Author Archives: Srila Prabhupada's Letters

1969 July 20: “Krishna Consciousness is not brought to America in an altered form. It is the bonafide process. If you continue to associate with the devotees you will see practically how you are making very, very nice spiritual advancement.”Prabhupada …

1973 July 20: “So you have sufficient engagement there? Because if we are not full time engaged then the mind is free to do its fickle business. Maya will immediately enter – we do not even have to call her.”Prabhupada Letters :: 1973

1973 July 20: “Krsna understanding is very easy for those who are simple and submissive devotees. We know well the havoc that results when a non-devotee gives his interpretation of Krsna. We want all our foreign language books to be translated by devot…

1973 July 20: “I am awaiting anxiously your report on my meeting with the Emperor of Japan. As to when I shall be able to go, in September I will stay in L.A. Then whenever you call me to Japan I shall be able to go.”Prabhupada Letters :: 1973

1973 July 20: “You proposed to move to another building but I do not appreciate this idea. Go directly to the Columbia Club building so we can purchase and move directly there. I am praying to Krsna that He will favor you with that new house for conduc…

1970 July 19: “The disciplic succession is beginning from God. If the branches, twigs and leaves remain in touch with the original tree, then it is alright. The test is whether the line is in touch with the Supreme – that is all.”Prabhupada Letters :: …

1970 July 19: “Do not be disappointed but be always engaged in pushing on Sankirtana, distribution of our literatures, Prasadam, and preaching and classes and sincere souls will come. Work very sincerely and Krsna will provide all facilities according …

1970 July 19: “I have already said; again I repeat, go from village to village and get them all interested in Krsna. You write to say that many nice devotees are coming. When I hear all these things immediately I wish to go myself personally.”Prabhupad…

1972 July 19: “We have celebrated a very, very nice Rathayatra festival here in London, and in Trafalgar Square I initiated nearly 30 new devotees with fire yajna before 25,000 persons, mostly Englishmen. We are leaving for Paris tomorrow, so you may r…

1973 July 19: “I am eating and working nicely here. The village is neat and cleans. Rathayatra was very successful, 10,000 people attended and prasadam was distributed. George Harrison came to meet with me and he is very enthusiastic to cooperate.”Prab…

1973 July 19: “It is not important to hold a Janmastami GBC meeting. The important thing now is for GBC members to go on working. The best time and place for GBC meeting is Mayapur on Lord Caitanya’s Appearance Day. Mayapur is meant for that. All devot…

1974 July 19: “I am sending one of my elder sannyasi disciples for preaching and opening a Krishna consciousness temple there. Three other men will also go there to assist him. Please see that he is taken care of there. He will be arriving within one m…

1974 July 19: “I may request you to send three men to go for preaching and opening a temple. There is one man there who wants to give $50,000 for construction of a temple. Please do this as soon as possible.”Prabhupada Letters :: 1974

1970 July 18: “World Sankirtana Party does not mean that we have to cover immediately the whole world. The program is that everywhere this Sankirtana Movement should be introduced.”Prabhupada Letters :: 1970

1970 July 18: “If the temples are not properly maintained, then we should simply concentrate on Sankirtana outside. Temple opening is secondary, but we should concentrate on the outside Sankirtana.”Prabhupada Letters :: 1970

1970 July 18: “Since the publication by MacMillan in 1968 which is now in its third printing, I have desired to publish my expanded version of Bhagavad-gita As It according to my original manuscript. I am confident my original manuscript will make a mo…

1970 July 18: “I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter informing me you have lost your original set of beads and requesting me to chant upon the new set sent by you. Now you are in very responsible position as president of our branch, so you should…

1975 July 18: “Chant Hare Krishna and read our books very carefully. Do not waste your time with this study of monkeys. What will you learn by this? Better to hear from Lord Krishna Himself in Bhagavad-gita.”Prabhupada Letters :: 1975

1975 July 18: “Somehow or other they must be induced to take interest in spiritual life. Then it will be successful. You will get money and they will get spiritual profit. Both will be benefited by the grace of Krishna Balarama.”Prabhupada Letters :: 1975

1968 July 17: “Henceforward our plan should be to push Sankirtana and sell our publications. For books, Brahmananda, for magazine, Rayarama, for Sankirtana, Mukunda, and for suggestion, my humble self.”Prabhupada Letters :: 1968

