Correspondence from His Divine Grace

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

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1967-10-13	Damodaraplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLetter to: Damodara — October 13, 1967 Letter to: Damodara My dear Damodara, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter of Oct. 9. I am very sorry to hear that Kirtanananda is advising you to give up the robes and the flags on the head. Please stop this nescience as I never instructed Kirtanananda to act like that. I am not at all satisfied with this action of Kirtanananda. Kirtanananda has no right to instruct you in that way, without consulting me. People are being attracted to the chanting of Hare Krishna & n…	Calcutta
1969-08-16	Damodaraplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLetter to: Damodara — August 16, 1969 Letter to: Damodara My dear Damodara, Please accept my blessings. I am very much thankful to you for your letter dated August 14th, 1969, and it is very encouraging. The Sankirtana Movement is the panacea for all problems of the world. The people are suffering on account of illusory happiness of this material world, and we have got great responsibility to enlighten them with Krishna Consciousness. I understand that you are considering to invite President Nixon in our temple, and if you are ser…	Los Angeles
1969-10-23	Damodaraplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLetter to: Damodara — October 23, 1969 Letter to: Damodara My dear Damodara, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated October 14, 1969 and your check for $105. Also I have duly received your $15 maintenance check. I am pleased that you are trying to obtain a very nice house in the city. Washington is a very important city, so if you can develop a nice center, it will be a great achievement for our society. If Mr. Dhyani can arrange to collect $20 from each of his friends it will be very much app…	Tittenhurst
1970-01-30	Damodaraplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLetter to: Damodara — January 30, 1970 Letter to: Damodara My dear Damodara, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 26 January, 1970 along with your check for $15. I am so glad to learn that Mr. David Loomis has sponsored a center in the University of Maryland, and fifteen students are attending our Bhagavad-gita lectures. Please organize this center nicely and try to attract the student community.	Los Angeles
1970-02-22	Damodaraplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLetter to: Damodara — February 22, 1970 Letter to: Damodara Washington, D.C. My dear Damodara, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 15 February, 1970, along with a check $15.00 for my maintenance account. Thank you very much for it.	Los Angeles
1970-03-24	Damodaraplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLetter to: Damodara — March 24, 1970 Letter to: Damodara My dear Damodara, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 15th March 1970, and thank you very much for the check of $30 contribution to my maintenance and book funds.	Los Angeles
1970-03-30	Damodaraplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLetter to: Damodara — March 30, 1970 Letter to: Damodara My dear Damodara, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 26th March, 1970. I have initiated Denise Clapper as you have advised, and her spiritual name is Dvijapatni. I am sending her beads enclosed herewith. So now train her up nicely in Krsna Consciousness and when you find a nice brahmacari she may be married. That will be very nice. Then after some time she may go with her husband for starting a new center when they are ready. My id…	Los Angeles
1970-05-04	Damodaraplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLetter to: Damodara — May 4, 1970 Letter to: Damodara Bahulasva Berkeley Rshi Kumara New York Satsvarupa Boston Umapati Paris Harer Nama Boulder Subaladas Philadelphia Rupanuga Buffalo Sridama Providence Jaya Gopala Columbus Vamanadeva St. Louis	Los Angeles
1970-07-01	Damodaraplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLetter to: Damodara — July 1, 1970 Letter to: Damodara My dear Damodara, Please accept my blessings. I hope everything is going on well in your center. I am very glad to know that your sales of our literature and books are very good and improving more. It is natural that such distribution of literatures should increase as the people hear more about Krsna Consciousness Movement, so distributions of our books and literatures is our major propaganda program.	Los Angeles
1970-07-01	Damodaraplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLetter to: Damodara — July 1, 1970 Letter to: Damodara My dear Damodara, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 25th June, 1970, and noted the contents. What has happened to Dinesh’s letter to the Embassy? Please see that this permission is granted. It is very important business.	Los Angeles
1970-07-19	Damodaraplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLetter to: Damodara — July 19, 1970 Letter to: Damodara My dear Damodara, Please accept my blessings for yourself and your good wife, Mrganetridevi Dasi. I am in due receipt of your letter dated 13rd July, 197-0, and I am so glad to know that you are now happily married by Subala at a nice ceremony in Philadelphia.	Los Angeles
1970-09-28	Damodaraplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLetter to: Damodara — September 28, 1970 Letter to: Damodara My dear Damodara, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your encouraging letter dated Sept. 19th, 1970. I am so glad to know that things are progressing nicely with your center. That should be our constant care	Calcutta
