By the TOVP Team
The TOVP Team is making a 108 day tour of North America, starting March 14 2015, to commemorate the arrival of Srila Prabhupada in USA in 1965. This tour has been organized by the leaders of the North American yatra as an opportunity for the congregation to participate in building the Mayapur Chandradoya Mandir as a collective effort of all the vaisnavas to offer this temple to Srila Prabhupada, as their gratitude for giving the world this wonderful ISKCON society.
The tour opened with a presentation at the Alachua Community on Saturday, March 14th. There was a very large turnout of devotees from Miami, Orlando, Jacksonville and other nearby cities. The presentation was presided over by his grace Jananivas Prabhu, Ambarish Prabhu, Swaha Mataji and Radha Jivan Das. The devotees showed an overwhelming response to the presentation by making pledges toward the temple construction to the tune of $850,000. Next, the team traveled to Dallas, and made a similar presentation at the temple on Sunday. More than 300 people from the congregation attended, with another surprising response of $1,000,000 in collective pledges. The temple president of Dallas, Nityananda Prabhu, was pleasantly surprised by the generosity, since he was expecting us not to collect any more than $50,000. He has been so pleased to see his congregation respond so favorably to the Mayapur Project, that he has further pledged $1,000,000 from his temple congregation, to be sent to Mayapur.
The tour will be traveling to Denver, Hillsborough and Philadelphia in the next week. The devotees are very pleased to his grace Jananivas Prabhu come to America for the purpose of raising awareness about the TOVP, and are taking the project very seriously by his presence. Ambarish Prabhu and his wife’s traveling to the major temples is also having a positive effect on the hearts of the devotees, who are seeing the humility with which they are approaching the devotees to come forward and donate.
The response from the congregation of the American yatra is far beyond our expectations, and we are humbled to see the depth of their devotion and gratitude to Srila Prabhupada by their performance.
Sri Mayapur Dham Ki Jay, Sankirtan Yajna ki Jay, Srila Prabhupada Ki Jay
TOVP Team
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