a.c. bhaktivedanta swami
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| Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 a.c. bhaktivedanta swami |
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13 October 2007 Friday, 13 October, 1972 Manila My dear Yadubara, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated September 30, 1972 and I have noted the contents carefully. Concerning your request for money for Hindi and Gujarati BTG's where is the money collected from the first editions. For any magazine published money should be collected and then republished. Accounts should be kept--money invested money collected. What is this that every time money is invested, then for a reprinting, more money has to be invested? In my last letter I informed you that 70,000 and 29,000 rupees were transferred from the Book Fund, whether this money has been returned to Book Fund. So there is no information in your letter about this, so let me know in Vrndavana whether this fund has been returned yet. Mahamsa knows it, Giriraja knows it and you as secretary should also have known it. So when I return you should inform me and then I shall do the needful. Hoping this meets you in good health. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/sdb P.S. Please send a complimentary copy of a soft cover TLC to: K.S. RamaKrishna Rao Dept. of Philosophy Mysore-12, S. India Labels: BBT, Bombay, management letters | 10:18 |11 October 2007 11 October, 1972 Manila My dear Tamala Krishna and Giriraja, Please accept my Blessings. I am writing this letter aboard the airship from Hawaii to Manila. I am reaching Manila in the morning 7:00 A.M. on the 11th October 1972. As scheduled I am reaching Delhi on the night of the 14th, so if need be you can see me at Vrndavana on the 15th or 16th, but my definite instruction is this: 1. We have fulfilled all the conditions as purchaser. 2. Mr. Nair has purposefully delayed with a motive to cheat us as he had done with some others in this connection. 3. But this time he cannot cheat us because we are in possession of the land and our deity Radha-Krsna is installed there. 4. Therefore we must immediately go to the court for enforcing him to execute the conveyance immediately. 5. Even the court case goes on for a long time, still our business there cannot be stopped. 6. Without going to the court, we cannot make any compromise with him. 7. But I think we can arrange the full amount of 14 lacs to get out this rascal out of the scene. 8. But we cannot do it without going to the court otherwise we shall become a party for breaking the purchase agreement. Therefore we have to go to the court before making any compromise. 9. In the meantime, take definite information from the bank whether they can loan us 50% of the whole value. 10. The whole value is 14 lacs. We have already paid 2 lacs. We can arrange to pay farther 5 lacs. That means we pay 7 lacs, the bank may pay the balance 7 lacs. 11. Actually the bank may not have to pay even 7 lacs because according to the purchase agreement, the last payment of 4 lacs has to be paid upon the decision on the court case pending about Chiman lal and company. So you have to act according to this program on the advice of suitable lawyers. Hoping this meets you in good health. Your ever well wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/sdb cc. Sriman Karandhara in London Labels: Bombay, itinerary, land, legal letters | 10:18 |9 October 2007 9 October, 1972 San Francisco Bombay [To Giriraja] --STOP ALL NEGOTIATIONS WITH NAIR. DO NOT TAKE KRSNA BOOKS FROM JAIN. KARANDHARA ARRIVING BOMBAY BY OCTOBER 12 FOR FILING SUIT FOR SPECIFIC EXECUTION OF SALE AGREEMENT --BHAKTIVEDANTA SWAMI letters | 10:16 | 9 October, 1972 San Francisco Bombay [To Giriraja] --DO NOT PAY NAIR A FARTHING UNTIL CONVEYANCE EXECUTED. SENDING KARANDHARA TO TAKE CARE --A. C. BHAKTIVEDANTA SWAMI letters | 10:15 | 8 October 2007 Sunday, 8 October, 1972 San Francisco My Dear Kaliya Krsna, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated September 31, 1972, and have noted the contents. Now that you are President of the Detroit Temple, you have very great responsibility to take proper care of all the devotees who are engaged there and are spreading Krsna Consciousness at one of our most important centers. Formerly Bhagavan das was developing this area very nicely, so now that the responsibility is in your hands please continue with enthusiasm more and more. As much as you are sincere to simply serve the mission of the Supreme Lord, then Krsna will give you the intelligence from the heart, have no doubt. I have received the enclosed daksina offering in the amount of $332 and I thank you very very much. Also enclosed is a letter for Srimati Vilasini Devi Dasi and Sitarani Devi Dasi for Gayatri initiation. Hope this meets you in good health. Your ever well-wisher, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami. Labels: Detroit, initiation, management letters | 10:15 |8 October, 1972 San Francisco My Dear Madhudvisa, Please accept my blessings. I beg to aknowledge receipt of your letters dated September 28 and October 2, 1972. As you are unable to meet me in the Philippines, that is all right since I first