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| Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 |
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28 October 2008 Monday, 28 October, 1974 Mayapur My Dear Sripati dasa: Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated August 6, 1974 with enclosed Deed of Sale. I am very glad that you have gotten this house. Now make it very nice for Krishna. It should be so attractive that people will want to go there and take advantage of this Krishna consciousness movement. Do not make it simply for comfortable living. Yes, if you distribute my books side by side than that is a very good arrangement, and your temple will be glorious in the city of Montreal. I will want to go there and visit you when I next come to the USA, so I will look forward to that. Since it is our own house, you can install large Deities. You can install big Deities like Chicago temple. Invite Kirtanananda Maharaja and Jagadisa Prabhu and have a nice ceremony. Upon your recommendation I am accepting for brahminical initiation: Ghosa Thakura dasa, Priya Bandhu dasa, Priya Bhakta dasa, Bhadra Priya dasi, Sadhvi dasi, and Mohini dasi. Enclosed are the sanctififed threads. I also accept for first initiation the following devotees and their names are: Paul Campbell--Puskaraksa dasa; Christian Thomas--Krtakrta dasa; Leona Bolivar--Lalita devi dasi; Marie Cadeau--Medhya devi dasi. Now hold a fire sacrifice and the gayatri mantra should be listened from my tape recording through the right ear. I hope this meets you in good health. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/bs Labels: initiation, Montreal, purchase letters | 03:16 |28 October, 1974 Mayapur Teton Village, Wyoming My Dear Sriman Alfred Ford: Please accept my blessings. Sudama Maharaja has brought me the news here in India that you have already purchased the house in Honolulu and have given the key to Sudama for taking possession. Thank you very much for your kindness. Krishna will bless you with more opulence and knowledge. Human life is meant for acquiring knowledge and detachment to the material world. Knowledge means to understand that everything belongs to Krishna. Krishna consciousness means that everything including myself are different energies of the Lord and as such should be utilized for the purpose of Krishna. Krishna wants that all living entities should live with Him, as the father likes the whole family to live with him. Our Krishna consciousness movement is to educate people how to re-enter the family of Krishna and thus become eternally happy and blissful. I am expecting to visit Hawaii latest by April, 1975, and I hope I shall be able to see you at that time. Thanking you once more. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/bs Labels: Alfred Ford, Hawaii, purchase letters | 03:15 |29 September 2008 29 September, 1974 Mayapur My Dear Jagadisa das: Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your telegram dated September 25, 1974 as follows: REQUEST PERMISSION TO PURCHASE BUILDING IN TORONTO STOP PRICE $200,000 RENOVATIONS $100,000 STOP VERY REASONABLE FOR TORONTO CONSIDERING THAT PROPERTY COSTS IN TORONTO AMONG HIGHEST IN NORTH AMERICA STOP LOCATION SIDE LAYOUT PRICE ALL FEATURES EXTREMELY SUITABLE PLEASE REPLY IMMEDIATELY JAGADISA So, if suitable you can purchase this house immediately. I hope this meets you in good health. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/bs Labels: building, purchase, telegram, Toronto letters | 12:06 |14 August 2008 14 August, 1974 Vrindaban My Dear Bhagavan Das; Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 5/8/74 with enclosed photographs of the house. This house is so nice. It is better than the other one. So you can purchase it. Enclosed is one letter from one person in Portugal which I am forwarding to you for necessary action. I hope this meets you in good health. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/bs letters | 06:35 | 13 April 2008 Friday, 13 April, 1974 Bombay Dear Vrindaban, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter in Bengali dated April 9, 1974 and beg to inform you we are still prepared to purchase the house at 72 Mahatma Gandhi Road, according to the terms already given. If the sellers are prepared to sell the house on the same terms we are ready. That is, Rs three lakhs, or Rs 60,000 for each of the five parties. There are five parties, your mother, your third maternal uncles and the other three parties who are resting in the house namely the family of your elder second and last maternal uncle. They can be paid immediately Rs 60,000 each and they must immediately vacate the house on receipt of the money. This has been already informed to you a year ago but you have done nothing in this connection. Still we are prepared to purchase the house on the above mentioned terms. But the sellers must agree and we are prepared to purchase. The purchase money cannot be given to anyone else; we shall directly deal with the sellers and pay them directly. So direct contact with the sellers is absolutely necessary. Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/sdg letters | 12:12 | |
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