A Month in the Life of Srila Prabhupada - September 1976

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The Months in the Life of Srila Prabhupada present 2200+ of his lectures; 905+ of his conversations; 490+ of his morning walks;
65+ of his interviews and 6,570+ of his letters. This listing covers all available material,

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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.


Sep 1 to 2 - Delhi

1976 - September 01

Conversation - Delhi

vanipedia.org 		We are selling books to the extent of sixty thousand dollars daily. That is our only hope, that we shall not be financially in difficulty. People are taking our books very nicely. People are accepting our literature.
Letter to Dr. S. B. Chatterjee written from Delhi

vanipedia.org 		Things are deteriorating on account of the loss of God consciousness. This simple method of chanting the Hare Krsna Maha Mantra will awaken God consciousness, and people will become very grateful all over the world.
Letter to Jagajivana written from Delhi

vanipedia.org 		There is a requirement for a section of society to become first class men, free of the influence of the modes of material nature, who can understand the mission of this human form of life and who can teach it to others. I am trying to create these men, but it is hard, for people have become lost of all intelligence due to the coverings of the three modes of material nature. So I am one man alone, yet now there are so many nice boys and girls like you to help me push on this movement in my old age.

vanipedia.org 		I am very pleased that you have taken up this mission of spreading the Krsna consciousness movement all over the world. This is the wish of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu that, yare dakho tare kaho krsna upadesa, everyone you see or meet, tell him about krsna, and by My command you become a guru and save this land. This was also the mission of my guru maharaj and it is my mission. You will perfect your life if you make it also your mission.

vanipedia.org 		I thank you very much for your sincere efforts and you have my blessings that you will without a doubt be successful if you stick to the regulative principles and chant at least 16 rounds a day. Surely Krsna will recognize your service, and as soon as you are recognized by Krsna, then your life immediate becomes perfect.


1976 - September 02

Morning Walk - Delhi

vanipedia.org 		Just like Lord Brahmā. We belong to the Brahmā-sampradāya. Brahmā is the original spiritual master after Kṛṣṇa. Brahmā, then Nārada, then Vyāsadeva—like that. So all of them are gurus, ācāryas. So why spiritual master is honored as good as the Supreme Lord?
Letter to Giriraja written from Delhi

vanipedia.org 		For the time being I understand there is a need of an experienced devotee here. Tejiyas is sick and is going to Vrndavana. I think that Jagat Purusa is a suitable man to come here for at least one month and you can arrange to do this immediately.


Sep 3 to 30 - Vṛndāvana

1976 - September 03

Lecture BG 07.15 Arrival - Vṛndāvana
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vanipedia.org 		Just like fighting soldiers, they are facing danger for the country. They are recognized. Similarly, those who are preachers - on behalf of Krsna preaching people to take to Krsna consciousness - they are great soldiers.

vanipedia.org 		Never mind we die by preaching. Still, it will be glorious.
Conversation A - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Nitāiyer koruṇā habe braje rādhā-kṛṣṇa pābe. These rascals, they do not know. Nitāi, balarāma hoila nitāi. So without the mercy of Balarāma, nobody can appreciate Vṛndāvana life. Jaya.
Conversation B - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Everything is possible by Kṛṣṇa's inconceivable energy. Everything is possible. That is inconceivable. It is called therefore "inconceivable." You..., we cannot conceive how it is done. Our intelligence is very little. We cannot conceive.


1976 - September 04

Lecture SB 01.07.05 - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		If we want to stop this anartha, misconception of life, then we have to take to bhakti-yoga. It is explained in the next verse. But for the time being we are misled. The māyā, or the material nature, is misleading us. We are trying to adjust things according to the dictation of māyā, that we shall be able to stop our struggle for existence in this way and that way.
Conversation - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		I say about Bhāgavata's description. How perfect it is in any subject matter. I have tried to explain what is there in the Bhāgavatam, expand it. That is not my explanation, that is Kṛṣṇa's explanation. I cannot explain now. That moment I could explain. That means Kṛṣṇa's... I can understand that. That the description is very nicely given. Although it is my writing, but I know it is not my writing. It is Kṛṣṇa's writing. So we should read Bhāgavatam always. Nityaṁ bhāgavata-sevayā (SB 1.2.18). We should not waste our time.


1976 - September 05

Lecture SB 01.07.06 - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		If you perform the saṅkīrtana-yajña, then it is as good any other yajña. Yajña means to satisfy the yajña-puruṣa, Viṣṇu, Lord Viṣṇu. So in the Kali-yuga, simply by performing yajñas you can satisfy the Supreme Lord. Yajñaiḥ saṅkīrtana-prāyair yajanti hi su-medhasaḥ. We have seen in many places, by performing yajña, the saṅkīrtana-yajña, where it was very dry, rain has fallen.
Conversation A - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		At the age of seventy years, nobody goes out. At least from Vrndavana nobody goes at the age of seventy years. But Krsna asked me. I thought that I must go, Guru Maharaja wanted it, Caitanya Mahaprabhu... Let me try.

vanipedia.org 		Krsna asked me. I thought that I must go, Guru Maharaja wanted it, Caitanya Mahaprabhu... Let me try. So if I had not gone then this institution would not have developed. So this is practical.

vanipedia.org 		Mahātmā, they must move. So when there is absolute necessity they may stay. Otherwise, they must move. Move on, move on, move on, move on, move on. No staying. That is principle. No staying. I am this old age, I cannot move... My... I... So many... Still I am traveling all over the world. I am simply interested that whatever I have done, it may not be vanquished in my absence. Let me go and encourage them. Otherwise, I have no capacity to move now. But still I am moving, only for this purpose.

