69-06"I can understand that you are having some difficulty in finding time to paint because of your other duties, but I think that all of these duties may be stopped so you can devote your full energy and time to painting. This painting you are doing is very important, so it will count as your temple work. There is no necessity either for you to go out on sankirtana if this will take away your time from your real work. I understand that you are also very musically talented, but this talent is not so much required on sankirtana party because for chanting Hare Krsna it is not necessary that all the instrumentation be so much polished or complicated.

If it is necessary for you to work-part time to earn money for artist supplies then you should do it, or else if Isana dasa can continue to help you in this connection, that will be better. Both you and your wife, Rukmini, are very nice artists, so please tell me what ideas you have so that you may get as much artistic work done as possible.For the time being, you should complete your sankirtana painting, and then as you have asked about the Krsna book, I am enclosing an idea for a painting of Krsna showing the universe within His mouth to Mother Yasoda. So you may complete this painting also as soon as possible. I have so many ideas for paintings, and we will be requiring so many expert paintings as you are able to do, so please be very serious to do this work nicely and quickly. It will be a great service. In our Krsna book we are showing the Western world for the first time what is God. So it is no unimportant task, and try to help us out in this as far as possible."
(SPL to Baradraja, 2nd June, 1969)