# July 12 ## Spoken on July 12 *Lectures from this day: 16 recordings* --- **[1968: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.9.10](spoken/1968/680712sb.mon)** > Prahlāda Mahārāja, you'll find in his prayer, he'll say to the Lord Nṛsiṁha-deva, "My dear Lord," *naivodvije para duratyaya-vaitaraṇyās*, "this world is full of anxieties. That I know. And it is full of miserable condition. But I am not afraid. I am not afraid." Why you are not afraid? *Tvad-vīrya-gāyana-mahāmṛta-magna-cittaḥ* : "Because I have taken to chanting of Your glorious activities. So when I chant Your glorious activities or Your glories, I become merged into the ocean of nectar. Therefore these worldly anxieties or miseries does not..., do not disturb me. I am quite safe." > Why they're endeavoring? Because Kṛṣṇa wants it. Kṛṣṇa wants it. God wants it. Why God wants it? Because we are all sons of God. We have gone to dog. Instead of going to God, we have gone to dog. Therefore God is very anxious to reclaim us. He comes therefore in person, Kṛṣṇa. He sends His son, Lord Jesus Christ, or He sends His devotee. He leaves behind Him the books like *Bhagavad-gītā* or *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam* or many other such literatures. Why? To reclaim these obstinate, bewildered sons of God. They have forgotten God, and they are, instead of loving God, they are now loving dog. Therefore God is very anxious. --- **[1969: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam Lecture](spoken/1969/690712sb.la)** > That is natural instinct. Especially I see in your country that people are so restless, they cannot stay in one place. Sometimes they go from this place to that place, this apartment to that apartment, this country to that country, that country... That restlessness is there because we are searching after that eternal happiness, and we are restless. We are trying to find out in one place, and when it is finished we try to go to another place. But if I change this place or that place, that is not eternal life. The eternal life is with Kṛṣṇa. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says, *yad gatvā na nivartante tad dhāma paramaṁ mama .* > Simply try to understand Kṛṣṇa, how He appears, how He disappears, what is His constitutional position, what is my constitutional position, what is the relationship with Kṛṣṇa, how to live. Everything. Simply if you understand these things, Kṛṣṇa says, *janma karma me divyaṁ yo jānāti tattvataḥ... Tattvataḥ* means reality, scientifically; not by whims or sentiments or fanaticism. No. Everything Kṛṣṇa consciousness is everything scientific, solid scientific. It is not bogus. It is not imagination. --- **[1971: Lecture](spoken/1971/710712le.la)** > The other philosopher, impersonalist, they say that *brahma satyaṁ jagan mithyā:* this material combination is false. Behind this material combination there is spirit. That is also a fact, because matter grows on the platform of spirit. Just like this child is growing. Why? Because the spirit soul is there. If a dead child is born it will not grow; it will stop growing. If you keep a dead child in a very nice place by chemical preservative, it will not grow, because the spirit is not there. Therefore it is a proof that matter grows on the basis of spirit. > So this Kṛṣṇa consciousness process is that we accept our position as drop in comparison with the infinite. We are small. God is great and you are small. So our position is to serve the great. That is natural. Anywhere you find the smaller is serving the greater. And because God is great, He is greater than anything else, *asamaurdhva*. There is nothing greater than God or nothing equal to God. Therefore everyone is smaller than God, and his constitutional position is to serve God. That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That is our constitutional position. --- **[1972: Lecture](spoken/1972/720712le.lon)** > So we find in the *Bhagavad-gītā,* Kṛṣṇa says, *sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja*. This is real *dharma.* Kṛṣṇa says in the beginning of *Bhagavad-gītā, dharma-saṁsthāpanārthāya sambhavāmi yuge yuge:* "I descend in different millenniums," *yuge yuge,* "for establishing the real *dharma,* real religion." > So *Bhāgavata* says, *dharmaḥ projjhita-kaitavo 'tra*. Dharma,* the so-called religion, *kaitava,* which is cheating. *Kaitava* means cheating. *Dharmaḥ projjhita. Projjhita* means *prakṛṣṭa-rūpeṇa ujjhita:* thrown away, kicked away. *Dharmaḥ projjhita-kaitavo 'tra paramo nirmatsarāṇāṁ satām.