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Srila Prabhupada  Writes Of Deciding To Spend 4 Months Of Each Year In New Vrindaban  - June 1969.

From a series of letters written by Srila Prabhupada outlining his vision for New Vrindaban.

Thanks to Vanipedia for the source material.

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June 01, 1969

Dear Dayananda,

Please accept my blessings. I thank you very much for your letter dated May 25, 1969, and I have noted the contents carefully. If a new temple site in Los Angeles is absolutely required to be moved in a bigger place, that should be your first business. For my place you may find a place near the temple, and it should be independent of any other tenants. It may be a small cottage, but it should be independent with a little compound surrounding. That will be very nice. I think there are many small cottages near the place, Hayworth Avenue. When I was walking on Oakwood Avenue there were many places there. I remember one at the junction of Oakwood and Harper. So this place, or a similar independent place, never mind how small, will be very convenient for me. I have already written to Tamala Krishna that if I am not invited to London during the month of June, then sometimes in July early I shall go to San Francisco to see the Rathayatra Festival there, and then I will come down to Los Angeles. But I have decided that I shall spend four months in New Vrindaban and eight months in Los Angeles. That will be my regular program.

Please convey my blessings to your good wife, Nandarani, and your nice little daughter, Candramukhi. I hope this will meet you all in very good health.

Your ever well-wisher,

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami

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On examining the historical records of all types  of people around the world, it  will be obvious that    faith  in  God  is man's  common and  constant characteristic. Uncivilized forest  tribals  survive, like animals,  on animal  flesh, but  they  also worship the sun,  the moon,  huge  mountains, large  rivers  and  tall trees  as their   benefactors and  controllers. Why do they do this?  Though the soul is extremely bound up, his faith in the  Lord, his natural quality as spirit  soul,    will  gradually manifest as the  degree that  the  material covering is  weakened.

Chaitanya Shikshamrita, Bhaktivinoda Thakura

"One can cultivate Kṛṣṇa consciousness anywhere and everywhere, provided he can always think of Kṛṣṇa. The mahā-mantra, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare, can be chanted even within the abdomen of one's mother."

Srimad Bhagavatam 3.31.21

1966 May 25:
"In the evening there was meeting the attendance was about 18 heads. After the meeting there was consultations about incorporation of The International Society for Krishna consciousness."
Prabhupada Journals :: 1966

1970 May 25: "Please do therefore everything with enthusiasm. That will satisfy me, and Krsna also, and as a result of which you will be satisfied transcendentally - this is our position."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1970

1969 May 25: "In everything we do, devotion and sincerity are the real things. The procedure may not be very right - but the desire being sincere - the Lord accepts our offering."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1969

1970 may 25: "I have to reply so many letters to give instruction and as an old man I can take relief from this work immediately. But for Krsna's sake I am pulling on. So let us act in that way all together for Krsna's sake."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1970

1970 may 25: "You have asked some specific mantra but Srila Bhaktivinoda says, 'When I chant Hare Krsna all my dangers are gone immediately.' So which other mantra can be more effective than Hare Krsna? There is no other greater mantra."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1970

1972 May 25: "We can never expect any kind of utopia, even in the spiritual world. Wherever there are persons there are bound to be differences. We should not expect any kind of perfect arrangement in this material world."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1972

1974 May 25: "So I am glad that you are fully absorbed in your work and very concerned that it be executed just to my satisfaction in parampara standard. This is your perfection."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1974

1974 May 25: "Temple presidents must be very careful on recommending gayatri initiation. After all, we are criticizing false cast brahmanas, if we ourselves are bogus brahmanas then our position is very bad."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1974

So, we can be happy. We should not become depressed that this is the age of kali. The mercy is here in the age of kali, so if we become depressed, we should meditate on the mercy of Caitanya Mahaprabhu. That is the answer to the depression that we sometimes feel in the age of kali.

 

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1967 May 24: "An important negotiation is going on in respect of purchasing a very nice house for the ISKCON H.Q. in New York. So I may not start in the beginning of the Second week. I hope this will not cause any inconvenience. Please convey my blessings to Janaki and other girls."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1967

1970 May 24: "I am so glad that you remember the auspicious day in 1944 when I started my Back to Godhead magazine. I think in the first issue you wrote some article. It is a great pleasure to remember those days of cooperation."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1970

1970 May 24: "By your blessings Back to Godhead although passing through many difficulties is doing well. First it was published in Calcutta, than Allahabad, then Delhi. In this way at last it has come to U.S.A. and my American disciples are taking care of this transcendental magazine."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1970

1970 May 24: "Since I have come to the West we have published many books like Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Sri Isopanisad, Krsna Consciousness: the Topmost Yoga System, Nectar of Devotion, Krsna Book; and I have already sent one copy of Bhagavad-gita As It Is to Sripada Tirtha Maharaja, it is published by MacMillan Company."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1970

1972 May 24: "Now we shall only want good devotees to live with us on that land. Not that we shall form a cooperative housing society and whoever pays us money, we shall accept them. So we must be very careful from the beginning to select only qualified devotees of Krishna."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1972

1972 May 24: "Actually it is the duty of the Spiritual Master to find fault with his students so that they may make progress, not that he should always be praising them. I am only interested that you become Krishna Conscious."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1972

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Please accept my humble obeisances,
All glories to Srila Prabhupada,

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Most  people think  that    they    can  enjoy  the  world now  and    worship the  Lord  in  old  age.   That, however, is unacceptable, for time  is a   precious thing  .  We should begin   to practice from the very day that we see its urgency.  Man's  life is indeed a  rare   achievement, but it is also insecure, as we cannot  say when we will die.  Thus  we should never  think  that we should not worship the Lord   when we are children.  In history we see how  Dhruva and  Prahlada received the Lord's  mercy  when they  were   children.  Is there  any  doubt that   any  human being,   being   capable   of  doing   an  activity,   cannot,   without  effort, achieve  it?   As well,  what  is practiced from  an  early  age  gradually becomes  a natural action.

Chaitanya Shikshamrita, Bhaktivinoda Thakura