vanipedia.org 		You do not require to collect. You sit down. But work hard here. Not that eating, sleeping. No. That cannot be. That cannot be done. They must be engaged twenty-four hours. That is wanted. It is not a lazy free hotel. Anyone lives, he must be engaged twenty-four hours.

vanipedia.org 		A devotee is satisfied anywhere. A devotee is not that "I'll go to Vṛndāvana, then I'll be satisfied." Nārāyaṇa-parāḥ sarve na kutaścana bibhyati (SB 6.17.28). I did not go to your country taking Vṛndāvana with me. I had to stay in places where in the refrigerator there is meat. And I was cooking. When opened it I saw, "Here is meat. All right, what can be done? Hare Kṛṣṇa." That's all.

vanipedia.org 		There was hard struggle. It is not that so easy for... In 1965 to '66, 66-67, regular hard struggle.

vanipedia.org 		You know that. Hard struggle. So Kṛṣṇa gave us some facility. Now we have got some framework. Do it very cautiously. Unnecessarily exhausting what we... sato vṛtteḥ sādhu-saṅge. That is Rūpa Gosvāmī's line. We should be very honest and live with sādhu, those who are devotees. Tāṅdera caraṇa-sebi-bhakta-sane bās. First of all our mission should be how to serve the Gosvāmīs.

vanipedia.org 		I'm servant of that person who is engaged in the service of the six Gosvamis. And we pray to our Guru Maharaja, rupanuga-viruddhapasiddhanta-dhvanta-harine. Anyone who is going against the decision of Rupa Gosvami, reject him. This is our process.
Conversation B - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Money is not the strength for understanding Radharani. If you have got some money, by the strength of money you'll understand Radharani - that is another bogus thing.
Letter to Kurusrestha written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Your scheme to purchase that building with BBT loan is fully approved by me.


1976 - September 06

Lecture SB 01.07.07 - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Just like you are giving me so many garlands. Why you are giving me? Because you love me. Otherwise there was no necessity. There was no necessity. A third person is not coming. But because you have got some love, therefore you are worshiping your spiritual master. So bhakti means love. Without love there is no question of bhakti.So this bhakti has to be awakened.
Conversation A - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		It is due to the blessing of my Guru Mahārāja. He directly told me that "If you get some money, publish some books." I took it seriously, so he's helping me. All our Godbrothers, they didn't take it. Did not know it, neither... Even they... They know it. Because from the very beginning, Guru Mahārāja was serious about publication. He started press and published these books. This Bhāgavata was published by him.
Conversation B - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		One who has not developed Kṛṣṇa consciousness, for him fasting. And one who takes pleasure, "Oh, it is Kṛṣṇa's pleasure, or Kṛṣṇa's food. I'll take." This is the idea. So we are not devotees, therefore we should first fast. And those who are devotees, they'll take as much as they like. I was telling fasting because I am not a devotee. (laughs) For me fasting is good. If I eat more-atyāhāraḥ. Atyāhāraḥ prayāsaś ca, ṣaḍbhir bhaktir praṇaśyati.
Letter to Gaura Govinda written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		I am bringing foreign devotees to preach in India and as you say the Indians are cheaters even though not all of them. The majority who come and join us, it has been experienced, they are not sincere. Under the circumstances what can be done, I do not know.
Letter to Manager, Central Bank of India, written from Vṛndāvana
Letter to Rasa lila written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		These spiritual practices will make us strong and able to defend ourselves from the onslaughts of maya. Krsna is always ready to help us for He is more eager to have us come back to him than we are to go. Simply we have to accept His helping hand and then all our worries are over.
Letter to Sri Radhakrishan Dhawan written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		The Hyderabad temple has been completed on Janmastami August 18, and the temple is called the Sri Sri Radha Madana Mohana Mandir.
Letter to Sri Rathindranath Ganguly written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Therefore it is very good that you are taking these instructions of the Lord seriously by surrendering yourself under the direction of His bona fide representative.
Letter to Vidyabadhu written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		There are three enemies. One of them is the mother with child who marries again. The child should be raised in Krsna consciousness movement where both of you will advance in developing love of God.


1976 - September 07

Lecture SB 01.07.08 - Vṛndāvana
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vanipedia.org 		We have to follow the Gosvamis literature, especially Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu, which we have translated in The Nectar of Devotion, every one of you should very carefully read & make progress. Don't be victimized by the Mayavadi so-called Vaisnava.
Conversation A - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Not that willfully do something wrong. That is punishment. There is punishment. If one unconsciously, without any knowledge, does something wrong, that is excused. But they do willfully. They know it is wrong, still they do it. That is punished. Knowingly.
Conversation B - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Last year we introduced Ratha-yātrā in Philadelphia. It was very successful. And this year we have introduced in New York. It is also very successful. Everyone—government official, police, public—all enjoyed. And the Fifth Avenue is the most important avenue in the world, Fifth Avenue.
Conversation C - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Then if you could not learn the art, at the same time you miss Kṛṣṇa's service. So that is not our principle. We want to serve Kṛṣṇa, svakarmaṇā tam abhyarcya (Vedānta-saṅgraha). Whatever work you already expert, you do that. Just like he is doing. Whatever he knows, he is giving service. He's not going for sewing cloth, because he does not know that.
Letter to Jayapataka written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Here is a Bengali letter from Sri Kamal Krsna das. The letter speaks for itself. He wants to live in our Mayapur Center. You can call him, talk to him and if he is useful give him shelter. He is very much anxious to live in our place.
Letter to Radhavallabha written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Concerning the editing of Jayadvaita Prabhu, whatever he does is approved by me. I have confidence in him. Your changes which I have seen of the sanskrit synonyms is also approved by me.


1976 - September 08

Lecture SB 01.07.09 Excerpt - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		You haven't got to do anything, everything will come automatically, naturally one becomes prasannātmā, very jolly. I am free from the anxieties. Because this material world means full of anxieties, sadā samudvigna-dhiyām (SB 7.5.5). That is material world. And when you come to the spiritual platform, there is no anxieties, no.
Letter to David B. Richeter Hughes written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		I can give you all guidance and direction for there are millions of Christians in the world today. We are not concerned with how, so much as the fact that one must develop his dormant love for God. This is alright that you will chant the names of Christ for after all he was the representative of God. People are lost due to not following a bona fide religious system. If you can revive their God consciousness that will be very good service.
Letter to Dixit written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Thank you very much for offering your services at the new university, but first let us get the opportunity and as soon as we start the establishment it will be a great pleasure.
Letter to Ramesvara written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		It will be very nice if you GBC men can relieve me from the heavy burden of management.
Letter to Sri Kamal Krishna written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		In reply to your Bengali letter registered posted to Delhi, I have advised the president of the Mayapur center to do the needful. The copy is enclosed and you can see personally.
Letter to Sri Santosh Kumar Pyne written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Similarly the relief from this material world comes from above as we have got instructions in the Bhagavad-gita. So if you like you can retire from family life—you are old enough—and it may be possible for us to give you some shelter.
Letter to Surendra Babu written from Vṛndāvana
Letter to Trivikrama written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Unless one understands what is Krishna they will simply accuse us of having idol worship. They must first understand the science of Krsna then they may appreciate the temple. So go and and distribute as many books as possible.


1976 - September 09

Lecture SB 01.07.10 - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Matter does not work. The Supreme Personality of Godhead, by His different energies, He is working. That is Krsna. You have to understand like that. Krsna is in the background.
Conversation A - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		I did not know that he took it very seriously. Then after two, three months, some documents came. I was receiving my letters in a postbox.
Conversation B - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		That one marriage is sufficient. She must remain very faithful to her husband, chaste. That is wanted. Not that "I do not like this husband. I'll change." That is not wanted.
Letter to Presidents of all ISKCON Centers written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		This is to introduce Srimati Lalita Bose, who is our friend and well-wisher. Wherever in our centers she goes, she should be received free of boarding and lodging at least for three days.


1976 - September 10

Lecture SB 01.07.11 - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Those who are simply acting piously, such person can approach the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Not impious person can.
Letter to Jayapataka written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		This is to introduce Sri Radha Pada das Adhikari. He is a family man and an electrician. He wants to join with us wholeheartedly with all family members. Please talk with him personally and do the needful.


1976 - September 11

Lecture SB 01.07.12 - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		The battlefield of Kurukṣetra, historical references, description, so superficially it appears that what a devotee has got to do with this battlefield? But battlefield or no battlefield, wherever there is Kṛṣṇa, that is transcendental. This has to be understood.
Conversation A - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		The small Deities, salagrama, They are worshiped. And big Deity, They are decorated nicely. No need of washing.
Conversation B - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		God is an Indian, that is also rascaldom. He says, sarva-yoniṣu kaunteya sambhavanti mūrtayaḥ yāḥ, ahaṁ bīja-pradaḥ pitā (BG 14.4). So how He's Indian? Throughout the whole universe, as many forms of body are there, He is the father. So how He is Indian? If the father is Indian, then the son is also Indian. So father is non-Indian, so how the God can be Indian?
Letter to Balarama written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		The names are, for Bhakta Rarmer - Vrajaraja dasa, and for Bhakta Ted - Tribhuvanapati dasa. Jyotir Maya das has been accepted by me for second initiation.
Letter to Hansadutta written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		On your recommendation I am accepting David Davidson as my first initiated disciple. His name shall be Visnudutta das. Also on your recommendation I am accepting Parajnana das brahmacari as my second initiated disciple and the thread is found enclosed.
Letter to Revatinandana written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		On your recommendation I am accepting Simhesvara das brahmacari as brahmana and his thread is enclosed within. The name of Tyaga dasa may be given to Terry Gardner and the name Sarana devi dasa may be given to Sandra Joaquim.
Letter to Sukadeva written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		On your recommendation I am accepting the following devotees for initiation: First Initiation - William Jerald Leonard - Vidyagati dasa, Steven Edward Kulakowski - Svatantra dasa, Laura Ellan - Krsnalaulya dasi. Second Initiation - Piyuskanti das brahmacari, Sarva Satya das brahmacari.


1976 - September 12

Lecture SB 01.07.13-14 - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		To become Vaiṣṇava is not so easy thing. One has to become brāhmaṇa, then when he surpasses the stages of becoming brāhmaṇa, then he becomes Vaiṣṇava. Śuddha-sattva. Sattvaṁ viśuddhaṁ vasudeva-śabditam (SB 4.3.23). Then Kṛṣṇa is born. When one comes to the Vaiṣṇava stage, then he can understand what is Kṛṣṇa.
Conversation - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Without any advertisement, by the taste of the ghee, it will go on. Is it not? If you put little pure ghee on the rice, it will be so tasteful that he'll want it again. But give the pure thing. Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Try to give Him to the people. And how to take it? Hare Kṛṣṇa. He hasn't got to pay anything. God has given him the tongue. Induce him, "Chant Hare Kṛṣṇa." And that is the beginning.
Letter to Cittahari written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		On your recommendation I am accepting Usapati das for brahminical initiation and Kedara dasa shall be the spiritual name for Bhakta Kevin.
Letter to Dr. W.H. Wolf-Rottkay written from Vrndavana

