# BACK TO GODHEAD MAGAZINE ## The Importance ![[letters/1956/561121_the_president]] —the President, 21 21, 1956 --- ![[letters/1967/670130_rayarama|This Back to Godhead will always remain the backbone of the Society because the more the magazine is popular the more our Society becomes popular.]] —Rayarama, 30 January, 1967 --- ![[letters/1967/670316_rayarama|We must publish our books as much as possible because that will create our position. Back to Godhead should be the life and soul for the Society. Please let me know your program.]] —Rayarama, March, 1967 --- ![[letters/1967/670822_rayarama|Please give your primary attention for improving Back to Godhead, the backbone of our movement.]] —Rayarama, August, 1967 --- ![[letters/1967/671111_brahmananda|Please carefully handle the dealings with Macmillan Company which was begun by your good self. If publications are there, we can work from one center only like New York or San Francisco for propagating our cult all over the world. Let us stick to ...]] —Brahmananda, 11 November, 1967 --- ![[letters/1967/671118_brahmananda|Regarding Back to Godhead it is understood that Rayarama is in some difficulty financially. The recent edition of Back to Godhead is very much encouraging to me. The standard should be maintained and improved so that one day it may come on the lev...]] —Brahmananda, 18 November, 1967 --- ![[letters/1968/680323_rayarama]] —Rayarama, 23 March, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/680612_rayarama|I am awaiting for the day when this paper will take the shape of Life Magazine or similar other magazines, in the matter of its popularity.]] —Rayarama, 12 June, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/680909_brahmananda|Let him be seriously engaged in improving the shape and quality of Back to Godhead, and I am sure in future we will have as good a position as the other mundane magazines, like Life, Time, etc.]] —Brahmananda, 9 September, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/681120_madhusudana|To make this magazine a great success is very, very important to the mission. And you along with your co-workers are doing it very nicely. And Krsna will bless you; please continue to do it.]] —Madhusudana, 20 November, 1968 --- ![[letters/1969/690531_patita_uddharana|I wish to have bound each year's editions of Back to Godhead.]] —Patita Uddharana, 31 May, 1969 --- ![[letters/1970/700203_jayagovinda|Yes. We must have close cooperation between America and Germany for the successful publication of our Back to Godhead regularly in French, German and English languages.]] —Jaya Govinda, 3 February, 1970 --- ![[letters/1970/700319_patita_uddharana|in future, the magazines may be bound up by the full year and you may enclose in the binding also an index for the year's articles.]] —Patita Uddharana, 19 March, 1970 --- ![[letters/1970/700414_madhudvisa|Therefore, when Back to Godhead will be published not in hundreds and thousands, but in millions, that will give me great solace.]] —Madhudvisa, 14 April, 1970 --- ![[letters/1970/700416_gurudasa|I wish to see that this magazine is published and distributed in the American way like Reader's Digest, Life, etc. published in millions and distributed all over the world.]] —Gurudasa, 16 April, 1970 --- ![[letters/1971/710325_citsukhananda|I am also glad to note that you have begun working on Back to Godhead Spanish edition. Actually we want that Back to Godhead be printed in every major language and distributed all over the world so that there is no language barrier in taking to ou...]] —Citsukhananda, 25 March, 1971 --- ![[letters/1973/730217_govinda|I cannot stress this point enough that we must handle this publication of Back to Godhead very nicely for it is one of the most important aspects of our society.]] —Hamsaduta, 17 February, 1973 --- ![[letters/1973/731102_satsvarupa|Regarding Back to Godhead being the most important magazine in the world, therefore I am seeking to see Dr. Kapoor's article for getting attention.]] —Satsvarupa dasa Maharaja, 2 November, 1973 --- ![[letters/1975/750826_ramesvara]] —Jagannatha Suta dasa, 26 August, 1975 --- ![[letters/1975/750926_jagadisa|that is the purpose of the Back to Godhead paper, to expose their materialistic ideas as all nonsense and present the real philosophy that Lord Krsna gives. This is the real knowledge.]] —Jagannatha Suta dasa, 26 September, 1975 --- ## Writing, Editing, Layout and Contents ![[letters/1975/751130_w.j._carpenter.j._carpenter.j._carpenter|I do not know where one could find copies of the old Back to Godhead started by me back in 1944, it is a long time ago. If you write to our Los Angeles center they may be able to send you some of the back issues of the more recent publications.]] —Tikamdas J. Batra, 30 November, 1975 --- ![[letters/1967/670228_rayarama]] —Rayarama, 28 February, 1967 --- ![[letters/1968/680215_rayarama|My special thanks are due to Jaya Govinda who has so nicely sketched the story of the Grand Procession. I think in each and every issue a similar story sketch may be printed,]] —Rayarama, February, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/681013_janaki|Jaya Govinda, your article, 'Hrsikesa' is published in Back to Godhead. It has come out very nice. If you send such articles of different pilgrimages, that will be also a great service. You have got artistic idea, so please take courage and act en...]] —Acyutananda and Jaya Govinda, 13 October, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/681015_rayarama|So if you try to criticize, that will be of some value because you are outside the purview of the Indian government, but do it very carefully, so that you may not offend anyone.]] —Rayarama, 15 October, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/681015_rayarama|The issue of Back to Godhead which you have sent me is very, very nice, and Krsna is helping you for your sincere efforts. I hope you will continue this attitude and improve both the quality and writing of Back to Godhead nicely.]] —Rayarama, 15 October, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/681017_rayarama|People will be glad to read such articles in this country. At the same time, people in India will be glad to learn that Krsna consciousness is being preached in Western countries.]] —Rayarama, 17 October, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/681119_rayarama]] —Rayarama, 19 November, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/681120_brahmananda|Find out whether Umapati can translate Back to Godhead into French language. He knows the French language. Or any other boy or girl who can help in translating Back to Godhead into French.]] —Brahmananda, 20 November, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/681123_nayanabhirama|Begarding your article in Back to Godhead about Ayurvedic medicine, I do not think this is very worthwhile endeavor. You have shown nice ability for writing so it will be more appreciated if you continue to study Srimad-Bhagavatam and Bhagavad-git...]] —Nayanabhirama, 23 November, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/681212_ananda|Now you have a chance for your own edition so do it nicely and according to your own ideas. You are an artist, so you have facilities to make a very nice edition to sell to the French public.]] —Hamsaduta, 12 December, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/681213_jadurani|I have just received a copy of Back to Godhead Number 21, and please convey my appreciation to Satsvarupa for his excellent article of Lord Ramacandra. Such articles give enjoyment and spiritual benefit to all readers, so he should do more of such...]] —Jadurani, 13 December, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/681231_satsvarupa|you are correct in your doubts that Radha-Krsna lila should not be discussed in Back to Godhead.]] —Satsvarupa, 31 December, 1968 --- ![[letters/1969/690209_rayarama|The articles like Dr. Spock and the Beach Boys or nonsense book reviews, should be completely avoided.]] —Rayarama, 9 February, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/690213_sivananda|we are not meant for presenting any literary masterpieces, but we have to inform people that there is a fire of maya which is burning the very vitality of all living entities, and they should guard against the indefatigable onslaught of material e...]] —Kṛṣṇa dasa, 13 February, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/690215_rayarama|On the whole I wish to present Back to Godhead purely in the line of Krsna consciousness throughout and criticism of too much materialism, as you have written many articles already. That is very nice.]] —Rayarama, 15 February, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/690222_rayarama]] —Rayarama, 22 February, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/690318_nandakisora|I thank you very much for your very nice poetry. I am reading it again and again and I shall most probably arrange to publish it in Back to Godhead. The devotees here also have very much appreciated it, and I may encourage you to do more writing o...]] —Nanda Kisora, 18 March, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/690402_rayarama]] —Rayarama, 2 April, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/690616_rupanuga|Now you may please send as many nice photographs of your sankirtana activities as possible to Brahmananda for publication in Back to Godhead. In each issue of Back to Godhead there shall be sufficient pictures of our sankirtana movement with descr...]] —Rupanuga, 16 June, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/690617_balabhadra|Send