Europe & Russia, Homages ISKCON Centers, VP2026
Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda,
Please accept our humble obeisances at the dust of your lotus feet. All glories to you.
On behalf of the Yekaterinburg devotees, we would like to express our deep gratitude for your involvement in our lives. Your dedication, determination, and willingness to fulfill your spiritual master’s directive to spread Kṛṣṇa consciousness in the Western countries and the former Soviet Union have given our lives meaning, purpose, and the invaluable gift of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
It is impossible for conditioned souls to find their way back home to God in the impenetrable darkness of the Kali age without the mercy and assistance of the great soul that you are. Your greatness lies in your pure devotion to Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa. This devotion is a rare gift and our great fortune. Through your boundless compassion, we, along with all humanity on this planet, have been given the opportunity to restore our lost relationship with Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa. There is nothing more valuable in all the three worlds than this opportunity. Therefore please bless us that we may always hold on to this mercy and fortune, and always be at your lotus feet.
ISKCON Yekaterinburg
Europe & Russia, Homages ISKCON Centers, VP2026
Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda,
Please accept our most humble obeisances at the dust of your lotus feet. All glories to you!
nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale
śrīmate bhaktivedānta-svāminn iti nāmine
namas te sārasvate deve gaura-vāṇī-pracāriṇe
nirviśeṣa-śūnyavādi-pāścātya-deśa-tāriṇe
In deep reverence, I bow down to His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, who is very dear to Lord Kṛṣṇa, for he has no other refuge than the lotus feet of the Lord. O spiritual master, servant of Sarasvatī Gosvāmī, we bow down to you in deep reverence. You have graciously preached the teachings of Lord Caitanyadeva and brought liberation to the Western countries, where impersonalism and the philosophy of emptiness have become widespread.
Please allow us to express our deep gratitude and respect on this day, which is so important for all of your followers – the day of your Vyāsa-pūjā! This is the most important day for the entire ISKCON society, including our entire yātrā, because each of us understands that if it were not for your compassion, we would not be here … we would not have this wonderful temple, our beloved Śrī Śrī Dayāl-Nitāi Gaurahari, or these beautiful devotees who are learning to serve one another together every day by your example.
We are neither many nor few, but we are learning to accept and understand the mercy that you have shown us by inviting us into your family. You are the senāpati-bhakta whom Lord Caitanya Himself sent, and for the next ten thousand years, the knowledge that you left in your books will help even more lost souls who are searching for the meaning of life.
We remember how much effort you had to put in to make our society happen and for your books to see the light of day. This could only be done by a great devotee with a pure heart and the sincerity of a disciple like you.
You left us with a profound message that can help us achieve pure love for God, and this is truly a miracle. Your disciples and the disciples of your disciples continue to carry this knowledge and guide us on this path. We are very grateful to you for them; the determination and faith in their preaching speaks only of deep love for you, and seeing this, we also want to try our best to serve you.
Our Prabhupāda House is a place where we all gather around Śrī Śrī Dayāl-Nitāi Gaurahari and learn to serve Them and you, Śrīla Prabhupāda. We are learning to develop a mood of dependence on you, knowing that without your blessings, our insignificant attempts at service are meaningless. When we enter the temple room, we feel your gaze filled with great love and compassion. As we sing and dance, we experience immense joy in our hearts and great gratitude toward you. It was only through your mercy that They could come to us and accept our clumsy attempts at service … Lord Caitanya and Śrī Nityānanda are with us … and it was only possible because of you!
To understand and feel the value of each devotee whom you send to our temple, and to take care of them, is what we strive for – to generously share the gift you left us with everyone, knowing and feeling that you are with each of us.
Over the past year, 10,795 of your transcendental books have been distributed by the devotees of our saṅkīrtana yātrā, Śrīla Prabhupāda! In addition to distributing books, every day devotees go out to perform harināma, generously sharing the holy name and prasādam with everyone! During the year, many wonderful events were held, such as mantra yoga sessions, kirtan melās, public lectures, charity events for orphanages with prasādam distribution and cultural programs.
We also consider it important to hold the Vaiṣṇava Sevā festival, which brings together all the devotees of our region. This is a great opportunity for our yātrā to serve the devotees!
