A Month in the Life of Srila Prabhupada - December 1976

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These statements from the Months in the Life of Srila Prabhupada offer unparalleled insights into his devotional character; his vision to re-spiritualize human society; his dedication to translate, publish & distribute his books; his expertise to tirelessly lead & manage his worldwide movement; his empowered ability to encourage, care for, train & clearly communicate the disciplines he expects from all his disciples as he engages them in their pursuit of Krsna consciousness & performance of missionary activities. Through all these situations one can also experience how Srila Prahhupada consistently represents the pure teachings of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu and His associates.


Dec 1 - Delhi

Dec 2 to 17 - Hyderabad

1976 - December 02

Letter to Brahmananda written from Hyderabad

vanipedia.org 		One may remain perpetually illiterate, but if one practices the devotional service activities, he will become a devotee. That's all, train them up to become devotees. How to play mrdanga, how to play karatalas, take prasadam, attend arati, etc. They'll never understand the books.
Letter to Krsna Kanti written from Hyderabad

vanipedia.org 		The music is nice for the nondevotee class of men. However, the picture on the album cover is not nice. Why this crazy picture? This will not help our cause. They will not be able to understand. They will think it is change of body, not of heart. We have got so many nice pictures of Krsna.
Letter to Mr. Karsan written from Hyderabad

vanipedia.org 		It is an open secret, anyone who helps spread Krsna consciousness becomes very dear to Krsna. Others are simply wasting time in the valuable human form of life.
Letter to Ramesvara written from Hyderabad

vanipedia.org 		If they are giving us trouble to distribute at the airports, then go to the courts. What can be done? We already have favorable decisions from some courts. We are doing something good for the whole world. Present the scholars' opinions. They have the power, we are powerless. What can be done? Depend on Krishna.
Letter to Vrikodara written from Hyderabad

vanipedia.org 		Upon your recommendation I will accept the devotees you have recommended as my duly initiated disciples. Now hold a fire sacrifice. Instruct them on the offenses to be avoided while chanting the Holy Names. They must promise to always chant a minimum of 16 rounds and strictly follow the four regulative principles. Balavanta may chant on their beads. Their new names are; Victor—Vedanta Krt dasa, Albert—Ananda dasa, Paul—Paramatma dasa.


1976 - December 03

Conversation - Hyderabad

vanipedia.org 		If there is proper rainfall, then you get sufficient food grains; not only food grains, other things also. Sarva-dugha mahi, sarva-kama-dugha mahi (SB 1.10.4). From the earth you can get all the necessities of life. Actually you are getting food grains, minerals, trees, fruits, flowers, everything from the earth.


1976 - December 04

Morning Walk - Hyderabad

vanipedia.org 		Prabhupāda: Arabians come here, I know.
Vāsughoṣa: In Bombay also, all the big hotels are filled with Arabians.
Prabhupāda: Ācchā?
Devotee (1): This Taj and Oberoi, so many are there.
Prabhupāda: India has good income from Arabian tourist.
Lecture and Conversation Hindi - Hyderabad

vanipedia.org 		Can Krishna be as per the imagination of someone? This is going on. Each person is imagining on his own, imagine God. Is the Lord subject to somebody’s imagination? Then how can He be the Lord? And the big big swamis says that whatever you have imagined is all correct. And the Lord says mudha, an ass.
Letter to Jayapataka written from Hyderabad

vanipedia.org 		Regarding the Narayana Kavaca mantra, the Hare Krsna mantra is everything. But, I think that you are working too hard. Your illness is the result of too hard work.


1976 - December 05

Morning Walk - Hyderabad

vanipedia.org 		They do not know what is their interest. Na te viduḥ svārtha-gatiṁ hi viṣṇum (SB 7.5.31). If you keep the stomach empty and try to supply food to the eyes and legs, it is simply waste of time. But these rascals, they do not know. They will go on committing mistakes after mistakes. This is the position. We are giving the real knowledge, that "You serve in this way. Then everyone will be pleased."
Conversation - Hyderabad

vanipedia.org 		One who is not in awareness of the laws of nature, they commit this mistake. We can say that pouring water on the leaves is also pouring water on the tree—by serving human being you can serve the Supreme Lord. But that is not the way.
Letter to Giriraja written from Hyderabad

vanipedia.org 		The program as outlined by you is accepted. I am preparing now for the meeting with Vinobhaji as you have suggested.


