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

not advisable to open a center there.
Achyutananda is feeling sick and willing
to return to his mother, so opening of Indian
center may be set aside for the time
being until I have the opportunity to return
back to India.
In the meantime there is a good news
for us that Jayananda, the president of our
San Franicsco center, is attempting to
have their own house in San Francisco. I
am returning to San Francisco on the 8th
March. I shall see how the matters have
proceeded there. Now, if somewhere we
get our own house and start our own press
and we sit down together for publishing
Back to Godhead and other books, how
will you like the idea? Most probably I
will get my permanent resident visa, and
if we sit together for concentrating our energies
in the matter of important publication
work, it doesn't matter whether we
are in USA or in India. Our proposal to
open a press in India was to get cheap labor,
but here in USA, if our brahmacharies
work in the press, there is no question
of labor expenditure at all. Subal das has
got some experience in working in the
press. Similarly, yourself, Purushottam,
Madhusudan, and others have got some
experience. So how would you like the
idea of starting a press in our own building
at San Francisco? I shall be glad to hear
from you after mature consideration.
Your ever well-wisher,
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
68-3-10
Los Angeles
4th March, 1968
My Dear Hansadutta,
Please accept my blessings. I offer the
same to my daughter, Himavati, and I
hope she is doing well. I am very glad that
Krishna is already dictating you how to
make perfect the SAMKIT AN party. I
completely agree with you about the pro-
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gram of our traveling across the country,
being booked in several places. And I am
glad that our friend, Allen Ginsberg, is
helping you. There is no doubt about our
success if we can make this Kirtan party
successful. The most important point in
this connection is that we shall never be
professional; that is to say, we shall try to
make the Kirtan party perfect from the
point of view of Krishna Consciousness.
The idea of introducing Pancha Tattwa in
the Kirtan party was also contemplated by
me. Not only that, we have to prepare different
dresses for Radha and Krishna, and
Their eight confidential Associates,
Sakhis. Sometimes you have to dress
somebody as Nrisinghadev and Prahlad;
in this way, we shall have varieties of show
along with the Kritan, and all the varieties
will be picked up from Srimad Bhagwatam
and Bhagavad Gita . We have to teach
the Brahmacharies and the Brahmacharinis
to speak in Sanskrit some of the
verses in this connection, and we explain
the verses by singing, chanting, and
speaking also. Sometimes in the middle of
chanting and singing, we shall speak also.
So, all these varieties show will be so attractive
with melodious musical sounds,
and above all our good behavior and advanced
Krishna Consciousness, will
make this show very successful. In the
meantime, you train the Kirtan party as
you are doing, and the responsive method
is all perfect. I have already written you in
my last letter in this connection, and again
I say that the responsive method should be
practiced. There may be more than one
singer, just like you may take the leader's
seat, sometimes Jai Govinda may take the
leader's seat, sometimes others may take
the leader's seat, but the method of chanting
and responding, then chanting, should
always be followed. When I come to New
Yo rk certainly we shall devise plans on
this touring program, not only traveling
within the States, but also traveling all