* So there are different kinds of *dharmas,* faith. But what is real *dharma,* real religion? Real religion is, as described in the *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, dharmaṁ tu sākṣād bhagavat-praṇītam*. Real religion is the codes which is given by God. --- **[1973: Bhagavad-gītā 1.8–10](spoken/1973/730712bg.lon)** > Although they were *kṣatriyas,* still... *Kṣatriyas* are meant for representing the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Actually, Kṛṣṇa is the proprietor. *Sarva-loka-maheśvaram. Sarva-loka-maheśvaram, suhṛdaṁ sarva-bhūtānāṁ jñātvā māṁ śāntim ṛcchati*. So He is the proprietor. *Sarva-loka. Sarva-loka* means all the planets, all the universes. Because they are created by Kṛṣṇa, by Kṛṣṇa's bodily effulgence, *brahma-jyoti.* So they are created by Kṛṣṇa's... Just like from the sunshine these planets are created, similarly from *brahma-jyoti,* innumerable universes are created. > So actually, either in this material world or in the spiritual world, all planets, Vaikuṇṭha planets or *kuṇṭha* planets... Here in this material world, *kuṇṭha* planets. *Kuṇṭha* means anxiety. Here, in any planet you go, the anxiety will be there. This is material. *Sadā samudvigna-dhiyām asad-grahāt*. Why anxiety? Because we have accepted something *asat,* which will not stay. But we are eternal. We want to stay. Our natural position is eternity, so we don't want this temporary body. Therefore we try to save the body as much as possible. But it will not be saved, because we have accepted something nonsense, which is not compatible with our existence. --- **[1973: Room Conversation with David Lawrence](spoken/1973/730712r1.lon)** > Anyone who is claiming to be superior, he should be responsible for the inferior's spiritual advancement of life. So the conclusion is that they should not claim to become such and such unless they are able to save the subordinate from the imminent danger of death. Because death is there so long one is not spiritually advanced. As soon as one is spiritually advanced, he goes to the spiritual world, transferred. *Mad-yājino 'pi yānti mām*. >really produce those. "It's hoped to market the thirty-page booklets for about thirty pence. The publisher, Marshall's Educational, is a long-established publishing house, which is Marshall, Morgan and Scott, specialized in theological and devotional books. They are now turning their attention to the production of much-needed religious education books. --- **[1973: Room Conversation with Two Buddhist Monks](spoken/1973/730712r2.lon)** > Here an ant's life may be for few hours, and my life may be for few years. So it is a question of hours and years, but one has to die. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says, *ābrahma-bhuvanāl lokāḥ punar āvartino 'rjuna* : "Even if you go to the Brahmaloka, the topmost planet, there also, you'll have to die and again accept another body." This will go on. *Mad-dhāma gatvā, punar janma na vidyate* [Gītā-māhātmya* 5]. "But if you come to Me, then you don't come back to accept a material body again." > Now, how it is fact, that is a subject matter of discussion. Say, Kṛṣṇa says that *sarva-loka-maheśvaram*, "I am the proprietor of all the *lokas.*" And now you study this fact. Who is the proprietor? We are claiming proprietor, nation. Englishmen, they are claiming, "This land belongs to the English people." Others claiming, "This land belongs to the American," "Indian," like that. But are they actually the proprietor? Take for example the American land. Two hundred years ago, or, say...? How many years ago they won it? --- **[1974: Chanting Cc Ādi-līlā 12th Chapter, Verses 1–96](spoken/1974/740712ch.la)** > TEXT 1 advaitāṅghry-abja-bhṛṅgāṁs tān sārāsāra-bhṛto 'khilān > hitvāsārān sāra-bhṛto > naumi caitanya-jīvanān The followers of Śrī Advaita Prabhu were of two kinds. Some were real followers, and the others were false. Rejecting the false followers, I offer my respectful obeisances to the real followers of Śrī Advaita Ācārya whose life and soul were Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. --- **[1974: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.16.22](spoken/1974/740712sb.la)** > There is no other alternative. Simply chant Hare Kṛṣṇa *mantra.* Everything will be reformed. Life will be polished, and everything will be successful. This is *ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanam*. Human being, he is also a soul. Animal is also a soul. Everyone. But the human form of life is meant for God realization, *athāto brahma-jijñāsā.* This is *Vedānta-sūtra. Jīvasya tattva-jijñāsā*. Not only human being, everyone. But everyone less than human being, they cannot inquire about the Absolute Truth: "What is the aim of life? What is the Absolute Truth? What I am? What is my relationship?" These things are the subject matter for discussion in the human form of life. > Because the difficulty is they do not know what is the aim of life. The aim of life, that we are conditioned by this material nature, embodied by the material elements, and that is the cause of our all miserable condition of life. Therefore Ṛṣabhadeva says, *nūnaṁ pramattaḥ kurute vikarma*. Pramattaḥ.