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<div id="Correspondence" class="section" sec_index="6" parent="compilation" text="Correspondence"><h2>Correspondence</h2>
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<div id="1947_to_1965_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="0" parent="Correspondence" text="1947 to 1965 Correspondence"><h3>1947 to 1965 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoMrNakanoDelhi18April1961_0" class="quote" parent="1947_to_1965_Correspondence" book="Let" index="53" link="Letter to Mr. Nakano -- Delhi 18 April, 1961" link_text="Letter to Mr. Nakano -- Delhi 18 April, 1961">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Mr. Nakano -- Delhi 18 April, 1961|Letter to Mr. Nakano -- Delhi 18 April, 1961]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">After my education I was appointed (1921) as the Asst. Manager of Dr. Bose's Laboratory Ltd of Calcutta and then engaged myself in my personal business in the chemical line. I was a research student in chemical and medicinal composition and for the first time in India, I introduced Gadine preparation in the medical profession. I met my spiritual master Late Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Goswami in 1922 and he desired me to preach in the foreign countries the spiritual movement started by Lord Caitanya for enlightenment of all materialistic men all over the world. He gradually turned my mind from matter to spirit and I was accepted as his disciple in 1933 after full association of ten years. He left this world in 1936 and insisted to explain the mission in English. I started my paper Back to Godhead in 1944 and left home for good entirely to execute the order of my spiritual master in 1954. Since then my H.Q. is at Vrindaban and devote in literary work.</p>
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<div id="1966_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Correspondence" text="1966 Correspondence"><h3>1966 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoSalvationArmyNewYork5March1966_0" class="quote" parent="1966_Correspondence" book="Let" index="7" link="Letter to Salvation Army -- New York 5 March, 1966" link_text="Letter to Salvation Army -- New York 5 March, 1966">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Salvation Army -- New York 5 March, 1966|Letter to Salvation Army -- New York 5 March, 1966]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I beg to inform you that I am a Vaisnava Sannyasi and I have come from India (Vrindaban U.P.) for establishing a preaching centre in America for the first time in the study of Srimad-Bhagavatam. A small literature in this connection is sent herewith for your kind perusal. This Srimad-Bhagavatam is the post graduate study of the Bhagavad-gita and both of them are sciences of Theism. I am seeking your good cooperation in this attempt for developing higher sense of God consciousness.</p>
<p>I have got money in India and I wanted to get it from India for starting the above centre but the Government of India has no dollar exchange to pay in America and therefore I have been handicapped in this attempt. My correspondence with the Prime Minister as well as my devotee Sir Padampat Singhania is complete.</p>
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<div id="LettertoMangalaniloyBrahmacariNewYork11June1966_1" class="quote" parent="1966_Correspondence" book="Let" index="16" link="Letter to Mangalaniloy Brahmacari -- New York 11 June, 1966" link_text="Letter to Mangalaniloy Brahmacari -- New York 11 June, 1966">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Mangalaniloy Brahmacari -- New York 11 June, 1966|Letter to Mangalaniloy Brahmacari -- New York 11 June, 1966]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Up till now I am working alone without any cooperation of any one of my Godbrothers and it is the first time that you have voluntarily extended your hand to cooperate with me in full spirit. May Srila Prabhupada bestow His Divine Grace upon you. I have already decided to get you here to help me and I am trying my best for your "No objection Certificate" as well as free passage to this country. Most probably you shall be requisitioned by the end of July next and be prepared for this. I want also another assistant who can play Khola very nicely. If you have got anybody in view you may also arrange for his coming here and I shall arrange for him also. If so please immediately send his name and address so that I shall try for his No objection certificate also.</p>
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<div id="LettertoNripenBabuNewYork15December1966_2" class="quote" parent="1966_Correspondence" book="Let" index="31" link="Letter to Nripen Babu -- New York 15 December, 1966" link_text="Letter to Nripen Babu -- New York 15 December, 1966">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Nripen Babu -- New York 15 December, 1966|Letter to Nripen Babu -- New York 15 December, 1966]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I have established a Society here under the name and style INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS INC and the Trustees of this society are all American and my disciples. They are going purchasing house in New York and as soon as the house is purchased I shall establish in New York a Temple of SRI SRI RADHA KRISHNA for the first time. Sir Padampat Singhania of your city of Kanpur was ready to spend lakhs of rupees for this temple in New York but Govt. of India did not sanction exchange from India. So I am trying locally to start the temple and most probably I shall be successful to start one not only in New York but also one in California and the other in Montreal (Canada) in both cities there are my disciples who are already working there. I hope you will be pleased to learn about considerable success in my preaching activities.</p>