1970-11-12	Damodaraplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLetter to: Damodara — November 12, 1970 Letter to: Damodara My dear Damodara, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 4th October, 1970 and I’ve noted the contents with much pleasure. I am glad to see that you are working in the universities. They are a good field for spreading our Krishna Consciousness activities. Try and get all our books accepted in the college libraries and classroom courses. That will be our real success. Dr. Cenkner is correct in saying that Sankaracarya	Bombay
1970-11-29	Damodaraplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLetter to: Damodara — November 29, 1970 Letter to: Damodara My dear Damodara, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated November 9th, 1970, and noted the contents. I am very glad to note your careful understanding of Krsna Science. It is a fact that there is no one who can claim to be happy who is not in Krsna	Bombay
1971-01-10	Damodaraplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLetter to: Damodara — January 10, 1971 Letter to: Damodara My dear Damodara, Please accept my blessings. I beg to thank you for your encouraging letter dated 12th December, 1970. I have carefully noted the enclosed photographs as well, and I am so glad to see how you are nicely conducting Sankirtana activities in important places in your nation	Allahabad
1971-03-05	Damodaraplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLetter to: Damodara — March 5, 1971 Letter to: Damodara My dear Damodara, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 8th January, 1971 and have noted the contents. Yes, you may like to know that I shall be returning to the U.S.A. by the first week of April. There are so many devotees who have been recommended for initiations by the temple presidents. So when I return I shall initiate them all. At that time, Nolen Prabhu may also become initiated by me. He certainly sounds qualified. Please offe…	Bombay
1971-04-11	Damodaraplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLetter to: Damodara — April 11, 1971 Letter to: Damodara My dear Damodara, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 11th February, 1971 and have noted the contents. Yes, Washington D.C. is very good location for the site of East coast Rathayatra festival. So go ahead as planned and do it nicely. I do not know whether I shall be present at that time, but if Lord Jagannatha desires, then I shall be there without a doubt. The point is that recently there is contemplation going on for me to go to …	Bombay
1971-07-03	Damodara, Abhiramaplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLetter to: Damodara, Abhirama — July 3, 1971 Letter to: Damodara, Abhirama My dear Damodara and Abhirama, Please accept my blessings. I beg to thank you very much for your letter dated 27th June, 1971 and have noted the contents. Yes, it will be a great event if you can arrange a meeting with President Nixon. If Mr. Nixon keeps a cool head and tries to understand our movement, it will be good for us and the whole world also. Actually the whole world is suffering for want of Krishna Consciousness, that is a fact. So there is great turmoil…	Los Angeles
1971-08-15	Damodara, Patita Pavana, Michael, Tom, Emily, Tosana, Roset, Mrganetri, Gulab, Patrick, othersplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLetter to: Damodara, Patita Pavana, Michael, Tom, Emily, Tosana, Roset, Mrganetri, Gulab, Patrick, others — August 15, 1971 Letter to: Damodara, Patita Pavana, Michael, Tom, Emily, Tosana, Roset, Mrganetri, Gulab, Patrick, others My dear Damodara, Patita Pavana, Michael, Tom, Emily, Tosan, Roset, Mrganetridevi, Gulab, Patrick, etc.	London
1971-09-01	Damodaraplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLetter to: Damodara — September 1, 1971 Letter to: Damodara My dear Damodara, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 28th August, 1971 and have noted the contents carefully. It is good news that Ocean City temple, started by Baltimore and Washington centers as a summer project, has succeeded and even one devotee has come from there also. And BTG distribution is solving all financial difficulties there in Washington. So go on selling them vigorously. Sankirtana and BTG distribution are our backb…	London
1971-10-03	Damodaraplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLetter to: Damodara — October 3, 1971 Letter to: Damodara My dear Damodara, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 21st September, 1971 and have noted the contents. I have seen the copy of the letter from the department of State. So keep on trying, Krishna will help you. One thing is that Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, is expected by the 3rd November in Washington D.C. so try to bring her to our temple and give her a nice feast, so that she can know what ISKCON is doing there in U.S.…	Nairobi, Kenya
1971-12-03	Damodaraplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLetter to: Damodara — December 3, 1971 Letter to: Damodara My dear Damodara, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter of November 25, 1971, and I have noted the contents carefully. Enclosed please find one copy of Gayatri mantra and one sacred thread duly chanted on for your wife, Mrganetri dasi. Hold a fire yajna and give her Gayatri mantra. Rupanuga has a tape of me reciting Gayatri mantra, so you can get this from him. One thing is that the tape should be heard through earphones into the right ear.	Delhi