1976 - December 07

Morning Walk - Hyderabad

vanipedia.org 		Everyone is incarnation. You are also. Mamaivāṁśo jīva-bhūtaḥ (BG 15.7). You have not read Bhagavad-gītā? Any living entity is part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa. Just like this child is the part and parcel of his father, you are part and parcel of your father, similarly, every one of us, we are part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa.
Conversation - Hyderabad

vanipedia.org 		You say, "They mistake." Who are "they"? You say you do mistake. Don't say "they." This is bureaucracy, "they." You are all "they." Anyway, whatever is done, immediately make arrangement.
Letter to Jayapataka and Bhavananda written from Hyderabad

vanipedia.org 		The boat party must continue preaching. It is very nicely responded to.

vanipedia.org 		You say that everyone is working without any caste or race consideration. That is required. That is the basic standard of Krsna Consciousness.
Letter to Pancaratna written from Hyderabad

vanipedia.org 		Try to make Bhagavata Darsana a regular monthly journal. We have got enough material. Simply it has to be translated to Bengali. Either from old Back to Godheads or from our books.


1976 - December 08

Letter to Dr. Suresh Chandra written from Hyderabad

vanipedia.org 		Anyone can become a pure devotee by engaging himself in the business of glorifying the Supreme Lord (Sankirtana movement). So long we have got this material body the problems of birth, death, old age, and disease will continue. Therefore, to help the devotees when they're in bodily ailments is also a great great service.


1976 - December 09

Conversation - Hyderabad

vanipedia.org 		Jail, it is not due to overpopulation. It is due to overcriminality. Similarly, whenever there is scarcity of supply or scarcity of food, it is not due to overpopulation. It is due to overcriminality or over-sinful activities.


1976 - December 10

Lecture Festival Disappearance Day, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati - Hyderabad

vanipedia.org 		Forty years ago I remember the same thing as it is in 1922, and still the same thing is going on. There is nothing new. We have nothing to do, new. Simply let us present as it is; it will be successful. There is no... You see. The spirit of my writing is the same. "Misled we are, all going astray." This soul-killing civilization is misleading us. We must know this.

vanipedia.org 		From 1922 to 1933 practically I was not initiated, but I got the impression of preaching Caitanya Mahaprabhu's cult. That I was thinking. And that was the initiation by my Guru Maharaja. Then officially I was initiated in 1933.

vanipedia.org 		Actually the knowledge terminates when you understand Kṛṣṇa. He is the source of everything. So there is a "struggle for existence, a human race, the only hope, His Divine Grace." So we got this information from His Divine Grace Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura, and that knowledge is still going on. You are receiving through his servant. And in future the same knowledge will go to your students. This is called paramparā system.

vanipedia.org 		One should remain perpetually a student, but he has to act as guru. That is the mission of Caitanya Mahāprabhu. It is not that because I am acting as guru, I am no longer student. No, I am still student.

vanipedia.org 		It is not that you have become a student and you'll remain student. No. One day you shall become also guru and make more students, more students, more. That is Caitanya Mahāprabhu's mission, not that perpetually...Caitanya Mahāprabhu taught us this instruction that we shall always remain a foolish student before our Guru Mahārāja. That is the Vedic culture.

vanipedia.org 		My Guru Mahārāja wanted me to preach in the Western countries, although I was at that time a ordinary manager in a chemical firm. I never thought, but I took it seriously. So from that 1922, in 1965 it was fruitful. Forty-three years. So it is better late than never.

vanipedia.org 		Guru Mahārāja was so kind to me that when I was gṛhastha, I was seeing him in dreaming and I was... He asked me, "You come with me." So I was going, and after that, I was thinking, "Oh, I will have to take sannyāsa and go with him?" So it appeared to me very horrible. I was not very much inclined to take sannyāsa, but Guru Mahārāja is so kind that he ultimately forced me to take sannyāsa and do this work. So it is all his kindness. So this is the memory of his kindness.

vanipedia.org 		When the gratification of the senses is directed towards Kṛṣṇa, that is bhakti, or love. And when the sense gratification is directed towards personal self, that is lust. This is difference between lust and love. So Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura knew this art, how to turn our activities for the satisfaction of Kṛṣṇa. This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. Therefore I... "Wonder thy ways to turn our face, adore thy feet, Your Divine Grace."
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vanipedia.org 		What Vyasadeva said, your guru will also say the same thing. Not that "So many hundreds of thousands of years have passed away. Therefore I will give you a new formula." No. There is no new formula.
Conversation - Hyderabad

vanipedia.org 		I made this movement successful simply by love feast. They did not come to hear Hare Kṛṣṇa. They came for love feast. From very beginning, when I was in 26 2nd Avenue, every Sunday I was giving nice foodstuff, at least 200 men. Daily at least more than 15, 20. I was cooking myself. That is the beginning of my movement.

