在1966年7月1日这一天，圣帕布帕德拥有了第二大道26号的店面和后面的公寓。他立刻开始每天上课。高德史密斯先生完成了国际奎师那知觉协会的注册。
相对前面的部分，这个部分的记录比较简单。这可能是因为圣帕布帕德忙着投身于启动他的运动。这些事件在《圣帕布帕德逍遥甘露》中有详细记载。
1966年7月15日，圣帕布帕德训练他的一位追随者来记账，直到1966年8月底圣帕布帕德本人又开始重新记账。
这一期间比较重要的事件包括四位门徒的启迪，布茹阿玛南达，阿秋塔南达，萨特斯瓦茹帕和克伊尔坦南达，购买了最早的两台滚筒油印机，并接着在西方出版了第一版《回归首神》，与艾伦·金斯伯格建立联系，租下朱德森礼堂举行了一场讲座。
另外，和移民局也有一些麻烦，移民局拒绝更新圣帕布帕德的签证，因为他已经来美国超过了一年。在1966年9月27日举行了一场募捐来支付法律费用，艾伦·金斯伯格捐了100.00美元。
圣帕布帕德仍然想要拥有一栋大建筑做庙宇和传教之用。1966年10月31日，布茹阿玛南达为这个建筑基金捐了1300美元，1966年11月账户的部分显示，在1966年11月1日，茹阿文铎斯瓦茹帕·达萨的朋友乔纳森捐了5000元美元。
1966年7月1日，星期五
查图尔达西。日出，4:35。日落，7:32。月落，4:07
今天我搬进一个新房子，在第二大道26号后面的房间B1号。对我来说，这很好。我不知道为什么奎师那让我留在纽约。我是他仆人的仆人，所以让他的愿望都通过我这个代理来实现吧。
房东嘎迪纳先生很会做生意。他知道该如何提高租金。但是我并不遗憾。1966年7月和1966年8月这两个月我每个月要付62美元和杂费，而到了1966年9月1日我要付71美元和杂费。我看看奎师那怎么安排吧。
晚上在新的店铺举行了聚会，8个人参加，捐款是5.50美元，书籍捐款4.00美元。
我等了康·艾迪森一整天，但是他们没来。
装了电话，新号码是674-7428。
支出，0.50美元。
1966年7月2日，星期六
普尼玛。日出，4:36。日落，7:32。月升，8:45。
今天我给康·艾迪森打了电话，他们承诺今天找时间过来。我看他们会不会来。
1966年7月3日，星期天
帕提帕达。日出：日落
1966年7月4日，星期一
兑维提亚
日出。日落。月升。
1966年7月5日，星期二
垂提亚
日出，日落，月升
1966年7月6日，星期三
查图尔提
日升，日落，月升
今天我买了烤箱和厨具，18.00美元
晚上的捐款是8.00美元。
协会捐款：
雷蒙德：10.00美元
卡尔：10.00美元
拉斐尔：20.00美元
40.00美元
晚上在第二大道26号店里，我们决定注册协会，协和名称是国际奎师那知觉协会。
11位委托人都同意。
1966年7月7日，星期四
日出，4:38。日落：7:31。月升，10:49
今天我在高德史密斯先生的办公室见了他。付给了他10.00美元。把聚会的纪要交给了他。下周协会就应该能注册下来。他说一切都没问题。
付给麦克·格兰仕20.00美元交给康·艾迪森，这是为协会存的钱。
40.00美元
不足20.00美元
20.00
再加10.00
协会30.00美元
公交车费，0.30美元
晚上两位印度绅士巴嘎瓦特和垂维迪来见我，探到晚上10点。
支出，2.00美元
协会章程
1、本协会名称为国际奎师那知觉协会。
2、协和总部位于美国，纽约市10003号，第二大道26号，茹阿达奎师那神庙。
3、成立本协会的宗旨是：
（一）教导社会大众灵性知识，作为身心平衡发展的基础。从而第一次在当前这纷争的世界里让人类社会达成真正的和平与团结。
（二）按照主圣奎师那，首神本人亲自在《博伽梵歌》中宣讲的去弘扬首神，最具有吸引力的原初之人和永恒形体。
（三）无论国籍、信仰还是种姓，促进协会成员团结一致，从而让大家更接近首神，在成员内及人类大众内树立这一理念，即无穷小的灵性灵魂在有着首神的特质，是首神的组成部分和微小碎片，所有生命都是为了满足首神，至尊灵魂。
（四）宣扬主圣柴坦尼亚·玛哈帕布的教导，他以齐颂圣名，即聚众唱诵主的圣名这一超然的方式来接近绝对人格首神。
（五）通过积极活动和传教证明主圣奎师那是所有人类活动和一切祭祀、苦行、冥想、艺术、文化、科学的享受者，因为他是整个宇宙的至尊拥有者，每个人与他都是独立的个体，他是每个人的朋友。事实是，只有觉悟到这一点才能达至真正的和平。
（六）无论何时，无论何地，为社会构建真正的灵性进步的基础，在全世界人民中建立真正的和平与团结。
