Homages ISKCON Centers, VP2025
Dearest Śrīla Prabhupāda,
Please accept our humble obeisances at your divine lotus feet. All glories to Your Divine Grace!
All glories to your tireless mission of delivering the fallen souls.
On this most auspicious occasion of your Vyāsa-pūjā 2025, we, your grateful servants at
ISKCON Camp: Śrī Śrī Rādhā-Kuñjabihārī Mandir, offer our heartfelt prayers and deep gratitude
at your lotus feet. You are our ever well-wisher, our eternal guide, and the very heart of our spiri-
tual family. All that we are able to do is only by your causeless mercy and empowerment.
“Jīvadayā” – Compassion in Action: Inspired by your instructions to distribute transcendental knowl-
edge far and wide, we earnestly took up the mission of book distribution this year. During this
year we were blessed to distribute:
• 460 sets of the Caitanya-caritāmṛta
• 1,170 sets of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
• an incredible 1.7 lakhs of Bhagavad-gītās
To further expand this outreach, we began online sales through Amazon, and by your mercy, we
sold over 25,000 mahā big books digitally, reaching new audiences we could never have physi-
cally accessed before. Your books are transforming lives every day, and we pray to continue as
your instruments in this divine revolution of consciousness.
Technology in Service – The GIVE platform: With a desire to serve your mission more systematically,
we developed a cloud-based ERP donation management platform called GIVE. By your mercy, 20
ISKCON temples across India are now using this platform effectively. Our goal is to empower 50
temples by December 2025. We offer this system at your lotus feet, praying it may assist temples
in increasing transparency, devotee engagement, and fundraising efficiency.
HR and care for staff – a culture of appreciation: Recognizing your compassion for all – devo-
tees, staff, and the greater community – we began initiatives for the holistic well-being of our
employees:
• We organized special picnics and trips, taking staff members to Govardhan Ecovillage and
Panchganifor their recreation, inspiration, and bonding.
• We are launching English language classes for employees who feel the need to learn English
to help them grow personally and professionally.
We pray these efforts create a culture of respect, service, and unity in your mission.
Youth preaching – VOICE and YOGA expansion: As always, youth preaching remains close to our
heart:
• Currently, more than 85 devotee youths reside in our VOICE and YOGA ashrams,
experiencing spiritual training and lifestyle transformation.
• These enthusiastic young devotees distributed over 12,000 mahā big books this year – truly
showing that the youth are your army, Śrīla Prabhupāda.
• Three dedicated devotees joined the full-time Preacher Development Course (PDC) this year,
preparing themselves to become future leaders in your mission.
Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda, your compassion is unparalleled. You came to this world to awaken our
dormant Kṛṣṇa consciousness and gave us everything – books, temples, devotees, and a mission.
We are trying to sincerely follow in your footsteps and humbly pray to be worthy representatives
of your legacy.
Please empower us to carry your message to every town and village, every youth and seeker,
every home and heart. May we always remember that we are merely your servants, striving to
please you and bring glory to your mission.
Your ever-grateful servants,
Rādheshyām Dāsa, on behalf of the temple management council
and the devotees of Śrī Śrī Rādhā Kuñjabihārī Mandir
Homages ISKCON Centers, VP2025
Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda,
Please accept our humble obeisances at your divine lotus feet. All glories to Your Divine Grace!
On this most auspicious occasion of your Vyāsa-pūjā, we, the devotees at ISKCON NVCC
Pune, humbly offer this report of our services as an offering of gratitude for your causeless mercy
upon us. It is only by your divine instructions and blessings that we have been able to engage in
serving Śrī Śrī Rādhā-Vrindavancandra and spreading Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
Jivadaya Department – Keeping the Spirit of Book Distribution High
By your mercy, Śrīla Prabhupāda, the Jivadaya Department has been striving to increase book
distribution each year. In dedication to His Holiness Gopal Krishna Goswami Mahārāja, our
book distribution efforts this year surpassed all our previous records:
• Caitanya-caritāmṛta marathon – 459 sets distributed – a 50 percent increase over the previ-
ous year.
• Bhadra Pūrṇimā marathon – 1,050 Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam sets distributed – we ranked fourth,
with a 40 percent increase over last year.
• Gītā marathon – 283,710 mahā big books distributed – we ranked fifth, with an 8 percent
increase over last year.
