Dear Prabhus/ Maharajs, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to your devotional services.
Please go through the following apeal letter from Dayaram Prabhu, President of Iskcon Kolkata. This program is the first program of 50 years anniversary of Iskcon. Kolkata is celebrating 50th anniversary of Srila Prabhupada departure from Kolkata. It is most historical and memorable event in the history of Iskocn. With out this most auspicious moment of departure of Srila Prabhupada from Kolkata Iskcon would not come to existence.
This is duty of all Iksocn devotees and leaders to see this program takes place with grand success. If this is done with grand success and good media coverage then it will help temples all over the world to celebrate 50th annivesary of Iksocn in grand way.
I feel this is not only the event for Kolkata dveotees to celebrate . This is an event whole world to celebrate. I request all leaders and temple presidents to kindly and generously donate for this great event.
Please following letter to know more about the event.
Your humble servant
Bhakti Purusottama Swami
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Please accept my most humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
The preparation for commemorating Golden Jubilee of Srila Prabhupad’s voyage to America and kick-start of the Golden Jubilee celebration of ISKCON’S at Kolkata on 13th August 2015 is in it’s final stages.
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 Government concessional charge for hiring this stadium is Rs 16 lacs (which also includes extra two days for making stages etc.) . In addition to this the charges for Decorator who will provide stage, Mike system, carpets, lights, Live telecast etc. is another Rs. 20 lacs.
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.
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 participated in yoga event at a time.
We have planned to beat this record by having at least devotees from 100 coutnries to participate in Yoga event organized by ISKCON Kolkata on 13 Aug., 2015 to comemorate 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 are in India and for that we need not spend so much money for travel . But We will have to pay air tickets, accommodation etc. for some devotees coming from remote places just to attend this program so that we can break previous record of Mr. Narendra Modi’s program on Yoga about a month ago.
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. The fold hands take deep breath and chant hare Krsna. Like this we will do Bhakti Yoga. We will have to have devotees well informed in advance so that it is done in a precise manner.
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.
But for all this we need lot of money since we need to pay for the air tickets and accommodation of these devotees from about 40 countries who do not have financial capability to pay for their tickets and accommodation. Apart from this Kolkata Rathayatra organized by ISKCON is a very big 9 days festival where we spend almost Rs 2 croers. And since Rathayatra is just 2 weeks before the Golden Jubilee celebrations on 13th August, ISKCON Kolkata is facing huge financial shortage for the Golden Jubilee. So unless we get help from Juhu Temple we will not be able to do it.
The break-up of our budget is as follows:
Stadium Hire: Rs 15 Lacs
Decorator: 20 Lacs
Gunnies Book of Record Director accommodation, travel and fees: Rs 15 Lacs
Travel and accommodation for devotees from 40 countries (including their
airfares): 40 lacs
Special Sculpture from Ukraine : Rs 15 lacs (Including air fare of the
famous sculpture and Mayor of Kiev)
Breakfasts, Lunch and Dinner for 12,000 guest for 13th August: Rs 25 lacs
Accommodation for Sannyasis, devotees from foreign countries and different
temples and Prasadam for 4 days (from 11th August to 16th August 2015): 35
lacs
Advertisement for the event: Rs 20 Lacs.
Program at Gurusaday road ( as Netaji Indoor stadium is too expensive for
all the programs) from 14th to 16th August : 20 Lacs
Transportation of delegates: Rs 5 lacs
Anup Jalota ( famous Bhajan Singer) : 5 lacs
Other Artists fees: 5 Lacs
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Total: Rs 2.15 croers or US $ 3,25,000 approx.
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Out of this ISKCON Kolkata has collected around Rs 65 lacs . So we have a shortfall of Rs. 1.5 croers ( US $ 2,25,000) .
Kindly help us. If some one sponsors the Program he can get huge publicity for his company or product. So that is also possible
Hare Krsna. Your servant, Dayaram dasa
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