The Lord replied, "You should engage yourself in the service of the servants of Krsna and always chant the holy name of Krsna. If you do these two things, you will very soon attain shelter at Krsna's lotus feet." CC Madhya 16.70 July 4, 2012 Dear Vaisnavas and Vaisnavis, Please accept my humble and grateful obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! We express our appreciation for the sacrifices each of you has made to help Sarvabhavana Prabhu have a home in Armenia. Now he and his family can peacefully engage in devotional service and preaching there. We also thank those of you who contributed to getting him dentures because of the harm done to his teeth while in Soviet jails and labor camps. Although a donation for Sarvab- havana’s back treatment is not included in the financial report here, we would also like to thank that donor who allowed Sarvabhavana to function after the many years of pain and disability due to the beatings he endured while in prison. On the next pages you will find a letter to all of you from Sarvabhavana, a picture of his family in the new house, pictures of the building on the property they hope to use for a temple and preaching project, copies of the legal documents for the house, and a full financial accounting. Our original plan was to have the Garuda Foundation be the legal owner of the house. However, after many weeks of research, consultation with lawyers, and considering of various options, we discovered that there was no reasonable way around the Armenian laws which prevent foreigners from own- ing land there. Therefore, the house is in Sarvabhavana Prabhu’s name and he is drafting a will which provides that after his passing from this world, provided his children are grown, the house will be sold and the money given to the Garuda Foundation to be used to care for other devotees. Your servants, Bhaktivijnana Swami Niranjana Swami Radhanath Swami Kavicandra Swami Malati Devi Dasi Acutya Priya Dasa Urmila Devi Dasi Padma, Inc http://www.illuminationeducation.com/
This document is posted to help you gain knowledge. Please leave a comment to let me know what you think about it! Share it to your friends and learn new things together.
Transcript
The Lord replied, "You should engage yourself in the service of the servants of Krsna and always chant the
holy name of Krsna. If you do these two things, you will very soon attain shelter at Krsna's lotus feet." CC
Madhya 16.70
July 4, 2012
Dear Vaisnavas and Vaisnavis,
Please accept my humble and grateful obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
We express our appreciation for the sacrifices each of you has made to help Sarvabhavana Prabhu
have a home in Armenia. Now he and his family can peacefully engage in devotional service and
preaching there. We also thank those of you who contributed to getting him dentures because of
the harm done to his teeth while in Soviet jails and labor camps. Although a donation for Sarvab-
havana’s back treatment is not included in the financial report here, we would also like to thank
that donor who allowed Sarvabhavana to function after the many years of pain and disability due
to the beatings he endured while in prison.
On the next pages you will find a letter to all of you from Sarvabhavana, a picture of his family in
the new house, pictures of the building on the property they hope to use for a temple and preaching
project, copies of the legal documents for the house, and a full financial accounting. Our original
plan was to have the Garuda Foundation be the legal owner of the house. However, after many
weeks of research, consultation with lawyers, and considering of various options, we discovered
that there was no reasonable way around the Armenian laws which prevent foreigners from own-
ing land there. Therefore, the house is in Sarvabhavana Prabhu’s name and he is drafting a will
which provides that after his passing from this world, provided his children are grown, the house
will be sold and the money given to the Garuda Foundation to be used to care for other devotees.
