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17 April 2008 Wednesday, 17 April, 1974 Bombay Mysore State My dear Embar Sampath Kumarachar: Please accept my blessings. I am very glad you are coming to the U.S.A. You are welcome in any of our temples there. As you may know, our most important temples are in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New Vrindaban, West Virginia, Philadelphia. So you are welcome to stay in any one of these temples and you can stay there as long as you like. I especially invite you to our children's school, Gurukula, in Dallas Texas. If you so desire you can take part there to take the post of head sanskrit teacher. As soon as you are in the U.S. go to Dallas. This latter can be taken as sponsoring your stay in any temple; we will pay all charges for boarding and lodging. Please send me five or six photos of yourself so I can send letters instructing my different branches as mentioned, so there will be no misunderstanding. Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/sdg Labels: Dallas Gurukula letters | 02:12 |16 April 2008 Tuesday, 16 April, 1974 Bombay Dear Gopijanavallabha, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated April 3, 1974. The names submitted by you for initiation of devotees in our New York temple are duly accepted by me. The spiritual names of my new disciples are as follows: Charles Schisler--Caturvyuha dasa Edward D. Schindler--Indriyesa dasa Humberto Colonia--Hunkara dasa Joe Fairbank--Janesvara dasa Nick D'Angelo--Nirantara dasa Peter Drivas--Preraka dasa Walter Bryant--Uttariyadhara dasa Wayne Boyd--Vipramukhya dasa Roy Edwards--Ramabhadra dasa Now so many new devotees have to be carefully kept and instructed so from the beginning they chant 16 rounds daily without fail and always keep the four prohibitive principles very strictly. The GBC man, Bali Mardan may chant on their beads and you may hold a fire yajna in the temple. Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/sdg Labels: initiation, New York letters | 02:10 |16 April, 1974 Bombay My dear Tripurari, Please accept my blessings. I thank you very much for your letter of April 7, 1974 with the astounding figures of book distribution in one day at the Chicago Airport. You are one of the successful pillars of our Krsna Consciousness movement. The more we distribute books and literature the more we become understood by the people about our mission, and the more they understand our mission they become advanced on the path of liberation from all problems of life. My thanks to all of you. Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/sdg Labels: book distribution, Los Angeles letters | 02:09 |16 April, 1974 Bombay Manager Punjab National Bank Moti Bagh Branch Dear Sir; Enclosed herewith find one copy of the letter dated 8 April, 1974 addressed to your Vrindaban branch. They have sent one telegram reading as follows: "Refer Letter Dated 8/4. Ask Motibagh Office To Send Fixed Deposit Receipt No 270090 To Us - Punjab National Bank." Kindly send the receipt which is lying in your custody immediately to your Vrindaban branch by Registered post, and oblige. I am forwarding this letter to my secretary, Sriman Tejyas das Adhikari in New Delhi. Kindly do the needful. Yours sincerely, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/sdg c c. Tejyas das Adhikari Labels: bank letters | 02:08 |13 April 2008 Friday, 13 April, 1974 Bombay Dear Vrindaban, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter in Bengali dated April 9, 1974 and beg to inform you we are still prepared to purchase the house at 72 Mahatma Gandhi Road, according to the terms already given. If the sellers are prepared to sell the house on the same terms we are ready. That is, Rs three lakhs, or Rs 60,000 for each of the five parties. There are five parties, your mother, your third maternal uncles and the other three parties who are resting in the house namely the family of your elder second and last maternal uncle. They can be paid immediately Rs 60,000 each and they must immediately vacate the house on receipt of the money. This has been already informed to you a year ago but you have done nothing in this connection. Still we are prepared to purchase the house on the above mentioned terms. But the sellers must agree and we are prepared to purchase. The purchase money cannot be given to anyone else; we shall directly deal with the sellers and pay them directly. So direct contact with the sellers is absolutely necessary. Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/sdg letters | 12:12 | 13 April, 1974 Bombay Dear Gargamuni Maharaja, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of April 4, 1974, and I have noted the contents. I am glad to hear that the Calcutta temple is progressing nicely under your direction, that devotees are going out daily distributing books and collecting. As far as my meeting with the indutrialist G.D. Kothari and others to discuss building a Calcutta temple, my present schedule is that I am remaining in India until May 15, and then going to Pairs, France. On April 18 I am going to Hyderabad for a week and from there spend a week in South India traveling. So after that, if such a meeting can be arranged before I leave? Otherwise, when I return to India at the end of July I can meet. Regarding your complaint that Jayapataka Swami does not give you account of the money you send there, please try to rectify this amongst yourselves. I have sent Brahmananda Swami your elder brother, to Mayapur just to help organize their management. Now among yourselves you are all senior members, rectify this rift between Calcutta and Mayapur. Your idea to send Mayapur Rs 6,800.00 monthly for construction costs only, and let them make up that same amount monthly which is their maintenance money, is a good plan. I have heard there is good chance for life membership in Nadia area, and Panca Dravida Maharaja can train up others how to do it. You all must push on cooperatively and spare me from too much management intervention; that will be your success. Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/sdg P.S. I want to organize a women kirtana party singing the Gita Gan. Can you help me? Labels: Calcutta, construction, cooperation letters | 12:10 |13 April, 1974 Bombay Dear Bali Mardan, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge your letter of April 29, 1974 with copy of the $50,000 check. I have also received a telegram from you today reading, "Money traced to Central Bank of India Madurai 1 Tamil Nadu South PO Box 8 Second cable sent to transfer funds to Bombay Gowali Branch." Now Giriraja reports that the check has finally been deposited in the Gowalia Tank Branch. I have also seen your reports of BBT loans to temples for various projects in the upcoming months. Regarding using New Vrindaban land for building for the older Gurukula boys it is a very good idea. As for the younger children it may be better to keep them in Dallas. But there are only 100 of them; whether they actually need new buildings in Dallas? This is to be investigated and decided upon by the GBC. As for my own activities as you have requested, my schedule is: leave for Hyderabad April 18; after one week in Hyderabad I will travel one week in southern India; by middle of May I will leave India for Paris, and will travel 4 or 5 days in each place to Geneva, Rome, Sweden, then 3 or 4 cities in Germany. Then I may go to Rathayatra in Australia and back to India by Janmastami. After that I will go to England and then the U.S. What is the news on our buildings in New York? Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/sdg Labels: bank, gurukula, itinerary, New York letters | 12:08 |13 April, 1974 Bombay Dear Bhakta das, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of March 27, and I have noted the contents. Now Madhudvisa Maharaja has written me that you have been posted as president of San Francisco, and that you are very enthusiastic to increase all programs there. I do not know who is now president of San Diego, but I will answer the points in your letter. I never said I was displeased with the American temple presidents for not sending more money to India. You go on expanding there as you are doing so wonderfully. When there is spare money that can be sent to India. For example, you write that you that you have received an extra $10,000. So that can be sent immediately to my personal account in the Punjab National Bank, Vrindaban which is in the name of the Mayapur-Vrindaban Trust current account number 668. There is no question of installing more than one set of Radha Krsna deities. The smaller set of Radha Krsna deities may be set on the altar at the feet of the larger ones, as you describe. But they are not installed. Regarding Srinivasa Svarupa it is very pleasing to hear that this Indian boy wants to surrender his whole life to Krsna. There is no harm if he finishes college and gets his degree. If possible, he can live in the temple and attend the university daily. At any rate, he should carefully follow all the regulative principles and associate with his fellow devotees as much as possible. The university is well known for demonic association, but if he is able to keep up his devotional practices and protect the creeper of devotional service, then he may complete his degree. I think there is more advantage in Bir Krsna remaining fully engaged in his temple duties than in going back to college. What would be the practical benefit of such degree? So many new devotees are coming there in San Diego. Now instruct them carefully and keep them in your care. Please inform me when you actually receive the $10,000 and when you are sending it. Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/sdg Labels: college preaching, MV Trust, Sn Diego letters | 12:06 | |
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