（七）努力拯救人类不再沦为以错误的名义持续进行的现代文明的牺牲品，这样人类就可以再次成为自由的灵魂，以灵性的眼光自由地活动和生活。通过接个人的灵性启迪，迪克沙，这是可以实现的，这样人才能在首神中看到万事万物，在万事万物中看到首神。
（八）进一步实现主圣柴坦尼亚·玛哈帕布和以圣茹帕和萨纳坦·哥斯瓦米为首的六位哥斯瓦米所揭示的最高真理。
（九）
1、建立超然逍遥时光的圣地，让主圣奎师那的成员能得到滋养。
2、在全世界弘扬传播奉爱服务，对首神的超然服务，让全世界都知道这奉爱服务是人类的首要职责。
3、为了实现这一点，所有成员都应该用和平的方式去广泛传教，让包括学者和追随者在内的人去从事《圣典博伽瓦谭》中提出的服务。
4、只要有机会就设立对茹阿达奎师那和圣柴坦尼亚的崇拜和神庙，给所有人提供条件，让他们接受训练处在善良形态，或做好奉爱服务的准备。
（十）按照《博伽梵歌》中的训示，教导协会成员和社会大众根据特定的地点和时间，用更简单更自然的方式生活。
（十一）为了协会成员和社会大众的利益，组织教育项目，如课程、巡回讲座并开展各类服务，如邮寄。
（十二）用所有重要语言出版期刊、书籍和/或小册子，向人类社会传达教导，同时也用于协会与社会的交流。
（十三）通过个人迪克沙启迪，以及婆罗门（优秀而聪明的人）启迪，激发协会中每一个成员的善良形态的品质，让他们能诚实、有知识、信心坚定地位主做超然服务。
（十四）作为协会的次要宗旨，以下活动也将实施：
1、复兴科学地按照智慧、武士精神、生产力和协助而划分的社会阶层体系，即根据品质和对世界的价值而定的四个种姓。
2、不以出身或头衔论人高低。
3、用正确的方法推广素食，从中获取蛋白质、碳水化合物、脂肪和维生素。
4、禁止所有毒品和麻醉品，并为深受其害的人提供灵性觉悟的正确方法。
A.C.巴克提韦丹塔·斯瓦米，阿查尔亚
雷蒙德·玛莱斯
麦克·A·格兰特
罗伯特·莱夫克威茨
詹姆斯·S.简妮
1966年7月8日，星期五
萨斯提
日出，4:38。日落，7:31。月升，11:08。
协会支出4个灯泡，测试仪等等，2.00美元
协会结余28.00美元
今天装了电灯，有20人参加了聚会。很振奋人心。收到捐款15.00美元。
有一个杰拉德的小伙子很感兴趣。
协会结余28.00美元。
卡尔，10.00美元
雷蒙德，10.00美元
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1966年7月9日，星期六
日出，4:39。日落，7:31。月升，11:08。
梵文课，卡罗尔太太付了5.00美元。没收到信。晚上，布拉德来看我。还是人生的老问题。
1966年7月10日，星期天
阿斯塔米
日出，4:40。日落，7:31。月升，11:28。
1966年7月11日，星期一
纳瓦米
日出，日落，月升。
1966年7月12日，星期二
达萨米
日出，日落，月升
（从这里开始暂无记账）
1966年9月1日，星期四
支出|收入
麦克，1.00美元|卡罗尔太太，10.00美元
此前结余153.48美元
收入，10.00美元
163.48
支出，1.00美元
结余162.48美元
嘎迪纳先生想涨房租到71美元。
他过来让我当着委托人的面签了字。
我觉得这不公平。
（从这里开始暂无记录）
1966年9月14日，星期三
（账户）
精神科的爱德华·哈尼克医生通过凯斯提供了一套博伽瓦谭。
爱德华·哈尼克
爱因斯坦心理学研究院
纽约市73号大道西11号
艾伦·金斯伯格：“彼得·奥乐夫斯基和我在一个GAP——精神病医生进步协会——的团体中遇到哈尼克。我们参加了他们的会议。他们邀请沃恩讨论嬉皮士，他们想知道这一代人的事。这是诗人、新文化和精神病医生之间的一次突破。我们读了很长一段诗，和他们中很多人交了朋友，和他们一起唱歌哈瑞奎师那，所有那一切。”
“多年以来，哈尼克和我保持着良好的朋友关系，并一起决定，如果我知道在年轻的一代中有人特别有才能，但是却因为毒品或破坏行为或疯癫或无论什么而和下东区搅合在一起，那么与其把他们送去可怕的比利佛精神病院，或者束手无策，我们会和他与爱因斯坦诊所联系，这样他就能介入，确保他们有一个安全的避难所。当克伊尔坦南达的问题发生时，那时他并不是特例。当时很多嬉皮士都有同样的问题，在大街上游荡，发疯。因此就要找到一位在纽约各医院的精神病业内有一点影响力的精神病科医生，这样我们就可以向他解释是怎么回事，这个人是一位修习传统外士纳瓦修行的奉献者，所以他在美国的环境中看起来有点可笑，但是没关系，他并不是疯了，他只是在做自己的事。哈尼克是合适的人选。他很快就能上手，并介入。”