vanipedia.org 		I do not wish to discuss anymore on this point. You have murdered the whole thing in two days. Now if possible, bring them, bring them first class prasādam, very palatable. Foodstuff means even one has no appetite he'll eat. That is food. Not that even one has got appetite, he'll forget. That is not food.

vanipedia.org 		Give them nice prasādam by which they are attracted. It doesn't matter khicuṛi, puri, kacuri, lāḍu. Whatever they are attracted, we must give. Whatever that will attract them. That I want. Kṛṣṇa-prasādam. Don't waste, give them nice palatable foodstuff. Give them one finest kacuri, one nice samosā, two puris, they will be very glad. Make very, very, nice prasādam. What is this rubbish, the dog cannot eat even?

vanipedia.org 		The Europeans have invented tractors, and the bull is a problem. Therefore they must be sent to the slaughterhouse. So we can not create that problem. How the bull should be utilized? They should be used for transport and plowing.
Letter to Jayatirtha and Bhagavan written from Hyderabad

vanipedia.org 		I am very satisfied with the work Harikesa Swami is doing there in Germany and Eastern Europe, therefore in order to encourage him and give him facility to rectify the situation in Germany, I have appointed him as acting GBC/BBT until the Mayapur meeting.
Letter to Vicitravirya written from Hyderabad

vanipedia.org 		Guru Mahārāja was so kind to me that when I was gṛhastha, I was seeing him in dreaming and I was... He asked me, "You come with me." So I was going, and after that, I was thinking, "Oh, I will have to take sannyāsa and go with him?" So it appeared to me very horrible. I was not very much inclined to take sannyāsa, but Guru Mahārāja is so kind that he ultimately forced me to take sannyāsa and do this work. So it is all his kindness. So this is the memory of his kindness.

vanipedia.org 		It is a very nice report of book distribution. Your proposal to make 20 devotees per month is also very nice. Yes, the accounts must be kept very clearly. Then everyone will be pleased with us. Not a single farthing should be wasted. That will be our credit.


1976 - December 11

Lecture BG 07.06 - Hyderabad

vanipedia.org 		Body is the material—earth, water, air, fire and ether, mind, intelligence, ego. They are also emanating from Kṛṣṇa. Prakṛti..., bhinnā me prakṛtir aṣṭadhā. The difference is they are not in touch with Kṛṣṇa. But it is Kṛṣṇa's energy.
Letter to Dina Bandhu written from Hyderabad

vanipedia.org 		Upon your recommendation I am pleased to accept the devotees you have recommended for initiation. For first initiation their new names are; Sam R.—Syamasundara dasa and Jim N.—Jyotindra dasa. The second initiates are; Ramyaka dasa, Kaviraja dasa, Girijarata dasa, Abhaya dasi, and Srimati dasi.
Letter to Gaura Govinda written from Hyderabad

vanipedia.org 		As soon as we get electricity, the sooner it will be fit for my coming there. For my translation work I require electricity.
Letter to Prabhusvarupa written from Hyderabad

vanipedia.org 		Regarding the construction of the boundary wall you may consult with Jayapataka Swami and Bhavananda Goswami. They'll do the needful, I have already advised them. Please work very closely with them in all matters.
Letter to Purnaprajna written from Hyderabad

vanipedia.org 		Who says you are a bhajananandi. Don't be a bhajananadi. As soon as you become a bhajananandi you'll be spoiled. You'll be spoiled as Nitai has spoiled himself. You have an intense desire to preach, so do that.


1976 - December 12

Lecture BG 02.12 - Hyderabad

vanipedia.org 		Kṛṣṇa says that "At present we are individuals, and in the past we are individuals." Then one may say, "In the future we may become one, amalgamated," as the Māyāvādī philosopher says that as soon as we become liberated, we become one with the Absolute. No, that is not fact.
Conversation - Hyderabad

vanipedia.org 		That is psychology. It may be very worse condition; still, nobody wants to give up "Home, sweet home." That is natural psychology.
Letter to Aksayananda written from Hyderabad

vanipedia.org 		Find out from the bank manager what the balance of these two accounts are and send the information to me immediately. Also, what is the progress with the municipal affairs? Please send me a full report.
Letter to Giriraja written from Hyderabad

vanipedia.org 		Sriman Sri Krishna Badruka, son of Hariprasada Badruka, who is staying in our temple there, may stay for one month more. By the end of January he will leave his room. So, there is no cause for agitation.
Letter to Rajiv Gupta written from Hyderabad

vanipedia.org 		Regarding your working on the translation of the second canto of Srimad-Bhagavatam, we shall see later on, for now just try to finish what you have begun.
Letter to Sukadeva written from Hyderabad

vanipedia.org 		Gurukrpa says one thing and you say something else. What can I say? Now you should consult with Ramesvara and Hrdayananda Maharajas about your engagement. Work under their direction. That will be alright.


