Correspondence from His Divine Grace

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

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1971-04-13	Tulsi, Bhakta dasa, Pat, Sandy, Bill, Geoffrey, Terryplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLetter to: Tulsi, Bhakta dasa, Pat, Sandy, Bill, Geoffrey, Terry — April 13, 1971 Letter to: Tulsi, Bhakta dasa, Pat, Sandy, Bill, Geoffrey, Terry San Diego My dear Tulsi das, Bhakta das, Pat, Sandy, Bill, Geoffrey, and Terry Prabhus, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your kind letters dated 1st March, 1971 requesting that I visit San Diego temple upon my return to U.S.A. Thank you for your invitation. When I go to L.A. next time, I will be sure to visit San Diego temple as well. But when that will be I can	Bombay
1971-06-17	Bhakta dasaplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLetter to: Bhakta dasa — June 17, 1971 Letter to: Bhakta dasa San Diego My dear Bhakta Das, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 19th May, 1971 and have noted the contents with pleasure. It is so much encouraging to note how nicely your program is going on there. In all aspects of temple life you seem to be doing so nicely and Sankirtana is being well received also. So continue your program with all enthusiasm for making ISKCON San Diego a grand success. It appears that Krishna has His bles…	Bombay
1971-08-15	ISKCON San Diego, Bhakta dasa, Surya, Rajiblocan, Aniruddha, Paratrikananda, Norah, Annapurna, Marney, Nrsimha Caitanya, Marybelle, othersplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLetter to: ISKCON San Diego, Bhakta dasa, Surya, Rajiblocan, Aniruddha, Paratrikananda, Norah, Annapurna, Marney, Nrsimha Caitanya, Marybelle, others — August 15, 1971 Letter to: ISKCON San Diego, Bhakta dasa, Surya, Rajiblocan, Aniruddha, Paratrikananda, Norah, Annapurna, Marney, Nrsimha Caitanya, Marybelle, others	London
1971-08-18	Bhakta dasaplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLetter to: Bhakta dasa — August 18, 1971 Letter to: Bhakta dasa San Diego My dear Bhakta Das, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 9th August, 1971 and have noted the contents carefully. I am so glad to hear that Krishna has provided you with a new temple very suitable for our purposes. So why not purchase immediately? If Karandhara is satisfied, then we can lend you part of the money for down payment and you can return it later on. So make arrangements in that way.	London
1971-09-25	Bhakta dasaplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLetter to: Bhakta dasa — September 25, 1971 Letter to: Bhakta dasa San Diego My dear Bhakta Das, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 14th September, 1971 and have noted the contents. Also I have received the two sacred threads enclosed and they have been duly chanted by me. At your recommendation Paratrikananda, Surya das, Annapurna and Lilasakti may all be given Gayatri mantra. Enclosed please find four copies. The procedure for initiation should be as follows: First of all secure the tape of …	Nairobi
1971-11-20	Bhakta dasaplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLetter to: Bhakta dasa — November 20, 1971 Letter to: Bhakta dasa My dear Bhakta das, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter of October 24, 1971, and have noted the contents carefully. Due to our always moving about I have not had opportunity to answer until now. Please forgive me.	Delhi
1972-01-16	Bhakta dasaplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLetter to: Bhakta dasa — January 16, 1972 Letter to: Bhakta dasa San Diego My dear Bhakta das, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter undated, along with requests for initiation by six persons. Upon your recommendation, I am gladly accepting them as my duly initiated disciples and their letter follows. Now you must take the full responsibility to give them all guidance and facility for perfecting their lives in Krishna Consciousness. The trick is to keep everyone always engaged happily in Krishna	Bombay
1972-02-21	Bhakta dasaplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLetter to: Bhakta dasa — February 21, 1972 Letter to: Bhakta dasa San Diego My dear Bhakta das, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of January 28, 1972, and I am pleased to note that everything is progressing nicely in San Diego center. I especially appreciate your attitude toward increasing more and more the sales of our books, that will sanctify all other activities of preaching because preaching means selling books.	Calcutta
