Srila Prabhupada Letter to Yamuna dasi, August 12th 1969
“Regarding your questions about details for Deity worship, I have already mentioned in a previous letter that I shall teach you these things when I arrive in London. In the meantime there is no necessity for you to increase Deity worshiping. For the time being these new Deities may be put away nicely until I personally install them and instruct you very nicely how to tend for them correctly. For the present you may join...
Srila Prabhupada Letter to Hamsaduta, 18th April 1970
“I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 12th April 1970, and the information is very encouraging. The more you worship the Deity very nicely, all of you will feel very nice and peaceful spiritually. Therefore, this point should be very much carefully attended. Similarly, in London Yamuna is also doing nicely, and all the wives of our students should be trained up for Deity worship and cooking, and when possible they...
Srila Prabhupada Letter to Madhusudana, 1st February 1968
“Yes, the verse concerning arca-vigraha is like this: arcye visnau sila-dhir gurusu, nara-matir vaisnave jati-buddhir. The meaning is that one should not think of the Deity as made of stone, wood, etc. Another verses is: arcayam eva haraye, pujam yah sraddhayehate. The meaning is that one who worships the Deity with great devotion but doesn't show any devotion to the devotees of the Lord, or doesn't preach Krsna...
Srila Prabhupada Letter to Batu Gopala dasa, 7th September 1974
“Regarding taking the Deities out on sankirtana as advised by Tamala Krsna Goswami, occasionally the Deities may come and go, however you can let Tamala Krsna Goswami guide you in this...
Srila Prabhupada Letter to Sudama, 8th January 1970
“That is a fact, this plan of sankirtana is the only way, the only way for our success. Sankirtana, love feast and selling Back to Godhead they are our primary engagements and next temple worship. Temple worship is needed for the inner section. In the beginning, sankirtana is more important for drawing the attention of the people in general. Last night, I went to see our men chanting in Hollywood Boulevard and I saw it was so...
Srila Prabhupada Letter to Hamsaduta, 12th March 1970
“Now work with great enthusiasm and ask Himavati to take care of the Deities very, very nicely. Both of you have seen in LA how much they are careful about Deity worship. We have to make our steady progress, keeping both sides in balance, namely pancaratriki-vidhi and bhagavata-vidhi. The pancaratriki-vidhi is arcana or temple worship and the bhagavata-vidhi is to preach by chanting and distributing literature. Although chanting...
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