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<div id="1972_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="7" parent="Correspondence" text="1972 Correspondence"><h3>1972 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoKesavaBombay1January1972_0" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="4" link="Letter to Kesava -- Bombay 1 January, 1972" link_text="Letter to Kesava -- Bombay 1 January, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Kesava -- Bombay 1 January, 1972|Letter to Kesava -- Bombay 1 January, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I have been receiving so many reports about how my disciples of the San Francisco Temple cannot be surpassed by anyone in distributing my books. Sometimes they are selling as many as 70 Krishna Books daily. So if this is true then certainly when I return to the U.S. I must come and stay in your Temple. By distributing my books profusely you are giving me great encouragement to translate. And you are all helping me to fulfill the order which Guru Maharaja gave me. So I am so much grateful to you, and I am sure Krishna will bless you a million times over, for doing this work.</p>
<p>I hope that you and all my beloved disciples in San Francisco Temple are in strong health and jolly mood.</p>
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<div id="LettertoBalimardanaBombay2January1972_1" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="6" link="Letter to Bali-mardana -- Bombay 2 January, 1972" link_text="Letter to Bali-mardana -- Bombay 2 January, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Bali-mardana -- Bombay 2 January, 1972|Letter to Bali-mardana -- Bombay 2 January, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I have been receiving very good and encouraging reports from Upananda Prabhu and Mohanananda Prabhu, so I will certainly visit Australia on my return to U.S. I expect to be leaving for Hong Kong by the beginning of March. In the second half of February all of us in India will go to Mayapur for Lord Caitanya's Appearance Day and we will lay down the Cornerstone. Then I will leave for Hong Kong, Australia, Tokyo, Hawaii, and then Los Angeles. Now we are sending two devotees, Sudama Vipra Maharaja and his assistant, to Red China and they are leaving within a few days. Also Rsi Kumar will be joining Brahmananda Maharaja and will most likely be deputed to preach in South Africa. So everywhere there is a great chance to give this Krishna consciousness movement a great push, and if we do everything very carefully there is no reason why we cannot save the world. Now do everything within your ability to develop ISKCON press into a very strong tool for spreading our preaching.</p>
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<div id="LettertoKrsnaBhaminiBombay4January1972_2" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="19" link="Letter to Krsna Bhamini -- Bombay 4 January, 1972" link_text="Letter to Krsna Bhamini -- Bombay 4 January, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Krsna Bhamini -- Bombay 4 January, 1972|Letter to Krsna Bhamini -- Bombay 4 January, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">If we introduce these books in all the bookstores, schools, colleges, libraries and everyone's home our religion will be the only religion in the world very soon. This prediction has been made publicly here in one newspaper, by a Japanese philosopher, that within ten years Krishna Consciousness will be the world religion. If you all keep preaching in such a pure way this will undoubtedly prove true. So as the wife of a GBC member you have got the responsibility to help your husband to maintain the highest standard of Krishna Consciousness both in yourselves and in all the other devotees in the Temple.</p>
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<div id="LettertoJagadisaBombay5January1972_3" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="21" link="Letter to Jagadisa -- Bombay 5 January, 1972" link_text="Letter to Jagadisa -- Bombay 5 January, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Jagadisa -- Bombay 5 January, 1972|Letter to Jagadisa -- Bombay 5 January, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Brahmananda is doing very well in Africa and most likely Rsi Kumar will join him and be deputed to open a center in South Africa. So we have got a great mission, we should be very vigilant that the strong foundation remain solid. Encourage all the boys and girls to adhere to the regulative principles and chant daily at least sixteen rounds. And as much as possible all of my students should become very well versed in all the philosophy presented in our books.</p>
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<div id="LettertoJayapatakaBombay5January1972_4" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="22" link="Letter to Jayapataka -- Bombay 5 January, 1972" link_text="Letter to Jayapataka -- Bombay 5 January, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Jayapataka -- Bombay 5 January, 1972|Letter to Jayapataka -- Bombay 5 January, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I am very anxious to know whether we are going to have our Mayapur function? I want very much to hold this function this year with all of my students, and I ask you to kindly serve me by making this possible. It is a very important day and it will be a great service to Srila Bhaktivinode Thakura and to His son Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura. So please arrange for this program.</p>
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<div id="LettertoNiranjanaBombay5January1972_5" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="23" link="Letter to Niranjana -- Bombay 5 January, 1972" link_text="Letter to Niranjana -- Bombay 5 January, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Niranjana -- Bombay 5 January, 1972|Letter to Niranjana -- Bombay 5 January, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The four sinful activities which one must avoid if there is to be any hope for spiritual advancement are the eating of meat, fish and eggs, the use of intoxicants, illicit connection with women, and gambling. So these are the first four sins which I ask all of my students to strictly avoid committing. Practically the entire population of the world is entrapped by these four sinful activities. In our Krishna Consciousness Society we are training our students up to the standard of brahminical culture. So the great respect we are getting here in India and throughout the rest of the world is due to these restrictions.</p>
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<div id="LettertoSatsvarupaBombay5January1972_6" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="25" link="Letter to Satsvarupa -- Bombay 5 January, 1972" link_text="Letter to Satsvarupa -- Bombay 5 January, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Satsvarupa -- Bombay 5 January, 1972|Letter to Satsvarupa -- Bombay 5 January, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">In the meantime, your school at Turtlecreek Boulevard can continue functioning. I have been getting good reports that you are all serious to develop this program, so I am sure that Krishna will bless you with the desired building. Good things do not come so easily; you know the difficulties that I encountered in my first year in your country. Sometimes I did not even know where I was to live, neither when I came did I have any friends. But I was always determined that somehow I would do everything possible to fulfill the desire of my Guru Maharaja, and despite all difficulties I always remained enthusiastic. So do not diminish your program in any way now. Continue the school project enthusiastically and expect Krishna's mercy at all times. Everything will come out alright.</p>
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<div id="LettertoSudamaBombay5January1972_7" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="26" link="Letter to Sudama -- Bombay 5 January, 1972" link_text="Letter to Sudama -- Bombay 5 January, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Sudama -- Bombay 5 January, 1972|Letter to Sudama -- Bombay 5 January, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I am very glad that you are all attending Japanese school full time. That is most important now. The Japanese people will make very excellent devotees, once you can explain to them our philosophy in their own language. I have seen the last time I was in Japan that the people have great respect still for spiritual persons. And the people are very intelligent. If you remain patient and determined, then it will not be too long before we start to have real success in Tokyo. Now learn the language, that is of first importance.</p>
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<div id="LettertoHrdayanandaBombay6January1972_8" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="27" link="Letter to Hrdayananda -- Bombay 6 January, 1972" link_text="Letter to Hrdayananda -- Bombay 6 January, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Hrdayananda -- Bombay 6 January, 1972|Letter to Hrdayananda -- Bombay 6 January, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">And you must all study very scrutinizingly all of the books so that when the need arises you can repeat in your own words their purport. Also I will be very pleased if you contribute articles to BTG. By writing regularly, what you read will become realized. As much as possible read, chant, and preach. This is our life and soul. If we keep to this simple formula then there is no doubt that we will be victorious wherever we go and very soon we shall become the only religion in the world.</p>
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<div id="LettertoSmarananandaVonPaulReadSamsaramocanaBarbaraReadBhubhrtaBobQuirkPavanaJeffreySpicherDevadevaRoyalFrankAffriscoDaivataAnthonyBurtAlvesParayanaLaurelAlvesBombay10January1972_9" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="38" link="Letter to Smaranananda (Von Paul Read), Samsara-mocana (Barbara Read), Bhubhrta (Bob Quirk), Pavana (Jeffrey Spicher), Devadeva (Royal Frank Affrisco), Daivata (Anthony Burt Alves), Parayana (Laurel Alves) -- Bombay 10 January, 1972" link_text="Letter to Smaranananda (Von Paul Read), Samsara-mocana (Barbara Read), Bhubhrta (Bob Quirk), Pavana (Jeffrey Spicher), Devadeva (Royal Frank Affrisco), Daivata (Anthony Burt Alves), Parayana (Laurel Alves) -- Bombay 10 January, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Smaranananda (Von Paul Read), Samsara-mocana (Barbara Read), Bhubhrta (Bob Quirk), Pavana (Jeffrey Spicher), Devadeva (Royal Frank Affrisco), Daivata (Anthony Burt Alves), Parayana (Laurel Alves) -- Bombay 10 January, 1972|Letter to Smaranananda (Von Paul Read), Samsara-mocana (Barbara Read), Bhubhrta (Bob Quirk), Pavana (Jeffrey Spicher), Devadeva (Royal Frank Affrisco), Daivata (Anthony Burt Alves), Parayana (Laurel Alves) -- Bombay 10 January, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Upon the recommendation of Makhanlal I have gladly consented to accept all of you as my duly initiated disciples. Your beads have been duly chanted by me and they are sent under separate post. I have given you the spiritual names as follows:</p>
<p>Von Paul Read/SMARANANANDA DAS</p>
<p>Barbara Read/SAMSARAMOCHAN DASI</p>
<p>Bob Quirk/BHUBHRTA DAS</p>
<p>Jeffrey Spicher/PAVANA DAS</p>
<p>Royal Frank Affrisco/DEVADEVA DAS</p>
<p>Anthony Burt Alves/DAIVATA DAS</p>
<p>Laurel Alves/PARAYANA DASI</p>
<p>I am so glad to learn that all of you have been such a great help to Makhanlal there in our Seattle center. I can understand that all of you are very sincere boys and girls and are very eligible candidates for going back to Home, back to Godhead. And the process is simple. Follow the regulative principles, chant at least 16 rounds of beads daily, read our literatures, go for street Sankirtana, etc. In this way keep yourselves engaged in Krishna's business 24 hours and you will be really happy in this life and in the end reach the Supreme destination.</p>
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<div id="LettertoBhagavanBombay11January1972_10" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="40" link="Letter to Bhagavan -- Bombay 11 January, 1972" link_text="Letter to Bhagavan -- Bombay 11 January, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Bhagavan -- Bombay 11 January, 1972|Letter to Bhagavan -- Bombay 11 January, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I can appreciate very much that you are a sincere and intelligent boy, so I am certain that you are having no difficulty in managing nicely Krishna's affairs and making advancement yourself in Krishna Consciousness. Now I am trusting you all elderly leaders to do everything very responsibly and to the standards we have set, so that I may very soon begin translating fulltime. Thank you very much.</p>
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<div id="LettertoCyavanaBombay18January1972_11" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="50" link="Letter to Cyavana -- Bombay 18 January, 1972" link_text="Letter to Cyavana -- Bombay 18 January, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Cyavana -- Bombay 18 January, 1972|Letter to Cyavana -- Bombay 18 January, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I beg to acknowledge your letter and I am pleased about all the news. It sounds that you are doing well, and I'm so pleased to learn that Damji Devji, as well as Mr. Shah, they are helping you so much. So I am very much obliged to them. Please offer my sincere thanks to them. It will be a great pleasure for me to meet them again when I return to Nairobi.</p>
<p>As you are so quickly managing the affairs of East African campaign, I am sure you have all blessings of Lord Krishna, so continue to work very hard for His pleasure and all of you will go back to Home, back to Godhead.</p>
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<div id="LettertoUpendraJaipur21January1972_12" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="61" link="Letter to Upendra -- Jaipur 21 January, 1972" link_text="Letter to Upendra -- Jaipur 21 January, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Upendra -- Jaipur 21 January, 1972|Letter to Upendra -- Jaipur 21 January, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I am in due receipt of your letter of January 2, 1972, and with pleasure I have noted that you are desiring to be personally present with me again, and I also am looking forward to seeing you all nice boys and girls in Australia again. Yes, you may be my cook when we shall meet at that time. Tomorrow I am flying to Africa for a few days to attend Brahmananda's festival in Nairobi, and I may even stay there for some time if our Mayapur program is cancelled due to government restrictions against foreigners in Nadia district. But I am sure to come there to Australia by springtime.</p>
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<div id="LettertoAtreyaRsiBombay4February1972_13" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="71" link="Letter to Atreya Rsi -- Bombay 4 February, 1972" link_text="Letter to Atreya Rsi -- Bombay 4 February, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Atreya Rsi -- Bombay 4 February, 1972|Letter to Atreya Rsi -- Bombay 4 February, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Because devotees are persons, therefore there will always be some lacking—but the difference is that their lacking, because they have given up everything to serve Krishna—money, jobs, reputation, wealth, big educations, everything—their lackings have become transcendental because, despite everything they may do, their topmost intention is to serve Krishna. "One who is engaged in devotional service, despite the most abominable action, is to be considered saintly because he is rightly situated." The devotees of Krishna are the most exalted persons on this planet, better than kings, all of them, so we should always remember that and, like the bumblebee, always look for the nectar or the best qualities of a person.</p>
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<div id="LettertoHamsadutaMadras14February1972_14" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="86" link="Letter to Hamsaduta -- Madras 14 February, 1972" link_text="Letter to Hamsaduta -- Madras 14 February, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Hamsaduta -- Madras 14 February, 1972|Letter to Hamsaduta -- Madras 14 February, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So far your producing records there, that is a very nice proposal, so do it nicely, however you think is best. Now our Society is growing very rapidly all over the world, and the burden of administration is taxing me too much and taking too much time. So I want that you all GBC men work cooperatively to manage things now, along with the other officers, and it is better if devotees can address their questions to you, and because I have now given you everything you are able to answer all such questions from what you know, and if there is any difficulty you may consult my books, or you may write me if necessary.</p>
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<div id="LettertoGargamuniMadras15February1972_15" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="89" link="Letter to Gargamuni -- Madras 15 February, 1972" link_text="Letter to Gargamuni -- Madras 15 February, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Gargamuni -- Madras 15 February, 1972|Letter to Gargamuni -- Madras 15 February, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Now I have just received a cable from Ksirodakasayi Prabhu that Mr. Saraf has given us the land. We shall gladly accept the offer, so kindly inform Ksirodakasayi to draw up all the legal papers and gift deed for handing the land over to our Society, and he can bring those papers, along with a plan of the plot showing length and width dimensions, and we shall settle up our Vrindaban program when he shall meet me in Mayapur. Meanwhile, Subala Maharaja may remain there for looking after things in Vrindaban and assisting Ksirodakasayi wherever possible. I am very much pleased to know that we shall be raising up a nice center now in Vrindaban, and also in Bombay, so Krishna has been very kind upon us, now let us all work cooperatively and with full enthusiasm to do the needful.</p>
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<div id="LettertoKsirodakasayiCalcutta18February1972_16" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="98" link="Letter to Ksirodakasayi -- Calcutta 18 February, 1972" link_text="Letter to Ksirodakasayi -- Calcutta 18 February, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Ksirodakasayi -- Calcutta 18 February, 1972|Letter to Ksirodakasayi -- Calcutta 18 February, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So you may come to Mayapur, and I have also invited Ramananda and all my disciples in India, and I think we shall number at least 50 heads, because we are being joined from here by Puri Maharaja and some of his close assistants. We shall leave for Calcutta on Tuesday, the 22nd, and are supposed to arrive in Mayapur by 25th latest. So you come too, and if you have finished the latest Hindi BTG you may bring some of those as well.</p>
