761109 - Letter to B.S. Bodhayan Maharaj written from Vrndavana

Letters by Date, 1976

:Krishna Balarama Mandir

:9/11/76

My dear B.S. Bodhayan Maharaj,
Please accept my humble obeisances. I am in due receipt of your letter dated 2/11/76 for which I thank you very much. The Bengali letter delivered with my letter has been delivered to Kamal Narayan. My thanks are also to Santo Maharaj.

I'm very much obliged to you that you write to say, "It is clear to me that you are great powerful Acharya in the Vaisnava world at present." Sometimes Sridhara Maharaja also says like that. So, actually if you are feeling like that let us work conjointly. There is great prospect for preaching Caitanya Mahaprabhu's message all over the world and in India also. At least in India we can preach very vigorously if we combine together. It is already tested in many cases. Whenever we held some festival in big, big cities like Calcutta, Bombay, Hyderabad, Madras, Delhi, etc. thousands of men gather and they request regularly to continue the program. Recently we held a similar program in Chandigargh and the devotees of Sri Caitanya Gaudiya Math also participated. They invited me in the local center of Sri Caitanya Gaudiya Math and many thousands of people came to hear me. So there is great prospect if we work conjointly at least in India. So you can consult Sridhar Maharaj also. He's also of that opinion as you have opined and if in this old age we can do something combinedly it will be a great triumph. I thank you very much once more.

Yours affectionately,

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami

N.B. I am expecting to go to Mayapur in January.

His Holiness B.S. Bodhayan Maharaj

Sri Caitanya Gaudiya Math

Mayapur. Dist. Nadia

West Bengal

ACBS/jda