Letters from Srila Prabhupada Vol.1 1947-1969

196699the Salvation Army as also through the influenceof a friend in India who can convincethe Finance Minister or thePresident in this important task. As suchmy God brother who is entrusted with thiswork has asked me to return to India forsome days to expedite the work. I am tryingto avoid the journey to India and againto come back specially for the reason thatI am holding at the above address classesthrice in a week and training someAmerican Yoth in the matter of Samkritanand devotional service of the Lord(Bhakti) some of them are taking the ressonsvery sincerely and in future they maybe very good Vaisnavas according to rigidrituals. One of the youths Mr. Paul Murrayis even ready to go with me to India tolearn the cult more specifically and I wishto take him with me when I go to India.Please therefore write to your Agent hereto allowthis more serious boy to comewith me in India and see things directlyhow temple worship is done in the VishnuTemples. I shall keep him for some daysin Vrindaban and he may be given lessonsfor future preaching in the western countries.I shall try my best to get the sanctionfor the temple Exchange and if I am unablethen I shall open the Radha Krishnaworship and Samkirtan in the rentedhouse as I am now doing. The present flatis about 100' X 25' and there is ampleplace even to have a room for the deities ofRadha and Krishna. When returning fromIndia I shall bring with me the deities eitherfrom Jaipur or from Vrindaban alongwith other things required and I shall startthe temple in rented buildingKindly therefore send your permissionfor taking this boy with me as abovementioned.He has his passport and some coupleof hundreds to spend in India. Whenwe come to India you will be pleased tosee the boy (American). He is coming of agood family and a sincere soul to this lineof culture. There are others also in theclass I am holding here but I wish to takewith me only one of them.I am very sorry to inform you that inthe last month there was a theft case in myroom. My typewriter and tape recorderand some book have been stolen wothmore than Rs I 000/- goods and therefore Iam changin the place to the above address.This present typewriter has beengiven by a devotee and thus there is no difficultyand another friend has also supplieda tape recorder. It is understood thatsuch crime as it has been committed in myroom is very common in New York. Thatis the way of material nature. TheAmerican people have every thing in ampleand the worker gets about Rs 100/- asdaily wages and still there are thieves forwant of character. The lower class mendaily workers are cent percent drunkards.Their social condition is not very __.Hope everything is well with you bythe Grace of the Lord and awaiting yourearly reply with thanks.Yours in the service of the Lord,A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami.66-4-2 New York30th April, 1966Chief Contoller of ExchangeControl DepartmentReserve Bank of IndiaNew Delhi, INDIA.Dear Sir,I beg to inform you that I am a VaisnavaSannyasi in the line of Lord Sri ChaitanyaMahaprabhu. In pursuance of the cult ofLove of Godhead as propounded by LordChaitanya 500 years before, I have cometo America to preach the same culturalmission on the principles of the BhagwatGeeta and the Srimad Bhagwatam. Mytranslation of the Srimad Bhagwatam(published in three volume first canto) is