* We are so mad under the bodily... Everyone is under the... Big, big scientists also, they are also. They don't believe there is soul, big, big scientists, politicians, philosophers. *Yasyātma-buddhiḥ kuṇape tri-dhātuke*. --- **[1975: Morning Walk](spoken/1975/750712mw.phi)** > If the child says to another man, "Father said, 'This is this,' " then he is perfect. He has learned from the father, and the father is perfect, then whatever he says, it is perfect. Why should he take so much botheration? So our process is that, that we become *guru* not like that rascal Guru-ji. No. We speak whatever Kṛṣṇa has spoken. That's all. Of course, we try to impress upon you with your reason, logic, but we shall speak the same thing, not anything else. Kṛṣṇa says, "I am supreme"; we say, "Kṛṣṇa is supreme." That's all. Where is the botheration? I haven't got to find out by my logic and induction whether Kṛṣṇa is supreme. That I have already done. So Kṛṣṇa is supreme. There is no doubt about it. Now, whatever Kṛṣṇa says, it is all right. That's all. > Now, those who built up this nation, where they have gone, nobody can say. Because after this body is fallen, where he is being carried, nobody knows. He is carried by his work, fruitive activities. Therefore they do not believe next life. Finished. [break]...gentleman, he was very well known, brother of Rabindranath Tagore. Rabindranath Tagore was poet, and he was artist, Abanindranath Tagore. In our childhood, in a meeting, he said that "Why should we bother about the next life? Let us enjoy this life." I remember that. Most people think like that. Cārvāka Muni advised like that. *Ṛṇaṁ kṛtvā ghṛtaṁ pibet.* "Just enjoy life." "I have no money to enjoy." "Beg, borrow or steal. Bring money. Purchase *ghee.*" [laughs] "I will have to pay." "Ah! Why do you think like that?" "Then next life I suffer." "Don't think like that. Your body will be finished. Who is coming here again?" What is that tower? --- **[1975: Ratha-yātrā](spoken/1975/750712ry.phi)** > So we living entity, we desire. "Man proposes; God disposes." God is very kind. Whatever you desire, He will fulfill. Although He says that "This kind of material desires will never satisfy you," but we want. Therefore God supplies us, Kṛṣṇa, different types of body to fulfill our different desires. This is called material, conditional life. This body, change of body according to desire, is called evolutionary process. By evolution we come to the human form of body through many other millions bodies. *Jalajā nava-lakṣāṇi sthāvarā lakṣa-viṁśati* [*Padma Purāṇa*]. We pass through 900,000 species of form in the water. Similarly, two million forms as plants, trees. In this way, by nature's way, nature brings us into this human form of life just to develop, or awaken, our consciousness. Nature gives us the chance, "Now what do you want to do? Now you have got developed consciousness. Now you again want to go to the evolutionary process, or you want to go to the higher planetary system, or you want to go to God, Kṛṣṇa, or you want to remain here?" These options are there. > Now make your selection. If you want to go to the higher planetary system, you can go. If you want to remain here, in the middle planetary system, you can do so. And if you want to go to the lower planetary system, that you can do. And if you want to go to God, Kṛṣṇa, that also you can do. It is up to your option. Therefore, what is the difference between this material world, maybe in the higher planetary system or in the lower planetary system, and what is the spiritual world? The spiritual world means there is no material consumption. Everything is spirit, as I told you. The trees, the flowers, the fruits, the water, the animals—everything is spiritual. So there is no annihilation. It is eternal. So if you want to go to that spiritual world, then you can have this opportunity now in this human form of life, and if you want to remain in this material world, you can do so. --- **[1975: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.1.26–27](spoken/1975/750712sb.phi)** > Kṛṣṇa says that this place is *duḥkhālayam aśāśvatam*. This material world, where we are now living under different change of body one after another, it is *duḥkhālayam.* Why I have to change my body? Why not... I am permanent. *Na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre*. Therefore we have to learn, we have to be educated, we have to receive knowledge from the perfect. And Kṛṣṇa personally, the Supreme Perfect Person, is giving you knowledge. And if we are so unfortunate that we do not take the perfect knowledge—we concoct, we speculate, we create our own idea—then it is to be understood that *durāśayā.