20250328 Prabhupāda Nivāsa Building Inaugural Address

mūkaṁ karoti vācālaṁ paṅguṁ laṅghayate girim
yat-kṛpā tam ahaṁ vande śrī-guruṁ dīna-tāraṇam
paramānanda-mādhavam śrī caitanya īśvaram
Harihi oṁ tat sat

Jayapatākā Swami: It is very nice to see this Śrīla Prabhupāda schooḷ. And the children seem to be responding very nicely! So I thank Balarāma Govinda for having this school. We want the children to have basic economics and we want to also see that the children develop their relationship with Kṛṣṇa! Yesterday I went to the place where Āṇḍāl had grown up, and she was very attached to Lord Kṛṣṇa! Few years ago I had gone with the Safari to Śrīraṅgam temple and we went to see the Jīyar of that place. We were chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Rāma. And the Jīyar said, you are representatives of Āṇḍāl Devī! Here we see that the students are arranging kīrtana-melā. That is very nice! We are in the next two days having Guru-ājñā program. We would also like to see one program of kīrtana by the students. So in addition to the basic academics we would also like to see that the children love Kṛṣṇa! I was seeing that the school has added its student number. I thank all the teachers for the activities. We hope that this school becomes a sign of inspiration for other schools! So we hope that the students while they do get academics, they also get spirituality. And I hope that character would also be developed.

Śrīla Prabhupāda kī jaya!

Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/
Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare

śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya prabhu-nityānanda
śrī-advaita gadādhara śrīvāsādi-gaura-bhakta-vṛnda

Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/
Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare

I am very happy that this house has been dedicated to Śrīla Prabhupāda! Śrīla Prabhupāda Nivāsa. This school is helping to keep Śrīla Prabhupāda śikṣā alive. We can see how everything here is dedicated to Śrīla Prabhupāda. Śrīla Prabhupāda gave the Bhagavad-gītā, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Caitanya-caritāmṛta to the world. So we want our lives to be dedicated to serve Lord Kṛṣṇa. Normally it would be very hard, but by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s mercy it is very easy. Please see that people remember Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Lord Kṛṣṇa all the time! So thank you very much for being at this very auspicious moment. Chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra and Pañca-tattva mantra is very auspicious. This human life is very important because in this human life we can awaken our dormant love for Kṛṣṇa. We wish you all the success in your human life! Hare Kṛṣṇa!