1976 - December 13

Lecture BG 16.06 - Hyderabad

vanipedia.org 		This is the relationship between the government and the citizens. The citizens must be law-abiding, and the government must rule over them just like father. Father is not unaffectionate. Father is affectionate, and even the father chastises the son, that is not 'out of affection'; that is also affection. So that was the relationship. So the asuras, they do not know this. Only the devatās, they know.


1976 - December 14

Lecture BG 16.07 - Hyderabad
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vanipedia.org 		If you go to the hellish condition of life, that is called pravṛtti-mārga, and if you go towards the path of liberation, that is nivṛtti-mārga. Our this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is training of nivṛtti-mārga, the basic principles, so many no's. "No" means nivṛtti. No illicit sex, no meat-eating, no gambling, no intoxication. So this is the no, "no" path. So that they do not know. When we say so many no's, they think it is brainwash. Not brainwash. It is actual. If you want to develop your spiritual life, then you have to stop so many nuisance. That is nivṛtti-mārga.

vanipedia.org 		So we are accepting sacred thread to become first-class brāhmaṇa, śuci, but we do not know, after eating, we have to wash our hand. We are taking the handkerchief and finished. So this kind of brāhmaṇa, what they will do? That is not even a civilized man. So you should be very, very careful how to follow the rules and regulation. That is nivṛtti-mārga. If we still remain in pravṛtti-mārga, then we will not be able to make any advance in spiritual life.
Letter to Gurudasa written from Hyderabad

vanipedia.org 		Jagadisa informs me that Sri Garbha came to him saying that he preferred to go to Mayapur, but that due to pressure from you he had agreed to go to Poland. So, for the time being let him go to Mayapur. We require many men there also. When he has to leave India he can then go to Poland.
Letter to Gurukrpa written from Hyderabad

vanipedia.org 		Now with Bhagavad-gita translated in Japanese our standing will be there. Let us sell Bhagavad-gita only in plain dress, we don't require saffron dress. Try to sell to the professors and at the school colleges as we are doing in other countries. Book distribution is our best preaching work.
Letter to Lokanatha written from Hyderabad

vanipedia.org 		Do not depend on outside help. Also, for financial support depend on Krsna. That is preaching success. People's appreciation will be practical when they help you financially also. Also, book distribution. We are maintaining our huge establishment by selling books. That is wanted.
Letter to Yasomatinandana written from Hyderabad

vanipedia.org 		Regarding the artist you have written about, if he can paint improved paintings, we shall publish. Yes, you can bring him to Bombay when you come.


1976 - December 15

Lecture BG 16.07 - Hyderabad
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vanipedia.org 		This asuric public, they do not know which way their destination is. They say it is self-interest, but these rascals, they do not know what is the self-interest, because their very beginning of life is mistaken. They are thinking this body is the self. So how they will know self-interest? The basic principle is mistaken. Dehātma-buddhi. The dogs, cats, they think that "I am this body." So same interest, asura. They do not know, neither they try to understand.

vanipedia.org 		Unnecessarily we have accepted sufferings of this material world. If our real consciousness, means Kṛṣṇa consciousness, is awakened, then we become aware of our position, constitutional position. Then we are saved from this repetition of birth and death and go back home, back to Godhead.


1976 - December 16

Lecture BG 16.08 - Hyderabad

vanipedia.org 		This Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is trying to introduce this movement in the human society. It is not meant for any particular class of men, a particular country or particular religious system. No. It is meant for everyone.
Conversation - Hyderabad

vanipedia.org 		Similarly, a brāhmaṇa, although he is born of a high family, but because he has associated with the qualities of a caṇḍāla, he should be called caṇḍāla. This is śāstric injunction. Śāstra never says by birth, stated like that. And that is practically being accepted. One man's qualification is concerned, not that in which family he is born.
Interview - Hyderabad

vanipedia.org 		This Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is trying to introduce this movement in the human society. It is not meant for any particular class of men, a particular country or particular religious system. No. It is meant for everyone.


