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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="LettertoDamodaraMaharajaLosAngeles13May1970_0" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="304" link="Letter to Damodara Maharaja -- Los Angeles 13 May, 1970" link_text="Letter to Damodara Maharaja -- Los Angeles 13 May, 1970">
<div class="heading">Now I have made my World Headquarters at the above address in our own building which we have purchased very recently at a cost of 20 lakhs of rupees.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Damodara Maharaja -- Los Angeles 13 May, 1970|Letter to Damodara Maharaja -- Los Angeles 13 May, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I am sorry that you wrote me several letters before in English, but they did not reach me due to postal strike. Now I have made my World Headquarters at the above address in our own building which we have purchased very recently at a cost of 20 lakhs of rupees. So in future you can address me at the above destination.</p>
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<div id="LettertoKarandharaAmritsar23October1970_1" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="551" link="Letter to Karandhara -- Amritsar 23 October, 1970" link_text="Letter to Karandhara -- Amritsar 23 October, 1970">
<div class="heading">I hope everything is going on well with you in our Los Angeles World Headquarters.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Karandhara -- Amritsar 23 October, 1970|Letter to Karandhara -- Amritsar 23 October, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Since a very long time I have not received any word from you. I hope everything is going on well with you in our Los Angeles World Headquarters. Please send me a report of your general activities in Los Angeles Temple and also your Governing Body Commission activities. Please offer my blessings to all the members of our Temples.</p>
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<div id="LettertoMurari74MarineDriveBombay20Nov171970_2" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="600" link="Letter to Murari -- 74, Marine Drive, Bombay 20 Nov. 17, 1970" link_text="Letter to Murari -- 74, Marine Drive, Bombay 20 Nov. 17, 1970">
<div class="heading">I think if such a nice place is there, London may become the world headquarters of our Krishna Consciousness movement.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Murari -- 74, Marine Drive, Bombay 20 Nov. 17, 1970|Letter to Murari -- 74, Marine Drive, Bombay 20 Nov. 17, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">One wealthy Indian industrialist has promised a large sum to construct a magnificent temple in or adjacent to Regents Park in London. So I am asking you to help me try for this by finding out some land in Regents Park. I have heard that one mosque has been built there on land given by the government. Please find out and report to me. As soon as you have secured something very nice send me details of the property and I shall come to London to finalize negotiations for it. I think if such a nice place is there, London may become the world headquarters of our Krishna Consciousness movement.</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="LettertoKarandharaBombay22April1971_0" class="quote" parent="1971_Correspondence" book="Let" index="178" link="Letter to Karandhara -- Bombay 22 April, 1971" link_text="Letter to Karandhara -- Bombay 22 April, 1971">
<div class="heading">I am very glad that things are going on nicely in our World Headquarters.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Karandhara -- Bombay 22 April, 1971|Letter to Karandhara -- Bombay 22 April, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I am very glad that things are going on nicely in our World Headquarters. I have received from Calcutta the bank receipt for $35,000 and I thank you very much. I am expecting that you will continue your payments promptly to eradicate the debts to my book fund account from loan to the purchase of the L.A. Temple, the $8,000 and the $20,000 loans to BTG account. It is good news that you have received the third edition of KRSNA I. All our books should be sent by Dai Nippon to L.A. and from L.A. you should distribute them all to Europe and America and collect the returns.</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="LettertoCaturbhujaMayapur28February1972_0" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="120" link="Letter to Caturbhuja -- Mayapur 28 February, 1972" link_text="Letter to Caturbhuja -- Mayapur 28 February, 1972">
<div class="heading">Tomorrow we shall be celebrating the Lord's Appearance Day by laying down the corner-stone for our World Headquarters here at Mayapur.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Caturbhuja -- Mayapur 28 February, 1972|Letter to Caturbhuja -- Mayapur 28 February, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Now I am pleased that you are making serious study of this our Krishna philosophy, so I want that you go on like this until you will able to defeat any challenge from atheists and rascals, then your preaching work will have real potency and combinedly with your Godbrothers around the world and at London Temple you shall preach so strongly that one day this Krishna consciousness movement will change the world from the most dangerous condition; that is the wish of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu, and tomorrow we shall be celebrating the Lord's Appearance Day by laying down the corner-stone for our World Headquarters here at Mayapur.</p>
