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Good wife (Letters)

Correspondence

1966 Correspondence

Letter to Janis -- New York 10 December, 1966:

I am so glad to hear that you are now married. I pray Krishna that you may live henceforward happily as a householder, without thinking of a separation from your wife. According to Vedic wisdom, a good wife is a great assistant for material and spiritual prosperity. Even if there is some deficiency, you should try to correct it without thinking in the Westernized way. I hope your wife may be taking interest in your chanting Sankirtana and reading Srimad-Bhagavatam. As she has become your life's companion, it is your duty to induce her, peacefully, in the matter of spiritual advancement of life.

1967 Correspondence

Letter to Janardana -- San Francisco 15 March, 1967:

I am glad to learn that your good wife is now days taking interest in Krishna Consciousness. Please offer her my blessings. I think a good and sincere husband's influence is working in her. Be happy in family life and both of you become blessed by Krishna consciousness.

Letter to Janardana -- New York 1 May, 1967:

Regarding returning the money you do not bother much. Your good wife gave in loan to the society $300.00 and she must have the money returned. So do not bother about it. The society will return the money to N.Y. conveniently. There is no immediate necessity.

Letter to Janardana -- New York 1 May, 1967:

Offer my blessing to all devotees there and your good wife.

Letter to Ravindra Svarupa -- New York 21 May, 1967:

I am very glad to learn that you are doing your best and your good wife is helping you nicely. I have received her letter but I am sorry that I could not reply this good girl. I very much appreciate her feelings and specially the hand writing. So you have very nice qualified girl as your life's companion and I bless you all that you peacefully carry out the message of Krishna Consciousness to the needy men of the world.

1968 Correspondence

Letter to Hamsaduta -- Los Angeles 11 January, 1968:

Offer my blessings to your good wife and I pray to Krishna for your all round prosperity. Hope you are both well.

Letter to Hamsaduta -- Los Angeles 4 February, 1968:

Please convey my blessings to your good wife Himavati, and I hope to meet you very soon. Hope you are both well.

Letter to Hamsaduta -- Los Angeles 17 February, 1968:

Please convey my blessings to your good wife. Hope you are both well.

Letter to Mukunda -- Los Angeles 18 February, 1968:

Hope you are well, also your good wife.

Letter to Rupanuga -- San Francisco 12 March, 1968:

Regarding your wife: I am very much pleased to learn that your good wife is translating our essays for Germany. I was just thinking of our literatures being translated into German, and I was finding out some of our disciples to do it. Fortunately, by the Grace of Krishna, your wife is able to do this service, and please keep her engaged in that way. As soon as one is engaged in the service of the Lord, the Lord will reveal Himself to one without any separate endeavor. Krishna Consciousness movement simply depends on service attitude. So please keep her engaged in this work for which she has got natural taste, and let her translate small booklets like Easy Journey, then gradually she may attend all our other books, and eventually Bhagavad-gita. Please offer my thanks and blessings for her in this endeavor.

Letter to Hamsaduta -- San Francisco 23 March, 1968:

Please confer my blessings upon your very good wife, Himavati, and I am so pleased that she can sew nicely, and make the costumes for the Sankirtana party.

Letter to Dayananda -- San Francisco 12 April, 1968:

I am happy that you are satisfied with your family, and continue like this, and be more and more happy with your good wife and your good God-sent child, Candramukhi.

Letter to Mukunda -- Allston, Mass 6 May, 1968:

Please offer my thanks to Balarama and his good wife.

Letter to Mukunda -- Allston, Mass 30 May, 1968:

I have not heard for many days about your good wife, Janaki; I hope she is doing well.

Letter to Syamasundara -- Montreal 15 July, 1968:

Please convey my blessings to your good wife Malati, and to your new daughter, Miss Sarasvati devi. And I hope you are all doing well.

Letter to Gurudasa -- Montreal 29 July, 1968:

I hope both you and your good wife are well, and all is going nicely there.

Letter to Balai, Advaita -- Montreal 19 August, 1968:

Thanking you once more for sending me the nice letter and cake and offer my blessings to all other students, including your good wife, Hope you and Balai dasi are both well.

Letter to Gurudasa -- San Francisco 18 September, 1968:

May Krishna bless you more and more in the matter of advancement of Krishna Consciousness. Hope you are well, and please convey my blessings to your good wife, Yamuna devi.

Letter to Gurudasa -- Seattle 29 September, 1968:

Hope you are well with your good wife, and please offer Yamuna devi my blessings.

Letter to Dayananda -- Seattle 9 October, 1968:

I am in due receipt of your letter and noted the contents. In reply, I may inform you that I have got very good appreciation for you and your good wife, Nandarani, as well as for Aniruddha. I can understand that Nandarani is little displeased with Aniruddha, but I think this is a family quarrel between brother and sister, and you may try to mitigate it. If it is not possible to mitigate, then I shall ask Aniruddha to leave and join the Sankirtana party, who are going very shortly in Los Angeles.

Letter to Mukunda -- Seattle 13 October, 1968:

So far the original text of our aims and objects of the society, I have read it and I don't think there is any need of changing the preamble. But so far section of the law is concerned, that has to be altered according to the English law. So do it and execute the document as soon as possible, and I think Krishna is helping you in the proper channel, and as you were the first signatory in the document which was registered in New York, and you shall be the first signatory in the document which is to be registered in England, along with your good wife.

Letter to Gurudasa -- Seattle 16 October, 1968:

So by the Grace of Krishna this mission is going on nicely, and I shall be glad to hear from you further good news. Please offer my blessings to your good wife, Yamuna, as well as all other devotees, Mukunda, Syamasundara., Malati, Janaki, and Sarasvati devi.

Letter to Tosana Krsna -- Los Angeles 13 November, 1968:

Regarding your question about what determines our fortune, generally when we are in the material world, we try to be prosperous by material opulence. Just like a common man tries to have a good house, a good wife, a good property, good social prestige, and this way, go on increasing the bodily concept of life, and possess more and more in relationship to the body. This is unfortunate.

Letter to Gurudasa -- Los Angeles 15 November, 1968:

Hope this will find you in good health, along with your good wife Yamuna devi.

Letter to Hamsaduta -- Los Angeles 24 November, 1968:

Please accept my blessing to yourself and your good wife, Himavati. I have read with pleasure your letter of November 18th and have noted the contents carefully.

Letter to Gurudasa -- Los Angeles 1 December, 1968:

Please accept my blessings to yourself and to your good wife Yamuna Devi. With the greatest satisfaction I have read your letter of November 25th and just yesterday I received our published pictures of Prahlada Maharaja. I thank you very much for your sincere endeavors and I am sure that Krishna will bestow upon you all blessings for your notable service attitude.

Letter to Jeffrey Hickey -- Los Angeles 2 December, 1968:

I hope that this finds you along with Rupanuga, his good wife, Bhurijana, and Mr. Eric and all the others in good health.

Letter to Paramananda -- Los Angeles 13 December, 1968:

I am happy that you and your very good wife, Satyabhama, are finding such satisfaction in executing your Krishna Consciousness activities and such pleasure will only increase more and more as you continue to advance further. This is my blessing upon you both that your lives may become happy and successful. So my one request to you is that you keep yourself always engaged in Krishna's service sincerely and that you help your wife in this matter also.

Letter to Gurudasa -- Los Angeles 14 December, 1968:

I hope you are all well there, and executing Krishna Consciousness happily also. Please convey my blessings to your good wife Yamuna, and also to Syamasundara. and Malati, and Janaki and Mukunda.

Letter to Lilasukha -- Los Angeles 17 December, 1968:

I was pleased to note that you are happy with your plans for marriage to Uddhava. He is a very good boy and please always serve him nicely as a good wife. You are fortunate to obtain such a nice husband and he is also fortunate to obtain a nice wife. So all in all it is very nice arrangement and certainly it is Krishna's special mercy upon you both.

Letter to Malati -- Los Angeles 24 December, 1968:

I am very pleased that you are serving your husband nicely and helping him so that he may advance his Krishna Consciousness. When the husband advances, automatically the wife shares in his success so there is all around benefit. So a good wife is a great boon to her husband and to her children so please continue in this way and I know that your life will be very successful. Kindly convey my blessings to Syamasundara. and Sarasvati Devi. I hope that you are all well.

1969 Correspondence

Letter to Hamsaduta -- Los Angeles 12 January, 1968:

So the spiritual progress that you are making now is duly being responded to by Krishna. Of course it is the duty of the teacher to instruct his pupil rightly, but to pass the examination with a degree and merit depends upon the student himself. But the teacher is always happy when he sees one of his students has surpassed the capacity of the teacher also. That is an occasion of great jubilation. Please therefore prosecute your Hare Krishna vibrations along with your good wife, and certainly Krishna will see that all of your attempts will be successful.

Letter to Hamsaduta -- Los Angeles 28 January, 1969:

Please convey my blessings to your good wife, Himavati. I hope this will meet the both of you in very good health.

