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| <div id="LettertoBrahmanandaMontreal26August1968_23" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="288" link="Letter to Brahmananda -- Montreal 26 August, 1968" link_text="Letter to Brahmananda -- Montreal 26 August, 1968"> | | <div id="LettertoBrahmanandaMontreal26August1968_23" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="288" link="Letter to Brahmananda -- Montreal 26 August, 1968" link_text="Letter to Brahmananda -- Montreal 26 August, 1968"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Brahmananda -- Montreal 26 August, 1968|Letter to Brahmananda -- Montreal 26 August, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">P.S. Please send some sets of Srimad-Bhagavatam (2nd & 3rd) to Montreal with bill. The former books sent to Janardana is paid to me here.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Brahmananda -- Montreal 26 August, 1968|Letter to Brahmananda -- Montreal 26 August, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">P.S. Please send some sets of Srimad-Bhagavatam (2nd & 3rd) to Montreal with bill. The former books sent to Janardana is paid to me here.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LettertoBrahmanandaSanFrancisco9September1968_24" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="303" link="Letter to Brahmananda -- San Francisco 9 September, 1968" link_text="Letter to Brahmananda -- San Francisco 9 September, 1968"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Brahmananda -- San Francisco 9 September, 1968|Letter to Brahmananda -- San Francisco 9 September, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I hope you have already talked with Montreal, to Hamsaduta, or Janardana, about the money dispatched from the Canadian National Bank to London.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LettertoJanardanaSanFrancisco9September1968_25" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="305" link="Letter to Janardana -- San Francisco 9 September, 1968" link_text="Letter to Janardana -- San Francisco 9 September, 1968"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Janardana -- San Francisco 9 September, 1968|Letter to Janardana -- San Francisco 9 September, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Please accept my blessings, and I hope you are all doing well in Montreal. And I may inform you that immediately you begin translation work of our Srimad-Bhagavatam in French, as well as Bhagavad-gita as it is, in French, and begin our Back To Godhead in French language printed in the mimeograph machine. So you have got enough engagement; you may not take trouble of attempting Srimad-Bhagavatam. I think this will be done by Hayagriva. You take up the responsibility of translating them into French, and as soon as our press is started, that means Advaita and Uddhava are expert in printing matters, we start our press, and we shall print the French books, the English books, and as many publications as are possible, we shall do. But I hope in the meantime you have talked with Brahmananda that one remittance, $1,655.00, was advised to be dispatched to London. But I have received letter from Syamasundara. that he has not received the money. Kindly go to my bank and my account number, V269 A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami, and you see the manager, why he has not remitted the money. Because the people are in a foreign country, and without money they will be in much difficulty. Kindly do the needful.</p> |
| | <p>You will be pleased to know that I had no difficulty entering USA, with the Canadian immigration card. First of all, they wanted from me to see my visa, I told that I am Canadian immigrant. Then he said, oh yes, that's all right. So what for you are going; to visit there. How many months you want to remain there? I said about 4 or 5 months. So they did not make any etch in my passport. So I think even if I am not able to get the American visa, there will be no difficulty for my coming and going. Anyway, let us depend on Krishna. So Hamsaduta is there, the Kirtana party is there; please try to organize your center nicely. And I am also enclosing herewith one letter for Hamsaduta.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LettertoHamsadutaSanFrancisco19September1968_26" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="320" link="Letter to Hamsaduta -- San Francisco 19 September, 1968" link_text="Letter to Hamsaduta -- San Francisco 19 September, 1968"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Hamsaduta -- San Francisco 19 September, 1968|Letter to Hamsaduta -- San Francisco 19 September, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Will you kindly personally go and inquire why are they so much callous, in foreign countries, they are without money and they are silent. It is very much surprising. So consult with Janardana what steps we can take.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LettertoHamsadutaSanFrancisco19September1968_27" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="320" link="Letter to Hamsaduta -- San Francisco 19 September, 1968" link_text="Letter to Hamsaduta -- San Francisco 19 September, 1968"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Hamsaduta -- San Francisco 19 September, 1968|Letter to Hamsaduta -- San Francisco 19 September, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">If they have not sent the money, and if simply they say they have sent, then what steps shall we take against them? It is very serious matter. So kindly do the needful in consultation with Janardana, and let me know.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LettertoBrahmanandaSeattle6October1968_28" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="350" link="Letter to Brahmananda -- Seattle 6 October, 1968" link_text="Letter to Brahmananda -- Seattle 6 October, 1968"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Brahmananda -- Seattle 6 October, 1968|Letter to Brahmananda -- Seattle 6 October, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Regarding Kirtanananda's payment of $100, that is known to you and me also, but why they forget that they have taken also $500? This is known to Janardana and everyone.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LettertoJayapatakaSeattle6October1968_29" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="351" link="Letter to Jayapataka -- Seattle 6 October, 1968" link_text="Letter to Jayapataka -- Seattle 6 October, 1968"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Jayapataka -- Seattle 6 October, 1968|Letter to Jayapataka -- Seattle 6 October, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Another thing, you ask Janardana why he does not write me since I have come back to New York from Montreal.