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June 13, 2009 1966 June 13 : "Dasami. Today somebody paid in the basket $100.00. In the morning class there was some discussion on friendship & discipleship. In the evening there was meeting. The attendance was nine only. At night Karl remained with us." Prabhupa Journal :: 1966 letters | 04:39 | 1968 June 13 : "I have sent one letter to Miss Rose, try to keep friendship with her. Everyone has dormant love for Krishna and we have to give one possible chance to awaken it. I think if you flatter her a little more, she will come." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968 letters | 04:38 | 1970 June 13: "Your chanting may not be stopped; it does not matter where you chant. For chanting there are no hard and fast rules, so if you are absent for chanting Hare Krsna somewhere else, it is as good as chanting in the temple." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 04:37 | 1972 June 13 : "We are only able to perform tapasya if we have got knowledge. So first thing is to become knowledgeable in Krishna Consciousness, then the tapasya or voluntary life of austerity will result automatically." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 04:37 | 1972 June 13 : "The children should always be instructed by taking advantage of their playful mood and teaching them to play Krsna games like become cowherd boys, cows, or peacocks, and always think of Krsna by playing." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 04:35 | 1973 June 13 : "The difficulty is, unless we have legal possession of the land, how can we get municipal sanction for the construction? But if he gives us legal right to construct the temple, we can then immediately get sanction." Prabhupada Letters :: 1973 letters | 04:34 | 1974 June 13: "He said you are not following the regulative principles. I do not know why you should do like that. Anyway, if there are any discrepancies in that way I hope you will rectify it. If you so desire you can see me." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 04:26 | 1975 June 13: "If our books are translated into Japanese, it will be a great help to us and to you also because it will be another opportunity for printing books. So, if you can arrange for this then it will give me great pleasure." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 04:10 | June 12, 2009 1966 June 12: "Navami. Today the eating of the members took place. I cooked 12 different items and all present more than sixteen ladies and gentlemen ate with great pleasure. The introduction was alright. It was all Grace of Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu." Prabhupada Journal :: 1966 letters | 03:43 | 1968 June 12: "From India this paper has been brought to America, with this hope. I am waiting for the day when Back to Godhead will take the shape of Life Magazine in the matter of its popularity." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968javascript:void(0) letters | 03:41 | 1969 June 12: "You write to say you are too much strained in various ways, but by your such activities, Krishna will be very much pleased. I think because Krishna is pleased, therefore you have got at last a very nice place." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 03:37 | 1971 June 12: "So we have to adjust things. Everything is important. Not that we have to do something at the expense of something else. I cannot say from here what is to be given preference. That depends on your management capacity." Prabhupada Letters :: 1971 letters | 03:36 | 1972 June 12: "I want that the GBC leave the management of the centers to the local presidents and concentrate themselves upon preaching work. They should be constantly traveling to see how the students are learning." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 03:35 | 1972 June 12: "In addition, the GBC men will open new centers, distribute literature, and they should always be traveling with a sankirtana party to accompany them. There is no difference between the Sannyasi duty and the GBC duty." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 03:34 | 1973 June 12: "So, everything is going on so nicely there. So many books are being distributed. There are good prospects for a new temple. You are going to introduce three Rathas this year. This is all very pleasing to me." Prabhupada Letters :: 1973 letters | 03:31 | 1974 June 12: "It is better to stop. You say you plan to run for U.S. Congress. But for this, you can draw no money from the society. So your plan is utopian. Better concentrate on developing the brahminical qualities in the devotees there." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 03:27 | June 11, 2009 1966 June 11: "Due to my absence from India the publication is stopped and therefore it disturbs my mind. This publication work is my main function. I can stop my foreign activities but I cannot stop my publication work. " Prabhupada Letters :: 1966 letters | 07:24 | 1968 June 11: "I wish to form a nice Kirtana party consisting of 2 mrdanga players, 1 harmonium player, 1 tambura player, and at least 6 cymbal players. Backed by our books, we can make nice propaganda in all the European cities." