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| .: Prabhupada Letters :. Anthology a.c. bhaktivedanta swami |
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September 19, 2009 1955 September 19 : "Sripada Gosvami Maharaja, So why for the matter of saving some papers we shall not print the full number? In my opinion we should print more than 1,000 copies every month and distribute them in large scale." Prabhupada Letters :: 1947-64 letters | 00:28 | 1965 September 19 : "Today is the 38th day of our journey. We reached New York Port at 12:30 pm, three hours later than the scheduled time." Prabhupada Journal :: 1965 letters | 00:24 | 1968 September 19 : "The prospect in Berlin is very bright. Similarly I have received report from London; they are having regular kirtanas and feasts, although not in our own temple, but in different places." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968 letters | 00:22 | 1969 September 19 : "In England there is very good prospect for pushing on Krishna Consciousness. I am trying to make some arrangement with Mr. John Lennon to have the facility for of his garden house. Here we can accommodate many devotees." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 00:20 | 1969 September 19 : "When the Spiritual Master accepts a disciple and the disciple surrenders unto Him, He has got the responsibility of absorbing the sinful reaction of His disciples life. This is a great responsibility of the Spiritual Master." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 00:16 | 1970 September 19 : "Hundreds of people join our Sankirtana Party daily in downtown Calcutta, and I am confident that this great mission will be successful if only we continue to push on without any personal motivation." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 00:14 | 1974 September 19: "Your duty is to carry out my orders. Anyone who surrenders to Krishna wholeheartedly and engages in His service cannot say later on, I resign. Once surrendered, it cannot be withdrawn." 1975 September 19: letters | 00:08 | 1975 September 19: "To the Prime Minister of Mauritius: I thank you very much for your kind invitation to visit your country. I am arriving at Port Louis on the afternoon of the 30th. I look forward to meeting with Your Excellency." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 00:04 | September 18, 2009 1960 September 18: "[From the Visitors' Book] I am pleased to write herein that I have come to Delhi from my H.Q. Kesi Ghat, Vrindaban (U.P.) purely on spiritual mission to propagate the cult of devotional service of the Lord. And I am publishing an English fortnightly magazine of the name Back-To-Godhead from this place." Prabhupada Letters :: 1947-64 letters | 16:36 | 1965 September 18: "To-day is the 37th day of our journey. At 4 p.m. we left Boston Port for New York. At midnight there was considerable fog till we reached late at New York Port at 12:30 on 19/9/65." Jaladuta Diary :: 1965 letters | 16:27 | 1965 September 18: "Markine Bhagavata-dharma: on board the ship Jaladuta, Commonwealth Pier, Boston, U.S.A. dated 18th of September, 1965." Jaladuta Diary :: 1965 letters | 16:26 | 1968 September 18: "If by begging alms we can provide ourself, we should not accept any job. Form a party of Sankirtana, and walk in the street, you can get not less than 50 to 100 marks daily. Form a local trust party of 12 heads and immediately start your work." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968 letters | 16:24 | 1968 September 18: "It is clear that the place is destined for our temple, and you can immediately take it on lease. You are a sincere devotee and Krishna will give you timely all good intelligence in this connection. Now please try to organize as quickly as possible." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968 letters | 16:22 | 1972 September 18: "Now you are my elder advanced disciples so these questions should not arise amongst you again and again. That means everyone is not conscientious. These things are not new to you, why do you continually ask these questions?" Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 16:14 | 1974 September 18: "The subject matter is very grave and unless you intimately associate yourself with us it will be very difficult to understand. I have got my program to go there by the end of the month. At that time you can try to meet me." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 16:12 | 1975 September 18: "Your letter will be reviewed during the annual meeting. That is the time to take up such matters. You all should co-operate and then things will go on very nicely. We should not bring in politics. That is a very nasty thing." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 16:07 | September 17, 2009 1965 September 17: "We are now on the dockyard of Boston. They have now issued the admittance permission. 36th day from starting from Calcutta Port. To-day we are expected to reach Boston Port U.S.A. in the morning. ACB" Jaladuta Diary :: 1965 letters | 10:41 | 1968 September 17: "This means that he is canvassing to break them from the society and remain with him. He is another edition who has broken the poor Hrsikesa from the society." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968 letters | 10:37 | 1968 September 17: "He has already wasted ten months; sometimes preacher, sometimes guru, and sometimes so and so. So you will kindly give them clear indication that they should stop all these things, and work as directed in the above way - without further delay." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968 letters | 10:33 | 1969 September 17: "The BBC invited us for television and they came also to the temple. We are expecting many engagements and it appears people are interested in the Krishna Consciousness Movement. So I shall be glad to know how your center is making progress." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 10:30 | 1970 September 17: "Don't be worried, Krsna will provide you with a better house very soon. I hope there may not be any more poisonous effects as it happened in the past. Kindly let me know at least once in a fortnight about your actions." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 10:25 | 1970 September 17: "Regarding your opening a branch in Hong Kong, I have got all my blessings upon you. Do it immediately. So far your remaining on the Governing Body Commission, I prefer to see you a great preacher." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 10:18 | 1970 September 17: "You have already opened up several branches so please continue this opening of centers as many as possible. We learned that in Manila they are also interested so that is another open field." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 10:17 | 1970 September 17: "We are not concerned with scholars who know theoretically Caitanya Vaisnava Movement but we are interested with persons who are actually devotees. Theoretical knowledge will not help us." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 10:16 | September 16, 2009 1955 September 16: "My suggestion is that we must have our own press with good equipments so that we may be able to broadcast the message of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu in Hindi and in English. Hindi for all India propaganda and English for world wide propaganda." Prabhupada Letters :: 1947-64 letters | 18:58 | 1965 September 16: "Today is the 35th day of our journey. Lord Krishna has Himself taken charge of the ship. In expansion the Lord is rowing the oars. We shall certainly reach to America port safely. The whole night was non-disturbing and today on the 36th day of our journey we reached safely at Boston Port at 5/30 a.m." Jaladuta Diary :: 1965 letters | 18:53 | 1967 September 16: "I know you are sincere devotee of Krishna. When you drive your car you always chant Hare Krishna and when I was by your side I could understand how heartily you have accepted Krishna Consciousness. I'm always with you never mind if I am physically absent." Prabhupada Letters :: 1967 letters | 18:50 | 1969 September 16: "I am sending herewith my pass book for First National City Bank. You go to the bank and simply let me know what is the balance and the passbook may be kept with you carefully for depositing in my book fund regularly." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 18:47 | 1970 September 16: "Regarding duties, the girls should manage internally and the boys should manage externally. So all of you have my hearty blessings for your kind service to Lord Krsna. Be always engaged in this way and become happy." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 18:42 | 1971 September 16: "Big donations should go to the building and book funds. For maintenance we should collect from many persons. Our policy is madhukari or the profession of the bumblebee who goes from flower to flower and takes little." Prabhupada Letters :: 1971 letters | 18:40 | 1973 September 16: "You have got a good temple and good number of devotees, so now you just utilize them in Krsna's service, and I will be very much pleased. So far naming of the Deities, They shall be known as Radha Kunja Behari." Prabhupada Letters :: 1973 letters | 18:36 | 1974 September 16: "She was loitering as an uncared for girl in Honolulu. She saw me and offered her obeisances, and I immediately picked her up. By coming to Krsna consciousness she is coming to her full potency and strength." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 18:32 | 1974 September 16: "If they do not like the noise of our kirtana there, we shall make it more noisy. They shall get out, not us. So go on performing Hari kirtana. Simply by the noise of kirtana demons go away." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 18:24 | September 15, 2009 1967 September 15: "I understand the draft board is disturbing you. It is also disturbing to me, but we have no other recourse than Krishna. Do your best to serve Krishna and he will give you required intelligence to cope with disturbing situations." Prabhupada Letters :: 1967 letters | 17:02 | 1968 September 15: "I thank you very much for appreciating this secret of worshiping the Lord. I am so glad to learn this engagement makes for developing the Brahminical qualities. This worshipping system cleanses the polluted heart and one becomes actually fit for becoming qualified Brahmin." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968 letters | 17:00 | 1969 September 15: "While you are in school there, you simply speak to the students and teachers, distribute our books and try to arrange for kirtana where many students can hear the sound of Hare Krishna. This is the prescribed formula for propagating Krishna Consciousness." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 16:54 | 1971 September 15: "The so-called democratic government means some sudras, rascals. Without coming to Varnasrama dharma there is no question of human society. So our Krishna Conscious movement is supposed to be representative of Krishna." Prabhupada Letters :: 1971 letters | 16:50 | 1972 September 15: "By your own work you can recruit men locally, that is the best process. Many of our big centers started with only a handful of men and because they were determined to expand by recruiting the local men, that has been their success." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 16:44 | 1972 September 15: "Now I am going to India for training him up properly. I have never said he is pure devotee. That is simply concoction. But every one can become a pure devotee if he has no other desire than to serve Krsna and the Spiritual Master." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 16:40 | 1974 September 15: "There is great prospect to spread Krsna consciousness. This is my conviction. Always think how to do it, and Krsna will give you intelligence. Let us perform this noble activity for the successful termination of this human form of life." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 16:25 | 1974 September 15: "Dead metal utensils when together they make so much noise - what to speak of living utensils. You Europeans and Americans are very agitative. We have to change this habit for the peaceful service of Krsna." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 16:18 | 1975 September 15: "If you all leaders cannot work together, then how can you expect the others to cooperate with you? Differences may be there, but you have to cooperate together, otherwise where is the question of my being relieved of so many problems?" Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 16:16 | 1975 September 15: "This Krishna consciousness movement is not a sentimental fanaticism of so-called religion. It is the perfect culture - perfect social order, perfect economic development, perfect philosophy, and perfect religion." Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 16:12 | September 14, 2009 1951 September 14: "We need the fire and not the smoke. The present smoky materialistic or sensuous civilization has to be kindled into the fire of reality or Spiritualism. It is neither difficult nor impossible and is much simpler than any other method." Prabhupada Letters :: 1947-64 letters | 06:36 | 1965 September 14: "Today is the 33rd day of our journey. The captain told me he had never experienced such calm & quietness of the Atlantic. In the past always there was typhoon for days. It is Lord Krishna's Grace. If such thing would have taken place, I would have died." Jaladuta Diary :: 1965 letters | 06:34 | 1968 September 14: "Go there, make combined effort to popularize this Krishna Consciousness movement. Through music, philosophy, spiritual culture, and personal behavior culminating in ideal character - all these heavenly contributions will certainly bring about a major change in the life of Western people." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968 letters | 06:24 | 1968 September 14: "The six devotees who started for London have already met together. They are very much hopeful. I am praying to Krishna to offer you all His strength, in the discharge of His noble service." Prabhupada Letters :: 1968 letters | 06:22 | 1969 September 14: "Now I have come to England. I am staying in the house of Mr. John Lennon. He is very much kind upon us. There is a nice big hall here and the devotees are chanting there. So let us see how we can establish Krishna Consciousness in this part of the world." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 06:11 | 1970 September 14: "There is every evidence of influence by some of my fourth-class Godbrothers. Now you GBC consult my oral instruction as well as my books and get clear and strong idea. Disturbance is caused by ignorance - where there is no ignorance, there is no disturbance." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 06:08 | 1972 September 14: "There is one very important book festival in Frankfurt. Make our exhibition very prominent, have kirtana and distribute prasadam. Make the best utility of it and make our books very widely distributed all over Europe." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 06:02 | 1974 September 14: "If he received the vote, why you have opposed? You must remain impartial. My recommendation is that he must be the President. He has been chosen by the vote, and I am giving the casting vote for him so he must be the President." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 05:56 | September 13, 2009 1965 September 13 : "Today is the 32nd day of our journey. Today I have disclosed my mind to my companion Lord Sri Krishna. There is a Bengali poem made by me today in this connection, Prayer to the Lotus Feet of Krsna." Jaladuta Diary :: 1965 letters | 00:26 | 1965 September 13 : "The captain tells that they had never such calmness of the Atlantic. If the Atlantic would have shown its usual face perhaps I would have died. But Lord Krishna has taken charge of the ship." Jaladuta Diary :: 1965 letters | 00:24 | 1969 September 13 : "If your father agrees to this process, he also can be taken back to Home, back to Godhead, with my other disciples. There will be no difficulty for me. But if he does not agree, what responsibility is God’s?" Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 letters | 00:20 | 1970 September 13 : "I have already written to the four sannyasis requesting them to not preach anything which may hamper the growth of our Society. Please advise them on my behalf not to waste time in such fruitless endeavor." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 letters | 00:18 | 1972 September 13 : "I am always praying that my disciples will gradually increase our war against maya on all fronts. You have taken great risk and courage to work in far off place on Krishna's behalf, so you may expect His all blessings." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 letters | 00:14 | 1973 September 13 : "I was not actually living in Vrindaban, but Delhi and when I came to Vrindaban for short periods I would stay at Radha Damodara Temple. Goswami asked me if I would like to stay in the two rooms below." Prabhupada Letters :: 1973 letters | 00:12 | 1974 September 13: "This boy distributed 138 hardbound books simply by hearing my letter. So print largely and distribute. As large temples can distribute 1,000 Isopanisads daily, then you can distribute 100,000 copies monthly, so do it." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 letters | 00:08 | 1975 September 13: "Yes, I want to increase my translation work but if you leaders cannot work together then where is the question? If you are flying 10,000 miles to lodge some complaint against one another then what can I do?" Prabhupada Letters :: 1975 letters | 00:02 | |
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