Our Fund Raising Drive Was a Success!
Thanks to Lord Sri Krishna and our kind-hearted donors we hit the target of collecting $80,000 towards getting a temple for ISKCON Austin.
In 1971 Srila Prabhupada personally ordered me to make the Austin center a grand success. For the 43 years since ISKCON came to Austin it has never had a temple building. We have thus been meeting in houses and apartments. Now with the help of 298 of our generous readers we are a step closer to doing this special something for Srila Prabhupada in Austin. We now have $280,000 on hand to help us carry our project to the next level.
Our fund raising drive was for $80,000 because that is how much we were short to purchase a house for $280,000 that we planned to renovate and turn into a temple. We put the house under a purchase contract and had it inspected by a professional house inspector. The results were not good. The house would cost up to $200,000 to renovate. Therefore we considered it wiser to instead buy empty land where we could get a much larger lot for a comparable price and then build a brand new temple building exactly according to our own design.
It is not easy to find what we are looking for in Austin because this city is experiencing a real estate boom. We are limited both by our small budget and by our needing a property where we can have both a temple and an ashram. But we will continue actively pursuing the discovery of a suitable property until we find one. We request all of our readers in the Austin area to keep their eyes open to help us find a suitable property. Also any further contributions will give us the financial to access more properties and are therefore certainly most welcome. They can be made at:
http://iskconaustin.com/Fund_Raising.html
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
Supriya Kolhe
Kannan Kasturi
Haridasan Mannadiar
Andrejs Verza
Modestas Vaicekauskis
Mani Shankar
Indulis Makens
Chahat Upreti
ISKCON Kaunas
George W Newcombe
N R Edkie
Gintare Ziedelyte
Vinam B Mehta
Anil Manga
Jose Cardenas
Sunil Vaswani
Akrura Das
Vikram Kaku
Rajat Gupta
Madhvacarya Das
Dovydas Kontrimas
MJP Mongane
Madhusudana Das
Poovesh R. Babu
Sushain Pandit
Mahabhagavata Das
Sanjib Pal
Sivarajah Manicavasagar
Manimaran Nagasundaram
Venkateswara Karumanchi
Bina Chauhan
Anonymous
Sabu P. Krishnan
Sathya Venkata
Sunitha Rani
Ravi Kolluru
Padasevana Das
Vijay Varanasi
Arnab Dasgupta
Dr. Bruce Masson
Joydeep Karmakar
Mahesh V Bhupalam
Reena Shroff
Ananta Kirti Das
Chetan J Patel
V. Bagal
Durga Chakravadhanula
Sunil Goel
Shankar S Murthy
Arturo Sherman Yep
Navin Sharma
Hitesh Lav
Harish Kumar Vontel
Dinesh K Singhal
Rajat Upadhyay
Ravindra Goud
Virendranath Soburrun
Anil Kumar Seth
Archana Siddhi Devi Dasi
Kesaven Pandanikum
Prashant Joshi
Nandlall Ramnauth
Purna Patel
Bunsie Bhagirathi
Chia Eng Heng
Aloke Arora
Ankit Kumar Bhatt
Abhishek KalvaTapan Chowdhury
Shanthi Rao
Dr. Varady Gabor
Harsh Mantri
Anonymous2
Suparna Shinganapurkar
Ajanta Rao
Prateek Gupta
Madhavananda Das
Virendra K Jaiswal
Sridhar Methukupally
Sashant Srivastava
Conjeevaram Divakar Rao
Seetharam Family
Sastry Pisapati
N. Gangaram
Uzzal Binit Bala
Acharya Das
Chandra Nanan
Jose Cascante Rojas
Hemamukhi and Mother
Guru Vandana devi dasi
Sudeep & Swati Manchanda
Janmejai Kumaer Sah
Nikhil Mishra
Shriram Bejalwar
Ujwal Vijay Wani
Hariharan Sankaran
Ramses E. Gonzalez J.
