"I was very much relieved to hear all of the good reports coming from you about New York and I thank you very much for seeing that everything is going on nicely there. As you mention in your letter that the United States is probably the most fertile preaching ground in the world and that the East coast is the best out of that, therefore our New York city temple is an extremely important center and the standard of purity in Kåñëa consciousness must be maintained there by all means. If somehow or other we can convince the majority of the United States population to take to Kåñëa consciousness then the whole world will become Krsna conscious. This is a fact. The United States is the leader of all other nations. You simply educate the people in this Krsna conscious philosophy and then there will be no difficulty in capturing the government. In your country there is very good system of democracy.
As we have seen just recently the people, as the common people have so much power, that they were able to get down this Nixon, who is obviously a rascal. So if we can simply convince a good majority of persons then they will automatically want a Krsna conscious leader. And if there are Krsna conscious leaders in the government then they will act as Krsna's representative and will be able to save the world from the disastrous condition of life. At the present moment there is nothing but great calamity but by injecting Krsna consciousness into the masses we can change this situation greatly.
Because New York is such an important center we must have a very good building. Therefore I want that you somehow or other get this New York Theological Seminary building at once. From the photographs it appears very big and capable of satisfying all our needs. And according to your letter it is an excellent location. And we can arrange for the money. So there is no difficulty. Try to get it as soon as possible. This will be very pleasing to me."
(SPL to Rüpänuga, 18th December, 1974)