Letter to: Jayapataka
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Los Angeles
30 January, 1969
“For the present I think you cannot leave Montreal for doing work on your draft status. Your service is much too valuable there.
Even if this means that in the future you cannot leave for the United States, what is the harm in this? Everywhere you are it is the same because Krishna is there, and you can perform devotional service anywhere you are.
There is no need to be attached to any particular land on account of some mayic relationship. All places belong to Krishna, and wherever we get the chance for serving Him, that land is our God-gifted land. Anyway, you may write to your draft board and explain to them that you are studying to be a minister of Krishna Consciousness but you are at present unable to leave Montreal.”
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“You have asked about the specialness of the month of Karatieya (Kartika), and the answer is that is is a special inducement for persons who are not in Krishna Consciousness to perform some devotional service.
For persons who are doing nothing in Krishna Consciousness, it is an indirect inducement to take to devotional service in earnest seriousness, every moment is Karatieya (Kartika).
In this connection, there is a good example that sometimes a store gives special concession to attract new customers. But for those who are already customers there is no need of a special sale. They will purchase at any cost if they know the import and value of the goods.
Similarly, those who are pure devotees do not aspire for any concession, and out of spontaneous love try to engage themselves in devotional service 24 hours each day, 365 days every year, without any stoppage.”
Srila Prabhupada letter to Jayapataka, Jan. 30, 1969
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