Letter to Hayagriva -- Los Angeles 12 February, 1969:

Please convey my blessings to your good wife, Syama Dasi. I hope this will meet you in very good health.

Letter to Hamsaduta -- Los Angeles 21 February, 1969:

Please convey my blessings to all of the devotees at your temple. I hope this will meet you and your good wife, Himavati, in good health.

Letter to Hamsaduta -- Hawaii 23 March, 1969:

I am going to N.Y. on the 7th of April, so as you propose it will be a pleasure to see you there with your good wife. I hope this meets you both in good health.

Letter to Dayananda -- Hawaii 26 March, 1969:

So far L.A. temple is concerned, both you and your good wife Nandarani, desired to see the temple affairs improve, which I understood from your past letters. And you took the risk of 400 or 500 dollars by renting the storefront in Hollywood Blvd. It was certainly very nice, and you were paying $350, but because you very sincerely desired to have a very very nice place, Krishna arranged in a different way. In the beginning we thought that we are losing a nice place, when the landlord wanted to kick out us, but now I can understand Krishna's desire was to give us a still better place, and so we have now got it.

Letter to Isanadas -- Allston, Mass 30 April, 1969:

Please convey my blessings to your good wife, Vibhavati, and I hope this will meet the both of you in very good health.

Letter to Syamasundara -- Allston, Mass 6 May, 1969:

Please convey my blessings to your good wife, Malati, and your nice child. I hope this will meet you all in good health and cheerful mood.

Letter to Mukunda -- Columbus, Ohio 8 May, 1969:

Please convey my blessings to your very good wife, Janaki, and, I hope this will meet the both of you in very good health.

Letter to Dayananda -- Columbus, Ohio 13 May, 1969:

Please convey my blessings to your good wife, Nandarani, and your nice little daughter. I hope this will find you all in good health.

Letter to Ananda -- Columbus, Ohio 14 May, 1969:

Please convey my blessings to Mandali Bhadra and to his good wife, Vrndavanesvari, as well as to his nice little boy. I hope this will meet you all in good health.

Letter to Dinesh -- Columbus, Ohio 15 May, 1969:

Please convey my blessings to your good wife, Krishna Devi, and to your daughter, Visnuarati. I hope this will meet you all in good health.

Letter to Rupanuga -- Columbus, Ohio 17 May, 1969:

Please convey my blessings to your good wife, Ernestine, and your very nice boy, Mr. Eric. I hope this will meet all of you in good health.

Letter to Isana -- New Vrindaban 23 May, 1969:

Please accept my blessings and offer the same to your good wife, Vibhavati. I am very much pleased to receive your daily reports, and you are one of the best students who follows the regulative principles rigidly for enhancing the devotional service.

Letter to Harer Nama -- New Vrindaban 23 May, 1969:

I thank you very much for your letter dated May 14, 1969, and I congratulate you and your good wife, Prabhavati, for your marriage. Live peacefully, husband and wife, and now you will be happy in the management of the temple. Both of you are initiated, and as it is necessary for you to work, your wife may take care of the temple in your absence.

Letter to Satsvarupa -- New Vrindaban 26 May, 1969:

Regarding your idea of purchasing a house, if it is possible, do it immediately. When you pay big rent anyway, purchasing a house is nice. Now Murari and his good wife, Lilavati, are there, so this will be a great boon to your Sankirtana activities.

Letter to Dayananda -- New Vrindaban 1 June, 1969:

Please convey my blessings to your good wife, Nandarani, and your nice little daughter, Candramukhi. I hope this will meet you all in very good health.

Letter to Hamsaduta -- New Vrindaban 8 June, 1969:

Please convey my blessings to your good wife, Himavati,* as well as all other devotees there. I hope this will meet you in good health.

Your ever well-wisher,

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami

*I shall be glad to hear from her and a dress for my deity.

Letter to Syamasundara -- Los Angeles 15 July, 1969:

Please convey my blessings to your good wife, Malati, and your daughter, Sarasvati. I hope this will meet you all in good health.

Letter to Syamasundara -- Los Angeles 31 July, 1969:

Please convey my blessings to your good wife, Malati, and your little daughter, Sarasvati. I hope this will meet you all in good health.

Letter to Gurudasa -- Los Angeles 12 August, 1969:

Hope you are well, and please convey my blessings to your good wife, Yamuna devi.

Letter to Satsvarupa -- Los Angeles 19 August, 1969:

Please offer my blessings to your good wife, Jadurani, and to all of the others. I hope this will meet you in good health.

Letter to Advaita -- Hamburg 7 September, 1969:

Please convey my blessings to your good wife, Balai, and your daughter, Nandini. I hope this will meet you all in good health.

Letter to Gurudasa -- Tittenhurst 15 September, 1969:

May Krishna bless you more and more in the matter of advancement of Krishna Consciousness. Hope you are well, and please convey my blessings to your good wife, Yamuna devi.

Letter to Jagadisa -- Tittenhurst 11 October, 1969:

I have also received one very nice letter from your good wife, Laksmimoni. She is a very nice girl, so the two of you work combinedly to spread this Sankirtana Movement of Caitanya Mahaprabhu. That will bring all happiness and success to both of your lives.

Letter to Vamanadeva -- Tittenhurst 21 October, 1969:

Please offer my blessings to your good wife, Indira Dasi. I hope this will meet you both in good health.

Letter to Paramananda -- Tittenhurst 27 October, 1969:

Please offer my blessings to your good wife, Satyabhama Dasi. I hope this will meet you and your family in good health.

Letter to Dinesh -- Tittenhurst 31 October, 1969:

Please offer my blessings to your good wife, Krishna Devi, and daughter, Visnu Arati. I hope this will meet you all in good health.

Letter to Sudama -- Tittenhurst 31 October, 1969:

Kindly offer my blessings to your good wife, Cintamani, and I hope this will meet the both of you in good health.

Letter to Hamsaduta -- Tittenhurst 2 November, 1969:

Please offer my obeisances to your good wife, Himavati. I hope this will meet you both in good health.

Letter to Vamanadeva -- Tittenhurst 2 November, 1969:

I am so glad to receive your letter dated October 28 in which you propose to go with your good wife, Indira Dasi, to St. Louis for opening a Krishna Consciousness center. The proposal is very nice so you try for it. I have all approval. Please keep me well informed of your progress in this scheme. I hope that Lord Krishna will give both of you all necessary strength to execute this service nicely.

Letter to Kulasekhara -- Tittenhurst 2 November, 1969:

Please accept my blessings and offer the same to your good wife, Visakha Dasi.

Letter to Gaurasundara -- London 20 November, 1969:

From San Francisco when I pushed you alone for Hawaii, you did not know where you were going, where to stay, and what to do. But since more than one year you have struggled very hard, and gradually you are getting some foot in that distant place, and your good wife, Govinda Dasi is helping you. Also, some very nice assistants have joined you, so try for Krishna to do your best. That is our duty.

Letter to Gopala Krsna -- London 26 November, 1969:

Regarding your marriage, that is my open opinion that if anyone can remain a brahmacari all the time, without being disturbed by sex urge or who can tolerate such urges, there is not any need for him to marry and take some extra responsibilities. But one who is disturbed in mind, he must get himself married. Therefore, it has to be decided by oneself if he should marry or not marry. It is a fact however that if one is thoroughly engaged in Krishna's service, this sex urge does not have much disturbance. But you have got to work outside with karmis and different types of people. Under the circumstances, if you have a good wife to help you, that will be very nice. Another difficulty is that in modern civilization everyone is independent spirited. The girls are no longer very much humble and submissive to their husbands. So you must be prepared to tolerate such whims of your future wife. According to our Vedic civilization, disagreements between husband and wife is not taken very seriously. But the modern age allows divorce even, either by the husband or by the wife. These things are not good. But after marrying, certainly there will be some disagreement or misunderstanding between husband and wife. So consider all these points, and you can decide yourself. But if you marry, I have no objection, as I have gotten married so many boys and girls and they are living peacefully.

Letter to Hamsaduta -- London 7 December, 1969:

Now I am so pleased to learn that your Berkeley center is improving day by day under the good care of yourself and your good wife, Himavati. Please go on improving the condition of this important center until you have made it as good as Los Angeles center.

Letter to Nandakisora -- London 13 December, 1969:

Please offer my blessings to your good wife, Jahnava, and the others. I hope this will meet you in good health.

Letter to Suridas -- Boston 26 December, 1969:

Please accept my blessings and offer the same to your good wife, Jotilla, and the others.

1970 Correspondence

Letter to Bhagavan -- Los Angeles 10 January, 1970:

Please offer my blessings to your good wife, Laksmimoni, and Jagadisa Candra who has written nice poetry which I am sending to the editors of Back to Godhead.

Letter to Dinesh -- Los Angeles 22 January, 1970:

Please offer my blessings to your good wife Krishna devi and child. It is very encouraging to me that Visnu Arati is being raised from her very birth in Krishna Consciousness and is spontaneously chanting Hare Krishna. No other yoga system can be so practiced even by a little child.