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<div id="1967_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="2" parent="Correspondence" text="1967 Correspondence"><h3>1967 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoNripenBabuSanFrancisco18March1967_0" class="quote" parent="1967_Correspondence" book="Let" index="49" link="Letter to Nripen Babu -- San Francisco 18 March, 1967" link_text="Letter to Nripen Babu -- San Francisco 18 March, 1967">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Nripen Babu -- San Francisco 18 March, 1967|Letter to Nripen Babu -- San Francisco 18 March, 1967]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Since then I could understand that no improvement in the Radha Damodara Temple can be made under such condition. The cheating of Panchu by 800/ rupees was subsequently confirmed before me by one woman disciple of Gauracandra Gosain. I remained silent and this the first time I am disclosing the fact before you.</p>
<p>Any way please try to save temple of Jiva Goswami because in very near future many people all parts of the world will come to see the Temple and Samadhi of Jiva Goswami and Rupa Goswami. If you get court permission to sell the land there will be no objection for purchasing __ so far I know that your maternal uncle and cousin brother are also ___ in the temple. Sunderlalla son (the Vakil at Mathura) told me like that when negotiation was going on for lease. But I think if court sanction is obtained it will be quite alright.</p>
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<div id="LettertoMukundaNewYork9June1967_1" class="quote" parent="1967_Correspondence" book="Let" index="95" link="Letter to Mukunda -- New York 9 June, 1967" link_text="Letter to Mukunda -- New York 9 June, 1967">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Mukunda -- New York 9 June, 1967|Letter to Mukunda -- New York 9 June, 1967]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">With reference to our telephone conversation, I beg to enclose herewith three photo-offset copies of certificates.</p>
<p>I have come to the seashore in N.J. and am progressing well. Today I have taken a shower bath by myself for the first time since getting ill.</p>
<p>I am enclosing two offset copies, one from N.Y.U. and one from Slippery Rock State College, also one from Saint Fidelis College and Seminary. So far my certificates are concerned, if the originals are required I can send them, but I hope that these offset duplicates are as good as the original and I hope you will make proper use of them.</p>
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<div id="LettertoKirtananandaCalcutta16October1967_2" class="quote" parent="1967_Correspondence" book="Let" index="181" link="Letter to Kirtanananda -- Calcutta 16 October, 1967" link_text="Letter to Kirtanananda -- Calcutta 16 October, 1967">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Kirtanananda -- Calcutta 16 October, 1967|Letter to Kirtanananda -- Calcutta 16 October, 1967]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I've received your note along with Brahmananda's for first time since you left to N.Y. You had no desire to stop in London. This is clear to me from Hayagriva's letter which indicated that you had already planned to go there even before you left India. Since you have returned to N.Y. you have falsely dictated that I do not want the robes or flags. Why are you disturbing the whole situation in my absence. I never ordered you to speak like that. They must continue to have robes &amp; tilak &amp; flags &amp; they must distinguish themselves from the hippies. I never objected to any of my students dressing like nice American gentleman, clean shaved; those who are my disciples must have flag, tilak &amp; beads on neck without fail.</p>
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<div id="LettertoKirtananandaNavadvipa28October1967_3" class="quote" parent="1967_Correspondence" book="Let" index="196" link="Letter to Kirtanananda -- Navadvipa 28 October, 1967" link_text="Letter to Kirtanananda -- Navadvipa 28 October, 1967">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Kirtanananda -- Navadvipa 28 October, 1967|Letter to Kirtanananda -- Navadvipa 28 October, 1967]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I've received your note along with Brahmananda's for first time since you left to N.Y. You had no desire to stop in London. This is clear to me from Hayagriva's letter which indicated that you had already planned to go there even before you left India. Since you have returned to N.Y. you have falsely dictated that I do not want the robes or flags. Why are you disturbing the whole situation in my absence. I never ordered you to speak like that. They must continue to have robes &amp; tilak &amp; flags &amp; they must distinguish themselves from the hippies. I never objected to any of my students dressing like nice American gentleman, clean shaved; but those who are my disciples must have flag, tilak &amp; beads on the neck without fail. Anyway I never advised you to dictate on my behalf.</p>
