Dear Çréla Gurumaharaja,
Please accept our most respectable obeisances at your divine lotus feet.
All glories to Your Divine Grace! All glories to Çré Çré Rädhä-Syämasundara the principal deities in Adelaide, Australia.
jive saksat nahi tate guru caittya-rupe
siksa-guru haya krsna-mahanta-svarupe
“Since one cannot visually experience the presence of the Supersoul, He appears before us as a liberated devotee. Such a spiritual master is none other than Krsna Himself”.
Caitanya-caåitämrta, Adi-lélä 1.58
Just as a gardener who gathers various flowers and creates a beautiful garland, you gather souls from diverse nations, cultures and qualities of nature, joining them in your mission to spread the holy name all over the world. However, as you are no ordinary gardener and the flowers sensing their loss if left unplucked, have decided to land on your basket on their own so that they could be strung and be used in the service of the Lord. You are not just a mantra datta, to formally give mantra but you are asraya-datta, one who gives shelter to even the most fallen souls. You have been instrumental in our spiritual lives from the very beginning when we were making baby steps, not that we have progressed much.
The temple of Sri Sri Radha Syamasundar has a small worshiping room often bursting at the seams during festivities. We decided to build a new extension block and after a lengthy application process, the project has finally been approved. Lord Krsna has offered us a temple room four times the size of the current one. As ISKCON Adelaide has been undergoing years of challenges and internal turmoils with no indication of ending in the near future, manifesting this vision will be an arduous undertaking. We thus beseech you to bestow your special blessings upon us to unfold this dream and continue to bestow your causeless mercy.
On this, your appearance day, we take refuge in your unlimited benevolence, we fervently pray to Lord Krsna, that you regain as much strength as possible, in order to spread the sankirtana movement of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, far and wide as predicted by the Lord Himself.
Param vijayate sri krsna sankirtanam!
May your fame spread all over the three worlds.
Your servants at ISKCON Adelaide, Australia
Adi Purusa Krsna dasa Lokanandini dd
Satananda Krsna dasa Yashoda Sakhi dd
Bhakta Cameron Phillips Priti Rupini dd