Prem Raj Kallepalli
Kirti Patel Guru Das/Varsabhanavi
Rupanuga/Laksmipriya
R Inturi
Raj Kumar
Raj Dreepaul
Jimi Welin
Jānis Ducens
J Hariraman
Cleveland Mentore
Praveen Samaroo
Sulakshana Devi Dasi
Iulian Popa
Kavita Santosh Jasud
Salil Agarwal
Ashok Kumar Sahu
Shiva Nanda
Harsha Jadhav
Srinivas B Cherlamcherla
I Wayan Wijaya
MJP Mongane
Edgar Paragas
Gopal Singh
Anonymous3
P Ramesh
Pallavi G.
John Brown
Sonjaay Maharaj
Tojesh Akarte
Venkatesh Kodgi
Vaishnavi Thirumaran
Jaydeepsinh Parmar
Satpal Amar
Sasi & Vijaya Kumar
T V Hejmady
Tarun Gupta
Scott & Gayle Amis
Nanda Dulal & Savitri
Kurt James Kaiser
Rakshit Sharma
Prashant Dewani
Gunjan Sharma
Paritosh Joshi
G Malini
Ravi Gopalam
Suresh Kolluru
Neeraj Agrawal
Nikha Khanna
Thomas Pearce
Anand Verma
Amol Lad
Aniruddha Das and Family
Saanchi Dubey
Amit Arvind Phadke
Kamna Gupta
Minnal Ramamoorthy
Airida Gintautaite
Chetna Khoosal
Advaitacandra Das
Ramamoorthy Srinivasan
Nupur Debnath
Ravi Kolluru
Nanda Dulal,Jodie, & Kids
Dr Dhashani
Bhavesh V Mistry
Anonymous4
Sesa Nitai Das
N R Edkie
Nirav Parik
Indrawati Boodoo
Laxmi N Kalidas
Navin Sharma
T. Sasisekaran
Prasen Karlekar
J. Manickam
Sridhar Srinivasan
S. B. P. Sinha
Alex Smith
Seema Gupta
Mukundan Seshasayee
Ramses E. Gonzalez J.
Haladhar Das & Para Shakti
Rajkumar Buyya
Mariappan Rajendran
Hare Krishna Das & Hari Priya
Indriyesa Das
Dvijati Pujaka Das
Prakash Ranganathan
Noah Ronquillo
R Shrestha
Raja Mohanan
Gaurav Padgilwar
Munish Nandwani
Andrejs Verza
D. Mohapatra
Maria Jose Ashenbrener
Rudy Davenport
Kalindi devi dasi
T.V. Sanil Kumar
Sanjay R. Raul
Bhakta Shreyas
Anonymous5
Vadims Medjankovs
Sudama Das & Stanislav
Saravanan Narayanan
Debabrata Pradhan
Krishna Dyumani das
Bhuvaneshwari
A. Peciulyte
Mahesh Godi
Jasbir Singh
Nrtya Gopal Krsna Dasa
Amit Kumar Chauhan
Hiru Santumal Rijhwani
Santosh S. Suvarna
Jeanette Pullan
Dr. Manickam Rangasami
Dinesh Gupta
Paramraj Bhatt
Bhaskar Joshi
Dhanaraja Dharmalingam
T. Devi Butan
Hans Jagannatha Miorelli
Anonymous4
Grace Smith
Guna Rubule
Kayton Parekh
R.S.Chawla
Sitaram Gawali
Miss S Chander
Sobha Gadiraju
Bharat Vyas
Swati Tyagi
Dave Koen
Trivikram Das
Srinath Narasimha
M.S. Chotai
Shashi Bhushan
Venkatapathi R. Chekuri
Stanislovas Mickus
Sonjaay Maharaj
Christopher L Williams
Jimi Welin
Modestas Vaicekauskis
Sundeep Singh Chauhan
E. Radhakrishnana
Anonymous6
Poovesh R. Babu
Vibhakar Seewoogolam
Summi Agrawal
Aiyappa Ponnappa
Abhay Patil
Fakir and Rukhmini Marolia
Shyam Sunder Gupta
Sivarajah Manicavasagar
M.J.P. Mongane
Ieva Turulytė
Vishalache Balakrishnan
A. Pahalad
Hemal Shah
Sathya Venkata
Tapan Chowdhury