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LettertoJayapatakaSeattle6October1968_30" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="351" link="Letter to Jayapataka -- Seattle 6 October, 1968" link_text="Letter to Jayapataka -- Seattle 6 October, 1968"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Jayapataka -- Seattle 6 October, 1968|Letter to Jayapataka -- Seattle 6 October, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Please offer by blessings to all the devotees and I am expecting letters especially from Hamsaduta and Janardana.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LettertoJanardanaSeattle10October1968_31" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="360" link="Letter to Janardana -- Seattle 10 October, 1968" link_text="Letter to Janardana -- Seattle 10 October, 1968"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Janardana -- Seattle 10 October, 1968|Letter to Janardana -- Seattle 10 October, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I am surprised that since I have come back from Montreal I have not heard anything from you. Why you are silent? Please reply this letter immediately because I am very much anxious to hear from you. Are you doing French translation work of our books? What about the program of French publication of Back To Godhead? I wrote you from San Francisco, but I have not heard any reply from you. Please take care of this business with the American Consulate, as you will find described in Hamsaduta's letter, as soon as possible.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LettertoHamsadutaSeattle10October1968_32" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="361" link="Letter to Hamsaduta -- Seattle 10 October, 1968" link_text="Letter to Hamsaduta -- Seattle 10 October, 1968"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Hamsaduta -- Seattle 10 October, 1968|Letter to Hamsaduta -- Seattle 10 October, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I want to develop the Montreal temple under your supervision. Why Janardana is not writing me letters? Does he come to the temple regularly or not? What about the French edition of Back To Godhead printed in the mimeograph machine which is already there. I am very anxious to know all these items. Please reply me as soon as possible, on all these points. I am enclosing herein one letter to Janardana also, which please hand over to him, and ask him to give me reply as early as possible. I am very much anxious to hear from him.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LettertoHamsadutaSeattle10October1968_33" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="361" link="Letter to Hamsaduta -- Seattle 10 October, 1968" link_text="Letter to Hamsaduta -- Seattle 10 October, 1968"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Hamsaduta -- Seattle 10 October, 1968|Letter to Hamsaduta -- Seattle 10 October, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So in that connection I am enclosing herewith a letter addressed to the Consulate General there. This letter may be personally borne by Janardana, or if he is busy, yourself.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LettertoHamsadutaLosAngeles28November1968_34" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="455" link="Letter to Hamsaduta -- Los Angeles 28 November, 1968" link_text="Letter to Hamsaduta -- Los Angeles 28 November, 1968"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Hamsaduta -- Los Angeles 28 November, 1968|Letter to Hamsaduta -- Los Angeles 28 November, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So far Janardana is concerned, I am anxiously awaiting to hear something from him. I consider him as one of the pillars of our society, so please request him to write to me and to inform me of the active interest he is taking in our society. He is very sincere thoughtful member and plus he is good speaker, so with these qualifications he can render most valuable service to Krishna Consciousness. So please ask him to be kind upon me and help in the venture of translating our various books and magazines. When Janardana goes to France, if he is willing to take charge of printing Back To Godhead French edition in France, rather then Canada, it will be very nice. Also in France he may open one center and many of my students may come to help him.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LettertoHamsadutaLosAngeles12December1968_35" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="486" link="Letter to Hamsaduta -- Los Angeles 12 December, 1968" link_text="Letter to Hamsaduta -- Los Angeles 12 December, 1968"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Hamsaduta -- Los Angeles 12 December, 1968|Letter to Hamsaduta -- Los Angeles 12 December, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">This is a great joy to me to see such publication being printed so nicely and my heartfelt thanks are due to Janardana, Dayala Nitai, Vaikunthanatha, yourself and your wife, along with all the others who have helped to make this publication come so expertly.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LettertoHamsadutaLosAngeles12December1968_36" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="486" link="Letter to Hamsaduta -- Los Angeles 12 December, 1968" link_text="Letter to Hamsaduta -- Los Angeles 12 December, 1968"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Hamsaduta -- Los Angeles 12 December, 1968|Letter to Hamsaduta -- Los Angeles 12 December, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Please convey my thanks to Janardana for the fine work he has done on the magazine and also request him to write to me about his future plans of going to France. He is a most sincere, important member of our society and I think that in France he may be able to do much to popularize our movement and to circulate our new French magazine.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LettertoJanardanaLosAngeles19December1968_37" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="501" link="Letter to Janardana -- Los Angeles 19 December, 1968" link_text="Letter to Janardana -- Los Angeles 19 December, 1968"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Janardana -- Los Angeles 19 December, 1968|Letter to Janardana -- Los Angeles 19 December, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I beg to thank you for your letter of December 11, 1968. I have already acknowledged receipt of the French Back To Godhead and I have sent my hearty thanks for you all. May Krishna bless you to advance this attempt far and wide.</p> |
