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

458 Letters from Srlla Prabhupiida
Please keep me informed about your
plans and program for Australia, and I
hope you are all well.
Your ever well-wisher,
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
68-7-12
Montreal
12th July, 1968
My Dear Jayananda,
Please accept my blessings. I am in
due receipt of your letter dated July 3,
1968. I have heard about your successful
execution of Rathayatra festival in San
Francisco from so many sources. And I
am so glad to hear the news. But till now I
have not received any newspaper clippings,
or photostats of news articles. I am
very much anxious to get them.
Yes, this Jay boy has come here, and I
have seen he is sincere in accepting this
principles. I have decided to initiate him
very soon. They have got a two days' engagement
of Kirtan here in the expo pavillion,
and they have agreed to pay $150.00
per day. If the two days' program is successful,
then they may get more money
and more engagements.
Yes, I have received Sriman Vinode
Patel 's letter, and I have replied the same
also promptly. He appears to be a great
help to your temple, and please try to keep
him nicely. This is the sequence of
Krishna Consciousness. He is a foreigner
and belonging to a different country and
culture, but Krishna Consciousness is so
nice that one forgets his material designations
and one tries to associate with similar
Krishna consciousness persons. This
is a Sanskrit word, is called Swajati
Snigdha Saya. That means melted on the
pure spiritual platform. We hope to bring
everyone to such spiritual platform so that
everyone will forget his material false
identification and come to the real platform
of becoming eternally the servant of
Krishna.
I am so glad that your parents are realizing
the importance of Krishna Consciousness
through their worthy son,
Jayananda. A similar incident was there
when Lord Chaitanya was present, that
one father became a devotee of Lord
Chaitanya through the exigency of the
son. The son was prior a devotee than the
father. So Chaitanya Mahaprabhu asked
the father whether he was father, or the
son was father, and the father replied that
in his spiritual enlightenment, his son was
his father. So you are acting like a good father
to your parents . So Krishna Consciousness
will spread nicely in this way.
And Lord Chaitanya will be very much
pleased on your benevolent activites. I
have seen your father and mother, and
they are very good souls, especially I remember
your mother. And I hope by the
Grace of Lord Krishna they will take to
this Krishna Consciousness very seriously.
Hoping you are all well,
Your ever well-wisher,
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
68-7-13
Allston, Mass.
Montreal
12th July, 1968
My Dear Satsvarupa,
Please accept my blessings. I am in
due receipt of your letter dated July 10,
1968, and I have noted the contents about
Mr. Coomey, assistant district director of
Boston department of Justice. As you say
that within a day or two he is going to reply
my letter, I shall wait for his reply, untill
next week, and then I shall take steps
as it may be needed. In the meantime I
have noted his instructions as conveyed by
you .
I understand that you are trying to
organize a Brahmacharini ashram. A