Julian Harding
Krishna Das
Yogesh Purohit
Rabindra Das Brahmacari
Jyoti Gambhi
Andrius Sinkevicius
Saulius Krizinauskas
Karthik Vadambacheri Manian
Lorraine A Groom
Ravindra Nath
Bhakta Abasaheb
J. K. Goolab
Divyapriya Muthukumaran
Manish Raikundalia
Suganthi Lakshminarayanan
Dhanyalakshmi Devi Dasi
Anand Maharaj
Jeffrey R Potts
R Srinivasan
Vidya Sagar
Murali Krishna Chinna
Vijay Patel
A. Naidoo
Prabhakar Marigowda
Jayanth Ramadoss
Shiva Kumar Raghaviah
Manu Karamchandani
Anand Dhandharia
S. Janardhan
Rupa-Santana Das Family
Wong Ming Yan
Sarala K.
Damodar Das
Jeedi Mura Krishna
Madhvacarya dasa adhikari
Indulis Makens
Chandrasekhar Parchuri
In 1971 Srila Prabhupada personally ordered me to make the Austin center a grand success. For the 43 years since ISKCON came to Austin it has never had a temple building. We have thus been meeting in houses and apartments. Now with the help of 298 of our generous readers we are a step closer to doing this special something for Srila Prabhupada in Austin. We now have $280,000 on hand to help us carry our project to the next level.
Our fund raising drive was for $80,000 because that is how much we were short to purchase a house for $280,000 that we planned to renovate and turn into a temple. We put the house under a purchase contract and had it inspected by a professional house inspector. The results were not good. The house would cost up to $200,000 to renovate. Therefore we considered it wiser to instead buy empty land where we could get a much larger lot for a comparable price and then build a brand new temple building exactly according to our own design.
It is not easy to find what we are looking for in Austin because this city is experiencing a real estate boom. We are limited both by our small budget and by our needing a property where we can have both a temple and an ashram. But we will continue actively pursuing the discovery of a suitable property until we find one. We request all of our readers in the Austin area to keep their eyes open to help us find a suitable property. Also any further contributions will give us the financial to access more properties and are therefore certainly most welcome. They can be made at:
http://iskconaustin.com/Fund_Raising.html
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
Our special thanks to these 298 gracious souls who all pitched in to make our fund raising drive a success:
Hemanga DasSupriya Kolhe
Kannan Kasturi
Haridasan Mannadiar
Andrejs Verza
Modestas Vaicekauskis
Mani Shankar
Indulis Makens
Chahat Upreti
ISKCON Kaunas
George W Newcombe
N R Edkie
Gintare Ziedelyte
Vinam B Mehta
