your Vyasa Puja appreciation. It is stated in the Vedas that to anyone who has firm faith in the spiritual master and Krsna, to him all the imports of the Vedas are easily revealed. I am very glad to learn that you are helping in the preaching work by distributing our books to the libraries in Calcutta. This is very important work. The more our books are distributed, the more people will become convinced about this movement of Krsna consciousness, and they will be benefited from it. So you are a nice boy, and I wish that you continue on in this way. My program is to start within the next several days for Vrindaban and Delhi. We are having a big festival in Delhi. Then I will go abroad. I expect to be returning to Calcutta for our celebration in Mayapur of Lord Caitanya's Appearance Day in March 1974, and I look forward to seeing you at that time. I hope this meets you in good health. Your ever well-wisher, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Labels: book distribution, Calcautta, itinerary letters | 14:24 |17 October 2007 Wednesday, 17 October, 1973 Bombay My Dear Tejiyas Das: Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated October 13, 1973 and have noted the contents. Regarding your new place, yes, if many more devotees actually remain there, it is a good scheme, but as we have got four or five branches in India I do not wish to increase more centers. Indians are not joining. This is the deficiency of our movement. Only mediocre Indian men are joining and not the very intelligent class of Indians. But, Delhi is a nice place. Formally you proposed Sundar Nagar. What happened to that? If the book distribution facility is there, then it is a first class place. The more we distribute books, the more we get solid ground of preaching work. So far continuing the Deity worship after the festival, that is a very nice proposal. Try to give it a shape. So between 20th to 25th instant I am coming to Delhi for going to Vrindaban. So I may stay in Delhi for one or two days, and then come back from Vrindaban during the festival. In the meantime please inquire if from Delhi to Nairobi there is any flight 747. Bali Mardan is trying to get me a Mercedes car. So he has asked me who will be in charge of it in my absence. So I have suggested your name. So I think in the new building there is garage also. Another thing, I want a diplomatic passport. Please inquire in this because I am always traveling, and this kind of passport will facilitate my traveling. I am a preacher of Indian culture, why they should not give me this kind of passport. I hope this meets you in good health. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/bs Labels: book distribution, India, itinerary, New Delhi letters | 14:20 |13 October 2007 13 October, 1973 Bombay My Dear Cyavana Swami: Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter from Zambia dated August 24, 1973. I am very much pleased with your preaching there, how you are making members and distributing books. It is also encouraging that the Indians there are taking note of the authority of this movement of Lord Caitanya. Regarding the saligram sila, it will be installed along with the other Deities. I shall advise you. I am planning to come to Nairobi on the 19th or 20th of November for your installation program and remain there up to the end of the month when I shall start for South Africa. Brahmananda Swami has read me your letter regarding the students there reading other books. I request you to stop this practice. Our students have no time to read our own books, but they have time to read other's books, and the money to purchase them? Why this mentality is there? You are a serious student, therefore you have correctly found out the defect in these books. We don't want babaji class. We want active preachers. I hope this meets you in good health. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/bs Labels: deities, itinerary, Nairobi, preachers letters | 10:24 |13 October, 1973 Bombay My Dear Tejiyas Das: Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated October 6, 1973 and have noted the contents. I am glad to learn that your festival preperations are well under way. My program is that by the 25th of October I shall go to Delhi for one or two days and then to Vrindaban up to the 8th of November. I will come to Delhi on the 9th for the festival, and on the 19th or 20th I shall have to start for Nairobi. I hope this meets you in good health. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/bs letters | 10:22 | 2 October 2007 4 October , 1973 Honolulu, Hawaii My dear Bali Mardan, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated October 8, 1973 and have noted the contents. After a great struggle for existence it appears that I have won over Mrs. Nair. The negotiation started on my arrival and the mediators suggested 20 lakhs. Then it went down to 17 lakhs, but by Krsna’s grace I have settled with her for 14 lakhs 50 thousand and about one lakh for compensation to the other claimants. In this way we to spend about 16 lakhs for the property, out of which 2 lakhs had been paid before. So now we have to pay 14 lakhs 50 thousand. The day before yesterday whatever money I had in the Bombay account, about 4 lakhs, I ‘ve given Mrs. Nair another 3 lakhs, and I have compensated Ch..ganlal with 2 lakhs 30 thousand, out of which 1 lakh 40 thousand has been paid by Mrs. Nair, and the balance I have paid. The charges of the several litigations