Message from the Temple President

Dear Devotees and Friends from around the world,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

When Srila Prabhupada took Vrindavana to the world and brought the world to Vrindavana, he described the Krishna Balarama Mandir as the "home" and "beating heart" of ISKCON.

I wish to acknowledge my gratitude to my predecessor Temple Presidents, and to all the devotees who served with them, for the wonderful services they have rendered and for the sacrifices they have made to try to make the Krishna Balarama Mandir what Srila Prabhupada wanted it to be. I am simply trying to following in their footsteps.

Our vision for the future rests on the following priorities:

• To upgrade the spiritual atmosphere and standards by increasing the quality of devotee sadhana, temple programmes, festivals and devotee relationships, and to institute and strengthen facilities for training and educating devotees.
• To create effective managerial systems that ensure trusted and capable devotees are happily engaged according to their natural propensities in an exemplary mood of service appropriate to Vrindavana.
• To facilitate the needs of visiting devotees and guests so that they feel "at home" and leave here spiritually surcharged.
• To establish a self-sustaining financial base that produces a steady and adequate income.
• To "tie up" loose ends by resolving all land and legal issues and by ensuring a corruption-free atmosphere.
• To undertake new projects for the development of existing land and for the acquisition of new land.

I humbly pray to our beloved Deities, to Srila Prabhupada, and to all of the vaisnavas for blessings and support to help us achieve these goals.

Your servant,
Devamrita das (Temple president)