THE PRABHUPADA CONNECTION
Dedicated to His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Founder-Acarya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness
Dear Readers and Friends,
Hare Krishna.
Today we're celebrating our 16th anniversary. When we first started working on The Prabhupada Connection, the two main Vaisnava websites were Chakra and VNN. At the time, there wasn't too much Prabhupada content online. In fact, that's what prompted us to create this site although we had no knowledge of how to do so. Despite our lack of expertise and professionalism, we've somehow endured and reached countless people around the world with the teachings of Srila Prabhupada. The continued popularity of this humble website is a great source of personal joy and satisfaction which is all due to the inspiration of our beloved spiritual master, Srila Prabhupada. His divine message and example are a beacon of transcendental light in a world of ever increasing darkness. It is our firm conviction that without attaining the mercy of Srila Prabhupada there can be no true success in life, either individually or collectively. Therefore, let us all pray for Prabhupada's blessings so that we can achieve something meaningful and valuable in our short duration of life.
No publication can be successful without a loyal readership, so we're very grateful to each and every one of you for your interest in The Prabhupada Connection. We sincerely hope that you've benefited even a little from visiting this site. For some background information, please read our BTG interview from 2009:
Finally, we leave you with a pair of quotes from Srila Prabhupada which have been the driving force behind our insignificant efforts here at Prabhupada Connect:
"I am very encouraged by the reports of the tremendous success of your TV and radio programs. As much as possible try to increase our preaching programs by using all the mass media which are available. We are modern day Vaisnavas and we must preach vigorously using all the means available."
(Srila Prabhupada Letter, December 10, 1971)
"So go on with your organization for distribution of my books through press and other modern media and Krishna will certainly be pleased upon you. We can use everything—television, radio, movies, or whatever there may be—to tell about Krishna and outside of devotional service all these modern paraphernalia are just so much rubbish."
(Srila Prabhupada Letter, November 24, 1970)
Wishing you good health and happiness in Krishna Consciousness.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
Pd
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