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| {{terms|"If you go on Sankirtana to the big steel-making city in India and you do not take donation of steel from the citizens, only some letters, then where is your credit? Chanting and dancing, that's all right, but there must be some tangible results"}} | | {{terms|"If you go on Sankirtana to the big steel-making city in India and you do not take donation of steel from the citizens, only some letters, then where is your credit? Chanting and dancing, that's all right, but there must be some tangible results"}} |
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| {{compiler|Visnu Murti}} | | {{compiler|Visnu Murti|Rishab}} |
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| {{first|23Aug11}} | | {{first|23Aug11}} |
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| [[Category:If You (Disciples of SP)]] | | [[Category:If We (Disciples of SP)]] |
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| [[Category:Sankirtana]] | | [[Category:Sankirtana]] |
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| [[Category:Steel]] | | [[Category:Steel]] |
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| [[Category:Calcutta]] | | [[Category:Calcutta]] |
| [[Category:India]] | | [[Category:India]] |
| [[Category:If You Do Not (Disciples of SP)]] | | [[Category:If We Do Not (Disciples of SP)]] |
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| [[Category:Chanting and Dancing]] | | [[Category:Chanting and Dancing]] |
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| [[Category:All Right]] | | [[Category:All Right]] |
| [[Category:There Must Be]] | | [[Category:There Must Be]] |
| [[Category:Tangible]] | | [[Category:Tangible]] |
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| <div id="Correspondence" class="section" sec_index="6" parent="compilation" text="Correspondence"><h2>Correspondence</h2> | | <div id="Correspondence" class="section" sec_index="6" parent="compilation" text="Correspondence"><h2>Correspondence</h2> |
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| <div id="LettertoTamalaKrsnaBhavanandaJayapatakaLondon9August1972_0" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="430" link="Letter to Tamala Krsna, Bhavananda, Jayapataka -- London 9 August, 1972" link_text="Letter to Tamala Krsna, Bhavananda, Jayapataka -- London 9 August, 1972"> | | <div id="LettertoTamalaKrsnaBhavanandaJayapatakaLondon9August1972_0" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="430" link="Letter to Tamala Krsna, Bhavananda, Jayapataka -- London 9 August, 1972" link_text="Letter to Tamala Krsna, Bhavananda, Jayapataka -- London 9 August, 1972"> |
| | <div class="heading">These things like steel, cement—you take donation from the biggest men in Calcutta. If you go on Sankirtana to the big steel-making city in India and you do not take donation of steel from the citizens, only some letters, then where is your credit? Chanting and dancing, that's all right, but there must be some tangible results. |
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| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Tamala Krsna, Bhavananda, Jayapataka -- London 9 August, 1972|Letter to Tamala Krsna, Bhavananda, Jayapataka -- London 9 August, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Please accept my blessings. I thank you very much for your letter dated August 1, 1972, and I have noted the contents carefully, along with statements of expenditures. I am very glad to see from the photos that the construction work is going on. But one thing is, you say that the building will cost 8 lakhs of rupees. According to one previous letter you told me total cost will be 4 lakhs, now it is double. Why is that? In dollars that means $100,000 for the building, but I am told that such building could be built in America for less than $100,000, what to speak of India! So I do not know why your expenditure is so high, I am not expert in these matters, but it appears everything is being spent very exorbitantly. For instance, from the statements I note that you have spent so much for steel, but these things you can get donated or you can get reduction. Tamala Krishna was in Tatanagar, why he did not take promises for so much steel instead of so many useless letters? You should canvass the big manufacturers in Calcutta for giving supplies of steel and other things, now we have got some solid framework to show them. It is not that we are so rich in America we can go on forever supplying you so much money and you spend exorbitantly and become cheated. I do not think that building is worth $100,000. The engineers may be trying to cheat you. You told the total cost will be four lakhs, now it is eight lakhs, why this doubling and uncertainty?</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Tamala Krsna, Bhavananda, Jayapataka -- London 9 August, 1972|Letter to Tamala Krsna, Bhavananda, Jayapataka -- London 9 August, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Please accept my blessings. I thank you very much for your letter dated August 1, 1972, and I have noted the contents carefully, along with statements of expenditures. I am very glad to see from the photos that the construction work is going on. But one thing is, you say that the building will cost 8 lakhs of rupees. According to one previous letter you told me total cost will be 4 lakhs, now it is double. Why is that? In dollars that means $100,000 for the building, but I am told that such building could be built in America for less than $100,000, what to speak of India! So I do not know why your expenditure is so high, I am not expert in these matters, but it appears everything is being spent very exorbitantly. For instance, from the statements I note that you have spent so much for steel, but these things you can get donated or you can get reduction. Tamala Krishna was in Tatanagar, why he did not take promises for so much steel instead of so many useless letters? You should canvass the big manufacturers in Calcutta for giving supplies of steel and other things, now we have got some solid framework to show them. It is not that we are so rich in America we can go on forever supplying you so much money and you spend exorbitantly and become cheated. I do not think that building is worth $100,000. The engineers may be trying to cheat you. You told the total cost will be four lakhs, now it is eight lakhs, why this doubling and uncertainty?</p> |
| <p>Some other points, you mention "bullock for transporting supply," and it has cost you Rs. 1800/-. I think that is exorbitant price for one bullock. And for that you have purchased two bullock-carts, why? And why you are paying salaries so much to engineers, there was understanding the engineers will work for nothing, only little pocket money, but not for salary. Who is keeping the accounts? All bills must be kept. One bicycle was purchased for Rs. 300/-, but these things anyone will give you, why you are spending money unnecessarily? Why so much legal fees are being paid for purchasing land? It is a simple matter, I pay you some money for your land, the solicitor makes deed of sale, finished. Why so much exorbitant spending? The building must be finished at any cost, that's all right, but it appears there is not clear idea of how to spend, now you say four lakhs, now eight lakhs, so I cannot continue to send so much money if there is no clear idea how to save.</p> | | <p>Some other points, you mention "bullock for transporting supply," and it has cost you Rs. 1800/-. I think that is exorbitant price for one bullock. And for that you have purchased two bullock-carts, why? And why you are paying salaries so much to engineers, there was understanding the engineers will work for nothing, only little pocket money, but not for salary. Who is keeping the accounts? All bills must be kept. One bicycle was purchased for Rs. 300/-, but these things anyone will give you, why you are spending money unnecessarily? Why so much legal fees are being paid for purchasing land? It is a simple matter, I pay you some money for your land, the solicitor makes deed of sale, finished. Why so much exorbitant spending? The building must be finished at any cost, that's all right, but it appears there is not clear idea of how to spend, now you say four lakhs, now eight lakhs, so I cannot continue to send so much money if there is no clear idea how to save.</p> |