1966年9月22日，星期四
账户
四个小伙子接受了圣名启迪，分别是布鲁斯，查理斯，史蒂夫和凯斯。
唐纳德寄来一些朋友。谢谢他。
1966年9月23日，星期五
账户
今天签证处送来信件，他们决定不再延长我的逗留期。
所有成员都为这个消息而震惊。
他们希望我留下来。在简妮的安排下，我们在纽约市外举行唱诵，效果很好。阿南塔修院邀请我们过去。
备注：
1966年9月26日
星期一
今天委托人们决定应该为我能够继续留下来采取法律措施。他们计划为此留出500.00美元的预算。
1966年9月27日，星期二
账户
节选自艾伦·金斯伯格于1979年为《圣帕布帕德逍遥甘露》而做的采访：
艾伦·金斯伯格：“斯瓦米·巴克提韦丹塔无法获得永久居留签证。他有一个律师，我见过这位律师。他看起来是一位本地律师。可能是他（圣帕布帕德）在阿南达（修院）遇到的。这个人我摸不透。我在犹太的素食餐馆见过他几次，在第二大道也和他聊过。那时扫毒部正在找我麻烦，打算在突击检查中把我逮住，那一年，J.爱德嘎·胡福把我列进危险名单，扫毒部好几次想栽赃我。于是我去了华盛顿罗伯特·肯尼迪的办公室，提出抗议和投诉，警告他们有人会把大麻放进我公寓，然后破门而入，为此起诉我。我和肯尼迪做了一次长谈。之后，我去见他的秘书，肯尼迪穿着他的衬衫套袖回到办公室来找一位秘书。我说，‘哦，我忘了一件事。我要为你唱首小歌。’他说，‘好的。我有空。’于是我唱了大概八个诗节的哈瑞奎师那曼陀罗，他说，‘这是什么？’我说，‘只要你听了，立刻就能带来解脱。’于是他指着白宫说，‘下个街区的家伙比我更需要。’当时约翰逊正深陷越战。这就是肯尼迪与哈瑞奎师那的接触。”
“之后，当斯瓦米遇到麻烦，他问身边每个人谁能帮上忙，我说，‘我们想想。我们可以写信给肯尼迪。’这没什么大不了，你知道。参议员就是干这个的。那时肯尼迪知道我，我也知道肯尼迪的人，或者我好像成了什么重要的解放人物，如果我写封信说斯瓦米是个好人，这就会被认真对待。于是我给肯尼迪写了一封信，说这里这位杰出的斯瓦米所做的事情真的很有趣，带来了哈瑞奎师那，他的活动都是有益无害的，如果他遇到麻烦，那就太糟糕了。他们能不能提供什么条件，确保他不会身陷困境？他真的是一位守法的斯瓦米，在从事着韦达的事业。我不知道这有没有帮上忙。”
备注：
1966年10月19日，星期三
账户
有望买下房子。
1966年10月20日，星期四
账户
今天关于我的签证延期举行了第一次听证。第二次听证将于1966年1966年10月28日上午9点举行。
备注：
1966年10月23日，星期天
账户
今天给予嘎尔嘎牟尼和兰赤宏达斯圣名启迪。
今天，《回归首神》再次出版。
1966年10月24日，星期一
账户
《回归首神》杂志裁切很好了。
价格15美分一份
书籍捐款，30.00美元
备注：
1966年10月28日，星期五
账户
今天去了移民局
联系雅普斯兰廷
备注：
通知
所有启迪奉献者必须参加早课和晚课。
绝不允许服用任何麻醉品，包括咖啡、茶和烟草。
不许有非法性关系。
必须是严格的素食者。
不可与非奉献者交往过密。
不可食用非奉献者烹饪的食物。
不可浪费时间闲谈，也不可参加不务正业的运动。
应该一直念诵和歌唱主的圣名。
哈瑞奎师那，哈瑞奎师那，奎师那奎师那，哈瑞哈瑞
哈瑞茹阿玛，哈瑞茹阿玛，茹阿玛茹阿玛，哈瑞哈瑞
谢谢大家，
A.C.巴克提韦丹塔·斯瓦米
阿查尔亚
国际奎师那知觉协会
纽约市第二大道26号
1966年1966年11月25日
July 1 through November 4, 1966
26 Second Avenue Summary
July 1 marks the day Śrīla Prabhupāda takes possession of the storefront and one of the rear apartments at 26 Second Avenue. He immediately conducts regular classes. Mr. Goldsmith finalizes the incorporation of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.