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<div id="LettertoPuriMaharajSydney8April1972_1" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="165" link="Letter to Puri Maharaj -- Sydney 8 April, 1972" link_text="Letter to Puri Maharaj -- Sydney 8 April, 1972">
<div class="heading">You may write me at Tokyo ISKCON, 3211 Minami Asakawa-cho, Hachioji-shi 193, Tokyo, Japan, after the 18th to the first of May, 1972, and after that c/o my Los Angeles ISKCON World Headquarters, 3764 Watseka Avenue, Los Angeles, California, 90034, U.S.A.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Puri Maharaj -- Sydney 8 April, 1972|Letter to Puri Maharaj -- Sydney 8 April, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Many hundreds of foreign disciples will be coming to India in the near future, and already we have got nearly 100 men there, so it is a great opportunity for the administrative officials of Puri to increase the fame and prosperity of Jagannath Puri all over the world, and it will be their misfortune if so many qualified devotees of the Lord are not allowed into the temple, simply because they have taken their birth in a faraway place. So if you are able to do something, and approach the right persons like Mr. Viswanath then we shall be free to have our center in Puri. Kindly let me know at your earliest. I shall be at the above Sydney address until 18th of April, 1972, then I am going to Hong Kong and Tokyo, so you may write me at Tokyo ISKCON, 3211 Minami Asakawa-cho, Hachioji-shi 193, Tokyo, Japan, after the 18th to the first of May, 1972, and after that c/o my Los Angeles ISKCON World Headquarters, 3764 Watseka Avenue, Los Angeles, California, 90034, U.S.A.</p>
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<div id="LettertoGirirajaCyavanaTokyo25April1972_2" 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">
<div class="heading">I have included one photograph of our proposed skyscraper to be built up in Los Angeles at ISKCON World Headquarters, and so I want that our skyscraper in Juhu should also be looking like this.
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<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;">I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated April 16, 1972, along with sketches and plans, etc. Thank you very much. The report is quite encouraging to me, and I think that the way you are proceding is nice. But one thing is, I have included one photograph of our proposed skyscraper to be built up in Los Angeles at ISKCON World Headquarters, and so I want that our skyscraper in Juhu should also be looking like this. I do not like the round towers you have proposed, it is too fanciful. Simply add Govindaji's temple, as you and Saurabha have drawn it, add it onto this skyscraper in the enclosed photo, then you will have per Juhu plan. Monsoon in Bombay begins in middle of June, and last year it was early, in May, so how you can get all drawings finish approved by city council and begin the foundations before monsoon. I do not think it is possible, but you can try for it, that is right.</p>
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<div id="LettertoSriJogeswarChowdhuryParis22July1972_3" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="386" link="Letter to Sri Jogeswar Chowdhury -- Paris 22 July, 1972" link_text="Letter to Sri Jogeswar Chowdhury -- Paris 22 July, 1972">
<div class="heading">I am forwarding a copy of your letter to the leader, Sriman Tamala Krishna das Goswami, and you may write to him also, c/o ISKCON World Headquarters, P.O. Sridhama Mayapur, Nadia district, West Bengal, India.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Sri Jogeswar Chowdhury -- Paris 22 July, 1972|Letter to Sri Jogeswar Chowdhury -- Paris 22 July, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Kindly do the needful and make all arrangements among the prominent Vaisnava citizens in Chittagong for programs and for the board and keep for the Hare Krishna party, and meanwhile I am forwarding a copy of your letter to the leader, Sriman Tamala Krishna das Goswami, and you may write to him also, c/o ISKCON World Headquarters, P.O. Sridhama Mayapur, Nadia district, West Bengal, India.</p>
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<div id="LettertoGurudasaYamunaLondon3August1972_4" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="416" link="Letter to Gurudasa, Yamuna -- London 3 August, 1972" link_text="Letter to Gurudasa, Yamuna -- London 3 August, 1972">
