750405 - Letter to Alfred Ford written from Mayapur

Letters by Date, 1975

P.O.Mayapur Dham
W. Bengal (Dist. Nadia) INDIA
April 5th, 75

Sriman Alfred Ford
Teton Village
Wyoming 83025 U.S.A.

My dear Alfred,

Please accept my blessings. Gurukrpa Svami has referred your latter dated March 12th, 1975 to me for final approval. I think your idea is very good. You are giving your forefather's hard-earned money and I don't want to see it spoiled in any way. In a year or so you can turn the property over to: A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder Acarya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. You are sincerely trying to please Krishna, and therefore He is giving you all intelligence--how to do it.

After the opening of our Vrindavan temple here in India, I shall start for Australia by May 5th to install Gaura-Nitai deities and then I shall go to Fiji for a few days to see how our center is doing there. After that, I shall arrive in Honolulu by May 17th. This time, I will stay there for some time, most probably until the beginning of July, when I will be going to the American mainland for our annual Rathayatra festival in San Francisco. If it is convenient for you, I would like to have you come and stay with me while I am there in Hawaii. I will arrange a nice room for you and any other facilities you may require. I am hoping that you will consider this carefully to my Bombay address.

I hope this meets you in good health.

Your ever well-wisher,

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami

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