Overall offering: by your mercy, we exceeded our goal of 400,000 mahā big books, distributing
402,192 mahā big books, totaling 850,729.1 book points (we were in fifth place).
Further:
• Gītā contests – conducted in fourteen districts by seven brahmacārī teams and congregation
members, distributing 40,585 mahā big books.
• Traveling saṅkīrtana – two bus parties, with ten brahmacārīs traveling more than fifteen days
each month, distributed 22,089 mahā big books in Karnataka.
• JivadayaTech – introduced a personalized PhonePe QR code system and developed a
WhatsApp ChatBot for easy book ordering, score tracking, and donation management.
• Campus book distribution – more than 2 lakhs of visitors received your mercy through your
books, with many becoming devotees and book distributors themselves.
• New initiatives – launched One-day Inspirational Traveling Saṅkīrtana Festivals (ODI TSF)
and Monthly Saṅkīrtana Festivals (MSF) to engage the congregation.
Bhaktivedanta Raj Vidyalaya – Empowering Devotees through Systematic Study
By your grace, we successfully trained:
• 2,650 students in the ISKCON Disciple Course (IDC).
• 2,300 students in the Bhakti-śāstrī course.
• 250 scholars in the Bhakti-vaibhava course.
• 40 advanced devotees in the Bhaktivedanta course.
These devotees are now carrying forward your mission worldwide.
ISKCON Vanaprastha Seva Sanga – Preparing for the Next Phase of Life
• Organized two camps for aspiring vānaprasthas and three camps for existing vānaprasthas,
with participation of eighty male devotees and a similar number of Vaiṣṇavīs.
• Vānaprastha devotees are actively preaching in Bhor and Shirval villages and serving in vari-
ous temple departments.
Patron Care – Supporting Kṛṣṇa Conscious Families
• Our dedicated patron team successfully collected Rs. 2.2 crores this year to support temple
activities and preaching efforts.
Food-for-Life – Fulfilling Your Desire to Feed Everyone
• 1.5 lakh plates of prasādam were served at the temple.
• Began prasādam distribution to blind and handicapped children, slum residents, and Adi-
vasi communities.
• We seek your blessings to expand this service further.
Jagannath Ratha-yātrā – Spreading Lord Jagannātha’s Mercy
• 7,000 devotees honored full prasādam.
• 2 lakhs of people received blessings and darshan.
• The Gundicha Festival at Rādhā-Kuñjabihārī temple featured 56 bhoga offerings, daily kathā,
and kīrtana.
Mega Kitchen – Large-scale Prasādam Distribution
• More than 3 lakhs prasādam plates distributed on festival days.
• Assisted in major events across Bharata, including Jagannātha Purī Ratha-yātrā, Ayod-
hya Rāma Mandir Prāṇa Pratiṣṭa, and Prayagraj Kumbha Mela, distributing 65 lakhs of
prasādam plates.
Youth Preaching – Raising the Next Generation of Devotees
• 1,000 youths attended Utkarsh Camp.
• More than 20 VOICE youth centers in Pune are flourishing, bringing young minds closer to
Kṛṣṇa.
Congregational Development – Strengthening the Devotee Community
• Committees like the Service Board, Care Board, and Preaching Board ensure proper
engagement for all devotees.
• Special empowerment for Sanjivani (congregational preaching), Girls’ VOICE, and Chil-
dren’s VOICE.
Damodar Farm Development – A Step Toward Simple Living and High Thinking
• 26 cows, bulls, and calves are being cared for naturally.
• 12 acres of land cultivated for temple produce.
• Developing water harvesting pond and sewage treatment plant as ecofriendly initiatives.
SSRVC and Lord Bālajī Deity Department – Enhancing Deity Worship Standards
• Many devotees received second initiation and were trained in Deity worship standards.
• Congregation and brahmacārīs actively serving the Deities.
• Special festival bhoga offerings and services bring the community closer through Deity
worship.
Mahat Sevā – Hosting Senior Vaiṣṇavas
• Hosted more than fifty visiting senior Vaiṣṇavas, who inspired the congregation with classes
and kīrtanas.
Bhaktivedanta Santrika – Cultural Preaching through the Arts
• Organized 2 prema-saṅkīrtana festivals and one mega drama festival.
• Conducted a 6-day cultural festival during Janmāṣṭamī, with large participation.
