Distribution of books and magazines is our most important activity.

[Guest guest]

Distribution of books and magazines is our most important activity. Without

books, our preaching has no solid basis.

Bombay 26 december 71

 

My Dear Damodara,

Please accept my blessings. I have recently seen a copy of a letter that

Karandhara Prabhu has sent to all centers regarding payments of the Back to

Godhead and Book Funds dated July 9, 1972. Karandhara has informed me that you

are

apparently an offender in the connection of being tardy in payments to my BTG

and Book Fund. This is not good. We are trying to push on this movement on many

 

fronts, one of the most important being the production and distribution of

our Krsna Conscious literature for the upliftment of mankind. My Guru Maharaja

particularly gave me this assignment. Please assist me to your best capacity in

 

this regards.

Karandhara Prabhu is the treasurer of the BTG and BKF so you may immediately

clear your accounts with him, and this will be a serious responsibility upon

you.

Hoping this meets you well in Krsna Consciousness.

Your ever well-wisher,

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami

 

July 15 1972

 

I am also glad to see that you have 9 devotees doing full-time book

distribution. That is nice and also it is sufficient. Book-selling is our most

important engagement.

20 november 1975

 

In the six day book distribution, Eastern zone was first. This is our most

important work. All the leaders should tax their brains for increasing the

sales

of our books. I have always said that if we simply rely on book distribution

all our needs will be met.

11 January 1976

 

To All GBC's in the U.S.A.

My dear GBC disciples,

Please accept my blessings. I have met with Tamala Krishna Goswami and it

appears impractical to send anyone to China at this time. I am requesting him

to

resume his old position as manager of the Radha-Damodara TSKP. Book

distribution is my most important concern and these devotees should be given

facility to

distribute books profusely throughout America. They are also helping with

substantial contributions to construct the Temple in Mayapur. Please do the

needful to see that everything is done very nicely in a cooperative Krishna

Conscious spirit.

I hope that this meets you in good health.

Your ever well-wisher,

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami

n.b. Tamala Krishna Goswami will also be assuming his responsibilities as a

Bhaktivedanta Book Trustee for America. ACBS

May 4 1976

 

simply lip-sympathy will not do. They must be regular disciple, follow the

regulative principles, and they will develop it themselves. Besides that book

distribution and preaching is our most important activity. Opening temples is

subordinate. We have to see how books are being distributed and how people are

joining wholeheartedly. That is actual development.

11 July 76