ISKCON 50
ISKCON’S ACHIVEMENTS 50 YEARS
- 650 ISKCON centers and temples
- 516 million books and magazines published and distributed
- 110 pure vegetarian restaurants
- 10,000 home study groups like Bhakti Vriksha, Ashray and Group counselling programs
- 9 million people worship at ISKCON temple each year
- 1million initiated devotees across the world
- 30 billion meals of sanctified vegetarian food (prasadam)
- 65 Farm communities and eco villages
- 6000 Krishna festivals celebrated every year
- 2,12,992 patients treated in Bhakti Vedanta hospitals, medial camps, eye camps and hospice
- Padyatra teams have walked 260,000 kms worldwide visiting 52,000 towns and villages in 110 countries
ACHIEVEMENTS 0F SHRILA PRABHUPADA
- Between 1968. and 1977. He dictated total of 22,000 pages of text
- He translated and wrote purports to 18,000 verses of only Srimad Bhagavatam.
- Reading one verse with purport daily would take the reader 49.31 years to complete
- He translated and wrote the purports to the 700 verses of Bhagavad Gita
- Reading one verse with purport daily would take two years to complete
- He translated and wrote the purports to the 17 volumes of Caitanya Caritamrita – in total 2,170 pages or 11,555 verses!!
- Reading one verse with purport daily would take the reader 31.6 years to complete. Reading one page daily would take 5.9 years to complete
- He also wrote Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Nectar of Devotion, Teachings of Lord Kapiladeva, Sri Isopanishad…
- He created Back to Godhead magazine of which 1 million copies were being distributed
- He wrote 7000 letters to His disciples, which were published in 5 volumes of books
- Just the Srimad Bhagavatam lectures which he gave, are compiled in 11 volumes of books
- Bhagavad Gita lectures are compiled in 7 volumes of books
- His conversations have been compiled in 42 volumes of books
- He produced innumerable recordings
- He established 108 temples
- He published 147 books. Reading one book monthly would take 13 years
- If one started to read one book monthly now, in 2016, he would not finish till 2033
- He traveled around the world 14 times
- Beside this, he changed the lives of at least 5000 people who become his initiated disciples
- And all of this Shrila Prabhupada did in ONLY 9 years!!
