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My dear Maharaj ji's and Prabhu ji's Please accept my most humble obeisances All glorie to Srila Prabhupada!

Please find enclosed a list of 125 countries. If you are from any of those listed countries (and have valid passport of that country) we are offering a absolutely free trip to Kolkata in August from 11th to 16th August 2015.

This trip will include complementary return ticket, accommodation, transfers, all prasad and a trip around the holy places of Kolkata.

Preference will be given on 1st come basis. There is free trip for only one person for each country. What you will have to do is to particpate in the Golden Jubilee celebration of Srila Prabhupada's Voyage to America and Kick-start of the Golden Jubilee celebrations in Kolkata from 11th to 16th August 2015. Also you will have to be part of an event to create a new Gunniese Book of world record. So you will have to reach Kolkata latest by the morning of 11th August 2015 and to be in Kolkata at least till the morning of 14th August 2015.Also you have to carry the passport of your country on the day of the event on 13th August 2015. 

Recently on 21st June the world celebrated the International Day for Yoga. The Hon'ble Prime Minister of India also performed Yoga in New Delhi. On that day a Gunnies book of record certified as the biggest Yoga performance by people as never before people from over 84 countries ever participated in yoga even at a time.

We have planned to beat this record by having at least devotees from 108 countries to participate in Yoga event organized by ISKCON Kolkata on 13 Aug., 2015 to commemorate golden Jubilee of Sp's Voyage from Kolkata to Boston as Srila Prabhupada gave us the highest Yoga-Bhakti Yoga.

We have found devotees from 70 Nationalities who have volunteered to come for the event on 13th August 2015. We are now looking for at least devotees from 40 other nationalities out of the remaining countries (please find list attached with this email).

They will do Bhakti Yoga (chanting of Hare Krishna Mantra) with some Yoga postures. And then we can explain different kind of Yogas and how Bhakti Yoga is the ultimate. We can raise our hands, take deep breath and chant Hare Krishna and different pranam Mantras. While doing yoga like padmaasan (or lotus posture) devotees will chant hare Krishna or while doing any asana they will be chanting hare Krishna.

We will get tremendous International media coverage. We are in talks with the Guinness book of record people and they will send their official to Judge the event and they will announce on spot that we have created a new record and broke the previous record created in New Delhi on 21st June 2015 in the Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi's Yoga Program.

This will give us opportunity to glorify Srila Pranbhupada how he has given the highest thing and what is the real purpose of Yoga. We have already got confirmation of devotees from over 70 different countries. We need to find devotees from other 40 countries.

We have booked the most prestigious Indoor Stadium at Kolkata- Netaji Indoor Stadium which can accommodate over 14,000 people and is fully A/C. The Hon"ble Chief Minister of West Bengal ( Ms. Mamata Banerjee) & UP (Mr. Akhilesh yadav), Governor of West Bengal, Ms. Kiran Bedi , the Secretary General of the United Nations Mr. Ban Ki Moon and host of other VVIP's will be present for the occasion.

We have ordered to make a sculptor of Srila Prabhupada boarding Jaladuta and alighting from Jaladuta for Kolkata and Boston by famous sculptor from Kiev Ukrain.

We are expecting that the Mayor of Boston to be present, and Mayor of Kolkata has confirmed his presence at the program.

So the plan is that Mayor of Kiev will hand over the sculpture to Mayor of Boston ( Hopefully he will confirm his participation) and Kolkata respectively. We are also working on to ship the Boston sculpture to be shipped to boston taking same route Srila Prabhupada took 50 years ago.

So hurry up and please let us know if you are from the list of country attached. Remember there is only one free trip offer for one person from the list of the countries attached with this email.

Also we will like to humbly request if someone will like to sponsor for the Golden Jubilee celebrations at Kolkata.

Also humbly request if this can be shared on different ISKCON Forums and on your temple's Notice board.

Your servant
Radharaman Das