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

508 Letters from Srfla Prabhupada
Mukunda and others, very soon.
Hope this meets you in good health,
Your ever well-wisher,
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
N.B. I am going tomorrow to San Francisco,
and you can reply this letter there,
at 518 Frederick Street, San Francisco,
Cal. 94 117. I have received one letter
from Shyamsundar, has arrived in London,
and his address is 80 Herne Hill,
London S.E. 24, England. (send c/o
Samuel Speerstra) You can correspond
with your Godbrothers there.
68-9-5
9th September, 1968
My Dear Subal ,
Please accept my blessings. I beg to
acknowledge receipt of your letter dated
Sept. 1, 1968, and I am so glad to learn
that you have got permission to chant in
the park. Previously you sent me the press
clippings, and I have seen that so there
was some difficulty, now by Krishna's
Grace, you have got permission Do not
mind that the park is not visited by many
people. But, if you chant many people
will come. That will make your attempt
successful. You will be glad to know that
just yesterday I have arrived in San Francisco,
and if you so desire, then I may go
for a day or two to Santa Fe , but it will be
very much expensive. Because I cannot
stay more than three or four days there.
Do you think that for three or four days
you shall invite me, and spend so much
money while you are hard up? So think
over, but if you desire I can go there.
The San Francisco Samkirtan Party is
doing very wonderful work, and I understand
they are collecting also very nicely.
And I have come here that a permanent
Sankirtan Party may travel all over the
country. Let me see what happens. Here
the Indians who have come from the
Guzrata province, they are generally devotees
of Lord Krishna. They are offering
their willing cooperation. Especially I
have come for this purpose, how to engage
them in Krishna Consciousness.
Hope this finds you in good health,
Your ever well-wisher,
ACB
68-9-6 San Francisco
9th September, 1968
My Dear Aniruddha,
Please accept my blessings. I beg to
acknowledge receipt of your letter dated
August 30, 1968, and noted the contents
carefully. I have already written one letter
to Valaram, as you gave me his address.
Regarding Barry Major, I think I have already
replied his letter from New Yo rk,
and I am asking him to see me in San
Francisco. You will be glad to know that
just yesterday I have come to San Francisco,
at 3:00 local time yesterday afternoon.
And here the Indians are very
willing to cooperate with our temple activities.
Regarding minor boys who want
to be trained by us; as Brahmachary. It is a
very nice opportunity to train such young
boys, but there legal implication. Now,
our society is a registered, recognized religious
society. So we can consult some
lawyer whether such religious institution
where we are teaching specifically how to
become moral in character. We are teaching
them prohibition of 4 principle sinful
activities, and we are teaching them God
consciousness. Whether we can teach
such minor boys as Brahmacharies and
training them. I am very sorry that these
people do not want to see their sons develop
high character and knowledge in
God conciousness, but they want to push
them in the stereotyped way of materialistic
life. But even we are prepared to help
them, if the legal implications are there,