Our Humble Prayer
Śrīla Prabhupāda, everything we have achieved is solely due to your divine mercy. We pray
that you continue to shower your blessings upon us so that we may serve you and Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa
with sincerity, dedication, and humility. Please empower us to expand your mission in Pune and
beyond, fulfilling your vision of a Kṛṣṇa conscious world. All glories to you, Śrīla Prabhupāda!
Your servant,
Rādheshyam Dāsa, the TMC members,
and all members of the ISKCON NVCC Pune temple community
Asia-Eurasia, Homages ISKCON Centers, VP2026
Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda,
We offer our respects and gratitude at your lotus feet on the occasion of your most auspicious 130th Vyāsa-pūjā festival. In hindsight, your appearance in this world is one of the most historic events for humanity in modern times. The majority of the 7 billion people on this planet had forgotten Kṛṣṇa or had no detailed conception of God. The depth of your love for Kṛṣṇa, manifesting as compassion for all living entities, reignited Kṛṣṇa consciousness in countless souls. As a tattva-darśi, a seer of the truth, you cut through the illusions of māyā that entangle conditioned souls in false conceptions of life.
“Life doesn’t come from matter. Life comes from life.” This single phrase dismantled the foundation of civilizational ignorance. In your role as guru you dispelled the darkness of ignorance with the torchlight of knowledge.
As the servant of your spiritual master, Oṁ Viṣṇupāda Paramahaṁsa Parivrājakācārya Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura, you made his instructions and desires the sole purpose of your life. The Bhagavad-gītā (2.41) states:
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 the irresolute is many-branched.
While reading Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura’s commentary on this verse, you became firmly resolved to fulfill your spiritual master’s instruction. In that service, you founded the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) and the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust (BBT). You traveled around the world fourteen times in just twelve years, even in your advanced age and failing health. You wrote more than fifty books, opened over a hundred temples, farm communities, and gurukulas, initiated thousands of disciples, organized Ratha-yātrās, delivered thousands of lectures, and wrote countless letters guiding your disciples and well-wishers – all with the singular purpose of helping living entities turn to Kṛṣṇa. You established the Governing Body Commission (GBC) as the ultimate managing authority of ISKCON, ensuring that the society would continue to expand even after your departure. You never allowed failures or setbacks to discourage you permanently; rather, you remained determined in the face of all challenges to push this movement forward.
The city of Delhi was of strategic importance to you, and by your efforts, Kṛṣṇa consciousness has steadily grown here. You established your first official office in Chippiwara. You published Back to Godhead magazine and the First Canto of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (in three volumes) in Delhi. After leaving your family life, you stayed at the maṭhas of your godbrothers and struggled alone. There was a time when you did not even have a proper dhoti-kurta for preaching, no money, and no permanent place to stay, yet you constantly thought of how others could take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
After the setback with the League of Devotees in Jhansi, you moved to Delhi. In a letter to government officials written on 25 December 1955, you expressed your vision for establishing the movement here:
My associates were therefore disbursed & I came to Delhi to give it a new life. Delhi is the only center wherefrom this cultural movement could immediately be given effect because it is the center of international, political, social, educational, and cultural movements. What I want to do immediately is as follows:—
(1) To hold consecutive meetings at different Mohallus & houses of Delhi for impressing the ideas of the mission.
(2) To give training to at least 7 to 10 educated young men in the ‘parampara lessons of Bhagavad-gita’ and then to ‘Brahma Sutra,’ Bhagavata and Caitanya Caritamrta.
(3) To publish an English monthly paper to sell specially to the English knowing heads of the society and to get printed some relative literatures.
Similarly, in a letter to Tamal Krishna Goswami dated 20 August 1971, you wrote:
Delhi is the most important city in India because the capital is established there. Mostly the population is educated. Many foreigners are there also and embassies of different countries. So from the cultural point of view Delhi is the most important city. Many cultural centers are there also, many libraries, many schools, colleges, varieties of mercantile offices and different presses. So if you can influence them it will be a great propaganda center. I think in Delhi also you should hold one festival pandal meeting like in Calcutta and Bombay. There is a big ground open near Connaught place.
