Our dearest Śrīla Prabhupāda,
Please accept our most humble obeisances. All glories to you and your ever-expanding International Society for Krishna Consciousness. All glories to your all-divine disciples who continuously purify the whole world with their lotus feet.
This year we would like to offer the humble new temple of our most beautiful Divine Couple, Their Lordships Śrī Śrī Rādhā-Mādhava.
It is only through Your Divine Grace’s causeless mercy and the instructions of your most faithful disciples, who are still continuing the try to fulfill the prophecy that the holy name of Lord Kṛṣṇa will be heard in every town and village, including our lowly country, the Philippines, that this temple has been built.
This year, with the guidance of His Holiness Janānanda Goswami, we were able to celebrate the grand opening of the new temple on January 31. We also added a tag name to out temple: The Temple of Unity, where everyone from all levels of society, faiths, and affiliations are most welcome to offer worship to the absolute forms of the Supreme Personality of Godhead Kṛṣṇa and His eternal consort Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī.
With the blessings of the Vaiṣṇavas, we also plan to install Deities of Gaura-Nitāi on the left side of Rādhā-Mādhava, and Jagannātha-Baladeva-Subhadrā on Rādhā-Mādhava’s right side. We will do this when we become qualified to have Them.
We would like to take the opportunity to express our most sincere gratitude to all the members of the Indian community, which contributed more than 90 percent of the financial requirements to secure the property ten years ago and for the successful building of the temple thereafter.
A special mention goes to the architect His Grace Śachitanuja Prabhu, who painstakingly guided the design phase of the project in accordance to established Vedic architectural understanding, without demanding anything in return.
Now we are still in the transition phase of transferring everything from a rented old house to a space six times larger, and learning to cope with the ballooning expenses that come with such a large space.
At this turn we would like to beg Your Divine Grace to bestow your causeless mercy and blessings to all who have contributed to the success of the temple construction project.
But most of all, please accept our sincere thanks to Your Divine Grace, who set your lotus feet on this lowly country on 11 October 1972, and from then on, the Hare Kṛṣṇa movement slowly spread to the many islands that make up this country.
Our most fervent prayer is for all the hindrances, like politics, petty bickering, and unfounded philosophies to be most far away from us, as Your Divine Grace has expressed that real danger and damage will not come from outside but from within: “The greatest danger to our movement will come when we manufacture and create our own process for worshiping the Deities. So don’t ask any more new questions, whatever is going on, follow it just to the exact standard as I have given you, that’s all.” (Letter to Dhruvananda, Bombay, 4 January 1973)
May Your Divine Grace and our Śrīla Gurudeva, Tamal Krishna Goswami, be eternally together in spreading the glories of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, in the various universes of this material manifestation.
Your unqualified grand-servant,
Mahendra Dāsa, president
And the devotees of the Śrī Śrī Rādhā-Mādhava Mandir