770226 - Letter to Jayananda written from Mayapur

Letters by Date, 1977

Tridandi Goswami
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
Founder Acharya:
International Society for Krishna Conciousness

DATE February 26, 1977
CENTER Mayapur Candradoya Mandir
P.0. Sridham Mayapur
Dist. Nadia, West Bengal

My dear Jayananda,

Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated February 21st, 1977, and I thank you for the check as well as the nice sentiments you have expressed. In the beginning you also gave me $5,000 and now again you have sent.

This body is today or tomorrow finished. We should not be very much bothered about the body. Trees also live for thousands of years but that does not mean a successful life. A successful life is one of Krishna consciousness. By the grace of Krishna from the very beginning you are a devotee and that is the real profit of your life.

I thank you for your check, but I would prefer that you may require the money for your treatment. So if you like I can return it. But I hear that you have some income. I pray to Krishna for your more advanced Krishna conscious life.

About a sadhu it is said, "jiva va mara va," a sadhu may live or die, it doesn't matter. While living he is engaged in Krishna Conscious business and when dying he goes back home back to Godhead.

Hoping this finds you improving in your health.

Your ever well-wisher,

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
Sriman Jayananda das
ISKCON-Los Angeles

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