Because of your pure devotional service in Delhi, there are now more than twenty-two beautiful Kṛṣṇa temples in Delhi-NCR, with over seventy centers and thousands of devotees. Your disciples – such as Guru Dāsa, Yamunā Devī Dāsī, Bhānu Swami, and Kṣīrodakaśāyī – began expanding the movement in Delhi under your guidance. Your dear disciple Gopal Krishna Goswami, in the same spirit of service, led the preaching mission in Delhi for five decades, resulting in the opening of eighteen temples, the distribution of millions of books, the cultivation of leaders, the initiation of thousands into devotional service, and countless souls receiving Kṛṣṇa’s mercy.
The ISKCON Punjabi Bagh community, home of Śrī Śrī Rādhā-Rādhikāramaṇa and Kṛṣṇa-Balarāma, is a recipient of the mercy of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu through you. Many centers have expanded from this base, especially after the installation of the Deities in 2007. Currently, temple expansion is progressing steadily, and Kṛṣṇa’s reciprocation is being experienced throughout the project. Recently, land was acquired in Rewari, and a bhūmi-pūjā scheduled for the new temple. The community ranked first globally in the book distribution marathon for 2025 (mid-size temple category). Four devotees joined the full-time Vaiṣṇava Training Program, and your servant Rukmiṇī Kṛṣṇa Dāsa accepted sannyāsa to expand the preaching mission. Programs for children, youth, and congregational members continue to grow through weekly engagements, yātrās to holy places, festivals, and Deity service.
The past year has been marked by global unrest, with conflicts arising over resources like petroleum. Waves of godlessness and sinful activities – animal slaughter, intoxication, gambling, and illicit relationships – are widespread. Modern leadership remains largely unaware of the laws of nature, and people suffer under the threefold miseries. In such times, the message of Lord Caitanya and your purports stand as the true hope for peace and happiness.
We stand in awe and reverence for the priceless gifts you gave the world – Kṛṣṇa’s holy name, His form, His philosophy, kirtan, temples, books, prasādam, communities, holy places, gurukulas, your letters, audio and video recordings, sacred art, culture – and above all, your legacy of love.
We offer our deepest respects and gratitude and pray for the strength and empowerment to share your gifts with others.
Your servants at ISKCON Punjabi Bagh
Homages ISKCON Centers, VP2025
Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda,
With our body, mind, and words we bow down and offer ourselves at your lotus feet in prayer-
ful and joyful humility. Your feet are the safest shelter, the source of all fearlessness, and the pro-
prietors of devotional service (sevādhikāriṇi guro nija-pāda-padme).
As we celebrate the 129th Vyāsa-pūjā festival of Your Divine Grace, we worship you with a
grateful heart as the bona fide representative of Śrīla Vyāsadeva coming in the Brahma-Madhva-
Gauḍīya-sampradāya, in the line of Lord Caitanya. You are the founder-ācārya of the International
Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), which has manifested as a result of your surrender
to the instructions of Oṁ Viṣṇupāda Paramahaṁsa Parivrājakācārya Śrī Śrīmad Bhaktisiddhānta
Sarasvatī Ṭhākura. It is your love for your spiritual master and compassion for the living entities
that drove you to undertake the historic journey on the Jaladuta ship for thirty-seven days, under-
going unimaginable difficulties, to the West to preach the message of Lord Caitanya.
Although love of Kṛṣṇa is eternally situated in the hearts of all living entities (nitya-siddha
kṛṣṇa-prema ‘sādhya’ kabhu naya), this love doesn’t manifest automatically. It manifests only by the
association of Kṛṣṇa’s pure devotee (śravaṇādi-śuddha-citte karaye udaya). For thousands of years,
people have lived in Western countries with dormant love of Kṛṣṇa in their hearts, but it is only
through your association that people in Western countries have taken to devotional service of Śrī
Kṛṣṇa.
Your life is a living manifestation of Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī’s teachings and instructions, espe-
cially those in the Upadeśāmṛta. You are a perfect gosvāmī, who controlled the six urges. Your life is
a life of enthusiasm and endeavoring with confidence and patience. Despite great difficulties and
reversals at almost every step, you continued pushing Lord Caitanya’s movement by establishing
temples, translating, publishing, and distributing literature, initiating and engaging devotees
according to their propensities, continually giving classes and discourses and holding conversa-
tions on philosophy, meeting people from all walks of life, teaching and training devotees in
the devotional arts, and traveling all over the world. You did all of this beginning at the most
advanced age of sixty-nine.
