Letters from Srila Prabhupada Vol.1 1947-1969

AU GUST, 1967 199Krishna will always help us, either in externaldirection by the Spiritual Master, orinternally by His paramatama expansion.The program you have decided on for theLord 's Advent Day is nice. I also verymuch appreciate the work you are doing intrying to promote my books and record,and I am very glad to know that the newBTG is selling well. These publication arethe backbone of our movement, and if wecan distribute them sucessfully. then everythingwill be all right.Hope you are well.Your ever well-wisherA.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami67-8-1027th August, 1967My dear Mrinaline,Please accept my blessings. I haveyour letter of 8.22, and thank you verymuch for it. I am so glsd thatyou have returnedto Krishna. Krishna is kind that Hedoes not let us go, anyone who sincerelytakes toHim. And therefore you do notwish to leave Him anymore. This decisionwill lead you to your eternal life of blissand knowledge. Certainly in your past lifeyou must have had been a devotee of theLord, otherwise you wouldn't have feltlike becoming a nun at such a young age.Anyone who has a natural tendency for rejectingsense-gratification is consideredto be advanced or liberated in spirituallife. Your appreciation of Maya as falseand Krishna as the only reality is a greatasset. Nobody has evergained anything bybecoming a tool in the hands of Maya, buteveryone has become eternally happy byserving Krishna.The feeling which you had by becomingcompassionate to the fallen bum isvery good, but the best way to deliver abum is to revive his dormant KrishnaConsciousness. If you can do that thengive the bums good food and shelter. Ifyou cannot do that, then simple supplyingfood and shelter, is serving the Maya.But there is no benefit to serving Maya,you know, as it is all false, temporary orillusion. We are concerned with Reality,not Maya, and that should be the object oflife .I am very glad to learn that many of mydevotees are coming to India. Studentswho will come here for studying Krishnaphilosophy as scholar and devotee willhave ample opportunity. My god-brotherSwami B.H. Bon, has agreed to give themfree boarding, lodging and tuition, at leastfor ten students at a time. So they are welcome.I am also trying for their concessionof passage as well as a permanenthome in V rindaban. Let us depend uponthe Will of Krishna.Your letter is certainly full of sense,and a K.C. boy or girl cannot be "nonsense". I am proud to have disciples likeyou, who think freely, but correct theirmistakes by consulting me without any resevation.I am always feeling separationfor you all. Let Krishna help us meetagain.Your ever well-wisherA. C. Bhaktivedanta SwamiMy dear Brahmanada,Please accept my blessings . Your niceletter of 8/18 in hand; your nice philosophythat Krishna takes and Krishna gives,is very nice. This means Krishna is notimpersonal. He is the Supreme Person andfully reciprocates. The impersonalist cannotreciprocate. Krishna does not takeanything from them, neither does He givethem anything. The Impersonal, therefore,simply enjoys the troubles of speculation.I have received news from Sante Fethat they have opened a nice branch therein an old castle, and it is very much pleasingto me. Now Kirtanananda Swami is