DEAR SRILA PRABHUPADA,
PLEASE ACCEPT MY HEART AT YOUR FEET. RECEIVED YOUR LETTER AND TELEGRAM TODAY. TEMPLE WILL NOT BE SOLD. ALL PAPERS TO BE SIGNED OVER TO YOU. NEVER INTENDED TO CLAIM PROPERTY OR MONEY AS MY OWN. DETAILED LETTER FOLLOWS. PLEASE FORGIVE ANY CONFUSION OR ANXIETY MY BLUNDERS HAVE CAUSED YOU -- YOUR SERVANT, TUSTA
And at the end of the first week of November 1973, Srila Prabhupada replied:
I am present at New Delhi awaiting for our festival here, so your telegram has been redirected from Bombay. I am so much pleased to read it because I know that all of you, Siddha Svarupa Maharaja, Sudama Vipra Maharaja and yourself are all good souls and so I also know that Gaurasundara is also of this same level, but I do not know why this disruption has taken place.
If there is any misunderstanding with the GBC men, that can be readjusted by mutual understanding. I wanted to see you all to mitigate this misunderstanding, but I was very busy in Bombay for the same Juhu land of Mr. Nair. Perhaps you remember that you introduced Mr. Nair to me. Now he is dead and gone, but he created so many obstacles.
So kindly take my word and do not leave our Society. If you cannot agree with the GBC, I can take up your matter personally and do the needful. I love you all very much and if you go away and stay independently, that will be a great shock for me. I want to meet you all together. Let me know where I shall go to meet you.
Prabhupada was anxious that his young disciples not quarrel amongst themselves lest the preaching be spoilt. He wrote Sudama Vipra:
So long I am living I wish you all be strictly under my guidance without any fratricidal disagreement. There is very good scope for preaching our cult all over the world, so let us do it conjointly.
Prabhupada, however, would not tolerate invented, or what he called "concocted ideas". Srila Prabhupada had written to Beharilal with stern disapproval of their proposed alternative to the disciplined ISKCON temple environment:
The "communal form of Krishna consciousness" which you mentioned is not approved by me. It is all concoction. My guru maharaja condemned this practice. You must stay together and vigorously preach the Krishna consciousness philosophy to the world. That is the real spirit of Lord Caitanya's movement. Do not fall victim to this sentimentalism. That is not our dharma.
Towards the end of the year, Srila Prabhupada wrote Madhudvisa Swami with his recent concerns:
I have not heard from Tusta Krishna or Siddha Svarupa Goswamis, nor do I know anything of their plans to return to New Zealand. Try to convince them to return to our society and work co-operatively; that they have gone away is not a good thing and it is a deviation from our line of parampara. Rather, avoiding fault-finding and anarchy, they should keep our standards and work maturely and not cause factions and splitting. I am not at all pleased at what they have done.
Despite Srila Prabhupada's strictness on the matter, he remained reconciliatory:
But if they return, let us forget what has happened and go forward. As sannyasins, they may preach and you may manage affairs. That will be very nice. We have got so much vital spiritual knowledge to distribute to the public, and they are in desperate need of it. The whole world is going to hell and everyone is suffering. In light of this, how can we argue amongst one another and neglect our responsibility for reclaiming these fallen souls for going back to home, back to Godhead.
- From "The Great Transcendental Adventure" by HG Kurma Prabhu
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