Letter to Madhusudana -- Los Angeles 30 January, 1970:

Please offer my blessings also to your good wife, Kancanbala. I hope this will meet you in good health.

Letter to Lalita Kumar -- Los Angeles 2 February, 1970:

I am very glad to know that you are going to be married with Srimati Jambavatidevi dasi, and I bless you—be happy with your good wife and jointly be advanced in Krishna Consciousness.

Letter to Lalita Kumar -- Los Angeles 2 February, 1970:

Yes, opening a center in Florida is our long contemplation, and I remember the letter when you and Sridhama wrote me about this. Where is Sridhama now? I am very much anxious to know about his health. If he is there, please ask him to write me. Now, if it is possible to open a center in Florida, then you can think of it because now you will have the support of your good wife. But I think for a few days more you should take training in Philadelphia before you think of opening another center. That will be nice.

Letter to Bhagavan -- Los Angeles 8 February, 1970:

I am very glad that you have sent Jagadisa and his good wife to Toronto to help start a Temple there.

Letter to Vamanadeva -- Los Angeles 12 February, 1970:

I may inform you that by the grace of Krsna this mission of spreading Krishna Consciousness is being enthusiastically pushed on for the benefit of the whole world by the assistance of all my disciples, good souls like your self and your good wife.

Letter to Sacisuta -- Los Angeles 14 February, 1970:

I am also very pleased to know that you are living happily with your good wife, and you are expecting a child in July. So now you must take especial care to raise the new child in such a nice way that he will become a pure devotee in Krsna Consciousness; that is the responsibility of the parents, to see that their child is freed from the clutches of Maya.

Letter to Sudama -- Los Angeles 17 February, 1970:

Hope this will meet you in very good health. Please offer my blessings to your good wife, Cintamani, and to all the other boys and girls there.

Letter to Pradyumna -- Los Angeles 22 February, 1970:

Please offer my blessings to your good wife, Arundhati, and be happy in Krsna Consciousness. I hope this will meet you in good health.

Letter to Harer Nama -- Los Angeles 23 February, 1970:

I am very glad that your good wife is now for some time taking example of devotional service from Silavati and others in our Los Angeles temple. The program here in the L.A. temple is very nice and I am sure she will benefit from such good association in Krsna Consciousness.

Letter to Bhagavan -- Los Angeles 24 February, 1970:

I have all my blessings for the girl for being married to Naranarayana, for whom I was very much anxious to get him a good wife. So I have full sanction for his marriage, and you can perform the ceremony on my behalf. I am sure under your care they will be trained as good husband and wife, following your example, and be happy in life in Krsna Consciousness.

Letter to Jagadisa -- Los Angeles 27 February, 1970:

Please offer my blessings to your good wife, Laksmimoni, and to all the other boys and girls there in Toronto center. Hope this will meet you in good health.

Letter to Unknown -- Unknown Place 28 February, 1970:

Please convey my blessings to your good wife and child.

Letter to Sudama -- Los Angeles 13 March, 1970:

Please offer my blessings to your good wife, Cintamani Dasi, and to Bhurijana who is your valuable aide, and to all the other boys and girls there.

Letter to Sri Balmukundji -- Los Angeles 15 March, 1970:

Please accept my blessings, and offer the same to your good wife.

Letter to Sri Balmukundji -- Los Angeles 15 March, 1970:

So I would again request you to take up the preaching work of this great movement. It does not matter whether you accept Sannyas order of life or not. You can preach this Krishna Consciousness movement even along with your good wife, and why not this procedure? My disciples are only children. If they can preach this Krishna Consciousness movement husband and wife together, without having any background of Vedic culture, why not an experienced gentleman like you with full knowledge of Vedic culture preach this movement? If you take up this work in right earnest, I am sure you will feel transcendental bliss.

Letter to Gurudasa -- Los Angeles 15 March, 1970:

Regarding George Harrison, I am sure he will improve now in Krishna Consciousness. Krishna Consciousness is developed only by service. So he has very willingly and gladly served Krishna in many ways. The recent "Govinda" record, which your good wife has sung along with you, is certainly super-excellent, and it has become so nice because of George's attention upon it. So whenever this nice boy comes to our Temple, please receive him very nicely. Give him Prasadam and if possible talk with him about Krishna, and thus he will advance more and more in Krishna Consciousness.

Letter to Gurudasa -- Los Angeles 15 March, 1970:

So when he says that he does not wish to produce nonsense this does not mean that he has to close his business. On the other hand, he will get greater opportunity for producing finest transcendental records which are still unknown to the world. When you meet him again, you can talk with him what I am speaking to you in this letter. My special thanks are due to your good wife, Srimati Yamuna devi. Her singing songs of Krishna Consciousness, and Krishna will certainly bless her and you all.

Letter to Suridas -- Los Angeles 17 March, 1970:

Your combination with your good wife, Jotilla, is very good, and now with greater enthusiasm execute Krishna activities as I have advised Gurudasa also. We must be fully equipped, and the preaching work by pairs of husband and wife will be an unique example to the world. Formerly the Acaryas were generally all Sannyasis, but Lord Caitanya, in His instruction to Roy Ramananda, who was a confidential devotee of Lord Caitanya, but a householder and responsible government official, Governor of Madras, has given open instruction that it does not matter what is the social or ecclesiastical order, if one is fully in Krishna Consciousness, he can act as Acarya. So all you boys and girls who are now married, follow this instruction of Lord Caitanya, and show vivid example to the world how man and woman can be united, not for sense gratification but for the service of the Lord.

Letter to Pradyumna -- Los Angeles 20 March, 1970:

Please offer my blessings to your good wife, Arundhati. I hope you are both in good health.

Letter to Rupanuga -- Los Angeles 29 March, 1970:

Please offer my blessings to your good wife and all the Prabhus there in Buffalo Temple. I hope this will meet you in good health.

Letter to Pradyumna -- Los Angeles 1 April, 1970:

I have just received one check of contribution from Brahmananda and I understand that you have contributed $500, so I thank you very much for this.

May Krsna bless both you and your good wife.

Hope this meets you in good health.

Letter to Jayagovinda -- Los Angeles 18 April, 1970:

I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 14th instant, and I am very happy to learn how both you and your good wife are determined to be more and more dependent on Krsna. That should be your mode of life, and that will advance you to success. Always think of Krsna, always hear of Krsna and always speak of Krsna and nothing else, no idle talkings. Both your wife and yourself are Krsna Conscious so you will have good opportunity to be always engaged in Krsna Consciousness.

Letter to Sudama -- Los Angeles 21 April, 1970:

Please offer my blessings to your good wife, Cintamani, Bhurijana, and all the other girls and boys there.

Letter to Jagadisa -- Los Angeles 25 April, 1970:

Please offer my blessings to your good wife, Laksmimoni, and to all the other girls and boys there.

Letter to Mahananda -- Los Angeles 27 April, 1970:

Your appreciation of our Krishna Consciousness Movement is very nice, and if you will carry this practical philosophy to the people of your great nation you will know the result for sure that this movement is the solution to all the problems of life. So I am glad that you are now going to our Washington center with your good wife. Please work there combinedly with great enthusiasm in advancing in Krishna Consciousness. I am very glad also that you and Hladini Dasi are now married in tilak by Sriman Bhagavan das. Please take my blessings for your spiritual marriage, and be happy in Krishna Conscious life.

Letter to Bhagavan -- Los Angeles 8 May, 1970:

Please offer my blessings to your good wife Krsna Bhamini and your son Vaisnava das and all the other Prabhus there.

Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Los Angeles 15 May, 1970:

Please offer my blessings to your good wife, Madri Dasi, and to all the other Prabhus there in Paris.

Letter to Bhagavan -- Los Angeles 16 May, 1970:

Please offer my blessings to your good wife, Krsna Bhamani Dasi, and your son, Vaisnava das. I hope this will meet you all in good health.

Letter to Sivananda -- Los Angeles 16 May, 1970:

Please offer my blessings to your good wife.

Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Los Angeles 27 May, 1970:

Please offer my blessings to your good wife, Madri Dasi, and all the boys and girls at Paris center.

Letter to Vrndavana Candra -- Los Angeles 5 June, 1970:

I am so happy to learn that both you and your good wife are now engaged in opening our new center in Baltimore. This opening of new centers gives me the greatest transcendental pleasure, and I beg to thank you very much. It is very good news that you have received such nice cooperation from the City authorities so you can carry out our Sankirtana program with unrestricted distribution of literatures. This is excellent opportunity, so please take full advantage and push on our movement with your greatest enthusiasm.

Letter to Vrndavana Candra -- Los Angeles 5 June, 1970:

Please offer my blessings to your good wife, Vidarba Kanya, and to the other boys and girls who may be there.

Letter to Paramananda -- Los Angeles 17 June, 1970:

So I am very much pleased that you are doing your job very nicely. Everyone should try his best to do his part depending on Krsna and Spiritual Master, then all success is there. I have heard about you how nicely you are working in New Vrndavana. Your good wife, Satyabhama, is also doing nice in teaching work. Similarly all our students are doing their jobs very diligently, and that is my satisfaction.