Śrīla Prabhupāda, you have changed our lives by showing us the true path and giving us a purpose in life. We are eternally indebted to you and, with the understanding that we can never repay this debt, we ask only for your blessing to continue serving, chanting, taking care of one another, spreading the holy name and your books. Then our lives will be successful.
With great respect and love,
The servants of your servants at ISKCON Yessentuki
Europe & Russia, Homages ISKCON Centers, VP2026
Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda,
Please accept our most humble obeisances at your lotus feet.
On this most auspicious occasion of your Vyāsa-pūjā, we in Belfast lovingly remember your causeless mercy upon the fallen conditioned souls. You have compassionately descended in the form of your divine instructions and books to deliver us from ignorance and to reconnect us with our eternal relationship with Śrī Kṛṣṇa. We remain ever grateful for this unparalleled gift of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
By your mercy alone, the preaching activities in Belfast are steadily developing and giving shelter to many seeking spiritual life. Weekly online classes on the Bhagavad-gītā and Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam are being attended with sincerity and enthusiasm. The children’s club, with around thirty-seven young participants, is nurturing seeds of devotion in the next generation. Our bhakti-vṛkṣa programs, Sunday feast gatherings, harināma-saṅkīrtana, and book distribution efforts are all continuing, and we see that wherever your books are distributed and your teachings are heard, hearts are being transformed.
We are especially grateful for your unparalleled gift of presenting Kṛṣṇa consciousness “as it is.” Every page of your books and every word of your lectures continue to inspire us to come closer to Lord Kṛṣṇa and to live a life dedicated to His service. Through your divine instructions, even those who are struggling and inexperienced are given direction, hope, and engagement in devotional service.
We understand that without your mercy, we are completely incapable of understanding or practicing this sublime science. Therefore, we constantly seek shelter in your instructions, your books, and your vāṇī, praying that we may remain connected to your mission.
On this sacred day, we humbly pray for your blessings upon all the devotees in Belfast that we may remain united, sincere, and enthusiastic in serving your mission. Kindly empower us so that we may continue to serve you faithfully and eternally under the shelter of Śrī Śrī Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa, and assist in spreading the holy name of the Lord to every town and village.
May we never deviate from your instructions, and may we always remember that our only success is to please you in your service.
Your servants at ISKCON Belfast
Europe & Russia, Homages ISKCON Centers, VP2026
Dearest Śrīla Prabhupāda,
I offer my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.
In many wonderful ways you have worked to bestow the blessing of Kṛṣṇa consciousness upon the world, but perhaps your greatest contribution is the personal change you have brought about in the hearts of your disciples. Their joy and purity, their dedication and freedom from vices, are all evident in their lives, but the feeling of gratitude that each of them feels toward you, Śrīla Prabhupāda, is practically inexpressible.
I therefore borrow the words of the great devotee Prahlāda, who prays thus: “My Lord, due to material desires I was falling into a blind well full of snakes, following the common people, but Your servant, Nārada Muni, my spiritual master, kindly accepted me as his disciple and instructed me on how to attain the transcendental position. Therefore my first duty is to serve him. How could I ever give up his service?” (Bhāgavatam 7.9.28)
You have actually saved your disciples from a cumbersome materialistic life, delivered them from the confusion of this world, and led them on the path to Kṛṣṇa. You have now left this world and returned to your original abode, but although you are no longer with us physically, you live eternally in your teachings, in the vast literature you have left us, in the movement you started, and in the memory of your personal example, an immaculate example of uninterrupted dedication to your master, to the masters who preceded him, and to the Supreme Lord in His various forms as you have taught us to worship Them.
I could compare your books to jewels, which you have given as a testimony of love to your disciples and followers in particular and to the whole world in general, and now that we have them in our hands, how could we not feel rich, poor wretches that we were? Now we can show these jewels to everyone; and we can also show how they have the power to change us: not partially, but they transform us radically in all kinds of habits. These are not hidden changes, but visible ones that everyone can observe.
From the pages of these books, in which you invested most of your life, working tirelessly for endless hours each day and night for months and years, one can perceive the full strength of your devotion to your spiritual master and your firm will to save this confused world, where people do not know where they come from or where they are going. I know that while reading your books, many people feel with every page the sense of heaviness that oppresses them vanishing and a feeling of light and cheerful hope taking over. I think they glimpse, at the end of the dark tunnel of material problems, the light of a new life filled with transcendental experiences.
