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video: Srimad Bhagavatam 3.5.7 I HG Madhu Pandit Dasa I 03-07-13
Bombay
27 December, 1974
Hong Kong
My dear Trivikrama Swami,
Please accept my blessings. I have just received one telegram from Brahmananda Swami.
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Brahmananda Swami seemed to think that you need more men there. His telegram reads, “Trivikrama alone, more men required urgently.”
I do not understand what he means by alone. What is this alone? Vaishnava is never alone. When I first came to the United States I was seemingly alone for one year. But I never felt alone. I always felt the presence of my Guru Maharaja. Myself, I was cooking, I was printing books, I was selling books, everything seemingly alone. But I did not lose my determination.
Actually you should know this, you are never alone. So local men are coming daily. By good association, good preaching, nice prasadam etc., they can all become devotees. This is Lord Caitanya’s mission to go to every town and village and create Vaisnava spirit in the local men. I have also sent one letter to Pancadravida Swami in Bangkok that his party can come there sometimes for big programs if you can arrange.
Keep in touch with them. Their address is; Pancadravida Swami, c/o D.H. Carturchand, 238 Samteng St. Bangkok, Thailand. Please keep yourself strong and fixed up in Krsna’s service by following all of our regulative principles, chanting 16 rounds daily, rising early, attending mangala arati and attending classes. I hope this meets you in good health.
Your ever well-wisher,
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
ACBS/ps
At one point it should be clear that talking to fools and rascals is like trying to nail into a concrete wall. You won’t succeed unless drilling a pilot hole.
Ok, thats an analogy. De facto this means – is present ISKCON able to become Prabhupada centered? No, and you know it.
As soon there is opportunity of making a living, economic migrants rush there like ants when there is sugar. This is the difficulty. ISKCON is turned into a social welfare movement in the East. Especially Asia, Siberia, Africa – people first of all need to survive. This is ISKCON’S main clientele.
Trying to teach those who receive payment from their master, that their master is of no good is false estimation, misjudgment. Futile attempt.
If ISKCON Bangalore would start to open centers all over the West this is the only realistic option to succeed. At the same time ISKCON Bangalore would be save – by forward escape strategy. Madhu Pandit should start to go global. If they kick him out of Bangalore and this is what they realy aim at, MPD / ISKCON Bangalore is finished.
And MPD knows it and we also know it. By remaining in Bangalore – with his back to the wall – and simply waiting for the future, ISKCON Bangalore is to saw off the branch they are sitting on. So there is no time to lose. Sunnyvale was a good start. There should be one after the other more Prabhupada temples opening. Under the flag of ISKCON Bangalore.
We cannot simply sit and wait and watch how ISKCON Bangalore is taken over and the Bangalore devotees thrown out. But this is exactly what is going to happen. If Bangalore falls the Prabhupadanuga process is thrown back severely. Could be the end, because many new devotees won’t tolerate and leave. Why take this risk?