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

he tried to cheat us so we must consider
him as very dangerous cheater and avoid
any future business dealing. We shall continue
to be polite with him but this is far as
it is to go because his only thought for us is
how to exploit. You must remember this in
any future contact with him. He now owes
me $ 15,000 for the record album royalty
that I recorded and yet he claims that our
society owes him so much money for insence
and records. This is all a bluff because
unless he pays me how can he insist
we owe to him. So it is best that we have no
more schemes with this Mr. Kallman. Not
even should we buy records from him. We
shall rather make our own records.
I have seen the recent dummy you have
sent of Teachings of Lord Caitanya and it
is very much approved by me. I think that
all of the devotees should purchase one
copy of all of our books for study and future
preaching activities.
I have also heard from Purushottam
that you have now obtained one beautiful
temple on second avenue that can very
nicely be compred with a palace. So this is
all Krishna's Grace. You have tried so
hard to find a new temple there but
Krishna did not approve so there was no
temple. But now that Krishna wills it with
simply a flick of the eye a temple has come
to us, better even than we were hoping for.
So this is what is meant that Krishna is
Controller and we are controlled. When
we simply remember to accept the control
of Krishna and not to act independently
then all fortune is automatically present.
We have received from Yamuna Devi in
London some completed certificates so
please send a list of all initiated devotees
in New Yo rk so we can send out. Hope
you are all well.
Your ever well-wisher,
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
Enclosure- I
DECEMBER, 1968 631
68-1 2-24 Los Angeles
11th December, 1968
My Dear Krishna Das,
Please accept my blessings. I beg to
acknowledge receipt of your very nice letter
dated November 5, 1968 and I thank
you very much for the kind sentiments
that you have expressed therein. Because
you are very nice, sincere boy so Krishna
is now giving you very good facilities by
which you can serve Him and at the same
time perfect yourself for going back to
Godhead. So if you try to continue in the
humble attitude you have now, with little
time you will have wonderful success in
further developing your Krishna Consciousness.
Actually the Krishna Consciousness
is already there, but it is now
covered up so we must wipe away the dirt
of maya from our consciousness so the
pure essence of consciousness, or love for
Krishna, may once again shine forth. I am
always praying to Krishna to help you
more and more so if you remember to always
increase your efforts to make progress
in spreading this movement, then
Krishna will certainly save you, rest assured.
I have noted with much pleasure that
you are planning to mimeograph our essays
in the German language. This is good
news and please do it nicely. These literatures
must be made available to all peoples
so they may take interest in Krishna and
seek to learn more. This will attract many
people to begin chanting and learning this
philosophy. So try in this way, it is very
important endeavor. In the United States
we have now published Bhagavad Gita As
It Is and by next month we should receive
the Teachings of Lord Chaitanya. So if
you can also present our literatures in the
German language it will be very successful.
You will be glad to learn that we are
having very good success in improving
our temples here because Los Angeles has