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May 30, 2009 1966 May 30: "Ekadasi: In the evening there was meeting. About 10 students attended. Myke brought his tanpura and it added to the tune of Samkirtan. Mr. Goldsmith has agreed to join the International Association for Krishna Consciousness." Prabhupada Letters :: 1966 letters | 09:50 | 1968 May 30: "So I am leaving for Montreal and the second chapter for trying for visa will begin. I do not know what is in the future, but I have desired that I may go to London, and try to establish a center there for European activities." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968 letters | 09:48 | 1968 May 30: "Standard practices for initiated devotees are: Must attend evening and morning classes, Should not extensively mix with non-devotees, Should not eat food cooked by non-devotees, Should not waste time in idle talks, Should not become engaged in frivolous sports, and Should always chant and sing the Lord's Holy Names." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968 letters | 09:46 | 1968 May 30: "So long we are individual souls, there must be disagreement. But not when one is surrendered unto Krishna. There cannot be any disagreement in discharge of duties in Krishna Consciousness." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968 letters | 09:43 | 1971 May 30: "Please go on preaching. There is no necessity of attending a university. Utilize what talents you have already in Krishna's service and He will give you the intelligence to increase more and more." Prabhupada Letters :: 1971 letters | 09:38 | 1975 May 30: "On May 18th we opened very large headquarters in Melbourne, Australia. Many outsiders came. I installed two very large Gaura Nitai deities. Things are going on very nicely in the Western countries." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 09:36 | 1975 May 30: "In the Kuruksetra University a class should be opened for studying Krishna Consciousness offering BA, MA, PhD. I can arrange for many foreign students to come there." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 09:15 | 1975 May 30: "If we accept the Varnashrama principle, surely everyone will be engaged in their occupation and unemployment will be finished. Propagate this movement on the principles of Bhagavad-gita and all problems of human society will be solved." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 09:08 | May 29, 2009 1966 May 29: "Dasami: There was no expenditure today. Karl came to dine with us. He is informed of last night's incidence. I have told him that I wish to live in separate apartment. He is trying for that." Prabhupada Journal :: 1966 letters | 09:43 | 1969 May 29: "I do not know what I can do in these legal matters. That perennial watch-dog is playing some mischief. In the church there is everything as required by the law. So best thing is to occupy the church. That is my opinion." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 09:41 | 1971 May 29: "Person means not a dead stone. Person means all living entities. We cannot understand. A stone in the spiritual world; if I ask it to move, it will move automatically. In the material world it will not." Prabhupada Letters :: 1971 letters | 09:38 | 1971 May 29: "Increase your school and college programs and try to have a regular credited course at the University. Your proposed asrama can be located anywhere, it doesn't matter. Just wherever you can attract most people." Prabhupada Letters :: 1971 letters | 09:36 | 1974 May 29: "As for dedication, please use the following:'Presented to my friends and devotees who like to read my books and approached to request me to render the great Caitanya-caritamrta into English.'" Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 09:33 | 1975 May 29: "If you give the right protection to the cows, then they will give so much milk, that the ground will be muddy with milk. European and American civilization will be finished on account of this sinful activity of killing the cows." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 09:32 | May 28, 2009 1966 May 28: "N.B. There was an incidence extraordinary. At 10 night when I was typewriting Paul became too much irritated and I stopped typewriting. It was unusual due to his abnormal condition. Better to take precaution in future." Prabhupada Journal :: 1966 letters | 02:36 | 1968 May 28: "Don't wait for next life for finishing up the business of Krishna Consciousness; try to finish up in this life. And pray if it is unfinished, Krishna may give you chance to take birth in a family where the father and mother are in Krishna Consciousness." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968 letters | 02:34 | 1970 May 28: "We have to maintain two lines parallel; namely the path of Srimad-Bhagavatam and the path of Pancaratriki. Srimad-Bhagavatam is the path for Paramahamsas, and Pancaratra path is for the neophytes." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 02:31 | 1971 May 28: "You whave introduced Tulasi in the Western countries and Tulasi is now growing very luxuriantly. May Tulasi be kind upon you and introduce you to Krishna, to be one of the assistant maid-servant gopis in Vrindaban." Prabhupada Letters :: 1971 letters | 02:29 | 1972 May 28: "We want to give the citizens the positive value of Krishna consciousness way of life, so we must always be preaching very strongly in the public. Therefore I approve your plan to run for public office." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 02:26 | 1974 May 28: "My only idea was to point out to the public the need for purified leaders. I had no idea to spend money and energy of our society in a way which is not our real spiritual life." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 02:23 | 1974 May 28: "Studying your letter thoroughly I have come to the conclusion you may stop the political program. It will not benefit our real spiritual position. I am not interested to divert attention from spiritual progress for political propaganda." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 02:22 | 1975 MAY 28: "As much as possible, we want our books to be accepted by all learned circles of men. But, we cannot give books away free to anyone. They must be paid for." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 02:18 | May 27, 2009 1966 May 27: "Astami: Today I saw a good apartment and lecture hall at 218 Park Row Chatham Square. In the evening there was meeting about 15 persons both ladies & gentlemen attended. The contribution was only $8.70." Prabhupada Letters :: 1966 letters | 03:06 | 1969 May 27: "There are many Indians who may be delighted to have a Hindu temple there, but we are especially interested in something else. Our plan is not to sponsor the Hindus. Our real purpose is to spread Krishna Consciousness." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 03:05 | 1970 May 27: "So if Krsna desires, we may go to India next year with our sankirtan party, but I will prefer if George Harrison takes the responsibility of this touring party. If he is serious about it, I can give my suggestions about how it will be done." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 03:03 | 1970 May 27: "The Deities in very pleasing mood, yes, that is the test. That will certify our service. So everywhere we shall see the Deities in such pleasing mood. As soon as we see the Deities in a different mood we must immediately understand our discrepancies." