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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." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 06:08 | July 13, 2009 1947 July 13: "Why the mankind wave should be offered services and why the beasts, birds, plants and stone waves shall not be offered services? These are some of the questions that arise out of a critical study of your book." Prabhupada Letters :: 1947-64 letters | 09:20 | 1968 July 13: "Work for the improvement of the temple. And whenever there is opportunity, chant in public parks, and collect some money from the gathering, and surely Krishna will help you in spreading this sublime gospel of Krishna Consciousness." Prabhupada Letters ::1968 letters | 09:15 | 1969 July 13: "I am so glad to learn your center will be a good distributing place. Gradually convert the Hawaiian Islands into New Navadvipa Dham. I am sure you can do it if you go on preaching with the same present spirit and enthusiasm." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 09:08 | 1971 July 13: "Moscow is very clean but the socialist government is not very good. There is very little freedom there. Anyway, there is hope for opening a center in the future; we have made some friends there." Prabhupada Letters :: 1971 letters | 08:59 | 1971 July 13: "When Sankirtana is in a troubled area, it is not contradictory to our principles. Rather it is a great service. Lord Nityananda Prabhu, he personally went to troubled area of Jagai and Madhai and he conquered them. He was injured also. So do it very carefully." Prabhupada Letters :: 1971 letters | 08:57 | 1972 July 13: "My dear Brother Shyamsundar, in our childhood I used to take my ratha with my little friends. I have become old but my disciples will carry on this festival yearly, and so our eternal relationship with Sri Sri Jagannathaji will be remembered forever." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 08:51 | 1975 July 13: "It is a very good suggestion to open the Vanaprastha Institute. The elderly people can live there according to the Vaisnava principles and worship the Deity and take prasada. I also want to open the Varnashrama College." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 08:41 | 1975 July 13: "If you want to take a second wife, then you have to leave our temple. Our temples cannot support you and your two wives. You will then want three, four, and more. We are trying to minimize sex and you are trying to increase it." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 08:40 | July 12, 2009 1947 July 12 : "Dear Friend Mahatma Gandhijee, You must immediately retire from active politics if you do not desire to die an inglorious death. Retire for a month only and let us have discussion on the Bhagavad-gita. I know you are sincere, honest moralist." Prabhupada Letters :: 1947-64 letters | 12:28 | 1968 July 12 : "Krishna Consciousness is so nice one forgets his material designations and tries to associate with similar Krishna consciousness persons. That means melted on the pure spiritual platform. We hope to bring everyone to such spiritual platform." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968 letters | 12:27 | 1968 July 12 : "If you can introduce this Krishna Consciousness movement in such a distant place, Lord Caitanya will pour His incessant blessings upon you. If you establish a center there it will be a record in the history of Lord Caitanya's movement." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968 letters | 12:26 | 1969 July 12 : "Devote your attention for first-class editorial work. You may continue to send me Sanskrit transliterations for being corrected as I did last time. Your first business is to see my books and magazine are published very nicely." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 12:25 | 1969 July 12 : "Usefulness or uselessness, it all depends on proper management. You can't expect that all men and women there will be very useful. You have to make them useful by your arrangement." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 12:25 | 1970 July 12 : "Our process is for manufacturing sincere souls. If you are sincere, other sincere souls will come. How is it possible? Simply by following the rules and regulative principles and chanting offenselessly." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 12:24 | 1972 July 12 : "At every step there is danger. We must become very diligent in executing spiritual life, and not neglect even a moment. I am very much anxious to know what is your condition, and how you are recovering." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 12:21 | 1975 July 12: "Do not spend very much time in this way. There are already so many prayers written by the great acaryas. What will you add to this? If you have got inclination, put the chapters of Krsna Book into verse." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 12:18 | |
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