| | <p>It is encouraging to me that you are going to France and will acquaint yourself with theistic philosopher's on a Personal God. Actually when one comes to realize the Personality of Godhead, only then is his theistic knowledge complete. We have discussed this point very elaborately in the Bhagavad-gita As It Is and your high intelligence will help you to present this idea before the learned scholars of France who are already inclined toward a Personality of Godhead. Please impress them logically and scientifically and it will be a great achievement for our mission. France is considered to have the most cultured people in Europe and if we can have some footing in France in the matter of Krishna Consciousness certainly this will be a great success. I am very glad that this subject matter is entrusted with you and I hope you will do it to your best capacity.</p> |
| | <p>Although I could not read any of your article, I have learned from Purusottama that they are written very nicely. He is not fully conversant with the language but he could read most of it. So far as reviews I think that there is no need to review nonsense books and give them publicity at our cost. The sincere theists and philosophers will surely appreciate our presentation of Bhagavad-gita As It Is so you can write some articles on the basis of our discussions in this book or in Srimad-Bhagavatam.</p> |
| | <p>Regarding the six Goswamis of Vrindaban, actually they are our guidance in Krishna Consciousness. Sanatana das Thakura has said that anyone who follows the footprints of the six Goswamis he will wish to be his servant. So we should always try to follow the footprints of the Six Goswamis and it will be easy to understand the Krishna Conscious philosophy.</p> |
| | <p>Dayala Nitai is a very nice boy, a sincere soul so please try to train him as your assistant. I am very glad to learn that he is automatically improving in Krishna Consciousness on account of his sincere service spirit to Krishna and the Spiritual Master. That is the secret of success in Krishna Consciousness.</p> |
| | <p>I you want, I can send you the theistic vedanta interpretation which you can edit and translate into the French language for publication in Back To Godhead. There are four chapters of Vedanta Sutra and the first one called Janmadyasya. I have explained in my Srimad-Bhagavatam at the very beginning. You can see it and if you think it is nice then I'll try to explain the other sutras in the same way. I am enclosing herewith the sanskrit transliterations and meanings as requested by you.</p> |
| | <p>Please try for your Ph.D. very seriously and I am sure that Krishna will certainly help you in this matter.</p> |
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| | <div id="1969_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="4" parent="Correspondence" text="1969 Correspondence"><h3>1969 Correspondence</h3> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LettertoRayaramaLosAngeles16January1969_0" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="25" link="Letter to Rayarama -- Los Angeles 16 January, 1969" link_text="Letter to Rayarama -- Los Angeles 16 January, 1969"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Rayarama -- Los Angeles 16 January, 1969|Letter to Rayarama -- Los Angeles 16 January, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I have been requested by Janardana in Montreal temple to immediately send him the original manuscript of Bhagavad-gita As It Is, and I think that you are keeping this manuscript in New York so kindly send it to Montreal as soon as possible. Janardana will require this manuscript to translate into the French language for publication, so it is important business, and please do the needful in this connection.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LettertoHamsadutaLosAngeles16January1969_1" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="30" link="Letter to Hamsaduta -- Los Angeles 16 January, 1969" link_text="Letter to Hamsaduta -- Los Angeles 16 January, 1969"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Hamsaduta -- Los Angeles 16 January, 1969|Letter to Hamsaduta -- Los Angeles 16 January, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">NB: Enclosed is a speech which was delivered by me by means of tape recorder in a meeting held in London center with many important guests. Please hand it over to Janardana for translation into French and printing in the French edition of Back To Godhead.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LettertoHamsadutaLosAngeles21January1969_2" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="46" link="Letter to Hamsaduta -- Los Angeles 21 January, 1969" link_text="Letter to Hamsaduta -- Los Angeles 21 January, 1969"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Hamsaduta -- Los Angeles 21 January, 1969|Letter to Hamsaduta -- Los Angeles 21 January, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Anyway, before there is a final settlement of this house affair, please hold a meeting amongst yourselves to discuss this matter further. The meeting should include Janardana, Dayala Nitai, Jayapataka, etc.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LettertoRayaramaLosAngeles20February1969_3" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="139" link="Letter to Rayarama -- Los Angeles 20 February, 1969" link_text="Letter to Rayarama -- Los Angeles 20 February, 1969"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Rayarama -- Los Angeles 20 February, 1969|Letter to Rayarama -- Los Angeles 20 February, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I hope that by now you have sent to Janardana the Bhagavad-gita manuscript.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LettertoHamsadutaLosAngeles21February1969_4" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="142" link="Letter to Hamsaduta -- Los Angeles 21 February, 1969" link_text="Letter to Hamsaduta -- Los Angeles 21 February, 1969"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Hamsaduta -- Los Angeles 21 February, 1969|Letter to Hamsaduta -- Los Angeles 21 February, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">P.S. What about French BTG? I have asked Janardana to translate into French my B.G. Has he received the copy from Rayarama? Please ask him to write to me.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LettertoJanardanaLosAngeles2March1969_5" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="156" link="Letter to Janardana -- Los Angeles 2 March, 1969" link_text="Letter to Janardana -- Los Angeles 2 March, 1969"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Janardana -- Los Angeles 2 March, 1969|Letter to Janardana -- Los Angeles 2 March, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter, undated. It is a very long letter and, as you have written it in two months, perhaps I'll also require similar time to reply to this letter. On Monday I am going to Hawaii at least for a month, and there I shall try to read your letter very peacefully, and maybe I'll be able to reply in great detail.</p> |
