Prabhupada Letters :: Anthology

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1965 November 8: "Srila Prabhupada had a strong desire to open our preaching centres in the Western countries and both Bon Maharaja and Goswami Maharaja were deputed for this purpose without any tangible result."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1965

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1965 November 8: "I have no ambition for becoming the proprietor of any Matha or Mandir but I am working day and night for my Bhagavatam publication and I need centres in the western countries."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1965

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1965 November 8: "Every camp of our god brothers should supply a man good for this purpose and they must agree to work under my direction. Then you will see how our beloved Srila Prabhupada will be satisfied on all of us."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1965

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1968 November 8: "There are 42,000 students in your university, and if 5% of them purchase our Gita, then we can sell at least 2,000 copies there. So I hope you will try for this and it will be both propaganda as well as income."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1968

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1970 November 8: "Here I am working in Bombay to establish one Krishna Consciousness Headquarters for India. So if Krishna desires, we will have a temple here."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1970

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1974 November 8: "He has done much service. He cannot be removed whimsically. The local members must agree for him to be removed by you, according to the Direction of Management."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1974

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1975 November 8: "We haven't got to invent something by our fertile brain for preaching. Study my books and reproduce the purports in your own language. Everything is there. Instruct your temple presidents to preach like this."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1975

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1975 November 8: "So any one of my godbrothers cannot help me in this way of book writing because they are unfortunate in the matter of preaching work. They are simply trying to infiltrate our society to do something harmful."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1975

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1970 November 7: "The big temple on the bank of the Yamuna at Kesighat is for sale. I know of this temple. I used to live next to it before living in the Radha-Damodara temple. We would like to get this temple at all costs."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1970

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1970 November 7: "Instead of Sankirtana if you, husband and wife, try to see so many ministers and other important men, that will be nice. You may try and see Indira Gandhi. And perhaps you can meet with this President Giri."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1970

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1972 November 7: "Just like in our ISKCON there are so many false things: 'Prabhupada said this, Prabhupada said that.' Do not be deviated by such ideas. Krishna is knowledge, He is the object of knowledge, He is the goal of knowledge."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1972

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1973 November 7: "Now my program is fixed up for going to Nairobi on November 23, instant, and from there I will return to Los Angeles via Rome. I will stop there for two days for meeting with the Pope."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1973

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1973 November 7: "I want that there be published one volume of Caitanya Caritamrta for Caitanya Mahaprabhu's Appearance Day. So please arrange for this."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1973

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1974 November 7: "Regarding Washington, D.C., that Damodara is also resigning, we are increasing in so many ways, but our men are deteriorating. What to do?"
Prabhupada Letters :: 1974

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1974 November 7: "N.B. I refer to the Direction of Management as follows: 'Removal of a Temple President by GBC requires support by the local Temple members.' Therefore you should take a vote of the Temple members."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1974

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1965 November 6: "Yes I have got this nice typewriter by the Grace of the Lord and I am very much satisfied with its working. I have left my hearth and home in India but here by the Grace of the Lord I have got good sons and daughter like you."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1965

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1965 November 6: "Next time when I shall go to your home, I must serve you with my good cooking without fail. Now I am far away from you otherwise I would have at once gone to you and entertained you with such lunches."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1965

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1965 November 6: "Please offer my good wishes to your friends who still remember me. Had I the means to rent a house I would have gone back again to Butler to hold my Bhagavatam discourses daily with good friends."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1965

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1965 November 6: "So far I have studied the American minds they are eager and apt to receive Bhakti Cult of Srimad-Bhagavatam. My mission is not to turn anyone away from a particular religion but I want to give them more knowledge about God and devotion."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1965

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1968 November 6: "So I have no objection if you decide to marry as a matter of necessity. I think you should consult your Godbrothers in this connection. Do your duty nicely & go Back to Godhead."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1968

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1973 November 6: "Describing your plans for traveling Sankirtana party, it is very much encouraging news for me. If there were three or four such traveling parties, it would be a grand scale propaganda. So do it with great enthusiasm."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1973

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1973 November 6: "When somebody does not agree, you try to get them out. This is a mistaken policy. With great difficulty we get a man. We have to reform them. Our business is to become sympathetic to fallen souls. So in future do not do it at all. Everything should be done amicably."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1973

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1975 November 6: "If this man comes to see me in Vrindaban, I do not wish to see him. We do not require his editing, neither should he correspond with our men. He is very heinous. He wants to become more important."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1975

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1967 November 5: "I offer to you my sincere blessings for the most kind words that you have sent me. This attitude of service will help you progress in Krishna Consciousness and will help you to go back to home, back to Godhead."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1967

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1967 November 5: "I've received one letter from him expressing his sorrow. The fact is, once combined in Krishna Consciousness, one cannot be separated at any time. The boy who spat upon him must send a letter of regret and apology for the mistake he has done."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1967