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<div id="1968_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="3" parent="Correspondence" text="1968 Correspondence"><h3>1968 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoJaduraniSanFrancisco13April1968_0" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="146" link="Letter to Jadurani -- San Francisco 13 April, 1968" link_text="Letter to Jadurani -- San Francisco 13 April, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Jadurani -- San Francisco 13 April, 1968|Letter to Jadurani -- San Francisco 13 April, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I am in due receipt of your letter post-dated April 11, and this is the first time I received your letter finished in three lines, so I can understand that you have been depressed by receiving my last letter. The idea is that there is a story, "that, I have lost my caste and still my belly is not fulfilled." In India, it is the custom that the Hindus do not ever take meals in the house of a Mohammedan, Christian, or anyone other than the house of Hindu Brahmin. But a man was very hungry, and accidentally he took his food in the house of a Mohammedan. And when he wanted still more food, the man refused, as the man could not supply. So the Hindu man said, "Sir, I have lost my caste, and still I am hungry!"</p>
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<div id="LettertoKrsnadasaSeattle21October1968_1" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="388" link="Letter to Krsna dasa -- Seattle 21 October, 1968" link_text="Letter to Krsna dasa -- Seattle 21 October, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Krsna dasa -- Seattle 21 October, 1968|Letter to Krsna dasa -- Seattle 21 October, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 13 Oct., 1968, and I have noted the contents carefully. In the beginning you write to say that you have written at least 3 letters to me, but this is the first time I have received any letter from you. I do not know how they are missing. Anyway, I have also received one letter from Sivananda, it is understood that you are trying your best to secure a place in Hamburg, but still you have not been able to find out. In the meantime, before this, Sivananda wrote me a letter that he has already opened a branch in Berlin. And this news was spread by me to others. Now it is understood that you have changed your idea and you want to open our center in Hamburg. It is nice so far I get information that Hamburg is very more important than Berlin, but if you find difficulty in locating a place for our center in Hamburg, it is better go back to Berlin and take whatever place is available.</p>
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<div id="1969_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="4" parent="Correspondence" text="1969 Correspondence"><h3>1969 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoGurudasaYamunaLosAngeles21January1969_0" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="47" link="Letter to Gurudasa, Yamuna -- Los Angeles 21 January, 1969" link_text="Letter to Gurudasa, Yamuna -- Los Angeles 21 January, 1969">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Gurudasa, Yamuna -- Los Angeles 21 January, 1969|Letter to Gurudasa, Yamuna -- Los Angeles 21 January, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I beg to acknowledge both of your letters dated 14, January 1969 as well as one letter from Gurudasa dated 16, January 1969 with enclosed a picture and newspaper cuttings. This picture is undoubtedly very unique because perhaps in the history of the world it is for the first time that Western boys and girls in the dress of pure Vaisnavas are chanting on the street of a very important quarter of the greatest city in the world, London. So by the Grace of Krishna you are all six together doing very nice Krishna Consciousness activities, and I am so much pleased. In your letter I can understand that people from many important cities of Europe and Africa are taking part in our Sankirtana movement, and you have got continuous engagements almost every night. This is very much encouraging.</p>
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<div id="LettertoBharadrajaNewVrindaban2June1969_1" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="336" link="Letter to Bharadraja -- New Vrindaban 2 June, 1969" link_text="Letter to Bharadraja -- New Vrindaban 2 June, 1969">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Bharadraja -- New Vrindaban 2 June, 1969|Letter to Bharadraja -- New Vrindaban 2 June, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So you may complete this painting also as soon as possible. I have so many ideas for paintings, and we will be requiring so many expert paintings as you are able to do, so please be very serious to do this work nicely and quickly. It will be great service. In our Krishna Book we are showing the Western World for the first time what is God. So it is no unimportant task, and try to help us out in this as far as possible.</p>
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<div id="1970_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="5" parent="Correspondence" text="1970 Correspondence"><h3>1970 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoMinoruKenjiLosAngeles22April1970_0" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="260" link="Letter to Minoru, Kenji -- Los Angeles 22 April, 1970" link_text="Letter to Minoru, Kenji -- Los Angeles 22 April, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Minoru, Kenji -- Los Angeles 22 April, 1970|Letter to Minoru, Kenji -- Los Angeles 22 April, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">This is the first time I am addressing to some of my Japanese friends and admirers and I am so glad to receive your nice letters. Sriman Sudama Das Adhikari has gone to your country carrying the message of Bhagavad-gita and I am so glad to learn that you two boys are cooperating with him in this great mission.</p>
<p>I am very glad to learn also that you are feeling joy while chanting the mantra Hare Krishna. Yes, it is exactly like this. If anyone chants this mantra in good faith and in simple understanding, then surely this transcendental vibration will act immediately in spiritual bliss. Please therefore continue to chant this mantra as many times as possible throughout the day and night. I do not think there is any inconvenience or loss on your part if you do so all the time. Even when you are walking, you can softly chant Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, or even when you are on the bus going to somewhere you can also chant.</p>
