21 September, 1970
Calcutta
My Dear Harivilas,
Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated September 15th, 1970, the contents of which have given me great satisfaction.
Sriman Hanuman has already arrived here in Calcutta and from the pictures he has shown me of your temple and devotees I can understand that everything is going on very nicely there.
I think Krishna is giving you good intelligence to manage everything in Paris. Everyone should be kept fully engaged one hundred percent of the time in Krishna’s service without a vacant moment so that Maya will never have a chance to act.
It does not matter what one’s engagement in Krishna’s service may be; Krishna accepts equally the service given to Him by a little calf and that given by Srimati Radharani. So we should all be very much appreciative of our God-brothers’ and Godsisters’ service.
I am glad that Aradhana and Santanu are engaged in painting pictures. As we open more temples there is a greater and greater need for paintings. So they can paint as many as possible pictures of Panca Tattva and Acharyas and distribute them to all the new temples—this will be a great service to our society.
I am glad to learn your Sankirtan Party is going to all the areas of the city each time out. Here also the Sankirtan Party lead by Madhudvisa Maharaj is having great success and sometimes as many as four hundred business and working men join them in chanting Hare Krishna on the streets.
It is all Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s Mercy that this is happening all around the world and we should pray to Him that he may benedict us with even greater opportunity to spread His Samkirtan Movement.
Please continue your search for a suitable temple building and Krishna will help you in this also. I have instructed Tamal Krishna to write you also. He has received your letter.
Please offer my blessings to all the Paris Prabhus. Hope this will meet you in good health.
Your ever well-wisher,
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
ACBS:ds
pamho agtACBSP
It is nice to remember the pure spiritual satisfaction that SRILA PRABHUPADA was feeling by dealing with HIS devotees in 1970.
The first years of the samkirtan movement there was a very strong satsanga, i saw the picture of the first harinam in usa – the devotees were completely flying in the sky of joy.
They were looking like demigods. SRILA PRABHUPADA not even touched the floor with HIS lotus feet when dancing, premanjana-cchurita-bhakti-vilocanena ( Sri Brahma Samhita Chapter 5 )
SRI KRSNA accepts the service even if it is not pure yet HE looks in the heart of the sadhaka, HE knows everything vedaham samatitani vartamanani carjuna bhavisyani ca bhutani mam tu veda na kascana (bg 7.26) that’s why whoever chants hare krsna maha mantra in this age is considered a krpa siddhi someone who get perfection through the mercy of SRILA PRABHUPADA.
SRI GAURANGA accepts the service when someone keeps on chanting.
We attain the last destination, the service desire increases and the offenses decreases.
There are also crazy cases just after SRILA PRABHUPADA’s disappearance but all of them also did good service to SRI SRI GURU GAURANGA and that is never lost because SRI KRSNA accepts the service but not the sickness of this material world.
SRILA PRABHUPADA mentioned that iskcon is like a hospital where people get their normal eye-sight back.
Service will go on in the next life also until all the anarthas, unwanting things in the heart, will be distroyed till we are lucky enough to get suddha nam service in this life then the business is done equally.
ys seva das
haribol