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| Prabhupada Letters :: 1966 a.c. bhaktivedanta swami |
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9 October 2004 Sunday, October 9, 1966 
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami beneath Tompkins Square elm tree, 1966. "On October 9, 1966, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and his followers sat beneath this tree and held the first outdoor chanting session outside of India. Participants chanted for two hours as they danced and played cymbals, tambourines, and other percussive instruments. "The event is recognized as the founding of the Hare Krishna movement in the United States. Prabhupada's diverse group that day included Beat poet Allen Ginsberg (1926 - 1997). Krishna adherents continue to return to the tree to acknowledge its significance." October 2001 Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mayor City of New York letters | 01:08 | Swami's Flock Chants in Park to Find Ecstacy Sitting under a tree in a Lower East Side park and occasionally dancing, fifty followers of a Hindu swami repeated a sixteen-word chant for two hours yesterday afternoon to the accompaniment of cymbals, tambourines, sticks, drums, bells, and a small reed organ... repetition of the chant, Swami A. C. Bhaktivedanta says, is the best way to achieve self-realization in this age of destruction... many in the crowd of about a hundred persons standing around the chanters found themselves swaying to or clapping hands in time to the hypnotic rythmic music. 'It brings a state of ecstasy,' said Allen Ginsberg the poet... the ecstasy of the chant or mantra Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare has replaced LSD and other drugs for many of the Swami's followers. [From the New York Times, October 9, 1966] letters | 01:01 | 7 October 2004 MEMORANDA: Friday 7 October October 7th 1966. Friday Fund raising for Rupanuga Para Vidya Pitha Vrindaban began today. Steve (Satyasvarupa donated $100.00.) letters | 02:57 | 3 October 2004 Monday, October 3, 1966 New York, New York Mr. K. B. Mehta Assistant Manager Scindia Steam Navigation Company Central Bank Building 33 Netaji Subhas Road Calcutta 1, India My Dear Mr. Mehta, Kindly refer to your letter dated 27th June, 1966. Now, immediately, some foods are to be dispatched from Delhi and Calcutta on my account to New York. You have written to say that the goods should be cleared and passed by the customs under a certain bill. But I do not know who will take charge of clearing these goods and getting them passed by the customs house. If you will, therefore, let me know the name of your clearing agent in Calcutta then I can send the railway receipt to him so that he can clear the goods from railway station and forward to your boat or your ship, and I'm prepared to pay for clearing and forwarding charges. In the meantime, Swami Bhakti Vilas Tirtha of Caitanya Research Institute of 71 B Rash Behari Avenue may send you some goods for forwarding. Please arrange to receive the goods and forward to New York by any one of your freighters. And also let me know by return of post your authorized clearing and forwarding agent. Also let me know whether the goods sent from Delhi may be booked for Calcutta or Cochin port. You can let me know whichever is convenient so that I shall advise my man in Delhi to follow your instruction. You can send a copy of reply of this letter to my agent at Mathura. His address is as follows, Swami B. V. Narayana Maharaja, Kesabji Gaudiya Matha, Kanstila, P. O. Mathura, India. My best regards, for you all Swami A. C. Bhaktivedanta letters | 08:29 | |
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