You once said, “If I could make just one pure devotee, I could consider my mission a success!” But see how many pure devotees you have made! And see how many you are still making! We can’t even imagine how many more you will make in the future! As I look around, I see your disciples who have dedicated their lives to your mission, all now elderly, and I see so much devotion reflected in their services, all extraordinary, all wonderful. Then I see new faces – boys and girls who are putting all their youthful enthusiasm and vigor into continuing to expand your work to make this branch of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s tree, called ISKCON, even more luxuriant so it can bear unlimited quantities of good fruits in the form of good examples, beautiful preaching, excellent care of the temples and Deities, so dear to all of us, and so on, just to name a few.
I conclude by borrowing another phrase, this time from a very great devotee of Mahāprabhu and author of the Caitanya-caritāmṛta, who at the end of his work expresses himself with great humility: “The sky is unlimited, and many birds fly higher and higher according to their own abilities.” (Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya 20.79)
One can speak or write only to the extent that one’s intelligence and spiritual realization allow. Kṛṣṇa’s personality is unlimited, as are His names, forms, qualities, and pastimes, but I am certainly not an eagle soaring above the Himalayan peaks at 30,000 feet; I am a mere sparrow who can only fly among the branches of trees. Thus I am not the most suitable person to glorify the unlimited qualities of Kṛṣṇa and His bona fide representative. There are many other devotees capable of soaring to such heights and composing hymns for your glory. However, in my own small way, I nurture a strong desire to look out at this infinite sky, praying that your benevolent gaze will fall upon me too and grant me the strength to always give my best, under any circumstances.
Your servant,
Ali Kṛṣṇa Devī Dāsī
On behalf of the devotees at ISKCON Bergamo
Europe & Russia, Homages ISKCON Centers, VP2026
Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda,
nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale
śrīmate bhaktivedānta-svāminn iti nāmine
namas te sārasvate deve gaura-vāṇī-pracāriṇe
nirviśeṣa-śūnyavādi-pāścātya-deśa-tāriṇe
We offer our respectful obeisances unto His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, who is very dear to Lord Kṛṣṇa on this earth, having taken shelter at His lotus feet.
Our respectful obeisances unto you, O spiritual master, servant of Sarasvati Goswami. You are kindly preaching the message of Lord Caitanyadeva and delivering the western countries, which are filled with impersonalism and voidism.
Please accept our humble obeisances at your divine lotus feet. All glories to Your Divine Grace and your mission to save the world! On this most auspicious day, we want to offer our most heartfelt gratitude to you for creating this wonderful house we can all live in.
Śrīla Prabhupāda, in order to carry out your spiritual master’s instructions and to introduce the fallen souls in the Western world to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, at the advanced age of 69 years you sailed for America aboard the steamship Jaladuta on Friday, August 13, 1965, leaving at 9:00 a.m. Despite experiencing seasickness, dizziness, vomiting, and suffering two heart attacks, you were determined to carry out the mission. You felt, “If a third comes, I will not survive!” That night in a dream, the Lord appeared to you in a boat full of many incarnations and assured you, the dedicated mendicant, that He would protect you.
Śrī Kṛṣṇa was very kind to Your Divine Grace. In your diary you wrote, “If the Atlantic would have shown its usual face, perhaps I would have died. But Lord Kṛṣṇa has taken charge of the ship.”
Starting with the most basic principle – how to become a civilized human being – you have laid out the clear path to happiness and fulfillment in this life, the next life, and ultimately, for eternity. All we have to do to succeed is take up your instructions.
To define what it means to be civilized, you told a story about how Gandhiji came to England for “round-table discussions.” To impress him, the hosts gave him a tour of London – Big Ben, the House of Commons, Buckingham Palace, and other places. At the end of it, they asked him, “So, Gandhiji, what do you think of Western civilization?” Gandhiji replied, “It will be a good idea.” In other words, it was not simply the ability to stack up stones that made one cultured, but rather a person’s character and a society’s ethos and aspirations that were a real measure of civilization.