vanipedia.org 		This attitude will help you. Always pray to Krsna humbly and He will surely help you, tesam satata yuktanam bhajatam priti purvakam dadami buddhi yogam tam yena mam upayanti te (BG 10.10), to those who worship Me with love, I give them the intelligence by which they can come to Me.
Letter to Dvarakesa and Prabhujaka written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		People are suffering greatly presently due to having lost all proper vision. They are completely without knowledge as to what is the real purpose of life. They have forgotten what is the real purpose of life. It is up to you to reestablish their lost relationship with Krsna by being sincere to preach the message of Krsna purely by yourself following the instructions of the Lord and his bona-fide representative, the spiritual master.
Letter to Gurudasa written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		I am very very pleased with your preaching in Poland and you should continue this program with full enthusiasm. Your coming to Vrndavana is not so important and it may wait. Please expand this program more and more for there is a very good and favorable field there. Try and start a center there, it seems possible.
Letter to Satadhanya written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		As you depend on me I similarly depend on you, parasparatam. The brahmanas and ksatriyas should cooperate, that is the Vedic civilization. The hands and legs should cooperate with the brain in order for the whole society to work properly.
Letter to Vikas written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Naturally I am very very sorry to learn the death news of your father, my beloved friend. So offer your mother my condolences for the bereavement, but there is nothing to be very sorry for. According to Bhagavad-gita your father has not died, he has changed his body.


1976 - September 13

Lecture SB 01.07.15 - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		There is no better type of worshiping Kṛṣṇa than the method by which gopīs worship Kṛṣṇa. They, their love was so intense that they did not care for any family, any honor or any prestige—nothing. That is the highest, topmost loving stage of Kṛṣṇa. And Kṛṣṇa also loved the gopīs.
Conversation - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		He never claimed that "I am avatāra." But we understand from the śāstric evidence. He never claimed. Rather, when He was addressed as Kṛṣṇa He blocked His ears, "You don't say like that." He never claimed. He fully displayed Himself as a devotee, not Bhagavān. Therefore Gaurāṅgavāda is illegal. Gaurāṅga-nāgarī. That is illegal.


1976 - September 14

Lecture SB 01.07.16 - Vṛndāvana
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vanipedia.org 		Just like we are going to open this brahmacārī school, or āśrama, but I am doubtful whether we'll get many children. Because in this age people are interested to become śūdras. Nobody is interested to become brāhmaṇa. Technology. Technology means śūdra. Technology is not the business of a brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, or vaiśya. No. Just like blacksmith, goldsmith, carpenter, craftsman. These are technology. They are meant for the śūdras. Brāhmaṇas, they are to be trained up how to become truthful, how to become controller of the senses, how to become simple, how to become tolerant.


1976 - September 15

Lecture SB 01.07.18 - Vṛndāvana
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vanipedia.org 		One who is not disturbed, even there is cause of disturbance, he is called dhīra. Dhīras tatra na muhyati. This is the statement of Bhagavad-gītā. We have to become dhīra from adhīra. But this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is so nice that adhīra can be dhīra. This is the profit of this movement.
Letter to All GBC Members written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Please let it be known that Nitai has become a venomous serpent. Be careful of him.


1976 - September 16

Lecture SB 01.07.19 - Vṛndāvana
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vanipedia.org 		Pure devotion means to pray to the Lord, begging some service: "My Lord, kindly engage me in Your service." That is the perfection of life, when one is engaged in the service of the Lord in love. You can become a very great saint and live in a secluded place and become puffed-up, that you have become very great personality, and people may come to see him, that "He's not to be seen; he's engaged in chanting."
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vanipedia.org 		We have learned from our Guru Maharaja that preaching is very, very important thing, and when one is actually an experienced preacher, then he is able to chant Hare Krsna mantra without any offense.
Conversation - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Pure devotion means to pray to the Lord, begging some service: "My Lord, kindly engage me in Your service." That is the perfection of life, when one is engaged in the service of the Lord in love.


1976 - September 17

Lecture SB 01.07.20-21 - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		We must have some numerical strength. And we have minimized. I know that you are coming from a different source, so according to time, according to circumstances... Even there, there is no limit. You can chant more than sixteen-sixteen hundred times. There is no... But practically we see that even chanting sixteen rounds becomes difficult. So don't try to imitate, but do it properly, what is advised by your spiritual master, without any offense. That mantra will save you from the dangers of māyā. That's a fact.

vanipedia.org 		If you neglectfully chant, still there is success, but it will take some time. And if you chant very carefully, following the rules and regulations, then your success in this life is guaranteed. So we can make our choice, because always Kṛṣṇa gives us the chance to make our choice.

vanipedia.org 		Yathecchasi tathā kuru: (BG 18.63) "Whatever you like, you can do." So my request... It is my duty because you have accepted me as your spiritual master. So I am repeating my spiritual master's order that "Don't wait for another life." That is a very risky, another life.
Conversation - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		That we are equal, that's all right, but there is difference. So far I am a living being, He's also a living being, but He's supreme living being. How? Because I breathe, some dust comes and goes out, and when He breathes some universes come out. This is the difference. So because He is breathing and I am breathing, therefore equal? No.

vanipedia.org 		It is my duty because you have accepted me as your spiritual master. So I am repeating my spiritual master's order that "Don't wait for another life." That is a very risky, another life. Maybe I am given the chance of taking my birth in a good brāhmaṇa family or a rich family, but there is chance of again being spoiled.


