Letter to: Govinda
New Delhi 11 November, 1973 73-11-11
Ookala, Hawaii
Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter undated and have noted the contents carefully. I do not know why you have parted from the Deities. Who has told you to do this? If you are at all interested, you can return. Your service was there. Why did you leave, and now you are whimsically asking for service. You never asked me before leaving. How can I guide you? If you act whimsically, nobody can make you happy.
In Honolulu tulsi is drying, and you have left this service. You introduced tulsi, and they are drying for want of water. Gaurasundara said to live alone, but our policy is to live with devotees. Immediately return and live with devotees and take care of the Deities and tulsi. That is our main business. My Guru Maharaja condemned living alone in a lonely place. He wrote as follows:
"O rascal mind, what kind of Vaisnava are you. In a lonely place your chanting of Hare Krishna is simply cheating''
And, Narottama Das Thakura says:
"To serve the feet of the acaryas in association of the devotees is my desire birth after birth.''
I hope this meets you in better health.
Your ever well wisher,
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami ACBS/bs
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