We value how much you have emphasized character, integrity, and honesty. Of the many thousands of verses you translated and commented upon, Bhagavad-gītā 2.41 is a very special instruction to us:
vyavasāyātmikā buddhir ekeha kuru–nandana
bahu–śākhā hy anantāś ca buddhayo ’vyavasāyinām
Those who are on this path are resolute in purpose, and their aim is one. O beloved child of the Kurus, the intelligence of those who are irresolute is many-branched.
Bhaktivedanta Manor owes its entire existence and offering to you, Śrīla Prabhupāda. You had the vision of having a large temple in London, and you inspired Dhanañjaya Prabhu to look for the building, then George Harrison to buy the building, where you then mercifully installed and welcomed our most beautiful Śrī Śrī Rādhā-Gokulānanda, the objects of our worship. By your blessings we have a come a long way to develop Bhaktivedanta Manor as a place of worship for the wider community. We have a vibrant, growing congregation.
We have a goshala, where our cows and oxen are cared for, loved, and in reciprocation, who serve Rādhā-Gokulānanda by giving their milk. One of the loveliest sights is when we let the cows out in the spring. The excitement on their faces has no parallel. We just had this event a week ago.
We now have a haveli building of 2,200 square meters onsite, which has become very useful for our programs and functions. Here we can accommodate much larger numbers of devotees than ever before. We also have weddings there, where couples can take Their Lordship’s blessings. The haveli has allowed us to make our offering to the community bigger, better, and brighter.
We have very special offerings of festivals. Janmāṣṭamī alone attracts in excess of 50,000 visitors over two days. These guests take darshan and celebrate the birth of Lord Kṛṣṇa with us.
We continue our primary focus on spreading Kṛṣṇa consciousness as you taught us, Śrīla Prabhupāda. Our saṅkīrtana program is vibrant, strong, and effective in distributing your books.
Bhaktivedanta Manor has a thriving educational arm called School of Bhakti (SOB), which runs courses at different levels both online and in person. Thousands of participants take advantage of the spiritual knowledge being delivered through these courses. SOB also organizes spiritual retreats, which are very popular and educational.
We have a large army of volunteers who want to serve Their Lordships, and during Janmāṣṭamī alone, we have in excess of 1,500 volunteers serving the visitors to make their experience of coming to the Manor and experiencing the glorious birth of Lord Kṛṣṇa memorable.
We are embarking on producing a master plan for the next fifty years, including constructing a new temple, as you once mentioned. This is an extensive project which will comprise many smaller, subprojects, and with your blessings, it will become a reality.
During the 1950s, before you went to the USA, while translating the Bhagavad-gītā you were struck in a special way by Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura’s commentary on verse 2.41. You later told your disciples that this commentary fixed you in your resolve to follow Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura’s order to preach Kṛṣṇa consciousness in English.
Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura writes: “Of all kinds of intelligence, the best is intelligence focused on bhakti-yoga. In bhakti-yoga, one’s intelligence becomes single-pointed or fixed in determination. One thinks, ‘The instructions of my spiritual master to worship the Personality of Godhead by chanting, remembering, serving His feet, and so on are my only sādhana, my only sādhya, my only livelihood. I am incapable of giving up these instructions either in the stage of practice or in the stage of perfection. They alone are my object of desire and my only responsibility. Besides them, I can desire no other responsibility, not even in my dreams. It is all the same whether I feel happy or unhappy or whether my material existence is eradicated or not.
In the same way that this commentary fixed your intelligence on following the instructions of your spiritual master, it should also inspire us to be fixed in following your instructions. We read and follow your instructions as you have left them in your letters, conversations, and books.
Once you were giving a talk in which you said that in order to go back home, back to Godhead, one must be cent percent pure, cent percent free of material desires and attachments. When you saw that the devotees were discouraged, you said “All right, 90 percent pure.” Still, they were dejected. Then you said, “All right, 80 percent. Still, they were crestfallen. Then you said “All right, 75 percent – but no less.” After the talk, you commented, “If you just hold on to my lotus feet, I will take you back to Godhead. I have the key to the back door.”
You are so merciful to us, and our only hope is to be able to hold on to your lotus feet in the form of your instructions and carry them out to the best of our ability. Once, you said, “Your qualification is that I give an instruction and you try to follow it.” And of course, Śrīla Prabhupāda, that is our only hope, too.
