Offerings of Love

Hare Krishna,

Dear Srila Prabhupad

Please accept my humble obeisances.

I am such a fallen soul. I am unworthy to glorify you. But still I am glorifying you for my purification. Without you Prabhupad I don’t know where we would have been in this world of misery which is dukhalayam.

In your old age you travelled to Western countries to spread this divine Krishna consciousness. Your spiritual masters word were your life and soul..

We are very grateful to you because you have brought us under one shelter and one family.

I surrender unto your lotus feet to show your causeless mercy on me to give Krishna to others and be an instrument in your movement

Hare Krishna

Dandavat pranams

Yours servant of the servant of the servant.
Banumathi Yashoda Devi dasi

Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda ,

Hare Kṛṣṇa,

Please accept my respectful obeisances. All Glories to Gaurāṅga, Lord Narasimha dev, Rādhā Madhav Ashta Sakhis, All glories unto your most merciful smile. All glories to vaiṣṇavas!

First of all, I am not at all qualified to write any offerings, but I am doing for my own purification. Please forgive your illiterate grandson as an childish attempt.

Here I am quoting your dearest disciple His Holiness HH Jayapataka Swami Maharaj ‘s prayer’s for you.

(yadi) prabhupada na haita tabe ki haita

(e) jivana bahita kise?

If Srila Prabhupada had not come, what would have happened? How could we have passed our lives?

Without you Disastrous Deterioration and burning in blazing fire of material existence.

Contributions

Your Books -> For the Hopeless, to have some Hope.

Your Lectures-> Nectar that convert the snake holes to path of Transcendence.

Your Life -> Itself a treatise of an ācārya, living by example.

Your ISKCON -> Real United Nations, The one and only platform for a civilized society.

Your Disciples -> The Inspiration to carry your mood.

Humble attempt

Every day me and my wife trying to tune our mind to your transcendental lectures to shape our life from insanity.

Being very insignificant, We are trying to conduct Bhakti viruksha and serve members to take shelter of your lotus feet.

Realizations

Step by step we are trying to understand how deep you are in sastric study and how nicely you have given us in a very simple manner.

It’s always new when we hear, so surprising and its so Fresh.

Your dear disciple His Holiness Jayapatākā Swami Mahārāja is carrying your mood perfectly to serve for your satisfaction irrespective of his external bodily comforts all by your mercy. So much grateful for that, please continue your blessings for him to fulfill your instructions.

Praying

We are very helpless to progress in Kṛṣṇa consciousness so please shower your blessings upon us to cross all over anarthas especially offenses against vaiṣṇavas.

Please bless our family of Bhakti Viruksha to go beyond obstacles in serving your lotus feet.

Please bless us that one day we will be able to try and succeed in pleasing you, your disciple His Holiness Jayapatākā Swami Mahārāja and Guru Paramparā.

This time I felt I will submit offerings along with my Bhakti Viruksha members. I request you to kindly accept them.

Your insignificant servants

Karuṇāpati Keśava das
Kavirupa Kesavi devī dāsī
Rādhā Sakhi
Viswa

Namah om vishnupadaya krishna prestaya bhutale
srimate bhaktivedanta swamin iti namine
namaste saraswate deve gauravani pracharine
nirvishesha shunyavadi paschatya desha tarine

om ajnaana timirandhasya jnananjana shalakaya
chakshur unmilittam yena tasmay sri guruave namaha

mukam karoti vachalam panghum langayate girim
yat kripa tamaham vande sri gurum deena taranam
sri chaitanya ishvaram
paramananda madhavam

Dear Srila Prabhupad,

On this occasion of Your 124th Vyas Puja i offer my humble obeisances at the dust of Your lotus
feet.