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<div id="LettertoLocanaNalinikantaCalcutta18February1972_17" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="99" link="Letter to Locana, Nalinikanta -- Calcutta 18 February, 1972" link_text="Letter to Locana, Nalinikanta -- Calcutta 18 February, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Locana, Nalinikanta -- Calcutta 18 February, 1972|Letter to Locana, Nalinikanta -- Calcutta 18 February, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I thank you very much for your many invitations to come there to enjoy with you the Lord Caitanya Day parade and festival at Berkeley. I am always thinking of that beautiful, quiet neighborhood in Berkeley, and of all my wonderful disciples there, so when I return to USA I shall certainly come there for some time. We shall be celebrating the Appearance Day in Mayapur this year form 25th to 29th February, and then I shall be returning to Bombay for the month of March to initiate construction of our first "Hare Krishna City" on a large plot of land we have purchased there. However, if for some reason I shall return to USA before then, I shall with great pleasure come to your festival at Berkeley. At least I will be present there with you all in spirit, as always, you may know that for certain. I like very much your idea for putting eight banners across the main road with the eight Sikshastak prayers written boldly. If the students and other people study these eight prayers carefully, they will be delivered to the highest perfection of life. Also, I thank Nalinikanta for his enclosure of $15 daksina.</p>
<p>I hope this will find you all in good health and transcendentally happy mood.</p>
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<div id="LettertoBalimardanaMayapur27February1972_18" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="115" link="Letter to Bali-mardana -- Mayapur 27 February, 1972" link_text="Letter to Bali-mardana -- Mayapur 27 February, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Bali-mardana -- Mayapur 27 February, 1972|Letter to Bali-mardana -- Mayapur 27 February, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">One thing is, have you GBC members decided amongst yourselves how your zone of Far East will be managed in your absence. There must be someone there who can advise and instruct in all matters, so I think that if you are well-situated there and making such nice progress to improve our output of books, then someone may be appointed by you all by mutual consultation to manage everything in Far East Zone. I have received several inquiries on this point from responsible officers there, and they are wondering how things will go on.</p>
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<div id="LettertoAmarendraCalcutta4March1972_19" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="126" link="Letter to Amarendra -- Calcutta 4 March, 1972" link_text="Letter to Amarendra -- Calcutta 4 March, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Amarendra -- Calcutta 4 March, 1972|Letter to Amarendra -- Calcutta 4 March, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Nowadays, politician means pick-pocket, fooling the people who are innocent into voting them and then picking their pockets, because in two or four years they know they may be replaced by some other king so they take as much as they can. The people are innocent, we have seen this everywhere, even in Russia, it is only these rascal leaders who have spoiled everything by fooling the people for their personal advantage. So I am very much serious that you all boys and girls should expose these Nixons and remove them, there is ample scope for protest in this Sankirtana Movement, and you yourselves be president, that is my hope for saving the misled mankind from total chaos.</p>
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<div id="LettertoLalitaPrasadThakuraCalcutta4March1972_20" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="130" link="Letter to Lalita Prasad Thakura -- Calcutta 4 March, 1972" link_text="Letter to Lalita Prasad Thakura -- Calcutta 4 March, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Lalita Prasad Thakura -- Calcutta 4 March, 1972|Letter to Lalita Prasad Thakura -- Calcutta 4 March, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Kindly accept my humble obeisances at your Lotus Feet. The whole day spent at your Temple on Thursday was so pleasant, and happy that all my disciples felt celestial blessings in your association. Personally, I am so much encouraged by you, that I appreciate this as the blessings of Bhaktivinode Thakura through his living representative.</p>
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<div id="LettertoJayadvaitaCalcutta5March1972_21" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="132" link="Letter to Jayadvaita -- Calcutta 5 March, 1972" link_text="Letter to Jayadvaita -- Calcutta 5 March, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Jayadvaita -- Calcutta 5 March, 1972|Letter to Jayadvaita -- Calcutta 5 March, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I have also received your letter along with Bali Mardan's and I am very much glad that Pradyumna is now with me for teaching him correctly this sanskrit editing work. After he has become well-trained that will be a great relief to me and it will benefit everyone by increasing the flow of our books and literatures. I am very much pleased that Bali Mardan is doing something in ISKCON Press as manager, and that you all like Advaita and Uddhava are cooperating to print my books. One thing, I do not regularly receive copies of books and magazines which are new, so if you will kindly send me whenever they come out sample copies of all our literatures, I shall be very thankful.</p>
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<div id="LettertoSriGovindaCalcutta5March1972_22" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="134" link="Letter to Sri Govinda -- Calcutta 5 March, 1972" link_text="Letter to Sri Govinda -- Calcutta 5 March, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Sri Govinda -- Calcutta 5 March, 1972|Letter to Sri Govinda -- Calcutta 5 March, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated February 22, 1972, along with the letter from Santosa, and I especially appreciate his report of enthusiastic distribution of books and generally very highly determined and pure attitude of Krishna Consciousness devotional service. I am so much engladdened by his report. Just see how you all are giving all of your time and energy and attention to serving Krishna and how this simple formula is having such effect of creating topmost yogis and saintly young persons. You are the flowers of your nation, the devotees of the Lord, and so you go on in this way and always remember Krishna by remembering that you are His devotee and servant, and that this position is the most exalted of all and never to be thought of as inferior or less than even the most so-called elevated materialistic person.</p>
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<div id="LettertoSriGovindaCalcutta5March1972_23" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="134" link="Letter to Sri Govinda -- Calcutta 5 March, 1972" link_text="Letter to Sri Govinda -- Calcutta 5 March, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Sri Govinda -- Calcutta 5 March, 1972|Letter to Sri Govinda -- Calcutta 5 March, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">But even more important than the knowledge of Krishna is the acting upon that knowledge, or devotional service. By the acting he realizes his knowledge and becomes complete. So I am very much encouraged that all you young boys and girls are working so hard to please Krishna, and even I cannot give you any nice thing, still, because you have got some love for Krishna and your Spiritual Master, therefore you have given up everything for selling books door-to-door and working very hard in every way just to push on this movement. For your sincere helping me I thank you all very very much.</p>
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<div id="LettertoGurudasaYamunaSydney2April1972_24" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="151" link="Letter to Gurudasa, Yamuna -- Sydney 2 April, 1972" link_text="Letter to Gurudasa, Yamuna -- Sydney 2 April, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Gurudasa, Yamuna -- Sydney 2 April, 1972|Letter to Gurudasa, Yamuna -- Sydney 2 April, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I have requested Saurabha, our new Holland devotee in Bombay, who is an excellent designer, to send you plans for the Vrindaban scheme, but meanwhile you should concentrate on collecting as much cement, sand, stone chips, and steel as possible and stockpile them, along with bricks, etc. Meanwhile Gargamuni is collecting very nicely in Bombay for Vrindaban scheme, so you have not to worry about money as he will be in charge of that department, so you may correspond with him frequently and work together all of you for making this Vrindaban project a heaven on earth.</p>
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<div id="LettertoRevatinandanaSydney2April1972_25" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="156" link="Letter to Revatinandana -- Sydney 2 April, 1972" link_text="Letter to Revatinandana -- Sydney 2 April, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Revatinandana -- Sydney 2 April, 1972|Letter to Revatinandana -- Sydney 2 April, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">This is our best field, and practically I am observing here in Australia that you western boys and girls are becoming angels by taking up this Krishna Consciousness process, and that our Indian boys and girls will not take it up. They think that to have a good wife and sufficient income, bas, that is the goal of their life. But you all are joining me and you are coming out very nicely by Krishna's grace, so I am very much thankful. One thing, if we are not very careful to always stick to the point of regulative principles and purest standards of high living, then everything will spoil very quickly and the whole show will be a farce. So impress this point in your preaching for training the younger devotees, they will follow your example in all respects.</p>
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<div id="LettertoRevatinandanaSydney2April1972_26" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="156" link="Letter to Revatinandana -- Sydney 2 April, 1972" link_text="Letter to Revatinandana -- Sydney 2 April, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Revatinandana -- Sydney 2 April, 1972|Letter to Revatinandana -- Sydney 2 April, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I think your idea to canvass the youth groups and colleges in England is good proposal, so do it nicely in cooperation with Dayananda and the others there, and I am sending Kesava there to England soon to organize the book-distribution and travelling Sankirtana Party, so you know him, now you help him very seriously to increase these two programs, because I think especially that England is the best field in the world for distributing our books, as good or better than USA, so I want that you all should be very active to increase the scope there. Kesava is the recognized expert in these fields, so you take direction from him how to do it, and you preach wherever you go throughout the British Isles, and make this travelling SKP a great success, a greater success, than it is now in your country.</p>
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<div id="LettertoRupanugaSydney4April1972_27" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="159" link="Letter to Rupanuga -- Sydney 4 April, 1972" link_text="Letter to Rupanuga -- Sydney 4 April, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Rupanuga -- Sydney 4 April, 1972|Letter to Rupanuga -- Sydney 4 April, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I had no intimation that you all GBC members have met and decided such big big issues without consulting me. So I have issued one letter in this regard to all of you and you may take note that I consider that both the meeting and the resolution is irregular and immediately there should be no change. Again, I am so much burdened by this administrative work that I feel great difficulty. I was very anxious to return to my Los Angeles home to sit down for translating work. But if you all, my right-hand men, are doing things without consulting me and making such big big changes within our society without getting my opinion and the opinion of all the GBC members then what can I do? I am so much perplexed why you all had done this.</p>
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<div id="LettertoSatsvarupaSydney10April1972_28" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="171" link="Letter to Satsvarupa -- Sydney 10 April, 1972" link_text="Letter to Satsvarupa -- Sydney 10 April, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Satsvarupa -- Sydney 10 April, 1972|Letter to Satsvarupa -- Sydney 10 April, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Actually, I have very great hope for these travelling parties, our Gurukula school, and all our other projects, that by engaging ourselves in these ways, so long we do not forget the purpose of such activity then we shall very much revise the nasty situation in the world as it exists present moment, and we shall observe that angelic persons like you all nice devotees will be very much prominent in public life everywhere. That is my hope. But I have been very much disturbed recently by the meeting which you all have had in New York, wherein you have passed so many resolutions and elected Atreya Rsi to GBC Secretary, and made so many other changes. I am very much puzzled by the whole business. Therefore I have not approved of it, and you may by now have received my letter why I have temporarily suspended the GBC. Let us not revive this old matter, but I want to know from you what is your opinion of the matter, and how is it that Hamsaduta and Atreya Rsi were able to persuade you all senior leaders of the Society to follow their foolish activities? Kindly inform.</p>
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<div id="LettertoNiranjanaSydney12April1972_29" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="175" link="Letter to Niranjana -- Sydney 12 April, 1972" link_text="Letter to Niranjana -- Sydney 12 April, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Niranjana -- Sydney 12 April, 1972|Letter to Niranjana -- Sydney 12 April, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So far my chastising you at Mayapur for your questions it is simply out of love that I chastise any of my students. It is a father's duty to raise his son to be a strong, useful citizen, and sometimes he must reprimand him for some mistake in order to teach him. But this harshness is only for his son's benefit. Similarly, you are all my spiritual children, and my only concern is to see that you all become strong in your devotion to Lord Krishna, so sometimes scolding may be there, but you should always remember that it is done with love and it is only for your benefit.</p>
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<div id="LettertoKsirodakasayiTokyo18April1972_30" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="183" link="Letter to Ksirodakasayi -- Tokyo 18 April, 1972" link_text="Letter to Ksirodakasayi -- Tokyo 18 April, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Ksirodakasayi -- Tokyo 18 April, 1972|Letter to Ksirodakasayi -- Tokyo 18 April, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I am very glad to hear that you are all happy in Vrindaban and that our Sankirtana party from Radha Damodara Temple to our new place is being appreciated. Please continue this. You have retired from material life and Krishna has given you the nicest place in this material world to live in, so stick there and every month send one BTG Hindi composition to Tokyo. Radha Raman Goswami is there with you so you work together and do this job nicely.</p>
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<div id="LettertoGunagrahiTokyo22April1972_31" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="186" link="Letter to Gunagrahi -- Tokyo 22 April, 1972" link_text="Letter to Gunagrahi -- Tokyo 22 April, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Gunagrahi -- Tokyo 22 April, 1972|Letter to Gunagrahi -- Tokyo 22 April, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">In every college and university all over the world, there are so many different courses available to help the student become more entangled in the material world and to forget his real occupation. But none of them offer any instruction on the nature of the spirit soul and his relation with the Supreme Soul. So our program at these colleges is so important, because we are giving all these young people an opportunity to develop real knowledge and make their lives successful. I am so pleased to know that all of you are very enthusiastic for pushing on this program. Always keep this enthusiasm, and increase it more and more, and Krishna will give you all help and guidance.</p>
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<div id="LettertoSonsandDaughtersTokyo22April1972_32" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="188" link="Letter to Sons and Daughters -- Tokyo 22 April, 1972" link_text="Letter to Sons and Daughters -- Tokyo 22 April, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Sons and Daughters -- Tokyo 22 April, 1972|Letter to Sons and Daughters -- Tokyo 22 April, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">You are all very nice, sincere boys and girls, and Krishna has been very kind to send you all to help me in this great task of trying to save all the fallen souls from such a dangerous position. At every step there is danger, but under the strong grip of maya, we forget this. So the task is very great to give real knowledge, Krishna consciousness, to everyone, and I am so much encouraged by your determined efforts. Please increase more and more, and Krishna will help you.</p>
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<div id="LettertoSucandraTokyo22April1972_33" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="192" link="Letter to Sucandra -- Tokyo 22 April, 1972" link_text="Letter to Sucandra -- Tokyo 22 April, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Sucandra -- Tokyo 22 April, 1972|Letter to Sucandra -- Tokyo 22 April, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">When the son is suffering, the father is also afflicted. So Krishna, the Supreme Father, does not like to see his parts and parcels suffering in the material world. To deliver the fallen souls, He gives His instruction, He sends His representatives, and sometimes He even comes Himself just for the benefit of all the living entities. So it is our duty, as His representative, to canvass. "Please take this knowledge and make your life successful." So all of you continue to push on this movement with ever-increasing enthusiasm, and Krishna will help you.</p>
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<div id="LettertoHamsadutaTokyo24April1972_34" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="196" link="Letter to Hamsaduta -- Tokyo 24 April, 1972" link_text="Letter to Hamsaduta -- Tokyo 24 April, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Hamsaduta -- Tokyo 24 April, 1972|Letter to Hamsaduta -- Tokyo 24 April, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I have received one copy of the German BTG from ISKCON Press, and it is done very nicely. Sivananda can be given sannyasa, and when I go to Los Angeles, I shall let you know regarding this. I must know who the other boy is and then I can consider his case. Actually, all of you are more than sannyasis. Anyone who has dedicated his life to Krishna, he is sannyasi, yogi, and everything. That is the statement of Bhagavad-gita—one who does not work for his personal benefit is a sannyasi. It doesn't matter what is his dress. So all our devotees are more than sannyasis.</p>
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<div id="LettertoGirirajaCyavanaTokyo25April1972_35" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="199" link="Letter to Giriraja, Cyavana -- Tokyo 25 April, 1972" link_text="Letter to Giriraja, Cyavana -- Tokyo 25 April, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Giriraja, Cyavana -- Tokyo 25 April, 1972|Letter to Giriraja, Cyavana -- Tokyo 25 April, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">One thing, how much you have deposited since I left India? I want to see a copy of each months' Building Fund Account statement for my records also, so Mahamsa may send regularly. I think that you are both doing very nicely in all respects there, along with Mahamsa and Saurabha, and I am putting all trust and confidence in you all nice boys to perfect this Juhu scheme for Krishna's pleasure. Thank you all very very much.</p>
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<div id="LettertoKirtananandaTokyo2May1972_36" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="213" link="Letter to Kirtanananda -- Tokyo 2 May, 1972" link_text="Letter to Kirtanananda -- Tokyo 2 May, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Kirtanananda -- Tokyo 2 May, 1972|Letter to Kirtanananda -- Tokyo 2 May, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I have been dreaming for a long time that you ___ send something but I didn't get. So now I am coming to Los Angeles by 20th May, and you must come there to meet me. You are the first sannyasi of my institution so I expect greater things from you than the others. Lord Krishna has given you the chance, so do this preaching work very nicely. He will continue to give us all opportunity if we remain sincere and serious.</p>
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<div id="LettertoKirtananandaTokyo2May1972_37" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="213" link="Letter to Kirtanananda -- Tokyo 2 May, 1972" link_text="Letter to Kirtanananda -- Tokyo 2 May, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Kirtanananda -- Tokyo 2 May, 1972|Letter to Kirtanananda -- Tokyo 2 May, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I shall not be able to come to your programs in early May as I am in Hawaii, but you are my representative, you can do it. I am very much pleased that you have got me also one bus for my travelling there. That was my ambition. Now you are all fulfilling all of the ambitions. At the present moment I take with me three assistants, so my books writing is going on, so that is not stopped by my travelling. So now I can go on touring and my writing will go on. So if we have got our own bus that will be very nice. I very much appreciate the photos you have sent, they should be published in our BTG. Sometimes after if you take a bus in India, it will be very very greatly appreciated.</p>
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<div id="LettertoSatsvarupaTokyo2May1972_38" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="214" link="Letter to Satsvarupa -- Tokyo 2 May, 1972" link_text="Letter to Satsvarupa -- Tokyo 2 May, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Satsvarupa -- Tokyo 2 May, 1972|Letter to Satsvarupa -- Tokyo 2 May, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I am especially glad that the school Gurukula is improving more and more in its standard under your management. That is our real work, to educate people in spiritual life by giving them the practical example, so I wanted that the GBC would be a chosen body of men for that purpose, to see how the students are learning and reporting to me as my secretaries. I do not know how you could have missed these points, as they are clearly spelled out in my original constitution. Anyway, whatever is done, is done. So I am very glad that you are leading all others in book distribution, so you go on with your work in this way and Krishna will give you all the clear idea of how to do everything.</p>
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<div id="LettertoTraiHawaii5May1972_39" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="224" link="Letter to Trai -- Hawaii 5 May, 1972" link_text="Letter to Trai -- Hawaii 5 May, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Trai -- Hawaii 5 May, 1972|Letter to Trai -- Hawaii 5 May, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I am pleased to know that all of you are enthusiastically engaged in distributing our books. In this modern Godless civilization, everyone is greatly suffering due to lack of the real knowledge of Krishna consciousness, and our task is very great and very important. We must deliver this pure science of God to everyone and give them the chance to make their lives successful. So you continue this book distribution program very nicely, and at the same time take advantage of these books yourselves. Not that you just distribute but neglect reading them yourself. Always read them, especially Krsna book. Every time you have a spare moment, you should read. This will help you to advance in Krishna consciousness, and will give you the ability to convince others also.</p>
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<div id="LettertoBhagavanHonolulu12May1972_40" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="245" link="Letter to Bhagavan -- Honolulu 12 May, 1972" link_text="Letter to Bhagavan -- Honolulu 12 May, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Bhagavan -- Honolulu 12 May, 1972|Letter to Bhagavan -- Honolulu 12 May, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I am glad to hear that you are consolidating you energies to expand Krishna consciousness more effectively throughout midwestern zone, and I am pleased to learn that you are organizing travelling Sankirtana Party. That is our real business, travel and preach, distribute literature and prasadam. I want now that all of my GBC secretaries do my work. Let me sit tight in Los Angeles and write my books. Now you be always travelling here and there, visiting the centers in your zone, seeing how things are going on and how the students are making spiritual progress.</p>
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<div id="LettertoKarandharaHonolulu12May1972_41" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="246" link="Letter to Karandhara -- Honolulu 12 May, 1972" link_text="Letter to Karandhara -- Honolulu 12 May, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Karandhara -- Honolulu 12 May, 1972|Letter to Karandhara -- Honolulu 12 May, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">You may borrow the $15,000 from me, I have no objection. But now you have agreed to give Hayagriva $4000 per month, that was a great mistake. Now you have to rectify it. Now Hayagriva writes me that he is coming to Los Angeles, so we can discuss. Abruptly if we stop, that will not be good. So we have to rectify by arrangement and agreement. I am simply surprised how you all GBC men agreed to give him $4000 per month. So the mistake has been made, now it has to be corrected by other ways.</p>
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<div id="LettertoTamalaKrsnaHonolulu16May1972_42" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="259" link="Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Honolulu 16 May, 1972" link_text="Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Honolulu 16 May, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Honolulu 16 May, 1972|Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Honolulu 16 May, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Now many devotees have come from U.S.A. You wanted 100 men and so now there are about 100 men, and many have come to Bombay, so engage all of them in book distribution specifically, and take with you some kirtana party, as many as you like.</p>
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<div id="LettertoJagadisaLosAngeles19May1972_43" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="262" link="Letter to Jagadisa -- Los Angeles 19 May, 1972" link_text="Letter to Jagadisa -- Los Angeles 19 May, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Jagadisa -- Los Angeles 19 May, 1972|Letter to Jagadisa -- Los Angeles 19 May, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">But if my senior disciples wish to take sannyasa then I shall give it. But there is no urgency. Still, you may come as there are many things which we may discuss concerning GBC and other activities. Now I want to retire, and you all appointed GBC men must do the work that I am doing. Therefore, I have recommended this traveling extensively for the GBC men, just as I am doing it. If I did not travel there would be no nice organization. Traveling and preaching, that is the Sankirtana movement. But now I am old man; let me retire for writing books in my last years.</p>
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<div id="LettertoDayanandaLosAngeles20May1972_44" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="264" link="Letter to Dayananda -- Los Angeles 20 May, 1972" link_text="Letter to Dayananda -- Los Angeles 20 May, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Dayananda -- Los Angeles 20 May, 1972|Letter to Dayananda -- Los Angeles 20 May, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So you can immediately fix up a date for my coming there, along with my three assistants and you can send return airline tickets. It is certainly a great tragedy that there are no books in London Center so Kesava was not able to display his great talent for distributing them. But I have heard from him that you are all very enthusiastic to distribute books so when I come there I shall give you some hints how to do it. One thing is, when I come there I do not like to stay in any hotel. I shall stay in my room above the temple on the first floor.</p>
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<div id="LettertoFriendsLosAngeles23May1972_45" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="274" link="Letter to Friends -- Los Angeles 23 May, 1972" link_text="Letter to Friends -- Los Angeles 23 May, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Friends -- Los Angeles 23 May, 1972|Letter to Friends -- Los Angeles 23 May, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So my only request is that you immediately return either to the Cleveland temple or to some other temple. You may correspond with Bhagavan das at the Detroit center, 8311 E. Jefferson St., Detroit 48214, in this connection. He is the GBC zonal secretary for that zone of the mid-west, so you may address your questions and inquiries to him. I am very much encouraged that you are all chanting Hare Krishna and trying to become Krishna Conscious. But I do not advise that you approach the matter of perfecting your life in this independent way. Unless there is connection with a bona fide spiritual master, coming in the line of disciplic succession, there is no possibility of making progress in spiritual life.</p>
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<div id="LettertoGirirajaLosAngeles24May1972_46" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="278" link="Letter to Giriraja -- Los Angeles 24 May, 1972" link_text="Letter to Giriraja -- Los Angeles 24 May, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Giriraja -- Los Angeles 24 May, 1972|Letter to Giriraja -- Los Angeles 24 May, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Actually it is the duty of the spiritual master to find fault with his students so that they may make progress, not that he should always be praising them. So if you find some criticism, kindly accept it in that spirit. I am only interested in that you along with all my other students should become Krishna Conscious.</p>
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<div id="LettertoGurudasaLosAngeles26May1972_47" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="282" link="Letter to Gurudasa -- Los Angeles 26 May, 1972" link_text="Letter to Gurudasa -- Los Angeles 26 May, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Gurudasa -- Los Angeles 26 May, 1972|Letter to Gurudasa -- Los Angeles 26 May, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I am now interested to print our books in India and distribute them very widely. So our Ksirodakasayi is finding difficulty by himself, so they are thinking to form one committee. of Ksirodakasayi, Ramananda and Niranjana, yourself and others, and I want that all of you conjointly chalk out some plan for translating, composing, laying out and printing our books in Hindi language and also in English language and distributing them very profusely.</p>
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<div id="LettertoSudamaLosAngeles26May1972_48" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="288" link="Letter to Sudama -- Los Angeles 26 May, 1972" link_text="Letter to Sudama -- Los Angeles 26 May, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Sudama -- Los Angeles 26 May, 1972|Letter to Sudama -- Los Angeles 26 May, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">That is a good idea, to invite many Indians and other influential Japanese men to visit our country asrama in Tokyo. There are many Indians in Tokyo and if you canvass them one by one gradually all of them will become our life members and support our activities for expanding widely in Japan. If we have got solid financial base there from the Hindu community, then we can go to all parts of Japan and open up centers and distribute our literature in Japanese language. So, try for this and I am fully convinced that you are all very sincere boys there and that your work will come out very very successful.</p>
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<div id="LettertoMaitreyaMikeStitchMahasaktiMarkJahreArijitAllenBigilMitravindaMarshaArslanskyNanditaGokulaNancyBaileyLosAngeles28May1972_49" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="295" link="Letter to Maitreya (Mike Stitch), Mahasakti (Mark Jahre), Arijit (Allen Bigil), Mitravinda (Marsha Arslansky), Nandita Gokula (Nancy Bailey) -- Los Angeles 28 May, 1972" link_text="Letter to Maitreya (Mike Stitch), Mahasakti (Mark Jahre), Arijit (Allen Bigil), Mitravinda (Marsha Arslansky), Nandita Gokula (Nancy Bailey) -- Los Angeles 28 May, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Maitreya (Mike Stitch), Mahasakti (Mark Jahre), Arijit (Allen Bigil), Mitravinda (Marsha Arslansky), Nandita Gokula (Nancy Bailey) -- Los Angeles 28 May, 1972|Letter to Maitreya (Mike Stitch), Mahasakti (Mark Jahre), Arijit (Allen Bigil), Mitravinda (Marsha Arslansky), Nandita Gokula (Nancy Bailey) -- Los Angeles 28 May, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Upon the recommendation of Tulasi dasa I am very glad to consent to accept all of you as my duly initiated disciples. I am giving him your beads duly chanted by me. I have given you the spiritual names as follows:</p>
<p>Mike Stitch/Maitreya dasa Brahmacari.</p>
<p>Mark Jahre/Mahasakti dasa Brahmacari.</p>
<p>Allen Bigil/Arijit dasa Brahmacari.</p>
<p>Marsha Arslansky/Mitravinda devi dasi.</p>
<p>Nancy Bailey/Nandita Gokula devi dasi.</p>
<p>I am so glad to learn that you are such good assistants for Tulasi dasa there in our Denver center. And I can understand that you are all very eligible candidates for going back to Home, back to Godhead. And the process is simple. Simply follow the regulative principles with determination, and you will become free from all attachment to maya, by Krishna's Grace. The example is when the sun is in the sky, there is no question of darkness. Similarly, when Hare Krishna Mantra is vibrating on your tongue and you are hearing attentively, then your consciousness becomes clear or Krishna Consciousness, and there is no question of maya or hazy consciousness. Just as when the light and the darkness come together, the darkness cannot stand before the light, so maya cannot remain in the presence of Krishna. Always remember therefore to chant Hare Krishna, and that will save you in all circumstances without any doubt.</p>
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<div id="LettertoVasudevaLosAngelesMay311972_50" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="298" link="Letter to Vasudeva -- Los Angeles May 31, 1972" link_text="Letter to Vasudeva -- Los Angeles May 31, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Vasudeva -- Los Angeles May 31, 1972|Letter to Vasudeva -- Los Angeles May 31, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Yes, if you can get a new and larger place that will be very nice. Also, I am coming to London this summer for Ratha-yatra Festival and if all of the European devotees come there I shall be very glad to see you all again. Yes, you may name your new son Caitanya dasa. So now be happy and chant Hare Krsna and take Krsna Prasadam, and in this way you shall find your life becoming more and more perfect and you will meet Krsna face to face very soon, rest assured.</p>
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<div id="LettertoBhavanandaLosAngeles1June1972_51" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="299" link="Letter to Bhavananda -- Los Angeles 1 June, 1972" link_text="Letter to Bhavananda -- Los Angeles 1 June, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Bhavananda -- Los Angeles 1 June, 1972|Letter to Bhavananda -- Los Angeles 1 June, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Regarding Mayapur building work, try to finish as quickly as possible and our living accommodations problem will be solved and I shall be very happy to stay there if it is completed when I return there in the autumn. I have received the drawing of the completed building, and it is very nice. So if you all think, Jayapataka, Tamala Krishna, and the others, my approval is there. Whatever you all decide in future in these matters, that's all right, but the structure appears to be nice. So you do not have to bother yourself by sending too many details of your progressive Mayapur construction work, simply give me simple report from time to time how the things are going on, and how ever you do it, that is to be decided among yourselves.</p>
