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July 20, 2009 1967 July 20: "I am feeling too much to return to Vrindaban at the lotus feet Vrindaban Behary Lord Krishna; and therefore I have decided to return to India immediately. I would have liked to return via sea, but in my precarious health that is not possible." Prabhupada Letters :: 1967 letters | 01:57 | 1967 July 20: "The Holy Name of Hare Krishna is now being chanted not only in America but also in England, Holland and Mexico, that I know of. It may be even more widespread. Therefore it is a need that this movement must be spread. It is glorious for India and glorious for Hindu Religion." Prabhupada Letters :: 1967 letters | 01:56 | 1969 July 20: "To understand Radha Krishna's Pastimes, that is our aim, but we should not indulge in this at present. Unless one is highly elevated it is risky. We have so many other things to discuss; what is the soul, what is bhakti." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 01:52 | 1969 July 20: "Krishna Consciousness is not brought to America in an altered form. It is the bonafide process. If you continue to associate with the devotees you will see practically how you are making very, very nice spiritual advancement." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 01:49 | 1973 July 20: "So you have sufficient engagement there? Because if we are not full time engaged then the mind is free to do its fickle business. Maya will immediately enter - we do not even have to call her." Prabhupada Letters :: 1973 letters | 01:46 | 1973 July 20: "We want all our foreign language books to be translated by devotees. If a nondevotee tries to give his interpretation, you know well the havoc which can result. For the duratma, Krsna is very difficult." Prabhupada Letters :: 1973 letters | 01:44 | 1973 July 20: "I am awaiting anxiously your report on my meeting with the Emperor of Japan. As to when I shall be able to go, in September I will stay in L.A. Then whenever you call me to Japan I shall be able to go." Prabhupada Letters :: 1973 letters | 01:37 | 1973 July 20: "You proposed to move to another building but I do not appreciate this idea. Go directly to the Columbia Club building so we can purchase and move directly there. I am praying to Krsna that He will favor you with that new house for conducting His preaching work." Prabhupada Letters :: 1973 letters | 01:35 | July 19, 2009 1970 July 19 : "To serve the Spiritual Master's word is more important than to serve him physically. I do not feel separation from my Guru Maharaja. When I am engaged in His service His pictures give me sufficient strength." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 12:14 | 1970 July 19 : "Although Mohammed and Jesus Christ appeared in the Kali Yuga their instruction is as it is because the persons to whom they had to speak could not understand any more and they found it difficult to understand even that much." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 12:13 | 1970 July 19 : "You are expecting to see me, I also expected to see the Rathayatra, but you made no arrangement so what can I do? So let us meet by Sankirtana." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 12:12 | 1972 July 19 : "We have celebrated a very, very nice Rathayatra festival here in London, and in the Trafalgar Square I initiated nearly 30 new devotees before 25,000 persons, mostly Englishmen. We are leaving for Paris tomorrow." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 12:10 | 1973 July 19 : "I am eating and working nicely here. The village is neat and clean and I am walking daily. George Harrison came to meet with me and he is very enthusiastic to cooperate." Prabhupada Letters :: 1973 letters | 12:09 | 1973 July 19 : "It is not important to hold GBC meeting for passing resolutions etc. Go on working. The best time is Lord Caitanya's Appearance Day in Mayapur. If possible all the devotees should go at that time." Prabhupada Letters :: 1973 letters | 12:06 | 1974 July 19: "These things should strictly not be done. You should know it that Krsna is not a plaything. If you do this, then Krsna will become a fairy tale. About trying to have karmis make a movie on Krsna Book, please drop this matter." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 12:04 | 1974 July 19: "Regarding Dr. O.B.L. Kapoor of Vrindaban. We shall not publish on the basis of royalty. Dr. Svarupa Damodara, PhD. has given us one book and we printed 30,000 copies and there was no contract or agreement." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 12:03 | July 18, 2009 1970 July 18 : "The most important thing for spiritual realization is the company of realized souls or pure devotees of the Lord." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 10:08 | 1970 July 18: "World Sankirtana Party does not mean that we have to cover immediately the whole world. The program is that everywhere this Sankirtana Movement should be introduced." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 10:06 | 1970 July 18: "If the temples are not properly maintained, then we should simply concentrate on Sankirtana outside. Temple opening is secondary, but we should concentrate on the outside Sankirtana." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 10:05 | 1970 July 18 : "Since the publication of the book in 1968, which is now in its third printing, I desire to publish the Gita according to the original manuscript. This expanded version would be a 800-900 page book." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 09:48 | 1970 July 18 : "Many verses in the shortened volume lack any purport and I am confident the original manuscript will make a more successful book. Please inform me whether MacMillan wants to publish this expanded version of the Gita." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 09:46 | 1975 July 18: "You should go see Swami Bon Maharaja and ask if he has replied to my last letter to him, a copy of which is enclosed. You should take a copy of his reply and send it to me c/o Los Angeles address." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 07:21 | 1975 July 18: "Chant Hare Krishna and read our books very carefully. Do not waste your time with this study of monkeys. What will you learn by this? Better to hear from Lord Krishna Himself in Bhagavad-gita." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 07:18 | 1975 July 18: "Somehow or other they must be induced to take interest in spiritual life. Then it will be successful. You will get money and they will get spiritual profit. Both will be benefited by the grace of Krishna Balarama." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 07:16 | July 17, 2009 1968 July 17: "I am informed about your Kirtana activities in San Francisco and its success. I think Krishna is dictating us to adopt this method for propagating the Sankirtana movement all over the different cities, towns and villages on the surface of the globe." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968 letters | 06:52 | 1969 July 17: "Thank you for Krishna Tape #13 and I am enclosing herewith Tape #16. Now I shall expedite work on the Krishna book, as I have completed The Nectar of Devotion. Please let me know how far you have finished the Bhagavatam." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 06:50 | 1969 July 17: "There are many Vaisnava temples there, if any big temple is in difficulty financially, we can take charge of this temple and improve it and maintain it nicely. So if you know of any prospective temples where this could be arranged, please inform us." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 06:46 | 1973 July 17: "If you wish to live separately you have to earn your livelihood by business, by taking some employment to maintain your home and family. But you cannot go into the streets and hold sankirtana and sell our books as a means of maintenance." Prabhupada Letters :: 1973 letters | 06:43 | 1974 July 17: "All our sannyasis will be present there. You also come there as a regular sannyasi and take part. That is my desire. So long I am living I wish you all be strictly under my guidance without any fratricidal disagreement." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 06:33 | 1974 July 17: "Yes, it will be very nice if the Chinese boys come there to the Hong Kong center. That is our mission - that local boys take up interest in our movement." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 06:31 | 1975 July 17: "We are selling 30-40 lakhs around the world so we shall expect at least sales in India of one lakh of Rupees per month. Did the Oberoi-Sheraton Hotel purchase our books? The hotels must purchase our books for putting in their rooms." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 06:30 | 1975 July 17: "Expenditure must be stabilized and srutinized. Nothing should be spent extravagantly. That you have to see. Do not bother my brain how to do it. I have put you in charge how to do it." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 06:28 | July 16, 2009 1966 July 16: "Regarding the Jhansi incident referred to by your Guru maharaj, the donor did not like to hand over the estate to an individual. I therefore registered The League of Devotees, and I invited your Guru maharaj to join as head man. But he desired to have the property in joint name with Kunjababa. So I became silent and I left the whole scheme." Prabhupada Letters :: 1966 letters | 09:24 | 1966 July 16: "We are not always successful in our attempts in preaching work but such failures are not certainly ludicrous. In the Absolute field both success and failures are glorious." Prabhupada Letters :: 1966 letters | 09:22 | 1968 July 16: "Your appreciation of the Rathayatra festival and realizing the beauty of Kirtana and Jagannatha are some of the wonderful things that I mark in your advancement. Continue this attitude and at the end you will get entrance into the association of Krishna." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968 letters | 09:17 | 1969 July 16: "I am surprised to learn that Krishna's money was found simply lying around. This Sankirtana Party and our Book Department, they are our right and left hands. Because we are doing Krishna's business does not mean that we should be less careful - but it means we should be much more careful." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 09:13 | 1970 July 16: "My Spiritual Master advised me to preach the Krsna consciousness movement in the Western world and I was preparing to come here since a long time. I met late Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Dr. Radhakrishnan and Lal Bahadar Shastri for this purpose." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 09:07 | 1970 July 16: "Calcutta is my birthplace. Our house was at 151 Harrison Road, now Mahatma Gandhi Road. This house was originally purchased by late Siva Prasad Jhunjhun Mullick and I think at present the Govinda Bhavan is situated there." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 09:05 | 1975 July 16: "So far I have studied Siddhasvarupa, he is not a bad boy, but he has his own philosophy, from the very beginning. It is almost inevitable that there should be enviousness amongst the godbrothers, just like amongst my godbrothers." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 09:01 | 1975 July 16: "Why they should get salary? There should be no salary. You are working without salary. So after this month arrange for no one to get any salary there. That will be nice." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 09:00 | July 15, 2009 1968 July 15: "My special instruction to you all is that you practice Sankirtana very rhythmically and in a responsive way. That means one should chant first, and others should follow him. That is a very nice system." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968 letters | 14:39 | 1969 July 15: "This program of offering grand scale quantities of prasadam amongst the general people was encouraged by Lord Caitanya, because if someone partakes of the remnants of offerings to Lord Krishna, then he is sure to come back to Krishna Consciousness again at one time or another." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 14:33 | 1969 July 15: "Regarding Festivals, you may hold as many as possible. If you can hold such festivals daily, that is also nice. Our movement is for ananda, simply bliss, and the method of pushing this movement is chanting, dancing, feasting and philosophizing." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 14:32 | 1969 July 15: "To do things hastily and incorrectly is not good. Anything valuable takes a little time to come into existence. Therefore there is no harm in waiting for the best thing. But everything is well that ends well: That should be the principle." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 14:29 | 1972 July 15: "Sometimes our Krsnadasa Babaji sings, but it is not approved by Prabhupada. Those songs are for siddha bhaktas. Lord Caitanya never divulged in public, he enjoyed them in the company of his selected three or four devotees." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 14:25 | 1970 July 15: "As I have taken this work as my life and soul on the order of my Spiritual Master, similarly if you take my desires as life and soul, then the whole thing is immediately connected with Krsna. That is the meaning of Parampara." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 02:27 | 1974 July 15: "The philosophy discourses we had years ago is now lying without any utility, so all devotees are very much anxious to publish it. Why it should be delayed unnecessarily?" Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 02:23 | 1974 July 15: "We wish to hold a grand festival of the opening of Krishna Balarama temple at Raman Reti. There will be seven days function, and the arrangement has been made that anyone who visits our temple may be supplied with sumptuous prasadam both kachi and pakki." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 02:20 | July 14, 2009 1968 July 14: "This chanting of Hare Krishna will make everything clear. Chanting of Hare Krishna is not meant for achieving any other better thing than Krishna. You will be glad to know here we are performing kirtana in the Expo Worlds Fair." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968 letters | 06:31 | 1971 July 14: "Bhisma was lying on the bed of arrows. The arrows pierced his body only they did not go all the way through. The arrows piercing his back were supporting his body and there were many arrows piercing his chest. There were no arrows in his head." Prabhupada Letters :: 1971 letters | 06:25 | 1972 July 14: "Yesterday I have met with George Harrison and his wife in their place at Henley, and they are both very much favorable. They want to stay with us for some time at Radha-Damodara Temple this winter sometime, I will tell you when." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 06:20 | 1972 July 14: "Tourists may concentrate in Vrindaban with us, live with us, and learn from us the spiritual life. What is the use of wandering here and there, simply seeing this and that and going home? Our main business is to teach them Krishna Consciousness." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 06:19 | 1973 July 14: "I am holding morning class. There are about 40 devotees living with me, similarly there are 30 devotees in Bury Place. So I shall be glad to hear about Bombay affairs and as you send me every month statements of Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, kindly send me that also." Prabhupada Letters :: 1973 letters | 06:17 | 1974 July 14: "The festival must be gorgeously done. It should not be poor. If there is a scarcity of money, it will be supplied. There must be full prasadam for all the guests. You plan for that, and I will supply the funds. Complete prasada distribution must go on." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 06:14 | 1975 July 14: "Krishna and Krishna's representative are not different. The Spiritual Master is accepted by all advanced devotees as Hari. Therefore it is said saksadhari." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 06:12 | 1975 July 14: "I received report that he was talking privately in his room with a woman. What is this? Private talks with woman are immediately condemned. He is a good preacher, but it is very dangerous to close the door with woman." 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