You are the saviour of the souls in this kaliyuga. You descended from the spiritual world and took
upon Yourself several difficulties, simply out of Your compassion for the conditioned souls.
I was living in oblivion, unaware, without a purpose, simply wasting this life. By Your mercy you
are showing, how I was not even aware of these dangers and sufferings. You emphasize repeatedly
the importance of human birth and that it should be used for the highest purpose it is meant for –
god realization. Please bless that i may remind myself of this again and again, and make sure atleast
the remaining period is spent purposefully.

Your compassion for conditioned souls flows through your books. Your Bhaktivedanta purports are
the torch light of transcendental knowledge. It is predicted that these purports will be the guiding
light for humanity for the next ten thousand years. Anybody who comes in touch with your books
stand transformed forever. There is no question of not being touched by your mercy! You worked
very hard to make sure the future of humanity is secure. And You have given a complete ecosystem
for any fallen soul to get this opportunity to serve Lord Chaitanya. Just as a touch stone turns
everything into gold, the life of anyone who comes in contact with You through Your books, Your
warriors stands transformed.

We hear about Your glorious qualitites from your beloved disciples. We see how their lives revolve
around Your pleasure. It makes me wonder how charismatic Your Divine Grace must have been that
You captured hearts of Your beloved sons, daughters and anyone who came in touch with You?!
Though we do not have the fortune of your vapu association You are still with us through Your
books, always blessing us with divine knowledge as the shiksha Guru, steering our lives towards
Krishna.

You have been very merciful to give me a place in Your family. Thank You would be a very small
and inappropriate word. The most suitable way to express gratitude would be, to be an instrument in
Your movement to spread Your teachings all over the world, for that will bring most pleasure to
Your Divine Grace and my Spiritual Master. Srila Prabhupad, please bless me that I hold firmly the
lotus feet of my GuruMaharaj and fix my heart completely on Your teachings. Please bless me that i
use everything in myself and around me for Your service.

Please bless my son and husband to progress in Bhakti, to take this fortunate opportunity to
surrender and serve You.

I beg Your forgiveness for my offences to You and Your family, in ignorance, negligence,
foolishness.

Srila Prabhupad You have blessed my heart with love in all ways. Please hold my hand firmly on
this path of Krishna Bhakti and help to improve and move forward on the path to learn to serve, to
love.

Your little grand-daughter aspiring Your service,
Sulakshana Madhavi Devi Dasi

Dear Srila Prabhupada,

nama om vishnu-padaya krishna-preshthaya bhu-tale
srimate bhaktivedanta-svamin iti namine
namas te sarasvate deve gaura-vani-pracarine
nirvisesha-sunyavadi-pascatya-desa-tarine

Please accept my respectful obeisances unto your lotus feet. All glories to you! On this auspicious occasion of your 124th Vyasa Puja, I shall attempt to glorify your Divine Grace, although I have absolutely no qualification.

It is by your mercy only that I came in touch with bhakti, and got the shelter of His Holiness Jayapataka Gurumaharaj. Because of your mercy, we received Krishna, in His different forms, especially, in the form of Srimad Bhagavatam in our house.

When I was drowning in materialism and when maya throttled me, it was you, Srila Prabhupāda who saved me with the knowledge of the Supreme. I am forever indebted to you. Yet, instead of conveying my gratitude to you, I repeatedly commit offences. Please forgive me, my munificent grandfather. I am so fallen yet you bestowed upon me with the raja vidya, with the greatest treasure of Hari Nama sankirtana. Please bless me Srila Prabhupāda. Kindly bestow your mercy on me, so that I can continue my Krishna conscious journey in ISKCON throughout my life.

Your eternal servant,
Revti Manoharini Devi Dasi

Dear Srila Prabhupada

Please accept our respectful obeisance to your lotus feet

All glories to your divine grace

Your divine grace we are always safe and fortunate under your shelter. Whenever our energy is down your voice is immunity booster. We will hear your Kirtan and classes and feel safe and able to survive in this kaliyuga. Myself very far from philosophy I could not able to understand but your classes and books are only hope for us to understand about supreme personality God Head. You always encourage everyone to take Krishna conscious including so called scientists, impersonalists and mayavadis calling them rascal.