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<div id="LettertoBrahmanandaLosAngeles13May1970_1" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="303" link="Letter to Brahmananda -- Los Angeles 13 May, 1970" link_text="Letter to Brahmananda -- Los Angeles 13 May, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Brahmananda -- Los Angeles 13 May, 1970|Letter to Brahmananda -- Los Angeles 13 May, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So considering all these points it is inferior to the Japanese BTG. Now because there is no alternative we must get them printed here, but as you are going to Japan, I think you will be able to find out some printer who will be regularly supplying.</p>
<p>You have asked me to send you a check for $4,500, but this is for the first time you have asked me to pay on account of BTG, and this point I have already explained to Gargamuni. So far I understand from Gargamuni that you misunderstood me that I want to take the management of BTG I never meant like that, neither I have got any time to tax my brain in that way. So you shall continue the management of BTG, and ISKCON Press is meant for that purpose.</p>
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<div id="1971_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="6" parent="Correspondence" text="1971 Correspondence"><h3>1971 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoRandasAgrawalSurat2January1971_0" class="quote" parent="1971_Correspondence" book="Let" index="5" link="Letter to Randas Agrawal -- Surat 2 January, 1971" link_text="Letter to Randas Agrawal -- Surat 2 January, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Randas Agrawal -- Surat 2 January, 1971|Letter to Randas Agrawal -- Surat 2 January, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Please accept my greetings. Since I've come to Surat I've not heard from you. I hope everything is going well with you.</p>
<p>Out of the many life members, Maharaja Bharatasingh gave one check numbered 0011644 from the State Bank of Indore and this is now returned with remark "refer to Drawer." This is the first time that we've got such experience. I am therefore handing over the check which is enclosed. Kindly see the Maharaja Bharatasingh and if he'll kindly pay us cash it will be very much appreciated. In realization of the cash, kindly deposit it in the Central Bank of India, Indore Cloth Market Branch, for mail transfer to the head office in favor of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. Please let me know what action you have taken in this connection. You can write our Bombay address as given above. I am going to Bombay tomorrow.</p>
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<div id="LettertoCentralBankofIndiaGorakhpur15February1971_1" class="quote" parent="1971_Correspondence" book="Let" index="62" link="Letter to Central Bank of India -- Gorakhpur 15 February, 1971" link_text="Letter to Central Bank of India -- Gorakhpur 15 February, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Central Bank of India -- Gorakhpur 15 February, 1971|Letter to Central Bank of India -- Gorakhpur 15 February, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I beg to inform you that I am travelling all over the country and whenever there is some collection I transfer the money by mail transfer. I had no difficulty anywhere, but here in Gorakhpur it is the first time that a branch has charged for the transfer. Previous to this they did not charge. Neither in Surat, Amritsar, Allahabad, Indore, etc. did they charge for my mail transfer.</p>
<p>So kindly issue a letter in my favor that your branches should not charge for my mail transfer.</p>
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<div id="LettertoBalimardanaLondonAugust201971_2" class="quote" parent="1971_Correspondence" book="Let" index="394" link="Letter to Bali-mardana -- London August 20, 1971" link_text="Letter to Bali-mardana -- London August 20, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Bali-mardana -- London August 20, 1971|Letter to Bali-mardana -- London August 20, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">There is so much new information in our books and the Hindi reading public will appreciate it, because our subject matter is new to everyone. God has always been a vague idea. So most people are impersonalists or voidists. Perhaps for the first time in the world we are giving the people a clear idea of what is God. Although God, or Krsna, was existing in the world, but demons like Kamsa wanted to kill Him. Therefore people have no clear idea. So this is the first time we are placing Krsna in tangible form with a clear idea of His name, fame, qualities, pastimes, etc.</p>
<p>That Madison Square program was simply speculation. Syamasundara had some vague idea about it, but it has proved not at all substantial for our purposes.</p>
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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="LettertoStokakrsnaLosAngeles20June1972_0" 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;">If it is convenient you may add another period for light prasadam between those times. The children should e allowed to eat as much as they like, therefore if children are complaining from hunger we must feed them. On the second point, if someone is coming to our school for the first time, still, they must eat what we are eating, namely Krsna prasadam. Yes, everything should be prepared for the pleasure of the Lord, without any other consideration. Our policy is that the children should be so trained that they will enjoy performing austerities, it is not that we shall spoil them at young age by indulging them in sense gratification. If there is obedience then there will be discipline, and without any discipline the management is very difficult. So first obedience by the children.</p>