pictures of your activities in this parade and your other activities to Hayagriva for being printed in Back to Godhead.]] —Balabhadra, 17 June, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/690701_brahmananda|So far as sankirtana party is concerned, as many pictures as possible should be published each month. The pictures are very attractive to the customers also. Acyutananda should also be asked to send pictures, as many as possible, from the many Vis...]] —Brahmananda, 1 July, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/690713_hansadutta|Your article is very nice and gradually you shall improve. Go on writing. It is my policy to publish as many as possible of articles by my disciples. Back to Godhead should contain news of our temples, articles, pictures of our activities, etc. Th...]] —Gaurasundara, 13 July, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/690715_jadurani|we are now converting Back to Godhead to exclusively contain articles by my disciples and myself, along with many pictures of our sankirtana activities.]] —Bibhavati, 15 July, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/690722_brahmananda|I am enclosing a picture of Gaurakisora dasa Babaji for printing in Back to Godhead. You may also print pictures of great acaryas in our line, such as Ramanujacarya and Madhvacarya. I have not yet heard any word from Germany about my going there, ...]] —Brahmananda, 22 July, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/690722_brahmananda|Your idea of changing the cover border to blue is nice. Black color should not be so prominent on the cover. Blue, red and yellow should be given.]] —Brahmananda, 22 July, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/690827_brahmananda|our policy should be to only publish our Krsna consciousness articles in various forms. We are not concerned with any other movement save and except Krsna consciousness in its pure form.]] —Brahmananda, 27 August, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/690827_hayagriva|we should be very much careful to publish anything in our paper which will give an impression to the public that we are inclined to the hippy movement.]] —Hayagriva, 27 August, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/690830_brahmananda|we may use some strong words against all this nonsense, but if we write it in black and white, that will not be good. So instead of naming these rascals directly, you change the word to 'mental speculators.]] —Brahmananda, 30 August, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/690909_brahmananda|So conjointly make the appearance of Back to Godhead very nicely. The front cover page should be a nicely painted picture. You write that Jadurani is now painting wonderful pictures, so pictures by either Jadurani, Muralidhara or Devahuti should b...]] —Brahmananda, 9 September, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/690909_brahmananda|I am very much encouraged to learn that Jadurani is painting very nice pictures, and all of them can be utilized one after another to come out on the front page of Back to Godhead.]] —Brahmananda, 9 September, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/690909_brahmananda|Regarding Back to Godhead No. 27 it is nicely done, but there is no mention of the words 'Back to Godhead' on each page. Why this mistake has been done? Besides that, some of the headings, like 'Parts and Parcels' are not very prominent, while at ...]] —Brahmananda, 9 September, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/690919_brahmananda|I have seen the pictures of your kirtana sent by Sacisuta, and they are all marvellous. Please print them in Back to Godhead. All sankirtana photographs should be collected, and one after another they should be printed in Back to Godhead. So far a...]] —Brahmananda, 19 September, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/691013_pradyumna|Regarding our books, the scholarly way should be followed. That means as Dr. Radhakrishnan and Bon Maharaja do it, and as Dr. Singh recommends. In all our books and magazines henceforward the whole process should be changed. Whatever is done in th...]] —Pradyumna, 13 October, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/691015_satsvarupa|it cannot be published in any public paper. That is the instruction of my Guru Maharaja.]] —Satsvarupa, 15 October, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/691026_satsvarupa|I want that in all of our books, magazines and other writings the scholarly presentation be given in all instances, so for every Sanskrit word there must be the appropriate spelling and diacritic marks. Regarding your question about Back to Godhea...]] —Satsvarupa, 26 October, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/691107_brahmananda|I