Homages from ISKCON Centers

Homages from ISKCON Centers
there is a much better chance to spread the divine message of Çré Caitanya Mahäprabhu.
More visitors are coming, and we are planning to intensify our preaching activities and sädhana. Our
BBT team is steadily increasing book distribution, and we are exploring new avenues for distribution,
such as the “Janma, Mrityu, Jara Vyadi” program.
We have also inaugurated the Midday Meal Program, in which we serve up to fifty thousand plates
of delicious kåñëa-prasädam every school day to the schoolchildren of Nagpur.
We have also begun the Bhakti Vriksa Program among the congregational devotees to insure that
they are spiritually well nourished and cared for. Now we have three branches, and several more are
pending. We take inspiration from Çréla Bhaktivinoda Öhäkura’s Näma-haööa program and try to model
ours after his.
Our college preaching team is doing very well and have plans to enroll another thirty male students
in the VOICES program in the near future, bringing to sixty the number of practicing college boys.
Dear Çréla Prabhupäda, we need your mercy to overcome our inner weaknesses, and we need your
blessings to resolve our personal differences so that we can focus on your mission and not get caught
up in Kali’s trap. We all want to please you by cooperating, and we sincerely pray that you will help us
become unified and strong so that we can maximize our offering unto your lotus feet.
Dear Çréla Prabhupäda, we take shelter at your lotus feet. You are the savior of the most fallen.
Çréla Prabhupäda-ké jaya!
Guru-paramparä-ké jaya!
Your servants at the ISKCON temple in Nagpur, India.
New Biharvan
nama oà viñëu-pädäya kåñëa-preñöhäya bhü-tale
çrémate bhaktivedänta-sväminn iti nämine
namas te särasvate deve gaura-väëé-pracäriëe
nirviçeña-çünyavädi-päçcätya-deça-täriëe
Dear Çréla Prabhupäda,
Please accept our humble obeisances at your lotus feet. All glories to you! All glories to Çré Çré Rädhä-
Baìkebihäré!
Exactly fifty years ago you published the first volume of Çrémad-Bhägavatam, with your English
translations and Bhaktivedanta purports. It was a significant victory in the long struggle to fulfill the
instruction of your beloved spiritual master—to publish books and preach Kåñëa consciousness in
English. Indeed, it was a dream come true and a labor of love. You personally wrote, edited, published,
and sold the first volume, working from your small room in the Rädhä-Dämodara temple in Våndävana.
Approximately ten years later your books arrived here in Boise, Idaho. A Macmillan Bhagavad-gétä
As It Is, an ISKCON Press Kåñëa book, and a 1968 Teachings of Lord Chaitanya found their way to the
library of Boise State University, brought by one of your traveling saìkértana devotees. From Våndävana
to a tiny Idaho town in just ten years! Most Americans still don’t know where Boise is, and at that time
it must have been even more off the beaten path, with a population of less than 75,000 and no major
cities for 350 miles in any direction. And yet your books had arrived in Boise, and a full set of Çrémad-
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