Spoken February 5
Bg 16.9 Lecture
Sannyāsa Initiation of Viraha Prakāśa Swami
Śāstrījī: [chants mantras for fire sacrifice; devotees loudly chanting japa] [break] Prabhupāda: ...śrī-viṣṇu [devotees repeat], śrī-viṣṇu [devotees repeat]. Now go on. Sannyāsita.[?] You chant this Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Hrdayananda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:Prabhupāda:Devotees:Prabhupāda:Devotee:Prabhupāda:Devotees:Prabhupāda:Devotee:
Morning Walk
Prabhupāda: ...kinds of rascals. Hṛdayānanda: One theory is that there has always..., the material nature has always existed. It was never created, and it will never be annihilated, and there is no other cause. It’s simply an eternal fact. Prabhupāda: But how always existed? Nothing here ever existsHṛdayānanda:Prabhupāda:Hṛdayānanda:Prabhupāda:Indian man:Prabhupāda:Harikeśa:Prabhupāda:Hṛdayānanda:Prabhupāda:Hṛdayānanda:Prabhupāda:Hṛdayānanda:Prabhupāda:Hṛdayānanda:Harikeśa:Prabhu…
Car Conversation
Jayapatākā: ...and you do little work and get more money. You can buy radio and tape recorder. And working in the field, that is not noble. Prabhupāda: Just see how foolish leaders. In the field there is food. They will not work for the food. [break] Jayapatākā: Prabhupāda:Jayapatākā:Prabhupāda:Jayapatākā:Devotee:
Letters February 5
Brahmananda My dear Brahmananda, Please accept my blessings. I thank you very much for your kind letter dated February 1, 1969, and, in the meantime, my letters to you dated January 30, 1969 and February 1, 1969 respectively might have crossed. Most of the answers of your letter under reply will be found in these two letters. Please let me know if you have received them by now. If not, I will send...
London My dear Colin Jury, I thank you for your letter which was sent along with Yamuna’s. I am pleased to hear that you are anxious to meet me, and I will be pleased to meet you when I go there. But first there must be a nice house secured. Our society is now legalized in London, so there should be no difficulty in securing a house immediately. Please help the devotees there to do this. I am simply...
Gargamuni My dear Gargamuni, Please accept my blessings. After a long time, I beg to thank you for your letter dated 31, January, 1969 from the Spiritual Sky store. You have given a very nice name. At least you are giving ideas to the people in general that there is a Spiritual Sky, and they will get information sufficiently Spiritual Sky, the planets thereof, the inhabitants of these planets, etc.,...
Gurudasa London My dear Gurudasa, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter of January 29, 1969, and I am so glad to learn that you have permission to have kirtana all the time on the streets and parks. You have written that you are missing me, and similarly, I am sitting here anxious to meet you as soon as possible. In previous letters of Syamasundara it was understood that...
Hanuman Prasad Poddar Gita Press Gorakhpur My dear Bhaiji Hanuman Prasad Poddar, Please accept my obeisances. I hope by this time you have received my acknowledgement dated yesterday for your letter dated 26 January, 1970. As you want to publish a comprehensive article my activities in the(SB 2.4.18)
Toronto My dear Jagadisa, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your report of January 28, 1972, and I am very pleased to hear that you are putting your full energy into distributing books and magazines very widely all over Canada. It is not so much the numbers of books sold, it is the sincerity which Krishna appreciates, and I am encouraged by your determined enthusiasm to...
London My dear Kisora das, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated December 30, 1971, and I have appreciated very much the sentiments therein. I can understand that you are learning our philosophy very nicely, so if you become very convinced in this way, and if you preach very vigorously in Scotland, then I think Krishna will give you every opportunity to establish...
Brooklyn My dear Saradia dasi, Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of January 26, 1972, and I am very upset to learn the news of that incident in Trinidad. Yes, you are right to stay away from such a place, and there is no harm if husband and wife live separately for some time. I do not know if there is good possibility in Trinidad for preaching. If, as you say,...
Hyderabad My dear Baja Panalalji, Please accept my blessings. I thank you for your letter dated December 28, 1973 regarding a change of plan. I understand from different sources that you want to construct the Temple portion by your choice, so I accept the plan submitted by you in place of the original plan.
Mahamsa Hyderabad My dear Mahamsa Swami, Please accept my blessings. I beg to thank you for your letter dated December 26th, 1973. I have come back from Europe and America on tour and am now in New Delhi. I have seen both plans. After taking into consideration all of the points in all of your letters, the points in Sri Raja Sahib Panalalji
Governor of Uttar Pradesh Raj Bhavan, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh INDIA. 51 Coelho Way, Honolulu, Hawaii Personal. My dear Dr. Channa Reddy, Please accept the blessings of Lord Krishna. In further reference to your letter dated Jan. 15th, 1975 (the copy of which I have just received yesterday along with the copy of the letter you have written to the Chief Minister of Maharashtra), I have noted the...
Gurudasa Vrindaban Dear Gurudasa Maharaja, Please accept my blessings. I have received your letter of January 28, and studied the contents. Your suggestion that the devotees visiting Vrindaban engage in preaching and chanting and not in gossiping is very good. I have instructed that this be taken to the GBC and implanted. We have sacrificed our life for Krsna