Most worshipable Śrīla Prabhupāda,
Please accept our most humble obeisances unto the dust of your divine lotus feet.
Śrīla Prabhupāda, time and again you instructed your disciples to tax their brains for how to
increase the sales of your books. You will be pleased to know that we have accepted these words
of yours as our heart and soul and have plunged ourselves into the mission of book distribu-
tion. Our efforts are not just bearing fruit; they are bearing golden fruit. Our Jai Nitai Task
Force (Youth Team for Boys) and Damayanti group (Youth Team for Girls) as well as our con-
gregational members have made book distribution their only ambition and meditation. Not just
during Gītā Jayantī or the Bhadra Pūrṇimā campaign, but throughout the year, these devotees are
engaged in – and rather attached to – book distribution.
Almost every Sunday they go out on book distribution. Most remarkably, last year they distrib-
uted books all night during the four days of Durgā-pūjā, starting from shasti to navami. Countless
books were distributed.
You taught us that we are also like that Mahiṣāsura buffalo demon, as we consider ourselves the
enjoyer of Kṛṣṇa’s property – a very demoniac mentality. And Devī Durgā, the external energy of
Kṛṣṇa, punishes us by striking us with her trident, which signifies the threefold miseries. To save
the ignorant from the assaults of the external energy, the devotees of ISKCON Panihati will dis-
tribute your books during Durgā-pūjā profusely.
Our efforts are specifically channeled to distributing Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam sets during the Bhadra
Pūrṇimā campaign, and by your causeless mercy we distributed 424 sets last year. The greatest
contribution to our achieving this target most importantly goes to the Harivasar group, under the
able guidance of His Grace Sumitra Kṛṣṇa Prabhu.
Also, every Sunday afternoon the boys of our Jai Nitai Task Force go out on nāgara-saṅkīrtana.
They sing and distribute books as well. Thus we have saṅkīrtana with mṛdaṅga as well as with the
bṛhad-mṛdaṅga.
Śrīla Prabhupāda, we have also arranged a special program every Ekādaśī where we invite
devotees to come to the temple and chant sixty-four rounds for the pleasure of Kṛṣṇa. We give
them free prasādam, and we get a good response. Also on Ekādaśīs, we hold twelve-hour kīrtanas.
In this way the devotees receive substantial spiritual nourishment.
Śrīla Prabhupāda, you will be pleased to know that the Abhay Charan television serial, which
was created and produced by your dearest disciple, His Holiness Bhakti Chāru Swami Mahārāja,
has been translated into Bengali. This epic series will now be watched by Bengali audiences, who
are sadly unaware of your unparalleled achievements. Making this happen was a special initiative
of ISKCON Panihati. We translated all forty-five episodes – each is thirty minutes long – into
Bengali, then put them onto a specially designed 60 GB pen drive. Both the devotees and the
nondevotees, after buying the pen drives and watching the serial, are becoming enlightened by
your teachings and the philosophy of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. They are getting to know a lot about
the sacrifice you voluntarily underwent to deliver us from the prison house of this material world.
They are appreciating our initiative very much.
Śrīla Prabhupāda, another initiative we’ve developed is to get the book, The Glorious History of
Panihati, translated into Hindi. In this way, even non-Bengali-speaking people can get to know
the glories of Panihati-dhāma. Our dream is to translate the book into all the languages on earth
and attract people from all over the world to Panihati so we can serve them the mercy of Lord
Nityānanda in the form of chipped rice and yogurt prasādam.
Śrīla Prabhupāda, you will also be pleased to know that one of our senior devotees, His
Grace Govindānanda Prabhu, whose contribution to the growth of ISKCON Panihati has been
significant, has recently received sannyāsa initiation from His Holiness Jayapatāka Swami in
Māyāpur on the auspicious occasion of Gaura-Pūrṇimā. His sannyāsa name is His Holiness Bhakti
Sāra Govindānanda Swami. Mahārāja is still serving relentlessly to further the spiritual prosperity
of our temple.
Śrīla Prabhupāda, just as when you arrived in America you considered yourself a mere puppet
in Kṛṣṇa’s hands, so we are placing ourselves before you as your puppets. The achievement is
yours only, Śrīla Prabhupāda, and all praises must flow to you. We are not preachers; we are not
the doers. We are neither preaching nor doing anything. We are merely distributing your books
and acting as peons, and it is you who is preaching through your books. We can do something
for Kṛṣṇa’s service only because you empower us. You are pulling the strings, and we are simply
moving like puppets. Please empower us more and more to act like your puppets and spread your
glories far and wide to every nook and corner of this world.
Your beggars for mercy at ISKCON Panihati