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  Tamohara dasa ADMIN. May 26, 2012 8:55

  Editor's note: Suzan Haskins is IL’s Latin America Editorial Director. She spent nearly 25 years working in corporate advertising and marketing in Omaha, Nebraska, before she finally opted for a warmer way of life. In 2001, she and her husband left the States and tried on for size Ecuador, Panama, Nicaragua, and three locations in Mexico. Today they spend part of the year in Merida, Mexico and part in Cotacachi, Ecuador.
  
  
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  Welcome February 9, 2012 16:50

  
  Letter to: Mukunda

  Los Angeles
  8 February, 1970

  London
  My Dear Mukunda,
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  The purpose of World Sankirtana Party will be to establish a center in each and every city and village of the world. This idea is taking practical shape in various centers.

  Just like you started for London Yatra and now after one year it has taken a shape, similarly in Germany also it has taken a shape, but in Paris it has not taken as yet. Therefore World Sankirtana Party means to establish a center everywhere we go.

  I do not mean a concert party or musical party that may go to a city, have some performances and collect some money without any permanent effect.

  For this purpose the World Sankirtana Party should consist of members who can impress spiritual ecstasy in the hearts of the people so that some of them may come forward and agree to establish a center where the Sankirtana party may go on continually.

  Srila Prabhupada letter to Mukunda, Feb. 7, 1970
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  Welcome January 15, 2012 5:31

  Hari Sauri das:  We were all sitting on the stage facing Prabhupada and everybody else was on the ground facing Prabhupada, and Prabhupada was the only one that was looking out. So he left after about 20 minutes. He gave a short speech about where the Rathayatra had originated from, and then we left and went back to the temple and he left the devotees to run the rest of the festival. So when we got back to the temple, Prabhupada was a little fatigued. So he went to take rest right away, and Prabhupada asked me to massage his legs and feet. So as I started massaging him he started chuckling, and then he said, “I thought there would be some fanaticism.” And I said, “What was that, Srila Prabhupada?” Because I remember there were some Christians out there with their “eternal burn” banners and all the rest of it. Then Prabhupada said, “Did you see?” He said, “There was one man, he was shouting. He was standing on the edge of a fountain and he was heckling.” And he said, “Then one big black man came up and he knocked him into the fountain,” and Prabhupada laughed like anything.

  I recall that incident! The Rathayatra was a huge success. Ed