1972-05-09	Damodaraplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLetter to: Damodara — May 9, 1972 Letter to: Damodara My dear Damodara, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated April 19, 1972, and I have noted the contents. Regarding the high school programmes, this is very good opportunity to introduce our movement and try also to introduce our cheap editions of Krishna Book. Every student will be interested to read it. I think the whole set can be purchased for $2. Some way or other these books should be introduced to the understanding of the mass of …	Honolulu
1972-07-15	Damodaraplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLetter to: Damodara — July 15, 1972 Letter to: Damodara My dear Damodara, Please accept my blessings. I have recently seen a copy of a letter that Karandhara Prabhu has sent to all centers regarding payments of the Back to Godhead and Book Funds dated July 9, 1972. Karandhara has informed me that you are apparently an offender in the connection of being tardy in payments to my BTG and Book Fund. This is not good. We are trying to push on this movement on many fronts, one of the most important being the production and distributio…	London
1972-08-06	Damodaraplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLetter to: Damodara — August 6, 1972 Letter to: Damodara My dear Damodara, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated July 30, 1972 and I have noted the contents carefully. Regarding your debt to the book fun and	London
1973-01-09	Damodaraplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLetter to: Damodara — January 9, 1973 Letter to: Damodara My dear Damodara, Please accept my blessings. Your letter dated December 28, 1972 is in hand and I have noted the contents carefully. Upon your recommendation I am happy to accept the six applicants as my duly initiated disciples, and their letter is enclosed herewith. You may request them to send their beads to Kirtanananda in New Vrndavana for chanting on them on my behalf. I have given that responsibility as it is too costly to send so many beads such great distance by a…	Bombay
1973-07-23	Damodaraplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLetter to: Damodara — July 23, 1973 Letter to: Damodara Dear Damodara, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of you letter dated July 19, 1973 and I have carefully considered the contents. Yes, I have recently received a full report from Rupanuga Maharaja on the activities of the Washington D.C. and especially how you are most enthusiastic about book distribution and that you are fixing to purchase the house. I am very glad that you are taking so seriously your duty as president of our D.C. center, so certain…	Letchmore Heath
1973-11-25	Damodaraplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLetter to: Damodara — November 25, 1973 Letter to: Damodara My dear Damodara Das Prabhu, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated Oct. 31, 1973, and I have acknowledge its contents carefully. I have also received the new copy in which you have enclosed; it is very nice.	Letchmore Heath
1974-01-16	Damodaraplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLetter to: Damodara — January 16, 1974 Letter to: Damodara My dear Damodara, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated January 3, 1974. I have accepted as my disciples, those devotees recommended by you, and their spiritual names are as follows:	Honolulu
1974-03-23	Damodaraplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLetter to: Damodara — March 23, 1974 Letter to: Damodara Dear Damodara, Please accept my blessings. I have accepted the devotee recommended by you for first initiation and his spiritual name is as follows: Douglas Duty,...Dandi dasa His beads may be chanted on by Rupanuga Maharaja. Please hold a fire yajna and speak to him on the ten offenses against chanting. Personally see that he is chanting at least 16 rounds daily, without fail. By your own example you have to keep all the devotees enthusiastic and that is done by strict a…	Bombay
1974-06-08	Damodaraplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLetter to: Damodara — June 8, 1974 Letter to: Damodara Washington, DC My dear Damodara, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter of June 5, 1974. I have asked you to stop the political program because actually you cannot organize as the others can. We cannot manage with separate money, separate brains from our regular ISKCON propagation. It is not so easy to do politics, moreover it is a filthy atmosphere. So do not indulge in it. I am glad to hear all the participants have stopped. So you convey to them…	Paris
1974-11-26	Damodaraplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLetter to: Damodara — November 26, 1974 Letter to: Damodara My dear Damodara das: Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated November 12, 1974 with enclosed photograph. The photo is nice. Thank you. Yes, it is all right that you retire from the president post to do preaching. You are one of the elder students, so you should be careful to always set good example for the others. Maya is undoubtedly very strong, and we have to be very vigilant like soldiers in a fortress. We should not let maya enter into our …	Bombay
1975-05-26	Damodaraplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLetter to: Damodara — May 26, 1975 Letter to: Damodara My dear Damodara dasa, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated May 9th, 1975, and have noted the contents. Regarding your writing, this is very much wanted, but I think that it is better if you write articles, not books. Write articles that can be printed in our Back to Godhead magazine. That will be very nice. Also, be very sure that you always maintain a high spiritual standard by following all of the rules and regulations very carefully. Chan…	Honolulu

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