| | <p>In the meantime, I may inform you that your newspaper cutting, "Non-Christian Unity Ruled Out," is not very surprising. Religious bigotry is one of the strong material symptoms, therefore, in the beginning of Srimad-Bhagavatam it is said dharma projhita. This means that the idea of religiosity, economic development, sense-gratification, and endeavors for merging into the impersonal absolute are the different activities for the materialist person. Leaving aside the too grossly materialistic persons, who are without any moral principles or social conventions, if we take the right type of civilized man, then we find that he is engaged in some type of religious principle. It doesn't matter if he is Christian, Moslem or Jew, the symptom of a civilized man is that he must have the recognition of religious principles; that is required for civilized man. But generally men take to religious principles for economic development. Just like in the Christian religiosity the prayers for solving the economic problem or bread problem. Similarly, in the Vedic rituals also different methods of sacrifices are recommended for pleasing the demigods so that they will supply quantity of rain and there will be enough grain for eating. In this way, religious principles are generally practiced by men for some economic development.</p> |
| | <p>In this modern age, people being scientifically advanced, they seek economic development without any reference to worship of God or following any religious principle. So such people are gradually forgetting their eternal relationship with God because they think that without God they can inquire sufficient progress in economic development which is required for sense gratification. Some of them, when they are frustrated, try thinking of voidness or merging into the impersonal absolute truth. So voidness or impersonal idea of the absolute truth is just an opposite of material variegatedness. So this idea can also be accepted as the material concept of transcendence. So things are going on like this, not only now, but it is the nature of the material world.</p> |
| | <p>Therefore, the Srimad-Bhagavatam has used the suitable word, dharma projhita. That means to kick out the so-called religious principles, economic development, sense gratification, and liberation. According to Bhagavata, these are all cheating processes, because by following such processes, the living entity can never be happy. Such principles in different forms according to different circumstances of candidate, place, and time, they are simply cheating formulas. So our Krishna Consciousness movement does not belong to any such cheating process. They are cheating processes in the sense that the basic principle is for economic development, and if it is simply for solving the problem of bread, it is not true religion as described by Srimad-Bhagavatam. Even if the living entity is born with a silver spoon in his mouth he will not be happy so such plans for economic development are simply cheating processes. Therefore, the great rishis in the forest Naimisaranya inquired of the great sage, Suta Goswami, "How can the living entities actually be happy?" Srimad-Bhagavatam answers this question that the top-most super-excellent religious principle is that which following, the protagonist becomes a devotee of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, without any motive and without being checked by any material impediments. That will make a person completely satisfied, and that is our process. We are educated people how they can develop their dormant love of the Supreme Lord without being impaired by any material condition.</p> |
| | <p>We should train our disciples as well as ourselves in such a spirit that even if the whole world is against us, which is impossible to happen, the Sankirtana Movement must be pushed on without any reference to archeological evidence or any such scientific advancement of knowledge. Besides that, the argument that archeological evidence will lead many people to accept the philosophy of Lord Caitanya has no evidence. For example, the Christian religion principle is now established in archeological evidence, but still it is not that the whole people of the world are attracted by Christian religion. Even a great scientist, Professor Albert Einstein, was Jewish by religion, but because the Christian religion gives evidential proof of archeological discovery, still he did not become a Christian. No religion or no principle is accepted by the whole world; that is a fact. I can give you a statement of Albert Einstein in which he says "The most beautiful and most profound emotion we can experience is in the sensation of the mystical. It is a shower of all true science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, he who can no longer stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power which is revealed in the comprehensible universe forms my idea of God."</p> |
| | <p>I think that our Hare Krishna Movement is just following the same concept of God by awakening the dormant transcendental emotion of the human being without any consideration of religious faith. In our camp all of my disciples are coming from different faiths, mostly Christians or Jews, and why are they accepting this Sankirtana Movement, unless there is the awakening of mystical emotion described by a great scientist like Albert Einstein.</p> |
| | <p>If somebody does not accept Caitanya Mahaprabhu for want of archeological evidence, it will not hamper our movement. There is sufficient archeological evidence in this connection, and it can be supplied from various sources which are in India. There is even archeological evidence of Vyasadeva which was recently propounded by one Dr. Cakravarti. I personally saw this in a monthly magazine of Calcutta of the name Mother in which I was giving my articles. If you like, you can inquire from them or such institutes as Caitanya Research Institute, started by my godbrother, Tirtha Maharaja. That is not a very difficult task.</p> |
