Homages ISKCON Centers, VP2025
Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda,
Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to you.
I am delighted to offer this tribute on behalf of the devotees and congregation members of
ISKCON of Delaware. There is no limit to your glories. In this world of chaos, anxiety, and uncer-
tainty, you are like an oasis. We cannot imagine what life would be like without your transcenden-
tal presence. It is only by your mercy that we are able to continue, beginning each new day with
the hope that you are always there for us.
Through the blessing of your causeless mercy, ISKCON of Delaware has acquired two proper-
ties to better serve the devotees here. The first, located in Bear, Delaware, has been operational
since 2013 and, as of 2024, is owned outright by ISKCON of Delaware. The second property,
located in Magnolia, Delaware, is dedicated to serving cows and providing care for senior
Vaiṣṇavas who have dedicated their lives to your service. Please continue to bless us so that we
may overcome all obstacles in our efforts to serve you and further fulfill the mission of ISKCON.
This year, we are launching a free prasādam distribution program for senior citizens in Dela-
ware. Through this initiative, we hope they will come to Kṛṣṇa consciousness and, in turn, sup-
port the growth of our mission.
Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda, we are still full of passion and ignorance. Please bestow your mercy
upon us so that we may at least rise to the platform of goodness, sincerely practice our daily pre-
scribed sādhana, and enthusiastically share your teachings with others.
On this auspicious occasion of your appearance day, we humbly pray for your blessings so that
we may flourish in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, remain joyful in your service, and continue spreading
your glories through your teachings and mission.
We remain your eternal servants,
Kṛṣṇa Kīrtana Dāsa (temple president)
on behalf of the devotees of ISKCON of Delaware
Homages ISKCON Centers, VP2025
Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda,
Please accept our humble obeisances at your lotus feet.
In a lecture of yours, given on Gaura-Pūrṇimā in 1976, you say, “Kṛṣṇa is prepared to be
appreciated by you in any condition of life if you take His instruction how to realize Him.” You
elaborate that remembering Kṛṣṇa even in everyday activities, like drinking water or seeing the
sunshine in the daytime or the moonshine in the nighttime is devotional service, or smaraṇam. It
can be that simple.
Always ready to reciprocate with the living entities wherever they’re at, the Lord appears
according to our individual qualifications for understanding Him. You say, “If you want to under-
stand the Absolute Truth, you can realize Him.… You can realize the Absolute Truth in any way.
He is prepared to manifest Himself as you desire.”
This broad accessibility to Kṛṣṇa is your signature offering. Our prayer on this Vyāsa-pūjā day
is that we live as active agents of this offering.
Your servants, with love, at New Badarikashram
Canada & USA, Homages ISKCON Centers, VP2026
Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda,
Please accept our respectful obeisances. All glories to Your Divine Grace and your beloved Vyāsa-pūjā day.
Thank you for your only visit to ISKCON Denver, Colorado, during June-July 1975. We are deeply grateful to you for being with us each day through your vāṇī, manifest in your books, lectures, conversations, videos, mūrti, and photos. Please bless us to fully realize your presence.
In 1975, you graced us with your loving care. You named our small Deities Rādhā-Govinda. You kept a framed photo of Them in your Vrindavan quarters, as they resemble your childhood Deities, Rādhā-Govinda. You served Them throughout the līlā of your life on this planet, a continuation of your service in Goloka Vṛndāvana. They arranged for you to write Their books and spread the holy names around the world. They arranged for you to have Their presence and pastimes here in Denver so that we can learn to please Them through your saṅkīrtana movement. As Their pure instrument, you requested that They bless us with daily services that will eventually purify us to serve with rādhā-govinda-prema.
The unlimited compassion, love, and kindness that you daily give us is inconceivable. May we receive your grace to constantly increase our gratitude, service attitude, and pure execution of devotional service. May your blessings give us the spiritual strength to spread Kṛṣṇa consciousness increasingly.
During your visit, you appreciated Denver’s Deity worship, book distribution, devotees, and the temple building (a former church). Now it is our devotional happiness that we can continue with these services and simultaneously learn to please you more and eternally by your grace.
We are very grateful that you saved us from material consciousness and are giving us the saṅkīrtana movement to spread love of Godhead to all.
Your aspiring servants of the servants’ servants,
At New Badarikāśrama
(written by Nidrā Devī Dāsī)
Homages ISKCON Centers, VP2025
Our dearest Śrīla Prabhupāda,
nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale
śrīmate bhaktivedānta-svāmin iti nāmine
namas te sārasvate deve gaura-vāṇī-pracāriṇe
nirviśeṣa-śūnyavādi-pāścātya-deśa-tāriṇe
Please accept our respectful obeisances at your lotus feet with utmost gratitude for giving us shel-
ter. All glories to your continued causeless mercy on humanity.
In 1976, you came to Detroit and showered the greatest blessings on all the residents of Michi-
gan by installing the most merciful Deities, Śrī Śrī Gaura-Nitāi. You instructed us to worship
Them like two princes. Until then we were worshiping a beautiful painting of Śrī Pañca-tattva
on the altar. We humbly beg your blessings to celebrate the whole year of 2026 as the grand
celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Śrī Śrī Gaura-Nitāi’s installation. We have already
started preparing to repaint the magnificent temple room, keeping the most beautiful architec-
ture intact. In continuation, we would like to refurbish the elegant historical home of Śrī Śrī
Rādhā-Kuñjabihārījī.