Who will chastise us with so much of love and care one and only well wisher of all living entities jai Srila Prabhupada. You have given sufficient facilities and resources for us still I am with dull head not seriously reading your books and hearing your classes. I recommit on this auspicious day I will read your books and hear your lecture on daily basis. Because of your cause less mercy unlimited person like me able to chant holy name of gauranga and able to touch birth place of lord Chaitanya and Nityananda prabhu. Your divine grace your ocean of mercy I have no qualification I am lower than a dog eater I am attempting to glorify mahaprabhu also due to your blessings got connected and taken shelter of your dear disciple HH Jayaptakaswami Maharaj as a spiritual master.

On this great auspicious day we seek your blessings and please continue showering your mercy on us

Jai srila prabhupada jai srila prabhupada

Your grand children’s seeking your Blessings and Mercy always

Sripati suresa das & Vrajasrirupa devi dasi

Prabhupada, Prabhupada,
ISKCON founder Gurudeva,
Around the globe yourself travelled,
Means to return to Godhead unravelled
Cutting illusion with words like sword,
Putting many at the door of real abode
Threading exalted disciples into “parampara”,
Spreading the panacea of “sankeerthana”

Born into multitude of “Janma”,
Grown my seeds of “Karma”
Forgot the “swaroopa”,
Begot only “Papa”
Please accept this meagre offering,
from an inept ogre suffering,
in the scorching heat of “maya”,
praying to cool in your “chaya”

Your servant,
Krishnadas

nama om vishnu-padaya krishna-preshthaya bhutale
srimate bhaktivedanta-swamin iti namine
namas te saraswate deve gaura-vani-pracharine
nirvishesha shunyavadi pashchatya desha tarine

“I offer my respectful obeisances unto His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, who is very dear to Lord Krishna, having taken shelter at His lotus feet. Our respectful obeisances are unto you, O spiritual master, servant of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami. You are kindly preaching the message of Lord Caitanya deva and delivering the Western countries, which are filled with impersonalism and voidism.”

Param Pujya Srila Prabhupada, on this very auspicious Vyasapuja day, firstly I offer my heartful gratitude for your unlimited mercy and compassion you are distributing through ISKCON to this whole world. I take some courage to glorify you for my purification by your mercy. Whenever I hear song from HH Jayapataka Swami Gurumaharaj “(yadi) prabhupada na haita tabe ki haita (e) jivana bahita kise” I become nostalgic and remember how I was leading life in complete ignorance and while traversing through the material darkness, through your merciful servants I am so fortunate to get connected to your ISKCON.

Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu personally travelled to different regions of India to spread Krishna consciousness, by His personal behavior He has set examples for devotes to follow and He instructed

bhārata-bhūmite haila manuṣya-janma yāra
janma sārthaka kari’ kara para-upakāra

You are that perfect sena-pati bhakta of Lord Caitanya who followed His instruction by spirit. Having opportunity to live in Vrindavan Radha Damodara temple, desire for many, you spent sleepless nights translating Srimad Bhagavatam and framing up most valuable Bhaktivedanta purports for the welfare(para-upakar) of generations to come. Mediating on your Spiritual Master’s instruction and to fulfil Lord Caitanya Mahaprabu’s mission

“pṛthivīte āche yata nagarādi-grāma
sarvatra pracāra haibe mora nāma”

You, just by yourself, at an advanced stage of life attempted every possible way to preach and took the adventurous journey to West. With great difficulties and struggle when you gathered few devotees, you established ISKCON with solid mission and vision and wanted to spread the message of Krishna to every corner of this world. You were never deterred by your deteriorating health, all sorts of challenges.

We will be forever grateful to your relentless effort on writing books which are the foundation of ISKCON and sum& substance of all instructions.

