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| Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 |
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7 March 2008 Thursday, 7 March, 1974 Mayapur Dear Muralidhara, Please accept my blessings. I have received your letter sent to Mayapur with a list of questions regarding your painting pictures for my books. The answers are as follows: 1. Kardama Muni should look something like you have pictured Vyasadeva, with beard and top know of hair, not as you have pictured him in your drawing. Generally munis have beards. 2. a) The kinnaras and kimpurasas should look like demigods. b) Ghosts and hobgoblins look all rights as you have them pictured. c) There is nothing peculiar looking about Yaksas and Raksasas; they are meat eaters. Just as meat eaters in the ordinary world do not look different. You may show them eating meat, or something like that. d) The Manus should look like kings, they should not have beards, but mustaches. 3. As far as wearing beards one class of men like Advaita Prabhu never wore clean shaven appearance but always had a beard. The other process is to be nicely clean shaven, by the barber. King PratapaRudra was a king so he should not wear a beard but mustaches. 4. Svarupa Damodara should look like a brahmacari. He should not have a beard. 5. In Panca-tattva everyone has an effulgence, but especially Lord Caitanya and Lord Nityananda. 6. The Mayavadi sannyasis generally wear their dhotis up over their knees, and because Lord Caitanya took sannyasa from a Mayavadi sannyasi He is shown like that. So He is seen like this as a sannyasi. 7. Lord Nityananda never took sannyasa. He was independent, like a brahmacari, and later he became married. 8. You may depict both the sages and Yaksas on the ground in the battle with Dhruva. 9. Yes, show Dhruva's soldiers along with him. 10. Ghosts sometimes manifest a body and sometimes they do not. When they took a body it was golden. 11. Dhruva was a Vaisnava, portray him like that. There is not harm that he have a mustache, also helmet, ornaments, and pearl necklace. 12. Svayambhuva Manu is a king, portray him with mustaches. Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya is clean shaven. 13. The picture you have enclosed of Siva Linga is approved by me and it is in the right proportion. It may be black or white according to the stone. Feel free to write me if there are further questions so that our paintings are completely bona fide by the parampara. Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/sdg letters | 12:32 | 6 March 2008 Wednesday, 6 March, 1974 Mayapur Dear Krpasindhu, Please accept my blessings. Thank you for your report of activities in the Regina, Canada temple and your presentation of pictures of Radha and Krsna Deity which are very attractive. I hope you are becoming more enthusiastic by your stay in Mayapur and when you return to Canada you will go on increasingly in your preaching work. Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/sdg Labels: Canada letters | 12:31 |6 March, 1974 Mayapur Dear Ananda Keshore Maharaja, Please accept my greetings. Your letter dated February 28th, reached me very late, on the 5th of February. So I am sorry I couldn't join you. Thank you for your invitation. I am expecting to go back to Vrndavana in the second week of March. I will be very pleased to see you there. Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Labels: Vrindavana letters | 12:31 |6 March, 1974 Mayapur Dear Brian Fleming, Please accept my blessings. I have received you letter from Glasgow, Scotland. You write that you are becoming very involved in Krsna Consciousness but your wife is not very interested and you want to know from me whether you should leave her. It is not necessary to leave your wife. The important thing is that you yourself become Krsna Consciousness, she cannot check you one way or another, but you must yourself surrender to Krsna and be engaged in devotional service. We do not say that one has to leave home. Either you leave home or remain there, and whether or not she becomes Krsna Conciousness, you go on with your progressive interest and participation in this great movement. By and by if you are strong in your determination, she may also follow you. If you have further questions you may write me or consult with the devotees in the temple. Actually I have already answered all questions in my books such as Bhagavad-gita, so kindly read them and chant Hare Krishna Mantra. Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/sdg letters | 12:30 | 6 March, 1974 Mayapur Adipur, India Dear Ravji Ganatra, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of February 23, 1974, and I have noted the contents. Since you have gone we have not gone an inch forward. They have gone and made application for the police commissioner to give sanction, but it is still lying there and they do not say yes or no. There is no sanction as yet. Our position is not clear. I require your help very much. Things are standing in the same position as when you left. I was in Bombay myself for 10 to 12 days. Now I am here in Mayapur on account of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's birthday anniversary. I arrived here March 1st. By the end of March I will be again in Bombay, and by that time you will come back and help us in this matter. More when we meet. Thanking you for your kind attention, Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/sdg Labels: Bombay letters | 12:29 |6 March, 1974 Mayapur Dear Cyavana Maharaja, Please accept my blessings. I was glad to receive your letter of 1 February, 1974. It is very encouraging for me that you are preaching in Santiago, Chile and you are getting good reception from the student class. This is just according to the order of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and so He must be very pleased upon you for assisting me in spreading Hare Krsna to every town and village. Please go on and try to establish something substantial there and develop it. Here at Mayapur we have had a GBC meeting and I have selected Hrdayananda Swami as GBC for South America. He will be coming there and can help you in making arrangements for the printing of books in Spanish. Always follow our principles and actively preach, and Krsna will always protect you. Your ever-well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami letters | 12:29 | 3 March 2008 Sunday, 3 March, 1974 Mayapur My dear Taittiriya, Please accept my blessings. I was expecting you also in Mayapur along with your husband, but I think you have done rightly by not coming here in your pregnancy. I thank you for your kindly sending me some sugar and one hundred dollar bill. Regarding grains, if rice and mung dahl is available from Formosa please try to secure as much as possible as donation or by purchase. India is now practically without food grains on account of, partially, nature's punishment, and partially, the hoarding plan of the rogues. We wish to distribute cooked food such as rice, dahl and capatis to as many hungry men as possible. I think both you and Bali Mardan along with the help of other friends can help our society in this connection. I am so pleased to learn our New York temple is going so nicely under your direction. I have studied your activities while in Honolulu and it gives me great pleasure to find out such s devotee qualified as you are in our society. I wish you will execute responsibilities in the future in the matter of our societies multi activities. In this connection I especially request you to try to open a center in China. So far I have information of the Chinese people and so far I have seen Chinese boys in Hong Kong, I am very hopeful for success in China. Similarly, my experience in Japan, when I was in Tokyo last time and the time before that, I found the Japanese boys and girls very nice and humble and submissive and respectful. Our Japanese devotee Basu is very useful in our missionary activity. Also I see this in you. I met several friends, the director of the Dai Nippon Printing Co., even the president of the Company and they were very kind to me. So I have a very good notion about the Japanese people. Now I have a very cultured aristocratic Japanese girl like you as my disciple and daughter-in-law. I hope in the future you will take a leading part in converting the Japanese and Chinese people towards Krsna Consciousness so that all of them may become happy like you. That is my only desire. Thanking you once more for your kind attention upon me. Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/sdg Labels: China, Japan, New York letters | 13:21 |3 March, 1974 Mayapur Dear Mahadeva, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter which has been hand delivered to me here in our temple. We will present our program at Bhaktivedanta Manor exactly in the line of Lord Caitanya, by kirtana, prasadam distribution and speaking from Bhagavad-gita. We cannot deviate even an inch in order to attract the followers of the ecology philosophy or any other materialistic, utopian movement. You say you know a number of influential leaders of this group, but what is the use of knowing them, since you yourself found them deficient and left them? Our ideal Vedic community will attract everyone on its own merit, and we shall be glad to welcome and accept everyone who comes without our compromising in order to attract them. As far as your plan to convince Prince Charles, heir to the throne, about Krsna Consciousness, this is another utopian idea. Do not work at it. I request you to live with your Godbrothers as a regular brahmacari and prosecute our standard practices for spreading Krsna Consciousness by book distribution, distribution of prasadam and preaching to interested people. I think you should stay in India. Our Mayapur temple is better than any temple in the U.S. and Europe, and everyone is appreciating it as very gorgeous. So there is a full program here and I request you to take on duties here and do not go wandering around. I have heard of the report of your stealing from the temples, and Mukunda has requested that you do not go back there. Therefore I recommend as the best thing that you make a fresh start and stay here in India where there is such a great need. You English boys have good facility here, not having the visa trouble that the U.S. devotees have, so take advantage of this and cooperate with me in this way. That is my request. Your ever well-wisher, A. C. 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