Srila Prabhupada On Mayapur

cooperative spirit

19/12/72 BOMBAY – JAYAPATÄKÄ MAHÄRÄJA Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated November 29, 1972, and I have noted the contents with pleasure. I am so much happy to hear from you all the good news of our Mäyäpur centre. No, your liking of engagement there is not at all an inappropriate at- tachment, rather it is your qualification for pleasing your spiritual mas- ter. Attachment must be there, for Kåñëa or for maya. So you have become ttached to developing the Mäyäpur centre, that is Kåñëa’s work, so Kåñëa appreciates very much when His devotee becomes attached to Him in this way. Yes, the co-operative spirit of working to- gether without any argument is specially prominent in Mäyäpur, more than other places in India. Therefore you are successful, and the work is going on quickly to completion. That is because all of you working there have become very much attached to the dust from Lord Caitanya’s lotus feet, and because you have got much deep personal interest with that engage- ment of work, you want to see that is done nicely without any hin- drance of selfish motivation, nevermind all kinds of conditions of the material nature. That idea has become prominent for all of you, it is bigger than maya’s idea, therefore maya cannot interfere to make you quarrel or other things. But you especially are to take the credit. From the very beginning you wanted that place, and you got the land, got money from me, and now you have built the place by your concentration of energy. That is wanted. If there is some discrepancy anywhere, some non- cooperation, fighting, or if the work is slow or not to standard, it is to be supposed that the person or persons in charge are not very much attached to Kåñëa. That means they will discriminate: my engagement is not good, other’s engagement is good, like that. They do not know the secret of surrendering to Kåñëa. Such surrendered devotee sees that everything is part of Kåñëa’s plan, that whatever is meant to be, I

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