Entries in this section are abbreviated, as compared with the previous sections. This perhaps results from Śrīla Prabhupāda's being absorbed with the active beginnings of his movement. These events are elaborately discussed in the Śrīla Prabhupāda Līlāmṛta.
On July 15 Śrīla Prabhupāda trains one of his followers to keep the accounts until the end of August, when Śrīla Prabhupāda resumes this practice.
Notable occurrences are the initiation of Brahmānanda, Acyutānanda, Satsvarūpa and Kīrtanānanda, the purchase of the first two mimeograph machines and subsequest publication of the first Western edition of Back to Godhead, the beginning of Śrīla Prabhupāda's relationship with Allen Ginsberg, and the hiring of Judson Hall to hold a lecture program.
There are problems with the immigration authorities after they refuse to renew Śrīla Prabhupāda's visa because he has been in the U.S. for more than one year. On September 27, a collection is held to defray the legal costs, and Allen Ginsberg donates $100.
Śrīla Prabhupāda still wants to acquire a large building for a temple and preaching purposes. On October 31 there is a $1300 donation to the building fund by Brahmānanda, and the November accounts section (see page 206) shows a loan for $5,000 from a donor named Jonathan, a friend of Ravindra-svarūpa dāsa, on November 1.
Friday 1 July
Chaturdasi: Sunrise 4/35 Sunset 7/32 Moonsets 4.07
Today I entered the new house at 26 Second Avenue rear portion Room #B1. For my purpose it all good. I do not why Krishna is trying to establish me in New York. I am his servant's servant and therefore let His desire be fulfilled through my agency.
The Landlord Mr. Gardiner is pukka landlord. He knows how to increase the rent. But I am not sorry. For two months namely July and August I will have to pay at 62 and odds whereas from September 1st I will have to pay $71 and odds. Let me see how Krishna arranges the things.