Humbly pray unto your lotus feet and beg, be merciful on me and please use this very very insignificant fallen soul to render service unto lotus feet of servant of your servant.

ebe yaśa ghuṣuk tribhuvana, Prabhupada patita pavana-“Now let all the three worlds proclaim your fame!”

Your insignificant servant

Saravanatha Krishna Das

Dear Srila Prabhupada,

nama om vishnu-padaya krishna-preshthaya bhu-tale

srimate bhaktivedanta-svamin iti namine

namas te sarasvate deve gaura-vani-pracarine

nirvisesha-sunyavadi-pascatya-desa-tarine

Please accept my humble obeisances unto your lotus feet. All glories to you! On this auspicious occasion of your Vyasa Puja, I shall attempt to glorify your Divine Grace, although I have absolutely no qualification.

jogyatā-vicāre, kichu nāhi pāi, tomāra karuṇā-sāra

Merciful souls like you, being eternal associates of Lord Krishna descend to this mortal world, the abode of miseries, just to deliver fallen souls like me. There was no need to undergo so much difficulty, but you decided to single-handedly write books, distribute them, travel to the western countries, established the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) and take all kinds of inconveniences, just out of compassion for the living entities stuck in the vicious cycle of birth and death.

Before I came in contact with the Krishna consciousness movement, I was uncivilized, devoid of saintly qualities, and completely oblivious of the purpose of life, the rich teachings given in the Vedic literature, the all-blissful name, form, and paraphernalia of the Supreme Lord, Sri Krishna. It is all by your mercy that I am able to chant the Hare Krishna Mahamantra, which comes straight from the spiritual world. One needs a tremendous amount of pious credit and fortune to be able to worship Lord Krishna and you have given me that good fortune.

Taking the instructions of your spiritual master, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, as your life and soul; you took Lord Krsna Caitanya’s message of “pṛthivīte āche yata nagarādi grāma, sarvatra pracāra haibe mora nāma” as your life’s mission. Each of the previous acharyas accomplished one significant task. But you did all the tasks that the establishment of the movement of Krishna consciousness entails. Evidently, you embody all the great qualities of the previous acharyas. You truly are the jagad-guru; you are that senapati-bhakta of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.

You not only taught us the art of living, but also the art of dying. You taught the world every aspect of life, based on scriptures in your lectures and books. You taught us how to remain equipoised and unperturbed in every situation. When you lost all hopes in your business in your early days, you remembered Krishna’s words (SB 10.88.8: yasyāham anugṛhṇāmi/ hariṣye tad-dhanaṁ śanaiḥ/ tato ’dhanaṁ tyajanty asya/ svajanā duḥkha-duḥkhitam). You had firm faith and conviction in the words of your spiritual master. You preached to the westerners without altering the truth, irrespective of whether or not they would accept the harsh realities, and boldly spoke against their abominable habits.

acare pracare sada amadere ke karita niyojana

You taught us to practise while preaching Lord Caitanya’s teachings, by personally practising while you preached. You constantly emphasized the differences between a bogus guru and a bonafide guru and taught us to exercise our discretion in this regard, with your own example. A first-class guru is a first-class disciple; a good speaker is a good listener, and who else would demonstrate this better than your divine grace? Every word of His Holiness Jayapataka Swami Gurumaharaja’s song, yadi Prabhupada na hoito, speaks volumes on your glories and contribution to the world.

It is said that if one gets even one syllable from a guru, a person becomes eternally indebted to him for that spiritual gift. We are truly eternally indebted to you as we received thousands of purports, which comprise millions of syllables.

śakti-buddhi-hīna, āmi ati dīna, koro’ more ātma-sātha

With a grateful heart, I beg at your lotus feet for your blessings so that I can serve you. The world has been blessed by your mercy. Please forgive me for my offences at your lotus feet and bless me with intelligence so that I do not commit offences further. Please give me the intelligence so that I can follow your teachings. I have no intelligence of my own. All that I have is your mercy.