Letter to Syamasundara -- Los Angeles 19 June, 1970:

I have not heard from you since a long time, and I think you are now very busy on account of Rathayatra festival. I hope you are all well with your good wife, Malati, and daughter, Sarasvati. Your good daughter's photograph catching my hand is published in our Handbook of Krsna Consciousness which is to be printed very shortly containing the calendar and important information of our activities.

Letter to Pradyumna -- Los Angeles 21 June, 1970:

Please accept my blessings and offer the same to your good wife, Arundhati, and your firstborn son, whom you may give the name Aniruddha. This is very good news. Now you must take the responsible post of both husband and father to guide both these good souls, your wife and son, to the perfection of human life in Krsna consciousness. You and your wife are both intelligent and advanced in devotional science, so work conjointly to raise your son in the best atmosphere of ideal family blessed by Krsna in Krsna consciousness.

Letter to Vamanadeva -- Los Angeles 22 June, 1970:

Please accept my blessings and offer the same to your good wife, Indira Dasi. I am in due receipt of your very encouraging letter dated 17th June, 1970, along with some pictures and plans of the new St. Louis temple.

Letter to Vrndavana Candra -- Los Angeles 24 June, 1970:

So accepting always Krsna as the Supreme advisor and always begging for his mercy, go on with your progressive march—and I am very satisfied with your activities. I am so glad to learn that your good wife is also helping you. That is the duty of a faithful companion of life. If the wife is helpful in the spiritual progress of life, she is the best friend and philosopher. So in Krsna Consciousness the wife is never a burden, but she is completely a counterpart. So set example to your countrymen how younger generation can live peacefully, husband and wife, being engaged in Krsna's service. There are many examples of this type of husband and wife working in our different centers for propagating this sublime message.

Letter to Madhusudana -- Los Angeles 29 June, 1970:

I beg to thank you very much for your letter dated 24th June, 1970, with your check for $200, for which I think you and your good wife, Kancanbala. This kind of letter is very encouraging to me because there is enclosure of a nice check. So we have to pay immediately some bills of ISKCON Press as well as Dai Nippon, so it will be very much helpful.

Letter to Sridama -- Los Angeles 8 July, 1970:

Please offer my blessings to your good wife and to Sriman Nanda Kisora and his wife. Hope this will meet all of you in good health.

Letter to Jagadisa -- Los Angeles 9 July, 1970:

Please offer my blessings to your good wife, Laksmimoni, and your son.

Letter to Pradyumna -- Los Angeles 11 July, 1970:

I am very happy to know that your family is doing well in Krsna consciousness. Please offer my blessings to your good wife, Arundhati, and your son, Aniruddha.

Letter to Candanacarya -- Los Angeles 12 July, 1970:

Please accept my blessings and offer the same to your good wife, Srimati Kasturika Dasi. I am in due receipt of your nice letter dated 2nd July, and I am very glad to learn that you are now happily married. I beg to thank you also for the check of your contribution for my book fund, it is very welcome at this time and for the nice photographs of your wedding ceremony.

Letter to Candanacarya -- Los Angeles 12 July, 1970:

So I think you tried to get yourself married sometimes before and now Krsna has given you one very good wife. You are intelligent boy, hard worker and devotee of Krsna and your wife is very fine girl and sincere devotee also, so you both, husband and wife, combined together work for your mutual advancement in Krsna consciousness. That is my desire.

Letter to Sridama -- Los Angeles 14 July, 1970:

So let us all believe in the words of Krsna and serve Him to our best capacity and thus we will come out victorious in every field of action. By the grace of Krsna you are a beautiful young man with nice intelligence, devotion and spirit, so employ all of them in the service of the Lord along with your good wife and be successful in Krsna consciousness.

Letter to Vrndavana Candra -- Los Angeles 18 July, 1970:

I hope that you and your good wife are doing well in Baltimore. I have very favorable reports from our East coast centers. Please offer my blessings to all the boys and girls there.

Letter to Damodara -- Los Angeles 19 July, 1970:

Please accept my blessings for yourself and your good wife, Mrganetridevi Dasi. I am in due receipt of your letter dated 13rd July, 197-0, and I am so glad to know that you are now happily married by Subala at a nice ceremony in Philadelphia.

Letter to Dinesh -- Los Angeles 1 August, 1970:

I am very glad to note your eagerness for expanding your service. This attitude is very nice and it is required of the devotee at every stage. So do it very enthusiastically with great faith and patience strictly following the regulative principles. Your good wife and yourself should set the example as model Krsna consciousness householders by your careful observance of all our Krsna conscious principles and thus make your lives successful.

Letter to Krsnakanti -- Los Angeles 1 August, 1970:

I am so happy to learn that both yourself and Sriman Gajendra are now married to two of my beloved daughters. I am proposing that our Temples now be managed by the householder couples so this is very nice for you now. Please take this opportunity offered you all by Krsna very seriously and do not misuse your life for sense gratification. You are a very intelligent boy I know and a very sincere devotee of Lord Krsna. Now you have got a good wife who is also intelligent girl and devotee, so live peacefully working together for pushing on this Krsna consciousness movement for the ultimate benefit of all concerned. So you both husband and wife please take my blessings and blessings of Lord Krsna and be happy in Krsna's transcendental loving service.

Letter to Krsnakanti -- Los Angeles 1 August, 1970:

Please offer my blessings to Gajendra and his good wife, Herapancami.

Letter to Jagadisa -- Calcutta 17 September, 1970:

Please offer my blessings to all the devotees and your good wife, Laksmimoni Dasi. Hope this will meet you in good health.

Letter to Hayagriva -- Calcutta 19 September, 1970:

Hope this finds you and your good wife and child in good health.

Letter to Syamasundara -- Calcutta 22 September, 1970:

Please convey my blessings to your good wife and child.

Letter to Dinesh -- Calcutta 25 September, 1970:

I am very glad to learn that both you and your good wife, Krsna devi, and your daughter, Visnu Arati, are together in Boston. Your all engagements sound to be very suitable, so please execute your duties in Krsna Consciousness and be happy.

Letter to Nayanabhirama -- Calcutta 26 September, 1970:

I am in due receipt of your letter dated Sept. 10th, 1970 and noted the contents. I have not yet received the bead bag sewn by your good wife, but I beg to thank you for the check of $100 forwarded to my book fund. I am so glad that you are now together, husband and wife, engaged in serving Krsna as an ideal Krsna Conscious householder couple.

Letter to Nayanabhirama -- Calcutta 26 September, 1970:

Please offer my blessings to all the devotees there and your good wife.

Letter to Damodara -- Calcutta, India 28 September, 1970:

Please offer my blessings to your good wife, Mrganetra, and all the other devotees, boys and girls, in our Washington temple.

Letter to Tamala Krsna, Syamasundara -- Amritsar 23 October, 1970:

Please accept my blessings. I hope you and your good wives as well as Srimat Sarasvati are all well. I have safely arrived in Amritsar and we are being very well cared for at the Vedant Niketan. The people and also the Sannyasis here are very much liking our Sankirtana Movement, so things are going on nicely.

Letter to Nayanabhirama -- Amritsar 26 October, 1970:

Please offer my blessings to your good wife, whose picture in the news clipping is showing nice Krsna Consciousness, and all the other devotees there in our Philadelphia Temple.

Letter to Jagadisa -- Bombay 4 November, 1970:

Hope this will meet you in good health. Offer my blessings to your good wife, Laksmimoni, and to all the other boys and girls at Toronto temple.

Letter to Satsvarupa -- Bombay 4 November, 1970:

I have received your letter of 23 September, 1970, along with the note from your good wife, and have read them with attention. The sentiments which you have expressed are very much encouraging to me, that I have got such disciples as yourself who are more anxious to serve me than my own children.

Letter to Sudama -- Bombay 4 November, 1970:

Please offer my blessings to your good wife Cintamani and to all the other good Tokyo Prabhus. I hope you are well and jolly.

Letter to Hayagriva -- Bombay 8 November, 1970:

Please offer my blessings to your good wife Syama Dasi and your growing boy Samba, and I can hardly wait until he grows big enough to defeat all the mayavadis

Letter to Vrindaban Candra -- Bombay 9 November, 1970:

Please offer my blessings to your good wife Vidarbha Kanya, as well as to all the other devotees there. Hoping you are well.

Letter to Krsna dasa -- Bombay 15 November, 1970:

Please offer my blessings to your good wife and all the other devotees there. Hope this will meet you in good health.

Letter to Murari -- 74, Marine Drive, Bombay 20 Nov. 17, 1970:

Please convey my blessings to your good wife, Lilavati, and to your daughter, Subhadra.