* We are thinking, "I shall be happy in this way. I shall be happy in this..." Nothing. You shall never be happy—this is perfect instruction—unless you go back to home, back to Godhead. Just like a mad boy, he has forsaken his father. His father is rich man, everything is there, but he has become hippie. So similarly, we are also like that. Our father is Kṛṣṇa. We can live there very comfortably, without any botheration, without endeavor for earning money, but we have decided that we shall live here in this material world. This is called ass. This is the... Therefore *mūḍhā.* > But we do not know that. *Na te viduḥ svārtha-gatiṁ hi viṣṇum*. We are in this conditioned state of life because we are separated from our original person, Kṛṣṇa. Because we are part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa. We have forgotten this. We are thinking we are part and parcel of America or India. This is called illusion. They are interested... Somebody is interested in his country; somebody is interested in his society or family. We have created so many things, duty. Therefore *śāstra* says that "These rascals do not know what is his actual self-interest." *Na te viduḥ svārtha-gatiṁ hi viṣṇuṁ durāśayā.* He is hoping something which will never be fulfilled. Therefore he is rascal. We are trying to adjust things within this material world to become happy, but the rascal does not know that so long he will remain in this material world, there is no question of happiness. That is rascaldom. --- **[1976: Comments on Bhagavad-gītā Play](spoken/1976/760712bg.ny)** > These dull-headed conditioned souls, they do not know their real self-interest, being influenced by *māyā. Māyā* is also Kṛṣṇa's energy, so it is her duty to punish the conditioned soul because they have decided to forget Kṛṣṇa. Still, Kṛṣṇa is so merciful, He comes personally, He authorizes His devotee, servant, to enlighten these conditioned souls. Now our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is an humble attempt to raise the standard of these conditioned souls to Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Those who are engaged in this business, they should personally behave as devotee, and by their example they should teach others and elevate them from this gross ignorance of materialistic life. Thank you very much. > They are trying to adjust things by the arrangement of external energy. That is not possible. Whatever adjustment they are making, so many big, big leaders, politicians, they came, Napoleon, Hitler, Gandhi, this, that. By the waves of material nature everything is driven away. In that way there is no possibility of adjustment. It is not... *Kata caturānana mari mari yāota*. [Vaiṣṇava-poet Vidyāpati, *Prārthanā, s*tanza 4] How many, *caturānana. Caturānana* means Brahmā. They come and go, come and go. And there is no permanent life; it is all *asat.* So they should come to the *sat* platform, that is perfect. The more you remain strong in your spiritual life, then more it will be impressed, it will act. And if it actually is not spiritual life but theatrical performance, then it will not help. --- **[1976: Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.106](spoken/1976/760712cc.ny)** > Kṛṣṇa gives him real knowledge. Therefore *guru-kṛṣṇa kṛpāya pāya bhakti-latā-bīja*. So he becomes more and more inquisitive to understand what is *sad-dharma.* So *sad-dharmasyāvabodhāya.* If one is actually serious, *nirbandhinī matiḥ...Nirbandhinī matiḥ* means with firm conviction that "In this life I shall be fully Kṛṣṇa conscious, I shall understand fully Kṛṣṇa." In this way if we have got firm determination, then Kṛṣṇa will help. That is, Caitanya Mahāprabhu said, *sidhyaty eṣām abhīpsitaḥ.* If one is actually eager to understand his position and his goal of life, then Kṛṣṇa will help. We require determination. That is wanted. *Laulyam ekaṁ mūlyam.* [*Padyāvalī* 14] *Laulyam,* to advance in spiritual consciousness, or Kṛṣṇa consciousness, the value is only strong eagerness, *laulyam,* that "I must finish this business in this life to understand Kṛṣṇa." There are many *śāstric* references. *Buddhi-yogaṁ dadāmi taṁ yena mām upayānti te.* Simply we should be very seriously eager. Then very soon, *acirād eva sidhyaty abhīpsitaḥ,* immediately... If not immediately... We should patiently. Simply we should be very, very eager. *Tatra laulyam ekaṁ mūlyam. Laulyam* means very greediness or... We can say, "How I shall approach Kṛṣṇa?" This greediness required, not greediness for sense gratification. Then we shall be implicated more and more. > So that is *sat. Sat* means eternal. And so according to reference with *sat* and *asat,* there are two kinds of *dharma.* I... Several places in my books I have described, *dharma* means occupational duty, occupational duty. So if we are on the platform of *asad-dharma,* just like on the conception of this body... This is *asad-dharma.* Everyone knows the body will not exist; therefore it is *asat.* So any *dharma* or any occupational duty with reference to this nonpermanent body, that is *asad-dharma. Asad-dharma.