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| .: Prabhupada Letters :. Anthology a.c. bhaktivedanta swami |
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March 28, 2009 1960 March 28: "The best thing is to hear the from the highest authority Sri Krishna or His devotee representative coming down in the chain of disciplic succession. I shall be very glad if you join my mission (The League of Devotees)." Prabhupada Letters :: 1947-64 letters | 19:08 | 1966 March 28: "Astami. One letter received from Sri Teertha Maharaj. The state of the country is too much perplexing on account of food situation. It is understood that loss of life and property in Bengal is beyond imagination." Prabhupada Journal :: 1966 letters | 19:04 | 1967 March 28: "We must get possession of the house for Krishna's Temple or we must get back the money for Krishna's service. Forget the great loss. Work sincerely in Krishna Consciousness and everything will be in order." Prabhupada Letters :: 1967< letters | 19:02 | 1968 March 28: "I am expecting you to be very powerful preachers in the near future so that this Movement will be spread all over the world. You keep yourself in that very humble mentality and Krishna will be very pleased upon you." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968 letters | 18:58 | 1970 March 28: "I understand some of you have moved to George Harrison's place. What is the program there? Also you were in Paris with George for a television engagement. Did you find our Paris Temple? Give George my blessings." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 18:52 | 1971 March 28: "Your reports of Sankirtana are all very much encouraging. There is great potential there for spreading our Movement in Malaysia. So work with determination and sincerity and Krishna will give you all facility." Prabhupada Letters :: 1971 letters | 18:46 | 1973 March 28: "Tokyo is unlimited. They are distributing large amounts of BTGs there, 500 to 1000 per day. I expect to visit Tokyo soon and I can see you at that time." Prabhupada Letters :: 1973 letters | 18:44 | 1974 March 28: "If you can establish a strong center in Taiwan it will be a great idea. We have one branch in Moscow, if we get a branch in China, on the mainland, it will be a great achievement." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 18:39 | March 27, 2009 1966 March 27: "Saptami. Today one Mr. Howard Wheeler of 71st St. became acquainted with me. He appears to be a good friend. Whole day I was in the Ashram and I came back in the evening. I spent the night at the Studio 501." Prabhupada Journal :: 1966 letters | 21:00 | 1969 March 27: "If you accompany me, that will be a very nice thing. I want your company always so let us see what Krishna desires in the future." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 20:59 | 1972 March 27: "If we simply repeat this philosophy exactly as it is, without any misrepresentation or adulteration, then this movement will never be checked, and we will conquer the world." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 12:45 | 1972 March 27: "Decide how much you can comfortably eat, then take half of that. This will keep one healthy, strong and free from disease." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 12:44 | 1972 March 27: "These thoughts of sense gratification are bound to come into our mind, but if we do not act on them and keep ourselves always engaged, they will have no effect." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 12:42 | 1974 March 27: "Separation of men and women should be strictly observed in the temple; between single men and women there must be strict division and strict observance of no illicit sex." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 12:40 | 1974 March 27: "That is good management. Whether grhasthas, sannyasa or brahmacari everyone has to be completely engaged all the time, not sleeping unnecessarily or talking idly." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 12:37 | March 26, 2009 1966 March 26: "Sasthi. Today when I came back from Dr. Mishra's apartment at 1 pm I saw my window on the door broken and entering the door I saw my tape recorder, typewriter, and books-bag stolen. The whole thing was upset." Prabhupada Journal :: 1966 letters | 13:27 | 1968 March 26: "I very much appreciate your acknowledgement of my service and you will always have my blessings, but you must know that you have committed a great blunder. I do not wish to discuss on this point more elaborately now." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968 letters | 13:26 | 1968 March 26: "I understand that he has been induced to be initiated by him for giving him shelter, and this foolish boy has accepted his inducement. In the future, we shall be very cautious about them." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968 letters | 13:24 | 1968 March 26: "So it is deliberate transgression of Vaisnava etiquettes and otherwise a deliberate insult to me. I do not know why he has done like this but no Vaisnava will approve of this offensive action." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968 letters | 13:23 | 1969 March 26: "Practically there is no credit for me, if there is any credit it goes to my Spiritual Master. Whatever is being done, it is due to His Divine Grace only. So my business is just to carry out His order." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 13:18 | 1970 March 26: "I take it for granted that you are one of the selected devotees of Lord Caitanya who from within your heart has inspired you to go to such a distant place, leaving your parents and home." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 13:14 | 1970 March 26: "Formerly your forefathers were courageous to go to Australia for colonization. Now you, their descendants, have also gone there with this great mission. Execute it to your best capacity." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 13:12 | 1974 March 26: "If you are seriously interested in maintaining a temple in your home, why not try to financially assist my disciples there. That will be taken by Krishna as a great service." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 13:07 | March 25, 2009 1966 March 25: "Panchami. Meeting in the evening, everyone brought some fruits and grains. Seven ladies and gentlemen attended. There were two newcomers. Captain and Mrs. Pandiya also were there." Prabhupada Journal :: 1966 letters | 20:26 | 1967 March 25: "My primary duty is to publish the Srimad-Bhagavatam and finish it in my life. But preaching in the Western countries is also my duty as it was ordered by my Spiritual Master." Prabhupada Letters :: 1967 letters | 20:25 | 1970 march 25: "The devotees of the Lord are so powerful that each and every one of them has the power of delivering many demons, even condemned by the Lord. If you remain faithful, you shall be able to deliver many such demons." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 20:21 | 1971 March 25: "Show them Krsna Books and ask them to read any part and if they like what they have read they should purchase, and if not you will walk away. Who could resist?" Prabhupada Letters :: 1971 letters | 20:17 | 1971 March 25: "These college students have all been misguided. Without Krishna Consciousness, all their book learning amounts to zero. Simply if they will add Krishna Consciousness to their curriculum." Prabhupada Letters :: 1971 letters | 20:12 | 1972 March 25: "My Guru Maharaja said this is a society of cheaters and cheated. They are preaching all nonsense and the people are accepting. If someone wants to be cheated, what can be done?" Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 20:08 | 1972 March 25: "The report is very encouraging. For the last 50 years our Godbrothers were there but they could not make arrangements for the Hindus and Muslims to take prasadam together." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 20:06 | 1974 March 25: "Since a long time I did not hear from you, but I am very anxious to see you. Here in Bombay we have a nice spot. I shall be glad if you come here and live with me for some time." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 19:59 | March 24, 2009 1966 March 24: "Chaturthi. Captain Pandiya with Mrs. Pandiya came to see me. They are happy and I was so pleased to see them. There was meeting today. Three ladies and three gentlemen besides the captain and his wife attended. Mr. Robert brought some fruits & grains for me." Prabhupada Journnal :: 1966 letters | 19:47 | 1969 March 24: "I understand you are proposing for delivering children. You should not bother about it. That is not a Sannyasi's business.A Sannyasi should not much bother about family affairs." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 19:45 | 1969 March 24: "You have lost now a good soul, and if he does not like to live with you, he may come at once and live with me personally. You should check such passion." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 19:41 | 1970 March 24: "Do not feel inferior complexity. When Krsna will give you chance, you will do more than others are doing. But whatever you do, do it nicely in Krsna's service." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 19:32 | 1970 March 24: "All these things are great achievement of your London Yatra. Personally I feel a great credit because my Guru Maharaja is certainly very pleased." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 19:30 | 1971 March 24: "Now we should concentrate on developing the centers nicely. So we should work in such a way that all our centers may prosper." Prabhupada Letters :: 1971 letters | 19:23 | 1973 March 24: "The Temple bus is to attract them aboard back to Krsna. Now you have my full blessings, so go out and recruit some solid new devotees." Prabhupada Letters :: 1973 letters | 19:19 | 1974 March 24: "In court a person can be punished for perjury if he tells a lie, so those who promise before the deity will be punished if they fail to do so." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 19:14 | March 23, 2009 1966 March 23 : "One letter to Mayor's office. Informed that I shall wait to see Mr. Lindsay till he is free to talk with me. In Dr. Mishra's apartment there were ten to eleven members and I cooked for them all. Today's meeting only two gentlemen attended therefore I did not record the speeches." Prabhupada Journal :: 1966 letters | 10:34 | 1968 March 23: "I want to see that you make BTG a successful magazine like Life Magazine or Illustrated Weekly of India. I am very much ambitious of the progress of the paper, and you can use your discretion how to do it." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968 letters | 09:56 | 1969 March 23: "My standing request is this: amongst yourselves there should not be any disagreement. Whatever you do, you do it by joint consultation. That is my desire." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 09:49 | 1971 March 23: "Go on with work undaunted. That should be followed. Haridas Thakur was harassed even by corporal punishment. Jesus Christ was killed. Nityananda Prabhu was injured by Jagai and Madai. But still preaching never stopped." Prabhupada Letters :: 1971 letters | 09:06 | 1972 March 23 : "Today we have laid down the cornerstone for our Bombay Center in Juhu. The program now in India is immense task. I am very much encouraged that you feel yourself enthusiastic to help." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 06:42 | 1973 March 23 : "We are trying to make Brahmanas from anywhere in the world. We offer the intelligent person the opportunity to be trained up in the highest spiritual knowledge. So recruit some solid devotees for pushing on this movement." Prabhupada Letters :: 1973 letters | 06:40 | 1974 March 23: "I want that those who come to Vrindavan, whether grhasthas or sannyasis, behave on the level of real Goswamis - controlling the senses and always glorifying Krsna by varieties of engagement in devotional service 24 hours a day." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 05:59 | 1974 March 23: "Your political sankirtana Godbrothers are here, but I have informed them their real work is in the USA. You are in the nation's capital - if you can get support there it will be grand preaching for our movement." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 05:11 | March 22, 2009 1966 March 22 : "Dwitiya. Two letters received. One from the Mayor's office, New York City. One from the United States Navigation regarding Jaladuta. In the evening two gentlemen and lady came. Discussed for some time. No income and no expenditure." Prabhupada Journal :: 1966 letters | 11:48 | 1968 March 22 : "I am so much pleased to hear the wonderful news of your Sankirtana meetings. This sort of enterprise is the most valuable spiritual attempt. And I thank you from the core of my heart for doing such a nice thing." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968 letters | 11:38 | 1968 March 22 : "The authorities there are simply like wooden dolls in the hands of the Dance Master. Fear personified cannot remain in the prescence of Krishna so there is nothing to fear, simply it is botheration." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968 letters | 11:36 | 1969 March 22 : "Regarding Syama's kirtana; it is also nice. But it does not behoove that I shall sing with her. Let us see how much she is advanced in Krishna Consciousness. And then we shall think of full cooperation." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 11:34 | 1972 March 22 : "Simply stick very closely to the regulative principles and always keep yourself 24 hours engaged in devotional service, so much so, that you will be too much busy serving Krishna to think about other things." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 09:38 | 1972 March 22 : "Our business is to engage many men in the devotional service of Krsna, and if we give the job for distributing all our books to others, then where is the opportunity to give our students good training how to preach?" Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 09:30 | 1972 March 22 : "I wish to speak at least once a week on television on the great philosophy of Bhagavata Dharma. If we are successful then my dreamt mission to spread Krishna Consciousness all over the world will be fulfilled." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 09:28 | 1974 March 22: "He constitutes a menace; he should be punished and a court case should be taken. We are always protected by Krsna but this crazy threat should not go unchecked. Therefore go to Scotland Yard and present the letter." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 08:14 | |
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