On the morning of Sunday, March 22nd, the Lord’s Padukas and Sitari were greeted at the temple with kirtan and an abhishek and arati, and placed on the altar. In the evening we made our TOVP presentation to the Hillsborough community.
This temple was built and started by His Holiness Bir Krishna Goswami in the 1980’s in the rural area surrounding Raleigh, North Carolina, and has grown to become a community of dedicated servants of Srila Prabhupada and Sri Caitanya Mahaprabu. After kirtan, Radha Jivan and Jananivas spoke to a gathering of about 60 devotees, inspiring and giving them a vision of the importance of Sridhama Mayapur and the TOVP project. Despite having their own temple and school building project to raise funds for, the community altogether pledged $230,000 for the TOVP, sacrificing their own needs.
Everywhere we go we are experiencing the same miracle of devotees and temples sacrificing their own needs for the greater good of the organization, with faith that the Lord will reciprocate and provide what they need. Serving Mayapur and the TOVP serves all our needs as the rising tide raises all the boats, or feeding the stomach nourishes the entire body.
Prasadam was then served to the devotees to their full satisfaction.
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