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4 December 2008 4 December, 1974 Bombay My Dear Madhudvisa Swami: Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated November 25, 1974 and have noted the contents. Yes, it is a good idea to ship ghee 1200 lbs. twice yearly. You can ship once in January and once in June. I shall talk further with you, when I come there next month. In the meantime you can let me know to which port the ship generally comes to India, whether to Bombay or Calcutta. Which port is nearer? I hope this meets you in good health. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/bs letters | 06:55 | 2 December 2008 2 December, 1974 Bombay My Dear Madhudvisa Swami: Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated November 5, 1974 with enclosed plans of the newly purchased house. It all appears very wonderful. It is very good that the Deity is facing East. Yes, the room above the Deity should be kept vacant. Yes, you can store Ratha Yatra festival gear or books there, also. The proposed pinnacle should not have Om, but shastic or cakra, Krsna's weapon. So everything is nice, and I shall be glad to come for the Deity installation and temple opening in January. We shall come from Honolulu via Fiji. I Hope this meets you in good health. Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/bs Labels: Melbourne letters | 05:05 |2 December, 1974 Bombay My Dear Bhurijana das: Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated November 7, 1974 with enclosed check for $100.00. So you stay wherever you are peaceful, but do not forget Krishna consciousness. That is my request. I have received your check, and thank you very much for it. Now Krishna has blessed you with a daughter. The name Vrindabanleela you have chosen is very nice. Trivikrama Swami has published one Chinese literature, On the Way to Krishna. I have not read it of course, but it appears very nice, with my photo on the cover. I have asked him to organize the center there. So try to help him even by correspondence, and sometimes try to visit there because you are experienced in Hong Kong affairs. I shall be gong to Hong Kong and Tokyo shortly, and thereafter to Australia in the month of January, as Madhudvisa Swami has invited me for the temple opening and installation. I hope this meets you in good health, and also your wife. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/bs letters | 05:05 | 29 August 2008 Friday, 30 August, 1974 Vrindaban My Dear Madhudvisa Swami: Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated August 14, 1974 and have noted the contents. Regarding the convent, they have put an awkward condition that the chapel must be demolished. Never before has this been done. Indirectly they have denied to sell to us. Never mind. Find out another property. That ten men have just joined us is our real success. Yes, you can use the book sales money and repay as you have proposed. I hope this meets you in good health. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Take help from Rev. Powell ___ that and the Bishops of Melbourne. The proposal is ___ and they can rectify it. ACBS/bs Labels: Christian, land, Melbourne, success letters | 05:48 |13 August 2008 13 August, 1974 Vrindaban My Dear Caru das, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated July 17th. I am forwarding your letter to Madhudvisa Swami for necessary action. The idea is very good. You do it as you see fit. Hope this letter meets you in good health. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/bs Labels: Melbourne letters | 06:33 |13 August, 1974 Vrindaban My Dear Madhudvisa Maharaja, Please accept my blessings. Please find a letter enclosed from Caru das which I am forwarding to you for necessary action. Hope this meets you in good health. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/bs Labels: Melbourne letters | 06:32 |17 July 2008 17 July, 1974 Dallas My Dear Madhudvisa Maharaja: Please accept my blessings. I may request you to send three men to go with Subaladas Swami to Fiji for preaching and opening a temple. There is one Indian man there who wants to give $50,000 for construction of a temple there. Please do this as soon as possible. I hope this meets you in good health. Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/bs letters | 06:24 | 16 July 2008 16 July, 1974 Dallas My Dear Tusta Krishna Maharaja: Please accept my blessings. I am here in Dallas, and after two days I am going to New Vrindaban, and then to London on my way to India. I will reach India by July 26th to arrange for our grand festival in Vrindaban. I cordially invite you to attend our opening ceremony in Vrindaban because all of our sannyasis will be present there. You also come there as a regular sannyasi and take part. That is my desire. Hoping this meets you in good health. Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/bs Labels: invitation, Melbourne, Vrindavana letters | 06:17 |28 May 2008 28 May, 1974 Rome My dear Madhudvisa Maharaja, Please accept my blessings. I have heard that you are very keen to make the Melbourne Rathayatra very wonderful and you have requested extra instructions. One thing is there are many band parties - if you can get band parties to join that would be nice. Our men should hold kirtana just in front of the ratha, and other parties may proceed before us. I think we will accept your invitation to join us when we break our journey to Melbourne by stopping somewhere in Malaysia, probably Jakarta, where you say we have good friends who would like to accommodate us with a place to stay. We shall inform you positively of the date of arrival there when we receive our tickets from you in Paris and confirm the flight. So I think we shall arrive in Melbourne no later than the 26th of June. Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/sdg Labels: itinerary, Melbourne, Rathayatra letters | 03:42 |17 May 2008 17 May, 1974 Bombay My dear Madhudvisa Maharaja, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your telegram dated May 16. I have also received a previous telegram in which you said you sent us tickets Air India, London-Melbourne round trip. However I will not be going to London. My schedule is to leave tomorrow morning to Delhi-Vrndavana and on the 23rd of May go to Rome. Bhagavan Das has made a tour including Rome, Geneva and ending June 15 Paris. Thereafter Hamsaduta has invited me to Amsterdam June 15. There is a meeting in Koln, Germany June 22. Immediately thereafter I can leave to Melbourne from Koln and stay as you requested through June 29. As regards to the tickets you have already sent I have not received them yet and we are leaving tomorrow. Moreover they are for London departure. I think the best thing to do is to cancel the tickets and arrange new tickets for us from Koln to Melbourne and return. You can mail these tickets to me care of Paris, France center so long as they reach there by June 14. My party consists of three; myself, Neil Delmonico (Nitai) and Stephen Guarino (Satsvarupa Maharaja), (Pradyumna has left us for sometime). I will expect your tickets when we arrive in Paris and I will be very pleased to attend the gorgeous Melbourne Ratha-yatra festival. Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/sdg letters | 08:27 | 12 May 2008 12 May, 1974 Bombay My dear Madhudvisa Maharaja, Please accept my blessings. I understand that you are preparing for my arrival for your Rathayatra. I am not sure of your Rathayatra date but I think it is at the end of June. However at this time I will be in Europe. I am to arrive in Rome on the 23rd, then on the 30th to Geneva, then June 6 to Paris. On June 15 I go to Koln where Hamsaduta has arranged a lecture tour continuing in Heidelberg and Amsterdam through July 6. So it will not be possible for me to attend Rathayatra if you have scheduled it for June. I am immediately going to the US after Europe to attend Rathayatra in Chicago on July 6 and then Rathayatra in San Francisco on July 8. From there I will come to Australia toward the middle or end of July. If it is possible for you to reschedule your Rathayatra for the end of July then I will attend. But I will come to Australia at that time anyway. I do not know if you will be able to reschedule your Rathayatra. So if you wish to communicate with me I will be in the European cities as dated above. Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/sdg Labels: itinerary, Melbourne, Rathayatra letters | 05:49 |9 May 2008 9 May, 1974 Bombay My dear Caru, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated April 29, 1974 and have noted the contents. I am glad to hear, although there were many difficulties, that Madhudvisa Maharaja will be able to return to Australia with permanent residence status. Please have him write me as soon as he returns. I do not have the exact date of your Rathayatra in June, although I think it is June 21. As for going there my present itinerary is that I am going to Rome on May 23 for a week, then a week in Geneva and then a week in Paris. So I may not be in London when it is time to go to Australia. You have written that you are arranging tickets for London-Sydney-Delhi. It is a little difficult to make exact arrangements at this time. But I plan to leave for Australia from Europe. Then from Australia I plan to go to San Francisco via Honolulu, in order to attend the July 8 Rathayatra in San Francisco. Your entering politics is good. You should make political propagation on the basis of reforming the whole human society. The leaders must be an ideal class of men, with ideal character, free from the four sinful activities: no meat eating, no gambling, no illicit sex and no intoxications, as well as chanting. They should chant the names of God. This is essential for leaders. Leaders must be ideal men so others will follow them. So make propaganda on this basis. We are Krishna Conscious candidates, so our political propaganda must be 100% Krishna Consciousness. As to importing the HARMONIST or doing one locally, do as suitable. It is a nice proposal to distribute such a newspaper. Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/sdg Labels: Melbourne, political sankirtan, Rathayatra letters | 04:29 | |
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