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Srila Prabhupada Letter to Karandhara dasa, 27th September 1973
“I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated September 12th, 1973 and am so glad to learn that you have again ordered to Dai Nippon Printing Co. for so many books. This engladdens me when I see our literature very widely distributed. This was the subject matter of my Guru Maharaja's satisfaction. He liked to distribute books more than constructing temples. He personally advised me to print books if I have got some money. So by his mercy we are printing books and constructing temples as well. Although in the beginning we had no...
read moreSrila Prabhupada Letter to Prahladananda, 28th August 1973
“Yes that is nice that you are distributing many books. I do not want money, or buildings or anything else, I simply want to see that my books are being distributed and because you are doing that I am quite...
read moreSrila Prabhupada Letter to Ramesvara, August 3rd 1973
“There is no doubt about it, to distribute books is our most important activity. The temple is a place not for eating and sleeping, but as a base from which we send out our soldiers to fight with maya. Fight with maya means to drop thousand and millions of books into the lap of the conditioned souls. Just like during war time the bombs are raining from the sky like anything. So you are the expert in this field. I like also your program of sending out your best men to teach the others. That is the actual process of Krsna consciousness....
read moreSrila Prabhupada Letter to Tamala Krsna Maharaja, 27th July 1973
“It is very encouraging to note that the work on our Back to Godhead and other books is going on. Actually producing and distributing books is our most important engagement, all other engagements culminate in this one end distribution of...
read moreSrila Prabhupada Letter to Trai dasa, March 4th 1973
“Your plans for increasing book distribution are very good. If so many books are being sold then very soon we will be finished the second edition. Distribution of all these books is making a firm basis for our...
read moreSrila Prabhupada Letter to Rupanuga, 14th February 1973
“Al1 programs must go on but it is a fact that this book distribution program is very, very important. It is real preaching work but I think this program for TV and radio is not so important. There are so many TV programs. Someone will see us on TV and then right after they will see some other nonsense and they will forget. Therefore, it is better for them to read my books but I think your proposal for seriously organizing the college programs is first-class. If this program is conducted in the proper fashion it can be our biggest book...
read moreSrila Prabhupada Letter to Jagadisa, 5th January 1973
“I am especially happy to hear from you about the huge distribution of books in the Canadian zone. That is the most auspicious sign. You are making good progress that I can understand. As soon as I see that there is such increased book distribution figures, I take that to mean that all other programs are successful as well. I am especially encouraged to note that you have sold 268 of our Bhagavad-Gita As It Is in only three weeks time. That is very, very satisfying to...
read moreSrila Prabhupada Letter to Vamanadeva, 3rd December 1972
“I am especially glad to see how nicely your St. Louis temple is distributing Back to Godhead magazine. Only three years ago I asked Dai Nippon to print 20,000 copies and barely could we distribute them. But now in your temple, you are distributing, so many, so this very, very encouraging to me. It is the perfect form of preaching. Follow the line laid down by Prahlada Maharaja and try to take everyone back to home, back to Godhead. And this is done by distributing our literature. I am so much pleased upon each and every one of you for...
read moreSrila Prabhupada Letter to Kurusrestha, 23rd November 1972
“I am very glad to hear all the good news, especially that you want to sell books more and more. That is the best preaching work; each book sold means there is some practical effect of preaching, there is some tangible progress. So try to sell books as many as possible in your country, and in this way, so long you remain active but not for your personal sense-gratification. So long you remain active only satisfying Krsna's senses, then this movement will be successful without any doubt. As soon as someone wants to satisfy his own...
read moreSrila Prabhupada Letter to Yadubara, 11th November 1972
“If you become lazy in your spiritual life, everything else will deteriorate. We are not interested in big, big buildings, no. That was not my plan for Juhu. I simply want to engage everyone in the service of Krsna, that's all. And that means preaching. So if the preaching work has stopped, what can I do? In that case you must expect there will be so many troubles. So try to improve your preaching work, distribute all the books, and print more, and in this way, Krsna is the husband of the goddess of fortune, you will get as much...
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