1976 - September 18

Lecture SB 01.07.22 - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		This saṁsāra, this material existence, is just like dāvānala. Dāvānala means forest fire. Forest, in the forest nobody goes to set fire, but it takes place automatically. Even if you don't want, it will come.
Letter to Dixit written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		If any of our students artificially try to become scholars by associating with unwanted persons they become victimized, for a little learning is dangerous, especially for the Westerners.

vanipedia.org 		We shall have to teach character and spiritual understanding to the young children. To study other things as a high grade scholar is secondary for us.
Letter to Dr. V. N. Shukla written from Vṛndāvana
Letter to Gaura Govinda written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		In answer to your question as to why the Indian population is so slack in spiritual life: during the British rule there was a secret policy by the British to cut down the Vedic civilization in India. There was a confidential policy by the British government to kill India's original culture and everything Indian was condemned.
Letter to Jayatirtha written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		That is my only life. When I see that there is publication of the Srimad-Bhagavatam and other books in other languages, that gives me life.
Letter to Manager of Lloyds Bank written from Vṛndāvana
Letter to Ramesvara written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Yadubara should be encouraged as he has given good service. Both his wife and himself are both serving nicely. I approve their work and they should be encouraged in all respects. In future we shall get more and more valuable services from them.

vanipedia.org 		These management affairs sometimes disturb me. Kindly manage nicely. I want that the properties should not be jeopardized. So the idea of the declarations from the presidents is absolutely required. Nobody can do anything without my signature; that should be enforced. In general, if any translator of my books requires the original manuscripts for his work, he should be supplied them by you.

vanipedia.org 		If you can succeed in spreading this movement to every town and village throughout the world that will be your great credit. Kindly do this and Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu will be pleased and my Guru Maharaja will be pleased and I, as their humble servant, will also be pleased. That is our main goal in life, our svartha gatim.
Letter to Tusta Krsna written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		I thank you very much for your very nice presentation of the issue of birth. You have assimilated the process of birth very nicely through the books. This has pleased me very much and I wish that all my students can become as adept at presenting the information in the books like this. You can make this a grand subject for agitation in that country and your preaching on this point alone will make you very famous.

vanipedia.org 		You can make this a grand subject for agitation in that country and your preaching on this point alone will make you very famous. Therefore you should speak everywhere on this subject matter from the Bhagavatam and gita and you will be glorified. As the disciple is glorified so also the spiritual master becomes glorified more.


1976 - September 20

Lecture SB 01.07.23 - Vṛndāvana
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vanipedia.org 		If you simply speak what Kṛṣṇa says, then you become His representative. Don't manufacture. Don't be over good at manufacturing. Simply to follow Kṛṣṇa and His representatives, then you become mahājana. Otherwise you are a nonsense. Mūḍha. That is the test. One should be very very careful to follow Caitanya Mahāprabhu's instruction.

vanipedia.org 		Everything is explained sākṣāt, directly. Where is the difficulty to find out God? They are searching after God, making research, all nonsense speculation. This is our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, that "Why you are searching?" You say, "Can you show me God?" Why don't you see, "Here is God"? Why, just like the owl you have closed your eyes, not to see the sun? Sun is there. See. Open your eyes and see it.

vanipedia.org 		So we have to follow. People are searching after God. They do not know God. They are asking this question, "Can you show me God?" So, so many questions are there about God, but here is God, pointed out by Arjuna, a mahājana. Mahājano yena gataḥ sa panthāḥ (CC Madhya 17.186). Why should you not accept? That is our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. "Why you are searching God. Here is God, as Arjuna says." Tvam ādyaḥ puruṣaḥ: "You are the original person." Tvam ādyaḥ puruṣaḥ.

vanipedia.org 		The whole thing is revelation. It is not by experience, by scholarship. No: revelation. Ye yathā māṁ prapadyante. One who has surrendered proportionately, God reveals. Ye yathā māṁ prapadyante tāṁs tathaiva bhajāmy aham (BG 4.11).

vanipedia.org 		Na māṁ duṣkṛtino mūḍhāḥ prapadyante narādhamāḥ (BG 7.15). That is the test. One should be very very careful to follow Caitanya Mahāprabhu's instruction. Caitanya Mahāprabhu never said that "I am directly servant of Kṛṣṇa." No. Gopī-bhartuḥ pada-kamalayor dāsa-dāsa-dāsa-dasānudāsaḥ: "Servant of the servant of the servant of the..." The more you become servant of the servant, you are perfect (CC Madhya 13.80). And as soon as you declare independence, you are rascal. This is the process.
Letter to Acyuta written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		On your recommendation I am accepting the following disciples for first initiation: Bhakta Ivan - Indrasena dasa, Bhaktin Dora - Dharma-patni dasi, Bhakta Manuel - Madhupati dasa, Bhakta Mozart - Madhava-priya dasa, Bhakta Ramacandra - Rangapuri dasa, Bhakta Luchie - Lilasuka dasa, Bhakta Paulo - Ananta-padmanabha dasa. Second initiation: Paravyoma das brahmacari, Durasada dasa brahmacari, Mahayogisvara devi dasi, Madhusvara devi dasi.
Letter to Pancadravida written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		On your recommendation I am accepting the following as my duly initiated disciples. First Initiation: Bhakta Gustavo - Gunesvara dasa, Bhakta Damian - Deva-srestha dasa, Bhakta Marceline - Mathura - mandala dasa, Bhakta Javier - Japananda dasa, Bhakta Kique - Kasi Misra dasa, Bhakta Osvaldo - Agnipati dasa, Bhakta Juan - Sacisuta dasa. Second Initiation: Caitanya Svarupa das brahmacari, Nitya Tripta das brahmacari.