We very fondly cherish your pastimes at the Manor and your love for Śrī Śrī Rādhā-Gokulānanda, Rāma-Sītā-Lakṣmaṇa-Hanumān, and Gaura-Nitāi. One evening at Bhaktivedanta Manor, you were sitting in your room with your disciples and a few guests, including a woman reporter, who had come to interview Your Divine Grace. Despite the chilly English summer weather, the reporter was dressed in a scanty mini skirt. Her first few questions revealed her skeptical, almost cynical attitude, toward the Hare Kṛṣṇa movement. As usual, you coolly and expertly answered her questions. Somewhat exasperated and in a challenging mood, she brought up the old question, “Why do you people have bald heads?” You immediately retorted, “Why do you have bare legs?” She was speechless. You then offered, “Better to have warm legs and a cool head.” Everyone, including the reporter, laughed with delight. You added, “You must have a cool head to understand this Kṛṣṇa consciousness philosophy.”
We, of course, in the execution of our service commit many mistakes. But we know that Kṛṣṇa’s and His devotees’ mercy are greater than His laws. You write in the Caitanya-caritāmṛta (Madhya 15.163, purport): “A Vaiṣṇava is so liberal that he is prepared to risk everything to rescue the conditioned souls from material existence.” Śrīla Vāsudeva Datta Ṭhākura demonstrates universal love for he was willing to sacrifice everything and fully engage in the service of the Supreme Lord.” We also know that Lord Kṛṣṇa forgave Pūtanā and in fact liberated her despite her intention to kill Him. Clearly, His mercy is greater than His law.
In your purport to Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.5.16 you state: “The expert devotees also can discover novel ways and means to convert the nondevotees in terms of particular time and circumstance. Devotional service is dynamic activity, and the expert devotees can find out competent means to inject it into the dull brains of the materialistic population. Such transcendental activities of the devotees for the service of the Lord can bring a new order of life to the foolish society of materialistic men. Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and His subsequent followers exhibited expert dexterity in this connection. By following the same method, one can bring the materialistic men of this age of quarrel into order for peaceful life and transcendental realization.”
We have no qualifications to be in this position of being able to serve devotees. But due to His inconceivable humor of the Lord and your mercy, we have been placed in this position.
yogyatā-vicāre, kichu nāhi pāi,
tomāra karuṇā – sāra
karuṇā nā hoile, kāndiyā kāndiyā,
prāṇa nā rākhibo āra
If you examine me, you will find no good qualities. Your mercy is all that I am made up of. If you are not merciful unto me, I can only weep, and I will not be able to maintain my life.
All we have, Śrīla Prabhupāda, is Kṛṣṇa’s mercy and your mercy to allow us to serve.
We very much value your instructions to His Holiness Giriraj Swami about intelligence and organization as means to continue the mission. On 2 January 1973, in a letter to Haṁsadūta Dāsa, you wrote, “Occupational duty means to stick with one type of occupation which is just suitable for me, considering that it is my duty, therefore I am throughout my life obliged to perform it to the best of my ability. This is mature understanding of occupation. That means I must not leave it even for the so-called good cause, just like Arjuna wanted to stop his fighting activity just to avoid killing of so many of his kinsmen, cousin brothers and other friends. So we are preachers on behalf of Lord Krishna, that is our occupational duty, we haven’t got to search any further some new challenge or change our environment. No, that has already been set up. Now best thing will be to develop more and more what we have begun. I have built the skeleton of the building, but there is so much work remaining before us.… You needn’t look further to find some big challenge. The challenge is very near at hand.”
Śrīla Prabhupāda, you built the skeleton of the building and your disciples, granddisciples, and aspiring granddisciples are still working on finishing the outside and inside of this colossal structure.
We, the devotees at the Bhaktivedanta Manor, will continue to serve Śrī Śrī Rādhā-Gokulānanda, Rāma-Sītā-Lakṣmaṇa-Hanumān, and Gaura-Nitāi by your blessings and under your instructions.