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<div id="LettertoVisakhaMexicoCity6June1972_52" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="301" link="Letter to Visakha -- Mexico City 6 June, 1972" link_text="Letter to Visakha -- Mexico City 6 June, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Visakha -- Mexico City 6 June, 1972|Letter to Visakha -- Mexico City 6 June, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Actually, anyone who is a sincere devotee of Krishna and who is rendering service by preaching His message is to be considered as hero. So you are all heroes of your country and your humanity. Hero means someone who others want to follow as example of the best type of person. So you all become like that, perfect examples of Krishna Consciousness heroes and heroines, and preach the message exactly as I have taught it to you very seriously and being fully convinced, and others will automatically come forward and join us. We shall all be like one great army of heroes for Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu.</p>
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<div id="LettertoGargamuniLosAngeles8June1972_53" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="304" link="Letter to Gargamuni -- Los Angeles 8 June, 1972" link_text="Letter to Gargamuni -- Los Angeles 8 June, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Gargamuni -- Los Angeles 8 June, 1972|Letter to Gargamuni -- Los Angeles 8 June, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">When someone pays it means he is converted. Somehow or other __ has to render some service, so if you can collect money from ___ that means practically they are becoming our disciples. So do not become spiritual depressed, actually these things are going forward very progressively there in India and I am very much thankful to you all my sincere disciples, especially the elder disciples and Sannyasis like your good self, for assisting me in this great mission of reviving the original Krishna Consciousness atmosphere in India. Do not worry, in time we shall be completely successful.</p>
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<div id="LettertoBhargavaLosAngeles13June1972_54" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="315" link="Letter to Bhargava -- Los Angeles 13 June, 1972" link_text="Letter to Bhargava -- Los Angeles 13 June, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Bhargava -- Los Angeles 13 June, 1972|Letter to Bhargava -- Los Angeles 13 June, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The more we become renounced from this material world, the more we advance in Krishna Consciousness. But we are only able to make such sacrifices and perform tapasya if we have got knowledge. So first thing is to become knowledgeable in Krishna Consciousness, then the tapasya or voluntary life of austerity will result automatically. So I am requesting all of my students to read my books very seriously every day without fail. In this way, if your mind becomes absorbed at least one or two hours daily in the transcendental subject matter of Srimad-Bhagavatam, Bhagavad-gita, and other books then very easily you will make your advancement in Krishna Consciousness.</p>
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<div id="LettertoMadhudvisaLosAngeles16June1972_55" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="324" link="Letter to Madhudvisa -- Los Angeles 16 June, 1972" link_text="Letter to Madhudvisa -- Los Angeles 16 June, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Madhudvisa -- Los Angeles 16 June, 1972|Letter to Madhudvisa -- Los Angeles 16 June, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">But if they do not have any knowledge, how can they go out and preach? So you GBC men are my selected few for insuring that what I am doing will be carried on very nicely for the pleasure of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu. So now you must all my senior disciples and leaders become very, very much aware of your grave responsibility to the human society for delivering them from the clutches of catastrophe, and be always cool-headed and utilize every moment in the best manner possible. I am successful only because I am following strictly the orders of my Guru Maharaja, and I do not deviate. Therefore people respect what I am saying and they listen because I do not say one thing and do another. So now you are doing my work and you shall be like me and be yourselves the worthy representatives of our disciplic succession.</p>
<p>I am very much stressing at this point that all of my students shall be very much conversant with the philosophy of Krishna Consciousness, and that they should read our books very diligently at least one or two hours daily and try to understand the subject matter from varieties of angles.</p>
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<div id="LettertoMadhudvisaLosAngeles16June1972_56" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="324" link="Letter to Madhudvisa -- Los Angeles 16 June, 1972" link_text="Letter to Madhudvisa -- Los Angeles 16 June, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Madhudvisa -- Los Angeles 16 June, 1972|Letter to Madhudvisa -- Los Angeles 16 June, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Read one sloka and discuss and then go on to the next sloka on the next day, and so on, and even you discuss one verse each day it will take you 50 years to finish Srimad-Bhagavatam in this way. So we have got ample stock for acquiring knowledge. And if the students get knowledge more and more, they will automatically become convinced and very easily perform their duties for tapasya or renunciation of the material bondage, and that will be their successful advancement in Krishna Consciousness. So I want that advancement amongst all of my students, so your are responsible that the standard will be maintained.</p>
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<div id="LettertoTribhuvanathaLosAngeles16June1972_57" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="325" link="Letter to Tribhuvanatha -- Los Angeles 16 June, 1972" link_text="Letter to Tribhuvanatha -- Los Angeles 16 June, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Tribhuvanatha -- Los Angeles 16 June, 1972|Letter to Tribhuvanatha -- Los Angeles 16 June, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Now I am coming to London very soon for your Rathayatra Celebration, and I shall be very happy to see you all, my beloved disciples there in England. You mention one very large festival being held there in Edinburgh from July 20 to August 9, so if you can arrange some big, big, meeting for me to speak there and address the public at large as well as the students, that will be very nice. One thing, I am already scheduled to speak in Paris on July 21, 22, 23, so if you arrange some meetings at the Edinburgh Festival, you should schedule them for last part of July or early August accordingly.</p>
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<div id="LettertoJayapatakaLosAngeles16June1972_58" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="328" link="Letter to Jayapataka -- Los Angeles 16 June, 1972" link_text="Letter to Jayapataka -- Los Angeles 16 June, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Jayapataka -- Los Angeles 16 June, 1972|Letter to Jayapataka -- Los Angeles 16 June, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I have appointed Giriraja to be the GBC zonal secretary for India zone, and I am sure that he meets your requirements of being equipoised and considerate of all the needs of all the branches under his control or jurisdiction. Simply all you leaders there in India must cooperate with him nicely and give him confidence and advice how to manage the things in the best manner. So I suggest you address your ideas for managing to Giriraja and cooperatively make arrangements. Bombay should be the headquarters for India. You send all money there and when you require you take and they sould keep all accounts nicely. Whatever you need, they will supply.</p>
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<div id="LettertoGargamuniMahamsaNaranarayaGirirajaLosAngeles19June1972_59" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="332" link="Letter to Gargamuni, Mahamsa, Naranaraya, Giriraja -- Los Angeles 19 June, 1972" link_text="Letter to Gargamuni, Mahamsa, Naranaraya, Giriraja -- Los Angeles 19 June, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Gargamuni, Mahamsa, Naranaraya, Giriraja -- Los Angeles 19 June, 1972|Letter to Gargamuni, Mahamsa, Naranaraya, Giriraja -- Los Angeles 19 June, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Kindly, therefore, abide by the direction of the man in charge of the center. If there is lack of obedience then there cannot be discipline, and without discipline we cannot manage a huge world organization. I shall be returning by September next. Kindly therefore do not make any fracture during this period at least, and when I return if you all don't like the man in charge surely I shall replace him out of you. But for the time being, please do not make any rupture, and please obey by the direction of Giriraja Brahmacari.</p>
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<div id="LettertoStokakrsnaLosAngeles20June1972_60" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="333" link="Letter to Stokakrsna -- Los Angeles 20 June, 1972" link_text="Letter to Stokakrsna -- Los Angeles 20 June, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Stokakrsna -- Los Angeles 20 June, 1972|Letter to Stokakrsna -- Los Angeles 20 June, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">We may thin the milk till it becomes useless, or we may boil it until it becomes thick and sweet, so now we have got enough followers, let us train them up perfectly in the philosophy and activities of Krsna Consciousness way of life. Unless all of my students become very much fixed up in their spiritual progress, what is the use of so many programs for expansion? So you are the leader at Dallas, now it is your task to become very, very responsible for the spiritual well being of all of the students there, so Krsna will give you all intelligence and facilities to serve Him nicely if you are very much sincere to do so. This will please me very much.</p>
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<div id="LettertoRupaVilasaRobertMcNaughtonCandrikaCarolMcNaughtonBhavatariniDebbieWattBhanutanyaDebraWolinLosAngeles20June1972_61" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="334" link="Letter to Rupa Vilasa (Robert McNaughton), Candrika (Carol McNaughton), Bhavatarini (Debbie Watt), Bhanutanya (Debra Wolin) -- Los Angeles 20 June, 1972" link_text="Letter to Rupa Vilasa (Robert McNaughton), Candrika (Carol McNaughton), Bhavatarini (Debbie Watt), Bhanutanya (Debra Wolin) -- Los Angeles 20 June, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Rupa Vilasa (Robert McNaughton), Candrika (Carol McNaughton), Bhavatarini (Debbie Watt), Bhanutanya (Debra Wolin) -- Los Angeles 20 June, 1972|Letter to Rupa Vilasa (Robert McNaughton), Candrika (Carol McNaughton), Bhavatarini (Debbie Watt), Bhanutanya (Debra Wolin) -- Los Angeles 20 June, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Upon the recommendation of Stoka Krsna I am glad to consent to accept all of you as my duly initiated disciples. Your beads have been chanted by me and they are sent under separate post. I have given you your spiritual names as follows:</p>
<p>Robert McNaughton/Rupa Vilas dasa Adhikari</p>
<p>Carol McNaughton/Chandrika devi dasi</p>
<p>Debbie Watt/Bhavatarani Devi dasi</p>
<p>Debra Wolin/Bhanutanya devi dasi</p>
<p>I am very glad to hear that all of you have been such a great help to Stoka Krsna there in our Dallas Gurukula and I can understand that all of you are very sincere boys and girls and quite eligible for going back to Home, back to Godhead. Now I very much appreciate your activities for conducting our school to the highest standard of Krishna Consciousness behavior, and I consider your work the most important in the society because you are shaping the future generation of our Krishna Consciousness preachers, and this is not any small thing. So I am depending very much upon you all to assist Lord Caitanya in fulfilling His mission for saving the human kind from very quickly gliding into hell.</p>
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<div id="LettertoYadubaraLosAngeles20June1972_62" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="335" link="Letter to Yadubara -- Los Angeles 20 June, 1972" link_text="Letter to Yadubara -- Los Angeles 20 June, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Yadubara -- Los Angeles 20 June, 1972|Letter to Yadubara -- Los Angeles 20 June, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Today I have received one telephone call from Giriraja and he has informed me that there is some disagreement among you leaders there in our Bombay Center. This is not at all a pleasant situation for anyone. I am entrusting this huge task to all of you for working together cooperatively for doing something wonderful. I can understand that you are responsible and cool-headed along with the others, so you take the hand in reconciling all differences.</p>
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<div id="LettertoGirirajaLosAngeles21June1972_63" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="336" link="Letter to Giriraja -- Los Angeles 21 June, 1972" link_text="Letter to Giriraja -- Los Angeles 21 June, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Giriraja -- Los Angeles 21 June, 1972|Letter to Giriraja -- Los Angeles 21 June, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Now I have sent you one letter yesterday which I hope by now has cured the situation amongst you all leaders there in Bombay. So if there is neglect or slackening in the building work you may please give all good direction how it may be improved to the topmost standard in all of India. One thing, if our men are making daily between Rs. 30/- and Rs. 120/-, let us say average of Rs. 50/-, so that is Rs. 400-500/- per day, or Rs. 15,000 per month so that is very nice. So in this way you may order increasingly as many books as you can distribute and they will be immediately dispatched to Bombay without any cost to you.</p>
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<div id="LettertoHamsadutaLosAngeles22June1972_64" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="337" link="Letter to Hamsaduta -- Los Angeles 22 June, 1972" link_text="Letter to Hamsaduta -- Los Angeles 22 June, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Hamsaduta -- Los Angeles 22 June, 1972|Letter to Hamsaduta -- Los Angeles 22 June, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I am very pleased to see the things are going on, and that new centers are opening many in Germany. Now I am feeling very much inclined for retiring behind the scenes to translate my Srimad-Bhagavatam. This means that now you all leaders, especially the GBC members, must become very much responsible and do the work that I am doing to the same standard. So I want you leaders especially to become very much absorbed in the philosophy of Bhagavad-gita, Srimad-Bhagavatam, and become yourselves completely convinced and free from all doubt. On this platform you shall be able to carry on the work satisfactorily, but if there is lack of knowledge, or if there is forgetfulness, everything will be spoiled in time.</p>
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<div id="LettertoSatsvarupaLosAngeles1July1972_65" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="347" link="Letter to Satsvarupa -- Los Angeles 1 July, 1972" link_text="Letter to Satsvarupa -- Los Angeles 1 July, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Satsvarupa -- Los Angeles 1 July, 1972|Letter to Satsvarupa -- Los Angeles 1 July, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter from Cleveland dated June 26, 1972 and I have noted the contents with great pleasure. Similarly I have received such nice letters from Rupanuga and Hrdayananda, and I am very much satisfied that you are all feeling the serious nature of this Sannyasi mission. So far you are concerned, I am especially stressing the importance of our Dallas Gurukula for training up the next generation of Krishna Consciousness preachers. This is the most important task ahead. I am seeing practically how wonderful the children are coming out. Therefore, we shall be very, very vigilant and careful to maintain the highest standard of temple atmosphere and conduct in Dallas. You may install Radha-Krishna Deities and worship Them very, very gorgeously. Simply by associating with the elderly members, the children will learn everything.</p>
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<div id="LettertoSatsvarupaLosAngeles1July1972_66" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="347" link="Letter to Satsvarupa -- Los Angeles 1 July, 1972" link_text="Letter to Satsvarupa -- Los Angeles 1 July, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Satsvarupa -- Los Angeles 1 July, 1972|Letter to Satsvarupa -- Los Angeles 1 July, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">We must develop our Krishna Consciousness school at Dallas to be the model for education in all the world, and let anyone see our Krishna Consciousness children and they will immediately understand the importance and necessity for such education amongst the citizens at large. Otherwise, the children of your country and other countries, they are simply growing up to be sophisticated animals, so what good will their education do? But if they will agree to try to understand our Krishna Consciousness education or way of life and allow their children to be educated by us, they will see them come out as the topmost citizens with all good qualities such as honesty, cleanliness, truthfulness, loyalty, etc. So that is a very important work and you are especially responsible to make it successful. All other GBC men should give you all assistance for building up the standard there.</p>
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<div id="LettertoHrdayanandaNewYork9July1972_67" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="356" link="Letter to Hrdayananda -- New York 9 July, 1972" link_text="Letter to Hrdayananda -- New York 9 July, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Hrdayananda -- New York 9 July, 1972|Letter to Hrdayananda -- New York 9 July, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Now you must all three, along with the other sannyasis, GBC members, and other leaders become very serious to actually give the human kind the greatest welfare, namely, this Krishna Consciousness movement. Your task ahead is very huge, but it will be quite simple and easy if you simply do as I am doing. You must become conversant in every feature wherever it is needed throughout the society. Out first business is to preach to the devotees and to maintain the highest standard of Vaisnava education. Management must be there as well, just as I am preaching daily from S. Bhagavatam, B.G., but I am also going to the bank, making investments, seeing the trial balance making letters, seeing how things are going on, like that. So you must become expert in all these matters, just as I am giving you example . . . Syamasundara.</p>