Anil Manga
Jose Cardenas
Sunil Vaswani
Akrura Das
Vikram Kaku
Rajat Gupta
Madhvacarya Das
Dovydas Kontrimas
MJP Mongane
Madhusudana Das
Poovesh R. Babu
Sushain Pandit
Mahabhagavata Das
Sanjib Pal
Sivarajah Manicavasagar
Manimaran Nagasundaram
Venkateswara Karumanchi
Bina Chauhan
Anonymous
Sabu P. Krishnan
Sathya Venkata
Sunitha Rani
Ravi Kolluru
Padasevana Das
Vijay Varanasi
Arnab Dasgupta
Dr. Bruce Masson
Joydeep Karmakar
Mahesh V Bhupalam
Reena Shroff
Ananta Kirti Das
Chetan J Patel
V. Bagal
Durga Chakravadhanula
Sunil Goel
Shankar S Murthy
Arturo Sherman Yep
Navin Sharma
Hitesh Lav
Harish Kumar Vontel
Dinesh K Singhal
Rajat Upadhyay
Ravindra Goud
Virendranath Soburrun
Anil Kumar Seth
Archana Siddhi Devi Dasi
Kesaven Pandanikum
Prashant Joshi
Nandlall Ramnauth
Purna Patel
Bunsie Bhagirathi
Chia Eng Heng
Aloke Arora
Ankit Kumar Bhatt
Abhishek KalvaTapan Chowdhury
Shanthi Rao
Dr. Varady Gabor
Harsh Mantri
Anonymous2
Suparna Shinganapurkar
Ajanta Rao
Prateek Gupta
Madhavananda Das
Virendra K Jaiswal
Sridhar Methukupally
Sashant Srivastava
Conjeevaram Divakar Rao
Seetharam Family
Sastry Pisapati
N. Gangaram
Uzzal Binit Bala
Acharya Das
Chandra Nanan
Jose Cascante Rojas
Hemamukhi and Mother
Guru Vandana devi dasi
Sudeep & Swati Manchanda
Janmejai Kumaer Sah
Nikhil Mishra
Shriram Bejalwar
Ujwal Vijay Wani
Hariharan Sankaran
Ramses E. Gonzalez J.
Prem Raj Kallepalli
Kirti Patel Guru Das/Varsabhanavi
Rupanuga/Laksmipriya
R Inturi
Raj Kumar
Raj Dreepaul
Jimi Welin
Jānis Ducens
J Hariraman
Cleveland Mentore
Praveen Samaroo
Sulakshana Devi Dasi
Iulian Popa
Kavita Santosh Jasud
Salil Agarwal
Ashok Kumar Sahu
Shiva Nanda
Harsha Jadhav
Srinivas B Cherlamcherla
I Wayan Wijaya
MJP Mongane
Edgar Paragas
Gopal Singh
Anonymous3
P Ramesh
Pallavi G.
John Brown
Sonjaay Maharaj
Tojesh Akarte
Venkatesh Kodgi
Vaishnavi Thirumaran
Jaydeepsinh Parmar
Satpal Amar
Sasi & Vijaya Kumar
T V Hejmady
Tarun Gupta
Scott & Gayle Amis
Nanda Dulal & Savitri
Kurt James Kaiser
Rakshit Sharma
Prashant Dewani
Gunjan Sharma
Paritosh Joshi
G Malini
Ravi Gopalam
Suresh Kolluru
Neeraj Agrawal
Nikha Khanna
Thomas Pearce
Anand Verma
Amol Lad
Aniruddha Das and Family
Saanchi Dubey
Amit Arvind Phadke
Kamna Gupta
Minnal Ramamoorthy
Airida Gintautaite
Chetna Khoosal
Advaitacandra Das
Ramamoorthy Srinivasan
Nupur Debnath
Ravi Kolluru
Nanda Dulal,Jodie, & Kids
Dr Dhashani
Bhavesh V Mistry
Anonymous4
Sesa Nitai Das
N R Edkie
Nirav Parik
Indrawati Boodoo
Laxmi N Kalidas
Navin Sharma
T. Sasisekaran
Prasen Karlekar
J. Manickam
Sridhar Srinivasan
S. B. P. Sinha
Alex Smith
Seema Gupta
Mukundan Seshasayee
Ramses E. Gonzalez J.
