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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="1967_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="2" parent="Correspondence" text="1967 Correspondence"><h3>1967 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoJaduraniVrindaban22August1967_0" class="quote" parent="1967_Correspondence" book="Let" index="127" link="Letter to Jadurani -- Vrindaban 22 August, 1967" link_text="Letter to Jadurani -- Vrindaban 22 August, 1967">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Jadurani -- Vrindaban 22 August, 1967|Letter to Jadurani -- Vrindaban 22 August, 1967]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I am so glad to receive your letter along with Brahmananda's. Yes I am definitely improving, and I expect to return soon. In the meantime it has been decided by me to transform Kirtanananda into a Swami, and he may then go back to Montreal for improving the center, and for opening more centers in that country. He has no complaint now for his health, and I hope, by Krishna's Grace, he will keep well here. Please give one painting to Yogi Denkar, and charge what you like. I am so satisfied with your service for the cause of Krishna Consciousness, and I shall simply pray to Krishna for your good health, sound mind, and steady progress in the matter of K.C. Please offer my blessings to all the girls especially who are living with you.</p>
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<div id="LettertoJayanandaDelhi29September1967_1" class="quote" parent="1967_Correspondence" book="Let" index="156" link="Letter to Jayananda -- Delhi 29 September, 1967" link_text="Letter to Jayananda -- Delhi 29 September, 1967">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Jayananda -- Delhi 29 September, 1967|Letter to Jayananda -- Delhi 29 September, 1967]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The mayavadi sannyasins are frustrated beings in their attempt to enjoy the world, therefore they say the world is fake or the grapes are sour, the world is not false, Krishna is the supreme truth and the world is His energy therefore the energy of the supreme truth cannot be false; but we must know that this energy is inferior to His spiritual energy. As there are hairs and nails on the body and sometimes we separate these parts from the body similarly when the the material energy is separated from the service of the Lord it is inferior energy. Inferior energy is not false but temporary. The same temporary energy when surcharged with Krishna Consciousness it transforms into supreme energy by the supreme will. By this will any energy can be transformed into another just like electronic energy in a refrigerator or in a heater, to an ordinary layman, he sees cold and hot but to an electrician, he sees electricity. So when one is engaged in the service of the Lord that person is already in the spiritual energy, and a sannyasi and the real purpose of a sannyasi is to transform himself from the inferior to the superior, spiritual energy.</p>
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<div id="LettertoHamsadutaCalcutta13October1967_2" class="quote" parent="1967_Correspondence" book="Let" index="177" link="Letter to Hamsaduta -- Calcutta 13 October, 1967" link_text="Letter to Hamsaduta -- Calcutta 13 October, 1967">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Hamsaduta -- Calcutta 13 October, 1967|Letter to Hamsaduta -- Calcutta 13 October, 1967]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The body is undoubtedly a material vehicle but when it acts for Krishna Consciousness it becomes spiritualized. By the grace of Krishna material energy can be transformed to spiritual energy &amp; spiritual energy is never deteriorated. To be in Krishna Consciousness means to be in Spiritual energy.</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="LettertoJayaMazoLosAngeles18January1968_0" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="20" link="Letter to Jaya Mazo -- Los Angeles 18 January, 1968" link_text="Letter to Jaya Mazo -- Los Angeles 18 January, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Jaya Mazo -- Los Angeles 18 January, 1968|Letter to Jaya Mazo -- Los Angeles 18 January, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Your natural attraction for Krishna makes it show that in your previous birth you have cultured this science of Krishna Consciousness. In your Poetry, last line, I have changed the word "beautiful transforming Being" into "beautiful eternal Being." Krishna does not transform, but He has millions and billions of expansions which are all eternally existing simultaneously. Just like the sun at noon, and the sun at morning time, and the sun at evening time; they are simply by names and they are eternal.</p>
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<div id="LettertoBrahmanandaLosAngeles8February1968_1" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="48" link="Letter to Brahmananda -- Los Angeles 8 February, 1968" link_text="Letter to Brahmananda -- Los Angeles 8 February, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Brahmananda -- Los Angeles 8 February, 1968|Letter to Brahmananda -- Los Angeles 8 February, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">We should always try to supply everything to Krishna and we shall try to avoid any return by Krishna. That is Vaisnava philosophy. The Gopis and Radharani served Krishna without any expectation of material or spiritual profit. They never expected any return from Krishna and Krishna remained ever indebted to the Gopis. Therefore Caitanya Mahaprabhu exalted the worship method of the Gopis, and Krishna when He tries to understand the heart of the Gopis, that is the transformation of Krishna into Lord Caitanya.</p>