You manifested the twenty-six qualities of a Vaiṣṇava. You were dakṣa and realized in Kṛṣṇa
consciousness. Therefore, despite navigating innumerable diverse cultures worldwide, you could
implant Kṛṣṇa consciousness into all of them. You united the people on a spiritual platform who
were otherwise in conflict based on the bodily platform. The Americans, Russians, Indians, Euro-
peans, Chinese, Africans, and Japanese all chanted and danced together in the ecstasy of Lord
Caitanya. This was made possible only because you had deep, unflinching faith in the prediction
of Lord Caitanya that one day, “My name will be chanted in every town and village.”
You gave to everyone without discrimination the most invaluable and priceless gifts of Kṛṣṇa’s
holy names, Kṛṣṇa’s form, Kṛṣṇa’s prasāda, Kṛṣṇa’s temples, Kṛṣṇa’s message, Kṛṣṇa’s dhāma,
Kṛṣṇa’s service, and Kṛṣṇa’s love. You were most bold, yet most humble. You were most conserva-
tive, yet most liberal. You were most loving and forgiving, yet very strict. You were most tradi-
tional, yet creative – all in your love for Kṛṣṇa.
The deep sacred compassion for all living entities, the unflinching faith, pure love, and realiza-
tion of Kṛṣṇa, and your vision of transcendental reality manifested the most intelligent, truthful,
wise, sustainable, beautiful, and creative services all over the world in the form of temples, farm
communities, restaurants, scientific preaching, the arts, music albums, a Life Membership pro-
gram, Food-for-Life, Back to Godhead magazine, parikramas, gurukulas, and schools.
Education was very dear to your heart. Your books, in the format of word-by-word meaning,
translation, and purport, are deeply appreciated in the scholarly world. Your entire book sets are
ordered and kept in prestigious universities of the world. Your recordings of lectures, conversa-
tions, morning walks, debates, Vaiṣṇava bhajanas, kīrtanas, videos, photographs, and articles are
the most precious assets for the people of this world.
We at ISKCON Punjabi Bagh have been causeless receivers of your mercy. By your blessings,
we have begun the construction of a new temple for Śrī Rādhā-Rādhikāramaṇa and Śrī Kṛṣṇa-
Balarāma, and we aspire to complete it by Rādhāṣṭamī 2027.
By your mercy, 1,124 community members distributed 338,270 books during the last marathon.
Various devotees have traveled to other temples to expand the preaching mission, and five devo-
tees have been sent to ISKCON Yamuna Nagar to manage the center and further spread Kṛṣṇa
consciousness.
The congregational preaching is steadily increasing, as many devotees in the congregation
actively contribute to the expansion and sustenance of the movement. They are leading bhakti-
vriksha groups, distributing Śrīla Prabhupāda’s books, organizing weekly and monthly saṅkīrtana,
performing Deity worship at home, and rendering valuable services to the temple Deities.
Temple festivals are celebrated with great pomp, attracting devotees and newcomers alike to
experience the joy of devotional service. Neighbor cultivation and public relations have grown
significantly with regular communication and a sensitive approach. Our youth outreach and culti-
vation programs are also progressing sustainably, inspiring the younger generation to take shelter
of Kṛṣṇa.
By your mercy, the outposts at Rewari and Burari are flourishing, and both centers are actively
engaged in preaching activities. In addition, more than sixty devotees have successfully com-
pleted the Bhakti-śāstrī course, systematically studying your books. These classes are conducted
by locally based temple devotees with assistance from members of the congregation.
To ensure succession in leadership, Vaikuṇṭha Vraja Dāsa has been promoted to the position of
co-president, adding strength to the temple management and leadership team. Additionally, every
Ekādaśī we organize twenty-four-hour kīrtanas, immersing the devotees in the holy names of the
Lord. We are also grateful that many senior devotees regularly visit ISKCON Punjabi Bagh, bless-
ing us with their valuable association and guidance.
Delhi, being the political capital of India, was very important to you. You struggled alone in
the wilderness of Delhi. You stayed at the Gauḍīya Math and, despite coming from an aristocratic
family, at one point didn’t even have a single dhoti-kurta set to meet dignitaries. You would
single-handedly write, publish papers, and distribute them to people in general. You began the
mammoth project of translating the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam in Delhi. You published the first volume
with great difficulty. You felt the urgency to fulfill the instructions of your spiritual master. Many
times you did not even have your meals. You met many politicians and dignitaries in Delhi. You
met the two prime ministers, Lal Bahadur Sastri and Indira Gandhi in Delhi. You organized
pandal programs, made life members, and installed Śrī Rādhā-Pārtha-sārathi.