Letter to Ben -- Bombay November 22, 1970:

I am very much pleased to know that you are trying to set a fine example to your young son, Joseph, and your good wife. It is the duty of our students who are married men to train both their wife and children in devotional service to the Supreme Lord. The easiest program is that you add to your daily schedule a Kirtana chanting of Hare Krsna Maha-mantra both in the evening and the morning with your family and after chanting you can read something from our Bhagavad Gita As It Is or Krsna Book or our other literatures. You are already offering service to Lord Jagannatha and offering Him some nicely prepared fruits, milk, sweet smelling flowers and incense. That is the way for householders. For householders it is prescribed that one should hear the Bhagavad-gita or other transcendental texts of which we now have ample supply from the lips of the devotee of the Lord, one should accept a Bona fide Spiritual Master and follow his instructions and one should install the Deity in his home and carry on worship there. These three items will make your life perfect. So you simply try to observe these things and if you need some advice how to do it you can ask the elder devotees of our New York Temple. Be very strict in your observance of the four principles of regulation, namely no illicit sex life, no intoxicants, no eating of any meat, fish or eggs, and no gambling. Always chant Hare Krsna at least sixteen rounds daily and be happy.

Letter to Hayagriva -- Bombay 24 November, 1970:

Please offer my blessings to your good wife Syama Dasi and son Samba. Hope this will meet you in good health.

Letter to Damodara -- Bombay, India 29 November, 1970:

Please offer my blessings to your good wife and to all the Prabhus there.

Letter to Krsnakanti -- Bombay 29 November, 1970:

Please offer my blessings to all the Prabhus and your good wife. Hope this will meet you in good health.

Letter to Mukunda -- Indore 7 December, 1970:

Please offer my blessings to your good wife, Srimati Janaki devi. I hope you are both in good health.

Letter to Krsna dasa -- Surat 18 December, 1970:

I hope you and your good wife Indrani are well. Please convey my blessings to all the other devotees and tell Vasudeva to write me about how he is progressing with his painting work.

Letter to Advaita -- Surat 19 December, 1970:

Please accept my blessings and offer the same to your good wife, Balai Dasi, and your daughter, Nandini devi. I am in due receipt of your letter dated December 4th, 1970, although I did not receive any letter from you addressed to Calcutta. I am travelling extensively now throughout the country of India, so sometimes my mail does not reach me promptly or there is some chance of its being missed.

Letter to Nara-narayana, Dinadayadri -- Surat 19 December, 1970:

So far as your casting of Murtis there during the winter months, that sounds very nice. If you could produce plaster Murtis of Lord Caitanya the same size in height as Kartamashai Murtis you produced earlier, that would be very nice. And then your good wife Dinadayadri, acting as pujari there, can take nice care of that Murti. Husband and wife working conjointly in Krishna Consciousness is the perfection of household life. So both of you go on working in this way to strengthen and improve our wonderful New Vrindaban community project and Krishna will be very pleased.

Letter to Sridama -- Surat 19 December, 1970:

Now you and your good wife Manmohini are in Miami after having left Providence and that is very nice. Miami is a very good place to establish a firm center and if you can organize this center nicely, it will be a great credit to you. Just continue with your sincere efforts and Krishna will give you all assistance.

Letter to Vamanadeva -- Surat 28 December, 1970:

Please offer my blessings to your good wife. Thanking you once more for your informative letter.

Letter to Jagadisa -- Surat 29 December, 1970:

I have noted the news article sent by you and it appears very nice. I beg to thank your good wife for the gorgeous handkerchief which she has so thoughtfully offered to my Radha Krsna Deities. I am also glad that you are regularly sending the maintenance checks for your Temple to Karandhara. Thank you very much for this.

Letter to Sudama -- Surat 30 December, 1970:

Please accept my blessings, and offer the same to your good wife Cintamani devi Dasi. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 15th December, 1970—as well as the telegram sent on the 16th December. So far as the 10 copies of Japanese BTG sent by you is concerned, they were received by me some time ago and acknowledged in my letter to you dated 5th December, 1970. This letter was sent to your old address, so perhaps you have received it by now.

Letter to Mukunda -- Surat 31 December, 1970:

I have already written to Murari that you will take charge of our London Branch as President and that he may take the office of vice-president and assist you. I want that you and your good wife Janaki will develop the London temple, as it is practically one of our most important centers. London is the most important city in the world and as you originally opened this branch, it is my desire to see it come to full blossom under your expert management. So with the assistance of your good wife Janaki, if the two of you take charge I will be satisfied that things are all right there.

1971 Correspondence

Letter to Upendra -- Bombay 4 January, 1971:

Please offer my blessings to your good wife. Hope this will meet you in good health.

Letter to Vrindaban Candra -- Allahabad 8 January, 1971:

Please accept my blessings and offer the same to your good wife Vidarbha Kanya Dasi. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your very kind letter dated 16th December, 1970 and have noted the contents.

Letter to Damodara -- Allahabad, India 10 January, 1971:

Please offer my blessings to your good wife, Mrganetra, and I hope this will meet you in good health.

Letter to Vaikunthanatha -- Allahabad 12 January, 1971:

Please accept my blessings and offer the same to your good wife, Saradia Dasi. I am very glad to hear from you after some time and I am glad that you are feeling very happy in our Society. That is the sign of advancement in spiritual life that one is detached from material sense gratification and finds pleasure in serving Krsna only.

Letter to Bhavananda -- Allahabad 21 January, 1971:

Please accept my blessings and offer the same to your good wife Palika Dasi. I am in due receipt of your very kind letter dated 4th January, 1971 as well as the maintenance check for $105.00 and I thank you very much.

Letter to Satsvarupa -- Allahabad 21 January, 1971:

Please accept my blessings and offer the same to your good wife Jadurani. I am in due receipt of your letter dated 7th January, 1971 along with the enclosed articles, as well as the ISKCON Press newsletter dated 5th January, 1971.

Letter to Sri Govinda -- Allahabad 21 January, 1971:

Please accept my blessings and offer the same to your good wife Sri Lekha Devi Dasi. I am in due receipt of your letter dated 31st December, 1970 and have noted the contents carefully. I am so glad to hear how you are strictly following the regulative principles of devotional service and chanting regularly 16 rounds daily, mostly before Lord Jagannatha. That is our strength in spiritual life and will make for your rapid advancement in Krishna Consciousness. There are three stages of chanting: offensively; free of offense, or in the liberated stage; and in full love of Godhead. Simply continue chanting and any offenses you may be committing, because they are not intentional, will soon vanish by the grace of Lord Jagannatha.

Letter to Upendra -- Allahabad 27 January, 1971:

I am so pleased to see you and your good wife in every picture in different poses of preaching work. That is real Krsna consciousness service to preach the message of the Holy Name to all persons. And they appear to be all responding very enthusiastically to your preaching; that is very good sign. If you remain pure and enthusiastic, you will have the spiritual strength to enthuse others with the chanting of Hare Krsna Mahamantra and devotional service to the Lord.

Letter to Jagadisa -- Allahabad 30 January, 1971:

From Hamilton I've received one letter from Dharmaraj. The progress he is making there is most encouraging with four new devotees already. Also his good wife Gunamayi has sent some very expertly done portraits of My Guru Maharaja and Myself. She is very talented girl and should continue her painting work very seriously.

Letter to Murari -- Allahabad 4 February, 1971:

I think by now your good wife is with you in London once more. I am confident that if you simply take our principles very seriously and follow them rigidly, everything will come out successfully.

Letter to Murari -- Allahabad 4 February, 1971:

I am very glad that Mukunda will continue to work with you and he will be President of our London Yatra. Both he and Janaki and you and your good wife are our elder students and you try to cooperate with one another for keeping our London center as prominent. If you can expand that will be very nice. I am glad that the center in Birmingham is going on nicely.

Letter to Murari -- Allahabad 4 February, 1971:

Please offer my blessings to your good wife, Lilavati. Try to increase the sales of our literatures and particularly KRSNA book and that will be a great service.

Letter to Mukunda -- Allahabad 4 February, 1971:

Please accept my blessings AND OFFER THE SAME TO YOUR good wife Janaki. I am in due receipt of your letter dated 25th December, 1970, along with pictures of Regent's Park land and Finchley Road, but I have not yet received the registered packet containing certified memorandum and articles of Association.

Letter to Advaita -- Gorakhpur 10 February, 1971:

Please accept my blessings. I have not heard from you in a while, but my mail has been undelivered for some time due to travel. Please offer my blessings also to your good wife and child.

Letter to Sridama -- Gorakhpur 15 February, 1971:

Please accept my blessings and offer the same to your good wife and all the other Prabhus there. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 13rd January, 1971, along with one set of beads for chanting and recommendation for the initiation of Debbie. I have duly chanted her beads and given her the spiritual name Devi Dasi.

Letter to Dinesh Candra -- Gorakhpur 16 February, 1971:

Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated 23d January, 1971 and enclosed with one letter from your good wife Krsna Devi. It is so much encouraging that you are distributing our books so nicely in the Boston area and especially that several bookstore chains have taken so many copies of KRSNA book and TLC So see to it that this program continues there in Boston with increasing volume. That will be a great success for our missionary activities.