am very much pleased to see all these pictures and our magazines give information to the people that we do not stick only to the cities, but we train people in the remote villages also. So everything should be done very attentively and amicably.]] —Brahmananda, 7 November, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/691202_brahmananda|I am very pleased that Jayadvaita Brahmacari will be going to Boston soon for typing Back to Godhead and our books. He is the first-class typist in our Society so far I have heard, so he can create so many assistants. In the meantime, I have also ...]] —Brahmananda, 2 December, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/691210_brahmananda|In every publication house all printing matters are edited at least three times. So we should be very much careful about grammatical and printing mistakes.]] —Brahmananda, 10 December, 1969 --- ![[letters/1970/700124_brahmananda|Let us improve more and more, but we must always remember the standard of printing and also we should keep this motto in view that to have our own press means to do nicer work than the outside printers.]] —Brahmananda, 24 January, 1970 --- ![[letters/1970/700203_mandali_bhadra|Back to Godhead articles are generally seen by the editors and it is better that we stress on our own philosophy than to indulge in some hodgepodge philosophy which is basically unauthorized. In our present Back to Godhead publications we are tryi...]] —Mandali Bhadra, 3 February, 1970 --- ![[letters/1970/700513_pradyumna|The policy on the Back to Godhead should be—always writing articles which can be understood by people in general.]] —Pradyumna, 13 May, 1970 --- ![[letters/1970/700719_yogesvara|I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 13th July 1970 along with one poem which I have read and sent on to the editors of Back to Godhead. Some time back you sent another poetry which I have also sent to the editors; these poetics are n...]] —Yogesvara, 19 July, 1970 --- ![[letters/1970/700902_hansadutta|The idea is that the original name, Back to Godhead, even it goes to foreign country it should continue to be the same.]] —Hamsaduta, 2 September, 1970 --- ![[letters/1970/701128_satsvarupa|So far as minimizing the use of Sanskrit words in Back to Godhead, that is very nice. There is no need for so much Sanskrit. Therefore I object to the Brahma-sahhita edition. I use Sanskrit, but the purport I give immediately.]] —Satsvarupa, 28 November, 1970 --- ![[letters/1971/710121_gopala_krsna|For our English edition I have instructed Satsvarupa that there should only be one article by myself, no more than four pages in length, and that the remainder of the magazine should be made up of articles by our students.]] —Gopala Kṛṣṇa, 21 January, 1971 --- ![[letters/1971/710526_satsvarupa|So far as Back to Godhead is concerned, the answers to your questions are as follows: recipes are all right if you think that there is such a public demand but just recipes no pictures. Yes, parts of my letters may be reprinted as a second article...]] —Satsvarupa, 26 May, 1971 --- ![[letters/1971/710612_satsvarupa|I am enclosing one letter from a new boy in Japan. He was going to commit suicide but came to Krsna instead. This may make an interesting topic for Back to Godhead]] —Satsvarupa, 12 June, 1971 --- ![[letters/1971/710727_satsvarupa|The subject matter of Back to Godhead should be very grave. It should not be made a joking, comical literature. The subject matter is that everyone should know who is Krsna.]] —Satsvarupa, 27 July, 1971 --- ![[letters/1971/711217_satsvarupa|Your idea for five different articles in Back to Godhead monthly is very nice. I like your topical articles' also. Keep them simple and Krsna conscious, avoiding too much bending to the public taste,]] —Satsvarupa, 17 December, 1971 --- ![[letters/1972/720220_rudra_and_radhika_devi_dasi|She may also write an article for Back to Godhead, why she came to Krsna consciousness and comparing our philosophy to others.]] —Rudra dasa and Radhika devi dasi, 20 February, 1972 --- ![[letters/1972/720418_ksirodakasayi|You have retired from material life and Krsna has given you the nicest place in this material world to live in, so stick there and every month send one Back to Godhead [in] Hindi composition to Tokyo.]] —Ksirodakasayi, 18 April, 1972 --- ![[letters/1972/720510_niranjana|I shall be glad to know if you can translate our literature into Hindi with the help of some friends in Varanasi. Varanasi is the learning site for the Hindi language. Can you take charge of this translation work somehow or other?]] —Niranjana, 10 May, 1972 --- ![[letters/1974/740525_indra-pramada-pramada-pramada|Try to keep up this present standard and think of new ways to make it always fresh