720126 - Letter to Atreya Rsi written from Nairobi

Letters by Date, 1972

Letter to Atreya Rsi Das

ISKCON LTD.
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS
Founder-Acharya: His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

CAMP:      INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR
                  KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS
                       (ISKCON)
               P.O. Box 28946, NAIROBI, KENYA
DATE: 26/1/72

Atreya Rsi Das
155 Amity St. NO. 3
Brooklyn, N.Y. 11201
USA

Dear Atreya Rsi Das,

Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated Jan. 10, 1972 and have studied the contents carefully.

It is my wish that you work more and more closely with the ISKCON management. You have good intelligence and this should be engaged cent per cent in propogation of this movement of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. So you please go on increasing your involvement with the administration.

You speak of impersonalism. We welcome all impersonalists to come because if they are real impersonalists they will see that our Society is perfect and complete. Ramanujacarya is considered to be very stalwart acharya simply because he completely defeated the impersonalism of Sancaracharya. And even to this day in India, especially in the south, the followers of Ramanujacharya and Sankaracharya engage in talks and always the Sankarites are defeated. But most of the so-called impersonalists of today are rogues.

You may adopt this principle, that whatever conditions increases your facility to preach this Krishna Consciousness Movement[handwritten] should be accepted. If we accept this all of these discouragements etc... will disappear.

Your ever well-wisher,

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami