Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda,
Please accept our respectful obeisances. All glories to Your Divine Grace on this most auspi-
cious day of your 129th divine appearance on this earth planet.
On this most blessed event, we would like to seek your blessings to glorify you on this special
day. We can only do this by your mercy, like we can only offer Ganges water back to the Ganges.
Your appearance in this world is just to reclaim the fallen conditioned souls and engage them in
the Supreme service of the Divine Couple, Śrī Śrī Rādhā-Govardhanadhārī.
Here in Perth, we are trying to please you by engaging in some menial services. We are trying
to distribute your books to the people of Perth, Western Australia. We are trying to distribute
through various avenues, like a book table at the temple and at various events, and most inter-
estingly, one of our devotees distributes your books through his occupation as an Uber driver.
He talks to his customers and gives them a book and cookie prasādam. In this way he has dis-
tributed more than two thousand Gītās over the last couple of years. I am sure you will be very
pleased with his sincere efforts. Also, our efforts at distributing sets of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and
Caitanya-caritāmṛta have increased, and we need your mercy to distribute more so that many can
come to know about Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
We are steadily distributing prasādam through our Govinda’s, and nowadays we distribute
close to 150 free meals a week to the needy. Also, our free distribution to the local members by
Bhakta Mark Claes is steadily increasing. He is very enthusiastic in distributing prasādam and
thus bringing awareness of the Hare Kṛṣṇas to the local community.
We are regularly going out on harināma-saṅkīrtana in the streets of Perth, and many onlookers
chant with us and walk away with happy smiles. Also, we are invited to do saṅkīrtana at various
events, such as the Australia Day parade and at a local mall during Diwali, and these organiza-
tions even give a donation to our saṅkīrtana party!
Many of our devotees are conducting bhakti-vriksha programs, outreach programs, and univer-
sity programs, and thus introducing many conditioned souls to Kṛṣṇa consciousness. We know
this is not enough, as there are many more who are not aware of our Kṛṣṇa consciousness move-
ment, so we have a long way to go and need your blessings to carry on this difficult service of
going uphill, fighting against māyā (mama māyā duratyayā!).
Another regular activity we are doing is the six-week Bhagavad-gītā intro course along with an
eighteen-week Bhagavad-gītā course, both of which are well-attended. Students are becoming seri-
ous in the process of devotional service due to these courses.
Recently, our devotees have done an outreach program in a nearby town called Bunbury,
which was attended by 150 devotees. We have a regular program in another nearby town, Man-
durah. This shows there are many souls who are very eager to know about Kṛṣṇa and learn about
the process. So please bless us so that we can reach many towns in Western Australia.
Śrīla Prabhupāda, it’s fifty years ago that you put your lotus feet in Perth, considered the
second most isolated city in the world, and thus you made this place a tīrtha. Now this year, in the
month of May, we are planning to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of your visit. We are having
a week-long program of hearing the kathā about your Divine Grace and all the pastimes. We are
very fortunate that two of your dear servants who were with you fifty years ago have accepted our
invitation to join us. They are His Grace Śrutakīrti Prabhu and His Grace Amogha Prabhu. We
are all looking forward to hearing the nectarean pastimes of Your Divine Grace and celebrating
this very special moment with all these wonderful servants of yours. We are also planning to invite
some local officials so that they will be aware of your greatness and recognize your contribution
to human society.
Śrīla Prabhupāda, somehow for reasons known only to you and Their Lordships, our temple
project has taken different directions, and as we write this offering, we are about to settle the pur-
chase of a 2.5-acre piece of land, and Krishna willing and if you so desire, we may get a bit more
land for our future projects. The Council is supportive that we use this land as a place of worship,
and hopefully, by your mercy, we will complete a nice home for Their Lordships and for you. We
are hoping that we will make some progress with our design and other approvals this year.
Please bless us so we can serve you by working cooperatively to increase the preaching and
bring in more conditioned souls to the lotus feet of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
Your servants at the ISKCON Perth yātrā

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