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Dear Devotees,

Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

With Srila Prabhupada's 128th Vyasa-puja just a few days away, please take the opportunity to download and read the 2024 Vyasa-puja book which was created from all your hearfelt homages:

https://gbc.iskcon.org/srila- prabhupada-vyasa-puja-books/

Please also share the file widely so all followers of Srila Prabhupada can avail of this shower of nectar in glorification of His Divine Grace. A high-res version is also available for those who wish to print a copy.

As a sample, please see below the homage written by our dear late HH Gopal Krsna Maharaja.

Your servants on the VP Book team,

Mukhya Devi Dasi
Praghosa Das
Satyamedha Gauranga Das
Ananda Tirtha Das
______________________________ ______________________________ ________________

Dear Srila Prabhupada:

Please accept my humble obeisances at your divine lotus feet.

This year we are celebrating your 128th Appearance Anniversary. Because of your purity and determination, the Krishna Consciousness movement has spread to every corner of the world. In the purport to CC Adi Lila Ch.7 Text 164
you had stated “the Goswamis not only engaged in writing books but also constructed temples, because both are needed for preaching work.” You had stated that both distribution of books and construction of temples should continue side by side on parallel lines.

In the next few days, on the auspicious occasion of Rama Navami, we are going to inaugurate a new temple in Rohini, Delhi. You had spent considerable time in Delhi. Residing in the Radha Damodara temple in Vrindavan, you would regularly travel to Delhi to get your books published and distribute them. As you did not have enough funds you would travel from Mathura to Delhi in a 3rd class compartment. After establishing ISKCON in the West you had returned to India to preach to the Indians who had forgotten their Vedic culture. Your vision of Delhi focused on the fact that Delhi was the most important city in Asia. According to Tejas Das who was the President of the Delhi temple until 1976, “Prabhupada wanted to do programs every week in different parts of Delhi. Prabhupada kept increasing his desire to have temples in Delhi from 8 to 18 centers! He wanted influential people to be invited to these programs”.

Prabhupada, due to your causeless mercy we have almost achieved the target you gave us. During the 1975-77 period, I went with you to many locations to obtain a land to build a temple. After a long struggle we obtained a very significant piece of land in South Delhi. Sri Sri Radha Parthasarathi deities were first installed by you at Ananda Niketan in a rented facility. Later on, they were moved to another rented house in Bengali market.

Finally, a beautiful temple was built for the pleasure of Their Lordships Sri Sri Radha Parthasarathi, Sri Sri Gaura Nitai and Sri Sri Sita Rama Lakshmana Hanuman. This Project was inaugurated on Rama Navami in 1998 by the late Prime Minister Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee who praised you and your movement. Then we obtained a second temple in Punjabi Bagh. This temple has also attracted thousands to Krishna consciousness. Gradually your movement went on expanding and ten temples were opened in different locations. Currently we have 6 major temples under construction.

As I mentioned above, the Rohini temple will be inaugurated on Rama Navami, 2024. Located on the main road, this temple is a very grand and artistic presentation. It will also be one of the temples where significant attention has been given to many details. For the very first time Panchatattva deities will be installed outside Bengal in India! Presently we have temples under construction at Kurukshetra, Dwarka, Ghaziabad and two other locations. By your causeless mercy we have achieved the target you had given, that of constructing temples, gradually growing from 8 to 18 temples in Delhi! Often, devotees are amazed by the number the temples we have in Delhi! All this has become possible only due to your purity and the tapasya you had performed in Delhi. We are reaping the fruits of the seeds planted by you.

On this auspicious day, I beg you for your mercy that I may continue to serve you eternally.

Your eternal servant,
Gopal Krishna Goswami

Source: http://www.dandavats.com/wp-content/nectar/2024-08-21-15-00-00.html