By Sri Krishna Purusottama Das
Dear Srila Prabhupada,
Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to your divine grace!
Krishna says in Bhagavad Gita:
mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat
kiñcid asti dhanañ-jaya
mayi sarvam idaṁ protaṁ
sūtre maṇi-gaṇā iva BG 7.7
Translation:
O conqueror of wealth, there is no truth superior to Me. Everything rests upon Me, as pearls are strung on a thread.
50 years ago, you set your foot here in America to introduce Krishna Consciousness to the western world and to show us how Krsna is the cause of everything. By your mercy, today, there are hundreds of temples including farm communities all over the world. There are tens of thousands of devotees chanting Hare Krishna every day, there are millions of books distributed throughout the world. You are the force behind everything just as the thread in a pearl necklace, uniting us together in Krsna’s service.
On your 50 years of arrival to America, many devotees offered various articles of worship. Today, Team ISV would like to offer the results of our Monthly Sankirtan Pearl Festival as an expression of our gratitude and love to you Srila Prabhupada!
It turned out to be another historic event, with ISV devotees distributing thousands of books throughout the Bay area and dispatching them to other parts of North America.
Book distribution occurred with much enthusiasm during practically all weekends of this MSF.
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Books were distributed at several Hari Nama performances in Palo Alto and San Francisco.
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Books were also distributed at different festivals like Govardhan Puja, Pumpkin festival, Cupertino Diwali mela, Pleasanton Diwali Mela, Green festival and Christmas in the park.
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Devotees also distributed books at ICC, Store to Store Sankirtan, Door to Door Sankirtan, Corporate Sankirtan, Motel Gita Sankirtan, Weekday Sankirtan and Kids Sankirtan.
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Special yagna was conducted on the day celebrating the Advent of Bhagavad Gita.
In all,
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More than 200 devotees participated in book distribution
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Team ISV distributed total of 33,553 books which includes:
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13 CC sets
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1,492 Mahabig books smashing the goal of 1000 Maha Big books
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Team ISV distributed 24,359 Gita’s smashing the goal of 22,000 Gita’s.
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Out of which 18,048 Bhagavad Gita’s were distributed by Motel Gita team.
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Team ISV distributed 144 SB Sets smashing the goal of 80 SB sets.
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Team ISV raised $217,003 in Laxmi way surpassing the previous year’s total of $150,000 dollars.
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Overall we are pleased to report that we met our yearly goal of 10% increase in our BBT scores.
Here is the summary of this year 2015:
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Team ISV distributed 346 Srimad Bhagavatam sets
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108 CC sets
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total of 454 sets smashing the goal of 415.
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Team ISV distributed 39,148 Bhagavad Gita’s
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Smartbox collection in total was $7,270 dollars .
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Team ISV collected $342,018 in laxmi.
Our gratitude to the dedicated ISV sankirtan devotees have tirelessly worked hard to smash these goals. Our deep gratitude to His Grace Vaisesika Prabhu for inspiring us throughout the year! Our gratitude to HG Nirakula Mataji for continuously inspiring us.
We pray to the Lordships Sri Sri Radha Madan Mohan, Sriman Maha Prabhu, Sri Sri Laxmi Narasimha dev to shower their blessings upon team ISV so that we can continue to work together to show mercy to all the souls.
Sri Sri Radha Madan Mohan ki Jay!! Sriman Maha Prabhu ki Jay!! Sri Sri Laxmi Narasimha dev ki Jay!! Srila Prabhupada ki Jay!!
Yhs,
Sri Krishna Purusottama das
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