In the evening there was meeting in the New Store. There was about eight men Collection $5.50. Book Collection 4.00
The whole day I waited for Con Edison but they did not
Telephone duly installed The New Number 674-7428
Expenditure (?) .50 c
Saturday 2 July
Purnima. Sunrise 4/36 Sunset 7/32 Moon rise 8/45
Today also I phoned to Con Edition they have promised to come sometimes today. Let me see what they do.
Sunday 3 July
Pradipada: Sunrise: Sunset(?)
Monday 4 July
Dwitya
Sunrise.Sunset Moonrise:
Tuesday 5 July
Tritiya
SunriseSunsetMoonrise
Wednesday 6 July
Chaturthi
Sunrise:Sunset:Moonrise:
Today I purchased stove and utensils $18.00
In the meeting the collection was $8.00.
Society Collection:
Raymond* $10.00
Karl -$10.00
Rapheal -$20.00
$40.00
In the meeting at 26 Second Street Store, It is settled that the Society shall be incorporated and the name of the Society shall be: International Society for Krishna consciousness
Eleven Trustees were agreed.
Thursday 7 July
Panchami
Sunrise: 4/38. Sunset. 7/31 Moonrise 10/49
Today I saw Mr. Goldsmith in his office. He has paid $10.00. The papers of the meeting were handed over to him. It is expected that the Society shall be registered by the next week. He says everything is alright.
Michael Grants was paid $20.00 for Con Edition deposit for the Society.
$40.00
Less 20.00
20.00
Add 10.00
$30.00 for Society
Bus fare - .30
In the evening two Indian gentlemen namely Bhagwat and Trivedi met me and talked with me till 10 at night.
Expenditure -$2.00
CONSTITUTION OF ASSOCIATION
- The name of the society is The International Society for Krishna Consciousness.
- The headquarters of the Society are located at Radhakrishna Temple, 26 Second Avenue, New York City, 10003, USA.
- The objectives for which the Society is being established are:
(A) To educate the greater human society in the techniques of spiritual life as the basis for a balanced psychic and biological development, and thereby achieve for the first time in human society a real peace and unity among the contending forces in the world today.
(B) To propagate the Sense of Godhead, the all attractive Personality of primal and eternal Form, as He Himself revealed in His own words in the Bhagavad Gita, the Holy Scripture of the Lord Sri Krishna, the Godhead.
(C) To bring together individuals in a Society, regardless of nationality and irrespective of creed or caste, in order to develop a nearness to the Godhead and thereby the idea that within the members and humanity-at-large there is an infinitesimal soul-spirit that is part and parcel in quality with the Godhead, and that all life is meant for the satisfaction of said Godhead, the Supreme Soul.
(D) To encourage the teachings of Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu who demonstrated practically the transcendental process of approaching the absolute Personality of Godhead by His acts of congregational chanting of the holy name of God, a process known as Samkirtan.
(E) To prove by active work and preaching that Lord Sri Krishna is the only enjoyer of all the outcomes of individual and collective sacrifice, penance, meditation, arts, culture, science, because He is the Supreme Proprietor of the whole universe, eternally apart of Him everyone knows Him as a friend. Real peace can be attained when this is realized, in fact.
(F) To assist whenever and wherever possible in the building of a social structure on the real foundation of spiritual progress and establishment of peace and unity between men throughout the world.
(G) To attempt to save men individually from the chain of victimization the ongoing trend in modern civilization operates by, in the name of ideologies of false sentiment, so that Man may again be a free soul, to act and live freely with spiritual vision. This is possible by individual spiritual initiation, Diksha, when a man can see everything in Godhead and Godhead in everything.
(H) To further toward realization this highest truth as revealed by Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and the six Goswamins headed by Srila Rupa and Sanatana Goswamins.
(I) To have for its objectives amongst the others four principles which the Goswamins had in view. They are the following:
- To erect a holy place of transcendental pastimes as well as a place where members of the Lord Sri Krishna can flourish.
- To propagate all over the world in the form of missionaries the process of devotion, the transcendental service to the Godhead, and to make known that this devotional service is the main function of the human being.
- In order to accomplish this, to adopt proselytizing methods of peaceful means and to establish a broader society of association for all members, including scholars and admirers, to engage in this service as put forth in the Srimad Bhagwatam.
