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<div id="LettertoShyamsundarMallikLondon13July1972_0" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="361" link="Letter to Shyamsundar Mallik -- London 13 July, 1972" link_text="Letter to Shyamsundar Mallik -- London 13 July, 1972">
<div class="heading">I am presently engaged here in London for celebrating the Ratha-yatra Festival also. A huge festival will begin at Marble Arch and proceed to Trafalgar Square, where I shall speak to at least 10,000 persons. Similarly, my disciples are holding Ratha-yatra festival at San Francisco, Philadelphia, New York, Tokyo, Melbourne (Australia), Calcutta, and other places. So what was my childhood play 65 years ago is now a worldwide event. The same Radha-Govindaji worship and Jagannatha worship is going on all over the world.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Shyamsundar Mallik -- London 13 July, 1972|Letter to Shyamsundar Mallik -- London 13 July, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Shyamsundar Mallik</p>
<p>155/A Mahatma Gandhi Road</p>
<p>Calcutta-7, India</p>
<p>My dear Brother Shyamsundar,</p>
<p> Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your kind letter dated 7/7/72 in Bengali, and you will excuse I am writing in English because I am in London. I hope you are making the Ratha-yatra Festival very successful, along with my disciples headed by Bhavananda and Acyutananda Swami. In my childhood I used to take my ratha with my little friends, about 60 years ago. Again I am reviving the same attempt with my young disciples. I have become old, and you are also old, although not so old as I am. We may pass away, but my disciples will carry on this festival yearly, and so it will be remembered forever our eternal relationship with Sri Sri Jagannathaji and Sri Sri Radha-Govindaji. Ask your sons also to cooperate so that in future this festival will be continued for good.</p>
<p> I am presently engaged here in London for celebrating the Ratha-yatra Festival also. A huge festival will begin at Marble Arch and proceed to Trafalgar Square, where I shall speak to at least 10,000 persons. Similarly, my disciples are holding Ratha-yatra festival at San Francisco, Philadelphia, New York, Tokyo, Melbourne (Australia), Calcutta, and other places. So what was my childhood play 65 years ago is now a worldwide event. The same Radha-Govindaji worship and Jagannatha worship is going on all over the world.</p>
<p> Hoping this will meet you in the best of health.</p>
<p>Yours affectionately,</p>
<p>A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami</p>
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