* Whatever our occupational duties are now going on in this big city of New York... What is their occupational duty? The duty... Everyone is going to the office early in the morning. They have got... Everyone has got duty, but that duty—*asad-dharma.* Body will not exist; therefore anything done on account of the body, that is *asad-dharma.* That is not real *dharma.* Real *dharma* is when you come to the platform of *sat.* That *sat* we have to understand, what is *sat* and what is *asat. Asat:* nonpermanent. Everyone will know that this body is not permanent. And *sat*? That is stated in the *Bhagavad-gītā.* You have to learn it. *Na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre*. The body is *asat,* it will be destroyed, but the soul, which will never be destroyed... *Na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre. Nityaḥ śāśvato 'yaṁ na hanyate... Na jāyate mriyate vā kadācit.* That soul is never born, never dies, *kadācit,* at any time. Not that sometimes it dies and sometimes... No. Any time, *kadācit.* --- **[1976: Morning Walk](spoken/1976/760712mw.ny)** > So my energies should be utilized only for Kṛṣṇa consciousness. This is civilization. And whole life, day and night, they are trying for material happiness, and that is not happening. The problems are increasing. No intelligence. *Mūḍha. Mūḍho nābhijānāti mām ebhyaḥ param avyayam*. They admit, the scientists, they admit that they are in ignorance. Simply bluff. Again one bluff, that Mars-going expedition. The business is going on in the Arizona, that's all. And after few years they will present some stone, "Now we went to Mars. There is no possibility of living there. Take this stone and sand and be satisfied for your millions of dollars that you have spent..." And they will say, "Oh, we have made scientific progress. I have got this stone from Mars." *Yo kuttāko baḍalāṭa goli kiyā uskā teṅgri lāyā*. There is a song in Bengal that formerly anything European, *sāheb,* that is good. So one person is selling meat, flesh of dog. Flesh of dog nobody takes, at least in India. So he said that "This is not ordinary dog. This is the dog which was killed by Viceroy, that dog. And because Viceroy killed it, therefore it has become nice dog. You can eat it." So anything these so-called scientists said, that is to be accepted. Without any common sense. This is your intelligence. But I am fool Indian, I don't believe it. [laughter] I immediately capture the point, why this rascal is talking of Arizona? That means the whole business is going on in Arizona. > [speaks gibberish:] *Aparkulasvenavargolajagundakuligondoliojalīlāvale...* [laughter] You can talk like that, but what is the meaning of it? That intelligence they have got, to manufacture... I know, I was in the medical business. So any petty medicine, and you employ a medical man, and he'll present it in such a scientific way that people will think that it is very important thing. I know it well. In Bose's laboratory we used to do that. [gibberish:] *Aparkulavenavargolajdgunda...* This is... Simply soda bicarb and little this and that. So the modern world means how to befool persons, that's all. Not to enlighten them, but to keep them in ignorance and befool them more and more. And they like it. Under the influence of *māyā* they like to be cheated. [sounds of fire engines] Now just see, the whole night there is blazing fire, and they are thinking they are happy. And if we sing *saṁsāra-dāvānala-līḍha-loka,* "the material world is blazing fire," that is sentiment. And this is not practical. Whole day and night, simply fire, disturbing. Such a big, important city, and they are disturbing always twenty-four hours, *gon-gon-gon-gon-gon-gon-gon.* They are so expert that this ordinary fire they can control. Another side is that nobody wants this fire, and why it is coming? *Yathā duḥkha...* Prahlāda Mahārāja, long, long years ago: *yathā duḥkham ayatnataḥ*. As this fire business is coming without my endeavor, similarly, the other part—distress; this is distress—other part, happiness, also will come. Why shall I endeavor for it? --- ## Letters on July 12 *Letters from this day: 21* --- **[1947: Letter to: Mahatma Gandhi — July 12, 1947](letters/1947-1965/470712_mahatma_gandhi)** > I tell you as a sincere friend that you must immediately retire from active politics if you do not desire to die an inglorious death. You have 125 years to live as you have desired to live but you if you die an inglorious death it is no worth. --- **[1967: Letter to Sripad Narayana Maharaja](letters/1967/670712_sripad_narayana_maharaja)** > We must always remember that we are members of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's family, and our differences should not be for material gain but for the service of Sri Krishna Caitanya Mahaprabhu. --- **[1968: Letter to Cidananda](letters/1968/680712_cidananda)** > Regarding some of your questions: Your question was, "I understand that we are not this body, mind, intelligence or ego, but