My dear Bali-mardana,
Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your very encouraging letter dated 18 February 1970, and I have noted the contents carefully. It is also very much pleasing that you have liked the company of Upendra, and both of you combined together will surely carry successfully our Australian yatra.
I am very much pleased with your behaviour in the matter of progressing our Krishna consciousness movement. You took up very seriously my desire for opening a centre in Australia, and you volunteered to take up the responsibility. So all these things are very much encouraging. In our Krishna consciousness movement, the first qualification required by the devotees is enthusiasm. Then work it out patiently and with conviction that it will surely be done. But at the same time we must be very, very strict in following the regulative principles and completing the sixteen rounds, chanting. Our dealings should be very clear with others and we must always keep company with devotees. Please do not hesitate to write at least once fortnightly so that I may be kept informed of the activities.
You are doing so much for fulfiling the desire of my spiritual master, so you are indirectly the representative of my guru-maharaja. He has been helping me in this matter by sending so many young boys and girls, otherwise who would help me in this mission while I came here empty handed and without any friend? I can only pray to Krishna to take care of you, otherwise I cannot repay your sincere service in my mission. Please offer my blessings to Upendra, and I am awaiting to hear from you again.
Srila Prabhupada was proud of the achievements of his young disciples in Sydney. He happily sent news of their success, along with copies of the first Sydney news clipping, in his worldwide correspondence throughout February and March of 1970.
- From "The Great Transcendental Adventure" by HG Kurma Prabhu
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