My dearest Śrīla Prabhupāda,
Please accept my most humble obeisances unto the dust of your lotus feet. All glories to Your
Divine Grace.
Your Vyāsa-pūjā is near again. In recent years the whole world has been full of disasters, espe-
cially the COVID-19 pandemic. Many people suffered due to the economic depression. We are
very lucky because you established 108 ISKCON centers around the world when you were present.
Due to your causeless mercy, ISKCON centers have sprung up around the world. At this moment,
I especially feel your compassionate desire to protect the devotees.
In the Caitanya-caritāmṛta (Ādi 3.19) Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu said: “I shall personally inau-
gurate the religion of the age – nāma-saṅkīrtana, the congregational chanting of the holy name. I
shall make the world dance in ecstasy, realizing the four mellows of loving devotional service.”
Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu is the Kali-yuga avatar. He gifted us the spiritual practice of this
age (yuga-dharma): harināma-saṅkīrtana, which allows us to dance, chant, and eat prasādam all the
way back to the spiritual world. Śrīla Prabhupāda, you took on this great and arduous mission to
propagate the yuga-dharma. In order to allow more people to get in contact with Kṛṣṇa conscious-
ness, associate with devotees, cultivate knowledge about Kṛṣṇa, and nourish devotees through the
six kinds of loving exchanges, ISKCON, our spiritual family, was established.
ISKCON is like the Bhaktivedanta Hospital. Everyone comes here for rehabilitation and shel-
ter. You have already prepared six kinds of medicine in The Nectar of Instruction to help us gradu-
ally recover and awaken our dormant Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
Enthusiasm: Due to suffering, we naturally desire to take medicine to cure our disease, and the
medicine is “the scriptures and the instructions of Śrīla Prabhupāda and the spiritual masters.”
We accept the instructions and engage in all kinds of devotional services with enthusiasm.
Faith: We should have full faith in taking the medicine (accepting the instructions). Without
faith, we won’t develop enthusiasm for devotional service.
Patience: We need to be patient and wait for the medicine to take effect.
Positive activities: Following the doctor’s advice and instructions for treatment means following
the regulative principles and performing our daily sādhana.
Isolation: Do not associate with nondevotees to avoid being infected by other patients.
Sincerely follow in the footsteps of the ācāryas – follow the examples of those devotees who
heal by following the doctors’ prescription (scriptures and guru’s instructions) and the ācāryas,
and desire to associate with them and render them loving service.
The Taichung yātrā has gone through more than ten years of hard work. Under the guidance
of the GBC and our spiritual teachers, the local devotees worked together to set up the ISKCON
Taichung Center. We established it in November 2023. The purpose of the center is for devotees
and new friends to continue to receive spiritual nourishment and learn to render devotional ser-
vice in a proper mood. We are so unqualified, so we are very eager to have your merciful shelter.
Service is the key to connection. On your Vyāsa-pūjā day, in addition to glorifying your cause-
less mercy, we also pray for your protection. When we render service, please protect us from the
desire for liberation and personal fame, position, and the selfish interests in our hearts. We pray
that we can treat every new and old devotee equally in a proper way. Whatever position the Lord
has arranged for us, we can always offer devotional service to please Lord Kṛṣṇa and Your Divine
Grace.
Please keep showering your mercy on the Taichung Center so that we have sustainable devel-
opment and can help fulfill Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s prophecy that the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-
mantra be spread to every town and village of the world. Let us distribute unconditional, pure
love of Śrī Śrī Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa to the world.
Your unqualified servant of the servant,
Harināma Amṛta Devī Dāsī
on behalf of the ISKCON Taichung Center

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