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Letter to: Nityananda
Honolulu 4 May, 1976 76-05-04
New Orleans
My dear Nityananda das,
Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated April 17, 1976, and I have noted the contents with care. You can call your farm, Talavana. Concerning constructing a temple at the farm, it is feasible only if you have sufficient brahmanas to take nice care otherwise no. You have seen our Vrndavana temple, also the temple in Melbourne and Los Angeles. So things must be at this standard in order to have a temple.
On your recommendation I am accepting the following devotees for initiation:
Ernie CoureyVidyapati das Barbara SuttonParijata dasi Padavja das Brahmacari (second initiation) Hold a yajna and instruct the initiates that they must follow the 4 regulative principles: no intoxication, no meat-eating, no gambling, and no illicit sex-life, and chanting minimum 16 rounds of Hare Krishna Mahamantra daily. The brahmanas must cultivate the brahminical qualities as mentioned in the Bhagavad-gita and in the other literatures. They must keep clean externally by bathing regularly each day, and internally clean by always chanting Hare Krishna. The beads of the first initiates can be chanted on by one of the sannyasis and the thread for brahmana initiation is herein enclosed. After the fire yajna you can play a recording of the gayatri mantra played into the right ear of the brahmana initiate.
I hope that this meets you in good health.
Your ever well-wisher,
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/pks
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