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| Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 |
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17 June 2008 17 June, 1974 Frankfurt My dear Brahmananda Maharaja, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of two letters from you dated 4/6/74 and 12/6/74. I am glad to read that you are eager to join me as my permanent secretary and that your major concern is to help provide me with a conducive environment to translate my books. That is my desire also. On the other hand, I can understand the programs are developing in Kenya and therefore you want a strong replacement before you leave Africa. I think Gargamuni Maharaja can do it nicely. I have written him a letter inviting him to go to Africa and also Karandhara has gone to Calcutta to talk with him directly about this. So we shall see whether he is willing. It is very good news that there are persons there who want to cooperate to help us start a Varnasrama College Project and that they may supply us land for living as an ideal community producing our own food from the land. So this should be followed up carefully. I was glad to receive you second letter and the letter from the Ministry of Home affairs stating that they have no objection to my coming to Kenya. Yes, I would like to go there after the Vrindaban ceremonies. Hopefully you will have joined me by then and we can go together to Kenya and from there to South Africa where Pusta Krsna Maharaja is trying to arrange a program for our coming. Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/sdg Labels: Nairobi, South Africa, varnashram college letters | 06:13 |27 April 2008 Friday, 27 April, 1974 Tirupati Dear Pusta Krsna Maharaja, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge your letter of April 21, 1974 and I have noted the contents. Yes, I think the advise given by Brahmananda Maharaja is sound, namely not to worry about maintaining a permanent center in South Africa but travelling with sankirtana there for distributing books and preaching, which you say is a good field there. We do not have so many men; it requires at least five men to maintain a center, so I approve of your plan to close the center and travel in South Africa. As for the deities of Gaura-Nitai, yes you may take them on traveling sankirtana and worship them. Please keep me informed of your activities. Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami A. C. Bhak/sdg Labels: Cape Town, sankirtan, South Africa letters | 22:29 |7 February 2008 7 February, 1974 Vrindaban Dear Pusta Krsna Maharaja, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated January 18, 1974. Your report is very encouraging to me, that you distributed 110 Gitas in two days in Capetown, South Africa. You also find that there is good preaching to be done there among intelligent Indians and Europeans. And for the people in general you can hold kirtana and distribute prasadam sumptuously. So I understand you are now at the Bhaktivedanta Manor assisting Mukunda in strictly following the parampara and encouraging all the devotees in that direction. When your work is done there, you may return to South Africa, and I have asked Mukunda to help you with some men for South Africa. I am also very pleased with the reports I am getting from Brahmananda Swami, so please cooperate with him in Africa. Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/sdg Labels: Bhaktivedanta Manor, report, South Africa letters | 17:04 | |
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