<div class="heading">If we get this place, I shall make London my permanent world headquarters. Practically I am British by training, so I am also trying for dual Indian-British citizenship.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Gurudasa, Yamuna -- London 3 August, 1972|Letter to Gurudasa, Yamuna -- London 3 August, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So you may not be disturbed that Ksirodakasayi is coming back there, I shall ask him to remain here for developing London center. Today we are looking at a very nice place of 75 acres near London with Mr. George Harrison, who has found the place and wants to have our asrama there. He is coming to see me daily and he is a very nice boy and I like him very much. If we get this place, I shall make London my permanent world headquarters. Practically I am British by training, so I am also trying for dual Indian-British citizenship. I still remember that you both helped me very much by opening this London center, and it is the most important center in the world, so I am very much thankful always. Now go on and develop the Vrindaban centre with full enthusiasm and do not be discouraged by anything temporary setbacks but always work in the spirit of being completely dependent upon Krishna for everything. I shall be returning to India by October.</p>
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<div id="LettertoSureshCandraLondon11August1972_5" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="437" link="Letter to Suresh Candra -- London 11 August, 1972" link_text="Letter to Suresh Candra -- London 11 August, 1972">
<div class="heading">You may order our books from the Los Angeles world headquarters, 3764 Watseka Avenue, Los Angeles, 90034, California.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Suresh Candra -- London 11 August, 1972|Letter to Suresh Candra -- London 11 August, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">This chanting of sixteen rounds of japa-mala daily, chanting the full Hare Krsna mantra, Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare/Hare Rama Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare, on each bead 108 times in each round, this process will very quickly purify your existence, and you will come to your rightful spiritual understanding in very short order. Since you have asked me, this is my advice to you. You and your family sit down and chant daily some japa and have some kirtana (or chanting Hare Krsna mantra in full __ with kartas and mrdanga.) Besides that you may order our books from the Los Angeles world headquarters, 3764 Watseka Avenue, Los Angeles, 90034, California, __ when you have got our books, then you may hold class all together daily at least one hour and read the Bhagavad-gita, Isopanisad, and other scriptures. You may address your inquiries about the literature in Los Angeles to Sriman Karandhara das Adhikari.</p>
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<div id="LettertoJayapatakaVrindaban22October1972_6" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="547" link="Letter to Jayapataka -- Vrindaban 22 October, 1972" link_text="Letter to Jayapataka -- Vrindaban 22 October, 1972">
<div class="heading">You are the best man for this task of being responsible for our world headquarters at Mayapur, thank you very much for helping me in this way.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Jayapataka -- Vrindaban 22 October, 1972|Letter to Jayapataka -- Vrindaban 22 October, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I am in due receipt of your letter dated October 17, 1972, and the pleasure of my again spending some days in Vrindaban is only exceeded by the pleasure of hearing from you the good news of our activities in Mayapur. I am very much encouraged to note the many signs of progress in the building work and other things. You are the best man for this task of being responsible for our world headquarters at Mayapur, thank you very much for helping me in this way.</p>
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<div id="LettertoBalimardanaBombay31December1972_7" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="652" link="Letter to Bali-mardana -- Bombay 31 December, 1972" link_text="Letter to Bali-mardana -- Bombay 31 December, 1972">
<div class="heading">Such building in Manhattan, being our world headquarters of ISKCON, would facilitate our preaching expansion work all over the world.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Bali-mardana -- Bombay 31 December, 1972|Letter to Bali-mardana -- Bombay 31 December, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Regarding that building in Manhattan, of course we are not very much mad after big buildings, so long there is enough space for our devotees so they may be able to carry on their preaching work, but if you can get such building as you are describing in the midtown area costing between $1-1.6 million, oh, that will be your greatest achievement in Krsna consciousness. Such building being our world headquarters of ISKCON, would facilitate our preaching expansion work all over the world. So far money is concerned, you are saving roundabout $30,000 per month, so go on saving like this, and even it takes a few more months to raise the down payment for such expensive building, never mind, a few months' delay is not much. But the point is that Krsna is now giving freely so much money, why He can't increase that amount more and more? I don't think there will be any difficulty to raise the money for down payment, you will be successful under any circumstance, of that I am certain. But I want to keep my bond of $80,000 to be spent for books for India, that is my final decision.</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="LettertoNayanabhiramaCalcutta28January1973_0" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="46" link="Letter to Nayanabhirama -- Calcutta 28 January, 1973" link_text="Letter to Nayanabhirama -- Calcutta 28 January, 1973">