1969 July 17: “There are many Vaisnava temples there, if any big temple is in difficulty financially, we can take charge of this temple and improve it and maintain it nicely. So if you know of any prospective temples where this could be arranged, pleas…

1973 July 17: “I understand you wish to remain as householders living outside the temple that is perfectly all right. However, as a householder you cannot go into the streets and hold sankirtana and sell our books as a means of maintenance. This is not…

1974 July 17: “Yes, it will be very nice if the Chinese boys come there to the Hong Kong center. That is our mission – that local boys take up interest in our movement.”Prabhupada Letters :: 1974

1974 July 17: “All our sannyasis will be present there. You also come there as a regular sannyasi and take part. That is my desire. So long I am living I wish you all be strictly under my guidance without any fratricidal disagreement.”Prabhupada Letter…

1975 July 17: “We are selling 30-40 lakhs around the world so we shall expect at least sales in India of one lakh of Rupees per month. Did the Oberoi-Sheraton Hotel purchase our books? The hotels must purchase our books for putting in their rooms.”Prab…

1975 July 17: “Expenditure must be stabilized and scrutinized. Nothing should be spent extravagantly. That you have to see. Do not bother my brain how to do it. I have put you in charge how to do it.”Prabhupada Letters :: 1975

1966 July 16: “I have further risked in the matter of rent of house. I am completely independent and I have taken a telephonic connection. My lecture hall is on the ground floor and my apartment is on the first. This Second Avenue is one of the ten lon…

1966 July 16: “The controversy is now closed and there is no need of help from any one else. We are not always successful in our attempts in preaching work but such failures are not certainly ludicrous. In the Absolute field both success and failures a…

1968 July 16: “Your appreciation of Rathayatra and the beauty of Kirtana and Jagannatha are some of the wonderful things I mark in your progressive advancement. Please continue and you will be more and more happy and at the end, gain entrance into the …

1969 July 16: “If you can increase the number of BTG’s to 25,000 monthly, that is the nicest idea. We want to distribute as many issues as possible, so the more you can print and distribute, the more my Guru Maharaja will be pleased to see His Great Dr…

1970 July 16: “I met my Guru Maharaja in 1922. I was born in a Vaisnava family – Kasinatha Mullick Thakuravati – so by the grace of Krsna from the very beginning of my life I was Krsna conscious by family tradition and by my father’s caretaking.”Prabhu…

1970 July 16: “I think very confidently that this Krsna Consciousness Movement will solve all the problems of the world – political, social, economic, etc. I am writing books and articles on this subject strictly in the line of Acarya Parampara. So the…

1975 July 16: “If the farm cannot be utilized, then it may be sold. What is the use of keeping a bad cow? Somehow or other you have to keep the men who are there engaged. If they are allowed to become idle gradually they will again become hippies.”Prab…

1975 July 16: “Why they should get salary? There should be no salary. You are working without salary, so why they should take. So after this month arrange for no one to get any salary there. That will be nice.”Prabhupada Letters :: 1975

1968 July 15: “My special instruction to you all is that you practice Sankirtana very rhythmically and in a responsive way. That means one should chant first, and others should follow him. That is a very nice system.”Prabhupada Letters :: 1968

1969 July 15: “This program of offering grand scale quantities of prasadam amongst the general people was encouraged by Lord Caitanya, because if someone partakes of the remnants of offerings to Lord Krishna, then he is sure to come back to Krishna Con…

1969 July 15: “Regarding Festivals, you may hold as many as possible. If you can hold such festivals daily, that is also nice. Our movement is for ananda, simply bliss, and the method of pushing this movement is chanting, dancing, feasting and philosop…

1970 July 15: “As I have taken this work as my life and soul on the order of my Spiritual Master, similarly if you take my desires as your life and soul, then the whole thing is immediately connected with Krsna. That is the meaning of Parampara system….

1970 July 15: “None of these activities are our personal affairs. Each and every activity is directly connected with Krsna because they come through the proper channel. They can only be received through the Spiritual Master.”Prabhupada Letters :: 1970

1972 July 15: “Regarding the songs by Jayadeva, Srita Kamala is not approved. Sometimes our Krsnadasa Babaji sings, but it is not approved by Prabhupada. Those songs are for siddha bhaktas, not for us who are learning bhaktas.”Prabhupada Letters :: 1972