Śrīla Prabhupāda, you were so happy when this mansion was bought for Śrī Śrī Rādhā-
Kuñjabihārījī’s new home. You stayed here and gave detailed instructions on what to do. It has
such a glorious history here, with so many great leaders of our movement having participated in
loving services to you and Śrī Śrī Rādhā-Kuñjabihārījī.
At this moment, all the devotees who are currently serving here feel fortunate and blessed to be
able to participate in your mission at Devasadhan Mandira.
O savior of the whole universe, we are begging you to give us the good fortune to continue
to participate in loving service at your lotus feet and our most merciful Deities Śrī Śrī Rādhā-
Kuñjabihārījī while we are in these bodies. Please hold our hands tightly, because we have a ten-
dency to run away from you.
Begging for forgiveness for our unlimited offenses to the Vaiṣṇavas,
Your humble servants at Devasadan Mandir,
(written by Jagad-guru Dāsa)
Canada & USA, Homages ISKCON Centers, VP2026
Our most beloved 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
Please accept our respectful obeisances with the highest gratitude for creating the most powerful, loving family of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. All glories to your divine mercy on humanity.
At Devasadan Mandir we are celebrating the Golden Jubilee celebration of the installation of Śrī Śrī Gaura-Nitāi you performed on your last visit to Detroit. By your divine stay at the Devasadan Mandir, it became a holy tīrtha. Now everyone who visits and enters your room gets the opportunity to receive the blessings of the dust from your lotus feet. It was here that you instructed His Grace Ambarīṣa Prabhu to build the glorious TOVP project, which he is doing with the highest dedication, just to please you, and which is due to open on November 1, 2027.
By your causeless mercy, we are able to continue serving the most merciful Śrī Śrī Rādhā-Kuñjabihārījī. O ever well-wisher, we beg you to give us the good fortune to continue to participate in the loving service of your lotus feet and our most merciful Deities Śrī Śrī Rādhā-Kuñjabihārījī until we are no longer in these bodies. Please hold our hands tight, because we have the tendency to run away from you.
Begging for forgiveness for our unlimited offenses to the Vaiṣṇavas,
Your humble servants at the Devasadan Mandir,
(written by Jagad-Guru Dāsa)
Homages ISKCON Centers, VP2025
Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda,
Please accept our most humble obeisances at your divine lotus feet.
As Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 19.151 states:
brahmāṇḍa bhramite kona bhāgyavān jīva
guru-kṛṣṇa-prasāde pāya bhakti-latā-bīja
Out of many millions of wandering living entities, one who is very fortunate gets an
opportunity to associate with a bona fide spiritual master by the grace of Kṛṣṇa.
After many years of hard struggle, by your kind mercy we have finally got a wonderful opportu-
nity to experience the spiritual world at ISKCON Dharwad. Many years of continuous Śrī Kṛṣṇa
Janmāṣṭamī celebrations have gradually transformed into monthly festivals, weekly Sunday feasts,
and daily worship of Their Lordships Śrī Śrī Rādhā-Nīla-mādhava.
Out of the many thousands of people who attended these programs, a few have come forward
to sincerely dedicate their lives to your mission and have received formal initiation from your dis-
ciples. Following your teachings we all try to cooperate with one another, with a successful model
of multiple dīkṣā-gurus in the community. We are also very fortunate to receive the enlivening
association and constant guidance of many of your granddisciples, especially His Holiness Bhakti
Rasamrita Swami and His Grace Sadayogi Prabhu.
Today we have a thriving community of Bhakti Kutir programs, a Hubli outpost center, and
other facilities. We have more than 250 dedicated devotees who sincerely follow the four regula-
tive principles and chant sixteen rounds of the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra rigidly every day. They
also actively participate very enthusiastically in all the temple services, such as setting up for
festivals, organizing book distribution, cooking for Their Lordships, making flower garlands, and
decorating and worshiping Their Lordships Śrī Śrī Rādhā-Nīla-mādhava.
Every year we try to distribute your books to the best of our ability and capacity. Last year we
distributed 2,500 copies of your Bhagavad-gītā As It Is in the local language, Kannada, and 60 sets
of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.
Now we have secured a 4.5-acre piece of land near the NH48 National Highway. This will
be transformed into a beautiful community, by the mercy of Your Divine Grace and the sincere,
humble efforts of your granddisciples. We have also started a preschool named Bal Gopal Shishu-
vatika, which we hope to transform into a gurukula in the near future.
At ISKCON Dharwad’s new temple project, we have completed our phase 1 construction,
meant to facilitate our preaching activities. It consists of a temporary grand temple hall, kitchen,
and offices. A Govinda’s restaurant and Annapurna catering services will also be built there. You
created a roadmap for how to make temples financially self-sufficient in the long term through
projects like Govinda’s restaurants. We also need your blessings for starting a farm project con-
nected to this temple.
Śrīla Prabhupāda, please accept our sincere efforts to please you and shower your divine bless-
ings upon us so that we may continue to serve enthusiastically in a healthy, cooperative spirit in
this community and cultivate pure love of God for Their Lordships Śrī Śrī Rādhā-Nīla-mādhava
in this worldwide ISKCON movement.
Your insignificant servants at ISKCON Dharwad
