D ear Devotees,
Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
We pray this letter meets you in good health during these challenging times. In the purport to Srimad Bhagavatam 5.19.24, Srila Prabhupada states:
“The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement has established its center in Māyāpur, the birthsite of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, to give men the great opportunity to go there and perform a constant festival of saṅkīrtana-yajña”
Many of you will be aware that due to the current COVID 19 pandemic, the Indian government has declared a 21 day lockdown of the whole country. In compliance with the government restrictions, ISKCON Mayapur has also restricted the entry of visitors and devotees including the residential devotees of Mayapur, except for those engaged in the essential services of the temple.
As a direct result of these measures, all the Guest houses, Kitchens, Restaurants, Mahaprasadam stalls, Local shops and all the other sources of income for the maintenance of Temple operations have been shut down. Under these circumstances, it has become a great challenge for the Mayapur management to run the temple services due to insufficient funds.
At present, this lockdown is declared for the next 21 days, however there may be a high chance that the government may even increase the period of lockdown causing us even further difficulty. Even if the lockdown ceases be the end of the 21 days, it would still take us months to get back to the normal conditions in order to generate sufficient revenue to support the minimum necessary temple services.
Mayapur has various expenses such as the Deity services, Brahmachari prasadam, Goshala maintenance and maintenance for the community devotees serving in various departments throughout the year to facilitate and serve the devotees visiting Sri Mayapur dham.
Also many devotees from around the world are stranded in Mayapur, after their visit for the annual Gaura Purnima festival. So the guest house rooms are been provided at nominal charges to facilitate these stranded devotees to stay and have prasadam till they are able to return to their countries after the end of this lockdown.
In this time of crisis here at ISKCON Mayapur, we humbly appeal to all the members of the global ISKCON family to help us with your kind donations in order to maintain the daily services here.
Please find the annexures of services to donate and how to donate attached below.
For more information, please contact:
H.H. Bhakti Purushottama Swami – bps@pamho.net
Central co-ordination office – Ramanipati Das – +91 9434486758; E-mail – covidrelief@iskconmayapur.com and mayapurcovidrelief@gmail.com
General Manager – Jagatguru Jaydev Das – jagatgurudas.jps@gmail.com; Contact : +91 9434067068
Services to Donate
Summary of Minimum Expenses to be incurred for maintaining Sridham Mayapur Chandrodaya Temple and its campus.
| Description | Amount |
| Deity Department | |
| per day | 67,000 |
| for 1 month | 20,11,000 |
| for 3 months | 60,33,000 |
| Brahmachari Department (400 Brahmacharis) | |
| per day | 50,000 |
| for 1 month | 15,00,000 |
| for 3 months | 45,00,000 |
| Goshala Department (365 cows) | |
| per day | 40,000 |
| for 1 month | 12,00,000 |
| for 3 months | 36,00,000 |
| Prasad distribution to community sevaks (6000 devotees) | |
| per day | 1,00,000 |
| for 1 month | 30,00,000 |
| for 3 months | 85,00,000 |
| Hospital & Medical Consumables | |
| per day | 20,000 |
| for 1 month | 6,00,000 |
| for 3 months | 18,00,000 |
| Devotee widow maintenance | |
| per day | 1,000 |
| for 1 month | 30,000 |
| for 3 months | 90,000 |
| Srila Prabhupada Pushpa Samadhi | |
| per day | 20,000 |
| for 1 month | 5,50,000 |
| for 3 months | 16,50,000 |
| Rajapur Jagannath Temple | |
| per day | 12,000 |
| for 1 month | 3,55,000 |
| for 3 months | 10,65,000 |
Detailed breakdown of the above expenses can be provided upon request.
Minimum expenses (excluding various expenses such as campus security expense, maintenance for community devotees serving in various depts. and other miscellaneous expenses for daily wage labourers) is 3.1 lacs/ day, adding up to 92.46 lacs/month.
Hare Krsna.
Your servants,
ISKCON Mayapur.
How to Donate
Online Payment:
https://www.mayapur.com/serve-mayapur/covid-19-emergency-campaign-fund/
Payment through Bank Transfer:
For Indian Nationality or transfer from within India, kindly transfer to the below account details.
Account Name: “International Society For Krishna Consciousness”
Bank Name: Kotak Bank
Account No: 8512103714
RTGS / IFSC Code: KKBK0006570
Branch: H. B. Sarani, Kolkata.
Bank address: 21, Centre Point Building, Hemanta Basu Sarani, Kolkata: 700001
For Foreign Nationality donor, kindly transfer to the below account details.
Account Name: “International Society For Krishna Consciousness – FCRA”
Bank Name: Kotak Bank
Account No: 8512103738
Swift Code: KKBKINBBCPC
Branch: H. B. Sarani, Kolkata.
Bank address: 21, Centre Point Building, Hemanta Basu Sarani, Kolkata: 700001
After remittance, please email to: mayapurtreasury@gmail.com and covidrelief@iskconmayapur.com and mayapurcovidrelief@gmail.com with the with the following details to track the remittance:
- Name of Donor
- Full postal address with pin code
- Country name (for foreign remittances)
- Date of remittance
- Amount remitted
- Purpose
- PAN number mandatory for 80G donations and donation above Rs.50,000/-
- Swift copy of remittance (for remittance from country other than India, sometimes the amount does not show in our bank account, in such case swift copy of remittance helps bank to trace the amount. If the funds show up in bank account then this is not required)
Thank you.
Phone contact:
Central co-ordination office – Ramanipati Das – +91 9434486758; E-mail – covidrelief@iskconmayapur.com and mayapurcovidrelief@gmail.com
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