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| Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 |
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21 November 2008 21 November, 1974 Bombay My Dear Madhudvisa Maharaja, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your two letters undated. And I am glad to learn that you are moving into your new Australian Headquarters and look forward to receiving your complete report. Regarding the initiations upon your recommendation I am accepting the devotees as my disciples and their spiritual names are as follows: Brad - Bhuvanadhara Dasa Bruce - Bhaskara Dasa John - Jagadvira Dasa Sandy - Samjata Dasa Keith - Krpakara Dasa Dan - Dhami Dasa Jean - Jayantidevi Dasi Diane - Deva deva Priya Devi Dasi Maryanne - Matida Devi dasi I am also accepting the following as twice born initiated Brahmins and their mantra sheets and sacred thread is enclosed.Ramprasada Adhikari, Raminia Devi Dasi, Gopala Devi Dasi. I hope this meets you in good health. Your ever well-wisher, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Labels: Australia, initiation letters | 13:51 |28 October 2008 Thursday, 31 October, 1974 Bombay My Dear Amogha das: Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated October 7, 1974 with enclosed copies of the Library orders. I thank you very much for this. It is very good that our books are being appreciated by the learned circles. If our books are distributed more and more in this way, there will be unlimited scope for spreading this movement of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu all over the world. And, personally I become very much encouraged when I get the report of my books being distributed. Regarding Indonesia program and Gaura Mandala Bhumidas assisting and so far collecting money in Australia for the project, these things should be consulted with the GBC man. Please give me relief from all the managing so I can devote my brain to the literary work. It requires a great deal of concentration. I hope this meets you in good health. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/bs Labels: Australia, college preaching, GBC letters | 03:18 |6 October 2008 6 October, 1974 Mayapur My Dear Bhurijana Das: Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated September 15, 1974 from Singapore and have noted the contents. So wherever you find a suitable place you can go, always keeping sure to follow the regulative principles and chanting 16 rounds. Whatever service you can render that is welcome. Do not deviate from the principles. You are a good soul, and your wife is also a good soul. I hope you get a good child. But, you must be careful not to deviate from the principles. I think Hong Kong is the best field for you. You started there and remained there for so many years and you have all acquaintances there. You can start a temple there provided you are strong enough. That will please me very much. But if you stick to our principles it will not be difficult. One thing try to remember is that a temple should not be started whimsically. It must be given very careful consideration. And once started, a temple cannot be closed whimsically. You must be fully prepared to maintain nicely the temple. You must consider carefully. Once a temple is started, it cannot be closed in any circumstances. I hope this meets you in good health. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/bs Labels: Australia, closing temples, Hong Kong letters | 07:40 |25 September 2008 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 |18 September 2008 18 September, 1974 Vrindaban My Dear Madhudvisa Swami, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated August 3rd, 1974 and have noted the contents. I have also received the enclosed pictures of the proposed house. I am thinking that you are a very sincere devotee. I am remembering that during my recent visit there in Australia how during the kirtana you were seeing to my personal and not letting anybody come forward and still leading the kirtana. When you begin the chanting, everybody becomes captivated, and you can go on without stopping. I feel happy that even after my departure, things will go on. I am happy that I have got so many sincere devotees who will carry on. That is my happiness. I like Australia very much because of your book distribution. So sell books and secure money and purchase the house and pay BBT conveniently. From the photos it appears that the house is very nice and sufficient for the present. Still the convent was a better place, and Dr. Powell and the bishop of Melbourne could advise them why they are insisting on this point of dismantling the chapel. Anyway either of the houses you can secure. I hope this meets you in good health. