Local affairs
Correspondence
1969 Correspondence
It is local affairs, and how can I advise you that one is to do something and another is to do something. Neither you should depend upon me for such local administrative business.
Letter to Cidananda, Dindayal, Aniruddha, Makhanlal -- Los Angeles 23 February, 1969: Now, who will work and who will not work that is consideration between yourselves. It is local affairs, and how can I advise you that one is to do something and another is to do something. Neither you should depend upon me for such local administrative business. All of you are sincere devotees pledged to the missionary activities, so you should sit together and decide what to do and what not to do.
1970 Correspondence
In each center we have a president, secretary and treasurer who manage the local affairs.
Letter to Nevatiaji -- Los Angeles 16 July, 1970: All the devotees strictly follow our regulative principle of 1) no eating of meat, fish or eggs, 2) no illicit sex-life, 3) no taking of intoxicants including coffee, tea, tobacco and alcohol, and 4) no gambling. In each center we have a president, secretary and treasurer who manage the local affairs.