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with members of your Society wherever you wish to distribute  prasāda  to the hungry millions in the state.
As  mānava-sevā  is  mādhava-sevā  [“Service to man is service to God”], the Committee is confident that even a little effort by your gracious Society will go a long way in mitigating the sufferings of hundreds and thousands of people.
Yours ever in the service of the Lord, T.L. Katidia, Secretary Andhra Pradesh Relief Fund Committee Hyderabad, India
My dear Mr. Katidia,
Please accept my greetings. With reference to your letter and your personal interview, I beg to inform you that without pleasing the Supreme Personality of Godhead, no one can become happy. Unfortunately people do not know who God is and how to make Him happy. Our Krṣṇa consciousness movement is therefore meant to present the Supreme Personality of Godhead directly to the people. As stated in the  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam , Seventh Canto, Sixth Chapter:  tuṣṭe ca tatra kim alabhyam ananta ādyel kim tair guṇa-vyatikarād iha ye sva-siddhāḥ.
The idea stated in this verse is that by pleasing the Supreme Personality of Godhead, we please everyone, and there is no question of scarcity. Because people do not know this secret of success, they are making their own independent plans to be happy. However, it is not possible to achieve happiness in this way. On your letterhead I find many important men in this country who are interested in relieving the sufferings of the people, but they should know for certain that without pleasing the Supreme Personality of Godhead all their attempts will be futile. A diseased man cannot live simply on the strength of the help of an expert physician and medicine. If this were so, then no rich man would ever die. One must be favored by Krṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Therefore if you want to perform relief work simply by collecting funds, I think that it will not be successful. You have to please the supreme authority, and that is the way to success. For example, due to the performance of  sankīrtana  here, the rain has begun to fall after a drought of two years. The last time we performed a Hare Krṣṇa Festival in Delhi, there was imminent danger of Pakistan's declaring war, and when a newspaper man approached me for my opinion, I said there must