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<div id="LettertoSatsvarupaParis25July1972_1" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="392" link="Letter to Satsvarupa -- Paris 25 July, 1972" link_text="Letter to Satsvarupa -- Paris 25 July, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Satsvarupa -- Paris 25 July, 1972|Letter to Satsvarupa -- Paris 25 July, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">We are always thinking these kind of changes, why is that? I simply want things to be developed which we have got, not to make so many big big plans and changing all the time, that is not very practical.</p>
<p> Regarding your questions about children at Gurukula, above ten years old they can be initiated first time, and after one year of perfectly chanting 16 rounds and observing the other regulative principles, they may receive second initiation. The Bhagavata class should go on, just as I have shown you, with everyone attending, including the children. Read the Sanskrit sloka all together, word meanings, translation, purport and give elucidation on all points. The children should be doing the same thing we are doing, plus giving them the playing facility, a little ABC, history, mathematics, geography, like that. They should not help in cooking, nor should they take part in any hard work, they must study. After initiation, then they can learn cooking.</p>
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<div id="1974_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="9" parent="Correspondence" text="1974 Correspondence"><h3>1974 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoRamesvaraBombay21December1974_0" class="quote" parent="1974_Correspondence" book="Let" index="697" link="Letter to Ramesvara -- Bombay 21 December, 1974" link_text="Letter to Ramesvara -- Bombay 21 December, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Ramesvara -- Bombay 21 December, 1974|Letter to Ramesvara -- Bombay 21 December, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Distribution definitely doubling in USA, Hare Krsna, Ramesvara" This kind of wonderful news is very pleasing to my heart and I thank you all again and again. I think this is the first time in history that ever before so many religious books have sold so popularly. Four thousand books in one day is a very unique figure. Keep distributing as many as possible in huge quantities. This is my pleasure. We must make a large propoganda program for Krsna Consciousness by distributing these books everywhere, all over the world. Just like the communists they are very expert in distributing their literature, their propoganda. At the present moment they are distributing their literature here in India in nine different languages and it is quite effective.</p>
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<div id="1975_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="10" parent="Correspondence" text="1975 Correspondence"><h3>1975 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoKirtananandaBombay10November1975_0" class="quote" parent="1975_Correspondence" book="Let" index="661" link="Letter to Kirtanananda -- Bombay 10 November, 1975" link_text="Letter to Kirtanananda -- Bombay 10 November, 1975">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Kirtanananda -- Bombay 10 November, 1975|Letter to Kirtanananda -- Bombay 10 November, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Therefore, leaving aside all other programs, I had to come here. Of course it has become a little effective because since then the government of India is not considering us an enemy, but they are giving us more and more facility to extend the visa. Then again I had to go to Mauritius, South Africa and East Africa. In Mauritius for the first time in my life I had to meet a very disastrous type of motor accident. We were four in motor carriage, the driver, Brahmananda Swami, Pusta Krsna Swami and myself. The driver was especially injured and we got a little bruises and cuts. Anyway, I have come to Bombay on November 3rd. Here the temple construction is now being undertaken seriously and we are looking after things.</p>
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<div id="LettertoTulsiBombay18December1975_1" class="quote" parent="1975_Correspondence" book="Let" index="764" link="Letter to Tulsi -- Bombay 18 December, 1975" link_text="Letter to Tulsi -- Bombay 18 December, 1975">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Tulsi -- Bombay 18 December, 1975|Letter to Tulsi -- Bombay 18 December, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">At the end of his life he frankly said, "I don't believe there was ever such a historical person as Krishna". So what did Gandhi know about Bhagavad-gita?</p>
<p>My only credit is that I have presented Bhagavad-gita as it is, without any speculation, or interpretation, therefore for the first time in the history of the world people are accepting it and living practically according to the principles of Bhagavad-gita.</p>
<p>I understand that you are translating Bhagavad-gita as it is into Malayalam language. Hamsaduta has spoken to me about you. Please send me a sample, and we will see about it's publication and distribution in India. Maybe in the future you will like to come to India and help preach this message to your countrymen.</p>
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