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<div id="LettertoTulasiLondon1August1972_68" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="412" link="Letter to Tulasi -- London 1 August, 1972" link_text="Letter to Tulasi -- London 1 August, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Tulasi -- London 1 August, 1972|Letter to Tulasi -- London 1 August, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Upon your recommendation, I have consented to accept Jan, Becky and Tina as my duly initiated disciples, and also to give gayatri mantra to Pranaballavah, Mahasakti and Nandita Gokula. Enclosed please find a letter for those who are taking first initiation, and two sacred threads for Pranabalavah and Mahasakti. The beads are being sent by separate post. Now you can hold a fire yajna for all of them, and gayatri mantra to Pranaballavah, Mahasakti, and Nandita Gokula. Show them how to count on the finger divisions, and have them listen one by one to the tape of me reciting gayatri mantra, repeating each vibration as I say it. You can get this tape from Karandhara in Los Angeles.</p>
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<div id="LettertoAksayanandaLondonAugust21972_69" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="413" link="Letter to Aksayananda -- London August 2, 1972" link_text="Letter to Aksayananda -- London August 2, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Aksayananda -- London August 2, 1972|Letter to Aksayananda -- London August 2, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I have just now got one letter from Gargamuni Maharaja, and he has had a very, very good success in Gujarat State by driving one van which he has borrowed for one month only. In that letter he has requested very urgently that one van be provided immediately from the European centers. So I wish that combinedly you may all pool your resources and purchase one nice van. Furthermore, a few men will be required to take that van by driving it to India. So I am placing this matter in the hands of Hamsaduta and he will do the needful. Now you all please cooperate with him as much as possible for procuring this dream of mine.</p>
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<div id="LettertoGurudasaYamunaLondon11August1972_70" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="435" link="Letter to Gurudasa, Yamuna -- London 11 August, 1972" link_text="Letter to Gurudasa, Yamuna -- London 11 August, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Gurudasa, Yamuna -- London 11 August, 1972|Letter to Gurudasa, Yamuna -- London 11 August, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Now do everything in Vrndavana very peacefully, and always cooperate with each other at all times. There is some trouble with Satchitananda, he informs me you are trying to drive him away because he has written that letter about Yamuna, so that should not be the case. Better to cooperate all of you and do something tangible for Krsna. Stop this fighting. Have a European preaching center and try to enlist all the hippies and tourists who come to Vrndavana. Give them nice prasadam, engage them in chanting, cleaning the temple, reading our books, and give them all facilities for becoming devotees.</p>
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<div id="LettertoSukadevaLosAngeles16August1972_71" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="444" link="Letter to Sukadeva -- Los Angeles 16 August, 1972" link_text="Letter to Sukadeva -- Los Angeles 16 August, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Sukadeva -- Los Angeles 16 August, 1972|Letter to Sukadeva -- Los Angeles 16 August, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">If we can attract this student class of men by our preaching work, that will enhance everything and we are very much in need of intelligent preachers for expanding this movement all over the world.  I want that you all my advanced disciples become very bold preachers and take up this task of saving the fallen humanity from its worst condition of sinfulness.  If you simply convert the leaders of your country to our philosophy, then the whole world will follow and be saved from ruin.  Otherwise, they are all doomed to become animals like hogs and dogs.  So you preach like that, very strongly, to especially the hippie class of men and the student class of men and convince them to give up their sinful activities and find out their real perfection of life in this Krishna Consciousness movement.</p>
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<div id="LettertoMadhudvisaAmoghaLosAngeles24August1972_72" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="451" link="Letter to Madhudvisa, Amogha -- Los Angeles 24 August, 1972" link_text="Letter to Madhudvisa, Amogha -- Los Angeles 24 August, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Madhudvisa, Amogha -- Los Angeles 24 August, 1972|Letter to Madhudvisa, Amogha -- Los Angeles 24 August, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Now you both big leaders in Australia, along with the others, you make a very concerted attempt to help Mohananandan over his difficulties and persuade him that everything is all right; that I am not angry or displeased in any way. These things will sometimes happen even with the best devotees, and in this way try and persuade him to become engaged with his previous enthusiasm for becoming once again a great devotee. He is young boy, so we should not take his actions too seriously, better to forget the past and try to reform him. His service can be once again very much valuable there in Australia, I know he is very good boy. Do not drive him away, that will be the discredit to all of you leaders. But if there is great difficulty, he may come and live with me here in Los Angeles for the time being, I have no objection. But he has done very nicely in Sydney up to the present time, so if you can utilize his experience and talents there, that is the best plan.</p>
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<div id="LettertoMadhudvisaAmoghaLosAngeles24August1972_73" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="451" link="Letter to Madhudvisa, Amogha -- Los Angeles 24 August, 1972" link_text="Letter to Madhudvisa, Amogha -- Los Angeles 24 August, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Madhudvisa, Amogha -- Los Angeles 24 August, 1972|Letter to Madhudvisa, Amogha -- Los Angeles 24 August, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Now I want all of you to work cooperatively and very frankly, that is our process, not that we shall always plot and scheme and write letters. Madhudvisa is GBC man for South Pacific zone, so his direction must be followed by everyone and all of the devotees there should address their problems to him for his consideration. One thing is, I have received some distressing report from Hong Kong from Bhurijana, that he is having some difficulty there, so I have assured him that you would send him some assistance very shortly to help him with our mission in Hong Kong.</p>
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<div id="LettertoDevoteesLosAngeles26August1972_74" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="457" link="Letter to Devotees -- Los Angeles 26 August, 1972" link_text="Letter to Devotees -- Los Angeles 26 August, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Devotees -- Los Angeles 26 August, 1972|Letter to Devotees -- Los Angeles 26 August, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I am so much pleased with your kind and affectionate words on the occasion of my birthday anniversary on the Nandotsava day this year (1972). My Guru Maharaja wanted me to spread this Krishna Consciousness Movement in western world, and you are all helping in this great attempt.</p>
<p>My Spiritual Master knew it that alone I could not do this great work. Therefore He has very kindly sent you all to help me in this task. I accept you therefore as representatives of my Guru Maharaja playing as my affectionate disciples.</p>
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<div id="LettertoGaurasundaraLosAngeles26August1972_75" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="458" link="Letter to Gaurasundara -- Los Angeles 26 August, 1972" link_text="Letter to Gaurasundara -- Los Angeles 26 August, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Gaurasundara -- Los Angeles 26 August, 1972|Letter to Gaurasundara -- Los Angeles 26 August, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">If I cannot rely on you to assist me in the GBC position, who can I rely on? So I beg you to reassure me that you will continue to help me in this way, and do not become withdrawn from your active role. Kindly relieve me of this great anxiety. I want to retire now and simply concentrate on translating work, but how can I do it if I cannot give over the management of my society to you all my advanced senior disciples? If one moment you are willing and the next moment there is some small disagreement and immediately you all go away, how can I be calm in my mind? I am going to India by first week of October and I shall stop over one night in Honolulu en route and we can discuss the matter further at that time.</p>
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<div id="LettertoJayapatakaLosAngeles26August1972_76" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="459" link="Letter to Jayapataka -- Los Angeles 26 August, 1972" link_text="Letter to Jayapataka -- Los Angeles 26 August, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Jayapataka -- Los Angeles 26 August, 1972|Letter to Jayapataka -- Los Angeles 26 August, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I have received one letter from Madhavananda and he has assured me that the collecting is going on well. He has also mentioned that you are planning your Maidan Pandal from 7th October to November 5th tentatively. But these things must be consulted amongst all of you leaders, not that one man decides these things whimsically. My program is already sent to you earlier, I shall be in Vrndavana from middle October to middle November, but after that time I am free to come to Calcutta for holding our festival, but these things should be decided amongst all of you leaders in India, including Gurudasa, Giriraja, Tamala, Bhavananda, Gargamuni.</p>
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<div id="LettertoMadhavanandaLosAngeles26August1972_77" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="460" link="Letter to Madhavananda -- Los Angeles 26 August, 1972" link_text="Letter to Madhavananda -- Los Angeles 26 August, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Madhavananda -- Los Angeles 26 August, 1972|Letter to Madhavananda -- Los Angeles 26 August, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">One thing is if the Calcutta festival is held at least 50 men must be there and do it very nicely. How many men will be there? On the dates that you mention, namely, October 27th to November 5th, I shall be in Vrndavana. You must all jointly make these decisions about my program there, not that whimsically one man shall decide one thing another man shall decide another thing. So unless Tamala Krsna and the others agree then I will not be able to attend on the dates you have mentioned. Anyway I shall be in Vrndavana at that time. But after the 15th November, leaving this time, and consulting with the leaders, then a suitable program may be fixed for Calcutta.</p>
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<div id="LettertoGurudasaNewVrindaban1September1972_78" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="468" link="Letter to Gurudasa -- New Vrindaban 1 September, 1972" link_text="Letter to Gurudasa -- New Vrindaban 1 September, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Gurudasa -- New Vrindaban 1 September, 1972|Letter to Gurudasa -- New Vrindaban 1 September, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So Bhavananda is coming there in a few days, and Tamala Krishna is coming with one engineer, so conjointly you three men consider everything with these points in mind and do the needful. If you all three big men think that it is a good bargain, then you may offer as you think best, but consulting with me first. But one thing is, what we shall do with the land in Raman Reti? How to utilize it if we purchase the Kesighat temple? I am remaining in New Vrindaban at least until 8th September, after that you may write me in Los Angeles.</p>
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<div id="LettertoCitsukhanandaLosAngeles13September1972_79" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="492" link="Letter to Citsukhananda -- Los Angeles 13 September, 1972" link_text="Letter to Citsukhananda -- Los Angeles 13 September, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Citsukhananda -- Los Angeles 13 September, 1972|Letter to Citsukhananda -- Los Angeles 13 September, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I would have liked to go to Mexico City but I have already gone this year and too much traveling now for me is a strain. Therefore I am going directly from Los Angeles to India, but when I return next year then I shall certainly come again to Mexico and visit all of my nice disciples there.</p>
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<div id="LettertoTamalaKrsnaSubalaGurudasaBhavanandaLosAngeles22September1972_80" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="510" link="Letter to Tamala Krsna, Subala, Gurudasa, Bhavananda -- Los Angeles 22 September, 1972" link_text="Letter to Tamala Krsna, Subala, Gurudasa, Bhavananda -- Los Angeles 22 September, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Tamala Krsna, Subala, Gurudasa, Bhavananda -- Los Angeles 22 September, 1972|Letter to Tamala Krsna, Subala, Gurudasa, Bhavananda -- Los Angeles 22 September, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I have received your joint letter dated Sept. 17, 1972, and I am very much encouraged that you are all big men gathered together there in Vrndavana to launch the building project of ISKCON Temple. I have full faith that you will do the needful by consulting all together how to do everything, therefore I have called you all there. But one thing is Bhavananda promised to remain in Bombay to finish up the conveyance deed business and not to leave there until it was finished. He was sent from Calcutta especially, but he was also silent. So I do not know as yet what has been the position regarding the conveyance and no one has kept me informed what is the position there. So this business worries me all the time, why he has been silent?</p>
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<div id="LettertoCyavanaLosAngeles22September1972_81" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="511" link="Letter to Cyavana -- Los Angeles 22 September, 1972" link_text="Letter to Cyavana -- Los Angeles 22 September, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Cyavana -- Los Angeles 22 September, 1972|Letter to Cyavana -- Los Angeles 22 September, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I am pleased to understand that things are once again back to normal in Nairobi and that you are all very enthusiastic to spread our preaching work amongst the Africans and American and European boys and girls there. I have heard from Rsi Kumar also that South Africa is first class field in Africa for preaching. Now you say the basic expenditures are finished and we have got very nice place there, now concentrate on making men into devotees and recruiting especially the African boys for helping us preach all over the continent of Africa. That is very good news that you have sent more than $1,200 to Karandhara, now you may order as many more books as you require from him and take similar sanction from the government for repaying him.</p>
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<div id="LettertoKarandharaLosAngeles29September1972_82" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="520" link="Letter to Karandhara -- Los Angeles 29 September, 1972" link_text="Letter to Karandhara -- Los Angeles 29 September, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Karandhara -- Los Angeles 29 September, 1972|Letter to Karandhara -- Los Angeles 29 September, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">You can say it is a loan from a "friend." As soon as you get money from Jayan via Tamala Krishna and Bhavananda, then you all three sign jointly the letter of order and we will transfer the money from here. One thing is, the money should not be given directly to Nair. Rather you go with him to the tax officer and pay in his presence as witness, or the money should be paid in the registrar's office while registering the conveyance. This way or that way, but do not pay the money directly to Nair.</p>
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<div id="LettertoTamalaKrsnaLosAngeles30September1972_83" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="527" link="Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Los Angeles 30 September, 1972" link_text="Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Los Angeles 30 September, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Los Angeles 30 September, 1972|Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Los Angeles 30 September, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">All of this appears to be very complicated, and Giriraja is finding difficulty, from his letter I can understand. So I think you have to revive your position as GBC again and look after all the business of India affairs nicely. May Krsna bless you with all good sense. Your program submitted by you all jointly is tentatively accepted by me. Our meeting time in New Delhi will be informed very soon by letter and telegram both.</p>
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<div id="LettertoKirtananandaSanFrancisco7October1972_84" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="535" link="Letter to Kirtanananda -- San Francisco 7 October, 1972" link_text="Letter to Kirtanananda -- San Francisco 7 October, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Kirtanananda -- San Francisco 7 October, 1972|Letter to Kirtanananda -- San Francisco 7 October, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I am a little in anxiety on account of Bombay affairs. It is a question of fifteen lacs of rupees, but the matter has not been properly handled by our men in India. Please pray to Krsna that things may come in normal situation. All of you may remember that we have taken a very responsible task in the matter of broadcasting the message of Lord Caitanya Who is Krsna Himself. Lord Caitanya is Radha-Krsna combined together. So you are one of the seniormost servants of the society. Kindly try to improve the aims and objects of the society so that all over the world the people may become happy.</p>