| | <p>Actually we have nothing to do with compromising with Christians or Buddhists. Our principles should be to preach Krishna Consciousness as it is spoken in the Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam. As we are now collecting some fortunate students in our movement, similarly, it will be possible to collect more students in the future. But it is a fact that the unfortunate persons who stick to the four material misbehaviors, just like illicit sex life, etc. cannot accept these principles of Krishna Consciousness. But still there is chance for them simply by giving aural reception to this transcendental sound of Hare Krishna Mantra. If we turn our attention to fit with the Christian people, or any other religious sect, I think it will not be very much fruitful because nobody will change his faith even though he is given scientific or archeological evidences. And that will also not help anybody. We have already discussed this point in many articles and change in religious faith does not make one advanced in spiritual understanding. The spiritual understanding as taught by Lord Caitanya is that all living entities are eternally servants of God. We have to propagate this philosophy, and for this we have to make propaganda. Every religion believes in God, and we want that everyone should actively come to this understanding of accepting one's eternal servitorship to God.</p> |
| | <p>There are many things to criticize in the matter of any faith, and if we divert our attention to such activities we shall simply create more opposite elements and waste our time. Better if we try to push on this Krishna Consciousness Movement and use our energy, education, scientific knowledge, etc. to simply convince the present generation that everyone is servant of God. Then our mission will be successful. Actually at the present moment, never mind if one is Christian, Jew, or Moslem, most people are Godless and don't care for God. They simply take an official stand, but actually, from the depth of their heart they have no idea what is God. So we have to invoke the dormant understanding of God-consciousness; that is the principle of Krishna Consciousness Movement.</p> |
| | <p>If a Christian believes in God let him love God prominently rather than loving matter. If we wish to criticize Christian faith we can do so, and we can prove that hardly there are any sincere Christians. In the ten commandments we see Lord Jesus Christ advised "Thou shalt not kill," but this killing process is still prominent among Christians as well as any other religious group. So much so that it is simply horrible. Recently, the head of the Christian people, the Pope, declined to sanction the killing process in the embryo, namely contraceptive methods. We can see that so many Christians revolted. Apart from this killing process within the embryo, there is also killing process in the slaughterhouse and in so many ways. I do not know how a Christian can violate this important commandment of the Bible, "Thou shalt not kill." So in this way, if we want to criticize we can, but it will simply increase our enemies. Better let us try to invoke the dormant transcendental emotion by chanting and dancing.</p> |
| | <p>You try to understand this philosophy more seriously, and as you are able try to write articles on this subject matter without being inclined to compromise with any other religious faith. I shall write you again from Hawaii. In the meantime you can let me know if you have got the manuscript from Rayarama, and reply to this letter to the Hawaii address: ISKCON, 4 Leilani Building, 1649 Kapialani Boulevard, Honolulu, Hawaii. Enclosed is a page of poems by Bhaktivinode Thakura to be translated into French and printed in your magazine.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LettertoRayaramaHawaii6March1969_6" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="158" link="Letter to Rayarama -- Hawaii 6 March, 1969" link_text="Letter to Rayarama -- Hawaii 6 March, 1969"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Rayarama -- Hawaii 6 March, 1969|Letter to Rayarama -- Hawaii 6 March, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Regarding Bhagavad-gita manuscript: If you have got two copies then you can send one to Janardana. Otherwise you have to send him a copy only, and keeping one copy with you.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LettertoRayaramaHawaii6March1969_7" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="158" link="Letter to Rayarama -- Hawaii 6 March, 1969" link_text="Letter to Rayarama -- Hawaii 6 March, 1969"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Rayarama -- Hawaii 6 March, 1969|Letter to Rayarama -- Hawaii 6 March, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So you know that the majority of the verses in the back portion of the book were not given purports. Therefore in our next publication we shall give purport for all the verses.* So you should keep one copy with you before you send the manuscript to Janardana.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LettertoHamsadutaHawaii11March1969_8" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="168" link="Letter to Hamsaduta -- Hawaii 11 March, 1969" link_text="Letter to Hamsaduta -- Hawaii 11 March, 1969"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Hamsaduta -- Hawaii 11 March, 1969|Letter to Hamsaduta -- Hawaii 11 March, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I am in due receipt of your letter of Feb. 28, 1969, and I am very much surprised that other nonsense magazines are being published by Dayala Nitai, and Janardana says it is in my knowledge! I am very much surprised to hear this. Enclosed I am forwarding one letter to Dayala Nitai, and how it is that without your knowledge these things are being done? Certainly it must be disturbing to you—it is disturbing to me also!</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LettertoJayapatakaHawaii11March1969_9" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="169" link="Letter to Jayapataka -- Hawaii 11 March, 1969" link_text="Letter to Jayapataka -- Hawaii 11 March, 1969"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Jayapataka -- Hawaii 11 March, 1969|Letter to Jayapataka -- Hawaii 11 March, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Please ask Janardana what is the difficulty in editing BTG in French language. Of course, I received his letters that he was so much busy in so many ways, but still, this is also one of his responsibilities. In the absence of BTG printing, the machine is being used for some other purposes. Of course, when I was in Montreal, I think I gave permission to print some outside work, to get some money, but that does not mean that we should stop our own work, and print something in our press which is against our principles. Please try to convey this news to both Janardana and Dayala Nitai and they may please give attention.