Los Angeles, Calif.
90034
Hpmdeazraamesvara,
I am in du e receipt of you letters
Please accept my blessings.
dated Dec.
1 5th and 27th and have noted the contents.
Ha nsadutta is
here and we have discussed many of the points and question s in your You can discuss with him for the de ta ils.
letters.
You are secretary
u d go on wi th normal business, budget the money and write
.
so, you sho l
re pa s ts regula Your Idea of le tting New York have the 200,000 dollars worth of
r
books to help them get the building is good. Regarding the l ength of
over 400 pa ges ,
Do it.
books, it is alri g ht if it go es a little
but don't let it become 500.
Whatever fund is collected for food distribution should be sent Why is it not sent ?
The other funds co ming from sales of oun ted for properly, so where is there any fraud?
to India.
books can be acc
Sometimes a salesman can say something extraordinary in o r der to sell
something,
Just like they are se lling this
but th at is not fraud.
oil, saying that if you rub it
on your bald head, hair will grow.
Where is the case where a bald man's hair grew from this oil? the government is not charging with frau d .
car d s
,
that will not be
good.
But
Don't use these UNICEF
You can make ISKCON FOOD RELIEF cards.
But the money collected using this card must be sent to In di a where we are actually feed ing peop e
l
.
If we simply spea k nicely to a person
and try sincerely to get him to take the book, he'll take it. should we adopt unfair means?
create a bad im pression or make us
books, they are hankering for them
me th d.
o
Why
We should not do anything which will
.
unpopular.
Peopl e are after these
We don't need to take cheating
I never had to use any cheating met hod when I first began
I simply presented the real thing.
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Basically and practically speaking everything that is do n e sin
cerely for Krishna's satisfaction is perfect.
But we have to be very
very careful in our dealings with others so that they will not take Just like the gopis. They left their homes in the the wrong view.
dead of night to go and meet this young boy Krishna for k issing and embracing.
To the ordinary person,
tee, it is worshi pab le and it is
this is sinful
,
but to the devo
c ons idered the highest form of d evo
tion even by Lord C aitany who was himse l f a very strict sannyasi. Therefore we are very careful not discuss this ra sa li a in the
to
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presence of o rdi nary men because they will only misunderstand and
commit offense.
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While dealing with the ordinary men,
this movement in such a way that they take of fens e
be t s
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