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<div id="LettertoDinatarinidasiVrindabanOctober261972_85" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="555" link="Letter to Dinatarini dasi -- Vrindaban October 26, 1972" link_text="Letter to Dinatarini dasi -- Vrindaban October 26, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Dinatarini dasi -- Vrindaban October 26, 1972|Letter to Dinatarini dasi -- Vrindaban October 26, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Yes, I am very pleased to see how our children in Dallas school are making such nice advancement in Krishna Consciousness happy life.  Small children are just like animals and they have to be t rained how to obey, otherwise they will be simply spoiled.  But the art is how to apply authority and discipline so they will enjoy it and not reject, and I think you all instructors are learning yourselves that art more and more, and this pleases me very much.</p>
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<div id="LettertoKrsnadasaVrindaban7November1972_86" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="575" link="Letter to Krsnadasa -- Vrindaban 7 November, 1972" link_text="Letter to Krsnadasa -- Vrindaban 7 November, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Krsnadasa -- Vrindaban 7 November, 1972|Letter to Krsnadasa -- Vrindaban 7 November, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">It appears that you are again constantly disturbed by the same nonsense doubts. These things are not very important, we may not waste our time with these insignificant questions. If we are seeking to find out some fault, maya will give us all facility to find any small thing and make it very big, that is maya. But such questions as yours: why there is so-called discrepancy between the views of Bhagavat and modern scientists regarding the moon and other planets, and whether Hitler is good or bad man, these are most insignificant matters, and for anyone who is sincerely convinced that Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, for him these questions do not arise.</p>
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<div id="LettertoMrRavelHyderabad23November1972_87" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="592" link="Letter to Mr. Ravel -- Hyderabad 23 November, 1972" link_text="Letter to Mr. Ravel -- Hyderabad 23 November, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Mr. Ravel -- Hyderabad 23 November, 1972|Letter to Mr. Ravel -- Hyderabad 23 November, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Lord Caitanya has predicted that this chanting of Hare Krishna would be spread to every town and village and it is the special duty of every Indian to see that it is done. I personally have taken it up and I would be very happy to have your help. You are already doing much to help me, for this I am grateful. All my disciples who know you speak that you are doing very nice service. So continue in this way and surely Krishna will bless you.</p>
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<div id="LettertoCandravaliAhmedabad13December1972_88" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="611" link="Letter to Candravali -- Ahmedabad 13 December, 1972" link_text="Letter to Candravali -- Ahmedabad 13 December, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Candravali -- Ahmedabad 13 December, 1972|Letter to Candravali -- Ahmedabad 13 December, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Especially I was happy to see your nice temple in Mexico City, and I am always thinking of that place and all the nice devotees there. I am happy to note also that you have given birth to a daughter. You may call her Nalinayateksanah Dasi, which means eyes like the spreading petals of lotus. Raise your family to be exemplary Vaisnavas by yourself following the regulative principles and rigidly chanting Hare Krishna mantra, and without any doubt they and yourself will become all of you firmly situated on the path back to home, back to Godhead.</p>
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<div id="LettertoSukadevaAhmedabad13December1972_89" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="613" link="Letter to Sukadeva -- Ahmedabad 13 December, 1972" link_text="Letter to Sukadeva -- Ahmedabad 13 December, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Sukadeva -- Ahmedabad 13 December, 1972|Letter to Sukadeva -- Ahmedabad 13 December, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So you know this art, how to attract and engage men, so aim yourself at the top-class of men and give them every opportunity and facility to become convinced of our philosophy and engage themselves to their satisfaction. That will be the best contribution. Now spread this idea also to the other leaders. So now I do not think there will be any difficulty for you to fill your Seattle centre with the best devotees in our Movement, and then I shall be very glad to come there at next opportunity to give them all my personal instruction. In this way, appeal yourself to the high class of men, not the mass. Mass, too, we do not eliminate anyone, but if best men are there to run on things, mass will follow later.</p>
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<div id="LettertoTustaKrsnaAhmedabad14December1972_90" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="615" link="Letter to Tusta Krsna -- Ahmedabad 14 December, 1972" link_text="Letter to Tusta Krsna -- Ahmedabad 14 December, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Tusta Krsna -- Ahmedabad 14 December, 1972|Letter to Tusta Krsna -- Ahmedabad 14 December, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">If anyone thinks like that, that a pure devotee should be obeyed and no one else, that means he is a nonsense. We advise everyone to address one another as Prabhu. Prabhu means master, so how the master should be disobeyed? Others, they are also pure devotees. All of my disciples are pure devotees. Anyone sincerely serving the spiritual master is a pure devotee, it may be Siddhasvarupa or others, a-Siddhasvarupa. This must be very clearly stated. It is not only that your Siddhasvarupa is a pure devotee and not others. Do not try to make a faction. Siddhasvarupa is a good soul. But others should not be misled. Anyone who is surrendered to the spiritual master is a pure devotee, it doesn't matter if Siddhasvarupa or non-Siddhasvarupa.</p>
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<div id="LettertoJayapatakaBombay19December1972_91" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="624" link="Letter to Jayapataka -- Bombay 19 December, 1972" link_text="Letter to Jayapataka -- Bombay 19 December, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Jayapataka -- Bombay 19 December, 1972|Letter to Jayapataka -- Bombay 19 December, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Yes, the cooperative spirit of working together without any argument is especially prominent in Mayapur, more than other places in India. Therefore you are successful, and the work is going on quickly to completion. That is because all of you working there have become very much attached to the dust from Lord Caitanya's Lotus Feet, and because you have got such deep personal interest with that engagement of work, you want to see that it is done nicely without any hindrance of selfish motivation, never mind all kinds of conditions of the material nature. That idea has become prominent for all of you, it is bigger than maya's idea, therefore maya cannot interfere to make you quarrel or other things. But you especially are to take the credit. From the very beginning you wanted that place, and you got the land, got money from me, and now you have built the place by your concentration of energy.</p>
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<div id="LettertoKarandharaBombay22December1972_92" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="630" link="Letter to Karandhara -- Bombay 22 December, 1972" link_text="Letter to Karandhara -- Bombay 22 December, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Karandhara -- Bombay 22 December, 1972|Letter to Karandhara -- Bombay 22 December, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">They should try always to generate some atmosphere of fresh challenge to the devotees, so that they will agree enthusiastically to rise and meet it. That is the art of management: to draw out spontaneous loving spirit of sacrificing some energy for Krishna. But where are so many expert managers? All of us should become expert managers and preachers. We should not be very much after comforts and become complacent or self-contented. There must be always some tapasya, strictly observing the regulative principles—Krishna Consciousness movement must be always a challenge, a great achievement to be gained by voluntary desire to do it, and that will keep it healthy.</p>
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<div id="LettertoHariprasadaBombay23December1972_93" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="631" link="Letter to Hariprasada -- Bombay 23 December, 1972" link_text="Letter to Hariprasada -- Bombay 23 December, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Hariprasada -- Bombay 23 December, 1972|Letter to Hariprasada -- Bombay 23 December, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated December 14, 1972, and I am so much encouraged by your report of the Hyderabad activities, and I think that that place will be most important preaching centre for India, because I have noted that you are all so much eager and enthusiastic to serve Krishna. That is the first qualification to attain the supreme perfection of your life: enthusiasm. If there is always keen enthusiasm for serving Krishna, and if there is also patience and determination, then everything will be successful. So try to every day chant as much as possible Hare Krishna Mantra, read our books regularly, and engage your energy for this business of building temple, making Life Members, like that, and then you will always remain enthusiastic, and gradually more and more you will feel yourself advance in Krishna Consciousness. In this way, you may know it for certain that you will meet Krishna face-to-face very soon.</p>
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<div id="LettertoAtendriyaAndyWiernszBahusiraBillOliversonJitamitraJudyJonesMaharhaMaryStJohnOmkaraOksanaOlenczukVajasanaVickyBurtBombay23December1972_94" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="633" link="Letter to Atendriya (Andy Wiernsz), Bahusira (Bill Oliverson), Jitamitra (Judy Jones), Maharha (Mary St. John), Omkara (Oksana Olenczuk), Vajasana (Vicky Burt) -- Bombay 23 December, 1972" link_text="Letter to Atendriya (Andy Wiernsz), Bahusira (Bill Oliverson), Jitamitra (Judy Jones), Maharha (Mary St. John), Omkara (Oksana Olenczuk), Vajasana (Vicky Burt) -- Bombay 23 December, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Atendriya (Andy Wiernsz), Bahusira (Bill Oliverson), Jitamitra (Judy Jones), Maharha (Mary St. John), Omkara (Oksana Olenczuk), Vajasana (Vicky Burt) -- Bombay 23 December, 1972|Letter to Atendriya (Andy Wiernsz), Bahusira (Bill Oliverson), Jitamitra (Judy Jones), Maharha (Mary St. John), Omkara (Oksana Olenczuk), Vajasana (Vicky Burt) -- Bombay 23 December, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Upon the recommendation of Sudama Goswami I have gladly consented to accept all of you as my duly initiated disciples. Your beads are chanted by me and are enclosed herewith. I have given you the spiritual names as follows:</p>
<p>Andy Wiernsz/ATENDRIYA DAS</p>
<p>Bill Oliverson/BAHUSIRA DAS</p>
<p>Judy Jones/JITAMITRA DASI</p>
<p>Mary St. John/MAHARHA DASI</p>
<p>Oksana Olenczuk/OMKARA DASI</p>
<p>Vicky Burt/VAJASANA DASI</p>
<p>Now my request to you all is that you very seriously stick to the principles of devotional service, observing strictly the four basic restrictions, and without fail always chant at least 16 rounds on your beads daily, and be happy.</p>
<p>If you practice these basic principles successfully, not forgetting your duty even for a moment, automatically your love for Krishna will come out and you will keep yourselves always enthusiastic to serve Krishna.</p>
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<div id="LettertoSudamaBombay23December1972_95" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="634" link="Letter to Sudama -- Bombay 23 December, 1972" link_text="Letter to Sudama -- Bombay 23 December, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Sudama -- Bombay 23 December, 1972|Letter to Sudama -- Bombay 23 December, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Yes, from the very beginning I went to New York because I thought that Krishna Consciousness is the most important idea in the world, so let me go to that place, New York, which is the most important city in the world, and if I am able to do anything for Krishna and my Spiritual Master, even I am at the fag-end of my life, at least let me try for it there. So my dreams have all come true, and all of you nice boys and girls are getting the credit. When I was alone in your New York, I was thinking, who will listen to me in this horrible, sinful place? All right, I shall stay little longer, at least I can distribute a few of my books, that is something. But Krishna was all along preparing something I could not see, and He brought you to me one by one, sincere American boys and girls, to be trained-up for doing the work of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Now I can see that it is a miracle.</p>
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<div id="LettertoKisoraBombay25December1972_96" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="635" link="Letter to Kisora -- Bombay 25 December, 1972" link_text="Letter to Kisora -- Bombay 25 December, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Kisora -- Bombay 25 December, 1972|Letter to Kisora -- Bombay 25 December, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Yes, I have seen the press articles sent by yourself and Revatinandana, and I am very thankful to Revatinandana also for giving you all nice boys and girls the right instruction. I can understand that it may be sometimes difficult by material consideration for our preaching work there—I could not bear so much cold even in August—but because you are so much sincere to serve Krishna, never mind a little cold, what is that, only something touching my flesh, that's all—because you are thinking in this way and pushing on the mission of preaching work despite any conditions, therefore you are getting the best advantage of Krishna Consciousness movement.</p>
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<div id="LettertoJanajanmadhihJeffreyBalawajderAnadiAlannHayesAraudraAudaGenBombay27December1972_97" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="640" link="Letter to Janajanmadhih (Jeffrey Balawajder), Anadi (Alann Hayes), Araudra (Auda Gen) -- Bombay 27 December, 1972" link_text="Letter to Janajanmadhih (Jeffrey Balawajder), Anadi (Alann Hayes), Araudra (Auda Gen) -- Bombay 27 December, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Janajanmadhih (Jeffrey Balawajder), Anadi (Alann Hayes), Araudra (Auda Gen) -- Bombay 27 December, 1972|Letter to Janajanmadhih (Jeffrey Balawajder), Anadi (Alann Hayes), Araudra (Auda Gen) -- Bombay 27 December, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Upon the recommendation of Traidas I have gladly consented to accept all of you as my duly initiated disciples. I have chanted on your beads and they are enclosed herewith. I have given you the spiritual names as follows:</p>
<p>Jeffrey Balawajder/JANAJANMADIH DASA</p>
<p>Alann Hayes/ANADIH DASA</p>
<p>Auda Gen/ARAUDRA DASI</p>
<p>Now my request to all of you is that you very seriously stick to the principles of devotional service, following especially the four principle restrictions, and without fail always chant at least 16 rounds on your beads daily, and be happy.</p>
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<div id="LettertoMadhudvisaBombay29December1972_98" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="646" link="Letter to Madhudvisa -- Bombay 29 December, 1972" link_text="Letter to Madhudvisa -- Bombay 29 December, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Madhudvisa -- Bombay 29 December, 1972|Letter to Madhudvisa -- Bombay 29 December, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">But I think he is a very nice boy and he has understood our philosophy just to the point, so I have every faith that he will manage all right. Recently, I had sent one letter to reply Tusta Krsna's questions about Siddha Svarupa, namely, that Siddha Svarupa may be pure devotee, but so all of you are also pure devotees. There is no question that Siddha Svarupa is only pure devotee and no one else is pure devotee. All of my disciples, as soon as they surrender themselves to Krsna, they become pure devotees actually. If you see Tusta there you may see also the copy of my letter to get the right idea. These things must be cleared up or there may be danger of split within our ranks. Try to keep the whole situation in unified condition, but if Siddha Svarupa and his disciples are living there separately and peacefully, I have no objection, so long there is no controversy or ill feelings between their camp and yours.</p>
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<div id="LettertoPustaKrsnaBombay29December1972_99" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="650" link="Letter to Pusta Krsna -- Bombay 29 December, 1972" link_text="Letter to Pusta Krsna -- Bombay 29 December, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Pusta Krsna -- Bombay 29 December, 1972|Letter to Pusta Krsna -- Bombay 29 December, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated November 27, 1972, and I can very well appreciate your preaching work on European continent, having received very favorable reports from other big leaders there. That is wanted, that all of you will take upon yourselves the responsibility of preaching widely everywhere the message of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu. By that responsible commitment to your spiritual master, that is your qualification for getting Krsna's blessing upon you. And only in this way will you be able to make your spiritual progress rapidly. So you are very determined and intelligent boy, you have got a cool head, so I am very much confident that you will be able to render more and more the best service to Krsna and to your spiritual master.</p>
