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

with great satisfaction. Your humble sen­
timents are very nice exposed herein, and
your sincere desire to serve the Lord is the
real perfection of life.
You have asked if I found it difficult to
carry on devotional service when in my
household life, and yes, I did. In my
household life I was strictly following the
regulative principles but my wife was re­
luctant to assist me properly. Therefore I
was obliged to give up their company. You
try to take care of Lord Jagganath as far as
possible after doing your household du­
ties, but you should be strict only in com­
pleting the 16 rounds of chanting. That
will save you from all discrepancies. As a
householder even there is some flaws in
following the rules and regulations, it
doesn't matter. You should try your best
and with Krishna's help-Krishna will
help you. If you keep your heart in that at­
titude, that you want to become a pure and
sincere devotee, you must be a sincere
devotee. And Krishna will help you . You
have to keep your heart in that way, that is
your business. I hope you are well, with
your child.
Your ever well-wisher,
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
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and I thank you very much for it. You say
that you met the wife of Ravi Shankar, so
if you meet again you can speak to her in
this way ; Shri Ravi Shankarji is a world fa­
mous musician, and Lord Chaitanya
wanted to preach His mission of love of
God through music and dancing. People
generally welcome dancing and music
very much. So he being an authority in the
art of dancing and music, why not distribute
this science of dance and music
through the principles of Lord Chaitanya .
Then a great benediction will be bestowed
on the human society by utilizing the art of
music and dance for spiritualization of the
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whole world. So if he cooperates with
Swamiji then we can make a combined ef­
fort for this great service to the humanity.
That is our request.
At the present moment, Ravi Shankarji
may be getting huge amount of remuneration
in exchange for his nice musical art,
but that will be finished with the end of
this body. Many men come here and by
their talents, earn huge amounts of
money, but it remains here, and he goes
alone with his works only to accept an­
other different kind of body, forgetting ev­
erything behind . But if he acquires some
spiritual assets it goes with him, and even
it is not perfect in this life, it begins again
from that point in next life. So we wish
that Shri Ravi Shankarji may understand
this spiritual technology, and utilize his
talent for benefit of the human society. We
are interested for the highest benefit of the
human society. We are interested for the
highest benediction of the human society,
otherwise we do not expect anything from
anyone in monetary consideration. Sim­
ply that these influential men come along
and chant with us .
Regarding arati : There is no need to
worry that you do not have sufficient time
to do it many times daily, etc., simply do
what you have got time for doing, that is
sufficient. Our lives are devoted to
Krishna's service, and you are perform­
ing kirtana so it is the same thing. So do it
however you can schedule it. ACB
68-1 1-43 Los Angeles
23rd November, 1968
My Dear John Darsinos ,
Please accept my blessings . I have read
your letter (undated) and am very pleased
that you are appreciating this movement
of Krishna Consciousness. Please continue
this attitude of appreciation for