Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda,
Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Your Divine Grace.
In your purport to Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.30.37 you write, “All devotees are indebted to the great sage Nārada, for he has wandered both in heaven and in hell. A devotee of the Lord is not even afraid of hell. He goes to preach the glories of the Lord everywhere – even in hell – because there is no distinction between heaven and hell for a devotee.” Following in the footsteps of Śrī Nārada Muni, you also traveled across the globe to share Kṛṣṇa consciousness with one and all. You circumambulated the world fourteen times and took great risks to spread the message of Lord Caitanya to millions of conditioned souls.
With the blessing of Your Divine Grace, a branch of ISKCON started in South Bengaluru in 2011. As desired by you, this branch is growing into a prominent cultural center. We, the devotees at ISKCON South Bengaluru, are grateful to you, dear Śrīla Prabhupāda, for all the opportunities you created for us to engage our talents in the service of Śrī Śrī Rādhā-Vinodajī, Śrī Śrī Jagannātha-Baladeva-Subhadrā, and Śrī Śrī Nityānanda Naṭabara Gaurasundara. On this auspicious occasion we would like to share our spiritual journey in the last one year to seek your divine blessings to assist you in your mission.
1. Following are the number of books distributed by our temple devotees from April 2025–March 2026:1,200 Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam sets, 63 Caitanya-caritāmṛta sets, 20,022 Bhagavad-gītās, and 713 Kṛṣṇa books.
2. We are about to complete construction of a new extension of the temple building. It consists of a new Deity kitchen (on the same floor as the altar), new residential facilities for pūjārīs, and an accounts office.
3. Festivals are being celebrated in more attractive ways for the pleasure of Their Lordships. Many of the second-initiated congregational devotees are actively taking part in serving the Deities.
4. We are shortly coming up with a new Bhaktivedanta kalakshetra to facilitate many cultural events.
5. We are working on improving the devotee care systems to keep all the devotees well nourished and inspired in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
6. The temple’s overall preaching is growing. This includes the youth preaching wing (boys and girls separately), the congregational preaching wing, and the children’s preaching wing. We now have fourteen brahmacārīs in our center, and our congregation is around six hundred devotees.
There are many more initiatives that we’ve started working on for your pleasure. We seek your blessings so that we can continue to offer our loving services to Their Lordships.
Thanking you,
Your servants at ISKCON South Bengaluru