1976 - December 17

Lecture BG 03.25 - Hyderabad
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vanipedia.org 		So far intelligence is concerned, in the matter of considering eating, sleeping, sex and defense, that is equal, either in the animal or in the human being. It doesn't require any education. Even the dog knows how to use sex life. It doesn't require a Freud's philosophy. But the rascal human society, they are thinking that "Here is a big philosopher. He is writing about sex." This is going on.
Letter to Jayatirtha written from Hyderabad

vanipedia.org 		That the devotees refuse to follow those who do not keep strictly to the regulative principles is very nice. These practices are our spiritual strength.
Letter to Vegavan written from Hyderabad

vanipedia.org 		In the human form the soul can decide whether to go back to home, back to Godhead or return to birth and death, accepting material bodies according to his karma.


Dec 18 to 20 - Wardha

1976 - December 20

Lecture Hindi - Wardha

vanipedia.org 		Eight thousand years ago the Lord was Himself speaking the Bhagavad Gita, it was destroyed at that time. Why? The disciplic succession was destroyed. That is why the Lord states that the ancient yoga, it is not that I am creating one now and speaking to you now, no! I am speaking this to you only.
Conversation - Wardha

vanipedia.org 		By the calculation it is forty millions of years ago. Now who will believe that, that Kṛṣṇa spoke this Bhagavad-gītā forty millions of years ago to the sun-god? Hmm? Who will believe that? They'll say mythology. So where is the faith in Bhagavad-gītā and faith in the words of Kṛṣṇa?


Dec 20 to 21 - Bombay

1976 - December 20

Arrival - Bombay
Conversation - Bombay

vanipedia.org 		Unless mother is good, the son cannot be good. Our Mahāṁśa, he is coming from Parsi family. So in the beginning his mother came to fight with me—not fighting—but now she is very happy. Sudhāmā returned; his mother said, "You have come to here? Immediately go again." Just see. After all, mother wants actual happiness of the son.
Letter to Jayatirtha written from Bombay

vanipedia.org 		The building on Soho is nice, I've seen it. Your idea to in the future build a major temple is very good. Then we can either sell the building on Soho or we can keep it for a restaurant if it is profitable. We can make the whole building a restaurant or a hotel. The Indians would like a completely vegetarian hotel.
Letter to M. M. De written from Bombay

vanipedia.org 		Regarding Bhuvanesvara temple, whatever you have said is alright, but we have received estimate much less than that of yours. It is almost 50% less than what you have said. Besides that we are not prepared to spend so much for this project. So, for the time drop this matter.
Letter to Rupanuga written from Bombay

vanipedia.org 		Kirtanananda's offer to Brisakapi is good. If one is fully engaged in preaching, his mind will be subdued. That is the only way. Yadavadhi mama cetah krsna-padaravinde.
Letter to Tamala Krishna written from Bombay

vanipedia.org 		Your book distribution report is very encouraging. If I see our leaders are enthusiastic, that gives me more enthusiasm. Your suggestion to get new buses is good. I always recommended that. I don't like old vehicles. I think one hundred buses are not sufficient for America. You propose to induce the American people to surrender to Lord Caitanya by expansion of book distribution, that is wanted.


1976 - December 21

Letter to Aksayananda written from Bombay

vanipedia.org 		It is very nice that the U. P. State Ministry has booked eleven double rooms in our guesthouse. Kindly give them a good reception and food and deal very nicely with them in all respects. It is very nice that the chokidars have nice uniforms and are working very efficiently. That is wanted. The uniforms for the guesthouse staff should also be ready when the government people come.
Letter to Caru das written from Bombay

vanipedia.org 		Regarding his Deities. They should be returned. What is the use of keeping Sarasvati? We do not require to worship any other Deity besides Radha Krishna.
Letter to Prabhuswarupa written from Bombay

vanipedia.org 		I have already met with Jayapataka Swami and have given him full instructions regarding our Hare Krishna Centre at Haridaspur. So you may contact him and the other local managers at Shree Mayapur regarding your effort.
Letter to Ramanuja written from Bombay

vanipedia.org 		The newsletters which you have sent are very nice. Thank you very much.


