Dearest Śrīla Prabhupāda,
Please accept our respectful obeisances at the dust of your lotus feet, which traveled this planet
many times to give the nectarean teachings of Lord Caitanya through your example, your vāṇī,
and through your books.
All glories to Your Divine Grace for giving us the service of producing your books and distrib-
uting them to our hearts’ content into the hands of conditioned souls. You said you will never die
but will remain eternally in your books!
We see you in your books and feel a sacred kindred nearness that is so sweet and inspiring.
Your books, Śrīla Prabhupāda, have so much valuable information in them for the well-being of
all humanity for all time to come. We have increasing realizations about your statement, “Every-
thing is in my books!” as people read these books and become devotees.
These are not just ordinary books, Śrīla Prabhupāda – they are a living, conscious, breathing
manifestation of the Absolute Truth, Kṛṣṇa. Again, thank you for allowing us to serve you by
producing these books in the Malayalam language for the people of Kerala, who also live in all
corners of the world.
Recently we had the opportunity to meet the new governor of Kerala state in South India, and
he was very appreciative of your contribution through your books. He commented that the intel-
lectual elite will benefit from them.
You said you feel like an “‘emperor who has conquered” every time you get one of your newly
published books in any language. Every time a new book is published in Malayalam, we blow
our trumpet of victory over Māyā’s world by calling a “book-release program,” and we let highly
literate and interested people know about the new publication while calling upon a dignitary to
receive the first copy. It gives us at the BBT immense pleasure to be playing a very small part in
helping you conquer, Śrīla Prabhupāda, and know that you will be pleased with the publication
of your books.
At the BBT in Kerala we have been able to complete almost all the titles and more. The Śrīmad-
Bhāgavatam was released at a grand function commemorating the fiftieth year of your visit to
Cochin (Kochi), Kerala, in August 2015. We chose the dates August 21–22, when the Jaladuta
docked at Kochi’s port, and you received the consignment of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam sets, sent from
Bombay. The devotees at the BBT were highly emotional while making this offering to you on this
most memorable fiftieth anniversary of your visit to Kerala!
We also released the Caitanya-caritāmṛta at a grand function in Guruvayur, where union minis-
ters were present with state leaders to receive the copies, along with the chief priest of the Guru-
vayur temple. We have also released a special deluxe edition of the Bhagavad-gītā – a collector’s
item – that is twice the size of the regular book, with an opulent finish and a wooden case. People
love it.
Our team at the BBT, consisting of translators, proofreaders, production assistants, and man-
agers, needs your very special blessings, Śrīla Prabhupāda, as they have been sincerely working to
produce your books for many, many years. Kerala is the most literate state in India. It’s also the
state that ranks highest in India in suicides and the consumption of alcohol and meat! How odd!
This strange anomaly can best be explained and solved only through your books. Being the home-
land of Śaṅkarācārya, Māyāvādīs and other impersonalists as well as communists abound in this
state and have free voice in the intellectual arena. Your books are these people’s only hope.
Śrīla Prabhupāda our existence in spiritual life is based on your books. It’s by this new govern-
ment “of your books, for your books, and by your books” that we can survive in Kṛṣṇa conscious-
ness and share the teachings far and wide.
We at the BBT seek your blessings while thanking you immensely from the core of our hearts
for engaging us in this most relishing service of producing your books in the local Malayalam
language.
Your servants,
BBT Kerala, South India
(Sanātana Dharma Dāsa, Kuñjamohinī Devī Dāsī, Gopāl Gaura Guru Dāsa, Śaraṇamukhi Devī
Dāsī, Mañjari Devī Dāsī, Śyāmalikā Devī Dāsī, Manorañjan Dāsa, Ūrmilā Sevinī Devī Dāsī,
Śrīnivāsa Hari Dāsa, Giri Govardhana Dāsa, Prabhavi Gopī Devī Dāsī, Bhaktin Sudha Balachan-
dran, Sheela Nair, and Bhakta Ratheesh)