and attractive. Krsna is all attractive and evergreen, and you must use your talent to layout the magazine so that Krsna appears in print as He is.]] —Indra Pramada dasa, 25 May, 1974 --- ![[letters/1974/740528_rupanuga|My only idea was to point out to the public that unless you have purified leaders there is no possibility of advancement even in the material condition. I had no idea to spend money and energy of our Society in a way which is not our real spiritua...]] —Rupanuga Maharaja, 28 May, 1974 --- ![[letters/1975/750511_brijratanji|I welcome your suggestion. I have advised my assistants to publish one chapter in each issue from the Bhagavata Maha-Purana. This will contain the devanagari script as well as the Roman script. I thank you very much for your suggestion]] —Brijratanji, 11 May, 1975 --- ![[letters/1975/750511_hansadutta|Please accept my blessings. From now on, include one chapter from Srimad-Bhagavatam in every issue of Back to Godhead magazine. You can start with the first chapter of the first canto and continue. You should reproduce the chapter as it is in the ...]] —Jayadvaita dasa, 11 May, 1975 --- ![[letters/1976/760828_mr._gupta._gupta._gupta|By the way, there has been some disturbance created by the publishing of a few comments on Vallabhacarya in Back to Godhead - Volume number ten, number eight, page five, column three, paragraph two. Kindly avoid comments such as these in future pu...]] —Jagannatha Suta dasa, 28 August, 1976 --- ![[letters/1976/760923_rupanuga|If experienced editors are not there it will be an unpopular magazine. These things are to be seen to immediately by the GBC.]] —Rupanuga dasa, 23 September, 1976 --- ## Advertisements in BTG ![[letters/1968/681017_rayarama]] —Rayarama, 17 October, 1968 --- ![[letters/1969/690128_rayarama|Regarding the securing of advertisements, this responsibility should be divided among three centers, namely New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.]] —Rayarama, 28 January, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/690205_brahmananda|Regarding advertisements in Back to Godhead, I am not at all in favor of it.]] —Brahmananda, 5 February, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/690215_rayarama|...I wish to inform you that the advertisements are not very congenial to our prestige, especially the hippy kind of advertisements. So we have to think over how we can avoid the advertisements and publish at the same time. The hippy advertisement...]] —Rayarama, 15 February, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/690209_rayarama]] —Rayarama, 9 February, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/690211_cidananda|the best thing would be if we could stop these advertisements, but the difficulty is that without advertisements it would be very difficult to continue this magazine.]] —Cidananda, 11 February, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/690323_brahmanandaa|Henceforward, we shall very much be cautious to accept bona fide advertisements, if we do accept it at all.]] —Brahmananda, 23 March, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/690402_rayarama|As in the next issue there will be no advertisements, we shall be able to give substantial reading matter like that of Bhaktivinoda Thakura, Teachings of the Golden Avatara.]] —Rayarama, 2 April, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/690701_brahmananda|So far as ads are concerned, only our own books should be advertised, nothing else.]] —Brahmananda, 1 July, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/690716_brahmananda|Regarding your plan for advertising membership in Back to Godhead, that is nice. I do not see how we can insist that all members must follow the four regulative principles, but this is certainly our recommendation to anyone who is serious about pu...]] —Brahmananda, 16 July, 1969 --- ![[letters/1971/710426_karandhara|Your idea for selling advertisements for Ratha-yatra issue of Back to Godhead is very good. This idea we have implemented both in Bombay and Calcutta and it has proven very good for collecting money. In Calcutta they are collecting at a rate of Rs...]] —Karandhara, 26 April, 1971 --- ![[letters/1971/711228_yogesvara|I don't think there is need to divert your attention by producing advertising.]] —Yogesvara, 28 December, 1971 --- ![[letters/1974/740914_jayatirtha|I am in due receipt of your letter dated August 3rd, 1974. I have the proposed advertisements for Back to Godhead and I approve them. I have also seen the article by Brahmananda Swami and it has been returned to you with Dayananda together with co...]] —Jayadvaita dasa, 14 September, 1974 --- ![[letters/1974/740914_jayatirtha|The advertisement proposals for Back to Godhead are approved by me. Yes, you use your American ingenuity in