1976 - September 21

Lecture SB 01.07.24 - Vṛndāvana
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vanipedia.org 		We do not allow any lazy man. He must be engaged. That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. That is Kṛṣṇa's order. Niyataṁ kuru karma. Arjuna was refusing to fight. He was trying to be nonviolent gentleman. Kṛṣṇa did not allow him. "No, no, you cannot do that. That is your weakness."

vanipedia.org 		Don't think that Krsna consciousness movement, those who are Krsna conscious, they'll become lazy and imitate Haridasa Thakura. That is not Krsna consciousness.

vanipedia.org 		So, saḥ, Kṛṣṇa, who is described in the previous verse, tvam ādyaḥ puruṣaḥ, the original person... Original person, Absolute Truth, that is described in the Vedānta-sūtra, janmādy asya yataḥ (SB 1.1.1). Original person. Just like in our familywise, or guru-paramparā-wise, there is somebody, original person. So similarly, the whole creation, there is original person.
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vanipedia.org 		A man is living with husband and wife or children, but the aim is how to improve spiritual life. That is gṛhastha-āśrama. And one who has no such aim, he simply wants to enjoy the senses, and for that purpose he's decorating the house, decorating the wife, children—that is called gṛha-vrata or gṛhamedhī.
Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada
"In this material world, in this universe, ādi-kavi. Tene brahma hṛdā ādi-kavaye (SB 1.1.1). So he's the ādi, original, first created being. Then who is his ādi? Wherefrom Brahmā is coming? That is Kṛṣṇa. Tene brahma hṛdā ādi-kavaye. So in this way, when you come to Kṛṣṇa, making a... Brahmā is coming from Viṣṇu, Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu. Svayambhū: he's born of the lotus flower. That Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu is coming from Kāraṇodakaśāyī Viṣṇu. And Kāraṇodakaśāyī Viṣṇu is coming from Saṅkarṣaṇa. Saṅkarṣaṇa is coming from Aniruddha; Aniruddha from Pradyumna, like that. Ultimately—Kṛṣṇa. Therefore Kṛṣṇa is ādyam. And Kṛṣṇa says in the Bhagavad-gītā, mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat (BG 7.7). There is no more. So that is God."
760921 - Lecture SB 01.07.24 - Vrndavana


1976 - September 22

Lecture SB 01.07.25 - Vṛndāvana
Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada
"So, the more people will be materialistic, the world will be burdened. Therefore there must be war, pestilence, famine, to clear these rascals, clear out. You'll find these things. In Europe, every ten years, twenty years, there is a fight, war. It is the history. From the Greece history, Roman history and Seven Years War, Hundred Years War—war. There must be war, because they're sinful. The same sinful, killing animals continually. So there is war, reaction. So what is that war? To lessen the burden. To lessen the burden. It becomes very heavy, unbearable by the earth. And to reduce the weight there is natural... And when there is still more power required, then Kṛṣṇa comes: 'Arrange for a war in the battlefield of Kurukṣetra and bring all the rascals and finish within eighteen days'. Within eighteen days, sixty-four crores men died. This is... But why? It is Kṛṣṇa's arrangement."
760922 - Lecture SB 01.07.25 - Vrndavana

vanipedia.org 		It is not possible to experience Kṛṣṇa by our these material blunt senses. It is not possible. We have to make purified. How it is purified? Sevonmukhe hi jihvādau svayam eva sphuraty adaḥ. When you engage yourself in the service of the Lord, sevonmukha—"Kṛṣṇa, I want to serve You"—this much wanted, qualification.
Letter to Ayodhyapati written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Your siddhanta is correct to the sastra and in this way go on reading books and have the correct perception and Krsna will help you. siddhanta baliya citte na kara alasa iha haite krsna lage sudrdha manasa (CC Adi 2.117).

vanipedia.org 		A sincere student should not neglect the discussion of such conclusions, considering them controversial, for such discussions strengthen the mind. Thus one's mind becomes attached to Sri Krsna. You should be always alert in understanding the sastric conclusions that will help you, otherwise we can be misled by bogus philosophies.
Letter to Jayapataka written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		We should not criticize the Ramakrishna Mission by name, or directly, for they have become somehow or other popular and people are against us for it. So carefully avoid this type of preaching.
Letter to Mahatma Prabhu written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		One who explains the supreme secret to the devotees is the most dear to Krsna and never will there be one more dear. So always keep them enthused in this book distribution. This pleases me very much.
Letter to Rajkumar Gupta written from Vṛndāvana

1976 - September 23

Lecture SB 01.07.26 - Vṛndāvana
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vanipedia.org 		We have discussed about brahmāstra. It is almost similar to the modern nuclear weapon or bomb, but it is made with chemicals, but this brahmāstra is made of mantra. That is the subtle way. Modern science has not reached to that point of subtle existence. Therefore they cannot understand how transmigration of the soul takes place. The modern science has no knowledge. Imperfect knowledge. They see the gross body, but they have no knowledge about the subtle body.
Letter to Giriraja written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		The statement on Bhavan's Journal has been sent to them. Also a copy of my letter to Smt. Morarji has been sent to you by Harikesa Swami. Please acknowledge receipt. Harikesa is not working as my secretary now; he has been sent for preaching work.
Letter to Rupanuga written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		I cannot see every article, but some of you should examine why nice articles are rejected. See if the board can be changed. If experienced editors are not there it will be unpopular magazine. These things are to be seen to immediately by the GBC. The board should be judged immediately and be changed if required.