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LettertoDayalaNitaiHawaii23March1969_10" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="199" link="Letter to Dayala Nitai -- Hawaii 23 March, 1969" link_text="Letter to Dayala Nitai -- Hawaii 23 March, 1969"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Dayala Nitai -- Hawaii 23 March, 1969|Letter to Dayala Nitai -- Hawaii 23 March, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So now my only request to you, and especially both to you and Janardana, that you kindly regularly publish one issue every month of this French BTG. That will make you very much happy and will make me always very much happy. And Krishna will bestow all blessings to you in this endeavor.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LettertoDayalaNitaiHawaii23March1969_11" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="199" link="Letter to Dayala Nitai -- Hawaii 23 March, 1969" link_text="Letter to Dayala Nitai -- Hawaii 23 March, 1969"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Dayala Nitai -- Hawaii 23 March, 1969|Letter to Dayala Nitai -- Hawaii 23 March, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">It is better undoubtedly to have a full magazine as our English edition BTG, but if you have no time, or you are doing this or that, then do not neglect it completely—it is better to publish and distribute a one page BTG issue than no issue at all each month. Now this work is specially entrusted to you and Janardana; so please execute it.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LettertoHamsadutaHawaii23March1969_12" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="200" link="Letter to Hamsaduta -- Hawaii 23 March, 1969" link_text="Letter to Hamsaduta -- Hawaii 23 March, 1969"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Hamsaduta -- Hawaii 23 March, 1969|Letter to Hamsaduta -- Hawaii 23 March, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">P.S. If possible Janardana may also see me at N.Y.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LettertoIsanaNewVrindaban23May1969_13" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="303" link="Letter to Isana -- New Vrindaban 23 May, 1969" link_text="Letter to Isana -- New Vrindaban 23 May, 1969"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Isana -- New Vrindaban 23 May, 1969|Letter to Isana -- New Vrindaban 23 May, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">NB: Please ask Janardana to immediately send me the constitution notes which I had given him to read in Boston.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LettertoSivanandaNewVrindaban15June1969_14" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="366" link="Letter to Sivananda -- New Vrindaban 15 June, 1969" link_text="Letter to Sivananda -- New Vrindaban 15 June, 1969"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Sivananda -- New Vrindaban 15 June, 1969|Letter to Sivananda -- New Vrindaban 15 June, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Regarding your proposal to go to Paris, you will be pleased to learn that Janardana has already gone there two weeks ago, and he is thinking seriously how to spread Krishna Consciousness there. For the time being your services are required in Germany, so you must stay there for the present. Let us see how Janardana is arranging things in Paris, and when the time is right, if you are required to go there, then I shall instruct you in this regards.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LettertoIsanaNewVrindaban20June1969_15" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="384" link="Letter to Isana -- New Vrindaban 20 June, 1969" link_text="Letter to Isana -- New Vrindaban 20 June, 1969"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Isana -- New Vrindaban 20 June, 1969|Letter to Isana -- New Vrindaban 20 June, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I have already received the constitution notes from Janardana, and I am very encouraged by his descriptions of the opportunities of spreading Sankirtana in Paris.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LettertoKrsnadasaNewVrindaban21June1969_16" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="391" link="Letter to Krsna dasa -- New Vrindaban 21 June, 1969" link_text="Letter to Krsna dasa -- New Vrindaban 21 June, 1969"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Krsna dasa -- New Vrindaban 21 June, 1969|Letter to Krsna dasa -- New Vrindaban 21 June, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">You will be glad to know that Janardana is going to Paris at almost the same time, and Sivananda is also eager to open a branch in Paris. I understand from Janardana's letter that there is very good possibilities of spreading our Krishna Consciousness Movement there.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LettertoSivanandaLosAngeles11July1969_17" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="439" link="Letter to Sivananda -- Los Angeles 11 July, 1969" link_text="Letter to Sivananda -- Los Angeles 11 July, 1969"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Sivananda -- Los Angeles 11 July, 1969|Letter to Sivananda -- Los Angeles 11 July, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So as Janardana is planning to begin the Paris center, you may make investigation for a center in Copenhagen.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LettertoGopalaKrsnaTittenhurst1October1969_18" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="596" link="Letter to Gopala Krsna -- Tittenhurst 1 October, 1969" link_text="Letter to Gopala Krsna -- Tittenhurst 1 October, 1969"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Gopala Krsna -- Tittenhurst 1 October, 1969|Letter to Gopala Krsna -- Tittenhurst 1 October, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Janardana has not come here to see me at London. I do not know if he has already gone to Paris, because I have not received any letter from him either.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LettertoGovindaTittenhurst27October1969_19" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="632" link="Letter to Govinda -- Tittenhurst 27 October, 1969" link_text="Letter to Govinda -- Tittenhurst 27 October, 1969"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Govinda -- Tittenhurst 27 October, 1969|Letter to Govinda -- Tittenhurst 27 October, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Regarding the French girl, she is so kind to join with us. I have advised Janardana, who is here in London for a few days, to write you how this girl can help us. Janardana liked her translation and good spelling, so she will be very much useful for transcribing or typing our French literatures.