Dec 22 - Poona

1976 - December 22

Conversation A - Poona
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vanipedia.org 		My disciples they are part and parcel of me. Whole mission is going on with their cooperation. But if he says that I am equal to my Guru Maharaja, then that is offense.

vanipedia.org 		They will never say that they have become equal to me. "I have advanced to be my guru." Never say.

vanipedia.org 		Just like this boy, he is offering obeisances. He may be expert in preaching more than me, but he knows that "I am subordinate." Otherwise how he shall offer obeisances? He can think, "Oh, now I am so learned. I am so advanced. Why shall I accept him as superior?" No. That continues. Even after my death, after my disappearance, he will offer obeisances to my picture.
Conversation B - Poona

vanipedia.org 		A karmī, he is thinking that "I am poor man. If I become rich man, I will be happy." He is thinking in that way. Jñānī is thinking that "Poor and rich doesn't matter. I am Brahman. I am spirit soul. If I merge into the Supreme Brahman I will be happy." Yogi is thinking that "The Absolute is present everywhere in His personal feature. Īśvaraḥ sarva-bhūtānāṁ hṛd-deśe arjuna tiṣṭhati (BG 18.61). So if I become one with Him, I will be happy."
Letter to Sudama written from Bombay

vanipedia.org 		There is a summary of the Ramayana in the 9th canto. That will help you. You can show the fight between Rama and Ravana. The monkeys were throwing big, big mountains and trees blocking the passages in Lanka.


Dec 23 to 31 - Bombay

1976 - December 23

Letter to Alanatha written from Bombay

vanipedia.org 		Their names are as follow: Kiko - Kirticandra dasa; Mozart - Murari Gupta dasa; Francisco - Vasistha Muni dasa; Paulo - Paramahamsa dasa; Leandro—Lilananda dasa; Tercio—Trilocana dasa; Claudio—Karana karana dasa; Eneas—Isvara dasa; Regina—Rasavihari dasi; Christina—Krsnanandini dasi; Marta—Matsya dasi; Ivonette—Indumati dasi; Dora—Dev dasi; Maria—Murti dasi. For the second initiates, namely Ugraha dasa, Sadhyasrestha dasa, Ananda Murti dasi and Yogini dasi
Letter to Amogha written from Bombay

vanipedia.org 		I have no objection to your working there in Australia. If you are happy there and can execute devotional service with enthusiasm that is nice.
Letter to Dharmatma written from Bombay

vanipedia.org 		I'm very pleased that you are taking my order to distribute books so seriously. All blessings of Krishna are on these girls who are working so hard to distribute my books. that is very nice that you want to distribute more books than Tamala Krsna goswami's sankirtana party.
Letter to Jayasacinandana written from Bombay

vanipedia.org 		I am in due receipt of your letter dated Nov. 30, 1976 accompanied by your translation of Srila Bhaktivinode's songs. Thank you very much. You have done nicely.
Letter to K.C. Kapur written from Bombay

vanipedia.org 		Thank you very much for the offer of the use of your place in Allahabad during the Kumbha. Yes, most probably we are going. I shall let you know later on. I will give your address to my disciple who is organizing our camp there.
Letter to Lokanatha written from Bombay

vanipedia.org 		Prasad distribution and chanting and book distribution is sufficient for your program. There is no special method other than this simple program. You must train up the men. I hope you will be able to do that. Keep your behavior right to the point, set a very good example and others will follow.
Letter to Saurabha written from Bombay

vanipedia.org 		The management must be very first class. If required we can keep some paid men. Amateur management is not always efficient. I approve of your ideas for management. We shall get it passed by resolution meeting. I like the ideas.
Letter to Trivikrama written from Bombay

vanipedia.org 		Your description of how you are distributing Bhagavad-gita is very nice. Follow that principle. There is no need of sannyasa dress. Organize this system all over Southeast Asia and distribute as many books as possible. I think that in Taiwan the Chinese people are very friendly to the Americans.


1976 - December 24

Lecture SB 05.05.01 Hindi - Bombay
Letter to Citsukhananda written from Bombay

vanipedia.org 		I approve your plan to combine together with Kesava to lead a party of Spanish speaking devotees with nama-sankirtana to every town and village in Spain.
Letter to Gaura Govinda written from Bombay

vanipedia.org 		The growth of the temple should be based on book distribution. I am prepared to print books. You can then sell them and 50% of the collections must then be returned to the BBT to pay for the books. The balance can be used for construction.
Letter to Upendra written from Bombay

vanipedia.org 		If you want to stay with Satsvarupa, I have no objection, but what about your wife and children? They cannot travel. If without wife and children you can travel that will be alright.
Letter to Vrikodara written from Bombay

vanipedia.org 		Upon your recommendation I will accept these boys for second initiation: RasaVilasa das brahmacari, Janananatha das brahmacari.


