Letters from Srila Prabhupada Vol.1 1947-1969 (in pdf) - Krishna Path

226 Letters from Sri/a Prabhupiida
banker to pay you Rs 25/- per month without
fail but the key of the room will be
with me.
(3) I have not begun my printing works
because you have not said anything about
the room. If you therefore settle about the
room in either of the above mentioned ( 1)
& (2) (proposed) __ I shall come
__ from Calcutta, do the needful &
then I shall go back to U.S.A. If you are
not settling anything __ room, then I
may not come back to Delhi any more. I
will go to U.S.A. directly from Calcutta
via Pacific (route ?) for which Sri Dalmia
Seth has already promised for the ticket
Rs. 5,500/-. So kindly reply this letter
forthwith to my Calcutta address & __
Hope this will find you well.
Yours affectionately,
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
67-10-9 Calcutta
11th October, 1967
My dear Brahmananda,
Please accept my blessings. On my arrival
in Calcutta I have duly received your
two letters dated __ & 5th instant. Regarding
change of dress, I beg to inform
you that every Krishna conscious person
must be clean shaved, must have Tilaks on
the forehead and other eleven places and
must have the Sikha on the top of the head
besides beads on the neck as usual. Rarely
one can continue to keep beard but it is
better not to keep it to distinguish oneself
from the Hippies. We must let the public
know that we are not Hippies. Do not try
to follow the unauthorised advice of Kirtanannanda.
No body cares for the dress;
every sane man follows the philosophy
and practical talks. Let Kirtananda Swami
do something practically. Let him do
whatever he likes and let us see that thousands
of American are following him. Unless
he does so do not accept his principle.
I think all of you except a Sannyasi may
dress yourself just like a fine up to date
American gentleman but one must have
the Tilaks etc as I have mentioned above.
Kirtanananada is the first man in our society
who cleanly shaved and kept the Sikha
on the top of the head and now he has begun
to keep beard again. This is not good.
Whatever he is doing now-a-days has no
sanction from me. And he has deliberately
disobeyed me by not going to London.
Now he appears to be out of my
control and therefore I advise you not to
follow his principles unless he shows
practically something wonderful. I gave
him a chance to do this in the matter of
opening a Branch in London but he has
failed to do it. Now let him show first of all
that by seeing his newly grown beard he
has been successful to have many
Americans following him and our financial
condition has improved, then try to
follow his instruction. Otherwise reject
all idle talks. A krishna conscious person
must be seen by ears and not by the eyes or
in other words one should try to know the
depth of realisation by Krishna conscious
person and not see the beard which has
become the practice of the Hippies.
You should have immediately utilised
Mr. Nehru to give me a certificate. Lord
Chaitanya's movement is genuine and I
am the bonafide representative in your
country for this movement. Now if Mr.
Nehru certifies this, then where is the difficulty
to obtain the permanent Visa either
from there or from here. Please see therefore
immediately Mr. Hejmadi and obtain
the certificate as abovementioned. I think
Mr. Nehru must have already spoken to
Mr. Hejmadi about this.
As advised by you I am writing separately
to Hayagriva about the manuscript
of Geetopanisad. For typing, Satswarupa
is always ready and therefore there is no
need of emplying a paid man.
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