So please work very hard to make New Vrindaban grow
Sunday, 8 November, 1970
Bombay
My Dear Hayagriva,
Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 27, Sept.
I’m very pleased that you’re opening a nice center in the important city of Pittsburgh. Please develop the Pittsburgh and New Vrindaban plan conjointly. If Pittsburgh center can help contribute financially to our New Vrindaban, that will help relieve many financial problems.
I am often thinking of New Vrindaban and I’m so much glad that you have taken the initiative to establish that program. Before I came to your country, I was thinking to establish an ideal Vedic community. So please work very hard to make New Vrindaban grow.
I will agree with you that we must not strain by having more devotees there than we can fit comfortably. Things must be done in such a way that no one feels inconvenienced. That is one of the problems of our modern metropolis. Everyone is packed together so tightly that the condition is always unbearable.
Develop things in New Vrindaban in the natural way, so that gradually, as you have more facilities, more men can come. So far as purchasing the property and schoolhouse owned by Mr. Caufield–that is very nice proposal. So I propose that if you can collect $15,000. Then I will loan you the remaining $5,000. from my book fund…
Hope this will meet you in good health.
Your ever well-wisher,
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