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LettertoGopalaKrsnaLondon8November1969_20" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="662" link="Letter to Gopala Krsna -- London 8 November, 1969" link_text="Letter to Gopala Krsna -- London 8 November, 1969"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Gopala Krsna -- London 8 November, 1969|Letter to Gopala Krsna -- London 8 November, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Janardana's address is 6, rue Michelet, 94 Fontenay-Sous-Bois, France.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LettertoGopalaKrsnaLondon16November1969_21" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="681" link="Letter to Gopala Krsna -- London 16 November, 1969" link_text="Letter to Gopala Krsna -- London 16 November, 1969"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Gopala Krsna -- London 16 November, 1969|Letter to Gopala Krsna -- London 16 November, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Janardana came to see me about one fortnight ago, and he is also eager to do something in Paris, so be in correspondence with him.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LettertoUmapatiLondon18November1969_22" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="685" link="Letter to Umapati -- London 18 November, 1969" link_text="Letter to Umapati -- London 18 November, 1969"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Umapati -- London 18 November, 1969|Letter to Umapati -- London 18 November, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I understand the whole situation that you have not yet been able to find out a suitable place for living together, although Janardana is there.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LettertoUmapatiLondon18November1969_23" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="685" link="Letter to Umapati -- London 18 November, 1969" link_text="Letter to Umapati -- London 18 November, 1969"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Umapati -- London 18 November, 1969|Letter to Umapati -- London 18 November, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Anyway, you will be pleased to learn that Tamala from Los Angeles has come here, and our Sankirtana Party has got some engagement in Hamburg from the 20th through the 24th of this month, so they will stay in the Hamburg temple for 4 or 5 days. Janardana wrote me in some letter a few days back asking if I can go there, but due to the climatic condition I do not wish to move further from here.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LettertoGovindaLondon9December1969_24" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="723" link="Letter to Govinda -- London 9 December, 1969" link_text="Letter to Govinda -- London 9 December, 1969"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Govinda -- London 9 December, 1969|Letter to Govinda -- London 9 December, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The best thing is that she may go on translating and send her articles to Montreal in care of Gopala Krishna Brahmacari. She may similarly contact Janardana at Damberg, 6 Rue Michelet, 94 Fontenay-s-Bois, FRANCE.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="1970_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="5" parent="Correspondence" text="1970 Correspondence"><h3>1970 Correspondence</h3> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LettertoJanardanaLosAngeles16January1970_0" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="29" link="Letter to Janardana -- Los Angeles 16 January, 1970" link_text="Letter to Janardana -- Los Angeles 16 January, 1970"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Janardana -- Los Angeles 16 January, 1970|Letter to Janardana -- Los Angeles 16 January, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I beg to acknowledge receipt of your two letters post dated 2 and 4 January, 1970 respectively, the former redirected here from Boston.</p> |
| | <p>I am pleased to note that although you have not yet secured a Temple building you are moving our program forward on other fronts. The arrangement for the composing and printing of BTG in French and German languages is already settled, and if you all continue to translate my books and articles and write articles yourselves; that will make the work successful. The people in general can be reached very well by the distribution of our literatures and by the propagation of Sankirtana in the streets. These are our two mrdangas for reawakening the sleeping conditioned souls.</p> |
| | <p>I am especially enthusiastic for our Krishna Consciousness philosophy or the teachings of Lord Caitanya to be advanced for the benefit of the learned circle and in this connection your well received expose at the university is encouraging. Please continue your efforts to convince them of the great universal necessity of this scientific philosophy to solve all the knotty difficulties of life by practical application of the Vedic knowledge according to the Parampara prescription of the bona fide Acaryas.</p> |
| | <p>The verse which you have requested is as follows:</p> |
| | :kirata hunandhra pulinda pulkasa |
| | :abhira sumbha yavanah khasadayah |
| | :ye'nye c papa yadupasrayasrayah |
| | :sudhyanti tasmai prabhavisnave namah. |
| | :([[Vanisource:SB 2.4.18|SB 2.4.18]]) |
| | <p>These are different names of non-Aryans or candalas, less than the sudras. They are called pancamas or fifth grade men. Brahmanas are first grade men; Ksatriyas, second grade, Vaisyas, third grade; Sudras, fourth grade. There are many of these different fifth grade men and it is difficult to find who are these fifth grade persons in present society. But the point is that they are all less than Sudra.</p> |
| | <p>So these persons are all less than Sudras but Srimad-Bhagavatam says even they, under the guidance of a pure devotee, can also be raised up the the highest standard more than the Brahmanas. If somebody questions how it is possible, how the most degraded of the human society be more than a Brahmana that is also confirmed in Vedic language that it does not matter if one is born of low grade family or candalas, if he is a devotee of the Lord, he is first class man. There are other statements that a man after becoming a devotee becomes immediately qualified to execute sacrificial ceremonies. In this connection, Jiva Goswami has given his commentation that a person born even in a Brahmana family is dependent on the purificatory processes as accepting initiation and sacred thread, but a devotee without waiting for such recognition becomes fit to act as a Brahmana, and this is the statement of Narada Muni in this verse. This means as stated in the Bhagavad-gita there are different symptoms of different classes of men—just like a Brahmana is truthful, clean, self-controlled, equipoised, tolerant, simple, full of knowledge, theist, and so on. Similarly a Ksatriya has symptoms—a tendency for ruling over others, martial spirited, charitable, does not flee away from the battlefield and so on. Similarly, the symptoms of a Vaisya is his tendency to agriculture, trade, cow protection and banking. And the Sudra's tendency is to some way or other work anywhere and get some wages.</p> |