Letter to Citsukhananda -- Gorakhpur 21 February, 1971:

Please accept my blessings and offer the same to your good wife, Srimati Candravali Dasi, and your son. I was glad to receive your encouraging letter dated 6th January, 1971. It is very good news that your Temple has attracted so many sincere, intelligent and enthusiastic devotees. Please see them all trained nicely in devotional service and let them continue to follow the regulative principles and work on patiently.

Letter to Karandhara -- Bombay 18 March, 1971:

Please offer my blessings to your good wife, Srimati Saci Devi, and all the other Prabhus. Hope this will meet you in good health.

Letter to Citsukhananda -- Bombay 25 March, 1971:

I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 3d March, 1971 and have noted the contents. I am so glad to hear that you are now in L.A. discussing final plans for opening one center in Mexico City. That is very encouraging news. I am anxious that we establish centers in major cities all over the globe and Mexico City is certainly an important landmark. Both you and your good wife Candrabali can speak Spanish language nicely, so you are certainly qualified for such a mission.

Letter to Karandhara -- Bombay 13 April, 1971:

Please offer my blessings to your good wife Saci Devi as well as the other boys and girls there. Hoping this will meet you in good health.

Letter to Advaita -- Bombay 17 April, 1971:

I hope everything is going on well with you, your good wife and child and ISKCON PRESS. I have not heard from you in some time, but I am sure that you are steadily advancing in Krsna's transcendental service.

Letter to Jagadisa -- Bombay 25 April, 1971:

Yes, please offer my blessings to your good wife Laksmimoni and son Nimala Candra. Please make them ideal Krishna Conscious family members. That will be a great example for our society.

Letter to Gurudasa -- Bombay 27 April, 1971:

Please offer my blessings to your good wife Yamuna Devi. Hoping this will meet you in good health.

Letter to Dinesh Candra -- Calcutta 18 May, 1971:

Please offer my blessings to your good wife Krsna Devi. Hoping this will meet you in good health.

Letter to Kanupriya -- Bombay, India 11 June, 1971:

You will be glad to know that I have consented to accept your good wife as my duly initiated disciple and have given her the name Caitanya Devi Dasi. Her beads and letter are enclosed herewith. So now both of you, husband and wife, work cooperatively and make ISKCON Trinidad a grand success.

Letter to Svarupa -- Bombay 15 June, 1971:

Please offer my blessings to your good wife Susan. Hoping this will meet you in good health.

Letter to Hrdayananda -- Los Angeles 5 July, 1971:

I beg to thank you very much for your letter dated 2nd July, 1971 and have noted the contents carefully. You will be glad to know that I have consented to initiate your good wife, Elaine, as well as Bill Schoenbart, and have given them spiritual names Anangamanjari Devi and Radhaballaba Das, respectively; their beads and letters are enclosed herewith.

Letter to Nayanabhirama -- Brooklyn 25 July, 1971:

I was very glad to see both you and your good wife Daivisakti here in N.Y. for the initiation ceremonies. You are both doing so nicely in Krishna Consciousness. Thank you very much. And please offer my blessings to all the other boys and girls there in Philadelphia. Their presentations were so very nice, and they showed so much devotion also. You are all so very nice to me and I am so grateful.

Letter to Sudama -- Brooklyn 31 July, 1971:

I am so glad to hear that you have again come to your senses and are arranging for your good wife Cintamani to return to Tokyo. She is a very nice devotee; that is a fact. And it is your duty to take care of her and see to it that she becomes Krishna Conscious. So work cooperatively, husband and wife, and make our Tokyo center most successful. That is my request.

Letter to Sudama -- Brooklyn 31 July, 1971:

Please offer my blessings to your good wife Cintamani. Hoping this will meet you and Kartikeya Maharaja both in good health.

Letter to David R. Schomaker -- London 9 August, 1971:

Please accept my blessings and offer the same to your good wife Susan. I am in due receipt of your letter dated 3rd August, 1971 and have noted the contents carefully. Thank you very much for your kind appreciations of our Krishna Consciousness movement. I am so glad to hear that you have taken to devotional service and are finding it more and more enlivening.

Letter to Dr. Bali -- London 24 August, 1971:

Please accept my blessings, and offer the same to your good wife Vijantimala. I am in due receipt of your letter dated 18th August, 1971 and have noted the contents.

Letter to Sivananda -- London 25 August, 1971:

Please offer my blessings to your good wife Vrindadevi. Hoping this will meet you in good health.

Letter to Nityananda, Kanya Kumari -- London 26 August, 1971:

Please offer my blessings to your good wife Kanya Kumari (and thank her for her very kind letter) and also to Bhagavata, Subrata, Debra, and Michael. Hoping this will meet you all in good health.

Letter to Damodara -- London 1 September, 1971:

Please offer my blessings to your good wife Mriganetri and child Gulab Dasi as well as Tosana Krishna and all the others there. Hoping this will meet you all in good health.

Letter to Vaikunthanatha -- London 6 September, 1971:

Please accept my blessings and offer the same to your good wife Saradia. I am in due receipt of your letter dated 22nd August, 1971 and have noted the contents carefully.

Letter to Dr. Bali -- Kenya 9 September, 1971:

I beg to thank you very much for your letter dated 3rd September, 1971 and my blessings are there for you and your good wife.

Letter to Gurudasa -- Mombassa, Kenya 16 September, 1971:

Please accept my blessings and offer the same to your good wife Yamuna. I am in due receipt of your letters dated 30th August and 6th September, 1971, respectively and have noted the contents carefully.

Letter to Lalita Kumar -- Delhi 15 November, 1971:

I hope this mee'ts you and your good wife Jambavati in good health and cheerful mood.

Letter to Paramananda -- Delhi 18 November, 1971:

I hope this meets you and your good wife Satyabhama in strong health and cheerful mood.

Letter to Hamsaduta -- Delhi 20 November, 1971:

I hope this finds you and your good wife, Himavati dasi, in strong health and cheerful mood.

Letter to Abhirama -- Vrindaban 27 November, 1971:

I hope this meets you and your good wife, Vijaya devi, in strong health and cheerful mood.

Letter to Bahulasva -- Vrindaban 30 November, 1971:

I hope this meets you, your good wife, and your sons, Yamal and Arjuna, in good health and cheerful mood.

Letter to Hamsaduta -- Delhi 8 December, 1971:

Due to war in India, our programs here have been reduced, and there is every night black-out, so our future plans here are not settled up at present. I hope this meets you and your good wife, Himavati dasi, in strong health and pleasant mood,

Your ever well-wisher,

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami

Letter to Atreya Rsi -- Delhi 12 December, 1971:

Hope this will meet you and your good wife in strong health and cheerful mood,

Your ever well-wisher,

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami

Letter to Uddhava -- Delhi 12 December, 1971:

Kindly offer my blessings to your good wife and daughter.

Letter to Vaikunthanatha -- Bombay 18 December, 1971:

I hope this will find you and your good wife, Saradia dasi, in good health and cheerful mood,

Letter to Mukunda -- Bombay 28 December, 1971:

I beg to acknowledge your letter of December 12, 1971, and it has given me much pleasure to hear from you after such long time. I can understand that you are feeling some separation, as I am also feeling some separation from both you and your good wife, Janaki. I am very pleased to see that you are all right and that you are advancing nicely in Krishna Consciousness. Why your naughty wife, Janaki, does not write me? She is angry upon me or what is that? You are both some of my first disciples, and because of you so many others came, so I am always remembering you fondly. Now please just remain very serious in pursuing your proper goal of life by sticking to the pure standard of routine work like chanting, reading, rising early, cleansing nicely, going on street Sankirtana whenever possible, like that. Then I promise you you will not fail to be really happy in this life and in the end reach the Supreme destination.

1972 Correspondence

Letter to Sucandra -- Bombay 1 January, 1972:

Please offer my blessings to your good wife Bhusakti and to the other devotees in Munich. I hope you are all well.

Letter to Von Paul Reed -- Bombay 2 January, 1972:

Please offer my blessings to your good wife and son and to the other devotees at ISKCON Seattle. I hope this meets you in the best of health.

Letter to Ajita -- Bombay 4 January, 1972:

I am in due receipt of your letter from Sydney dated December 24, 1971, and I am very, very happy to note that you want to go back to your native place of Sweden, along with your good wife and some other Swedish boys, devotees, from Germany and other places, for opening our center there. That is a very good proposal.

Letter to Hamsaduta -- Bombay 10 January, 1972:

I am going to Nairobi for a few days from the 25th January, returning by 1st February. Then we shall hold our programs in Ahmedabad, Madras, Mayapur.*

Hoping this will meet you and your good wife, Mataji, in strong health and lively mood.

Your ever well-wisher,

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami

*Please know it always that I think of you and your wife as very sincere devotees and whenever you think, you can ask me everything about your difficulties.

Letter to Krsna dasa -- Bombay 10 January, 1972:

I hope this will meet you and your good wife and child in good health and cheerful mood.

Letter to Hamsaduta -- Jaipur 20 January, 1972:

Hoping this will meet you and your good wife Himavati in strong health and happy mood.