this way to spread Krsna consciousness.]] —Visakha devi, 14 September, 1974 --- ![[letters/1975/750202_sahadeva|Back to Godhead is not meant for advertising ISKCON Food Relief.]] —Rupanuga dasa, 2 February, 1975 --- ## Distribution of BTG ![[letters/1967/670825_pradyumna|I also very much appreciate the work you are doing in trying to promote my books and recording, and I am very glad to know that the new Back to Godhead is selling well. These publications are the backbone of our movement, and if we can distribute ...]] —Pradyumna, 25 August, 1967 --- ![[letters/1968/680228_mukunda_janaki|Yes, if you can find out some distributing agent for our Back to Godhead that is very good. Please do it.]] —Mukunda and Janaki, 28 February, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/680510_dayananda|You can write to your Godbrothers in different centers, that if they do not send regularly the money for sales of the magazine, it will not be possible to continue the paper.]] —Rayarama, 10 May, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/680514_subala|It is giving me some anxiety. Back to Godhead publication may not be stopped—it will be a great set-back for our missionary purpose.]] —Hamsaduta, 14 May, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/680608_rayarama|is too important and it must be distributed regularly, as it is the backbone of our mission. So, even it is not printed very expensively and highly, still it must be distributed even in mimeograph copy.]] —Rayarama, 8 June, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/680927_rayarama|Now you have to print a large number of Back to Godheads every month. I think only in California area, you shall be able to sell 3,000 copies per month, since the sankirtana party is moving and people are purchasing very gladly. So you can expect ...]] —Rayarama, 27 September, 1968 --- ![[letters/1968/681001_mukunda|So try to get immediately copies of Back to Godhead from New York and try to sell them in large quantities. That is our back-hone.]] —Mukunda, 1 October, 1968 --- ![[letters/1969/690128_rayarama|the sales of Back to Godhead should be divided more evenly amongst our centers. Not that one or two temples do all of the selling and all of the others should simply sleep.]] —Rayarama, 28 January, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/690205_brahmananda|To distribute one hundred copies in a big city like Los Angeles, New York or San Francisco is not at all difficult.]] —Brahmananda, 5 February, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/690217_brahmananda|I am negotiating with the principal centers for consuming 5,000 copies at least and paying $750 contribution, no matter if the copies are sold or not.]] —Brahmananda, 17 February, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/690217_mukunda|My next program is to distribute at least 20,000 copies of Back to Godhead from four centers, namely, New York, London, Los Angeles and San Francisco.]] —Mukunda, 17 February, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/690220_rayarama]] —Rayarama, 20 February, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/690222_rayarama|The idea is like that of a Bible Society in India which distributes millions of dollars in the shape of biblical literature without any consideration of return. Similarly, we have to each sacrifice $750 on this principle. If there is return that i...]] —Rayarama, 22 February, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/690223_cidananda_dindayal_aniruddha_makhanlal]] —Cidananda, 23 23, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/690527_mukunda|Regarding your selling of Back to Godhead, we have taken a great risk of printing 20,000 copies per month, and before taking this risk, we consulted four different centers, and you all agreed. Now you try your best and the result will depend on Kr...]] —Mukunda, 27 May, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/690716_mr._mottissey._mottissey._mottissey|We want to distribute as many issues of Back to Godhead as possible, so the more you can print and distribute, the more my Guru Maharaja will be pleased to see 'His Great Dream' being fulfilled.]] —SPLto Brahmananda, 16 July, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/690720_gajendra|So, as you will be having several new men there to help you after the Ratha-yatra festival, the sankirtana party will be the better way of distributing Back to Godhead.]] —Gajendra, 20 July, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/690731_subala|This is all very encouraging, so continue to increase your sales of Back to Godhead as far as possible. You are a serious worker and Krsna will reward your efforts with success.]] —Subala, 31 July, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/690731_subala|Regarding