Letter to Arjit

From: Pusta Krishna - SL_760520_A1

Cleveland

My dear Arjit das,

Please accept my humble obeisances. I beg to inform you that your Letter to: Srila Prabhupada of 5-12-76 was read to His Divine Grace, and in particular He very much appreciated the beautiful pictures of the Deities, raising both the pictures of Jagannatha, and Radha Krishna to His transcendental forehead. He looked at them for some time.

Prabhupada was pleased to hear that the Rathayatra will take place in Cleveland this year, and He said that these festivals should be held everywhere, the public will greatly appreciate the festivities of chanting, dancing, and prasadam. Of course, Prabhupada is only going to spend some short time in the U.S.A. this year, and He wanted to especially see the new temples that we purchased in Detroit, Toronto, Washington, like that, so it will not be possible to come to the Rathayatra in Cleveland this year. However, that should not decrease the joy and potency of this divine event as your Rathayatra festival surely has the blessings of His Divine Grace. Please see that the cart is very strong as Prabhupada has repeatedly expressed His regret that the kart’s some things break during the procession. So do the needful. Prabhupada was very pleased by the kart in Philadelphia last year.

I hope that this meets you in good health and joyful serving mood.

Your servant,
Pusta Krishna Swami,
Personal Secretary to Srila Prabhupada

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Letter to: Prabhu
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Honolulu,
May 23, 1976

From: Pusta Krishna - SL_760523_A1

London

My dear Prabhu,

Please accept my humble obeisances. I have received one letter from one of the women devotees there in London. It seems that she is a bit more slow than the others to finish her 16 rounds. Srila Prabhupada said that “She must do some duty. Sometimes it is given as a plea to avoid doing some more active service. The temple duty is more important than chanting.” These were His exact words. So if one wants to live in the temple, they must follow the schedule like everyone else, and in their spare time they must try to finish their rounds, and if necessary sleep less. I hope that you will be able to encourage the devotees like this. Generally, they become more enlivened in service in due course of time. In that enlivened state, one chants Hare Krishna more rapidly I have noted as well; not to the point of skipping the mantra but chanting to be engaged in Krishna’s service, but we must be prepared to carry out the temple schedule like everyone else, otherwise things will become pandemonium in the name of Krishna Consciousness.

Please give this Letter to: Krishnanga devi dasi, and try to gradually encourage her more to render other types of service to Krishna as this is Prabhupada’s desire as we can see from His comments.

I hope that this meets you in good health. Prabhupada is coming to London the 20 July I think, according to the schedule. Please have money on hand to pay for Prabhupada’s ticket and his two secretaries. (Two first class tickets N.Y. to London, and one economy). Haribol!

Your servant,
Pusta Krishna Swami
Personal Secretary to Srila Prabhupada

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