May 03 2009, Jaipur, India — Should you come across a devotee belonging to ISKCON Bangalore, you will realize how Srila Prabhupada is still living with them, in their hearts as sound representation — the vani. And a striking feature is that practically none of them have ever met Srila Prabhupada physically. I have personally felt the presence of Srila Prabhupada in the hearts of ISKCON Bangalore devotees, while I was in Bangalore as a student.
Srila Prabhupada living in the hearts of sincere devotees makes successful preaching programs. I will try to list a few of them:
Massive book distribution from the temple counter — every visitor who visits the ISKCON Bangalore’s Sri Sri Radha Krishna-chandra temple has a glimpse over Srila Prabhupada transcendental books in English, Kannada, Tamil, Telgu, Malayalam, Hindi, Gujrati, Marathi, Bengali, Oriya, Urdu, etc. Those who are fortunate touch Srila Prabhupada’s books – being attracted by the beautiful cover pictures. Srila Prabhupada says in a conversation that even if one simply touches his books, they will get eternal benefit. ISKCON Bangalore is the biggest book distributor of Srila Prabhupada’s transcendental books, but it is not given the Rank I in the Sankirtana Newsletter, as it is a Ritvik temple.
Long list of subscribers to “Bhaktivedanta Darshana” – a Kannada (language of natives of Karnataka state) version of Back to Godhead. This magazine covers wonderful articles and is very popular among people of Karnataka.
A very successful college preaching program. Sunday at ISKCON Bangalore sees over 500 college youth singing bhajans, attending classes based on Gaudiya Vaishnava philosophy, partaking of prasadam, and performing Sankirtana during the Shayana Arati.
Street Sankirtana being held at the most prominent areas and streets of Bangalore.
Rasa and similar competitions being held for college students in order to promote spiritual competition among them.
Vatsalya competitions being held for women devotees.
Krishna contest being held for school children, where hundreds of thousands of students from various parts of country write an exam after reading books based on teachings of Srila Prabhupada.
Heritage Festival being conducted regularly to enhance the Vedic cultural values among school children.
Wonderful and Beautiful festivals for the satisfaction of Their Lordships being organized practically every month so as to engage the common masses in devotional service.
Hare Krishna maha-mantra cards are distributed free of cost to every visitor to the temple. Most of the visitors carry the mantra card in their pockets or display them at prominent places at their office/home as mantra cards are printed with beautiful Lord Sri Krishna’s pictures.
Free prasadam is distributed to all the visitors at all the times of the day whenever the darshan are open.
Last, but not the least, the successful Akshaya Patra program being conducted by ISKCON Bangalore in various parts of India, for distributing the mercy of Their Lordships in the form of spiritual food for hungry souls.
These are just some of the few programs being conducted by ISKCON Bangalore. You can visit our website for detailed list of events. I strongly recommend all the devotees from every part of the world to visit ISKCON Bangalore and associate with devotees. You may personally feel what we have felt during our days of association with Srila Prabhupada’s devotees at ISKCON Bangalore.
Srila Prabhupada writes in a letter, “My dear boys and girls, you are working so hard for broadcasting the glories of Lord Krishna’s lotus feet and thus my Guru Maharaja will bestow His blessings thousands times more than me and that is my satisfaction. All Glories to the assembled devotees.”
All Glories to ISKCON Bangalore devotees, with whom SRILA PRABHUPADA IS STILL LIVING!!!
Your servant,
Bhakta Aniruddha
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