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

Consciousness. This is my request to all
of you . This will be great servcice not
only to yourself, but also to all the living
entities with whom we come into contact.
Please convey my blessings to all others.
I hope that you are well.
Your ever well-wisher,
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
P. S. I have not heard anything from
Rupanuga since a long time.
ACB
68-1 2-34 Los Angeles
13th December, 1968
My Dear Paramananda,
Please accept my blessings. I was so
pleased to receive your letter of December
8, 1968 and I have noted the contents with
great pleasure. Such attitude of humbleness
which you have so nicely expressed
along with your very good service attitude
is very beautiful and will take you far to
advance more and more.
I am happy that you and your very
good wife, Satyabama, are finding such
satisfaction in executing your Krishna
Consciousness activities and such pleasure
will only increase more and more as
you continue to advance further. This is
my blessing upon you both that your lives
may become happy and successful. So my
one request to you is that you keep yourself
always engaged in Krishna's service
sincerely and that you help your wife in
this matter also. Now there is enough engagement
with popularizing our books
and magazines so you will have enough
work to utilize all of your time in this important
endeavor. You are strong, intelligent
boy so there is so much of such
service that you can render and be a great
asset to this Krishna Consciousness
movement.
In the future there may be facilities to
start schooling in our New Vrindaban and
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when this is begun I think that Satyabama
and yourself may consider to go there to
teach and assist with the work going on
there . So as Krishna desires we will see
what happens.
Please convey my blessings to all others
and I hope that you are well.
Your ever well-wisher,
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
68-1 2-35
Los Angeles
14th December, 1968
My Dear Jadurany,
Please accept my blessings. I am in
due receipt of your nice letter of Dec. 4,
1968, and I have noted the contents very
carefully. I have looked at the two small
pictures you sent, and I approve of both of
them. This is called Rajasthan style, and it
is very nice. These two pictures, if nicely
painted, will look very good in our temples.
Also, there is one very nice photograph
of my Guru Maharaj which I want
you to paint, and I will send it to you there.
It was found by Gurudas in London and he
has sent me two copies of it. It was taken
just after His acceptance of sanyas, and
with the Srimad Bhagavatam opened before
Him. So I shall send it. So far Los
Angeles temple is concerned, we have just
now leased a very big church, with large
meeting hall and various compartments,
so here we shall need many very large
paintings for making the hall attractive. If
it is possible, you can paint very large
ones, as large or even larger than the one
you sent to Montreal of the Gopies. Regarding
the gesso sizing of the canvases: If
they last for 20 years that is fine and plenty
long enough. The other process sounds
too complicated, and this plastic sounds to
be very nice.
Deity worship is for such persons who
have ample time. The thing is, Deity worship
is compulsory, and you can increase