Our dearest Śrīla Prabhupāda,
On this most auspicious day of your divine appearance, we, the devotees and well-wishers of
ISKCON Schenectady, New York, wish to express our utmost gratitude and indebtedness to Your
Divine Grace for so compassionately and mercifully giving us the highest, indisputable, and surest
process and way to develop unconditional love and devotion to the original Supreme Personality
of Godhead, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa. We cannot ask for more, nor is there any other better way for us to
be delivered from this material world. It is now up to us to use our free will and independence
appropriately and wisely and follow your pure, uncompromising instructions through your pur-
ports of the many Vedic scriptures, your lectures, and your many conversations and direct instruc-
tions to your many disciples. You left us an abundance of spiritual treasure, an organization in
ISKCON, and a system and structure that can take us to the end of our lives and through many
generations to come – indeed, for the next approximately ten thousand years – to take advantage
of and perfect our human lives.
O Śrīla Prabhupāda, we, your granddisciples and aspiring granddisciples, seek your kind recip-
rocation in our neophyte mentality as we sincerely endeavor to serve your mission and please you
in our meager, insignificant disposition. Bless us all with the power and ability to overcome all
obstacles and to evolve as humble and capable servants of your many astute and surrendered ser-
vants. Bless us all to remain in the mainstream of your incorporated ISKCON and to individually
and collectively preserve your sacred teachings and mission.
Here at ISKCON Schenectady we are a small group of “trying to become devotees” with the
desire to follow your teachings and present them to as many persons as possible within the city
of Schenectady. As a preaching center, we conduct a weekly Sunday program as well as programs
for all the major Vaiṣṇava auspicious festival days. We also execute outreach programs, and in the
summer season, engage in harināma and Food-for-Life. As much as possible we try to distribute
your books. There is so much more we wish to do, but we have constraints in terms of competent
human resources. We will report to you and your designated representatives of our progress, and
through your causeless mercy and compassion we pray there will be fewer setbacks.
We bow to thee, Śrīla Prabhupāda, our greatest savior.
Giving us all the transcendental teachings of the original Creator.
So many souls of all races and frivolous background brought us together.

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