Unedited letter from Sarvabhavana dasa to all the donors: June 22, 2012 Dear Devotees, Maharajas and Prabhus, MataJis and well wishers all over the world, please ac-cept my(our) most humble obeisance’s, all glories to Srila Prabhupada, Guru and Gauranga. Hope you are all doing well by Lord Krishna’s mercy and blessings. First of all I would like to thank you all deep from my heart for your kind, help, support and con-cern for me and my family. It was a great pleasure to hear from Mother Urmila, one of the main pillar in our movement, who has organized a fund raising for the house, that within a short period of time sufficient amount of Laxmi was collected and now by all of your mercy, already we have got a house near Yerevan city, Armenia, for the pleasure of our beloved Sri Sri Radha Shyamasundara and Srila Prabhu-pada. This is of course a big event for us, for me and my family and today, with a great pleasure I would like to share with you our happiness and thank all of you for participating and pledging for this project. For me it doesn’t matter how much you have donated, what matters to me is most, that everyone of you have shown your respect care and gratitude for me. This is very touching event, big change in our personal live and which means that I have to serve more and more, do much more and be more humble in front of all of you. Today by all your mercy, we are situated in a house with better facilities which means a lot to us after so many years, and this means we will be able to serve better to our beloved Sri Sri Radha Shyamasundara and Srila Prabhupada. It is very hard for me to find words of appreciation to de-scribe our happiness and gratitude to you all. We all thanking you deeply from our heart and hum-bly requesting you to please bless us so that we can go on with our dedication and little service to Srila Prabhupada and RadheSyam... Mother Urmila who has gone far behind her capacity and sacrificed a lot of her valuable time for this project, has told me that such project was a first time in a ISKCON history and I am happy that I was the first for whom started such event. I really hope that this kinds of projects can be continued in the future as well and so that we can go on by helping devotees in need, care for each other and by supporting them in some way or other give them a second chance to go on with their service to Srila Prabhupada and His glorious movement. To be honest with you I was thinking that if ISKCON itself from its on budget would support me, its would have been more appropriate and did not want to bother any members in our movement, but my letter of request was not even responded. I did not want to bother any devotee for this, since I know very well that there are many many devotees who also having lots of difficulties like me now days and approaching them wouldn’t been appropriate, but after reading Urmila MataJis letter I understood that it is even more sweet when devotees are waling to help, not an organiza-tion. I personally bow down in front of each and every one of you and touching your lotus feet and tell-ing THANK YOU VERY MUCH AND HARE KRISHNA for whatever you have done for me and my family and bagging Lord Krishna to give me some opportunity to do at least something for you as well in the near future. Unfortunately I don’t know names of any donor so that I can write you individually.
Any ways, THANKS A MILLION to all of you my dear, friends and well wishers. May Lord Krishna showers His causeless mercy upon you constantly, and may you never see the troubles we have gone through, NEVER. I can never possibly forget this your kind support and at the end would like to share with you all a little story. The other day some miracle happened and I could not believe my ears and my hairs stood on my body when I heard this story. On the day when I was suppose to give the owner of the house our down payment and get the agreement approved by the notary public office and guarantee that he will allow us to move in by next day evening, we ware seething on the bench and talking. While talking somehow or other conversation went regarding the underground small room which was little wet when I went to see the house first time. There was a water pipe leaking but it was fixed. Ten I have told them that when I was having some doubts about it, I went to their neighbor’s house alone and told them that soon I will be their new neighbor and have some questions regarding the house I want to buy. So he was very kind person and offer me a seat and I have clarified what I wanted to. Then I have seen stairs going down from one of the room which is located right next wall from us. So I asked if there is any humidity in the downstairs and he replied that there is absolutely dry and no humid. So the owner started to smile and asked me if I knew what was in downstairs and if they took me there, I told him no I don’t know. Then wile smiling he has told me that this place is a holy place and before like thousands of years back there was a little temple which was called (The Black Boys Temple) and many people going there and offering candles etc... so they have build a house right in that Holy place and we will be their next door neighbors. I was astonished, who is that Black Boy? He is The Supreme Personality of Godhead Lord Sri Krishna. Tears almost went down from my eyes and hairs stood up on my body. So very very interesting and the separate building in the garden which is connected to that neighbors wall I was planning to make into a family temple room the very first moment I saw that building. They have told me that sometimes that invisible Black Boy is coming and knocking to their doors in the middle of the night and as soon as they open it, He disappears, and interesting any day He knocks to their door, something good will happen to one of their family members. So they were laughing and telling me that if sometimes on the middle of the night if He knocks the door, please don’t be afraid that’s our Black Boy and he stays there all the time. Also interesting the very same day when the corner stone was laid for the Moscow temple, we have sign our first contract and given to the owner a down payment for the house and on 10th we have moved there and soon in that house we will start worshiping our beloved and most beautiful Sri Sri Radha Shyamasundara’s marble Deities which are the first Radha Krishna Form in the all territory of Armenia. This was our long time dream and by all your mercy and blessings sounds like very soon my dream will come true. And as soon as I finish the renovation of that building from inside, I will start my service to them. Previously there was a workshop and he was making doors and windows and it needs a flooring, ceiling and walls to be fixed. I will update with the news when we start it. Hare Krishna With great respects, appreciation and gratitude Your humble servants, Sarvabhavana das and family
Sarvabhavana dasa and family
in their new house.