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<div id="LettertoSatsvarupaSanFrancisco18March1968_2" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="115" link="Letter to Satsvarupa -- San Francisco 18 March, 1968" link_text="Letter to Satsvarupa -- San Francisco 18 March, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Satsvarupa -- San Francisco 18 March, 1968|Letter to Satsvarupa -- San Francisco 18 March, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">There is no reality in the material beauty. What you think as real that is also unreal because everything material transforms into matter at the ultimate stage. It is the spirit soul who is beautiful and not the matter.</p>
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<div id="LettertoUddhavaBoston3May1968_3" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="155" link="Letter to Uddhava -- Boston 3 May, 1968" link_text="Letter to Uddhava -- Boston 3 May, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Uddhava -- Boston 3 May, 1968|Letter to Uddhava -- Boston 3 May, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Please be happy in separation. I am separated from my Guru Maharaja since 1936 but I am always with him so long I work according to his direction. So we should all work together for satisfying Lord Krishna and in that way the feelings of separation will transform into transcendental bliss.</p>
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<div id="LettertoYamunaMontreal7June1968_4" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="189" link="Letter to Yamuna -- Montreal 7 June, 1968" link_text="Letter to Yamuna -- Montreal 7 June, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Yamuna -- Montreal 7 June, 1968|Letter to Yamuna -- Montreal 7 June, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The ISKCON RADHA KRISHNA TEMPLE will perpetually continue as such. But in spite of that, San Francisco shall be gradually transformed into New Jagannatha Puri. That is my plan, and try to help in that way. The sign on the temple should read: ISKCON SRI SRI RADHA KRISHNA TEMPLE.</p>
<p>Yes, please decorate Jagannatha with very attractive nice clothing and ornaments, helmets, as brightly and magnificently as possible. The sample of decorating Jagannatha is already instructed to Harsarani, and in that way you can make arrangements. There shall be sufficient flower garlands for them daily also.</p>
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<div id="LettertoBrahmanandaSanFrancisco9September1968_5" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="303" link="Letter to Brahmananda -- San Francisco 9 September, 1968" link_text="Letter to Brahmananda -- San Francisco 9 September, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Brahmananda -- San Francisco 9 September, 1968|Letter to Brahmananda -- San Francisco 9 September, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So far you are concerned, you have to see about the wide circulation. Yourself and your good brother, Gargamuni, shall be in charge for distribution. Now immediately, we are getting about $30,000 worth of books from Japan, and in from India, you have got Srimad-Bhagavatam also, so that is also over two thousand dollars. So if you can transform this money into cash, then we can start a well equipped press. And I hope you will do it.</p>
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<div id="LettertoNandaraniSeattle15October1968_6" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="370" link="Letter to Nandarani -- Seattle 15 October, 1968" link_text="Letter to Nandarani -- Seattle 15 October, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Nandarani -- Seattle 15 October, 1968|Letter to Nandarani -- Seattle 15 October, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Mayavadi philosophers they also say that when God comes also in the material world, He has to accept the material body but that is not a fact. Because even God accepts a material body, apparently, still He does not act materially. Because both material energy and spiritual energy are under the control of the Supreme Lord; as such, He is completely powerful to transform matter into spirit, or spirit into matter. That is the position. So far associates of Krishna, they are expansion of His spiritual energy.</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="LettertoSwamiBhaktivedantaHawaii14March1969_0" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="171" link="Letter to Swami Bhaktivedanta -- Hawaii 14 March, 1969" link_text="Letter to Swami Bhaktivedanta -- Hawaii 14 March, 1969">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Swami Bhaktivedanta -- Hawaii 14 March, 1969|Letter to Swami Bhaktivedanta -- Hawaii 14 March, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The living entity is evolving different kinds of material body numbering 8,400,000 different forms. The human form is a great opportunity for the living entity to understand God, the living entity, time, nature, and different activities. The material activities are temporary, therefore if the living entities are trained to transform his activities from material to spiritual he regains his original spiritual nature. And after such achievements he is promoted to the spiritual world, which is far beyond this visible material sky. All these understandings are based on authentic Vedic knowledge. The Krishna Consciousness movement is for enlightenment of all human beings without any sectarian understanding of faith.</p>
