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| .: Prabhupada Letters :. Anthology a.c. bhaktivedanta swami |
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July 25, 2009 1968 July 25 : "Krishna is approached through the transparent via media of Spiritual Master. Unless you fix up your mind to serve your Spiritual Master, Who is direct representative of Krishna, it is not possible to approach Krishna." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968 letters | 11:18 | 1970 July 25 : "These elevated souls are not to be questioned by us. They have a higher purpose which we cannot determine. One should not try to imitate those who are very powerful - but one should simply follow their instructions." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 11:17 | 1971 July 25 : "From India I went to Moscow, Paris, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Detroit and then Boston. Now I am in New York and from here I shall go to Gainesville University and then London. You may write to me in London." Prabhupada Letters :: 1971 letters | 11:15 | 1972 July 25 : "I suggest when you return to India that you take sannyasa in your ripe old age without any family responsibility and let us together do something tangible in India. I shall request you to think this over very seriously." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 11:14 | 1972 July 25 : "As long as the classes are going on well, the rules and regulations are being observed sincerely, the sankirtana party is going out with enthusiastic mood - if these things are going on, then everything is first-class." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 11:13 | 1972 July 25 : "That is not very good proposal. We are always thinking these kind of changes, why is that? I simply want things to be developed which we have got - not to make so many big, big plans and changing all the time." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 11:12 | 1973 July 25 : "All respectable gentlemen will come. That quarter is aristocratic and our temple is unique. It is the only Krsna Balarama temple in Vrindaban and so attractive people will automatically come and see." Prabhupada Letters :: 1973 letters | 11:10 | 1975 July 25: "I am accepting the following as my initiated disciples and the others as twice-born initiated brahmanas. Please see they are chanting 16 rounds and following the four regulative principles - this is your responsibity." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 11:06 | July 24, 2009 1958 July 24: "My Spiritual Master was kind enough to order me and in obedience to His order I am trying to do my bit. But I am practically struggling very hard for this job without any tangible success till I was told that you are the right person to co-operate with me in this noble task." Prabhupada Letters :: 1947-64 letters | 06:48 | 1967 July 24: "I am always thinking of your separation feelings. Please do your duty nicely and Krishna will help you in all respects. It may be that as soon as I feel some strength I shall be coming back." Prabhupada Letters :: 1967 letters | 06:44 | 1969 July 24: "We received report from New York that they have collected last week $1,000, and they are selling at a rate of 200 copies of BTG daily. I have received report also that they are selling 60-70 copies daily in Boston and collecting $50 or $60 on average." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 06:43 | 1969 July 24: "Whatever Krishna gives us, that never becomes ours. It is always Krishna's. The more we receive from Krishna, the more we engage all of it in the service of Krishna. That is the duty of a bonafide brahmana. A brahmana remains a beggar even if he receives $100,000." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 06:42 | 1970 July 24: "The Handbook is very nice, although one blunder has been done on page 98. I do not think there is any possibility of rectifying now, but in future please take special care for this. There are also some discrepancies on the front cover of BTG #34." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 06:36 | 1971 July 24: "I am so glad to receive your letter and it has encouraged me so much that I am now confident that my missionary activities will go on even in my absence. Please keep up the spirit of preaching work and you will be victorious wherever you go." Prabhupada Letters :: 1971 letters | 06:32 | 1975 July 24: "I am going to San Diego via Laguna Beach. Then I shall go to Dallas, New Orleans, Detroit, Toronto, Montreal, New York, and then West Virginia. From there I shall go to London and Paris, and then I shall return to Bombay via Africa by October." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 06:31 | 1975 July 24: "My Dear Bon Maharaja: If we fully cooperate on this Institution plan, I can attract students from all over the world. Library books may be kept for comparative study by scholars, but our main purpose will only be to accelerate the grandeur of Caitanya philosophy." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 06:29 | July 23, 2009 1969 July 23 : "I am sorry to learn that your health is not very good. The best thing is you rest for some time, taking as much rest as you feel you require, and when you feel it is all right you resume your activities." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 05:41 | 1971 July 23 : "These plays are not meant for the public showing unless they are very nicely done. If they laugh, that is the greatest offense. So plays of Krishna Lila should be avoided, unless they are very gravely performed." Prabhupada Letters :: 1971 letters | 05:10 | 1971 July 23: "Lord Caitanya never said stop mixing with nondevotees. How a preacher can stop? The whole world is nondevotees. But simply for jobs sake, we cannot. That should be avoided." Prabhupada Letters :: 1971 letters | 05:08 | 1972 July 23 : "Krishna's plan becomes very easy for us when we follow Krishna's orders, otherwise, we are following Maya's plan. Following Krishna's orders means chanting daily 16 rounds, the four rules, rising early, like that." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 05:02 | 1972 July 23 : "This is not my responsibility. Henceforth my students must take the responsibility for their own householder life, take all risk for supporting wife and home, but utilize it to make spiritual progress - that is the real thing." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 05:00 | 1973 July 23 : "It is not necessary that we always wear the robes, but we should always keep sikha and tilok. Somehow or other distribute books and if you can impress people a little to chant then it does not matter about your dress." Prabhupada Letters :: 1973 letters | 04:58 | 1973 July 23 : "You are setting a very good example in that you yourself are going with the travelling party. The commander must be in front in the fight, not that he sit back behind the lines." Prabhupada Letters :: 1973 letters | 04:56 | 1975 July 23: "You have done a great service, and I am very pleased. Your proposal for travelling and distributing books all over India is very good. Krishna will bless you. Take books and sell and spend for your expenses." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 04:51 | July 22, 2009 1967 July 22: "It is the Grace of Lord Krishna that He has put me in contact with so many rare souls. Due to my indifferent health, I am going to India; and even if I cannot come back, I will work for an American house there for all my transcendental children." Prabhupada Letters :: 1967 letters | 04:41 | 1969 July 22: "If there is possibility, we wish to open many such branches. But your main business at present is Sankirtana and selling literature, and this is similarly very important work." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 04:37 | 1972 July 22: "I am offering prayers to Krsna that He may protect Jaya Gopala, who is such sincere devotee. Whatever happens we must take it as the special mercy shown by Krsna. Yes, reading of Krsna Book and chanting at his bedside must go on." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 04:34 | 1972 July 22: "Avoid publishing my writings in hodge-podge journals. These so-called Hindus are impersonalists. We do not want to have anything to do with them. Better we stick to our own standard, and eventually they will come to us for learning what is God." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 04:32 | 1972 July 22: "Regarding Lalita Prasad Thakura, unless he keeps his promise than we are not interested to publish any of Bhaktivinode Thakura's books. That animosity against Guru Maharaja is going on, so we shall have nothing to do with it." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 04:30 | 1972 July 22: "You mention Bhavananda will require four more lakhs. But he told me four lakhs total, and of that I have sent 2 1/2 lakhs, so he shall require further only 1 3/4 lakhs. And that must come from selling books." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 04:27 | 1973 July 22: "The best date for the installation of Deities will be Friday 10th. You can arrange for meetings with respectable gentlemen of France, to take place in my quarters while I am there." Prabhupada Letters :: 1973 letters | 04:24 | 1973 July 22: "I am especially looking forward to the next issue of Back to Godhead which will be color 32 pages. You should more and more improve this magazine until it becomes superior to all other magazines in the French language." Prabhupada Letters :: 1973 letters | 04:22 | July 21, 2009 1967 July 21: "I start for India tomorrow. I am trying for your free passage. When you come, take my trunk, tape recorder and finally my big Royal typewriter, which you must pack nicely and bring." Prabhupada Letters :: 1967 letters | 06:53 | 1969 July 21: "In a Krishna Conscious marriage the basic principle is to serve Krishna nicely and to help the partner advance in spiritual life. Husband and wife are true benefactors for one another and there is no question of any serious conflicts or separation." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 06:48 | 1969 July 21: "Your present engagement is very nice; neither I think that you can be better educated in the universities. Unless a man is Krishna Conscious, his external advancement of knowledge has no value." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969: letters | 06:47 | 1969 July 21: "The hippy philosophy is nice in that they are disgusted with materialistic life. Therefore they want to renounce. Unfortunately, they have no good leader, neither they have information that there is another beautiful life in Krishna Consciousness." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 06:45 | 1970 July 21: "My Dear Sri Poddarji, I hope by this time you are feeling well. Regarding the books, please excuse me. I cannot charge price from you. Please keep them in your study room - that will engladden me." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 06:37 | 1971 July 21: "Yes, it is encouraging news that he is favorably inclined toward giving us land in Raman Reti. Another nice news is that all of you women are going out daily for preaching. Very good. Continue it whole heartedly." Prabhupada Letters :: 1971 letters | 06:34 | 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 | |
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