distribution of Back to Godhead or my publications, I welcome your floating a company yourself for this purpose. In that case your company will be another department of the Society, although the Society has no intention to interfere with...]] —Gopala Kṛṣṇa, 31 July, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/690806_subala|try to become rich by selling Back to Godhead. There is possibility of making profit of at least $1,000 per month.]] —Subala, 6 August, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/691027_upendra|So all the centers should not reduce their orders for Back to Godhead, but should help distribute them as far as possible.]] —Upendra, 27 October, 1969 --- ![[letters/1969/691105_satsvarupa|Regarding Back to Godhead printing, I have already written to Brahmananda, that this must be printed in our own press.]] —Satsvarupa, 5 November, 1969 --- ![[letters/1970/700114_jadurani|one of the items I suggested before should be to distribute free copies of Back to Godhead to a group of respectable persons every month with special reference to presidents of the foundations who are inclined to give contributions to religious in...]] —Jadurani, 14 January, 1970 --- ![[letters/1971/710517_karandhara|The magazine should be published regularly, but if distribution is less, then the number of printing should decrease. Still if even distribution is smaller, we should follow the policy of 25 cents per copy. Artificially increasing distribution and...]] —Karandhara, 17 May, 1971 --- ![[letters/1971/711117_sridhama_dasa|You state that you will be the largest distributor of Back to Godhead in the world. This statement is very pleasing to me, because more than anything I want that my students should distribute my books and literatures profusely all over the world, ...]] —Sridhama dasa, 17 November, 1971 --- ![[letters/1972/721118_jayadvaita|These books and magazines are our most important propaganda weapons to defeat the ignorance of maya's army, and the more we produce such literature and sell them profusely all over the world, the more we shall deliver the world from the suicide co...]] —Jayadvaita, 18 November, 1972 --- ![[letters/1972/721203_vamanadeva|in your temple alone you are distributing so many, so this very, very encouraging to me. It is the perfect form of preaching.]] —Vamanadeva, 3 December, 1972 --- ![[letters/1974/741121_nrsimha_caitanya|I am very glad to note of how you are increasing the 'Back To Godhead' distribution there in such a remote place. Our 'Back To Godhead' is the backbone of our movement so we should always be thinking how to increase it, increase it, increase it.]] —Rocana dasa, 21 November, 1974 --- ## Other Magazines ![[letters/1968/681128_hansadutta|Regarding the inside ISKCON Journal, if it is not very troublesome the idea is all right.]] —Hamsaduta, 28 November, 1968 --- ![[letters/1972/720212_govinda_dasi|...it is with great pleasure that I remember you and your good husband by reading them and seeing the nice work you are doing in the New Navadvipa News and other pamphlets....I am especially appreciating the writings of Siddhasvarupa in the New Na...]] —Govinda dasi, 12 February, 1972 --- ![[letters/1972/720322_nityananda|The newsletter is also very nice, and you may encourage all centers to correspond in this way regularly amongst yourselves. When I shall come there to Los Angeles, then we shall see when I can also come to stay at your new temple.]] —Nityananda, 22 March, 1972 --- ![[letters/1972/720926_giriraja|I have very much appreciated your Hare Krsna Monthly magazine, it is a great step forward, now maintain it actually monthly and collect many advertisements and spread our propaganda in this way.]] —Giriraja, 26 September, 1972 --- ![[letters/1972/721203_vamanadeva|Yes, why not once again start the St. Louis Newsletter, and send me a copy.]] —Vamanadeva, 3 December, 1972 --- ![[letters/1973/730723_sukadeva|Regarding the starting of a Society Newsletter, I think there is no need for it. Do not unnecessarily increase your responsibilities.]] —Sukadeva, 23 July, 1973 --- ![[letters/1973/730731_parasara|not that everyone will start their own magazine wasting time, money and manpower.]] —Parasara dasa, 31 July, 1973 --- ![[letters/1974/740509_manager_of_liberty_bank|As to importing the Harmonist or doing one locally, do as suitable. It is a nice proposal to distribute such a newspaper.]] —Cam, 9 May, 1974 --- ![[letters/1976/760227_mahamsa|I am in due receipt of The Hare Krsna Explosion, Volume number twenty-one. You must stop circulation of this paper immediately. It is not being properly managed. Who is this rascal who is writing such articles? See to this immediately.]] —Mahamsa Swami, 27 February, 1976 --- --- **[← Back to Śikṣāmṛta](wiki/compile/siksamrita)**