Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda,

nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale
śrīmate bhaktivedānta-svāmin iti nāmine
namas te sārasvate deve gaura-vāṇī-pracāriṇe
nirviśeṣa-śūnyavādi-pāścātya-deśa-tāriṇe
Please accept our humble obeisances at your lotus feet. On this special occasion of your Vyāsa-
pūjā, we, the devotees at ISKCON Angul, would like to submit our heartfelt offering to you.
Fifteen years have passed since preaching started in Angul City, under the guidance and bless-
ings of His Holiness Bhakti Gaurava Nārāyaṇa Swami. Angul is an industrial hub of central
Odisha. After years of struggle, we received one acre of land near Benagadia Village, and we have
gradually purchased more land adjacent to it. Now we have nearly five acres of land.
A magnificent temple of Śrī Jagannātha, Baladeva, and Subhadrā Mahārāṇī, Śrī Śrī Rādhā-
Śyāmasundara, and Śrī Gaura-Nitāi is now under construction. This year, around mid-April, we
are planning to cast the ground floor slab. There are around eleven cows and bulls in our goshala,
including three milk-giving cows. There is a beautiful flower garden on the temple campus that
produces fragrant and colorful flowers, and we offer fresh garlands to the Lord every morning.
During last year’s Gītā marathon, we distributed about 8,000 Bhagavad-gītās for your pleasure.
This year we will try to distribute 10,000 Bhagavad-gītās. This year we are also planning to expand
congregational preaching, village preaching, youth preaching, corporate preaching, and school/
college preaching to a higher level.
Śrīla Prabhupāda, today we are just enjoying and living a comfortable life in the ISKCON
temples built by your hard labor. Please bless us so that one day we may understand your heart
and imbibe the compassion you had for the suffering material world. Please bless us so we can all
love and serve in a cooperative spirit and make you happy. There are countless suffering souls out
there who are just waiting to receive your mercy in the form of your books. Please empower us so
that we may go out on saṅkīrtana every day to distribute your books.
Finally, we are all listening to your lectures and reading your books each day so we can have
your association, which is our only shelter in this dangerous Age of Kali.
Please keep us at your lotus feet always,
The devotees of ISKCON Angul

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