- To install, wherever it is possible, the worship and temple of Radhakrishna and that of Sri Chaitanya, and to give facility to everyone to become trained in the modes of Archan or preparatory principles of devotional service.
(J) To introduce to the members of the Society and humanity-at-large a simpler and more natural purpose in life by means suitable to the particular place and time, and as enjoined in the Bhagavad Gita.
(K) To organize educational programs, such as classes and lecture tours, and to institute services, such as mailing, for the benefit of the members of the Society and humanity-at-large.
(L) To publish periodicals, books and/or pamphlets in all important languages in order to reach human society and give an opportunity to same to communicate with the Society.
(M) To invoke the quality of goodness particularly in every member of the Society, individually by the process of Diksha and by establishing one in the status of a Brahmin (good and intelligent man) on the basis of truthfulness, knowledge and faith in the transcendental service of the Lord.
(N) Among the secondary objectives of the Society, it shall undertake the following activities:
- To revive the scientific system of social orders of classification based on intelligence, martial spirit, productivity and common assistance, generally known as the four castes with reference to quality and worth for the common cause of world society.
- To discharge as a matter of course the vitiated system of supremacy of one man over another by false prestige of birthright or vested interests.
- To popularize the vegetable-grain diet under approved methods in order that full value of protein, carbohydrate, fat and vitamin benefit may be derived therefrom.
- To discourage intoxicating or addicting habits of all descriptions and dimensions and to expose such persons thus afflicted to approved methods of spiritual realization.
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami, Acharya
Raymond Marais
Michael A. Grant
Robert Lefkowitz
James S. Greene
Friday 8 July
Sasthi.
Sunrise: 4/38 Sunset. 7/31 Moonrise: 11/08.
Society's account four bulbs, tester etc. $2.00
Society's balance $28.00.
Electric light fitted today and there was
about twenty men attending. It is
encouraging. The collection was $15.00
one boy Gerald was very much
interested.
Society's balance 28
Karl -10
Raymond -10
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Saturday 9 July
Saptami
Sunrise: 4/39 Sunset: 7/31 Moonrise: 11/08
In the Sanskrit Class Mrs. Carol paid
$5.00. No letter received. Brad (?) met me
in the evening. The same problem of life.
Sunday 10 July
Astami
Sunrise: 4/40 Sunset. 7.31 Moonrise: 11/28
Monday 11 July
Navami:
Sunrise:Sunset.Moonrise:
Tuesday 12 July
Dasami:
Sunrise:Sunset:Moonrise:
FROM HERE ACCOUNTS ONLY UNTIL
Thursday 1 September
Exp:| Income
Milk etc. 1.00| Mrs. Carol - 10.00
Balance B.F.153.48
Income - 10.00
163.48
Expenditure - 1.00
Balance c/o162.48
Mr. Gardiner wants to increase the rent to 71.odds.
He came and got it signed
by me before the trustees.
I think it is not just.
FROM HERE ACCOUNTS AND NAMES AND ADDRESSES ONLY UNTIL
Wednesday 14 September
[Accounts]
Dr. Edward Harnick* Psychiatrist supplied one set of books Bhagawatam through Keith
Dr. Edward Harnick
c/o Einstein Psychiatric Institute
11 West 73rd Street
N.Y.C.
Allen Ginsberg: "Peter Orlovsky and I met Harnick at a group that I knew called the GAP, Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry. We had been to their conference. They had invited us to talk about hippies and they wanted to know what was this generation thing. It was like a breakthrough between the poets and the new culture and the psychiatry groups. So we'd given a big poetry reading and made friends with a lot of them, and sang Hare Kṛṣṇa with them, the whole thing.
"Over the years Harnick and I developed a pleasant friendship and worked out an arrangement that if I knew anybody particularly gifted among the younger generation that was getting screwed up in the Lower East Side for drugs or busts or madness or whatever, that rather than have them go through the whole horror mill of Bellevue and not know what to do, to put them in touch with him and the Einstein Clinic, so he could intervene to make sure that they had a safe refuge. When Kīrtanānanda's case came up, at that time he wasn't the only one in trouble. There were a lot of hippies going through the same problem, wandering the street, flipping out. It was a question of finding a psychiatrist who had a little political clout in the New York psychiatric community among the hospitals, whom we could talk to and explain what the situation was, that this guy was a devotee practising traditional Vaiṣṇava practice, and that's why he looked so funny in the American context, but it was all right, he wasn't crazy, he was just doing his thing. Harnick was good. He picked up fast and could intervene.