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<div id="LettertoSudamaNewVrindaban7June1969_1" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="347" link="Letter to Sudama -- New Vrindaban 7 June, 1969" link_text="Letter to Sudama -- New Vrindaban 7 June, 1969">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Sudama -- New Vrindaban 7 June, 1969|Letter to Sudama -- New Vrindaban 7 June, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">There is nice potential there I know, and I think Krishna is already giving impetus for this purpose, because Gaurasundara and Balabhadra have gone to find a nice place on the Hawaii Island. So all of you work conscientiously and jointly, you are all good souls, and you will be successful if you can transform Hawaii into New Navadvipa. Lord Caitanya will shower His blessings and you will be happy, not only in this life, but you will be promoted to Krishna Loka. Concentrate your energies now in Hawaii center, and in the future we shall establish a center in Japan. I think the roar of your Sankirtana in Hawaii will soon be heard in the neighboring places, including Japan and Hong Kong. The ocean is the father-in-law of Visnu, because the Goddess of Fortune, Laksmi, was born by the churning of the ocean. So the Goddess of Fortune, Laksmi, being the daughter of the ocean, the ocean also will help in spreading the glories of the ocean's daughter and son-in-law.</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="LettertoGovindaDelhi20November1971_0" class="quote" parent="1971_Correspondence" book="Let" index="532" link="Letter to Govinda -- Delhi 20 November, 1971" link_text="Letter to Govinda -- Delhi 20 November, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Govinda -- Delhi 20 November, 1971|Letter to Govinda -- Delhi 20 November, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">All the hippie groups can be transformed into Krishna Consciousness by your regular preaching. You have already experienced that our transcendental mantra of Hare Krishna and distribution of prasadam will make us successful all over the world. Those who are intelligent can read our books very seriously and their lives will become perfect. Our method is very simple. The preacher should also be ideal, sincere, serious and strictly adhering to our principles, chanting 16 rounds and following the restrictive rules.</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="LettertoProfessorStillsonJudahHonolulu11June1975_0" class="quote" parent="1975_Correspondence" book="Let" index="330" link="Letter to Professor Stillson Judah -- Honolulu 11 June, 1975" link_text="Letter to Professor Stillson Judah -- Honolulu 11 June, 1975">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Professor Stillson Judah -- Honolulu 11 June, 1975|Letter to Professor Stillson Judah -- Honolulu 11 June, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The chapter 5 of Caitanya-caritamrta is already dispatched yesterday by post. It is my great delight that you have realized how Krishna Consciousness has transformed lives from drug addicted hippies to loving servants of Krishna and humanity. Loving service of Krishna is so exalted, that it automatically turns loving service to humanity. Krishna is just like the root of the tree and if you pour water on the root, it automatically reaches other parts of the tree.</p>
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<div id="LettertoGirirajaDetroit4August1975_1" class="quote" parent="1975_Correspondence" book="Let" index="446" link="Letter to Giriraja -- Detroit 4 August, 1975" link_text="Letter to Giriraja -- Detroit 4 August, 1975">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Giriraja -- Detroit 4 August, 1975|Letter to Giriraja -- Detroit 4 August, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The total scheme is for simple life and high thinking and exalted character of the human society. As a matter of fact all of our members refrain from eating meat, gambling, intoxication, and illicit sex. In this connection Prof. J. Stillson Judah of the University of California, Berkeley, has remarked, "Krishna consciousness has transformed lives from drug addicted hippies to loving servants of Krishna and humanity."</p>
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<div id="1977_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="12" parent="Correspondence" text="1977 Correspondence"><h3>1977 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoRayaramaUnknownPlaceUnknownDate_0" class="quote" parent="1977_Correspondence" book="Let" index="118" link="Letter to Rayarama -- Unknown Place Unknown Date" link_text="Letter to Rayarama -- Unknown Place Unknown Date">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Rayarama -- Unknown Place Unknown Date|Letter to Rayarama -- Unknown Place Unknown Date]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So far the title Swami is concerned, although this word is used generally for Sannyasins, this Swami is my particular name as Sannyasi. Therefore, it must be suffixed at the end of my real name, A.C. Bhaktivedanta. So far the prefix "Swami" is concerned, every sannyasi has got to do that, but two ways Swami (Swami A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami) is not good looking. The end "Swami" is necessary because it is my Sannyasa name. The first Swami may be transformed into Goswami, which is on the same order of Swami. Therefore, I use the prefix Tridandi Goswami and suffix Swami, as I have printed on my card enclosed herewith. That will be nice.</p>
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