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| Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 |
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10 June 2008 10 June, 1974 Paris My dear Ravindra Svarupa, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated June 5, and I have carefully noted the contents. I am glad to hear you have immediately stopped political campaigning on receipt of my letter. I have written a number of letters to the persons involved explaining how we can not spend money and manpower on this project in competition with the big politicians. Therefore I have asked that it be stopped. I want to thank you a hundred times for the excellent way you are worshipping the Deity there as I can see from the color photographs you have sent. From my very childhood I was also worshipping Lord Jagannatha. When I was six years old my father gave me a ratha and I was performing the Ratha yatra in my neighborhood. And now in the western world you are worshiping Lord Jagannatha so gorgeously and it pleases me very, very much. Thank you again for the way you are conducting the deity worship in the Philadelphia temple. As for the Ratha ceremony, you go on with it, I shall attend there next year. But you go on holding a splendid ceremony for the people of the city. I am sure it will be a success. Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/sdg Labels: Philadelphia, political sankirtan, Rathayatra letters | 04:02 |9 June 2008 9 June, 1974 Paris My dear Ravindra Svarupa, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter of May 14, received in Paris. I have accepted on your recommendation the three devotees as my duly initiated disciples, and their spiritual names are as follows: Patti--Pattarajni devi Donna--Dantadhara devi Lois--Atura devi I have also accepted your recommendation for Vanamali prabhu to take second initiation. Enclosed is one sacred thread and gayatri mantra. Have him hear the tape of my chanting the mantra, in his right ear. The beads of the initiated devotees may be chanted on by Kirtanananda Maharaja. I am glad to hear you are holding a larger Ratha yatra this year. Your multifarious activities in Krsna Consciousness in Philadelphia sound very good. We have so many engagements, therefore I have asked that the political program be stopped as it was creating too much separate effort separate brain, separate money from our regular ISKCON program. I shall be coming to the U.S. in July and perhaps you can see me in Chicago or later in New Vrindaban. Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/sdg Labels: initiation, Philadelphia, political sankirtan letters | 03:05 | |
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