Our dear Śrīla Prabhupāda,
Please accept our humble obeisances at your divine lotus feet. All glories to Your Divine Grace.
Though 1, Ultadanga Junction Road is the place where the institutionalized propagation of
Kṛṣṇa consciousness was begun by your beloved Guru Mahārāja, as a center, we are very new, and
this is our first offering to you as a center. On behalf of all the devotees I would like to express our
heartfelt gratitude to you for choosing us to serve here, though we are unqualified in every respect.
We inaugurated the center almost three years back, yet some of the detail work remained to
be done. Recently, we finished it completely. From all over the world many of your disciples and
many other senior devotees from ISKCON as well as the Gauḍīya Math are coming to this place
and spending time with us each day. We are trying to serve them to the best of our ability.
We are also worshiping Gāndharvikā-Giridhārī here with eight offerings and subsequent āratis
every day. So, though our center is very small, it is very dynamic. We have both congregation and
youth outreach from this place. Local people are taking interest in it, and some are responding
very quickly. Many are interested in its history. We are soon going to make a full-length documen-
tary film depicting the history of this place of pilgrimage.
As of now, we are celebrating two festivals very elaborately, the Vyāsa-pūjā of your Guru
Mahārāja and the Brahmotsava of the Deities.
Śrīla Prabhupāda, we wish to tell you that we did not do anything on a big scale here because
the place is very small, the Deities are very small, and our manpower is also comparatively small.
Yet, we try to do every small thing with attention to detail and the best possible quality.
I, on behalf of all the devotees here, seek your empowerment and blessings so that we can
maintain the quality and increase the quantity of our service at this divine place in a spirit of love
and cooperation.
Your servant,
Parānanda Dāsa, manager
1, Ultadanga Junction Road