Dear ISV Devotees,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
We are pleased to announce that for the pleasure of Srila Prabhupada and Their Lordships Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Sri Sri Radha-Madanamohana and Sri Sri Laksmi-Nrsimhadeva, ISKCON of Silicon Valley has now become the title owner of 1965 Latham Street, Mountain View. HARIBOL!
We now enter a new phase in the history of the ISV Sankirtan program, and I am sure the entire ISV community is excited by this news.
There are many new challenges that lie ahead. For one thing, we will now embark on a large project of repairs and renovation including building an adequate kitchen, installing new bathrooms in another location, repairing part of the roof and replacing another part, soundproofing the temple room as far as possible, building the altar (possibly with new altarpieces), installing a large vyasasana for a full sized murti of Srila Prabhupada, and much more. It will take an estimated four months or possibly more before we will be ready to welcome Srila Prabhupada and Their Lordships into their new home.
Another challenge will be to maintain good relations with the neighbors in the new location after we move in, which means being very conscious of how loud we are being and the parking situation and maintaining a generally nice and neat appearance of the facilities at all times. We plan to do some landscaping and make a nicely tended garden in front of the building.
Also, in keeping with our mood of "Ananda Vardhana", expanding the bliss, we hope to welcome and integrate many new members of the congregation in our new and expanded home base facility, and we will be counting on our existing core members to meet this new challenge of mentoring and training new people. All of us will have to try to dig deep and "step up our games" to continue improving our own standards and setting good examples for others.
Thank all of you for having brought us this far in our collective mission. We look forward to continuing to sweeter and better things, in spite of the challenges that come from this new phase and the growth that lies ahead. We will be growing together in maturity and responsibility as we grow in size of facilities and membership.
The temple for the first time has now taken on a large debt in the form of a $575,800, 15-year mortgage, and while the monthly payments will be slightly less than our current rent at 951 S. Bascom Avenue, we will have additional expenses of insurance, separate living facilities for our pujaris, substantially higher utilities payments, probably some property tax, the cost of carefully and nicely maintaining a first-class facility, and the additional cost of anticipated larger thrice-weekly programs and festivals. We are grateful to Sri Sri Radha-Madanamohana for bestowing upon us this opportunity to increase our service, increase the size of our congregation, increase the quality of our hearing and chanting, and "increase the bliss!"
Your servants,
Jagarini dd and Akruranatha dasa
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