Our dearest Śrīla Prabhupāda,
Please accept our respectful obeisances. All glories to you on this most auspicious day of your
Śrī Vyāsa-pūjā. On behalf of the Śrī Śrī Rādhā-Rādhānātha temple and our congregation, we take
this opportunity to glorify you, our lord and master.
Fifty years have passed since you physically walked the South African land. So much has
changed since then, but what remains firm and growing exponentially is the faith of your follow-
ers, your glory, and with it, your mercy!
Your vision for South Africa was to build a temple in Chatsworth and preach to the intelligent
class at the universities. Śrīla Prabhupāda, you will be pleased to know that the message of Lord
Caitanya is still going strong here in Durban, Chatsworth. In fact, our yātrā celebrates two signifi-
cant milestones this year.
The first is the fortieth anniversary of the installation of Their Lordships, Śrī Śrī Rādhā-
Rādhānātha. The second is the fiftieth anniversary of Your Divine Grace visiting Durban, South
Africa.
We are having grand celebrations to commemorate these most auspicious events, which
changed the face of the South African yātrā forever! As we celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of
your arrival in South Africa, we remember the countless lives you touched and transformed
through your compassion and selflessness.
We are actually having programs throughout the year to celebrate your fiftieth anniversary of
visiting South Africa, and scores of devotees are engaged in preaching events and awareness cam-
paigns to commemorate this most glorious event, which changed our lives.
Secondly, we are increasing our outreach activities, for your pleasure. More particularly, we are
most honored to report that now, fifty years after your vision was communicated, we have finally
made substantial inroads in preaching to the university students, with our first module in bhakti-
yoga accepted into the curriculum and recognized at one of the biggest universities in South
Africa.
We are begging for your blessings so that we continue to uphold the standards of Deity wor-
ship for Their Lordships, Śrī Śrī Rādhā-Rādhānātha, as we have for the past forty years. By your
mercy, the various Vaiṣṇava festivals are being observed, we are also doing book distribution,
nāmahaṭṭa preaching, Food-for-Life, and the Sunday Love Feasts – all are going on from the Śrī
Śrī Rādhā-Rādhānātha temple.
We feel your constant presence now, even fifty years later, Śrīla Prabhupāda, and Your Divine
Grace remains our beacon of hope, guiding us on our spiritual journey and in endeavoring to
bring you pleasure.
We beg for your mercy so that our temple management and congregation remain enthusiastic
in their services to Śrī Śrī Rādhā-Rādhānātha, and we pray for your glories to spread to every
heart in South Africa.
Your humble servants,
Management team on behalf of the devotees
of the Śrī Śrī Rādhā-Rādhānātha temple

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