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<div id="LettertoPustaKrsnaBombay29December1972_100" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="650" link="Letter to Pusta Krsna -- Bombay 29 December, 1972" link_text="Letter to Pusta Krsna -- Bombay 29 December, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Pusta Krsna -- Bombay 29 December, 1972|Letter to Pusta Krsna -- Bombay 29 December, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">If you yourself remain always pure, then your preaching will have effect. As soon as there is little impurity, the whole thing will deteriorate and go to hell. So we shall not like to take the credit in that case, therefore I am praying simply that all of you, my advanced disciples, GBC men, sannyasis, temple officers, like that, that all of you will become sober-minded and feeling always very much responsible how the things will go on as I have given them. If you simply do as I am doing, not avoiding anything which may have to be done for pushing on Krsna's movement, remaining always stuck up very tightly to the footsteps of Rupa Gosvami, then without any doubt you will remain always fresh and enthusiastic for working very energetically on Krsna's behalf, without any falldown.</p>
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<div id="1973_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="8" parent="Correspondence" text="1973 Correspondence"><h3>1973 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoDinatariniBombay4January1973_0" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="8" link="Letter to Dinatarini -- Bombay 4 January, 1973" link_text="Letter to Dinatarini -- Bombay 4 January, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Dinatarini -- Bombay 4 January, 1973|Letter to Dinatarini -- Bombay 4 January, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So far geography and history are concerned, you may teach geography as it is, there is no harm to getting knowledge about our material earth planet, even up to learning all of the countries and places, names, landscape, production, natural resources, climates, oceans, deserts, everything should be there. Krsna Consciousness devotees shall not be known as fools. All of you nice boys and girls have had that kind of education, and you are preaching now Krsna consciousness in its pure form, so there is no hindrance for learning such things, just as you have also learned them as child. So teach them in this way, exactly as you have also been taught geography, history and other things.</p>
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<div id="LettertoKrsnakathaKrisCarlsonAnalaAnnaCarlsonRiddhaRogerMayMaharddhiMorleyWalkowskiRohitaRandyHyndemanKalaCarlMulderBombay5January1973_1" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="17" link="Letter to Krsnakatha (Kris Carlson), Anala (Anna Carlson) Riddha (Roger May), Maharddhi (Morley Walkowski), Rohita (Randy Hyndeman), Kala (Carl Mulder) -- Bombay 5 January, 1973" link_text="Letter to Krsnakatha (Kris Carlson), Anala (Anna Carlson) Riddha (Roger May), Maharddhi (Morley Walkowski), Rohita (Randy Hyndeman), Kala (Carl Mulder) -- Bombay 5 January, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Krsnakatha (Kris Carlson), Anala (Anna Carlson) Riddha (Roger May), Maharddhi (Morley Walkowski), Rohita (Randy Hyndeman), Kala (Carl Mulder) -- Bombay 5 January, 1973|Letter to Krsnakatha (Kris Carlson), Anala (Anna Carlson) Riddha (Roger May), Maharddhi (Morley Walkowski), Rohita (Randy Hyndeman), Kala (Carl Mulder) -- Bombay 5 January, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Upon the recommendation of Bahudak I have gladly accepted all of you as my duly initiated disciples. You may send your beads to Kirtanananda in New Vrindaban for chanting on them on my behalf. There is no difference if I chant them or he chants them, I have authorized him in that way. I have given you the spiritual names as follows:</p>
<p>Kris Carlson/ KRSNAKATHA DAS ADHIKARI</p>
<p>Anna Carlson/ ANALA DEVI DASI</p>
<p>Roger May/ RIDDHA DAS</p>
<p>Morley Walkowski/ MAHARDDHI DAS</p>
<p>Randy Hyndeman/ ROHITA DAS</p>
<p>Carl Mulder/ KALA DAS</p>
<p>Now my request to all of you is that you very seriously and sincerely stick to the principles of devotional service, and especially observe strictly the four prohibitions, and without fail always chant at least 16 rounds on your beads daily. In this way you will be always happy.</p>
<p>You have now got the golden opportunity of this human form of life, and it is not by accident that you have met your spiritual master, so if you are actually intelligent you will take advantage of Krsna's blessings upon you and go back to home, back to Godhead. The essential point to remember is that by your activity you will please always your spiritual master. That means following the orders and instructions of your spiritual master, and my first instruction to all of my disciples is that they become Krsna conscious devotees themselves and help others to become devotees by spreading this Krsna Consciousness movement all over the world, utilizing their energy however they are best able to do it.</p>
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<div id="LettertoCyavanaBombay9January1973_2" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="26" link="Letter to Cyavana -- Bombay 9 January, 1973" link_text="Letter to Cyavana -- Bombay 9 January, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Cyavana -- Bombay 9 January, 1973|Letter to Cyavana -- Bombay 9 January, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">You may request Brahmananda to send me his opinion in the matter also. But I think we can install if you both agree. So I am sending Rsi Kumar, Yasodanandana Swami and Gurukrpa Swami from Bombay to Nairobi very soon, they shall reach there by ship, and they will remain with you for the month of February to help you prepare everything and enhance the preaching work amongst the Africans population. By March they may be freed for going to South Africa to arrange things there for my coming there also, after I leave Nairobi. You all big leaders make these arrangements however you think best, by your mutual consultation. But one thing is, you should send the three plane fare-tickets from India, I think we shall be at Delhi at that time, to Nairobi, and then from Nairobi to Johannesburg and other places, for three men including myself. Rsi Kumar has told me they would pay for some portion of the tickets in South Africa. Hoping this meets you in good health.</p>
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<div id="LettertoKarandharaBombay9January1973_3" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="29" link="Letter to Karandhara -- Bombay 9 January, 1973" link_text="Letter to Karandhara -- Bombay 9 January, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Karandhara -- Bombay 9 January, 1973|Letter to Karandhara -- Bombay 9 January, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Actually, that is the secret of my success, not that personally I have done anything wonderful, but that because those who are helping me are sincere, they have done the work, that is the reason for our success all over the world where others have failed. A little sincerity is very difficult thing in this age of hypocrisy and bluff, but I am so fortunate that Krsna has sent me all of you nice boys and girls who are sincerely working. Please convey to all of them my deepest appreciation.</p>
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<div id="LettertoPalikaISKCONCalcutta28January1973_4" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="41" link="Letter to Palika -- ISKCON Calcutta 28 January, 1973" link_text="Letter to Palika -- ISKCON Calcutta 28 January, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Palika -- ISKCON Calcutta 28 January, 1973|Letter to Palika -- ISKCON Calcutta 28 January, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Regarding the two girls from America, I have no objection to them coming to assist you if they agree. It would be good service for all of them, especially Kalindi has suffered some difficulty since her husband has taken sannyasa. But I know that you are very strong in Krsna Consciousness. So very strictly now maintain our principles by chanting 16 rounds on the beads, reading our books, working in every second of your life for serving Krsna. this sincere attitude will make you more and more advance and one day Krsna will reveal Himself to you face to face.</p>
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<div id="LettertoThakuraHaridasaCalcutta28January1973_5" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="47" link="Letter to Thakura Haridasa -- Calcutta 28 January, 1973" link_text="Letter to Thakura Haridasa -- Calcutta 28 January, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Thakura Haridasa -- Calcutta 28 January, 1973|Letter to Thakura Haridasa -- Calcutta 28 January, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So you may please consult with him, and whatever he decides, that is all right. I am now desiring to utilize my time only for translating these books like Srimad-Bhagavatam so that I can give them to you, my disciples. So if the management is taken over by the GBC, in cooperation with the temple presidents and the other devotees, then I will be free for this purpose, and I shall be very much indebted to you all. So the general policy is that for brahminical initiation the candidate is recommended first by the temple president or GBC man, then it is considered. So please continue your book distributing very enthusiastically. This shall please me very much. And please try and work cooperatively with the other devotees for pushing on this great movement of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu.</p>
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<div id="LettertoKarandharaMelbourne10February1973_6" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="59" link="Letter to Karandhara -- Melbourne 10 February, 1973" link_text="Letter to Karandhara -- Melbourne 10 February, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Karandhara -- Melbourne 10 February, 1973|Letter to Karandhara -- Melbourne 10 February, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So you GBC men now decide how to manage things so nicely so that I may spend my time solely for translating my books. This I desire. Each GBC man can act as my secretary for one month at a time as I originally planned. In this way you will all be trained up nicely. Syamasundara. Prabhu will returning to London in order to get that building.</p>
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<div id="LettertoRupanugaSydney14February1973_7" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="66" link="Letter to Rupanuga -- Sydney 14 February, 1973" link_text="Letter to Rupanuga -- Sydney 14 February, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Rupanuga -- Sydney 14 February, 1973|Letter to Rupanuga -- Sydney 14 February, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">If someone has desired to distribute books all day he may do this, but he must always follow the principles of rising early, chanting 16 rounds, etc. Just as some rich men have no inclination for studying, but still he opens many schools for others to study at. Like this, all of my students may not be inclined to study but they are very much eager to give others the opportunity to read my books and this should not be discouraged. All programs must go on but it is a fact that this book distribution program is very very important. It is real preaching work but I think this program for T.V. and radio is not so important.</p>
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<div id="LettertoHamsadutaSydney17February1973_8" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="72" link="Letter to Hamsaduta -- Sydney 17 February, 1973" link_text="Letter to Hamsaduta -- Sydney 17 February, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Hamsaduta -- Sydney 17 February, 1973|Letter to Hamsaduta -- Sydney 17 February, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">While in India last it was brought to my attention that our Sriman Hayagriva das has become deviated from the four basic principles which I have given to all my students for adherence to when they are first initiated. I do not know why he is living in such a way but I feel that he must be brought back to the standard immediately. So I am requesting you as my Governing Board Commissioners to help me bring him back to the standard. He has very good talent, but he is spending it by living such an unrestricted life.</p>
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<div id="LettertoDrSinghalMrSarafDrPoddarMrVasistaGirirajaAuckland21February1973_9" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="80" link="Letter to Dr. Singhal, Mr. Saraf, Dr. Poddar, Mr. Vasista, Giriraja -- Auckland 21 February, 1973" link_text="Letter to Dr. Singhal, Mr. Saraf, Dr. Poddar, Mr. Vasista, Giriraja -- Auckland 21 February, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Dr. Singhal, Mr. Saraf, Dr. Poddar, Mr. Vasista, Giriraja -- Auckland 21 February, 1973|Letter to Dr. Singhal, Mr. Saraf, Dr. Poddar, Mr. Vasista, Giriraja -- Auckland 21 February, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">When I left Bombay I formed a committee of you all to negotiate with Mr. Nair but I did not hear anything from you since I left. What is the position now? If possible settle with Mrs. Nair paying her cash down or Rs. 1,400,000/. Out of Rs. 1,400,000 suppose we have Rs. 500,000/ and the balance Rs. 900,00/ can be advanced by any mortgager. If it is possible try to do it. Otherwise unless Mrs. Nair pays back all our invested money in the Juhu land do not vacate the land under any circumstances. If you stick to your principles certainly Krishna will help and the indications are already there.</p>
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<div id="LettertoBhaktadasaCalcutta4March1973_10" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="85" link="Letter to Bhakta dasa -- Calcutta 4 March, 1973" link_text="Letter to Bhakta dasa -- Calcutta 4 March, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Bhakta dasa -- Calcutta 4 March, 1973|Letter to Bhakta dasa -- Calcutta 4 March, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">You say that you have eight brahmanas, that is very good, now engage all of them so that everyone becomes expert. By nicely worshiping the Deities we can be so pure in condition of health, mind and intelligence. Yes, all blessings of Krsna upon Saranam dasi, for her loyal book distribution. I am very pleased, and you can give both her and Satyaki dasi second initiation. So now you can have ten brahmanas, yes? I have also received your $100.00 daksina and I thank you very much for it.</p>
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<div id="LettertoBhaktadasaCalcutta4March1973_11" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="85" link="Letter to Bhakta dasa -- Calcutta 4 March, 1973" link_text="Letter to Bhakta dasa -- Calcutta 4 March, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Bhakta dasa -- Calcutta 4 March, 1973|Letter to Bhakta dasa -- Calcutta 4 March, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">You say that you have eight brahmanas, that is very good, now engage all of them so that everyone becomes expert. By nicely worshiping the Deities we can be so pure in condition of health, mind and intelligence. Yes, all blessings of Krsna upon Saranam dasi, for her loyal book distribution. I am very pleased, and you can give both her and Satyaki dasi second initiation. So now you can have ten brahmanas, yes? I have also received your $100.00 daksina and I thank you very much for it.</p>
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<div id="LettertoKarandharaCalcutta15March1973_12" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="101" link="Letter to Karandhara -- Calcutta 15 March, 1973" link_text="Letter to Karandhara -- Calcutta 15 March, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Karandhara -- Calcutta 15 March, 1973|Letter to Karandhara -- Calcutta 15 March, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I have received some first-class publications of our Isopanisad from Hamsaduta and he is also ready to print Bhagavad-gita. And now you tell me that Macmillan, such a big big company, cannot keep up with our men. This is very encouraging news. I have just finished Gita Gan, a verse by verse translation of the Gita into Bengali, and now I am working daily on the Caitanya-caritamrta. Now I am more and more wanting to work on my books and diminish all this travelling. So I am more and more depending upon you GBC. Of course you GBC are in training, but you are all the hope for the future of our movement.</p>
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<div id="LettertoRsabhadevaCalcutta21March1973_13" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="104" link="Letter to Rsabhadeva -- Calcutta 21 March, 1973" link_text="Letter to Rsabhadeva -- Calcutta 21 March, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Rsabhadeva -- Calcutta 21 March, 1973|Letter to Rsabhadeva -- Calcutta 21 March, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Their new names are: Bhojadeva das, Taraka dasi and Mukhara dasi respectively. Now it will please me very much if you all can work together nicely and recruit many more young people to join our movement, it is their only future hope.</p>
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<div id="LettertoKirtirajaHaripujaNewYork12April1973_14" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="127" link="Letter to Kirtiraja, Haripuja -- New York 12 April, 1973" link_text="Letter to Kirtiraja, Haripuja -- New York 12 April, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Kirtiraja, Haripuja -- New York 12 April, 1973|Letter to Kirtiraja, Haripuja -- New York 12 April, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">You are one of the trusted managers of the New York temple, and I am very much glad to see that the standard of temple activities is so nice. So Krishna has given you American intelligence, and I think this New York City is the greatest city in the world. So all you managers cooperate together and do something gorgeous. That is my instruction to you, and if you can do it Krishna will be very much pleased with you.</p>
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<div id="LettertoNityanandaLosAngeles17April1973_15" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="132" link="Letter to Nityananda -- Los Angeles 17 April, 1973" link_text="Letter to Nityananda -- Los Angeles 17 April, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Nityananda -- Los Angeles 17 April, 1973|Letter to Nityananda -- Los Angeles 17 April, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated April 14, 1973 and was very pleased to read of your Sankirtana book distribution results. That you are sending good amount to the BBT even you have smaller size temple is much appreciated by me. I am very much pleased how all you disciples are distributing my books. Just now Karandhara has informed me that he is printing new editions of Krishna Trilogy, Sri Isopanisad, and NOD, all 100,000 copies each, and Krishna hardback sets, 50,000. So I am very much engladdened by this news. My Guru Maharaja used to be very much pleased whenever there was book distribution. So you just continue it solidly, that is my request.</p>
