69-03"Best thing will be if you can engage your time and energy fully in chanting and in painting nice pictures. You are a very talented girl, and you can paint very super excellent pictures, I have seen it. Now the thing is that we are opening new branches all over the world, and we require so many pictures in our temples so that people may come and see and be attracted by the beauty of Krsna. That is needed. The people today are fascinated by so much of the glimmering of the so-called beauty of the external energy and there is necessity of seeing beautiful pictures of Krsna and His devotees and His pastimes, in order to attract them to the spiritual process. So this is a great service, and there is urgent need for such paintings. Our Jadurani has done so many nice pictures, and they are distributed amongst our temples, but still there is a shortage of supply and she is now sick, and unable to work very swiftly due to her health condition. So I request you to simply sit down wherever you are and paint nice pictures for being distributed to all centers. This will help you, and it will help others as well."
(SPL to Madhavi Lata dasi, 19th March, 1969)