October 5, 1955 : Delhi
Satsvarupa: When Srila Prabhupada wasn't busy managing the disorganized matha and working on Gaudiya Patrika and Sajjana-toshani, he spent his time preparing a Hindi translation of Chaitanya-charitamrita. Srila Prabhupada continued his attempts to improve Sajjana-toshani. For him it was not a perfunctory duty but absorbing preaching. Funds were scarce - so scarce that Srila Prabhupada had no decent dhoti - and yet he continued to envision a glorious future for Sajjana-toshani.
"I wish to see this paper just to the standard of Illustrated Weekly with numerous pictures in order to make it a very popular literature and for this I wish to move myself to secure subscribers as well as advertisers."
Srila Prabhupada also requested that Bhaktisaranga Gosvami help him publish his Hindi Chaitanya-charitamrita. Some "non-Bengalee gentlemen" were demanding the book and had assured Srila Prabhupada that they would pay twenty-five rupees per volume. But just as life in the Gaudiya Sangha and work on the Sajjana-toshani under Bhaktisaranga Gosvami's hand produced strain for Srila Prabhupada, Srila Prabhupada's ambitions for increased circulation and his strong editorial opinions also created strain for Bhaktisaranga Gosvami. In response to Srila Prabhupada's letter, Bhaktisaranga Gosvami's secretary, Ramananda, wrote a letter full of flowery praises of Bhaktivedanta Prabhu, but with the intent of dismissing him from his position with the Gaudiya Sangha.
"We received your letter written to Sri Guru Maharaja on the 5/10/55. We are suspecting that it won't be possible for an able and respectable Vaishnava like yourself to stay there long adjusting with the illiterate and less educated devotees of the Gaudiya Sangha in Delhi. We will be very much obliged if you would instruct Keshavananda Prabhu to publish the October issue. Keshavananda Prabhu wrote that your clothes are getting torn, so buy a pair of clothes from the fund of the temple and if the devotees commit offenses at your lotus feet due to their shortsightedness, please forgive them. (Signed) The servant of the servant of the Vaishnava, Sri Ramananda Das"
Srila Prabhupada also requested that Bhaktisaranga Gosvami help him publish his Hindi Chaitanya-charitamrita. Some "non-Bengalee gentlemen" were demanding the book and had assured Srila Prabhupada that they would pay twenty-five rupees per volume. But just as life in the Gaudiya Sangha and work on the Sajjana-toshani under Bhaktisaranga Gosvami's hand produced strain for Srila Prabhupada, Srila Prabhupada's ambitions for increased circulation and his strong editorial opinions also created strain for Bhaktisaranga Gosvami. In response to Srila Prabhupada's letter, Bhaktisaranga Gosvami's secretary, Ramananda, wrote a letter full of flowery praises of Bhaktivedanta Prabhu, but with the intent of dismissing him from his position with the Gaudiya Sangha.
"We received your letter written to Sri Guru Maharaja on the 5/10/55. We are suspecting that it won't be possible for an able and respectable Vaishnava like yourself to stay there long adjusting with the illiterate and less educated devotees of the Gaudiya Sangha in Delhi. We will be very much obliged if you would instruct Keshavananda Prabhu to publish the October issue. Keshavananda Prabhu wrote that your clothes are getting torn, so buy a pair of clothes from the fund of the temple and if the devotees commit offenses at your lotus feet due to their shortsightedness, please forgive them. (Signed) The servant of the servant of the Vaishnava, Sri Ramananda Das"
Reference: Srila Prabhupada Lilamrta Volume 1 - Satsvarupa Dasa Gosvami
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