Srila Prabhupada Takes Us Back To Godhead

Srila-Prabhupada Inspects the Nov-1975-Issue of BTG Magazine

Srila Prabhupada Inspects the Nov-1975 Issue of BTG Magazine

  Letter: Amogha               292164/530501
Please accept my blessings. I wish to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated December 1, 1972, and I have noted the contents. It is very much pleasing to me to hear that you are making such steady advancement in Krishna Consciousness. If you continue in this way, and strictly follow the four regulative principles, making sure to chant at least sixteen rounds on the beads, daily, it is without a doubt that at the end of this lifetime, you can go back home, back to Godhead.
I shall be going there near February 1, so you may do the needful.
Hoping this meets you in good health.
Your ever well-wisher,
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
73-01-28.Hil            Letter: Hillel Ben-Ami           292681/530501
I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter, undated, and I have noted the contents very carefully. Thank you very much for your kind sentiments. Now try and understand our philosophy very carefully by reading all of our books, such as Bhagavad-gita As It Is, Srimad-Bhagavatam, Nectar of Devotion, Teachings of Lord Caitanya, and there are so many others. In addition, please follow the regulative principles very rigidly, such as chanting daily 16 rounds on the beads, attending classes, getting up for mangala aratrika. These
regulative principles will make us very strong in Krsna Consciousness and very rapidly we can advance in this way. So under the direction of the senior devotees there try and become fixed in your devotional service to the Lord, Sri Krsna, and this will certainly bring complete satisfaction to you and make you eligible for going back to home, back to Godhead, in this very lifetime.
Hoping this finds you well,
Your ever well-wisher,
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
72-09-20.Sus            Letter: Susan Beckman            291155/530501
My dear Susan Beckman,
Please accept my blessings. I have received your letter dated September 22, 1972, and I have noted the contents carefully. I am very much encouraged that you want to join this Krsna Consciousness movement for perfection of your life. Householder life is also the perfect platform for rendering devotional service to Krsna. Any station of life, whether you are unmarried, married, or in any occupation of life, you can achieve the highest goal by adopting and practicing the principles of devotional service. You are married and
your husband is striving to become a devotee of Krsna, so you become his devotee, that is the position of husband and wife, that the husband will become a great devotee of Krsna by his wife’s assistance, and the wife will take benefit and advance in spiritual life by serving her husband. You are anxious about the rules and regulations, but without rules and regulations there is more frustration. So it may be a little difficult at first, but if you are sincere to achieve the highest result of your lifetime, then you can be assured that by your efforts in Krsna Consciousness that you will very quickly become happy more and more. The difficulties of this material world will shrink to no more than the size of a hoofprint left by the calf.Actually there is no difference between devotees living inside the temple and devotees living outside the temple. You are right that the important thing is to remember Krsna, whatever is your activity. So try to remember Krsna always by following the principles as you know them, namely, rising early, taking bath, cleansing, attending aratrika, reading scriptures at least one hour or two hours daily, chanting sixteen rounds on beads of Hare Krsna mantra, going for street sankirtana, offering all your foodstuffs to Krsna, like that. In this way very quickly you will make progress in Krsna Consciousness and become very very happy in your life.
   Hoping this meets you in good health,
Your ever well-wisher,
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
72-04-15.Ujj                Letter: Ujjal                288256/530501
Please accept my blessings. Upon the recommendation of
Citsukhananda, I am very glad to consent to accept you as my duly initiated disciple, and I am sending your beads, duly chanted by me, under separate post. I have given you the spiritual name of UJJAL DAS.
I am very pleased to hear that you have been such a great help to Citsukhananda there in our Mexico City center. I can understand that you are a very sincere boy and are a very eligible candidate for going back to Home, back to Godhead. And the process is simple. Follow the regulative principles very strictly, chant at least 16 rounds of beads daily, read our literatures, go for street Sankirtana, etc. In this way keep yourself engaged in Krishna’s business 24 hours, and in this
lifetime you will become perfectly happy and in the end reach the Supreme destination
.
   Hoping this will meet you in good health.
Your ever well-wisher,
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
71-04-04.Vai       Letter: Vaikunthanatha, Saradia       282070/530501