This building that Sarvabhavana
dasa and his family hope to use as
a temple is on the same property
as the house.
Legal papers for the purchase of the house.
Total collected by Padma Inc for Sarvabhavana's house $53,896.25
anonymous donation sent through ISKCON Rus-sia 10,000.00
bank fee -45.00
currency exchange loss -2,851.25
donations sent directly to Sarvabhavana 1,400.00
total sent to Sarvabhavana for house $62,400.00
paid to house owner -60,000.00
paid to broker -700.00
new water tank and pump -400.00
legal documents -500.00
moving costs & paying last rent -500.00
used refrigerator, beds, etc -300.00
remaining 0.00
The following table shows the total donations and the amounts spent to buy Sarvabhavan’s
house. On the next three pages you can find a table of all the donors and amounts given. The
total of individual donations is $1800 more than the total given on this page for the house be-
cause, before raising money for the house, we collected that amount for Sarvabhavana to get
dentures, and all donations were recorded on the same spreadsheet. He needed dentures be-
cause many of his teeth had been knocked out by the KGB, and he lost other teeth due to poor
nutrition in Soviet prisons.
All amounts are in US dollars—the actual dollar amount that Paypal or the bank converted
the foreign money into when foreign money was given
Name Gross Fee Net
Amratlal Divani 46.93 0 46.93
sanjay kamani 108 0 108
Chandra 50 0 50
hansa hladini lavji-patel 168.07 0 168.07
sanjay kamani -108 0 -108
Andrew Hunter 200 0 200
Vikram Kaku 101 0 101
Zoltan Toth 250 0 250
Gadhamsetty Naren-dra 108 0 108
Ramesh Dave 605 -19.66 585.34
NENO DAJAK 499 0 499
james cox 50 0 50
sanjay kamani 108 0 108
Rahul Ambardar 97 0 97
Guia Hardware.NET 50 -1.9 48.1
Jagatpati Jonnal-agedda 108 0 108
Razvan Bogdan 38.41 0 38.41
CSA Marketing Con-cepts 100 0 100
Ines Duia¡in 12.77 0 12.77
Suhrud Deshpande 52.55 0 52.55
Harold M Newland 105.6 0 105.6
Chetan Chheda 102.84 0 102.84
Bharati Mehta 306.22 0 306.22
David Raabe 24.28 0 24.28
Imre Toth 900 -35.4 864.6
Rikin Patel 48.08 0 48.08
Jenny Yue 451 0 451
Michael Blumert 75 0 75
LALIT AGARWAL 51 0 51
Eshri Bharrat 108 0 108
aravinda subrama-nian 386 0 386
Milind Joshi 106.42 0 106.42
DAVID EDWARDS 38.6 0 38.6
Sunil Vaswani 5 -0.46 4.54
Skype Communica-tions Sarl -25 0 -25
avinash beeravolu 300 0 300
Hrishikesh Shinde 108 0 108
Latha Nrugham 525 0 525
Chandra 100 0 100
Chandrika Punitha-rajasingam 466.39 0 466.39
Avinish Sindhwani 19.73 0 19.73
Included in these donations is $1800 we raised to get Sarvabhavana dentures before collecting for his house.