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4 December 2008 Wednesday, 4 December, 1974 Bombay My Dear Atreya Rsi das: Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated November 18, 1974 with enclosed letter about the restaurant. Why you could not come to India? I had wanted you to come to discuss some matters. Bhagavan dasa also wanted you to come. Anyway I know the people of Tehran they like hatha yoga very much. I understand Parivrajakacarya Swami is teaching a course combining both hatha and bhakti yoga to attract the people. This is a very good idea. Somehow or other inject the bhakti yoga. That will save them from the degradations of sense gratification. Regarding the restaurant, what kind of restaurant it will be? The people of Iran are very rich and they can supply money for this purpose. I hope this meets you in good health. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/bs Labels: restaurant, Tehran, Yoga Club letters | 06:58 |2 December 2008 2 December, 1974 Bombay My Dear Sudama das Goswami: Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated November 21, 1974 and have noted the contents carefully. I had asked you not to open the restaurant. Do not open the restaurant. Stop this. It cannot be managed. Regarding the complaints against yourself you have mentioned, I do not find any complaints. But even if there should be such complaints, you must remain pure, and automatically the complaints will vanish. And, if there is any truth in the complaints, you should rectify and be purified. Regarding the other matters, these things you please consult amongst yourselves and do the needful. I hope this meets you in good health. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/bs Labels: Hawaii, restaurant letters | 05:07 |6 September 2008 7 September, 1974 Vrindaban My Dear Batugopala das; Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated August 21, with enclosed photographs. So Kirtanananda Maharaja has installed Deities. But without twenty devotees how you can have Deities? Your men are coming and going so why you are having Deity installation? You must have twenty devotees. Kirtanananda Maharaja, he should supply those devotees since he has authorized the installation. You can name the Deities, Radha-Muralidhara. Regarding taking the Deities out on sankirtana as advised by Tamala Krsna Goswami, occasionally the Deities may come and go, however you can let Tamala Krsna Goswami guide you in this connection. Regarding having your wife do the management, if there are no men available then what can be done? But now there is some difficulty in the management there is no question of opening up any restaurant. Do not open any restaurant. I am glad to see that you are living an ideal grhastha life. That is very good. The more you will become Krishna conscious the more you will forget sex life. Sex life is the original root cause of material bondage. When one takes to Krishna consciousness gradually sex at last becomes abominable, then he is fit to enter back to home back to Godhead. I hope this meets you in good health. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/bs/hdb Labels: Cleveland, Deities, grhastha, restaurant letters | 02:07 |4 September 2008 5 September, 1974 Vrindaban My Dear Sudama and Subaladas Goswamis: Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letters dated July 29, 30, August 6, 28 and 29th and telegram dated August 6, 1974 and have noted the contents. This restaurant program will not work. Do not attempt. You have to organize that new house. The restaurant is not at all advisable at the present moment. Restaurant is a very difficult thing. Best idea is for Subala to go to Fiji and preach. That is the business of sannyasi, not opening restaurant. Restaurant is for grhastha. Preaching is first. Subala should go there and tactfully manage and get men from Australia. Mr. Punja has written that he is arranging the ticket and will give assistance. So do it nicely. I hope this meets you in good health. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/bs Labels: Hawaii, restaurant, sannyasa letters | 02:01 |16 August 2008 Friday, 16 August, 1974 Vrindaban My Dear Batu Gopala Das: Please accept my blessings. I have received your letter dated 3/8/74. It is all right that you have remained there to do your duty. One should not leave a place if there is important business to do. That should be the principle. Constant changing is not good. Even if there is some fault in management it should be corrected, not changed. Besides that, Vaisnava philosophy is that everyone is addressed as prabhu, or master. Everyone should consider himself the servant of the other. That will make management very nice. Yes, you remain there in Cleveland permanently and manage it very nicely. That will please me. Regarding the restaurant, you should not name it as you have suggested, but Hare Krishna Restaurant. That should be the name. In each restaurant there should be the picture of Lord Caitanya, and the foods should be offered and distributed to the respected customers. There should also be a tape recorder playing the Sankirtana in mild voice. Regarding the secretary for the Central Zone, I have now re-appointed Jagadisa Prabhu who has returned from India. Regarding the devotees whom you have recommended, I accept them upon your recommendation and their initiated names are as follows: John Haslett--Halayudha Marjorie Haslett--Manovega devi Chris Hayes--Khangi Please see to it that they follow the regulative principles strictly. That is your responsibility. Here the temple opening has been postponed until the temple and asrama are fully completed. Yes, send the photos of your Deities, and I shall offer my obeisances. I hope this meets you in good health. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/bs Labels: Cleveland, initiation, management, restaurant letters | 15:46 | |
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