1976 - December 25

Morning Walk - Bombay

vanipedia.org 		Here in this material world there are 8,400,000 different forms of life. They're all due to the mental concoction. So if we want our original life as good as God, at least in quality, that is freedom of mind. And then we cease to become one of the covered living beings within this material world.
Lecture SB 05.05.01 - Bombay

vanipedia.org 		Krsna does not say that you produce tire tube. Krsna says annad bhavanti bhutani: "You produce anna." This is practical solution. We have therefore started in Europe and America farming. And they are very happy. In our latest Back to Godhead the description is published about our farm in France. We have got a very palatial building. We have named it New Mayapur.
Conversation - Bombay

vanipedia.org 		Good leadership means you must learn how to lead people. Yad yad ācarati śreṣṭhas tat tad evetaro janaḥ (BG 3.21). If the śreṣṭha, the leader, is ideal, then others will follow. But if the leader is not ideal, if he is not in the awareness of things, then people will be misguided.

vanipedia.org 		Some blind men following another blind man, what will be the result? The present Indians, we have lost our own culture. We have rejected our own culture. Still we are leading people. There is chaotic condition. So this Krsna consciousness movement is to correct this mistake. So leaders like you should cooperate.

vanipedia.org 		Of course, I'm not proud, but I am alone. I started this movement alone, without any help. But because I am giving them the perfect information, whole world is taking it. Otherwise, from practical point of view, one man without any help, within ten years he cannot do like this. That's a fact. But I have no difficulty because I am following the supreme leader, Kṛṣṇa.
Letter to Dr. W.H. Wolf-Rottkay written from Bombay

vanipedia.org 		I'm glad to hear that you are coming to India in the near future. Yes, Krsna wants you, don't try to avoid Him. You are a sincere devotee.
Letter to Jnana and Lilavati written from Bombay

1976 - December 26

Lecture SB 05.05.02 Hindi - Bombay
Conversation A - Bombay

vanipedia.org 		We are simply speaking what Kṛṣṇa has spoken. That's all. Yāre dekha tāre kaha kṛṣṇa... That's all. I do not claim that I am Sanskrit scholar, I am this big man, that man, no. Whatever books I have written, only about this-Kṛṣṇa. In our book in every page you will find Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa.
Conversation B - Bombay

vanipedia.org 		Why these rascals are speaking not in the paramparā? That is my seed of starting this movement. I must start the movement. That is the impetus of this movement, that they must speak according to the paramparā. And someone allowed them to speak otherwise. Therefore I wrote this book, Bhagavad-gītā As It Is. Don't make interpretations. And by the grace of Kṛṣṇa it has become to some extent successful.
Conversation C - Bombay

vanipedia.org 		They say that there is a tissue in the brain, they disturb with this religious idea. They say like that. And if that tissue is operated, then there will be no more religion. They can do that. With a brain operation he'll forget willfully. These rascal, so-called scientists, they can do anything.
Letter to Adi-kesava written from Bombay

vanipedia.org 		If Krsna protects, who can kill? And, if krsna kill, who can protect? So, if we are sincere servants, then Krsna will give us protection. Who can kill us? This Bombay land, such a huge attempt was made to kill us.


1976 - December 27

Conversation A - Bombay

vanipedia.org 		Tapasya means restricted life, not unrestricted life. So if we do not follow the restricted life, that means I shall continue my disease or increase my disease. The modern civilization, we are teaching how to enjoy this material world to the fullest extent, bhogaiśvarya, sense gratification, and for sense gratification, material opulence. But he does not know that he is killing himself.
Conversation B - Bombay
Conversation C - Bombay

vanipedia.org 		Dance and chant. This is best exercise. We allow them to dance very... Yes. High jump. Actually that is exercise, and at the same time ecstasy. If they dance and chant Hare Kṛṣṇa, it is automatically a very big exercise and spiritual advancement.
Letter to Ramesvara written from Bombay

vanipedia.org 		Fight and depend on Krsna, that will bring you victory.


1976 - December 28

Lecture SB 05.06.10 - Bombay

vanipedia.org 		They do not know what is the importance of the varṇāśrama-dharma. They have broken it. They don't like. They want to say classless society. Classless society cannot be.
Conversation A - Bombay

vanipedia.org 		Why you are silent? Silent means acceptance. Maunam (indistinct). If I say, "You are rascal, you are thief," and if you don't reply, that means you accept it. Maunam (indistinct). If you do not protest, and if you do not say anything... So such a big criticism from (indistinct), and they are silent. Why do they not go to the court? Bluff only.
Conversation B - Bombay
Letter to Kurusrestha written from Bombay

vanipedia.org 		Without book distribution the temple worship standard will also diminish.

vanipedia.org 		It is good that you have stopped all business ventures. Now, stick to it. Book distribution is sufficient. You should not divert for any other business.