1972-03-05	Bhakta dasaplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLetter to: Bhakta dasa — March 5, 1972 Letter to: Bhakta dasa San Diego My dear Bhakta das, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated February 7, 1972, and I am very glad to hear that everything is progressing well under your direction at San Diego temple, especially that you are installing Lord Jagannatha there and that you want to try very hard for pleasing Him always. This is the devotee	Calcutta
1972-04-09	Bhakta dasaplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLetter to: Bhakta dasa — April 9, 1972 Letter to: Bhakta dasa My dear Bhakta dasa, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated March 19, 1972, and I am very much pleased to note that you are making steady growth in all aspects of devotional service, especially in the department of selling so many books monthly. But always remember that we are selling books not for making business but for pleasing Krsna, and by preaching we should sell books, not by cheating. If this simple method is followed, there…	Sydney
1972-05-02	Bhakta dasaplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLetter to: Bhakta dasa — May 2, 1972 Letter to: Bhakta dasa My dear Bhakta das, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated April 16, 1972, and I have noted the contents. I am very much happy that you are convinced of this Krishna Consciousness movement and philosophy, and that you are sincere to manage everything in a spiritual manner just pleasing to Lord Krishna. When I shall come to Los Angeles by 20th May we will fix up some program for going to San Diego, if you desire that I shall come the…	Tokyo
1972-09-09	Bhakta dasaplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLetter to: Bhakta dasa — September 9, 1972 Letter to: Bhakta dasa Dear Bhakta das, Please accept my blessings. I beg to thank you very much for your kindly remembering me on Vyasa Puja birth day, and I have duly received your gift of $50.00, and I have appreciated your warm sentiments with great satisfaction. I am very much encouraged by your progress in Krsna Consciousness. Now go on in this way always striving to please Krsna, and you will feel yourself becoming happy more and more. That I want. Thank you once again,	Dallas
1973-01-26	Bhakta dasaplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLetter to: Bhakta dasa — January 26, 1973 Letter to: Bhakta dasa San Diego My dear Bhakta das, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated January 14, 1973, and I have noted the contents with pleasure. It is very pleasing to me that you have distributed so many of my books and preached to the students. This is our mission of life, to somehow turn the minds of the conditioned souls to Krsna consciousness and thus give them the highest perfection of life. So you are a very sincere soul and Krsna will …	Calcutta
1973-03-04	Bhakta dasaplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLetter to: Bhakta dasa — March 4, 1973 Letter to: Bhakta dasa My dear Bhakta das: Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your encouraging letter dated the 20th February. Just yesterday I have arrived here in Calcutta, and by the end of the week expect to go to Mayapur where are having a grand celebration on the Appearance Day of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu.	Calcutta
1973-08-03	Bhakta dasaplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLetter to: Bhakta dasa — August 3, 1973 Letter to: Bhakta dasa My dear Bhakta Dasa, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 29 July, 1973 and I have noted the contents very carefully. From your report I can understand that you are very enthusiastic. I like also your idea of celebrating Govardhana puja. This should be our programme to attract the general mass of people. If we go on preaching vigorously as we have been for another 25 year then all these other so called religions will disappear. A…	Bhaktivedanta Manor
1973-11-10	Bhakta dasaplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLetter to: Bhakta dasa — October 10, 1973 Letter to: Bhakta dasa San Diego My dear Bhakta dasa: Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated October 17, 1973 and have noted the contents. I thank you very much for your invitation for your Govardhana celebration. I would have come, but I received your letter late, but I hope anyway that you have enjoyed Govardhana-Puja. The photos are very nice, and Radharani looks very satisfied, as I see in the features of Her face in the photo. If She is pleased, the…	New Delhi
1974-01-26	Bhakta dasaplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLetter to: Bhakta dasa — January 26, 1974 Letter to: Bhakta dasa San Diego Dear Bhakta das, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated January 22, 1974. Your report is a very good one and very pleasing to me. Your combining enthusiastic programs of both sankirtana and temple worship in San Diego, should be followed by all our centers.	Honolulu