are pure consciousness or pure spirit soul. This consciousness has been polluted by association with matter. --- **[1968: Letter to Jayananda](letters/1968/680712_jayananda)** > I have heard about your successful execution of Rathayatra festival in San Francisco from so many sources. --- **[1968: Letter to Satsvarupa](letters/1968/680712_satsvarupa)** > I understand that you are trying to organize a Brahmacarini asrama. A Brahmacarini asrama is certainly a great necessity because there are so many girl devotees who are attached to our Krishna Consciousness movement. --- **[1969: Letter to Carl Lange](letters/1969/690712_carl_lange)** > I am glad to learn that you are coming to San Francisco for the Rathayatra Ceremony, and I am so much obliged to you for contributing each month for the book fund. --- **[1969: Letter to Hayagriva](letters/1969/690712_hayagriva)** > Regarding articles for BTG, I have already issued instructions to all centers requesting my disciples to send articles every month, and I am going to repeat it again for the second time. --- **[1969: Letter to Jaya Gopala](letters/1969/690712_jaya_gopala)** > For the time being you should go on with your work there. I shall consult with Tamala Krishna, and if possible I shall try to send devotees there to help you. In the meantime you should continue going out on Sankirtana as much as possible and preach to the many boys and girls with whom you come into contact there. --- **[1969: Letter to Manager Of The Punjab National Bank](letters/1969/690712_manager_of_the_punjab_national_bank)** > Manager The Punjab National Bank INDIA On June 18, 1969 I have sent you a draft for $112.65, and on June 17, 1969 I have sent you a letter. --- **[1969: Letter to Vamanadeva](letters/1969/690712_vamanadeva)** > You also write to say that you have a good job that will further train you in carpentry skills, so do this nicely. --- **[1970: Letter to Candanacarya](letters/1970/700712_candanacarya)** > So I think you tried to get yourself married sometimes before and now Krsna has given you one very good wife. You are intelligent boy, hard worker and devotee of Krsna and your wife is very fine girl and sincere devotee also, so you both, husband and wife, combined together work for your mutual advancement in Krsna consciousness. --- **[1970: Letter to Jayadvaita](letters/1970/700712_jayadvaita)** > "So in the beginning of the creation, first of all there were the four unmarried sons of Brahma (Kumaras) and they underwent severe austerities being situated in avowed celibacy for realization of the Absolute Truth." Regarding your second point, all incarnations should be proper nouns and therefore capitalized. --- **[1970: Letter to Vrndavana Candra](letters/1970/700712_vrndavana_candra)** > I am so pleased to learn that your center is attracting so many persons some of whom are sincere. If you are sincere in your service of preaching our Krsna consciousness philosophy, other sincere souls will come. Our process is for manufacturing sincere souls. --- **[1971: Letter to Govinda](letters/1971/710712_govinda)** > You are so kind and I am always thinking how nice devotees are you and your husband. --- **[1972: Letter to Giriraja](letters/1972/720712_giriraja)** > Now one thing is, she wants us to come to her school and give classes in Krishna Consciousness, so you go there with others as often as possible and give instruction to the children, bring them to our temple, distribute prasadam, like that. More and more, she will become favorably disposed as she sees us that we are performing the best welfare activity. --- **[1972: Letter to Jaya Gopala Suniti](letters/1972/720712_jaya_gopala_suniti)** > I am very much anxious to know what is your condition, and how you are recovering. --- **[1975: Letter to Ameyatma](letters/1975/750712_ameyatma)** > Thank you for your nice sentiments. Yes, this is the proper for you to satisfy your spiritual master. It is stated: yasya prasada bhagavata prasada. By the mercy of Krsna one gets the mercy of Krsna. --- **[1975: Letter to Bhumata](letters/1975/750712_bhumata)** > Regarding sending money to Mayapur, you can transfer money through your bank by wire in favor of International Society for Krishna Consciousness, American Express Bank, Calcutta, India, Account No. --- **[1975: Letter to Carlos Bismark](letters/1975/750712_carlos_bismark)** > It is very good to hear from you and that you are chanting and trying to follow my instructions, even though you are so far distant from any of our centers. --- **[1975: Letter to Mrdapriya](letters/1975/750712_mrdapriya)** > You should not feel that it is impossible for you to surrender to Krsna or that you are not a devotee. --- **[1975: Letter to Ramesvara](letters/1975/750712_ramesvara)** > 6-12/410 on National City Bank, Cleveland for Dollars 300.00. Please transfer this money to Syndicate Bank, Vrindaban Branch, account No. ---