Letter to: Govinda Dasi — Honolulu Center Akash-Ganga Bldg, 7th Floor 89 Warden Road Bombay-26 India 1 April, 1971

My dear Govinda dasi,

Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 8th March, 1971 as well as the letter, from Goursundar dated 1st March, 1971, and have noted the contents. You may inform Goursundar that one Gayatri Mantra tape is being recorded and will be sent from here in the very near future. Also I hope that Tarun Kanti (Thomas) has received his beads. They were sent to Karandhar for shipping to Hawaii and should have reached there by now.

Yes, if you can manufacture Gour Nitai Deities, it will be another step forward in our Krishna Consciousness Movement. You have already given the society Tulasi. Now if you can give them Gour-Nitai Deities, your service will be recorded in the personal diary of Lord Chaitanya. So kindly do it perfectly. If you can mold Gour-Nitai Deities very nicely, in the style you have seen in so many pictures, then we can establish many Gour Nitai temples" in U.S.A, land all over the world. You are so nice devotee as to be always engaged in the service of the Lord, Thank you very much.

I have received your father's check for $200.00. You are a nice child of your father because you are introducing him to Krishna Consciousness, gradually. Rest assured that your father will be liberated because he has got a nice daughter like you. We can understand from the example of Prahlad Maharaj. His father and his father's father, up to the seventh father, all were liberated on account of Prahlad's appearance in the family. So don't worry about your father. He is liberated because he has got a nice daughter like you. Still, try to snatch as much money as possible. That will be still better for him. Every father has got a natural affection for his children, so try to remain an affectionate child and try to engage him and his money, in Krishna's service. May Krishna bless you for such an attitude.

Yes, I have seen the slides and the painting of Gour Nitai is very nice. It has been shown here in our Cross Maidan Festival, along with the other literature enclosed. We are holding a very large Hare Krishna festival. People are attending 20,000 to 30,000 dally and they are appreciating our propaganda very much. The expenditure for the event is nearly Rs. 100,000/- but we are getting money from life membership, donations, etc.

Recently I have received one letter from Krishnadas arranging for me to go to Russia and if I get this opportunity, I shall go and thereafter I shall return to U.S.A, via London. Your island is already such a nice place and when you propose such nice things, it attracts me more and more. Everything will be settled up within the next few months, but your island is very quiet, and I like it very much and it will be a very peaceful place for my literary work.

Please offer my blessings to the others there. Hoping …

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