<div class="heading">If all of the devotees in New York can collect like that, at least $100 daily, then very shortly you will have enough funds for getting that big skyscraper for use as the world headquarters of our Krsna Consciousness movement.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Nayanabhirama -- Calcutta 28 January, 1973|Letter to Nayanabhirama -- Calcutta 28 January, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">It is so nice to hear how your wife Daivisakti Devi Dasi is distributing so many books and collecting big big donations for the Lord. This is very very pleasing to me, as our book distribution and collecting of funds is so much important for pushing on this movement. So if all of the devotees in New York can collect like that, at least $100 daily, then very shortly you will have enough funds for getting that big skyscraper for use as the world headquarters of our Krsna Consciousness movement.</p>
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<div id="LettertoRamPrashadCalcuttaJanuary291973_1" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="48" link="Letter to Ram Prashad -- Calcutta January 29, 1973" link_text="Letter to Ram Prashad -- Calcutta January 29, 1973">
<div class="heading">I shall be returning in March to officially open the first residential block of our World Headquarters at Sridhama Mayapur, District Nadia, West Bengal.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Ram Prashad -- Calcutta January 29, 1973|Letter to Ram Prashad -- Calcutta January 29, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Our Bombay Hare Krsna Festival has been a grand success. More than 15,000 people attended each night and joined in the kirtana and arati, and listened very attentively to my discourses. At the end of the last day seven young men, two from Europe and 5 from India, shaved their heads as brahmacaris and have joined us full time. People are eager for Krsna consciousness, when it is given in its pure form.</p>
<p>I am leaving for Australia by 2nd February to visit our ISKCON center there and I shall be returning in March to officially open the first residential block of our World Headquarters at Sridhama Mayapur, District Nadia, West Bengal.</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="LettertoJayatirthaBombay16February1974_0" class="quote" parent="1974_Correspondence" book="Let" index="59" link="Letter to Jayatirtha -- Bombay 16 February, 1974" link_text="Letter to Jayatirtha -- Bombay 16 February, 1974">
<div class="heading">It is very reassuring for me that all our most important affairs located in world headquarters in Los Angeles are being well cared for under the guidance of your good self, Bali Mardan and Ramesvara.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Jayatirtha -- Bombay 16 February, 1974|Letter to Jayatirtha -- Bombay 16 February, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">It is very reassuring for me that all our most important affairs located in world headquarters in Los Angeles are being well cared for under the guidance of your good self, Bali Mardan and Ramesvara. Therefore I have not become disturbed on that account because I know the BBT, Negotiations with Dai Nippon and financial matters are being taken care of even though Karandhara has left his post. Your desire to give me relief from having to worry about these matters shows that you have understood my desires, and I thank you very much. It is nice that you have taken this occasion to impress on the devotees there the necessity to be very serious in executing regulative principles, otherwise we will surely fall away. One who sticks strictly to these principles, will not, however fall down. Your statement, "The residents of New Dvaraka are praying for your mercy" is very nice. Let us meet all at Mayapur and chalk out a years work for our great mission.</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="LettertoGurudasaBombay25March1977_0" class="quote" parent="1977_Correspondence" book="Let" index="72" link="Letter to Gurudasa -- Bombay 25 March, 1977" link_text="Letter to Gurudasa -- Bombay 25 March, 1977">
<div class="heading">On the 28th instant I shall be moving into my new quarters and then we have to organize Bombay as our world headquarters from every point of view, culturally, scientifically, philosophically, etc.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Gurudasa -- Bombay 25 March, 1977|Letter to Gurudasa -- Bombay 25 March, 1977]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">There is no need to pay Gaurachand. I have already advised the bank, and they will pay him directly. You need not. As you have described the placing of my photograph and offering to it Prasadam, that is good. In consultation with Aksayananda Maharaja, just find out some responsible men to stay there. Everything should be kept neat and clean as if I am staying there. It is very good if someone daily sells books from there.</p>
<p>Thank you, yes, I am feeling a little stronger now. On the 28th instant I shall be moving into my new quarters and then we have to organize Bombay as our world headquarters from every point of view, culturally, scientifically, philosophically, etc.</p>
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