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| Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 |
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26 July 2008 26 July, 1974 Bombay My Dear Adi Kesava das: Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 19/7/74. Regarding the boys for initiation, I have initiated them a follows: Andrew Lerra--Agrani (the foremost) James Newcomb--Naksatranemi (surrounded by stars--Lord Visnu) Richard Corbeil--Satangati So you can have their beads chanted upon by Kirtanananda Swami. My only request is that you see that our men strictly are carrying out my instructions regarding following the rules and regulations. I thank you for your invitation for your new temple opening. I am now in India and I shall write to you about my future itinerary. I hope this meets you in good health. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/bs Labels: Boston, initiation letters | 14:54 |27 May 2008 Tuesday, 27 May, 1974 Rome My dear Trai das, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated April 25, 1974. Upon your recommendation I have accepted Neal Buyers as my initiated disciple and his new spiritual name is Niranjana dasa. Keep him carefully now. Krsna Consciousness means to create ideal men, so you must set the example in following the rules and chanting Hare Krsna mantra and see that others are doing it also. I am enclosing brahmana threads and gayatri mantra for Adi Kesava das and Vivasvan das. You must be very careful before you award the brahminical thread by recommending a man to me. Now that we are dividing our society into the four orders as much as possible, it is not that every man has to be made a brahmana after a year. Especially if one cannot even get up early and go to mangala arati he cannot become a brahmana. So consider it carefully before you recommend further men to me. Sometime in the past Rupanuga Maharaja reported that you were not sending him regular reports so he could compile his GBC report to me; please cooperate with him in this so our huge organization can run smoothly in all its parts. Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Labels: Boston, brahmana, initiation letters | 03:41 |26 March 2008 26 March, 1974 Bombay Dear Kanu Gandhi, Please accept my greetings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 16 March, 1974. Regarding the sale of the temple building at 40 North Beacon St., the best thing is to go and consult with our president in charge of the Boston branch, Trai das Adhikari. Your desire to keep a personal temple room in your home is commendable, and you can do that in any case, wherever you are, by keeping an altar and offering your food to the Lord as prasadam. Our main purpose for keeping a large temple, however, is for inviting the public. I came to the U.S.A. just to try to give a chance to as many people as possible to take to Krishna Consciousness, because it is the only hope for humanity in this increasingly demoniac, godless age. So if you are seriously interested in maintaining a Vaisnava temple, why not go and try to help my disciples there in Boston, whether they are going to sell and relocate or remain, if you are financially able to assist them, that will be taken by Krishna as a great service. The young men and women at the ISKCON temple are giving everything they have for giving others a chance to come and worship at an authorized Radha-Krishna temple, so I request you to inquire into their situation and help them maintain our Vaisnava temple in the important city of Boston. Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/sdg letters | 19:13 | |
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