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<div id="LettertoAmarendraLosAngeles19April1973_16" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="138" link="Letter to Amarendra -- Los Angeles 19 April, 1973" link_text="Letter to Amarendra -- Los Angeles 19 April, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Amarendra -- Los Angeles 19 April, 1973|Letter to Amarendra -- Los Angeles 19 April, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 4.17.73. You are asking me to advise what should be your program, but now I wanting to leave these matters in the hands of my disciples. I have created GBC specifically for this purpose. If you the elder disciples cannot manage things, then what is the future of the society? My business now is to sit down and write my books, and I am requesting you all to please cooperate with me in this endeavor. So I think you can take advice from Rupanuga Maharaja, as he is my authorized agent. So I am sending him your letter and a copy of this letter in this regard.</p>
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<div id="LettertoSriGovindaLosAngeles25April1973_17" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="148" link="Letter to Sri Govinda -- Los Angeles 25 April, 1973" link_text="Letter to Sri Govinda -- Los Angeles 25 April, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Sri Govinda -- Los Angeles 25 April, 1973|Letter to Sri Govinda -- Los Angeles 25 April, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">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.</p>
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<div id="LettertoTamalaKrsnaLosAngeles27April1973_18" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="154" link="Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Los Angeles 27 April, 1973" link_text="Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Los Angeles 27 April, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Los Angeles 27 April, 1973|Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Los Angeles 27 April, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Some men from U.S.A. are going to Mayapur for doll making, so teach them nicely and we shall be asking doll exhibit in London. Many tourists come there, and it will a great attention for the tourists.</p>
<p>Now all you senior members work very hard and let me retire for writing books.</p>
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<div id="LettertoSonsanddaughtersLosAngeles8May1973_19" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="171" link="Letter to Sons and daughters -- Los Angeles 8 May, 1973" link_text="Letter to Sons and daughters -- Los Angeles 8 May, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Sons and daughters -- Los Angeles 8 May, 1973|Letter to Sons and daughters -- Los Angeles 8 May, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Now you must all carefully follow these four regulative principles (1) No meat eating, (2) No illicit sex life, (3) No intoxication, (4) No gambling.  Always be sure to chant minimum sixteen rounds daily.  Study my books carefully, go for sankirtana and engage in Deity worship in the temple.  You are all very sincere boys and girls and now I request you to make your life successful for going back to home, back to Godhead.</p>
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<div id="LettertoMadanMohanGoswamiLosAngeles11May1973_20" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="178" link="Letter to Madan Mohan Goswami -- Los Angeles 11 May, 1973" link_text="Letter to Madan Mohan Goswami -- Los Angeles 11 May, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Madan Mohan Goswami -- Los Angeles 11 May, 1973|Letter to Madan Mohan Goswami -- Los Angeles 11 May, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I am already paying Rs 10/ per month and there is deposit of Rs. 700/. with one of the Shebait. Now all of you together fix up the legal rent after adjusting the deposit money with interest for the last seven years. If we settle up the pending matter amongst ourselves, we save so much legal expenditure, otherwise I will advise Sriman Gurudasa to take the help of the rent court, at your expense.</p>
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<div id="LettertoEkendraShawnChristinaDvarakadhisaKimiTonyaJoeJohnCandramukhiCarolPeggyLisaStephanieDallas21May1973_21" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="196" link="Letter to Ekendra, Shawn, Christina, Dvarakadhisa, Kimi, Tonya, Joe, John, Candramukhi, Carol, Peggy, Lisa, Stephanie -- Dallas 21 May, 1973" link_text="Letter to Ekendra, Shawn, Christina, Dvarakadhisa, Kimi, Tonya, Joe, John, Candramukhi, Carol, Peggy, Lisa, Stephanie -- Dallas 21 May, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Ekendra, Shawn, Christina, Dvarakadhisa, Kimi, Tonya, Joe, John, Candramukhi, Carol, Peggy, Lisa, Stephanie -- Dallas 21 May, 1973|Letter to Ekendra, Shawn, Christina, Dvarakadhisa, Kimi, Tonya, Joe, John, Candramukhi, Carol, Peggy, Lisa, Stephanie -- Dallas 21 May, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I beg to acknowledge receipt of your very nice Isopanisad papers, with sanskrit, transliteration, translation and purport. You are all very nice devotees. You are very, very fortunate to have the opportunity to be going to this Gurukula. It is the only one of its kind in the world. You are the first students and you must set a good example for the others, always being very enthusiastic to learn from your teachers, offering all respects to your teachers, leading the kirtanas with exuberance. In future you will be the leaders of this Krsna Consciousness Movement, so now you must take this training preparation very seriously.</p>
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<div id="LettertoGovindaBhaktivedantaManor20July1973_22" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="238" link="Letter to Govinda -- Bhaktivedanta Manor 20 July, 1973" link_text="Letter to Govinda -- Bhaktivedanta Manor 20 July, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Govinda -- Bhaktivedanta Manor 20 July, 1973|Letter to Govinda -- Bhaktivedanta Manor 20 July, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Of course we have to control the mind, and I have already instructed you and all my students that the restless fickle mind can only be controlled by putting the mind to the lotus feet of Krsna, and that can best be done by chanting Hare Krsna mantra, and there is no alternative in this age. By chanting without offenses, the devotee cries to Radharani and Krsna to please lift him out of the material energy and put him into the spiritual energy, which is devotional service.</p>
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<div id="LettertoGurudasaBhaktivedantaManor25July1973_23" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="249" link="Letter to Gurudasa -- Bhaktivedanta Manor 25 July, 1973" link_text="Letter to Gurudasa -- Bhaktivedanta Manor 25 July, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Gurudasa -- Bhaktivedanta Manor 25 July, 1973|Letter to Gurudasa -- Bhaktivedanta Manor 25 July, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Our new disciple Hrsikesananda Swami has promised to collect money from Punjab for Vrindaban. Let him go to Punjab, leaving Calcutta. In this way all of you, Tejyous, Tamala Krsna etc., combine together collect and finish the project. I may try to help from other sources if I receive an estimate of the cost of the scheme.</p>
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<div id="LettertoSpiritualSonsandDaughtersBhaktivedantaManor27July1973_24" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="252" link="Letter to Spiritual Sons and Daughters -- Bhaktivedanta Manor 27 July, 1973" link_text="Letter to Spiritual Sons and Daughters -- Bhaktivedanta Manor 27 July, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Spiritual Sons and Daughters -- Bhaktivedanta Manor 27 July, 1973|Letter to Spiritual Sons and Daughters -- Bhaktivedanta Manor 27 July, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">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 (Kaṭha Upaniṣad 2.2.13)—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.</p>
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<div id="LettertoBhavanandaJayapatakaBhaktivedantaManor19August1973_25" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="285" link="Letter to Bhavananda, Jayapataka -- Bhaktivedanta Manor 19 August, 1973" link_text="Letter to Bhavananda, Jayapataka -- Bhaktivedanta Manor 19 August, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Bhavananda, Jayapataka -- Bhaktivedanta Manor 19 August, 1973|Letter to Bhavananda, Jayapataka -- Bhaktivedanta Manor 19 August, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">From your report it appears that everything is progressing very nicely. What can I say? I am so much indebted to all you nice American boys and girls for helping me to execute the order of my Guru Maharaja, may Krishna bless you.</p>
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<div id="LettertoHanumanBombay4October1973_26" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="321" link="Letter to Hanuman -- Bombay 4 October, 1973" link_text="Letter to Hanuman -- Bombay 4 October, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Hanuman -- Bombay 4 October, 1973|Letter to Hanuman -- Bombay 4 October, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Now just as all my other disciples are doing, you take care that they follow very faithfully chanting of 16 rounds daily, and following all of the rules and principles of Krishna conscious very strictly. You should immediately send their beads for chanting on to Karandhara das Adhikari in Los Angeles who is one of the senior disciples I have authorized to chant on beads. Then, after receiving the beads back from Karandhara you can hold a fire ceremony and perform the sacrifice as you have seen me doing so many times. At that time you may give my new disciples their beads and instruct them on the principles of Krishna consciousness.</p>
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<div id="LettertoKarandharaBombay4October1973_27" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="322" link="Letter to Karandhara -- Bombay 4 October, 1973" link_text="Letter to Karandhara -- Bombay 4 October, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Karandhara -- Bombay 4 October, 1973|Letter to Karandhara -- Bombay 4 October, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">In Vrindaban and in Mayapur the construction is progressing very nicely. So we have undertaken very great projects here and by the grace of Lord Krishna they may all come out nicely. But one difficulty is that hardly any intelligent young men are coming forward to help me here. Whatever I have been able to do all over the world it has been due to the help all of you, my disciples, have given me. Here there are hardly fifty devotees to do all the projects, so this is a great strain. Therefore, I want that from all over our Society fifty more men may immediately come bringing to a total of one hundred men.</p>
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<div id="LettertoMohananandaBombay13October1973_28" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="335" link="Letter to Mohanananda -- Bombay 13 October, 1973" link_text="Letter to Mohanananda -- Bombay 13 October, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Mohanananda -- Bombay 13 October, 1973|Letter to Mohanananda -- Bombay 13 October, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">It is not possible for me to tax my brain on every detail. The GBC should meet in Mayapur in March, and all details of management should be discussed. My inclination is to retire completely from management and devote my time to my books. Let all of you give me this chance and consult amongst yourselves regarding the management.</p>
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<div id="LettertoTustaKrsnaNewDelhi7November1973_29" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="370" link="Letter to Tusta Krsna -- New Delhi 7 November, 1973" link_text="Letter to Tusta Krsna -- New Delhi 7 November, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Tusta Krsna -- New Delhi 7 November, 1973|Letter to Tusta Krsna -- New Delhi 7 November, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I am at present in New Delhi awaiting for our festival here, so your telegram has been redirected from Bombay. I am so much pleased to read it because I know that all of you, Siddha Svarupa Maharaja, Sudama Vipra Maharaja, and yourself, are all good souls, and so I also know that Gaurasundara is also of this same level, but I do not know why this disruption has taken place.</p>
<p>If there is any misunderstanding with the GBC men, that can be readjusted by mutual understanding. I wanted to see you all to mitigate this misunderstanding, but I was very busy in Bombay for the same Juhu land of Mr. Nair.</p>
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<div id="LettertoTustaKrsnaNewDelhi7November1973_30" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="370" link="Letter to Tusta Krsna -- New Delhi 7 November, 1973" link_text="Letter to Tusta Krsna -- New Delhi 7 November, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Tusta Krsna -- New Delhi 7 November, 1973|Letter to Tusta Krsna -- New Delhi 7 November, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So kindly take my word and do not leave our society. If you cannot agree with the GBC, I can take up your matter personally and do the needful. I love you all very much, and if you go away and stay independently that will be a great shock for me. I want to meet you all together. Let me know where I shall go to meet you. Just now I have received the news that in Hawaii the tulsi plants are drying for want of watering. How has Govinda dasi left the tulsi plants which she nourished so lovingly? Please therefore all of you go to your respective positions and revive your devotional activities without any further delay, and if you cannot cope with the GBC men, which I suppose there must have been some disagreement, I shall deal with you directly. But, do not leave the Krsna consciousness movement, at any cost.</p>
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<div id="LettertoJaduraniNewDelhi8November1973_31" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="374" link="Letter to Jadurani -- New Delhi 8 November, 1973" link_text="Letter to Jadurani -- New Delhi 8 November, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Jadurani -- New Delhi 8 November, 1973|Letter to Jadurani -- New Delhi 8 November, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The young girls on the bank were worshiping Siva linga. It is made from earth collected from the Ganges bank. There was no deity of Durgadevi. These Siva lingas are placed right on the Ganga bank without any throne, wherever there is a suitable place.</p>
<p>So why don't you come to Mayapur for sometime, not only you but all others and stay for sometime and finish the paintings locally there.</p>
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<div id="LettertoSonsandDaughtersofAtlantaNewDelhi14November1973_32" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="382" link="Letter to Sons and Daughters of Atlanta -- New Delhi 14 November, 1973" link_text="Letter to Sons and Daughters of Atlanta -- New Delhi 14 November, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Sons and Daughters of Atlanta -- New Delhi 14 November, 1973|Letter to Sons and Daughters of Atlanta -- New Delhi 14 November, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated October 23, 1973 with the silk chaddar. It is very nice, and just suitable for me. Here it is getting a little cold, being the winter season, so I am wearing it. So I thank you all for giving me this gift, and I pray for your ever advancement in Krsna consciousness.</p>
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<div id="LettertoUmapatiLondon26November1973_33" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="392" link="Letter to Umapati -- London 26 November, 1973" link_text="Letter to Umapati -- London 26 November, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Umapati -- London 26 November, 1973|Letter to Umapati -- London 26 November, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">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.</p>
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<div id="LettertoHamsadutaLosAngeles23December1973_34" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="440" link="Letter to Hamsaduta -- Los Angeles 23 December, 1973" link_text="Letter to Hamsaduta -- Los Angeles 23 December, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Hamsaduta -- Los Angeles 23 December, 1973|Letter to Hamsaduta -- Los Angeles 23 December, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Previously I have seen copy of German Easy Journey to Other Planets. It is very nice. The printing is very good and I am quite pleased. Thank you very much for helping me spread this transcendental knowledge to the Germanic peoples. It is a great credit for you and all the German devotees and Lord Caitanya will bless you with devotion to His lotus feet. I am very anxious to see our Bhagavad-gita in German so as soon as it is completed, kindly send me a copy. Regarding the Volkswagen bus, if it is not possible to bring in March to India then it can be brought at a later date. Yes, you should go to London and give me a report on the progress there. Mukunda and Madhavananda are sincere workers and are trying to organize things there. So you may go and help them, not interrupt but help.</p>
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<div id="LettertoGurukrpaYasodanandanaLosAngeles25December1973_35" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="442" link="Letter to Gurukrpa , Yasodanandana -- Los Angeles 25 December, 1973" link_text="Letter to Gurukrpa , Yasodanandana -- Los Angeles 25 December, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Gurukrpa , Yasodanandana -- Los Angeles 25 December, 1973|Letter to Gurukrpa , Yasodanandana -- Los Angeles 25 December, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So I have no objection if you return to India. Rather, I know you both can be a great asset for our programs there. I am requesting you, therefore, to concentrate on preaching and kirtana and work cooperatively with Tamala Krsna Goswami who is in charge there. Whatever imperfections and discrepancies may exist, if you all agree to my directions and cooperate in the right spirit then everything will turn out, but it will require everyone involved to be responsible and cooperate in executing and following the instructions of the Spiritual Master.</p>
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