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with members of your Society wherever you wish to distribute prasdda to
the hungry millions in the state.
As manava-seva is madhava-seva [‘‘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 per-
sonal 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 Krsna
consciousness movement is therefore meant to present the Supreme
Personality of Godhead directly to the people. As stated in the Srimad-
Bhagavatam, Seventh Canto, Sixth Chapter: tuste ca tatra kim alabhyam
ananta adye/ kim tair guna-vyatikarad iha ye sva-siddhah.

The idea stated in this verse is that by pleasing the Supreme Per- .
sonality of Godhead, we please everyone, and there is no question of
scarcity. Because people do not know this secret of success, they are mak-
ing their own independent plans to be happy. However, it is not possible
to achieve happiness in this way. On your letterhead I find many impor-
tant 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 dis-
eased 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 Krsna, 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 savikirtana here, the rain has begun to fall after a
drought of two years. The last time we performed a Hare Krsna 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