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968 letters | 07:22 | 1971 June 11: "So if we make all over India the example that the leading persons are becoming our life members, then all influential and important people will become. Millions of life members can be made." Prabhupada Letters :: 1971 letters | 07:19 | 1971 June 11: "So far as Indira Gandhi attending the function, we shall accept a day according to her convenience and we shall hold the function on her arrival." Prabhupada Letters :: 1971 letters | 07:15 | 1972 June 11: "Simply by this full-time preaching activity all financial problems will be solved. What is that financial security? Real security is only there at the Lotus Feet of Krishna." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 07:05 | 1972 June 11: "It is the duty of the brahminical class to advise the leaders, not that they shall themselves serve as leaders. In your country many fools elect the biggest fool to be their leader, it is like one blind man leading so many other blind men." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 07:02 | 1974 June 11: "If you have money of your own that you want to spend for running for office you can do that. By competing with the politicians we may drop from our spiritual ideal. Our actual business is to become brahmanas." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 07:00 | 1975 June 11: "Even there may be some problems, always try to remain in Krishna Consciousness. Do not give up chanting simply due to some external difficulties. Under all circumstance you should always chant Hare Krishna." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 06:56 | June 10, 2009 1967 June 10: "If I get the permanent visa,, even in my broken health I shall stay in U.S.A. and try to propagate my mission through my disciples like you. I don't mind whether I die here or in Vrndavana - wherever there is Krishna, that is Vrndavana." Prabhupada Letters :: 1967 letters | 05:57 | 1967 June 10: "Although I am practically on the path of death, still I cannot forget about my publications. I wish that if I live or die you should take very serious care for my publications." Prabhupada Letters :: 1967 letters | 05:55 | 1969 June 10: "Unless one is a resident of Krishna Loka, one cannot be a Spiritual Master. That is the first proposition. A layman cannot be a Spiritual Master, and if he becomes so then he will simply create disturbance." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 05:54 | 1969 June 10: "The symptoms of nitya siddha is that from the beginning of his life he is attached to Krishna, and he is never tired of rendering service to Krishna. So we have to know what is what by these symptoms." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 05:53 | 1969 June 10: "When the Spiritual Master speaks it should be taken that Krishna is speaking. That is a fact. A Spiritual Master must be liberated. It does not matter if he has come from Krishna Loka or he is liberated from here. But he must be liberated." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 05:52 | 1969 June 10: "I am not very interested to establish a Hindu temple. I never described my movement as Hindu religion. This kind of devotion is not purified. It is contaminated by material desires." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 05:46 | 1969 June 10: "Sex urge is something like itching. So an intelligent person rather suffers the pain of itching sensation than accepting the after effects of satisfying the itch." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 05:42 | 1974 June 10: "From my very childhood I was also worshipping Lord Jagannatha. When I was six years old my father gave me a Ratha and I was performing Ratha yatra in my neighborhood. And now in the Western world you are worshiping Jagannatha so gorgeously and it pleases me very, very much." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 05:39 | 1975 June 10: "Your endeavor to prove scientifically the existence of re-incarnation is not very practical. It is like bringing a cannon to kill a mosquito. It is not required. Explanation is already given in the Bhagavad-gita." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 05:29 | June 9, 2009 1966 June 9: "Sasthi. Received one letter from Secretary Sir Padampat that he is not at present interested in Temple Construction in New York. A laughing stock." Prabhupada Journal :: 1966 letters | 07:50 | 1967 June 9: "Prahlada in the womb heard the instruction of Narada Muni and became the most famous devotee. It is the duty of all parents to make every child Krishna Conscious, so they may not have any more to take birth in this material world." Prabhupada Letters :: 1967 letters | 07:48 | 1972 June 9: "I shall be very glad to see the manuscripts. You say my early writings are very powerful and strong, so now it is not that I have become a little soft on account of my disciples. They must follow very strong orders." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 07:45 | 1972 June 9: "I think it is Bhaktivinoda's desire that my first disciple shall go to Bengal and revive Krishna Consciousness there. Send your songbook to me first and I shall read it and write a short introductory note." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 07:41 | 1972 June 9: "Rupa Goswami says enthusiasm, patience, conviction, and acting exactly to the order of Sastra and Guru makes our devotional service successful. So our serious students should follow Rupa Goswami's advice." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 07:38 | 1974 June 9: "It is good news that you are finding engagement in distributing my books all day. So there is no question of taking other engagement; distribution of my books is the highest kind of preaching, and thus the best engagement." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 07:35 | 1974 June 9: "I have accepted as my disciples the devotees recommended by you. Jayatirtha may chant on their beads and you may hold a fire yajna. Under your supervision these devotees must take our vows with utmost seriousness." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 07:34 | 1975 June 9: "It is wonderful to hear you are daily distributing 1,000 magazines and daily collecting $1,000. Now, you have plenty of money, milk, fruits, flowers, grains, everything. What more could you want?" Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 07:31 | June 8, 2009 1964 June 8: "My dear Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastryji, I thank you for your granting me an interview yesterday but I was not successful in my mission because your dealing with me was more official than hearty." Prabhupada Letters :: 1947-64 letters | 04:29 | 1966 June 8: "Panchami. A letter received from Harvey. There was meeting in the evening about 16 persons attended one of which was a Chinese woman who became very much interested." Prabhupada Letters :: 1966 letters | 04:21 | 1968 June 8: "I am anxious to know when our Back To Godhead will be again published, even on our mimeograph machine. It is too much important that it must be distributed regularly, as it is the backbone of our mission." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968 letters | 04:20 | 1969 June 8: "We have to work very intelligently to prove our advancement in Krishna Consciousness. There is a Sanskrit proverb - if somebody is cunning, we must also become cunning. To a cunning person we must not be a simpleton." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 04:18 | 1971 June 8: "We require at least 100 of our American boys to make propaganda all over India. So if you can arrange to send 50 or 60 men here to Calcutta and Bombay, that will be very nice. They need not be important men. Assistant men will do nicely." Prabhupada Letters :: 1971 letters | 04:15 | 1973 June 8: "Regarding your taking sannyasa, I think you are already a sannyasi although not in saffron colored cloth. So, I know you'll take sannyasa sooner or later but wait for the time when Krsna will decide for this action." Prabhupada Letters :: 1973 letters | 04:12 | 1974 June 8: "I have asked you to stop the political program because t is not so easy to do politics, moreover it is a filthy atmosphere. So do not indulge in it. I am glad to hear all the participants have stopped." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 04:11 | 1975 June 8: "Yes, preach as much as possible. Preaching is our life. Travel, here and there, holding kirtana, distributing prasadam and books and speak our philosophy very nicely." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 04:07 | June 7, 2009 1968 June 7: "Your 'SWAMIJI' book may be interesting only to admirers and disciples. There are so many tape records of my speeches, you can select some of them. I think that will be better for attracting the general public." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968 letters | 06:36 | 1968 June 7: "Don't mind about the visa. It is Krishna's desire and blessings; as a Sannyasin, I should not fix up at a certain place and take your service comfortably. Krishna wants me traveling throughout the whole Western world." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968 letters | 06:33 | 1969 June 7: "We are all eternal family members of the Lord. We are all gathering together in families of Krishna. In this Krishna Consciousness Movement we are trying to establish a replica of Krishna's family in this material world." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 06:30 | 1969 June 7: "The ocean is the father-in-law of Visnu, because Laksmi was born by the churning of the ocean. So Laksmi, being the daughter of the ocean, the ocean will help in spreading the glories of the ocean's daughter and son-in-law." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 06:24 | 1969 June 7: "So the roar of your Sankirtana in Hawaii will soon be heard in the neighboring places, including Japan and Hong Kong. Concentrate your energies now in Hawaii and in the future we shall establish a center in Japan." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 06:22 | 1971June 7: "All my senior disciples are requesting me to revive my translating work and I would like to do so for the remaining days of my life. So you have to help me to get Srimad-Bhagavatam done as quickly as possible." Prabhupada Letters :: 1971 letters | 06:17 | 1974 June 7: "Do not worry about past fall downs. There is nothing to worry about, simply yourself be ideal to all the devotees there by chanting as much as possible and following carefully all the regulative principles." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 06:09 | 1974 June 7: "So let him go on as he is doing; Krsna is giving him all facility and without question he is doing more than any sannyasi by his personally distributing hundreds of books day after day and inspiring others to follow." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 06:07 | |
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