I’m also attaching here a letter from Srila Prabhupada, thanking the Australian devotees for their service & daksine.
This was written in Melbourne during Prabhupada’s last visit to Australia in 1976. Srila Prabhupada used to come after the Mayapur/Vrndavan festival each year and then continue on to USA, however due to his failing health in 1977 he did not visit that year.
Here is a short video of Srila Prabhupada’s personal quarters, although the film is not of the best quality.
I had the mercy of renovating and decorating Prabhupada’s rooms in preparation for his visit to open the new Melbourne Temple in May 1975. Sri Sri Radha Vallabha and Lord Jagannath, Baladev & Subhadra had been previously installed in a rented house in St Kilda, an adjoining suburb in 1973, and along with the opening of the new Temple, Srila Prabhupada also performed the installation yajna for the magnificent Sri Sri Gaura Nitai, Who had just arrived from India. This visit was just after Srila Prabhupada had opened the new Krsna Balaram Mandir in Vrndavan on Ram Navami 1975.
Photos of the beautiful Deities can be viewed at
https://www.flickr.com/photos/harekrishnamelbourne/page1
(by Balaram das)
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