Dearest Śrīla Prabhupāda,
nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale
śrīmate bhaktivedānta-svāminn iti nāmine
namas te sārasvate deve gaura-vāṇī-pracāriṇe
nirviśeṣa-śūnyavādi-pāścātya-deśa-tāriṇe
Please accept my humble obeisances at the dust of your lotus feet. All Glories to Your Divine Grace, and all glories to your ISKCON movement.
This year marks the 130th year of your transcendental advent in this world for the benefit of humanity. You established ISKCON as an oasis in the desert of the material world. As your granddisciples and followers, it is our duty to maintain and pursue the expansion of ISKCON in our small country, which you mercifully visited twice in 1975.
Śrīla Prabhupāda, you once told His Holiness Giriraj Swami that for this movement to continue, two things are required: intelligence and organization. Pursuant to that, we organized a managerial training program for our local leaders earlier this year. Thirty-seven managers from nine of your ISKCON centers attended, leaving here inspired to put their heads together to organize preaching initiatives more effectively and to care for the devotees under their supervision.
Book distribution has always been your main focus, and we have strived to keep it at the forefront:
- Massive outreach: In 2025, ISKCON Mauritius distributed 127 sets of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and thirty sets of the Caitanya-caritāmṛta.
- Festival success: About 5,000 of your books were distributed over a one-week period during the Mahā-Śiva-rātri festival in March 2026.
- Global standing: Our Śrī Śrī Kṛṣṇa-Balarāma Mandir ranked first among the top ten African temples in January 2026.
To fulfill the first of the seven purposes of ISKCON – the systematic propagation of spiritual knowledge and cultivation of devotees – we have launched the Manjari pilot program. It’s currently active in four locations, with seven dedicated preachers. The program has seventy-two registered participants who are all new to Kṛṣṇa consciousness and undergoing a high-level overview of the Bhagavad-gītā to begin their spiritual journey.
Śrīla Prabhupāda, we hope that you are pleased by the sincere efforts of the devotees working hard to push on your movement in Mauritius. We certainly have our share of challenges, but we pray that we always remain fixed in our determination to serve you in a spirit of cooperation.
Your servant,
Harideva Dāsa
On behalf of ISKCON Mauritius