I remember the days when Saradia expressed to marry you and I immediately reserved you for marriage to Saradia. Later on in Boston you were married and since then you are working so nicely. I am very pleased upon you. Simply use this marital life for spreading the glories of Lord Krishnaand in this very lifetime you will be promoted to associate with Krishna in Goloka Vrindaban. So please stay on the purity platform; chant 16 rounds daily and without fail, follow all the regulative principles, and read all our books and your life is sure to be successful. Unless one is sufficiently empowered, one cannot preach Krishna Consciousness. So the fact that you are preaching so nicely is proof that you are already benedicted by Krishna. So preach Krishna Consciousness and be happy.
Here in India we are having one massive Sankirtana Festival called “Bhagavata Dharma Discourses, a Hare Krishna Festival” where 20,000 to 30,000 people are attending daily for chanting, lecture kirtana and prasadam distribution. So here in Bombay preaching work is also very successful. Many important men are becoming interested. Most probably we will have our permanent center here soon.
Hoping this will meet you in good health.
Your ever well-wisher,
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
76-06-12.Lok              Letter: Lokanatha              313692/530501
My dear Lokanatha Swami,
Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter
dated June 2, 1976 and I have noted the contents with pleasure.
I am very glad to see that you are enthusiastically pushing forward with this preaching work and the young Indians are coming forward to join our sankirtana party. It is very encouraging to me. Anyone who has life he can preach, so go on very enthusiastically and there will
be all facility given by Lord Krishna.
   On your recommendation I am accepting the following devotees forinitiation:
1st initiation: Bhakta Adhira whose spiritual name is
Abhayasraya-dasa
2nd initiation: Dharanidhara das Brahmacari, Vrajesvara das
Brahmacari,
Enclosed please find a copy of gayatri initiation and two brahmana threads. After the yajna, the brahmana initiates should hear the gayatri mantra in the right ear. The devotees must all bear in mind
that they are promising to follow the four regulative principles,
i.e., no illicit sex-life, no intoxication, no gambling, and no
meat-eating, and also chanting a minimum of 16 rounds of japa daily. This promise is made before the spiritual master, before the Deity, the devotees, Vaisnavas, the Supersoul, and the fire. Everyone should take very seriously this vow and make steady and sure progress in Krishna Consciousness and go back to home, back to Godhead in this lifetime.
Your ever well-wisher,
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
71-08-04.Suk               Letter: Sukhada               284007/530501
The process is simple. Follow the regulative principles of
devotional life undeviatingly, regularly chant 16 rounds of beads daily and without fail, read all our literatures, attend classes and aratis, go for street Sankirtana. If there are any questions, always refer them to your elder godbrothers and sisters. So our method is not so difficult. Rather it is joyful. So engage yourself enthusiastically in this way and you will be happy and in the end go back to home, back to Godhead.
   I have chanted on your beads and they were returned to you
personally by Harer Nama; you should have received them by now. Hoping this will meet you in good health.
Your ever well-wisher,
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
71-11-12.Nit              Letter: Nityananda             285613/53050
It is a basic principle that one must accept a bonafide spiritual master in order to achieve the highest perfection of life, love of God. I thank all of you very much for accepting me as your spiritual master, and I promise that I will take you back to home, back to Godhead. I ask you all to promise me to always chant at least 16 rounds, follow the regulative principles, read our books and try to preach this Krishna Consciousness Movement all over the world. So far my qualifications are concerned, I am simply trying to carry out the order of my Guru Maharaja.
Hoping this will meet you all in good health.
Your ever well-wisher,
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami

770517ar.vrn                                            Conversations
Prabhupada: So I cannot speak. I am feeling very weak. I was to go toother places like Chandigarh program, but I cancelled the program because the condition of my health is very deteriorating. So I preferred to come to Vrndavana. If death takes place, let it take here. So there is nothing to be said new. Whatever I have to speak, I have spoken in my books. Now you try to understand it and continue your endeavor. Whether I am present or not present, it doesn’t matter.
As Krsna is living eternally, similarly, living being also lives
eternally. But kirtir yasya sa jivati: “One who has done service to the Lord lives forever.” So you have been taught to serve Krsna, and with Krsna we’ll live eternally. Our life is eternal. Na hanyate hanyamane sarire. A temporary disappearance of this body, it doesn’t matter. Body is meant for disappearance. Tatha dehantara-praptih. So live forever by serving Krsna. Thank you very much

 

 

 

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