Gold Euphoria in Indonesia

50 Golden Bricks to help manifest the Golden Avatara’s “Adbhuta Mandir”, the Temple of Vedic Planetarium in Sri Dham Mayapur, for the pleasure of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s Chief Maha Senapati His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada. And this is but the beginning!

The past three weeks have revealed how Krishna’s devotees when presented with a “golden” opportunity to help manifest the cherished dream of our Founder-Acarya Srila Prabhupada in the matter of building the unfolding Temple of the Vedic Planetarium in Mayapur have literally gone beyond the call of duty by pledging and contributing over 50 lakhs of rupees within 15 days. This was accomplished mainly in two places, one being Bali where the up-dated Video of the ToVP was first presented and the other on the island of Sumatra our Gita Nagari Baru  rural community.

One devotee from Bali became so inspired that he committed for 16 Golden Bricks on the spot and paid the full US $ 26,930 the next day. This inspired others to also come forward to make their pledges and payments. As we went from temple to temple in Bali, we also distributed the Rs. 1,000 ToVP Currency Notes.  Our first temple program in Klung Kung scored 18 notes, in Gianyar, 9, in Singaraja 28, in Radha Gopinath an astounding 124, in Radha Raseavara, 23, in Jagannath Gauranga, the last 20 notes we had. We exhausted all the ToVP Currency Notes we had.

Our first Golden Brick was distributed on May 28 to Muralidhara prabhu and the second day 16 by Guru Caran prabhu. By the time our small team left Bali we had distributed 24 Golden Bricks and distributed over 200 ToVP Currency Notes. The Golden Brick program became a buzz word instantly. Our main promoter, prabhu Kisora, was receiving Golden Brick commitments through SMS over his cell phone. One evening he had 17 messages from devotees interested to know more about both the Golden Brick scheme and the ToVP Currency Notes.

What we did not at all anticipate was the enthusiastic response from devotees waiting for us in the small community of Gita Nagari Baru, a varnasrama based-project started 14 years ago on the island of Sumatra. That small community now has grown to 35 families with a total devotee population of 140 members, 80 of whom are children and youth. Upon hearing of the major contributions from Bali, the devotees at GNB began to make their pledges towards the Mayapur temple. Within 3 days we had 25 committed devotees.

The total pledges and paid golden Bricks now exceed 50 and Kisora prabhu will continue the drive on his return from his Cambodia 2 month preaching tour.