19 July, 1970
Los Angeles
My Dear Tamala,
Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 10th July, 1970. I have also received news from Syamasundara that the Rathayatra was nicely performed. This is very encouraging.
We should concentrate our energy in constructive work. The constructive work is preaching. So this Rathayatra festival is one of the items of our preaching work, and therefore it was introduced in both San Francisco and London and the initiative was taken by Syamasundara. In 1967 I gave this idea to Syamasundara when I was in San Francisco. So it was promptly executed.
Similarly last year in London also he promptly executed. So his proposal for preaching from village to village in our own bus is very much appreciated by me.* I have already instructed him to do this immediately and you also encourage him.
World Sankirtana Party does not mean that we have to cover immediately the whole world. The program is that everywhere the Sankirtana Movement should be introduced.
Mayapur temple is not settled up still because the boy in charge, Acyutananda, has not yet purchased that land although I have advised him to do so at all risk. Another boy, Jayapataka, has gone there, but he is also silent. I do not know what is happening there.
If you have enough business now in Europe as Syamasundara proposes, then first of all we should finish this program. I have got good report from Amsterdam also. So if you have got immediate engagements in England and neighboring European countries, then we shall take up the African program later on. The principle is that whatever is handy we shall first of all take into consideration.
So far Mayapur is concerned, if the land is there, there will be no difficulty in raising funds even from India. But we have no land as yet.
The first business is if the temples are not properly maintained, then we should simply concentrate on Sankirtana outside. Temple opening is secondary, but we should concentrate on the Sankirtana outside. As in Paris we have no official temple but still Sankirtana is giving us encouragement.
I have received a letter from Jaya Hari and replied it.
Holland is full of cows, so that would be the best place for a European New Vrindavana scheme. But it is not immediately possible. If we get some suitable land opportunity. But we have already got New Vrindavana that is yet to be developed. So that scheme is not yet feasible. In future we shall see to that.
Vidhi marg and raga marg are already explained in the TLC. Neophyte devotees who are trained under rules and regulations is called vidhi marg. When by execution of the vidhi marg one comes to spontaneous service of the Lord that is called raga marg.
Hope this will meet you in good health.
Your ever well-wisher,
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
N. B. I learn from Brahmananda that you are planning to come here and attend the meeting during Janmastami days at New Vrindavana and I am very glad that you are coming.
*very soon four Sannyasis will go to England for this purpose.
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“Holland is full of cows, so that would be the best place for a European New Vrindavana scheme. But it is not immediately possible. If we get some suitable land opportunity. But we have already got New Vrindavana that is yet to be developed. So that scheme is not yet feasible. In future we shall see to that.”
Hopefully in the near future we could start to realize this vision of Srila Prabhupada.
If devotees worked together – say 500 devotees giving 1000€ a farm could be purchased and developed – expanded as devotee community grew….
Hare Krsna.
All grories to Srila Prabhupada.
As comment to this article.
Yes Holland is full of cows, bulls and calves.
If you keep in mind that when you see that you are not your body and the same time take care for the weak and the old in this societey, you must consider that animals like cow’s etc.
who give theire life for us, we should take care for them.
In Holland a caow gives approx. 4 years milk, by every time a birth first take place. So 50% change that there is a bull calve. So that means no intresst for farmning.
Thoose calves go to special bullcalve-farms, for 35 till 29 weeks and than to the abbotoir…
so please keep that in mind if you use dairy products.
Also in Holland milking goes machinery, so it maens that if the cow can not give milk, because of stress or so the farmer-computer tells the farmer that that cow go to abbotoir…
so no production, no life…
After this 4 year of milking, the cow goes automaticly to abbotoir…
If you still keep in mind that a human after working years go to a special treathment in society, what about animals. Don’t they have the same treathment?
So that is why I diside to keep some animals, they may live here till the end of there live.
Sorry for my English
Hare Krsna
Dear Kris,
Thanks to Narayani I got to speak to you on the phone today.
And it really touched me that there is so much suffering caused to the male bull calves especially –
just being fed fat for consumption.
We have to try to do something to alleviate this situation. At least create more awareness in society.
It will be a hard job… I know.
The reaction to all this cow killing is that there will be wars in which many many young men will be killed… Can we do something to help reverse course of future? Or will Kali yuga prevail?
Your servant,
Krishnapriya dd