Thursday 22 September
ACCOUNTS
To four boys Bruce, Charles, Steve and Keith* initiated with Harinama.
Donald sent some apples by post. Thanks.
Friday 23 September
Accounts
Today Visa office sent their decision not to extend further to me to stay.
All the members startled.
They want me to stay. We went to perform Kirtan out of New York City arrange by Greene and it was nice. We are invited by the Ananda Ashram
Note: *
Monday 26 September
Accounts
Today the Trustees resolved that legal steps should be taken for my stay. They are prepared to spend up to $500.00 for this purpose
Tuesday 27 September
[Accounts}
Excerpt from an interview with Allen Ginsberg for Śrīla Prabhupāda Līlāmṛta given around 1979:
Allen Ginsberg: "Swami Bhaktivedanta was having difficulty getting a permanent visa. He had a lawyer whom I met. He seemed like a naive local lawyer. Maybe somebody he'd [Śrīla Prabhupāda] met from Ananda [Ashram]*. I couldn't figure the guy out. I met him in the Jewish vegetarian restaurant a couple of times and talked with him on Second Avenue. At that time I was having problems with the narcotics bureau, which was trying to set me up for a bust, and that year, J. Edgar Hoover put me on the dangerous security list, and the narcs made several attempts to frame me. So I went to Robert Kennedy's office in Washington to put counterpressure and complain, and to warn them that someone might bring marijuana into my apartment, bust the door down, and accuse me of having it. I had a long talk about this with Kennedy. Later, I'd gone back to see his secretary, and he came back into the office in his shirt sleeves to see one of the secretaries. I said, "Oh, there's something I forgot. I was going to sing you a little song." He said, "Okay, I got a minute." So I sang about eight verses of Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra and he said, "What's that?" And I said, "When you hear this, it's supposed to bring immediate liberation." So he said, "Well, the guy up the block needs it more than I do," pointing up to the White House when Johnson was running the Vietnam war. That was Kennedy's introduction to Hare Kṛṣṇa.
"Later on, when the Swami was having trouble, he asked around everybody who could help, and I said, "Well, let's see now. We could write to Kennedy." It's just a normal thing, you know. That's what senators are for. In this case Kennedy knew who I was and I knew Kennedy's people, or I was somewhat a celebrated literary figure, so if I wrote a letter saying this swami was good it would be taken seriously. So I wrote Kennedy a letter saying here was this nice swami who was really doing something interesting, bringing Hare Kṛṣṇa, and his work could only be good; and if he was having trouble, that could only be bad. Is there anything they could do to facilitate and make sure that he didn't have any difficulties? That he really was a legitimate swami, and was doing something great. I don't know if it helped or not.
Note: *
Wednesday 19 October
Accounts
There is hope to purchase the house.
Thursday 20 October
Accounts
Today first hearing was done in the matter of my visa extension It will be heard again on 10/28/66 at 9 a.m.
Note: *
Sunday 23 October
Accounts
Gargamuni & Ranchhordas are given Harinama today.
Back to Godhead published again Today
Monday 24 October
Accounts
Back to Godhead appeared in shape
Price 15 c
Book Collection $30.00
Note: *
Friday 28 October
Accounts
Today to attend Immigration Department.
Contact Ypsilantin*
Note: *
NOTICE
All initiated devotees must attend morning and evening classes.
Must not be addicted to any kind of intoxicants including coffee, tea and cigarettes.
They are forbidden to have illicit sex-connections.
Must be strictly vegetarian.
Should not extensively mix with non-devotees.
Should not eat foodstuff cooked by non-devotees.
Should not waste time in idle talks nor
Engage himself in frivolous sports.
Should always chant and sing the Lord's Holy names.
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare,
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare.
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Thank you,
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
Acharya.
International Society for Krishna Consciousness
26 Second Avenue
New York, NY
Dated Nov. 25, 1966
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