1976 - September 24

Lecture SB 01.07.27 - Vṛndāvana
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vanipedia.org 		Suppose I have established this temple. Now, under my direction, my disciples are worshiping vigraha. Vigraha means the form of the Lord, rūpa. But if there is no following of the regulative principles, then after my death it will be galagraha, a burden, that "Our rascal Guru Mahārāja established this temple, and we have to worship, early rise in the morning, all botheration." This will be... That is called galagraha, a burden, "He has left with us a burden." This is the risk. Then this such a big temple will be mismanaged, and you'll find that "This is breaking" and "This is unclean," and there is no attention.

vanipedia.org 		As soon as you will lose the spirit of service, this temple will become a big go-down, that's all. No more temple. So we have to maintain that service spirit. Therefore we are so much particular—"Why fresh flower is not there?" If you think, "Here is a stone statue. What is the meaning of fresh flower or old flower? We have to give some flower. That's all." But no feeling, that "Here is Kṛṣṇa. We must give fresh flower." Just like I'm a living man, if you give me a fresh flower, and if you bring some garbage, and if you give me, shall I be pleased? Do you think?
Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada
"Yaśodāmāyi wanted the Supreme Personality of Godhead as his (her) son, for which hundreds of years he undergone..., or she undergone austerities. And when the Supreme Personality of Godhead appeared before him..., before her, for both the husband and wife: 'What do you want?' 'Now we want a son like You'. So Kṛṣṇa said, 'There is no second one beyond Me, so I shall become your son', So He became son. So He must play perfectly, that Yaśodāmāyi may not understand that 'Here is the Supreme Personality of Godhead'. Then the feelings of mother and son will disappear. Anyway, Kṛṣṇa is playing exactly like a little child. So that is Kṛṣṇa's mercy."
760924 - Lecture SB 01.07.27 - Vrndavana
Letter to Gurudasa written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Harikesa has gone there to Poland to preach as you are doing, so take him with you. I have given him $1,000.00 for immediate expenditure and he has to return this as soon as possible.
Letter to Jayatirtha written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Harikesa was doing nice preaching work and recently he has received one letter from Sucandra. Both of them can work there very nicely. So, as you know, I am interested very much for preaching work. I have sent him yesterday to Poland.
Letter to Lokanatha written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		If possible you can collect something for our Gurukula and Temple also, and if some high-class men want to offer their children to Gurukula we can accept.
Letter to Manager, Central Bank of India written from Vṛndāvana
Letter to Prabhanu written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		With reference to your letter to Harikesa Swami dated 15th inst., Sriman Srineketan das Brahmacari may take second initiation at the next Mayapur festival.
Letter to Sukadeva written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Gurukrpa Swami is coming there, and whatever he may advise may be done, regarding the deities.
Letter to Yasomatinandana written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Regarding against propoganda, it is going on practically everywhere, especially Bengal. So we have to work very sincerely and Krishna will give us protection.


1976 - September 25

Lecture SB 01.07.28-29 - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Veda means knowledge. So from the Vedas you can have all different types of knowledge, namely material knowledge and spiritual knowledge, both, perfectly. Because we have now forgotten our spiritual energy. We do not cultivate spiritual energy. Therefore the Veda is there.
Letter to Bhaktijana written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Regarding my leaving, I'll not leave the planet until you order.
Letter to S. P. Ghosh written from Vrndavana
Letter to Sri S. R. Kejriwal written from Vṛndāvana
Telegram to ISKCON Hare Krishna Land written from Vṛndāvana

1976 - September 26

Lecture SB 01.07.30-31 - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		The modern science admits that everything is relative. Relative world—according to the body, according to the time. Relative world, not absolute. The absolute world is different: where there is no relativity. Everyone is as good as the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Conversation - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Prabhupāda requested, I mean to say, pleaded in my behalf so many things. He said three words, "It is better that he is living outside your company. He will do, when time will come, he'll do himself everything. You haven't got to recommend him." These very words.
Letter to Karandhara written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		If you make 2500 mrdangas per year, that is very good, then distribute to the whole of American people.
Letter to Radhavallabha written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		I am in receipt of your letter dated 17th inst. and copies of 8th Canto, vol 1 Srimad-Bhagavatam. Thank you very much.
Letter to Ramesvara written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		I have no objection if the whole Vasudeva Punja family be trained up and take charge of the temple. Local men should not simply become a visitor but they should be trained up to take charge of the temple.


1976 - September 27

Lecture SB 01.07.32-33 - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		According to Vedic system, the government has to look after about the ultimate goal of life also. The modern government, they are anxious to give material comforts, but formerly the aim was to..., how to educate people for spiritual advancement of life. Therefore the society was divided into four higher and lower divisions: brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya, śūdra.
Letter to Dr. Ghosh written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		I hope you have seen all our temples in Canada, especially Toronto where we have got the biggest temple in Canada. Very soon we shall have another big temple in Ottawa.
Letter to Dr. S. B. Chatterjee written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Before going to America I approached many respectable friends for giving me at least one boy from each family to be trained up in this line of self-realization, but I was not successful. The parents had no interest—the same difficulty of sudra mentality.

vanipedia.org 		Of course we have to have independent private university because the government is not interested according to Vedic ideology. Bon Maharaja tried for the last forty years to make a Vaisnava university recognized by the government, but he failed.
Letter to Gopala Krishna written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Hamsaduta is not GBC, you are GBC. No, don't return U.S. Immediately come here and talk with me. Don't do like rascal.
Letter to Sharma das written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Read my books and do some menial service, but why you have left Mayapur? You are restless, so what can be done. You were chanting in Mayapur. Wherever you may live, you have to abide by the order of the authority. Because you are restless you are not fit for chanting absolutely.


