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Letter to: Locanananda
Bombay 10 January, 1976 76-01-10
Amsterdam
My dear Locanananda dasa,
Please accept my blessings. I beg to thank you for your letter dated November 28th, 1975. Your letter was received late so it was not possible to send you a reply in time for your Deity installation ceremony.
I have received the names of all the candidates for initiation and I accept them all as my duly initiated disciples. Their new spiritual names are as follows:
Freddy Van de BuerieMahasrnga dasa Raymond NotaJnanaraja dasa Henry FlusterAkhiladhara dasa Peter Vander HeydenDivyasinhadasa PatricioKrtayajna dasa Jannie SmitMangalaya dasi Tettje MeursingAharada dasi Francisco van der LindenAtitagamana dasi I also accept Yasodavatsala das and Bhasyakara das for second initiation. Enclosed you will find their sacred threads which I have chanted on. Now hold a fire ceremony and the brahmanas may afterward be allowed to hear the Gayatri mantra from the tape recording through the right ear. First initiated devotes must vow to always chant minimum 16 rounds daily and strictly observe the regulative principles. The Brahmins must practice cleanliness, internally by chanting the Lord's glories and externally by bathing regularly. In addition the brahmanas should study carefully, especially Gita, Isopanisad, Nectar of Devotion and Nectar of Instruction as well as all the small paperbacks.
I hope this meets you all well.
Your ever well-wisher,
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/tkg
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