Letter to: Kirtanananda

Los Angeles
7 January, 1974
74-01-07
Dear Kirtanananda Maharaja,
Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge your requests for initiations of devotees at New Vrindaban, contained in your letter of December 30, 1973.
Upon your recommendation I am glad to accept the disciples for first initiation, and their spiritual names are as follows:
Susan BurchellMadanalasa dasi
Jim NewshamJayanta dasa
Evelyn NewshamCandrarekhika dasi
Sandra ChiefaKunjari dasi
Haynes BusbyHari-dhama dasa
You may chant on their beads and instruct them seriously to always chant at least 16 rounds daily and obey the regulative principles. Only in this way is spiritual advancement possible.
Your recommendations for second initiation, Taru das, Radhanath das and Parambrahma das are accepted by me and their sacred threads and gayatri mantras are enclosed. See that they hear the mantra from the tape I have made, and have them hear it in their right ear. Give them further instructions on standards of a Brahman. Thank you for the daksina check for one hundred dollars.
Go on developing New Vrindaban: next month I am coming there. Is my apartment completed?
Your ever well-wisher,
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami

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