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Montreal 12th June, 1968
My Dear Subala,

Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter of June 10th, 1968, and noted the contents carefully. Yes, you can have the band play there in the temple as you are in great need of money to carry on there. When we are in need of money to carry on Krishna's work, then we can resort to whatever means there is available. So long it is always for Krishna and never for personal sense gratification. So you can try to get some money in that way.

You can observe Rathayatra Festival there on 27th june. Hope you are well.
Your ever well-wisher,
ACB

Letter to: Ramesvara 
India
9 January, 1973
73-01-09

My Dear Ramesvara,

Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated December 27, 1972, and with great happiness I have read your figures of amount of books sold during three-day period, December 22-24, 1972. It is scarcely believable that more than 17,100 books could have been sold by one temple in three days! That indicates to me that people are at last becoming little serious about this Krsna Consciousness movement in your country. Otherwise, why they should buy our books? But they can see that our boys and girls, devotees, are so much sincere and serious to distribute the message of Krsna consciousness, they are at once struck by seeing them and therefore they appreciate and purchase. This is unique in the world. Perhaps we are the only sincere persons on this whole planet. At least our books are not to be seen anywhere else.

So I am so much pleased upon all of the boys and girls in Los Angeles and all ov

No Book Changes --- Ramesvara Dasa, Interview, 1979

9 DIRECT QUOTES FROM SRILA PRABHUPADA TO RAMESVARA PRABHU FORBIDDING BOOK CHANGES, AS SHARED IN RAMESVARA'S 300 PG 1979 INTERVIEW, viewable at the following link: http://www.govindadasi.com/ramesvara-das-interview-1979.html


"And also at that Mayapur meeting of 1976 we had had meetings with Prabhupada about the Bhagavatam. We prepared for that Mayapur festival a color board which showed all the volumes of the Bhagavatam drawn in for each Canto what the color would be, and Srila Prabhupada approved the color scheme for the Srimad-Bhagavatam for all the reprints. But he warned us emphatically that this must be the very, very last change that is ever to be made in the Srimad-Bhagavatam." (Ramesvara Dasa, Interview, 1979)

"Prabhupada at that time approved the new design for the Krsna Book trilogy, and then he approved the standardization in terms of lettering and so on for the Bhagavatams, and he approved the new color board. That is wh

The mother of Srila Vrindavana dasa Thakura's was Sri Narayanidevi, the niece of Srivasa pandita. In his Sri Caitanya Bhagavata,Vrndavana dasa has described how his mother attained theaffectionate fervour of Sri Gaurasundara.

Rasa Manjari shared Mataji Padyavali's photo.

GRANDFATHER BHISMADEVA'S PRAYERS

"Fulfilling my vow and sacrificing His own promise, He got down from the chariot, took up its wheel, and ran towards me hurriedly, just as a lion goes to kill an elephant. He even dropped His outer garment on the way.

May He, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Personality of Godhead, who awards salvation, be my ultimate destination. On the battlefield He charged me, as if angry because of the wounds dealt by my sharp arrows. His shield was scattered, and His body was smeared with blood due to the wounds."

At the moment of death, let my ultimate attraction be to Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Personality of Godhead. I concentrate my mind upon the chariot driver of Arjuna who stood with a whip in His right hand and a bridle rope in His left, who was very careful to give protection to Arjuna’s chariot by all means. Those who saw Him on the Battlefield of Kurukṣetra attained their original forms after death."

--From the Srimad Bhagav

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22 July 2013 - Guru (Vyasa) Purnima Initiation Ceremonies to be Performed

Announcing acceptance as disciples of Srila Prabhupada, our respected and honorable colleagues, Their Grace Bhakta Louis Prabhu, A.Bh.S, and Bhakta Trino G.Carrera Prabhu, A.Bh.S.

http://www.govindadasi.com/uploads/1/8/7/4/18743708/ramesvara-interview-1979.pdf

Prabhupāda

We often hear that the different systems of religious currents in India have more or less derived their origin from different interpretations of Vedānta. No one is recognized as the leader of the school unless he can maintain his position as commentator on Vedānta-darśana. Vedānta-darśana is the treatise on Vedānta as well as an authoritative refutation of all those systems that might oppose the original source of the religions of India.

Two contending parties have decided the fate of India’s religious domain. These are, one, the philosophers who have a tendency to differ from the religionists on account of their rationalism, and two, the communities who have secular views different from those entertained by religionists. Earlier implementations of religious systems had less developed interpretations of how society should utilize them. But as they were opposed by different scholastic views, they mended their course a little to meet the invaders and rebuff their exploitati

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     to: Gaura Govinda Swami
   —
   Vrindaban
   18 September, 1976
   76-09-18
   
   Bhuvaneśvara
   My Dear Gaura Govinda Maharaja,
   Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated September 11, 1976 and have noted the contents with care.
   In answer to your question as to why the Indian population is so slack in spiritual life: during the British rule there was a secret policy by the British to cut down the Vedic civilization in India. There was a confidential policy by the British government to kill India's original culture and everything Indian was condemned. From the very beginning they took this position. In our childhood and boyhood we had to read some book by a Mr. Ghose called, "England's Work in India''. The purport was that we are uncivilized and the British had come to make us civilized. Later on the policy became successful because in our childhood days any anglicised gentleman was considered to be advanced in civilization.
   In Calcutta the Chowringhee quarters were known as

A GIFT TO INDIRA GANDHI

Srimati Indira Gandhi
Prime Minister of India

Your Excellency Srimati Indira Gandhi Devi:

I thank you very much for kindly allowing an interview to my disciples Sriman Gurudasa Adhikari accompanied by his wife also, Srimati Yamuna devi. Perhaps your Excellency is aware of our Krsna consciousness movement all over the world. We are not only preaching the cult by chanting and dancing, but also by presenting in the English language the books of the bhakti cult, especially Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam all over the world.

You will be pleased to know that our books are being well received in all parts of the world, and recently we have information from London that in two months time we have sold 30,000 copies of the Bhagavad-gita As It Is.

I am sending herewith one copy of my book Bhagavad-gita As It Is as my humble presentation. I hope at your convenient leisure time, you can have a glance over this book, at least the preliminary statement in the Foreword, I