Your most useless and insignificant servant,

Rupamayi Sudevi Dasi

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Offering by Mohanaruppa Madhusudhan Das and Family

Dear Srila Prabhupada,

Please accept my respectful obeisance

All glories to you.

I consider myself very disqualified to write this offerings but this is a great opportunity for me to show the gratitude towards the Society you have given for us.The more I study your books the more I feel how carefully you have given your purports for each and every verse .I relish a sense of satisfaction whenever I read your books and more I feel that I should share my realizations with all of them.This year myself and my wife are studying together your books and sharing our realizations together which is helping us to progress in our spiritual endeavour .

Hare Krishna His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada

Please accept our humble obeisances unto your devine lotus feet

You are one of greatest teacher in the universe. You are one of greatest leader as well. It is inconceivable how one can do this at the age of after 70s. You came to this material world to deliver the fallen souls, we are always indebted to you because you gave all the knowledge in your books Srimad Bhagavad Gita , Srimad Bhagavatam and Chaitanya Charitamrta. We are indebted to you because you gave wonderful disciples to the world because they follow your instructions as it is, we could able to start practicing our Bhakti now. We really seeing amazing disciples each one of them gems on different bhavas.

The way they are  cooperatively working to bring the movement to continue with same standard as want is commendable.

Dear Srilaprabhupada we are your grand disciples, we are trying our best of the capacity but due lack of understanding we may commit many mistakes , please forgive us and  give your mercy so that we can do our seva to Guru and Gauranga perfectly.

I am reading 6th Canto your Translation of Srimad Bhagavatam and purport.  My wife is reading 10th Canto of Srimad Bhagavatam.You gave so much  to us but we are not realzing the real values of it. We are still learning phase Srila Prabhupada. Please empower us to preach more and more in the mood of compassion to bring the fallen souls like us and protect our Bhakti as well. Our GuruMaharaj His Holiness Jayapataka Swami ordered us to make Bangalore as first Krsna concious city. We are all trying our best but without your mercy it is not possible, so we humbly request your mercy to become an instrument to fulfill our GuruMaharaj and your disciple’s dream.

We have a strong desire to purify ourself and serve Guru and Gauranga and chant offenselessly. So please shower your mercy to us.

Your Grand disciples,
Krsna Karunamurti Das,
Yogini Yamuna Devi Dasi,
Hemachandar K

nama om vishnu-padaya krishna-preshthaya bhu-tale
srimate bhaktivedanta-svamin iti namine
namaste saraswate deve gaura-vani-pracarine
nirvishesha-shunyavadi-pashchatya-desha-tarine

My dear spiritual grandfather His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada,
Please accept my respectful obeisances unto your lotus feet on the auspicious occasion of your Vyasa-puja celebration. All glories to your Sankirtan lotus feet!

My dear Srila Prabhupada,

As Uddhava expressed his inability to glorify the Supreme Lord Krishna and as Ananta Sesha with his many mouths could not sufficiently describe the transcendental qualities of Lord Krishna, similarly it is impossible to glorify you sufficiently and appropriately. Just like Ganga is worshipped using the water of Ganga similarly in the light of your teachings I would make this insignificant and unworthy attempt to express my gratitude for you.

I am greatly thankful to you for giving me Krishna Consciousness, through your lectures which are touching the saffron dust particles of the lotus feet of Krishna and thereby having the potency to change the heart of a person and make him Krishna Conscious. You have yourself mentioned in the Bhagavad-gita “Although the common man is often not as capable as so-called philosophers, faithful hearing from an authoritative person will help one transcend this material existence and go back to Godhead, back to home.” – (BG 13.26). I am simply dependent on your Vani and hoping one day my dirty heart will see the happiness of unalloyed devotion, in the reverberance of your Vani.