Letter to Upendra -- Jaipur 21 January, 1972:

I have received one very nice letter from your good wife, Citralekha, and I hear that she has now joined you there, so I may thank her here for serving me so nicely in India. She has learned a lot about deity worship I think, so she may train up the others there in Australia centers.

Letter to Hamsaduta -- Sydney 2 April, 1972:

Hoping this will meet you and your good wife, Himavati, in good health and happiness.

With blessings for my good daughter Himavati.

Your ever well-wisher,

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami

Letter to Revatinandana -- Sydney 2 April, 1972:

I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 3/10/72, and I am very much pleased upon you for taking up the matter of preaching work in England especially, and also other places. I am happy to hear that new centers are being opened by you and others in Europe. This is our best field, and practically I am observing here in Australia that you western boys and girls are becoming angels by taking up this Krishna Consciousness process, and that our Indian boys and girls will not take it up. They think that to have a good wife and sufficient income, bas, that is the goal of their life. But you all are joining me and you are coming out very nicely by Krishna's grace, so I am very much thankful.

Letter to Hamsaduta -- Sydney 11 April, 1972:

Hoping this will meet you in good health, along with your good wife, Himavati devi dasi.

Letter to Gurudasa -- Honolulu 13 May, 1972:

So I am very much encouraged by your letters, and I am confident I have entrusted this Vrindaban project, which is one of the most important of our this ISKCON, to the right persons, namely, yourself, your good wife, Yamuna devi, and Ksirodakasayi Prabhu. So kindly offer the others my blessings.

Letter to Yadubara -- Los Angeles 21 May, 1972:

I shall look forward to seeing you and your good wife Visakha dasi in Bombay when I return there this autumn.

Letter to Bhavananda -- Los Angeles 28 May, 1972:

I am expecting your long report about Mayapur project. Meanwhile, I hope this meets you and your good wife Palika devi in good health.

Letter to Vasudeva -- Los Angeles May 31, 1972:

Hoping this meets you and your good wife and son in best of health.

Letter to Gurudasa -- Los Angeles 12 June, 1972:

Hoping this will meet you and your good wife and all of the others in good health.

Letter to Hamsaduta -- Los Angeles 22 June, 1972:

I hope this meets you and your good wife Himavati in good health, and I shall be arriving in London sometime on the 5th July, so you may all come to London at your convenience and see me there.

Letter to Tejiyas -- London 9 August, 1972:

I am very glad to hear that we shall be holding another Hare Krishna Festival in Delhi this year, and I am hoping that I shall also be able to attend as before. That LIC grounds is no longer available, but we must find another suitable location within the city center of New Delhi,* as close to Connaught Circus as possible. That will be very nice. So you and your good wife kindly give Gurudasa all assistance for organizing the festival, and I shall also come if I am able.

Letter to Turya -- Los Angeles August 16, 1972:

I have heard that you are well qualified to worship the Deity at highest standard and this is very much necessary. One who is worshiping the Deity must be always attentive and mindful of his occupation at all times. He must never for one moment forget his duty of serving the Deity at every moment and strive always to please the Lord. If you are willing to stick there in Mexico City, along with your good wife, and do the needful for worshiping Lord Jagannatha and take all responsibility, then I have no objection if you install.

Letter to Gaurasundara -- Los Angeles 26 August, 1972:

If I have understood the order of my Spiritual Master rightly, then I must perform my duty under any circumstances and never one think of going away under disgust. I have appointed you to be my GBC representative in South America because I think that you are very much responsible and capable to do it, and I am very fond of you and your good wife Govinda dasi for helping me all along. So do not be disturbed or worried by some small thing, rumor, or misunderstanding. There is no plot amongst our so-called big men against you or Siddha-swarup Ananda. That is childish.

Letter to Krsna dasa -- Dallas 9 September, 1972:

You are very intelligent and also your wife is intelligent. Formally you were alone, now you are assisted by your good wife. Husband and wife equal double strength.

Letter to Amogha -- Los Angeles 13 September, 1972:

Hoping this meets you and your good wife Rasarani dasi in the best of health.

Letter to Upendra -- Los Angeles 13 September, 1972:

I have received your letter dated Wednesday, 6th September, 1972, and I am very glad to hear that you and your good wife want to go to Perth, Australia, for opening one ISKCON center. There is no doubt about it that I shall sanction your endeavor in this respect. I am always praying that my disciples will gradually increase our war against maya on all fronts.

Letter to Upendra -- Los Angeles 13 September, 1972:

Hoping this meets you and your good wife Citralekha Dasi in the best of health,

Your ever well-wisher,

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami

Letter to Dr. Karan-Singh -- Los Angeles 18 September, 1972:

Hoping this meets you and your good wife in the very best of health and cheerful mood,

Your ever well-wisher,

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami

Letter to Sri Krishna Pandit -- Vrindaban 7 November, 1972:

I am in due receipt of your letter dated October 29, 1972. I very much regret for the loss of your good wife. I always remember her because she was so kind upon me when I used to visit your house. She was so affectionately feeding me, so I felt very much when I learned that she is no more in this world. Anyway, she was a pious lady, and she has left this world keeping her husband and children all well-placed and happy, so her death as a chaste lady is exemplary. Lord Sri Krishna will surely give her peace and prosperity in her next birth.

Letter to Gopala Krsna -- Bombay 3 December, 1972:

Hoping this meets you and your good wife in good health.

Letter to Hamsaduta -- Ahmedabad 10 December, 1972:

So now you have practically become inseparable from Germany temples, and you have introduced this strict brahminical standard in those countries and it is coming out successful. So I am always appreciating you and your good wife, Himavati, for your kindly helping me in this way. May Krishna shower you with His all blessings.

Letter to Citsukhananda -- Ahmedabad 11 December, 1972:

So I think because Hanuman is always sending me successful reports of preaching meetings, so many newspaper articles and photos, that this Krishna Consciousness movement will be very famous there and you will find many interested persons to become devotees, just like at Mexico. Now you go there, along with your good wife and family. But one nice thing is, before you had told me you thought it was best if first you had got one nice place and made all arrangements before your wife and child joined you, then they will not have to suffer unduly nor shall you be hampered in the beginning to work very hard without good facilities at first. Later they may come when there is sufficient place.

Letter to Tusta Krsna -- Ahmedabad 14 December, 1972:

Hoping this meets you and your good wife, Krishna Tulasi dasi, in good health and devotional mood.

Letter to Name withheld -- 17 December, 1972:

I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated November 30th, 1972, wherein I am so shocked to hear from you that you have left your good wife for some time to have sex-life with another girl, who is also a devotee, and that she is now pregnant with your child. That is most disturbing to me. But I know that all big leaders are falling victim to sex-life. So let her live in New York and you live in Paris with your wife, what can be done? But you should not ever see or correspond in any way with her again. That will be the worst example. If you are leader, how you can do these things? If someone will have her, she may get herself married and be happy in Krsna consciousness—I do not want that she shall go away from shame. But you must have nothing more to do with her. Just like (another devotee) has done. He was like the sifter, full of holes, and he was finding fault only in others: Oh, just see that needle, he has got a hole. Now he has made one girl pregnant and they were found out, so he has left me as my personal servant. That is the common practice: full of holes, yet they are accusing others, "Oh! He has got one hole!

Letter to Mukunda -- Bombay 27 December, 1972:

I am in due receipt of your letters dated November 13 and December 11, 1972, and always I am very glad to hear from your good self. You are one of my first and nicest disciples that is a fact, and I am always hoping that you will again come to live with me again, along with your good wife Janaki. That will be nice. But even I am far away, as you say you are remembering me, so also I am remembering you, and in that sense we are never separated.

Letter to Vaikunthanatha -- Bombay 29 December, 1972:

Or if our attachment for Krsna is not yet developed, and there is still attraction for the ordinary life of householder life, together with friends, family, children, working, like that, that is all right, by that process if one contributes something of his income to the preaching work and attends himself with family the temple for the class and kirtana, gradually he will get some enthusiasm and develop his attachment for Krsna. But that is the slow and troublesome way, and I know that you are so intelligent boy, along with your good wife Saradia, so you may do as you like, but it would please me very much if you will dedicate yourself and your wife completely to the preaching work. That is important. Running-on of factories, family, these are ordinary businesses and anyone may do them, any ordinary man, but you are not ordinary man, that I know.

1973 Correspondence

Letter to Hamsaduta -- Bombay 2 January, 1973:

What credit is there for someone who is himself actually lower than everyone but claims that he is better than everyone, or even he may claim that he is lower than everyone, still what is his credit? But the devotee, being the topmost grade of living entity, when he gives all credit to others and takes nothing credit for himself, that is his credit. Thank you, along with your good wife Himavati, for helping me in this way.

Letter to George -- Bombay 4 January, 1973:

I have heard that your good wife, Patty is growing Srimate Tulasi devi there at your house with good success. That is another very auspicious sign. The Tulasi, she will not go to live with anyone nondevotee, and because she is growing so profusely, therefore she is giving you her best favor because you are best devotee, that is to be understood.

