httpv://youtu.be/7rhGl4kO9iQ
Tuesday, 12 February, 1974
Vrindaban
Dear Ravendra Gupta,
Please accept my blessings. I have only recently received your letter of February 6, 1974, due to travelling.
I am very glad to hear you are following my instructions by chanting 16 rounds daily. In order to chant offenselessly, so that the chanting will have the greatest effect, one must avoid the four sinful activities.
You have asked “How serious would it be for me if I should miss the golden opportunity to become your initiated disciple?” You should know that the value of accepting a bona fide spiritual master is more than we can calculate.
It is not a mere formality. Of course everyone is encouraged to chant Hare Krishna, but until one gives up sinful activities and becomes determined to serve Krishna through His representative then the firm fixing up of devotional service will not take hold, and there is every chance that one will fall prey to all sorts of material desires and have to come back again in the next life – and one cannot guarantee that he will be born in the form of life he may desire.
I know you have been attending our temple in Boston sometimes, and that you wish to be a sincere devotee of Krishna. So go on faithfully with you chanting and pray to Krishna to give you strength for advancing in His service.
It is a fact, however that we must become free of all material desire before going back to Godhead, and this can only be achieved by following the instructions of a bona fide spiritual master.
Your ever well-wisher,
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
pamho agtACBSP
nice class – it is a big fortune to have this special chance in kali yuga (through the mercy of all the prabhupadanugas websites) – to hear everyday from the mouth of a pure devotee of SRI KRSNA who got that eagerness from previous lives.
In fact Prabhupada states here in this wonderful video class that after millions of lives in the material world one can get that eagerness by accepting the rules and regulations of a bonafide spiritual master which will help in all respect to complete our individual spiritual journey.
Everyone needs to accept a bonafide spiritual master because HE already surpassed all the pious activities stages therefore HE got this laulyam, pure spiritual greediness and to give it to all the sincere prabhupadanugas around the world who are eager to see SRI KRSNA.
HE already sees KRSNA, HE can give us KRSNA, krsna se tomara krsna dite paro tomara sakati ache ami to kangala krsna krsna boli dhai tava pache pache.
So don’t run to any other kangooru please here is that guru that everyone is looking for since ages, 108 SRI SRIMAD ACBSP KI JAI.
Thank you,
ys seva das
haribol