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Advancing in Kṛṣṇa Consciousness (an exchange of letters)
Springfield, New Jersey June 12, 1972
Dear Prabhupāda,
I offer my humble obeisances.
I have been associating with the devotees of the New York temple. With the association of such fine, advanced devotees, I hope that I may make some advancement in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. My fiancée has started to come to the temple and is chanting a little. She knew nothing about Kṛṣṇa consciousness until I wrote her about it from India. Atreya Rṣi has been kind enough to invite us to his home so that we may see an ideal householder life.
I went to Bombay the end of April for termination from the Peace Corps. I was fortunate enough to come down with a minor illness, so that I had to stay in Bombay for two weeks. I spent the time with the advanced and kind devotees at Juhu. Unfortunately you had left five days previously.
I understand so little, but I have faith in the process of Kṛṣṇa consciousness and hope to take to it more and more.
I look forward to Atreya Rṣi's description of the temple
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