| | <p>So Narada Muni says that these symptoms are not stereotyped or stagnant; they are flexible. A man may be born in the family of a Brahmana but he might have the tendency of a Ksatriya or Vaisya or Sudra. Similarly a man may be born in the family of a Sudra or Candala but he may have the tendencies for a Brahmana. Just like Ekalavya was born in a Candala family but he had the tendency of a Ksatriya. Similarly Visvamitra Muni was born in a family of Ksatriyas but his tendency was of becoming a Brahmana.</p> |
| | <p>So Narada Muni says that men should be judged by his tendencies, not by his birth, and this is also confirmed in Bhagavad-gita by Lord Krishna that the four divisions of human society should be judged by the qualities in actual work. Therefore with reference to all Vedic Scriptures our members are all Brahmanas and therefore we offer them the sacred thread although they are born, according to Vedic culture, in the families of other than Brahmanas or even than the Sudras. But that does not mean they cannot be purified. Actually they are being trained in such a way, their hearts are being purified by chanting the Mahamantra. And after some days when the Spiritual Master sees that one has followed the regulative principles faithfully and has abstained himself from the restricted items like illicit sex life, etc. and has chanted regularly 16 rounds then say after a year or six months when he appears to be purified in the judgment of the Spiritual Master he is offered the sacred thread, and he is given the chance of Deity worship in the Temple. These Smarta Brahmanas contest that unless one is born in a Brahmana family one cannot be given these facilities. But Narada Muni says no; a man should be judged by the symptoms of his character. And Srimad-Bhagavatam says that the Kiratas, etc. can be purified by a pure devotee because the influence of Lord Visnu is so strong. Prabha Vishnave means the powerful Lord Visnu; prabha means that the light or heat of Visnu is so strong that it is possible to melt them. Only the devotees of Lord Visnu or Krishna can be purified, not the devotees of any demigod. They will have to wait for their next birth according to their own karma.</p> |
| | <p>So under this formula the whole European and American people who are so intelligent and materially advanced can be converted into pure Vedic Brahmanas, and thus their mission of human life becomes successful, and the whole world becomes a garden of blooming flowers.</p> |
| | <p>Take all these words very seriously and try to propagate Krishna Consciousness with all serenity. It will be a great gift to the human society. You are a learned and intelligent and young man; think over the formula and try to execute to the best of your capacity. That is my request.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LettertoTamalaKrsnaLosAngeles4March1970_1" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="146" link="Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Los Angeles 4 March, 1970" link_text="Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Los Angeles 4 March, 1970"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Los Angeles 4 March, 1970|Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Los Angeles 4 March, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Organization of the European centers and the World Sankirtana Party later on—for these two reasons I called you in London. Now Mukunda, Hamsaduta, yourself, Krsna das, Umapati, Janardana, Suridas, etc., all of you are tested devotees, now do everything nicely in full cooperation. Always remain engaged in Krsna's service, then there will be no misunderstanding.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LettertoUmapatiLosAngeles30March1970_2" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="206" link="Letter to Umapati -- Los Angeles 30 March, 1970" link_text="Letter to Umapati -- Los Angeles 30 March, 1970"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Umapati -- Los Angeles 30 March, 1970|Letter to Umapati -- Los Angeles 30 March, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I think Janardana is very busy in preparation for his Ph.D. because I have also not heard from him for a long time. So let him continue his studies. There is no need of disturbing him at present.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="1975_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="10" parent="Correspondence" text="1975 Correspondence"><h3>1975 Correspondence</h3> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LettertoAbhiramaNewDelhi21August1975_0" class="quote" parent="1975_Correspondence" book="Let" index="467" link="Letter to Abhirama -- New Delhi 21 August, 1975" link_text="Letter to Abhirama -- New Delhi 21 August, 1975"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Abhirama -- New Delhi 21 August, 1975|Letter to Abhirama -- New Delhi 21 August, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I also accept the following as twice born initiated brahmanas: Langa Ganesa dasa, Janardana das, Nandana Acarya das, and Raghunatha Puri das. Hold a fire sacrifice and let them hear my recorded tape through the right ear.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="1976_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="11" parent="Correspondence" text="1976 Correspondence"><h3>1976 Correspondence</h3> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LettertoAbhiramaBombay9January1976_0" class="quote" parent="1976_Correspondence" book="Let" index="18" link="Letter to Abhirama -- Bombay 9 January, 1976" link_text="Letter to Abhirama -- Bombay 9 January, 1976"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Abhirama -- Bombay 9 January, 1976|Letter to Abhirama -- Bombay 9 January, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">They newly initiated brahmanas are Nandanacarya das, Raghunath Puri das, Langaganesh das, Janardana das, Trimalla Bhatta das, and Nartaka Gopala dasi. They should participate in the fire ceremony and afterward should hear the Gayatri mantra from the tape through the right ear.</p> |
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