Thank you for your books which present the most scientific and authentic reality about spiritual life, in a simple yet bonafide way. These otherworldly spiritual entities (your books) are descending from the spiritual world directly and as you once said, Krishna has personally dictated them to you. These books are our divine inheritance via which one can eternally meet you, talk with you and associate with you. You once mercifully mentioned that anyone who reads your book will be accepted by you as your follower and you will grant them your mercy. This shows that you carry the compassion of Nitai & Gaura in your heart. Your books have saved me from a mleccha animalistic existence and have convinced me that I should always chant the holy names of the Lord and preach about His eternal glory.

Thank you for spreading the Hare Krishna maha-mantra all over the planet. You created the fortune of the residents of this planet by travelling the world 14 times in 12 years distributing the Hare Krishna maha-mantra to one and all. You are your Krishna Conscious movement has saved humanity from degrading into utter darkness. Just like Bhagirath brought Ganga to Bharat Varsha, similarly, you have spread the Bhakti Ganga all over the world. I am a just a twig being carried away in the flow of your Bhakti Ganga, hoping to reach the destination, completely depending on the strength and magnanimity of this Bhakti Ganga. Certainly one day every town and village will chant the names of Prem Puroshottam Sri Krishna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, for you, His Senapati bhakta have done your task, and are still continuing to do your task of reclaiming the fallen souls and offering them to the lotus feet of Lord Chaitanya. This chanting of Hare Krishna Mahamantra has given me solace from the forest fire of material existence and has started to clean the filth from the mirror of my heart, giving me hope that someday I may also become a pure devotee and render pure devotional loving service.

My dear preeminent Shiksha guru,

In your Prakata Leela you displayed Prema bhakti in action. Thinking of them, my hand trembles even as I pen this down. How fortunate I am, that I have access to your pastimes, disciples, glorifications and nostalgic anecdotes. Your physical presence was a gift coming straight from the heart of Krishna. This inevitably forces me to acknowledge how much Krishna loves us and is anxious to have us back, that He sent you. Your life is an offering of selfless service to the Guru Parampara. The deep care and intimate concern which you showed for your disciples is the direct embodiment of the causeless mercy of Sri Krishna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. Your activities, mood, mind, and symptoms are all inconceivable for an unworthy and ungrateful grandson like me, as also is rightly pointed out by Krishnadas Kaviraj Goswami.

“yāṅra citte kṛṣṇa-premā karaye udaya
tāṅra vākya, kriyā, mudrā vijñeha nā bujhaya” (CC Madhya, 23.39)
Translation

“Even the most learned man cannot understand the words, activities and symptoms of a person situated in love of Godhead.”

My dear grandfather,

You are the dear, empowered, intimate and the most beloved disciple of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur Srila Prabhupada. Throughout your life (which is a glorious life of commitment and surrender unto the lotus feet of your spiritual master) by your behaviour, you always displayed the mood and mind of an ideal disciple. Your attachment to Lord Krishna and your intense meditation on your spiritual master’s instructions culminated into the establishment of “ISKCON – a house in which the whole world can live”. Just like leper brahmana Vasudeva was cured by Lord Chaitanya similarly you are curing millions of the abominable condition of material suffering, who are now living in the house which you made.
“guru-mukha-padma-vākya, cittete kariyā aikya,
āra nā kariha mane āśā”
Narottama Dāsa Ṭhākura advises everyone to stick to the principle of carrying out the orders of the spiritual master. One should not desire anything else. If the regulative principles ordered by the spiritual master are followed rigidly, the mind will gradually be trained to desire nothing but the service of Kṛṣṇa. Such training is the perfection of life. Srila Prabhupada, having attained the pinnacle of perfection in your own life, you are now mercifully passing on the same formula into the hearts of your disciples and grand disciples.

Srila Prabhupada,

You wanted your followers to preach the importance of human life all over the world. Presently the human population is mad behind sense gratification and that is the only goal of their lives. It is the business of the saintly people to help reestablish the principles of religion as laid down by Lord Chaitanya. The greatest service one can render to Krishna is to try to infuse devotional service into the hearts of the conditioned souls so that they may be released from the clutches of conditional life. Sripad Isvara Puri told to Lord Chaitanya “My dear child, continue dancing, chanting and performing saṅkīrtana in association with devotees. Furthermore, go out and preach the value of chanting kṛṣṇa-nāma, for by this process You will be able to deliver all fallen souls.” Srila Prabhupada I know this is your desire too. You have made it clear in your dealings too.