Haladhar Das & Para Shakti
Rajkumar Buyya
Mariappan Rajendran
Hare Krishna Das & Hari Priya
Indriyesa Das
Dvijati Pujaka Das
Prakash Ranganathan
Noah Ronquillo
R Shrestha
Raja Mohanan
Gaurav Padgilwar
Munish Nandwani
Andrejs Verza
D. Mohapatra
Maria Jose Ashenbrener
Rudy Davenport
Kalindi devi dasi
T.V. Sanil Kumar
Sanjay R. Raul
Bhakta Shreyas
Anonymous5
Vadims Medjankovs
Sudama Das & Stanislav
Saravanan Narayanan
Debabrata Pradhan
Krishna Dyumani das
Bhuvaneshwari
A. Peciulyte
Mahesh Godi
Jasbir Singh
Nrtya Gopal Krsna Dasa
Amit Kumar Chauhan
Hiru Santumal Rijhwani
Santosh S. Suvarna
Jeanette Pullan
Dr. Manickam Rangasami
Dinesh Gupta
Paramraj Bhatt
Bhaskar Joshi
Dhanaraja Dharmalingam
T. Devi Butan
Hans Jagannatha Miorelli
Anonymous4
Grace Smith
Guna Rubule
Kayton Parekh
R.S.Chawla
Sitaram Gawali
Miss S Chander
Sobha Gadiraju
Bharat Vyas
Swati Tyagi
Dave Koen
Trivikram Das
Srinath Narasimha
M.S. Chotai
Shashi Bhushan
Venkatapathi R. Chekuri
Stanislovas Mickus
Sonjaay Maharaj
Christopher L Williams
Jimi Welin
Modestas Vaicekauskis
Sundeep Singh Chauhan
E. Radhakrishnana
Anonymous6
Poovesh R. Babu
Vibhakar Seewoogolam
Summi Agrawal
Aiyappa Ponnappa
Abhay Patil
Fakir and Rukhmini Marolia
Shyam Sunder Gupta
Sivarajah Manicavasagar
M.J.P. Mongane
Ieva Turulytė
Vishalache Balakrishnan
A. Pahalad
Hemal Shah
Sathya Venkata
Tapan Chowdhury
Julian Harding
Krishna Das
Yogesh Purohit
Rabindra Das Brahmacari
Jyoti Gambhi
Andrius Sinkevicius
Saulius Krizinauskas
Karthik Vadambacheri Manian
Lorraine A Groom
Ravindra Nath
Bhakta Abasaheb
J. K. Goolab
Divyapriya Muthukumaran
Manish Raikundalia
Suganthi Lakshminarayanan
Dhanyalakshmi Devi Dasi
Anand Maharaj
Jeffrey R Potts
R Srinivasan
Vidya Sagar
Murali Krishna Chinna
Vijay Patel
A. Naidoo
Prabhakar Marigowda
Jayanth Ramadoss
Shiva Kumar Raghaviah
Manu Karamchandani
Anand Dhandharia
S. Janardhan
Rupa-Santana Das Family
Wong Ming Yan
Sarala K.
Damodar Das
Jeedi Mura Krishna
Madhvacarya dasa adhikari
Indulis Makens
Chandrasekhar Parchuri
Answers by Citing the Vedic Version:
Question: How to Convince Skeptics of Prabhupada's Glories?
Many folks still don't know about Srila Prabhupada. They think he just went to the USA to make money and get residency there. They are not willing to believe his great service and achievements. They say he was just another "Dollar Swami." How to convince such ignorant offenders of Srila Prabhupada's glories?
Your worthless servant,
Many thanks,
Amar
The point is that just as a tree is judged by the fruit it produces, people will naturally judge Srila Prabhupada by the caliber of his disciples and grand disciples. So if you want to convince people that Srila Prabhupada is glorious, you must become glorious by fully surrendering unto Lord Sri Krishna. Then you will naturally be able to convince the entire world that Srila Prabhupada is glorious.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
Your worthless servant,
Many thanks,
Amar
Answer: You Become Glorious
Srila Prabhupada one time said, “You are always saying, ‘All glories to Srila Prabhupada,’ but why don’t you become glorious?"The point is that just as a tree is judged by the fruit it produces, people will naturally judge Srila Prabhupada by the caliber of his disciples and grand disciples. So if you want to convince people that Srila Prabhupada is glorious, you must become glorious by fully surrendering unto Lord Sri Krishna. Then you will naturally be able to convince the entire world that Srila Prabhupada is glorious.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
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