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| Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 |
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10 June 2008 Monday, 10 June, 1974 Paris My dear Amarendra, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated 6/6/74 and have carefully noted the contents. I can understand that you want to run for political office, but we can not spend money even if we have money. If you have money of your own and you want to spend it for running for office you can do that. But for running we not only have to draw on the society's money but also on our men. This is not desirable. By competing with the politicians we may drop from our spiritual ideal. Our actual business is to become brahminical. We want to train some ksatriyas but that we can do in our own communities. Where is the money for this political work, that is my main question? And also, so much attention paid in this area is a diversion from our spiritual life. Your every well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/sdg Labels: brahmana, Gainesville, political sankirtan letters | 22:02 |29 April 2008 29 April, 1974 Bombay Dear Amarendra, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your recent undated letter along with enclosed new paper clippings and I thank you very much. I have studied your statements in the papers and you have repeated my ideas and at the same time sounded like a politician, and this combination is very effective. You are certainly the right man for this preaching work. They have taken you as a serious candidate and according to your statement, you feel you may even win. So I am very much encouraged by this political field in America. The people there are very intelligent and they take your statements seriously. I do not need to tell you to push on with this work in serious concentration because I see you are already very determined. In this connection you may see a letter I have just sent yesterday to Rupanuga Goswami in which I have described the need for our political devotees to always stay firmly fixed up in the regulative principles so they will be actually brahmanas. Preach on the basis of the division of the society into four orders, as without this the society is useless and people cannot be happy or even have the necessities of life. I am keeping your newsclippings in a special scrap book and reading them to my important guests in India to show them the potential of this movement. Unfortunately in India they do no take it very seriously; it is up to you in America to actually accomplish something in terms of introducing the principles of Bhagavad gita As It Is into government. Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/sdg Labels: Gainesville, political sankirtan letters | 22:31 |21 March 2008 21 March, 1974 Bombay Dear Amarendra, Please accept my blessings. I have accepted the devotees recommended by you for first initiation, and their spiritual names are as follows: Don Ronsse--__ das Adhikari Lisa Ronss--Candrt devi dasi Heidi Ranebhy--Nagari devi dasi Their beads may be chanted on by Rupanuga Maharaja. You may hold a fire yajna and speak about avoiding the ten offenses in chanting. Please instruct these students in all ways so that they can advance nicely in your care in Krsna Consciousness. Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/sdg Labels: Gainesville, initiation letters | 11:21 | |
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