wanted to hear from you that everything in your zone was going all right, and it appears from your letter that you are persevering in the attempt to spread Krishna Consciousness movements to the people of Australia. That new devotees are coming is the sign of our success. I will be in India up to April 1972, then I can go to South Africa, or if you like, to Australia. My immediate program in India will be for one month at Radha Damodara Temple in Vrndavana up till November 15, where we shall be holding class on the Nectar of Devotion. Hoping you are in good health. Your ever well-wisher, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Labels: Australasia, itinerary, Vrindavan letters | 10:14 |8 October, 1972 San Francisco Bombay [To Giriraja] --IMMEDIATELY CONTACT TAMALA AND BHAVANANDA AND ARRANGE TO TAKE REQUIRED KRSNA BOOKS FROM JAIN. SEND COPY OF CONVEYANCE. --BHAKTIVEDANTA SWAMI letters | 10:10 | 7 October 2007 Saturday, 7 October, 1972 San Francisco My dear Puri Maharaj, Kindly accept my humble dandabats. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your kind letter dated September 21, 1972, and I have noted the contents with great encouragement. I am coming to India by the 15th of October and will stay during Urja-vrata at the Radha-Damodara temple in Vrndavan. It will be a pleasure if you will come and stay with us at Vrndavan during the urja-vrata period. So I thank you very much for taking so much trouble. If we get that house we shall celebrate the 100th birth anniversary of His Divine Grace Sri Srimad Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Goswami Prabhupada a little pompously. In my last letter to you I also requested you to take permanent permission from Visvanath Das, the chief minister, for permission of admission for my devotees in the Jagannath temple. At present I am here in San Francisco and your letter addressed to London is just now received by me. Hoping this meets you in the best of health, Your ever well-wisher, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS: pda Labels: bhaktisiddhanta, Gaudiya Math letters | 20:32 |7 October, 1972 San Francisco My Dear Andrew Parco, I beg to thank you for your letter dated Oct. 4. 1972. If you are actually very much eager to search out God, you should know that logic and argument cannot help you because the opposing elements may be better logicians and may convert your decision by better logical arguments. So far books are concerned, they are differently described for different types of men and a philosopher. So we cannot decide either from the books or by philosophical speculation or by argument and logic. So the best thing is that you find out yourself who you think is the right person in the matter of science of God. So far we are concerned we are following the Bhagavad-gita As It Is and we see the knowledge given in the Bhagavad-gita is quite perfect in the matter of understanding God. If we compare the truth mentioned in the Bhagavad-gita with other books, sometimes there may not be equal standard of understanding. So it is better to accept some recognized authority and follow his footsteps, and that is the best way for understanding God. we simply want that people should understand God, and love him also, because human life is meant for this purpose. So if a man loves God more than anything else, he is the perfect man. I wish that you may follow this principle and be happy. Yours Sincerely, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami. Labels: philosophy letters | 20:00 |7 October, 1972 San Francisco My Dear Kirtanananda, Please accept my blessings. Your letter dated 6 October 1972 and your check for one hundred dollars are in hand. I thank you very much for your kind contribution. Yes, I am going to India via Hawaii and Manila, and I shall inform you when I shall reach India by the fifteenth of October. I am a little in anxiety on account of Bombay affairs. It is a question of fifteen lacs of rupees, but the matter has not been properly handled by our men in India. Please pray to Krsna that things may come in normal situation. All of you may remember that we have taken a very responsible task in the matter of broadcasting the message of Lord Caitanya Who is Krsna Himself. Lord Caitanya is Radha-Krsna combined together. So you are one of the seniormost servants of the society. Kindly try to improve the aims and objects of the society so that all over the world the people may become happy. Actually there is no problem, even in the material condition of life. Krsna has provided everything sufficiently and there is no question of scarcity or poverty. Only the demons and blind leaders are misguiding the whole population in the name of politicians, leaders, swamis, yogis, philanthropists, and making the whole world entangled more and more in problems. Our proposition is preaching the gospel of Krsna and request everyone to accept the truth that Krsna is the Supreme Master and everyone shoud surrender unto Him. Then there is no problem. Hope this meets you in good health. Your ever well-wisher, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/cda Labels: New Vrindaban letters | 19:59 | |
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