Your insignificant and aspiring servants,
The devotees at Bhaktivedanta Manor
Europe & Russia, Homages ISKCON Centers, VP2026
Dearest Śrīla Prabhupāda,
Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Your Divine Grace on this most auspicious day of your divine appearance.
nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale
śrīmate bhaktivedānta-svāminn iti nāmine
namas te sārasvate deve gaura-vāṇī-pracāriṇe
nirviśeṣa-śūnyavādi-pāścātya-deśa-tāriṇe
I offer my respectful obeisances unto His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, who is very dear to Lord Kṛṣṇa on this earth, having taken shelter at His lotus feet. Our respectful obeisances are unto you, O spiritual master, servant of Sarasvatī Gosvāmī. You are kindly preaching the message of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu and delivering the Western countries, which are filled with impersonalism and voidism.
Your Divine Grace came to the Western world in order to preach the message of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and deliver the conditioned souls from impersonalism and voidism especially, as it is stated in the second stanza of your praṇām-mantra. Out of your causeless mercy, you also came to Switzerland and personally blessed this country with your divine presence in several places. Just recently we celebrated the fiftieth jubilee anniversary of your transcendental visit and were able to once again delve into the personal memories and recollections of devotees who witnessed you planting the seed for spreading the saṅkīrtana movement of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu in Switzerland.
golokera prema-dhana, hari-nāma-saṅkīrtana
This saṅkīrtana movement is coming directly from Goloka Vrindavan, the topmost region of the spiritual world, as confirmed by Śrīla Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura. We actually don’t know what an intimate associate of the Supreme Personality of Godhead you are, dearest Śrīla Prabhupāda. Once, when asked about revealing your spiritual identity, you simply answered, “If I tell you, you will faint.”
When we are too close to a mountain, it is very difficult to fully grasp its real greatness. The more we try to understand your superexcellent position, the more we are actually progressing toward understanding the Absolute Truth. As Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa Himself states, ācāryaṁ māṁ vijānīyān navamanyeta karhicit (Bhāgavatam 11.17.27): one should understand the ācārya as the Lord Himself, as the summum bonum, and never disrespect him. In this way we will positively invoke the mercy of the Lord and will be able to progress on the path of devotional service.
yam evaiṣa vṛṇute tena labhyas tasyaiṣa ātmā vivṛṇute tanūṁ svām
“He [the Summum Bonum] is obtained only by one whom He Himself chooses. To such a person He manifests His own form.” (Kaṭha Upaniṣad 1.2.23). As it is said, to invoke the favor of a rich, powerful person, the simplest and most efficient way is to please his favorite child. So, our success is in pleasing Your Divine Grace. By doing so with full faith, all the imports of Vedic knowledge will be revealed automatically: tasyaite kathitā hy arthāḥ prakāśante mahātmanaḥ (Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad 6.23).
In this regard Yudhiṣṭhira Mahārāja gives practical advice: dharmasya tattvaṁ nihitaṁ guhāyāṁ mahājano yena gataḥ sa panthāḥ: “The solid truth of religious principles is hidden in the heart of an unadulterated, self-realized person. Consequently, as the śāstras confirm, one should accept whatever progressive path the mahājanas advocate.” (Mahābhārata, Vana-parva 313.117).
To push on Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s saṅkīrtana movement in a most effective way, you gave us four beautifully succinct guidelines:
Books are the basis
Purity is the force
Preaching is the essence
Utility is the principle
Furthermore, Your Divine Grace made a very important personal request to all sincere followers regarding how these transcendental foundational maxims will be implemented in a most beautiful manner: “Your love for me will be shown by how you cooperate with one another.” This is the transcendental key for success, as the strength of cooperative efforts multiplies exponentially.
We are very grateful and eternally indebted to you, dear Śrīla Prabhupāda, for blessing the world, and especially Switzerland, with your divine presence, enabling us to be the recipients of your causeless mercy and giving us the chance to render some menial service to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s saṅkīrtana movement.
ānandāmbudhi-vardhanaṁ prati-padaṁ pūrṇāmṛtāsvādanaṁ
sarvātma-snapanaṁ paraṁ vijayate śrī-kṛṣṇa-saṅkīrtanam
Please give us the shade of your lotus feet so we may never leave ISKCON and always faithfully follow your divine instructions and thus become worthy of entering the blissful ocean of transcendental life, which has a cooling, soothing effect and enables us to taste full nectar at every step.
Your humble servant,
Govinda Dāsa,
On behalf of the devotees at New Jagannātha Purī
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