Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda,
Please accept our humble obeisances at your lotus feet. All glories to Your Divine Grace, the
most merciful messenger of the Lord.
Hyderabad is blessed by your stepping onto this land, transforming it into a place of pilgrim-
age, as confirmed by Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (1.13.10):
bhavad-vidhā bhāgavatās
tīrtha-bhūtāḥ svayaṁ vibho
tīrthī-kurvanti tīrthāni
svāntaḥ-sthena gadābhṛtā
My Lord, devotees like Your good self are verily holy places personified. Because you
carry the Personality of Godhead within your heart, you turn all places into places of
pilgrimage.
We are witnessing the potency of this place as a sign of your unlimited mercy, seeing how so many
souls are benefitting and taking shelter at the lotus feet of Śrī Śrī Rādhā-Mādhava.
Śrīla Prabhupāda, ISKCON Attapur has completed just four years, yet within this short span,
we have striven to fulfill your instructions – book distribution and prasādam distribution. Last
year, we also began daily nāgara-saṅkīrtana, and in doing so, we experienced your empowerment.
We can see how the fame of Śrī Rādhā-Mādhava is spreading far and wide as we endeavor to
follow your three key instructions for running a temple.
Apart from this, our temple devotees engage in various outreach programs, such as:
• Engaging influential members of society – every day our devotees meet various leaders and
high-net-worth individuals in Hyderabad and inspire them to serve Their Lordships.
• Youth preaching – many devotees visit areas with large youth populations, encouraging
them to practice Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Currently, we have four youth centers with more than
140 boys attending weekly classes.
• Bhakti-vriksha programs – congregation leaders connect with families, inspiring them to
commit to temple services.
• Traveling saṅkīrtana – in addition to our regular harināma-saṅkīrtana and book distribution,
we organize traveling saṅkīrtana three to four times a year, extending your mercy beyond
Hyderabad.
Śrīla Prabhupāda, following your instructions, we strive to make the worship of Their Lordships
very gorgeous. The enchanting darshan of Śrī Śrī Rādhā-Mādhava is attracting many people.
You struggled so much to establish Kṛṣṇa consciousness, but by your mercy, we now have the
resources to facilitate our preaching – vehicles, media tools, and audiovisual equipment. However,
despite these facilities, we are incapable of achieving anything without your guidance. Therefore,
Śrīla Prabhupāda, like a crawling child dependent on its mother, we seek your direction at every
step so that we may contribute meaningfully to your movement.
Śrīla Prabhupāda, you once said that you cannot think small. Our temple leader, His Grace
Sītārāma Prabhu, constantly inspires us to think big in order to please you. At ISKCON Attapur,
we have started implementing all the activities and festivals prescribed by you, attracting thou-
sands of participants – further testimony to your being an empowered ācārya.
During festivals, ISKCON Attapur draws so many devotees that our current temple hall can
no longer accommodate them. Therefore we have recently begun our temple extension project to
make the Lord’s mercy accessible to even more people.
Śrīla Prabhupāda, please bestow your causeless mercy upon us so that we, the devotees of
ISKCON Attapur, may continue serving to the best of our capacity, without deviation from the
uncompromising principles.
Your servants,
Caitanya Avatāra Dāsa and the devotees at ISKCON Attapur

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