Letter to George -- Bombay 4 January, 1973:

Hoping this meets you and your good wife in the best of health and spirits.

Letter to Krsna Gopala -- Bombay 4 January, 1973:

I am very happy to learn from you all of the valuable assistance that you are giving to our Tejyas there at Delhi. He is very sincere boy, along with his good wife, and there is excellent field for our preaching work in Delhi city. So as much as possible you may give him your attention and energy for helping me to push on this Krsna Consciousness movement there.

Letter to Nayanabhirama -- Calcutta 28 January, 1973:

Hoping this finds you and your good wife in good health,

Your ever well-wisher,

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami

Letter to Vamanadeva -- New York 10 April, 1973:

I hope this meets you in good health and also your good wife and child.

Letter to Gurudasa -- Calcutta 4 July, 1973:

Please offer my obeisances to your good wife Yamuna and thank her for her kind sentiments in Krsna Consciousness.

Letter to Govinda -- Bhaktivedanta Manor 28 July, 1973:

So you are doing nicely, especially the deities have attracted my attention. The credit goes to you and your good wife Srimati Srilekha Devi Dasi.

Letter to Govinda -- Bhaktivedanta Manor 28 July, 1973:

I hope you and your Good wife are both well.

Letter to Vamanadeva -- Bhaktivedanta Manor 17 August, 1973:

I hope that you are feeling well. Please offer my blessings to your good wife Indira dasi.

Letter to Susan Beckman -- Herts, England August 29, 1973:

Material existence means to be always hankering and lamenting. I must have a ew automobile, I must have more money, I must have good wife, I must have this I must have that. Then when I have the thing, I lament, I have lost my wife, I have lost my money, I have lost my car, simply lamenting.

Letter to Hamsaduta -- Bombay 12 October, 1973:

Regarding your service as secretary, you are as good as the others, and sometimes better than the others, so don't say like that. I am very satisfied on you and your good wife, so go on serving Krsna with greater enthusiasm. That will make me happy.

Letter to Hamsaduta -- Bombay 12 October, 1973:

I hope this meets you and your good wife in best of health.

Letter to Hamsaduta -- New Delhi 8 November, 1973:

I hope this meets you and your good wife Himavati in best of health.

Letter to Vegavan -- New Delhi 9 November, 1973:

I hope this meets you and your good wife in good health.

Letter to Umapati -- London 26 November, 1973:

Please offer my blessings to my beloved disciples there, and please extend my well-wisher to your good wife. I hope this letter meets you in good health.

Letter to Jayananda -- Los Angeles 1 December, 1973:

Please offer my blessings to your good wife, Trayi devi dasi, and thank her on my behalf for the three nice drawings of Krsna lila.

Letter to Makhanlal -- Los Angeles 11 December, 1973:

Thank you very much for your endeavors in book distribution and please offer your good wife my blessings for her service in this connection. Our preaching work will be measured by the quantity of books we distribute so continue ever-increasingly.

Letter to Dhananjaya -- Los Angeles 23 December, 1973:

I will look forward to seeing the first Italian Back to Godhead which I understand you are printing at present. We shall try and locate some Italian speaking devotees to send there to assist you. Kindly offer my blessings to your good wife Bala Gopala dasi.

1974 Correspondence

Letter to Bhurijana -- Bombay 29 April, 1974:

Please give my thanks to your good wife Jagatarini for working with the childrens' classes. I am very very proud of you both as you have given up everything and gone to a far away part of the world just on my order to carry out the will of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, that the chanting of the Holy Name be heard in every town and village.

Letter to Rupanuga -- Paris 8 June, 1974:

Yes, I could observe that your mind was disturbed on account of meeting your wife privately. There is no need of hide and seek. Better live as husband and wife as householders and in great enthusiasm execute the Krishna Consciousness movement. There are many GBC who are grhastha. you can remain for management of the temples and also work in the schools and colleges for introducing our books in the libraries. The recent reports of this work have been very favorable. Take up this line more seriously helped by your good wife and that will be nice.

Letter to Bhurijana -- Vrindaban 17 August, 1974:

I hope this meets you and also your good wife in best of health.

Letter to Sri Kanungo -- Mayapur 17 October, 1974:

Please accept my blessings, and offer the same to your good wife Srimati Chhavi Kanungo. I am staying now at Mayapur at the above address, and I was very much eager to see you in connection with your land that you have donated to our Society. Now we have to make a program how to develop the place to make it a nice preaching center in Orissa, and for this purpose your cooperation is much required.

Letter to Hamsaduta -- Bombay 14 November, 1974:

So you have Caitanya Caritamrta almost translated, achah! Thank you. You are pukkha BBT Trustee. You are business-like and sincere and assisted by your good wife. She is chaste and also sincere.

Letter to Dr. Ghosh -- Bombay 17 November, 1974:

Therefore I may suggest that if you are really inclined to retire, you are welcome to live with us. We have got three very nice places in India in Bombay, Vrindaban, and Mayapur. We have spent many lakhs of rupees for constructing these centers, and if you live with us in any one of them, you are welcome. You can live with your good wife as vanaprastha, and when you decide to do so, we may maintain a small dispensary for taking care of our own men. But for the general public opening a charitable dispensary is not in our program at least for the time being.

Letter to Jagadisa -- Bombay 28 December, 1974:

Now you are raising your third child. So more and more you are becoming responsible for these living entities who are your dependents. You must see that they do not take birth again in this material world. That is your duty. Therefore you and your good wife must endeavor strongly together to become fully Krsna Conscious through this simple, sublime process that I have given. By simply following this process without deviation, chanting 16 rounds, following the four regulative principles, attending classes and mangala arati, rising early, these things will gradually bring you to the platform of pure love of Krsna.

1975 Correspondence

Letter to Dinanatha Misra -- Melbourne 19 May, 1975:

I hope this meets you in good health. My blessings to your children and my regard for your good wife.

Letter to Radha Krishna Dhawan -- Honolulu 10 June, 1975:

I hope this meets you and your good wife in good health.

Letter to Taitreya -- Honolulu 19 June, 1975:

I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter and check for $1,000 and I thank you very much for this contribution. So, fortunately you have got a very good husband, and you are also a very good wife. So, live co-operatively and help him in writing essays which he has done very nicely. In this way, both of you will be happy and successful in life.

Letter to Kirtiraja -- New Delhi 2 December, 1975:

Please keep me informed how you are progressing with your mission. I hope this letter finds you and your good wife well.

Letter to Yuvraj Thakura Sahib -- Bombay 31 December, 1975:

I hope this letter finds you and your good wife well.

1976 Correspondence

Letter to Subhavilasa -- Bombay 10 January, 1976:

Anyway, all blessings upon you for securing this church. Krishna will certainly be pleased upon you. Now you and your good wife are both initiated, chant faithfully 16 rounds daily, and follow the four regulative principles. This will insure your spiritual perfection.

Letter to Bhurijana -- Mayapur 31 January, 1976:

Naturally your daughter is chanting the transcendental Name of the Lord. It must be so, because unless one is pious in previous life, one cannot take birth in a Vaisnava family. Give her good chance to become Krishna Conscious more and more, and offer my blessings to your good wife Jagatarini.

Letter to Sri D. C. Cakravarti -- Mayapur 19 February, 1976:

Please kindly come to see me here. I can provide all accommodations for you and your good wife, Uma and any others you wish to bring.

Letter to Jayapataka -- New York 19 July, 1976:

Enclosed please find clippings of our New York Rathayatra which was held last Sunday. You can show these to your friend Mr. Choudhary and others. I always remember Mr. Choudhary and his good wife.

Letter to Karandhara -- New Delhi 31 August, 1976:

I am in due receipt of your nice letter dated August 13, 1976. So you are already engaged in the service of Krsna. Stick to it and that will make you perfect. You are following the regulative principles. This is our spiritual strength and you are most fortunate that you have got a very good wife. Your wife met me in NY and New Vrndavana and she is a very great devotee.

Letter to Karandhara -- New Delhi 31 August, 1976:

I know that you are competent to manage any department, whichever department you like you can render your service and keep yourself peaceful with your good wife. There is no impediment for grhasthas to become fully Krsna conscious. All of Caitanya Mahaprabhu's associates were grhasthas and all of them helped Caitanya Mahaprabhu in His missionary activities. Later on He took sannyasa and specifically He was assisted by Svarupa Damodara, but still He had intimate relations with grhasthas like Advaita Acarya, Nityananda, Gadadhara, and Srivas Thakura.

Letter to Bhurijana -- Vrindaban 24 October, 1976:

Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated Oct. 11, 1976 and also the letter from your good wife. Thank you for the traveler's checks in the amount of $100.

1977 Correspondence

Letter to Subhavilasa -- Mayapur 16 March, 1977:

Please accept my blessings and offer the same to your good wife Ashalata, and to your very nice children, Minakshi and Indresh. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated March 3rd, 1977, with enclosed photos.

Page Title:Good wife (Letters)
Compiler:Alakananda
Created:05 of Aug, 2010
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No. of Quotes:267