1974-04-13	Bhakta dasaplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLetter to: Bhakta dasa — April 13, 1974 Letter to: Bhakta dasa San Diego Dear Bhakta das, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of March 27, and I have noted the contents. Now Madhudvisa Maharaja has written me that you have been posted as president of San Francisco, and that you are very enthusiastic to increase all programs there. I do not know who is now president of San Diego, but I will answer the points in your letter.	Bombay
1974-06-04	Bhakta dasaplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLetter to: Bhakta dasa — June 4, 1974 Letter to: Bhakta dasa San Francisco My dear Bhakta das, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge your letter of May 21st and I have noted the contents. I am certainly making all plans to attend Rathayatra in San Francisco on July 7th and 8th. I will be going to Australia for their Rathayatra on June 29th and after that Jayatirtha is arranging my tickets for coming to U.S. I would like to attend the Rathayatra in Chicago on July 6th and, come to San Francisco on the evening of the si…	Geneva
1974-06-28	Bhakta dasaplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLetter to: Bhakta dasa — June 28, 1974 Letter to: Bhakta dasa San Francisco My dear Bhakta das, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter of June 17, and have carefully read the contents. I am glad to hear you have been thinking of me and have arranged a nice house near the temple for my stay there. As you know, I will be arriving 6:30 P.M. from Chicago on United airlines on July the 6th. I am also looking forward to attending the grand festival of Lord Jagannatha.	Melbourne
1974-07-08	Bhakta dasaplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLetter to: Bhakta dasa — July 8, 1974 Letter to: Bhakta dasa San Francisco My dear Bhakta das, Please accept my blessings. I have gladly accepted for first initiation those devotees recommended by you and their spiritual names are as follows.	Los Angeles
1974-11-24	Bhakta dasaplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLetter to: Bhakta dasa — November 24, 1974 Letter to: Bhakta dasa San Francisco My dear Bhakta dasa: Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated November 10, 1974 with enclosed photographs of the Hare Krishna Restaurant. It is very nice. I had been there to Stanford University. So you can get Mr. Malkani in New York to help you in the restaurant. He went there to start a restaurant, but now he is cooking in the New York temple, so you arrange for him to help you. Are books being sold also in the restaurant?	Bombay
1975-02-01	Bhakta dasaplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLetter to: Bhakta dasa — February 1, 1975 Letter to: Bhakta dasa San Francisco My dear Bhakta das, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated Jan. 16th, 1975 and have noted the contents. I have been informed by Jayatirtha prabhu that you have decided not to get the farm and that you want to get a building in Berkeley. I have discussed with him and that idea is approved by me.	Honolulu
1975-05-07	Bhakta dasaplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLetter to: Bhakta dasa — May 7, 1975 Letter to: Bhakta dasa San Francisco My dear Bhakta dasa, Please accept my blessings. I am due receipt of your letter dated April 15th, 1975 and have noted the contents. I am very glad to hear all of the good news in your letter. This is very encouraging. Continue to preach vigorously, following all of the rules and regulations very carefully and Krishna will give you every facility. It sounds like the Rathayatra festival will be bigger than ever this year. I am hoping to come there again.	Perth
1975-06-17	Bhakta dasa, Jayananda, Bahulasvaplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLetter to: Bhakta dasa, Jayananda, Bahulasva — June 17, 1975 Letter to: Bhakta dasa, Jayananda, Bahulasva San Francisco My dear Bhakta, Jayananda, and Bahulasva, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letters dated June 13rd and 15th, 1975 and have noted the contents. It sounds like things are going very nicely there. I will come for Rathayatra festival and then I shall see the new building also. The photos were very nice. Regarding the sannyasis convincing men within the temple that they should leave and go with them on their parties,…	Honolulu
1976-08-26	Bhakta dasaplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLetter to: Bhakta dasa — August 26, 1976 Letter to: Bhakta dasa Berkeley My dear Bhakta das, Please accept my blessings. On your recommendation I am accepting the following boys and girls as my duly initiated disciples. John---Jnanagati dasa	New Delhi

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