have all been withdrawn and the preparations for the conveyance is in progress. I was very much anxious to receive the money from New York. The foolish boy, Gopijanabalava, wanted to save money and dispatched the money by mail order. Out of anxiety we had to telephone several times and sent telegrams, so much so that the savings which the over-intelligent boy wanted to make has been nullified by increasing the expenditure three times. After a telephone call yesterday, the bank informed by telex that the money is on the way by mail. So actually I have not yet receive the money, but I am sure it is coming. We shall have to utilize the amount to pay Mrs. Nair. The deadline is the 19th instant and today is the 14th. I hope everything will be all right by that time. I am pleased that your wife is expecting some children. You offer her my blessings to her for safe delivery. We enquired the price of the Mercedes Benz here in Bombay, and they asked for 3 lakhs 50 thousand. Here in Bombay there is no possibility of getting a good car like a Chevrolet without paying Rs. 80,000-90,000. So a good car in India is very costly. If you get the car, you can get it in my name. Tejiyas das will be in charge of taking care if it. It is a good suggestion by your father-in-law that your wife not know sadness during pregnancy. She should not be shocked in any circumstance and eat child foodstuff so as not to cause any irritation. Now as I have been delayed in Bombay I wish to get leisure from this business by the 24th instant. Then I shall go to Vrndavan and Delhi, and stay until the 18th November, then go from there to Nairobi. Brahmananda is here and we shall go with him for the installation ceremony and remain there until the end of Nov. Then I go to South Africa until Dec 10, then Sydney, and remain say up to 15th Dec., then Hong Kong, and if your Japanese program is fixed I can go there or I can go to Hawaii on my way to L.A. by Dec. 20th. My deposit certificate will mature by Nov. 23rd but I want to continue it for another month, and I shall take the payment when I return to the U.S.A. So I shall have to write to them or you shall arrange for it? If I have to write, then I shall send you a copy of the letter to your Hawaii address. Then from Los Angeles I may come to New York to your new building. I hope this meets you and your wife in the best of health. Your ever well wisher, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/bs Labels: Bombay, itinerary, land letters | 20:02 |3 September 2007 3 September, 1973 Bhaktivedanta Manor My Dear Madhudvisa, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated August 24, 1973. Your book selling report is very encouraging to me, so much so that I want to go there immediately. Anyway as soon as I get opportunity I shall go to Australia to visit all the nice places you have started and stay there for at least two months. Krishna has given you great opportunity to preach the Krishna Caitanya cult in that remote part of the world. The time was there some years ago when Australia would not allow any colored men to enter, but now you have allowed Caitanya Mahaprabhu to enter Australia and inundated the whole country with Hari Nama Sankirtana. Caitanya Mahaprabhu's another name is Pita Varanara Gaura, so by your combined effort I hope that one day Pita Varanara Gaura will rule over Australia. I think that Australia is a great field for these activities as it is evident from the book sales statistics gradually increasing. I am very much encouraged in this respect. I am going on the 5th September for a few days to Stockholm, Sweden, then returning to London, and leaving here on the 15th September for Japan via Iran, and India. I expect to reach Los Angeles by the 10th October. I hope this letter meets you well. Your ever well-wisher, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Labels: Australasia, book distribution, itinerary, sankirtan letters | 15:57 |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 |23 August 2007 23 August, 1973 Bhaktivedanta Manor My Dear Tamala Krishna, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 16th August 1973. So the Hyderabad situation should be cautiously dealt with and Mr. Pittie should be consulted. When the final agreement is made send me a copy and if I approve then I shall send you the power of attorney. Herewith please find fixed deposit certificate xerox copy for 143,727.78 which is equal to 10 Lakhs Rs/., now deposited with First National City Bank in the name of ISKCON on the 20th August 1973. So you can utilize this xerox certificate that we have money. I will send you further certificate of deposit in the bank for 161,000.00 equivalent to 12 Lakhs Rs/. So I think Mr. Vakhil will be convinced about our financial position and we have got 50 branches in the U.S. alone, so if required we can raise immediately 50 Lakhs Rs/. but we do not wish to block the money unnecessarily especially in India. So at any moment 12 Lakhs Rs/. can be paid to Mrs. Nair without any difficulty. From here I have got my program in Europe up to 15th September. I have got my program in Stockholm also 5th to 9th September. So most probably I shall go to Japan on the 15th September directly from London. If in the meantime the Nair affair is fixed up then I shall carry the money with me and go to Japan via India. Find herewith 2 xerox copies about our financial position, you can do the needful. I hope this letter meets you well. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami N.B. I have received one complaint from Indian devotee at Mayapur, Prabharupa Das Brahmacari, that he is mal treated by our American devotees. Kindly inquire into this matter and do the needful. Either Indian or foreign whoever joins us they are not under any obligation, our only tie is Love of Godhead. It should be our definite policy that nobody is ill treated that he may go away. We recruit a person to join us after spending gallons of blood. Everyone comes for reformation, you cannot expect everyone to be perfect, rather it is our duty to make everyone perfect as far as possible. So we shall be very much cautious and careful in this connection. Labels: bank, Bombay, disagreements, itinerary letters | 12:17 |20 July 2007 20 July, 1973 Bhaktivedanta Manor [To Tamala Krsna] Bombay ARRIVING AIR INDIA FLIGHT 108 3.25 AM SATURDAY 15th: BHAKTIVEDANTA SWAMI letters | 20:51 | 1 June 2007 1 June, 1973 Calcutta My dear Citsukhananda, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated May 24, 1973. Thank you very much for your kind note. I am feeling a little stronger now. Tomorrow we are going to Mayapur where I want to take complete rest for some time. After my recovery I will return to Los Angeles and at that time I would be very pleased to come to Caracas. So please contact me when I go to Los Angeles and we can make arrangements at that time. Hoping this meets you in good health. Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/jda letters | 11:56 | 18 May 2007 Friday, 18 May, 1973 Los Angeles My dear Citsukhananda, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your Air Mail Special letter dated 14 of May, 1973, and I have noted the contents. Tomorrow I am going to Dallas because the weather here in Los Angeles is not good for my health. It is too cold and cloudy. So I am going to Dallas to get some sunshine. If the weather there is not suitable, I may come at once to Caracas. However, if the weather is good in Dallas I shall remain there until May 30 and then to New Vrindaban for the corner stone laying for our first temple there. Then I shall come to Caracas from Pittsburgh. Please let me know in Dallas whether or not you can make arrangements for tickets for four to Caracas. Hoping this meets you in good health. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami P.S. I have already come to Dallas and it appears nice 5/19/73 ACBS/jda letters | 10:03 | 16 May 2007 Wednesday, May 16, 1973 Los Angeles My dear Bali-mardana, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated May 14, 1973 and have noted the contents. So now my plans have changed. Karandhara has made arrangements for my physician to come here, thus saving much expense and time. So now I shall remain here in Los Angeles up to the 30th of May, then to New Vrindaban for a few days and then on to London. As soon as you have finished the synonym work on the third canto you can immediately join me wherever I am and we can finish it up in good time. Regarding fourth canto, go on and prepare for publishing as quickly as possible. The first six volumes are selling very well so we may print more volumes and they will also sell. If we can also keep up good pace with Caitanya-caritamrita then we may be able to print one 400 page book per month. Thank you very much for your sincere effort in helping me carry out the directions of my Guru Maharaja. Hoping this meets you in good health. Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami P.S. As you say we are all unqualified, but we become qualified by the mercy of Guru and Krsna. P.P.S. Please find enclosed a letter from Lokamangala dasa Brahmacari. Please do the needful. Labels: health, itinerary, New York, publishing letters | 10:01 |14 May 2007 Monday, 14 May, 1973 Los Angeles My Dear Gurudasa, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated 6/5/73. I have noted the contents carefully. I have already sent you one letter dated May 11, 1973 as well as a copy of a letter sent to Madan Mohan Goswami by registered post that same day. I trust you have received that letter by now and you are proceeding as per my instructions therein. First of all ask Gaurachand Goswami that he is taking the money on account of two rooms occupied by me, now Madan Mohan Goswami has asked up to vacate, so clearly understand from him what is our position. Whether he is going to accept the money continually or does not like to accept it. So on hearing this statement, if he says that he'll not accept and we must vacate, then it is to be understood that all the Shebaits have combined together to evict us. Then we'll have to take the matter to the rent controller court as I have already advised in my previous letter. In India we have got experience, there are so many cheaters. So be very careful of them and do everything carefully, keeping in touch with all the senior members and do the needful. I am advised by my Calcutta physician that I should go back to India. So I am returning and will reach in Calcutta sometime next week. Ananda Pandu wanted to stay with me, so if he likes he can come to Mayapur where I shall stay. Offer him my dandabats. So far as Mr. Sarkar, our engineer, is concerned, if he becomes too much of a disturbance then you may dismiss him. Hoping this meets you in good health. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Labels: health, itinerary, Vrindavan letters | 20:38 | |
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