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/bs Labels: Australia, book distribution letters | 01:05 |5 August 2008 Monday, 5 August, 1974 Vrindaban Double Bay, Australia My Dear Amogha das: Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated July 16, 1974 with enclosed clippings and the Christian paper Southern Cross. The articles are very nice, and I am very pleased how the Christian community are appreciating our movement. Actually we have no quarrel with them. We accept Lord Jesus Christ as the son of God and he was a great Vaisnava. Because he appeared in another country does not mean that we should not offer him respect. If we stick to our principles as I have given you, more and more these priestly class they will come to respect us and appreciate something of our philosophy. Therefore I stress so much the devotional rules and regulations. I very much liked the report of the prasadam distribution at the club for businessmen. So I thank you very much for kindly sending me this report. I understand that you are preparing to go to Jakarta for preaching. So just go on as a sincere servant of Krsna, and you will be blessed by Krsna. I hope this meets you in good health. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/bs letters | 03:57 | 9 July 2008 Tuesday, 9 July, 1974 San Francisco My Dear Madhudvisa Maharaja, Please accept my blessings. After leaving your place I went to Chicago and then San Francisco and in both the places the Rathayatra ceremony was very successfully performed. Now about the convent which you showed me, I think that place is suitable for us and is possible we can purchase it. So the reasonable price should be on the land value. So far the buildings are concerned they have already dismantled part of it and it will be our expenditure to rebuild. Consider this points and talk with the realty man at what price they can sell the property to us. I am going today to Los Angeles and along with me there is Bali Mardan. So if the matter is successful then you can call L.A. I shall be there at least for a week. How much financial help you require from the BBT you can talk on this and we should do the needful. Hoping this meets you in good health, and everything is going well there. Your ever well-wisher, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami letters | 09:38 | 30 June 2008 Sunday, 30 June, 1974 Melbourne Dear Bal Krishna, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your telegram of June 28, 1974. Allow me to congratulate you and your wife for giving birth to a new child. Now see that she is raised in Krsna Consciousness so that at the end of this life she can go back to Home, back to Godhead. As far as my blessing is concerned it does not require my physical presence. If you are chanting Hare Krishna there and following my instructions, reading the books, taking only Krsna prasadam etc., then there is no question of your not receiving the blessings of Lord Caitanya whose mission I am humbly trying to push on. Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/sdg Labels: Australia, blessing, child letters | 04:48 |7 April 2008 Sunday, 7 April, 1974 Bombay St. Kilda, Australia Dear Raghunath, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge your letter of April 1st, and I have noted the contents. You have analyzed that you are distressed because you are not given an engagement in Krsna Consciousness. This observation is correct, unless we are engaged with all our senses and intelligence in serving Krsna where is the question of Krsna Consciousness? We are reading here in the evenings how in the 4th chapter of Bhagavad gita Krsna has arranged for catur varnam, the social division of four orders, whereby everyone has some engagement according to his propensity, his quality and work, and thus everyone can go back to Godhead while performing their work. You complain that as a householder it is very difficult. Especially you want to preach. There are examples of great preachers who were householders, such as Bhaktivinode thakur, although we cannot hope to imitate him. You have not mentioned whether you are attending the activities of the temple and associating with the devotees in Melbourne, and these things are essential. Madhudvisa Swami is my representative in charge of devotional affairs in Australia and if you will discuss the specific situation with him, he will see that you become engaged in work just suitable to your situation as a householder. I will be glad to hear you have found proper service, as this is our whole secret of success. So long as you are chanting and reading our books and raising your family in Krsna Consciousness you are already engaged in the best service. Your desire to do more and preach is a sign of advancement; now confer with the devotees there and find out the best practical preaching assignment. Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/sdg Labels: Australia, Bhaktivinoda Thakur, varnashram letters | 21:09 |6 April 2008 6 April, 1974 Bombay Dear Madhudvisa Maharaja, Please accept my blessings. I am not exactly certain of your whereabouts now; I trust your arrangements for visa are going on and that you will soon be back in Australia. I am presently fixing a traveling schedule for visiting Paris, France in the second week of May. Then I will visit, Geneva, Rome, Stockholm, and three or four cities in Germany, each place for no more than four or five days. So since I will not have to return to India until August, after Europe I can go to Australia for your Rathayatra if you can purchase our tickets. You can reply to me here in Bombay until the second week of May, when we shall go to Paris. Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/sdg c.c. to ISKCON MELBOURNE Labels: Australia, Rathayatra, San Francisco letters | 21:04 | |
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