Devakinandan Thakur on Srila Prabhupada’s 50th Samadhi Anniversary: “Wherever the Sun Is Rising, a Mangala Arati Is Taking Place”

In a message published by ISKCON, the well-known speaker offers his respects to Srila Prabhupada as the 50th anniversary of his samadhi approaches.

INDIA — Devakinandan Thakur, whom ISKCON’s global YouTube channel describes as a noted spiritual speaker, has offered his respects to Srila Prabhupada for the 50th anniversary of his samadhi in a Hindi video message of just under three minutes, published on 2 November 2026.^[1]

The message

He places Srila Prabhupada in the Gaudiya sampradaya and the line of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, whom he describes as a partial incarnation (ansha) of Sri Radha-Krishna, and says Prabhupada walked in Mahaprabhu’s footsteps in teaching surrender to Krishna, to Vrindavan, Radha-kunda and Govardhan.^[1]

“There is no corner of the earth where Prabhupada Ji did not begin the worship of Bhagavan Sri Radha-Krishna. Wherever the sun is rising, a mangala arati is taking place there in ISKCON. This is Prabhupada Ji’s gift.”

Devakinandan Thakur, video message, 2 November 2026 (translated from Hindi) ^[1]

“Those who did not even know Krishna’s name today have tilak on their foreheads, tulasi at their necks, beads in their hands and the name of Bhagavan Sri Krishna on their tongues. This is the achievement of our Prabhupada Ji.”

Devakinandan Thakur, video message, 2 November 2026 (translated from Hindi) ^[1]

He says such souls change something when they come, that arrangements change with time but their good works are never erased, and he closes by praying that more souls like Prabhupada come to the earth for the welfare of the people.^[1]

Srila Prabhupada left this world in Vrindavan on 14 November 1977, in the month of Kartik.

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Sources

1. ISKCON, “Message from Shri Devakinandan Thakur on Srila Prabhupada’s 50th Samadhi Anniversary”, YouTube, 2 November 2026. youtube.com/shorts/iTOkrE_mfFc