a.c. bhaktivedanta swami
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| Prabhupada Letters :: 1973 a.c. bhaktivedanta swami |
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3 August 2007 Friday, 3 August, 1973 Bhaktivedanta Manor My Dear Bhakta Dasa, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 29 July, 1973 and I have noted the contents very carefully. From your report I can understand that you are very enthusiastic. I like also your idea of celebrating Govardhana puja. This should be our programme to attract the general mass of people. If we go on preaching vigorously as we have been for another 25 year then all these other so called religions will disappear. After all what do they have to offer. In the Christian religion all we see is Christ's picture as he was crucified, so how people can be attracted to such thing? There is no science, philosophy, music, art, Prasadam, it is no wonder that the people are rejecting this nonsense. Not that Christ himself was nonsense, but those who are preaching in his name they are nonsense because they do not follow even the simplest of his orders, "Thou shalt not Kill." I have met with so many Christians and when I ask them why Christians are killing they cannot answer. The first principle of spiritual life is non violence. They will say Killing in this matter means actually Murder, but accepting even this argument, it means that the society in which Christ was preaching were composed of Murderers, so what kind of men they were, and practically we see it is a fact that because they murdered Lord Jesus Christ. At any rate there is nothing in the world that can compare our Movement of chanting and dancing. So Chant dance and when you get tired take Prasadm, this is our actual solid preaching work all over the world. I have noted that you are collecting great amounts of money, therefore I humbly request you send 50% to India for the Vrindaban Building Fund. Don't spoil the money in any way, simply utilize it for Krishna's purpose. I hope this letter meets you well. Your ever well wisher A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami N.B. Money may be sent to the following Account: Central Bank of India, Head office Bombay, ISKCON--Building Fund Account No. 9-381 ACBS/hda Labels: Christians, festivals letters | 16:33 |3 August, 1973 Bhaktivedanta Manor My Dear Ramesvara, Please accept my blessings. I am in receipt of your letter dated July 29, 1973 and I have noted the contents with great pleasure. There is no doubt about it, to distribute books is our most important activity. The temple is a place not for eating and sleeping, but as a base from which we send out our soldiers to fight with maya. Fight with maya means to drop thousand and millions of books into the lap of the conditioned souls. Just like during war time the Bombs are raining from the sky like anything. So you are the expert in this field. I like also your programme of sending out your best men to teach the others. That is the actual process of Krishna Consciousness. To train others continue this programme so that in the future every devotee in our movement will know the art of distributing books. This is approved by me. I hope this letter meets you well. Your ever well wisher A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Labels: book distribution, Los Angeles letters | 16:33 |2 August 2007 Thursday, 2 August, 1973 Bhaktivedanta Manor My Dear Guru Das, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 23, July, 1973 and I have noted the contents very carefully. Yes! why not? You may write yo the other temples and ask them to contribute something to the program, that is approved by me. I simply want to see that the work is going on vigorously, and the money shall not be used to pay bad bill. The money should simply be used for construction. Another thing is that my living quarters may be finished by this coming October, or at least habitable so it may be used if I go to Vrindaban by Kartika Vrata. What about that front piece of land not yet in our possession? I hope this letter meets you well. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami P.S. I have just received your letter of the 28th July, but I have not yet received the photos under separate cover. ACBS/hda Labels: construction, Vrindavan letters | 16:32 |1 August 2007 Wednesday, 1 August, 1973 Bhaktivedanta Manor My Dear Jahnava Dasi, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated August 20, 1973. You have written so many nice things in praise of me but I think that my Guru Maharaja is great, I am not great he is great. So sometimes by association of the great one appears great. Just like the sun is great heat and light and by reflecting the greatness of the sun's light the moon in dead of night also appears great, but actually the moon is by nature dark and cold, but in association with sun it has become accepted as great, this is the real position. So I thank you very much that you are appreciating my Guru Maharaja who wanted to preach Krishna Consciousness all over the world, he is so great. I hope this letter meets you in good health. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS:hda Labels: Brooklyn, spiritual master letters | 16:31 |31 July 2007 Tuesday, 31 July, 1973 Bhaktivedanta Manor My Dear Parasara Das, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter and magazine. Why should we endeavor separately to produce another magazine. Whatever articles are written by our students may be published in BTG by submitting them to the chief editor Satsvarupa Goswami Maharaja. BTG is especially meant to give some facility to our students, to train them to write articles on the philosophy of Krishna consciousness. Our energy should be concentrated on one thing at a time, not that everyone will start their own magazine wasting time money and manpower. Our BTG is there and it is being distributed without financial risk, so submit articles and increase the pages of BTG and increase the distribution also. The temples have now enough literature, and besides that if you simply ask for a little contribution, no one will send. I hope this letter finds you well. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS: hda letters | 06:52 | 31 July, 1973 Bhaktivedanta Manor My Dear Trai dasa, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated July 13, 73. I am glad to hear that the Boston temple is looking up. Enclosed please find one mantra and thread duly chanted upon by me. Hold a fire ceremony and distribute prasadam. I hope this letter meets you well. Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Labels: Boston, initiation letters | 06:51 |31 July, 1973 Bhaktivedanta Manor My Dear Madhudvisa Maharaja, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter recommending new Brahmin initiates. Perform a fire ceremony and have a feast. Sacred threads are enclosed. I hope this letter finds you well. Your ever well-wisher, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Labels: initiation letters | 06:50 | |
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