1976 - December 29

Morning Walk - Bombay

vanipedia.org 		They become fanatic. Otherwise, why one should be fanatic? If one has got brain, one has got logic, how he should be fanatic? Fanatics means dull-headed rascal, that's all.
Lecture SB 05.06.11 - Bombay

vanipedia.org 		Fall down means from our spiritual identification we fall down to material identification, upādhi. Material identification, upādhi, designation. I am now speaking, "I am Indian," but "Indian," that is (not) my designation. I am neither Indian nor European. You are not Indian, European. We are giving more stress on the designation. That is the mistake of modern civlization. And in the śāstra such persons who designate himself with this body, they have been described as go-kharaḥ, sa eva go-kharaḥ (SB 10.84.13). So we shall be very careful. Take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
Conversation - Bombay

vanipedia.org 		According to Bhagavad-gita, if you don't follow the instruction of Bhagavad-gita, you may be very learned scholar, whatever you write, it is lost. We follow that principle.
Letter to Mahamsa written from Bombay

vanipedia.org 		Kindly make this farm project successful so that the majority of my time I can spend there. I like this place. You should work with full energy and endeavor to make this program successful. There will be no scarcity of financial help. Chant Hare Krishna and there will be good rainfall.
Letter to Satish Kumar Varma written from Bombay

vanipedia.org 		Everyone in this material world is suffering. It is called dukhalayam ashasvatam. Why should you give up your life? Instead come and live with us the life of eternal bliss and knowledge. Do not unnecessarily complain. Just come and meet us in Kumbha Mela and we shall decide further.
Letter to Shaktimati written from Bombay

vanipedia.org 		You can open a center along with all the members of your family. Just make sure to follow all the regulative principles. Wherever you stay just chant the Holy Name.
Letter to Subhavilasa written from Bombay

vanipedia.org 		Thank you for helping in this way by taking signatures in support of our movement from the Indian people in Toronto. Yes, I will be happy to visit your home again next time I come to Toronto. In the meantime, please give whatever assistance you can to help manage the temple affairs there.
Letter to Sukadeva written from Bombay

vanipedia.org 		So far your question as to whether it is more important to organize the women's book distribution or to work on College preaching, the book distribution is more important.


1976 - December 30

Conversation - Bombay

vanipedia.org 		This Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, they are appreciating. So all the charity should come here. Then it is properly utilized. Because we do not use a single paisa for anything of sense gratification. We do not even smoke, we do not take tea, we lie down on the floor. Not a single paisa is spent for our sense gratification. Everything is utilized for Kṛṣṇa. Therefore all charity should come here. Properly spent. But if we misspend, that is our fault. Single paisa we spend for our sense gratification, that is fault of us.
Letter to Damodara Pandita written from Bombay

vanipedia.org 		Our men may come and go. The program should be the same. Invite persons to love feast, chant Hare Krsna, distribute prasadam. This couple may be in charge of the center. Start with local men, 2, 3, 4, then it will be successful.


1976 - December 31

Conversation A - Bombay

vanipedia.org 		I never tried in India to construct big temples or even in your country we didn't. I never tried. But I was selling personally books. That is the history.
Conversation B - Bombay

vanipedia.org 		Our book distribution is the most important task in our society. Therefore I am giving so much stress and I am working so hard on this. Because this is my life and soul according to the order of my Guru Mahārāja. And by his grace it is to some extent successful. And I took it seriously. I take it seriously still now. That is my life and soul.

vanipedia.org 		Big sankirtana is book distribution and small sankirtana is with mrdanga. Big sankirtana is going on all over the world. Small sankirtana locally.
Interview - Bombay

vanipedia.org 		If you do not take the guidance of the śāstra then all your hope is finished. You can hope, but you'll never... Therefore we follow the śāstras and we teach others to follow śāstras. If you like you can do. Otherwise do whatever you like. But you don't manufacture and spoil my life and others. You don't do.

vanipedia.org 		The gist of śāstra is Bhagavad-gītā. And then distribute the knowledge. Para-upakāra. This should be India's mission. India hasn't got to learn from anywhere else. Everything is there. Let him understand the whole philosophy of life perfectly and distribute this. This is India's mission. So I have tried alone on this point. So I have got little success. And before me so many swamis, yogis went there. They came and go. No effect. Now I have created a community which will continue.


   
 
   
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