1976 - September 28

Lecture SB 01.07.34-35 - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Under the pretext that "Kṛṣṇa said," "My spiritual master has said," "Prabhupāda has said," we manufacture something. Don't do that. Unless you are directly ordered, you cannot do at least such things as to chastise a brahma-bandhu. This should not be done. Here is direct order.
Letter to Gopiparanadhana written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		With reference to your letter to Harikesa dated 21st inst., regarding the purport, 2nd paragraph to Bhagavatam 2.2.38 (sic), it is clear. Do not try to change anything.
Letter to Harikesa written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		I am very much perturbed to hear you are suffering from maleria in Delhi. So don't be worried, you'll very soon recover, but I think it is a hindrance for you going to Europe. I therefore request you not to proceed to Europe immediately, but stay and recoup your health, and then we shall think over your going abroad.
Letter to Jayapataka written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		The idea is that we are prepared to give all facility for maintenance of the body without sinful activities like illicit sex, meat-eating, intoxication and gambling. Everyone should live peacefully in healthy condition of life with the purpose of advancing in spiritual consciousness. In this concept we can accept anyone from any part of the world.
Letter to A. K. K. Sastri written from Vrndavana

vanipedia.org 		We require qualified men like you for spreading the Krishna Consciousness Movement all over the world. I shall request you to come here immediately with this letter of identification and see me without delay. We have got good accommodation for you.
Letter to unknown written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Bhagavan Shri Krishna Chaitanya foretold, "The singing of My name is sure to be spread in every village and in every town throughout the world." In order to materialize this divine saying both Shri Shri Bhaktivinode Thakur and Prabhupada Shri Shri Bhakti Siddhanta Sarasvati Goswami tried their best and under their direction even at the old age of 70, I started for America. There, for a full one year I had to experience great difficulties in my single handed mission.

vanipedia.org 		Amongst all these the very big temples in London, New York, Los Angeles, and Detroit can be specially mentioned. In these temples the minimum number of devotees attached is 50 and maximum 250 and they are engaged to distribute Krishna hymns leading an austentious life.

vanipedia.org 		It seems if these people without adopting the aforesaid wrong way of doing harm to our International Society for Krishna Consciousness, do themselves join our movement, there is every chance of a formation of the body of a Great United Nation.

vanipedia.org 		After the last great war the existing body of the present United Nations was formed, but what real benefit there has been to be mentioned of for the worldly people. The ISKCON movement has actually got together all nations in the world by their adoption of nonviolence creed and spreading of Krishna's name, door-to-door.

vanipedia.org 		At the age of 70 I had the energy to go outside India and apart from other various duties, engage myself in writing books even at night without sleep. All these have been done in accordance with the direction of my Prabhupada Gurudeva. My foreign devotees, with the help of various machines, do the needful for printing all these books written by me. These books are sold throughout the world for which an all round very hard labor is required. If sale proceeds of my books sold outside India are brought for aforesaid expenses in India, what harms and what is to be envied of.

vanipedia.org 		My request is not to do injustice to us in any way by unnecessary anti propaganda, but to cooperate with us by joining our Krishna Consciousness movement so that it may spread more and more satisfactorily, and for this we shall be highly obliged.


1976 - September 29

Lecture SB 01.07.36-37 - Vṛndāvana
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vanipedia.org 		The spiritual master will say that "You work like this." So that should be determined. That is karma, guṇa-karma. Spiritual master sees that he has these qualities. That is natural. Just like in the school, college, somebody is being trained up as a scientist, somebody is trained up as an engineer, as a medical man, as a lawyer. According to the tendency, practical psychology of the student, he is advised that "You take this line." Similarly, these four divisions of the society, it is very scientific. So by the instruction of the guru, when he's in the gurukula, he will be specified a particular type of duty.
Conversation - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Everything in relationship with God is powerful. But the name in this age is the most powerful: kīrtanād eva kṛṣṇasya mukta-saṅgaḥ paraṁ vrajet (SB 12.3.51).
Letter to Bahulasva written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Farm-opening, that is good idea. Apart from my Krishna Consciousness spiritual movement I want this--that people may not move from the villages to the town. Krishna Himself was a villager-He did not move to the town. He went to Dvaraka, but Vasudeva is everywhere.
Letter to Bhurijana das written from Vṛndāvana
Letter to Dvarakesa written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Kirtana and prasada will appeal to even the uneducated. We have means to preach to both the educated and uneducated, the sinful and the pious - dhiradhira-jana-priyau.
Letter to Pancaratna written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		I have not received the Bengali Bhagavata Darsana yet. We want first class printing - offset method is cheaper and good. You may use Srila Bhaktivinode Thakura's translation of the Siksastakam.


1976 - September 30

Lecture SB 01.07.38-39 - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		One should go to a guru for spiritual advancement of life, not as a fashion. People go to a guru as a fashion. My Guru Mahārāja used to say that "Don't make a guru just like you keep a dog, as a fashion."
Conversation - Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		Yes. '68 I got immigration and '69. It is a long history, checkered history. So preaching is independent. If you have got desire, you can preach in any circumstances and Kṛṣṇa will help you. I have practically experienced. I went to your country without any help, without any money. Alone. And gradually things developed. ...all foreigners. I did not approach any Indian. I did not approach anyone, but Kṛṣṇa sent friends, gradually developed.

vanipedia.org 		I approached Mukunda. Mukunda had no place, still I asked him. So I kept my goods at Mukunda's house and went to live with Yeargen. That is another loft. So in this way, with great hardship—sometimes here, sometimes there—in this way, I got two hundred dollars by selling books, and then I asked Mukunda to find out an apartment. He found this apartment, 26 Second Avenue. One storefront down and one living quarters up. So I found it very convenient. Down I would lecture and hold kīrtana. So he charged 75 dollars per month for the apartment, small apartment.
Letter to Vicitravirya written from Vṛndāvana

vanipedia.org 		I am accepting the following disciples for first initiation: Radha Krishna Pillay - Rama-Sarana Dasa, Gordon McMillan - Gaura-Nitai Dasa, Brian Daulby - Bhajanananda Dasa, Eamon Morton - Atmatma Dasa, Benedict Bygott-Webb - Bhagavad-bhakta Dasa, Gabriel Zajac - Giri-Govardhana Dasa, Tony Smullen - Tulasi-priya Dasa, Janet Pillay - Janaki Devi Dasi, Laureanne Mcmillan - Lal Gopala Devi Dasi.


   
 
   
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