One of Srila Prabhupada's most cherished desires was to establish the New Vrindaban Community in America. He spoke at great length about building a replica of Vrindaban India, where there are seven main temples. Devotees in New Vrindaban built Prabhupada's Palace as the first of the seven temples here. It immediately became the most famous Hare Krsna temple in North America. The Palace attracts millions of visitors and is an incredible place of pilgrimage in North America. Its transcental beauty, built of love and devotion of his disciples, delivers special mercy to all that come into contact with Srila Prabhupada.

Somewhat forgotten, obscured perhaps by the arrangement of the Lord and His inconceivable loving dealings with His devotees, was the fact that the most sacred flowers that adorned Prabhupada when he left this mortal world, were placed under the altar at the Palace before it opened in 1979, establishing the Palace as Srila Prabhupada's divine samadhi.

When this fact was revealed to the devotees, Srila Prabhupada's eternal words spoken in 1976, while visiting the Palace, were remembered, "I'm already living here and always will be."

In India, especially Vrindaban, where Krishna displayed his eternal pastimes of love, the great saints are not cremated but placed in their samadhis. These most blessed of places are full of special potency because the great souls reside there in their spiritual forms, increasing the mercy for pilgrims who visit and receive their blessings.

In India, Srila Prabhupada's main samadhi is in Vrindaban, and the second most spiritually-charged samadhi is in Mayapur. In the Western world, the Palace of Gold is his special samadhi mandir attracting millions of followers to receive his full blessings of love of Krishna.

Located in a sacred area of the samadhi is the Prabhupada Smaranam, a testimonial book of miracles. It contains true stories from people of all religious backgrounds and all walks of life who have experienced unusual and enlightening insights, even miracles in their lives, after visiting Srila Prabhupada's Samadhi.