Hare Krishna Maharaja,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Maharaj, we really love you and we have a lot of appreciation for you. You are the only person among the godbrothers of Guru Maharaja who is genuinely helping the devotees of Manipur after Guru Maharaja’s departure from this material world. Even if we did commit many mistakes to you, please kindly forgive all of us considering that we are fools. We love to see you as many times as possible in Manipur. This time also during your India visit, we want to see you in Manipur and get the opportunity to serve you.

I have been closely monitoring the situation of Manipur since long time ago to invite you Maharaj and His Holiness Yadunandan Swami. It was quite normal till Janmastami festival. There was huge turn up from the public for the festival. Huge crowd was there. The festival was a grand success. We were expecting good number of visitors for Radhastami too which falls on 11 September. But the situation of Manipur has changed suddenly into worse. There were bombings by using drones and rocket bomb attacks, escalating the violence in Manipur further. Now also, strikes and agitations are going on in manywhere demanding government’s proper and swift action to control the situation immediately. From the last 3-4 days, public curfew has been imposed by one civil society organization. Schools, colleges and all educational institutes are closed. We have regular visitors of 250-300 congregation devotees for Sunday programs. But yesterday’s Sunday program was less than 100 congregations. The current situation impacted the devotees too.

Now is really a hard time in Manipur. In this current scenario, we are unable to decide whether it is good time to invite or not to invite you to Manipur along with HH Yadunandan Swami. Maharaj, please you decide. Temple is not much affected by the current situation even though the number of visitors is very less. We can have nice programs inside the temple campus. I had spoken to many professors of Manipur University to organize a seminar during your visit to Manipur. But the situation is not conducive for such programs now. Everyone is in tension in Manipur except the devotees.

Maharaj, preaching is growing in Manipur amidst the ongoing crisis, Namhatta program has started. Our target is, by the end of this year, to open at least 20 Namhatta centers. I am sending herewith some pictures from the Janmastami Festival.

Eagerly waiting for your reply Maharaj. Hare Krishna.

Your humble servant

Sadhubhusan Das

ISKCON Imphal, Manipur

HpS - So, very nice to hear from you. AgtSP. We love Manipur.

Sarad bhari Devi Dasi said that in her opinion and ofter consulting with devotees and Haridas Swami it was too dangerous to visit.

That was few months ago.

She said devotees would be coming to Radha-kunda to visit us.

"We're all going to die.

It's how you live that counts!", Conan the Barbarian 😆

With the above news, many devotees will come to visit us in Radha-kunda.

Yet, again, we all love Manipur.

We hope that Krsna-kirtan and keep it safe.

Maybe we could visit before we leave India from Delhi on the 9th of October?