It is through your devotional service and compassion, and the efforts of your loyal servants,
that innumerable residents of Delhi have received the seeds of devotional service. There are now
eighteen temples in Delhi NCR, and more than one million books are distributed each year.
Amid the ongoing dualities of this material world, the unchanging truth of devotional service
can provide peace, purpose, clarity, strength, confidence, and happiness in our individual life’s
journey. We seek your blessings to understand and imbibe your mood and mission and make all
your transcendental gifts accessible to others as they are.
Offered by Premāñjana Dāsa,
on behalf of the community leaders of ISKCON Punjabi Bagh
Asia-Eurasia, 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
Please accept my humble and respectful obeisances. All glories to your lotus feet.
Last year for your Vyāsa-pūjā, I mentioned Kṛṣṇa-kathā Deśa yātrā, taking responsibility for constructing a temple at Birnagar to honor your desire and glorify the birthplace of Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura. Now I wish to inform you that the project is taking shape nicely, with the blessings of His Holiness Jayapatākā Swami Mahārāja.
Last year, in the month of September, I went to Kanhaiya Deśa yātrā to promote the Birnagar Temple Construction Project. We got very good support from all the congregational devotees there. I would like to make a special mention of the Bengali-speaking devotees in Kanhaiya Deśa yātrā. They were very eager to support and participate in the project.
Under the guidance of Vaikuṇṭhapati Prabhu, we have begun the process of constructing a “Wall of Legacy,” where donors’ names will be inscribed. The minimum contribution for inscription is INR. 1,000, and donors may contribute in multiples of INR. 1,000 if they wish to give more.
As Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu said, yāre dekha, tāre kaha ‘kṛṣṇa’-upadeśa, the devotees of Kṛṣṇa-kathā Deśa are going and meeting people to promote the contribution campaign for the inscription on the “Wall of Legacy.” The motto followed by the devotees of Kṛṣṇa-kathā Deśa is “yāre dekha, tāre kaha, contribute for the inscription.” This way we can reach a greater number of devotees to participate in the construction of the temple.
Very soon, we will also acquire the land adjacent to the birthplace of Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura. This plot is located on the opposite side of the land ISKCON acquired last year.
With your mercy, the desire to construct a beautiful temple for Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura is beginning to take shape. Please bless all the devotees involved in this project.
Hare Kṛṣṇa!
Your humble servant,
Aniruddha Gopāla Dāsa
on behalf of Kṛṣṇa-kathā Deśa
Homages ISKCON Centers, VP2025
Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda,
Please accept our most respectful obeisances. All glories to you, master of all masters.
On this very auspicious day of your appearance, we are happy to tell you that we are opening a new ISKCON center in Québec City – a city vibrant with many souls looking for spiritual and alternative cultures. We now have many French books to distribute, and regular preaching programs are happening.
Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura said, “This Abhay Bābu likes to hear from me. I will surely accept him.”
You are the best example of following the instructions of your spiritual master. On the order of Lord Kṛṣṇa you came to this material world to save the fallen souls of Kali-yuga. On the order of your spiritual master, who wanted you to preach in the Western countries, you left your beautiful Vrindavan, holy land of Kṛṣṇa, to come to this Western world full of sinful activities just to give us your mercy and save us from repeated birth and death.
Hearing is very important. After all, it is the first of the nine processes of devotional service. To practice what we have heard with great attention and without personal motives, and to follow your instructions attentively is the best way to reach the higher goals in our spiritual lives.
You have preached all over the world, and “Hare Kṛṣṇa” has became a household word. “Your fame is spread all over the three worlds.” We are proud to be part of this wonderful movement and fortunate to be under your shelter. We feel grateful to be part of your army to fulfill the mission of Lord Caitanya.
“The verdict of all revealed scriptures is that by even a moment’s association with a pure devotee, one can attain all success.” (Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 22.54)
Let us seek darshan in your vāṇī, your immortal words. We beg that our attachment to your words and instructions increase continuously. You will remain our personal guide. You live forever, Śrīla Prabhupāda. Let us remain under your shelter, and please guide us to give your mercy to other souls.
Begging to remain the servants of your servants,
The devotees of ISKCON Québec City
