Dear Friends,

We are thankful to RadhaKrishna Bhagwan, our friends and Midland community to give us this opportunity to create this facility, which has helped and will continue to help in bringing out their good sanskaras. According to Swami Jyotirmayanand ji, every thing is happening according to DIVINE PLAN.

We moved to Midland in 1978 and shortly after three more families with similar thinking also moved (Leena and Nick Shroff, Urmila and Prem Gupta and Mamta and Anil Kumar) and we started having weekly Satsang mainly with Ramayan. Slowly more and more people started joining our group and we started rotating in different houses. Around 1980, we created HAWT and invited first time Swami Purushottamanand ji from Chinmaya Group, who initiated us for study group. More and more people started joining and we felt the need to have a permanent place. Luckily one of my patients was a realtor and he found this place. After some remodeling, this place became suitable for our routine Satsang. We brought the Moorties from Jaipur and started having Pooja and Satsang weekly. We did not have any priest for several years, but Neela Auntie performed the daily rituals and Pooja.

Again, more and more people started moving to West Texas and our Bal Vikas program (because of Sarda Satyavada) became quite popular. We started feeling the need to expand to accommodate these children of different ages. After numerous meeting and discussion, Krishna told everybody is building big houses, why we can not have a big house for our Lord. This suggestion clicked and gained the momentum and slowly we started collecting the funds by introducing the concept of trustee with the help of our dear friends, Shroff, Tolia and Jariwala. I was given this project and with some difficulties we were able to finish. There were numerous problems, but somehow, He showed the right direction and all the problems slowly resolved. I am listing few of them:

-Several people wanted to move the temple to Odessa and with great difficulties we could convince that it will be easier to watch and take care of the building at the current location.

-Several builders refused to take this project because it was a Hindu Temple.

-Difficulties in finding beautiful Moorties and how to accommodate all different Moorties in one Hall. In Jaipur we found this Prabhat Moorti Bhandar and wonderful people and Shilpies. Within 24 hours they designed the whole temple and place for each deity. They needed 6 months’ time to create these marble pieces. Krishna went to Jaipur twice to see the Moorties. After 6 months, when I called them, they send the picture of multiple marble pieces stored in a huge place. I got scarred, who is going to assemble them in Midaland? I told them Shilpies must come to do this job, without any compensation. They agreed. They never travelled outside India before. They got the passport and when they (three) went for visa, only Two got and the third one, who was the main person did not get. We advised him to reapply, and we approached our congressman with the help of Jairam Naidu and Tulsi Singh, and finally he got it. Three people came for three months, and they stayed with us initially and later with Leena and Nick Shroff.

Several difficulties came during construction and assembling the marble pieces, but somehow with God grace everything resolved.

Nevertheless, we got the newly constructed Radha Krishna Temple which was inaugurated (Pran Pratishtha) on July 7, 2007.

The experience of building this temple, reaffirm the knowledge, we got from listening to Scriptures and Gita by several visiting Swami ji.

• YOU ARE NOT THE DOER, BUT NIMIT MATRA
• HE CHOOSES WHO IS FIT TO DO THIS SEVA
• WHO IS LUCKY ENOUGH TO EXPERIENCE THE JOY OF NISHKSAM KARMA?
• HE TESTS YOUR SANKALP SHAKTI BY CREATING SOME PROBLEMS AND HE ALSO SHOWS THE DIRECTION TO RESOLVE THE PROBLEM

Dear Friends,

This was the most Joyous time of our life, and we felt the DIVINE GRACE all the time during construction.

Thank You

Krishna and Bal Khandelwal