Letter to Gurudasa

To Gurudasa,

I have received your letter dated Feb. 12, and examined the contents. Please accept my blessings. Locks on the door, ask Gaurachand to help. I have just arranged to send him Rs. 50 per month for his lifetime and he will cooperate with us.

If you like to stay in my rooms at Radha Damodara then you may stay there. I allow it. Preaching also means reading and writing, or else what will you preach? If I do go to Manipur I still plan to go to Vrndavana afterward. My schedule is being planned as leaving for Manipur on the 8th March and staying utmost a week say until the 15th. So as the festival program in Vrndavana runs through the 22nd March, I will still be there during the festival.
N.B. You say you are on good terms with Madan Mohan Goswami. Under the circumstances take the whole house on rent from him. Although he is appealing to the court it will not stand. Better while the litigation goes on let him take money from us and let out the whole house to us. That will be his own gain. Whatever the court decides for the time being he can rent from us for the whole house. If you can induce him it is gain for him. Rent should be at the same rent as present.

Your ever well wisher,
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami

LLetter to: Pusta Krsna,
19 February, 1977

Pusta Krsna das
(Paul H. Dossick)
1932 Haste St., Apt. 10
Berkeley, California 94704

Sree Dham Mayapur
Dist Nadia, West Bengal

Dear Pusta Krsna,
Please accept my blessings. I have received your letter of February 7, 1977, and examined the contents.

Regarding your intention to study Sanskrit and Hindi at the university, that is not good. You have to give service with whatever you already have, not that you have to learn anything extra. It is also not possible to learn Sanskrit and Hindi at this late age; it will be a waste of time. Even if you can speak a little broken Hindi it will not be useful.

As for your idea that your preaching will be more appreciated in the west if you are a professional or professor, we are already being appreciated by the professors. We don't want more. That is not our achievement. Real achievement is how we are advanced in Krsna Consciousness. That does not depend on degrees. As stated in the Bhagavatam, ahaituki apratihata, devotional service has to be executed without any condition, and there is no impediment. One doesn't become a great devotee on account of university degrees.

As for my signing your recommendation, I am referring that to the GBC meeting to take place here in Mayapur. But you should not have used my stationary letterhead without my permission.

Your ever well-wisher,
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami

ACBS/sdg

etter to: Gupta,
Additional Chief Engineer,
21 February, 1977

Additional Chief Engineer
Central Indian Railways
Victoria Terminus, Bombay 400001

Sree Dham Mayapur
Dist Nadia, West Bengal

Dear Mr. Gupta,
Please accept my greetings. I have received your letter of January 31, and examined the contents. Perhaps by now you have already received a letter on my behalf sent by my personal secretary dated January 20th. If not, I am enclosing a copy of same for your inspection.

I thank you for your good wishes and continued interest in our Krishna Consciousness Movement. Please accept my condolences on your recent ill health. Again, I want to invite you, as soon as you are a little recovered in health, to join us in Mayapur on the dates indicated in the enclosed letter. Please go on chanting Hare Krishna, as ultimately the shelter of Krishna is our only solace in this material world. Hope this meets you in improved health.

Yours sincerely,
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami

ACBS/sdg