Training of Bali Mardan dasa (Letters, 1973 - 1977)

Expressions researched:
"BBT" |"BTG" |"Back to Godhead" |"Bali Mardan" |"Bali Mardana" |"Bali-mardana" |"Bhaktivedanta Book Trust" |"Book Fund" |"Book Trust" |"Book Trust," |"Book" |"Books" |"Dai Nippon" |"Debt" |"Distribute" |"Distributed" |"Distributing" |"Funds" |"GBC members" |"GBC" |"Governing Body Commission" |"Governing Body Commissioners" |"Iskcon Press" |"Leader" |"Leaders" |"Leadership" |"Literature" |"Literatures" |"Macmillan" |"Manage" |"Managed" |"Management" |"Managing" |"Manuscript" |"Manuscripts" |"Money" |"Preach" |"Preacher" |"Preaching" |"Press" |"Price" |"Prices" |"Print" |"Printing" |"Publish" |"Publishing" |"Quotation" |"Quote" |"Sell" |"Selling" |"Translating" |"Trust Body" |"debts"

1973 Correspondence

Letter to Kirtanananda -- Bombay 5 January, 1973:

The candidates for new devotees will send me their letters as usual, and I will give them names myself and enter in our records, simply you must chant on their beads and then return to them. Is that clear? Or, if you think it is better arrangement, I think that Bali Mardan has got many many beads in New York which we have sent him from Mayapur, so if you like you may get from him many sets of beads and you may chant them and, whenever requested by my letter only, you may send the new beads directly to the new devotees.

Letter to Karandhara -- Melbourne 10 February, 1973:

I shall be in Sydney until the 18th, and shall be returning to India by the first week of March after visiting New Zealand and Indonesia. As Sudama Maharaja has indicated his desire to remain in U.S. Japan may be included in your GBC zone for the present. I hope this finds you well.

Your ever well-wisher,

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami

ACBS/bmdg

I have had Bali Mardan Maharaja send you one telegram approving your scheme to purchase the apartment building for the M-V Trust.

Letter to Rupanuga -- Sydney 14 February, 1973:

Regarding our sankirtana party members dressing up as hippies in order to increase book distribution this is not a very good plan. I am instructing Bali Mardan Maharaja that this should be stopped, that we should not give anyone cause to call us hippies, but the devotees can dress up in respectable clothes like ladies and gentlemen in order to distribute my literatures under special circumstances, but even this program should not become widespread. It should only go on under the supervision of Bali Mardan Goswami and Karandhara das.