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

298 Letters from Sri/a Prabhupiida
68- 1 -29
Los Angeles
25th January, 1968
My Dear Balai dasi,
Please accept my blessings. Thank you
for your letter of Jan. 8, 1968, and I have
noted the contents carefully. Regarding
your questions: Yes, leave Krishna's plate
for 15-20 minutes or more, not more than
half an hour. After offering the plate, the
balance in the pots should be distributed
immediately. The plate can remain on the
altar while the rest is being distributed.
Any initiated girl can take part in preparation
of prasadam, and even a boy who
is not initiated cannot take part.
Maya and living entities are different
energies of Krishna and all of them are
eternal . Maya is acting under the direction
of Krishna but her task is to punish the revolted
living entities; therefore, she has to
business in the spiritual platofrm. Maya
cannot go to Krishna means that Maya's
influence cannot be active in the presence
of Krishna. The example of darkness can
be given herein. The darkness has no existence
in the presence of sunlight, similarly
Maya cannot exist in the presence of
Krishna. As darkness and light exist eternally,
similarly, Maya and Krishna exist
eternally, but Maya has no existence in the
presence of Krishna. Try to understand
this simile.
The material body has got heart and
Krishna is seated there with the jiva in His
Paramatma feature. Krishna is so powerful
that He can become smaller than the
smallest and greater than the greatest. He
can keep millions of skies within His
Belly and at the same time He can enter
within the existence of the smallest atom.
He can enjoy eternally in Vrindaban with
His Associates, at the same time He can
present Himself in every nook and corner
of His Creation. These are some of the in-
conceivable potencies of Krishna and as
such living entity can never be equal with
Krishna. The Mayavadi philosophers try
to keep Krishna and living entities on
equal level and that is proof of their less
intelligence.
I hope you will understand these explanations,
and distribute them to your other
God-brothers and sisters. Hope you are
well.
Your ever well-wisher,
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
68-1 -30
26th January, 1968
My Dear Daughter Krsna devi,
Please accept my blessings. Thank you
very much for your letter postdated Jan
25, 1968, and I thank you very much for
your proposal to come here and see me . I
shall be so glad to see you and Danny personally
as soon aas possible. I requested
you takecharge of the Santa Fe Center because
you were doing the job very nifely,
and I still hope that your presence there
will solve all the problems recently created.
Mistakes there may be in our life,
but if we stick to Krsna Consciousness,
Krsna will surely put cus on the right
path. Your husband Sriman Subal das is
living with me very peacefully, and he is
carving Radha and Krsna, from hard
wood. So this life of material existence is
just like hard wood and if we can carve
Krsna out of it, that is the sucess of our
life.
So, at any circumstances you must not
forget Krsna. I love you at my heart and
therefore I gave you the name Krsna devi
dasi. Don't forget Krsna even for a single
moment; chant Hare Krsna loudly or
slowly as it my be convenient. But don't