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 03:01 | 1970 May 27: "Our Temple is meant for our men, and we may have our own discussions, no outsider needed. We have not got to learn anything from any outsider. Our philosophy is established on sound ground." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 03:00 | 1974 May 27: "You must be very careful. It is not that every man has to be made a brahmana after a year. Especially if one cannot even get up early and go to mangala arati he cannot become a brahmana. So consider it carefully." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 02:57 | 1975 May 27: "Help organize our cow program. We must have good brahmanas and we must have good vaisyas also who can grow grains and tend cows and supply food-grains and milk products like ghee, curd, cream, etc." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 02:55 | 1975 May 27: "I am very sorry that you have taken to homosex. It will not help you advance in your attempt for spiritual life. In fact, it will only hamper your advancement. I do not know why you have taken to such abominable activities." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 02:51 | May 26, 2009 1966 May 26: "Saptami: Today I went to Dr. Mishra to dine with him. The expenditure was subway .30. Today Paul showed his crazy mind but he was sorry later on for his breaking the keertan performaces in the morning service." Prabhupada Journal :: 1966 letters | 10:09 | 1969 May 26: "Regarding Rathayatra, this must be done at any cost. I may go or not go; that is not important. But Rathayatra Festival must be done." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 10:08 | 1969 May 26: "Regarding the Gaudiya Mission, I have replied asking them the terms of cooperation. Let us see, although it is a hopeless business. Still, as you know, I never become hopeless in any case." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 10:06 | 1970 May 26: "We have received the full set of paintings for the first volume of KRSNA book, and they are all very, very excellent. You are all being inspired just how to portray the Lord so everyone who sees will turn to become devotees - that is our aim." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 10:03 | 1972 May 26: "Now I want that my GBC representatives shall travel extensively without stopping. Their job will be to see how things are going on, that the spiritual standard is maintained very high, to give encouragement to the devotees, like that." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 10:01 | 1974 May 26: "This is most irresponsible and nonsensical. I never wrote or intended that he should leave you. Do not be bewildered. Go on chanting Hare Krsna and simply trust in Krsna as the dearmost friend." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 09:59 | 1974 May 26: "Though you have experienced difficulty, you are keeping faith in Krsna and the spiritual master. This faithfulness has pleased me very much." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 09:56 | 1975 May 26: "There is so much work to do for spreading this Krishna Consciousness. Who will become attracted by such things as this? You should all spend more time reading my books very carefully and stop all this unnecessary manufacturing." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 09:54 | 1975 May 26: "The Deity worship must be done very gorgeously. Have many varieties of first class ghee-cooked preparations. The L.A. standard is good, but still you should have a better standard." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 09:52 | May 25, 2009 1966 May 25: "In the evening there was meeting the attendance was about 18 heads. After the meeting there was consultations about incorporation of The International Society for Krishna consciousness." Prabhupada Journals :: 1966 letters | 00:26 | 1969 May 25: "Here it is a very nice spot for developing our community project. There is sufficient land for building great temples and houses for devotees. There is pasturing land, and sufficient grass and vegetables for the grazing of cows." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 00:24 | 1969 May 25: "In everything we do, devotion and sincerity are the real things. The procedure may not be very right - but the desire being sincere - the Lord accepts our offering." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 00:23 | 1970 May 25: "You have asked some specific mantra. Srila Bhaktivinode says, 'When I chant Hare Krsna all my dangers are gone immediately.' So what other mantra can be more effective than Hare Krsna?" Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 00:22 | 1970 May 25: "Regarding using our Temple for marriage ceremonies for the Hindu community, we cannot take responsibility for marrying others who are not initiated by us." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 00:20 | 1972 May 25: "We can never expect any kind of utopia, even in the spiritual world. Wherever there are persons there are bound to be differences. We should not expect any kind of perfect arrangement in this material world." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 00:13 | 1974 May 25: "So I am glad that you are fully absorbed in your work and very concerned that it be executed just to my satisfaction in parampara standard. This is your perfection." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 00:12 | 1974 May 25: "Temple presidents must be very careful on recommending gayatri initiation. After all, we are criticizing false cast brahmanas, if we ourselves are bogus brahmanas then our position is very bad." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 00:10 | May 24, 2009 1967 May 24: "An important negotiation is going on in respect of purchasing a very nice house for the ISKCON H.Q. in New York. So I may not start in the beginning of the Second week. I hope this will not cause any inconvenience." Prabhupada Letters :: 1967 letters | 13:17 | 1970 May 24: "I am so glad that you remember the auspicious day in 1944 when I started my Back to Godhead magazine. I think in the first issue you wrote some article. It is a great pleasure to remember those days of cooperation." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 13:16 | 1970 May 24: "Bhakti Saranga Goswami presided over the meeting in which our revered Kesav Maharaja participated. On account of my selecting Goswami Maharaja, Sripada Tirtha Maharaja (then Kunjababa) and Bon Maharaja also refused to accept my invitation." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 13:12 | 1970 May 24: "We have got now 30 centers, and in each center the devotees are going to the streets and selling Back to Godhead at the rate of 100 to 400 copies daily, and the price is $.50 per copy which is in Indian exchange Rs. 3.50." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 13:11 | 1972 May 24: "In India, the independent and self supporting method does not apply. Bombay is the headquarters and all other centers shall send their funds for centralizing in Bombay." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 13:09 | 1972 May 24: "Actually it is the duty of the Spiritual Master to find fault with his students so that they may make progress, not that he should always be praising them. I am only interested that you become Krishna Conscious." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 13:06 | |
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