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27 September 2008 29 September, 1974 Mayapur My Dear Radhavallabha das: Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your telegram dated September 26, 1974 and have noted the contents. Your telegram reads as follows: FOR JADURANI'S NO. 23 PAINTING WHAT SHOULD LAKSMI HOLD IN HER FOUR HANDS PLEASE REPLY BY CABLE - RADHABALLAVA Laksmi holds in her two hands lotus flower and offers blessings with the other hand like you see with the murtis of Radha Krsna with palm open and facing forward. I have never seen Laksmi with four hands, so I do not know what she is holding. I do not think it necessary to reply this matter by cable. I hope this meets you well. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/bs Labels: art, New York, telegram letters | 12:08 |26 September 2008 Thursday, 26 September, 1974 Calcutta Dear Mr. Poddar: Please accept my best wishes. Enclosed is a copy of the letter to my disciples in Vrindaban regarding the land. The letter that you write to your father, kindly send me the copy. I hope this meets you well. Faithfully yours, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/bs Labels: Calcutta letters | 06:06 |26 September, 1974 Calcutta My Dear Gurudasa and Pranava: Please accept my blessings. This is to request you to go see Sri Seth Hanuman Prasad Poddar, Churuwalla Thek, Swami Ghat, P.O. Mathura, U.P. He is the managing director of a large plot of land near Birla Mandir between Mathura and Vrindaban. He will give us 25 bighas at Mathura Gochar Bhumi as a concessional free gift. So immediately go and see the land, and if suitable then immediately take it. Do not be disturbed that it is a little far away from our temple. That we shall be able to manage, and it is not a problem. If you can manage this land nicely, they can give more. They want to see that the land is used for cow protection. The land is meant for this purpose. I hope this meets you in good health. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami cc: Mr. N.K. Poddar, 34 Raja Santosh Road, Calcutta-27 ACBS/bs N.B. This is to inform you that on October 5, 1974 one lakh will be transferred to Vrindaban so there will be no difficulty for purchasing the other land if the negotiations will be complete by then. Labels: land, Vrindavana letters | 06:06 |26 September, 1974 Calcutta Hooghly, India Dear Dinesh Candra Sarkar: Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated August 6, 1974. I am going to Mayapur tomorrow morning, and you are welcome to come to our Sri Candra doya Mandir there and see me. I hope this meets you well. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5067595350223589563&postID=7739416415780045065# Post Options ACBS/bs Labels: Mayapur letters | 06:05 |26 September, 1974 Calcutta My Dear Vrindaban: Please accept my blessings. I am just now in Calcutta and have received your letter dated 16/9/74 addressed to Vrindaban. I am going to Mayapur tomorrow morning, so you can come there and see me to explain about your business situation. So far I know, you have not sold any books of ours. More when we meet. I hope this meets you in good health. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/bs Labels: Calcutta letters | 06:03 |25 September 2008 Wednesday, 25 September, 1974 Calcutta My Dear Sukadeva dasa: Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated September 12, 1974 and have noted the contents. Upon your recommendation I am accepting David Kiish as my disciple. His spiritual name is Damaghosa dasa. I am also accepting Abhinanda dasa Brahmacari for second initiation. Enclosed is his sanctified sacred thread and mantra sheet. Hold a fire sacrifice amongst the devotees and he can hear the mantra from my tape record through the right ear. For chanting on the beads, a sannyasi or GBC man can do it. Regarding your question that if I have ever said that the Society authorities must suffer for the devotees under their protection, no, I never said that. I hope this meets you in good health. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/bs Labels: initiation, Seattle letters | 03:02 |25 September, 1974 Calcutta My Dear Madhudvisa Swami: Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated dated September 6, 1974 and have noted the contents. Upon your recommendation I am accepting the following as my initiated disciples. 1. Mr. Ashok Jeram Patel--Astasiddhi dasa 2. Ian Saller--Yamalarjuna dasa Please see to it that they follow strictly the four regulative principles and chant 16 rounds minimum daily on the beads. I hope this meets you in good health. You may chant on their beads. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/bs Labels: Australia, initiation letters | 03:01 |24 September 2008 Tuesday, 24 September, 1974 Calcutta My Dear Devotees: Please accept my blessings. I thank you very much for your letter received at Vrindaban and your prayers for my health. By your prayers and by your chanting Hare Krishna, and by the grace of Lord Nrsimhadeva I am recovered from the serious illness. So let us go on with the spreading of this sublime cult of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu all over the world. My only request is that you all remain enthusiastic and pure by strictly following all the rules and regulations and the devotional practices of chanting 16 rounds. I hope this meets you all in good health. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/bs Labels: health, Nrsimhadeva letters | 03:00 |22 September 2008 Sunday, 22 September, 1974 Calcutta My Dear Radhavallabha Das: Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated 14/9/74 with enclosed advance copies of BTG No. 66. The color is not at all good. It is not attractive, and not as good as Dai Nippon. Why is the printing being changed from Dai Nippon? This Los Angeles quality is not good. The standard quality of Dai Nippon must be maintained. On what consideration is the printer being changed? I do not know anything of the printer being changed. In my opinion no one can print better than Dai Nippon. Why is the plan changed without my consent? Why there is need of supervising the Kingsport printer? There was no need of supervising in Japan, but here it requires supervising. That means there is some discrepancy. So why these things are changed? We cannot change the quality of printing for the matter of a little change in the price. This printing is not approved by me. Repeatedly changing of printers is not at all good. We cannot approve any printing less than quality of printing of Dai Nippon. I am sending copies of this letter to all BBT Trustees for necessary action. I hope this meets you in good health. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/bs CC: Bali Mardan, N.Y.; Hamsaduta, London, Ramesvara, L.A. Labels: Dai Nippon, New York, without my consent letters | 12:00 |21 September 2008 1974, September 21 Vrindaban Syndicate Bank, Brindaban Branch We the undersigned, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami, Brahmananda Swami and Gurudas Adhikary, put the following documents in the Safty Deposit Locker No. 196 of Syindicate Bank, Vrindaban. The following is the list of documents: 1. Letter from Saraf Trust dated February 6, 1974 2. Registered Deed Vrindaban plot of six pages along with plot one page. 3. Letter from Gitabhai Saraf dated March 12, 1972. 4. Fixed deposit receipt in favor of ISKCON Mayapur-Vrindaban Trust for Rs. 1,60,000/- (rupees one lack sixty thousand.) Date of maturity 10-9-1979. 5. Fixed deposit receipt in favor of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami for Rs. 11,000/- (rupees eleven thousand only). Date of maturity March 14, 1976. A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Brahmananda Swami Gurudas Adhikary ACBS/bs Labels: bank, Vrindavana letters | 16:12 | |
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