-- S rila P rabhupada on M ayapur --
25/10/74 MÄYÄPUR – LETTER from BRAHMÄNANDA SWAMI to RAMEÇVARA DÄSA Here at Çrédhäma Mäyäpur, Çréla Prabhupäda gave further impetus to the main temple project. It will be a 30 story skyscraper temple based on the following verse of Brah- ma-samhita: goloka-nämni nija-dhämni tale ca tasya / devi maheça-hari-dhämasu teñu teñu te te prabhäva-nicayä vihitäç ca yena / govindam ädi-puruñaà tam ahaà bhajämi [Bs. 5.43] There will be the main temple that will extend upwards the full 30 stories, as well as different levels depicted in doll tableaus, first the material world, devi dhama; then mahesa dhama, then vaikuntha dhama, and finally goloka vrindaban. Already a com- petent engineering firm in Calcutta, which is the only firm in India to use an IBM com- puter in its calculations, has been contacted for making the foundation. “It will not be difficult”, assured Çréla Prabhupäda. He further revealed, “I have named this temple Çré Mäyäpur Candrodaya Mandir, the Rising Moon of Mäyäpur. Now make it rise, bigger and bigger until it becomes the full moon. And this moonshine will be spread all over the world. All over India they will come to see. From all over the world they will come...Kåñëa will supply the money. Don’t bother. The money will come either locally or from USA.” When informed that the government here will pay 2/3 of the cost for road and bridge development if 1/3 is put up locally, Prabhupäda said we should immediately inform them that he will put up 1 crore ($1 million), and they can give 2 crores to develop the entire Mäyäpur area. He wants roads parks, gardens, like the descriptions of Dvärakä in the Kåñëa Book. Prabhupäda personally surveyed the sites for a large lake as well as the second residential build- ing. He called for a wall with a large front gate to be built. Work on a spacious kitchen complex near the Bhaktisiddhanta Road is progress- ing, but Prabhupäda ordered that a second story should be added so that women and householders can live there and that the kitchen operation in the present residential building be moved there so that additional guest rooms can be added in the present kitchen and women’s quarters. A $25,000.00 Prasädam Distribution Pavilion attached to the new kitchen complex will also be built. Gargamuni Swami has pledged half the cost, and Haàsadüta Prabhu has sent $4,000.00 from Germany and promises more. 1,000 people will be able to be served prasäda at one sitting.
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