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

346 Letters from Srrla Prabhuptida
Please try to follow the rules and regulations,
and when I arrive in New York,
we can talk together, and as you feel yourself
ready, you can be initiated. If you
have any doubts or questions, your good
God-brothers are always ready and willing
to help you. Brahmananda can give
you the lists of the qualifications for devotees,
and the 10 offenses, and other informations
as you may need. If you have got
any questions, please feel at liberty to
write to me about them as you desire. I am
also very happy to learn you are a sculpture
student; at the present time, I am trying
to carve out of wood Sri Radha and
Krishna Murti . If you can carve out these
Deities, it will be very nice.
I shall be looking forward to meeting
you when I shall return to N.Y. Hope you
are well .
Your ever well-wisher,
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
68-3-8 Los Angeles
3rd March, 1968
Sri Harikishandas Aggarwal
Gupta Hills Estate
Bombay-10,
INDIA
My Dear Seth Harikishandasji,
I am so glad to receive your letter No.
0248 1, dated Feb. 20, 1968, posted late,
as on Feb. 27, 1968. I thank you once
more for your appreciating my mission of
one God, Sri Krishna; one scripture, Bhagavad
Gita; and one mantra, Hare
Krishna. This idea is not manufactured by
me, but it is authoritative statement in the
Gita Mahatma Scandhapurana. You have
asked me to let you know about the concrete
plan for Bombay and I beg to submit
as follows.
Some years before, when I was staying
in your Prem Kutir you expressed your desire
to organize a SANKIRT AN party,
and I wish that it may be done now to help
me in my mission. If you have got opportunity
to purchase one copy of Life Magazine,
published Feb. 9, 1968, you will
find there on page 56, how nicely the
American boys and girls are dancing and
chanting the Holy Name of the Lord. A
SAMKIRT AN party as they can be organized
in India is not possible here. Here
the boys and girls, they are very serious
about chanting, but they are not trained
singers, or singers in the tune we chant in
India. Therefore, I wish that if you organize
a SAMKIRT AN party there, completely
trained in spiritual ways, and the
American students combine with them, I
think a very nice SAMKIRT AN party can
be organized to travel all over the world. I
have tested it definitely that melodious vibration
of SAMKIRT AN, if they are performed
by serious devotees, can attract
people from the very spiritual platform,
and it at once makes the spiritual background
very smooth, when a spiritual instruction
from the Bhagavad Gita can be
implemented very nicely. So my first concrete
program is that if you agree to organize
such a SAMKIRT AN party, a batch
of American students may join, and I can
combine these American and Indian devotees
together under discipline. The
American boys are being trained up
strictly on spiritual line, which I have already
explained to you in my last letter.
Similarly, the Indian boys or girls must be
spiritually trained; it is only by spiritually
trained vibration can implement spiritual
seeds in the heart of the audience, not otherwise.
So, if you agree to cooperate with
me in this direction, then I wish to go with
a batch of American students to your care
and stay in Bombay for some time, and try
to open a branch in Bombay of our society.
Here we have got six temples already, and
they are nicely being managed by the
American Vaishnavas under strict discipline,
without their being born in any