741227 - Letter to Jayadvaita from Brahmananda

Honolulu,

December 27, 1974

From: Brahmananda

My Dear Jayadvaita Prabhu,

Please accept my humble obeisances at your feet. I am now here for a month and have time to write. I am working on an article on Vrndavana, its transcendental significance, a description, and so on tied in with a brief description of our Krishna Balaram Mandir. But I am wondering if you will want to publish another article on Vrndavana, since you have already published the one by Hayagriva. and also Visakha’s photo essay. So let me know. I was also thinking of an article on the Six Goswamis, their lives and what they contributed to the Krishna consciousness movement. But I need to get information from someone like Subal Swami who is here in Hawaii.

While I was in India , with Srila Prabhupada, BTG 67 & 68 arrived. Prabhupada read them cover to cover so far I could see. He remarked that 68 especially was very attractive. He liked the article I wrote, saying it was well written. (I think it was well edited. The sentences were made more precise in a number of places.) He also liked Satsvarupa das Goswami’s article. He also liked the prasad photos of Mayapur and San Francisco side by side. He said the Indians were more orderly in taking prasad. He also liked the Gita ad after I explained it to him.

In #67 “Primal Origins,” there is a mistake. Prabhupada formally was employed by Dr. Kartika Chandra Bose, who was distinguished in the medical field, while Dr. Jagadisha Chandra Bose was distinguished in the science field. Both have roads named after them in Calcutta. About Jagadisha Chandra Bose, Prabhupada related that he had invented the telegraph but his work was stolen and published by Marconi when he was in England, and so Marconi got all the credit. He returned to India disgusted and vowed to discover something that no Westerner scientist could dream of attempting. He then invented a machine that recorded the sensations of plants, thus proving they have consciousness.

I have also seen the newest BTG, new volume. Please send all newer ones here to me, one copy by air mail.

I hope this meets you in good health.

Your servant,

Brahmananda Swami