ON MAY 5, 2012, ISKCON BRASIL PUBLISHED THIS STATEMENT CELEBRATING SRILA ACHARYADEVA’S 40TH SANNYASA ANNIVERSARY AND HIS INNUMEROUS ACHIEVEMENTS IN BRAZIL AND LATIN AMERICA.

Dear devotees,
Please accept our sincere obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

The Executive Committee (EC) of ISKCON Brazil offers congratulations to Hridayananda Das Goswami, on this Nrsimha Caturdasi, for completing 40 years of sannyasa. The importance of Hridayananda Das Goswami’s missionary devotional service to Brazil is immeasurable.

ISKCON’s first leader not only in Brazil but throughout Latin America, Hridayananda Das Goswami – following the instructions of his spiritual master, the founder-acarya of ISKCON, Srila Prabhupada – coordinated the construction of temples and guided and initiated thousands of Brazilian devotees. Not to mention his achievements in the translation of the sastras.

To Hridayananda Goswami, our eternal gratitude and sincere obeisances from the devotees of Brazil.

Your servants of the Executive Committee,
Dhavali Das (Chairman), Daruka Das, Mathura Natha Das, Sri Krishna Murti Das