“Yes, this preaching work is our mission. It is Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s mission, my Guru Maharaja’s mission, and my mission. It is through the parampara. As I am trying to discharge my Guru Maharaja’s mission, you also try, and things will go on nicely.” – (Letter to Pusta Krsna- Bombay, 14 August 1976)

“Krsna wants every one of the living entities to go back to home, back to Godhead, so if we can induce even one person to understand that this material world is not meant for our living, our real home is in the spiritual world, and if we can convince this philosophy to even a single person, that is the success of our missionary activities.” – (Letter to Jadurani, Bharadraja, Muralidhara — Los Angeles 4 June 1970)

On this auspicious day, I beg for your causeless mercy so that I may remain fixed in serving you and assisting you and your son in the propagation of this Sankirtana movement.

Your mercy is my only wealth. Just like the chakora bird always looks towards the moon and longs for it, feeling its incapability to attain it, but never losing hope, this insignificant grandson of your divine grace, hankers for a drop of your mercy. I aspire to become a faithful servant of your servants.

Yours eternally,
Acyuta Arjunasakha Das JPS

Dear Grandpa Srila Prabhupad,

Please accept my repeated obeisances.

“nama om vishnu-padaya krishna-preshthaya bhu-tale
srimate bhaktivedanta-svamin iti namine
namas te saraswate deve gaura-vani-pracarine
nirvishesha-shunyavadi-pashchatya-desha-tarine”

Prabhupad I feel so fortunate to be part of this glorious parampara. This is your causeless mercy that you have accepted me & connected me to this glorious paramapara. I feel very small when I analyse my qualification for practicing Bhakti in Bramha Madhva Gaudiya ISKCON Sampraday, no qualification at all. In one of your pastimes when your dear disciples asked you “What qualification we had that we started practicing Bhakti?” you replied, “You had no qualification I gave you the qualification!”. I feel this is very much true in my case. You have given me the qualification and you have forced Bhakti onto me. I don’t think I would have ever taken up Bhakti by my own self. It was your causeless mercy that manifested through your associates.

Prabhupad I am so grateful to you for everything that you have given us. We all are like toddlers & you are doing all spoon feeding. The purports that you have given are so amazing, they are like the cereal powder which can be easily consumed & digested by toddlers like us. Whenever I read your purports I feel that you are personally answering my questions. Everything is there in your books. Everything needed to attain Krishna this very Lifetime is there in your books. You have planned & given every single nutrient that a toddler needs for a healthy growth viz. Mahamantra, pure devotees , temples, books, lectures, festivals, dhaam……

 From last few weeks I am meditating on one point- “How can someone practicing Bhakti with this sinful body?”, every time I think about it, I get Goosebumps. The fact is no one can practice Bhakti with this Sinful body. But you have made such a nice arrangement that anyone & everyone can take to Bhakti & engage this sinful body in service of Krishna. You are a master mind, you are an expert spiritual master, you have established this glorious organization- ISKCON where everyone has an opportunity to engage all their tendencies & skills in Krishna’s service. 

Prabhupad if today people from different parts of the world- the whites, blacks, browns, small eyed, wide eyed, tall ones, short ones, all the category of people, are chanting the great deliverer mantra-The Mahamantra “Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Ram Hare Ram  Ram Ram Hare Hare” only by your mercy. You have given us this most valuable treasure for FREE! You are the personification of mercy of Nityananda Prabhu. No Acharya in the past has done this herculean task of delivering the mass of sinful people in this age of Kali by giving the treasure of Goloka- “Golokera prema dhana Hari naam sankirtana”. 

In 2017 Kartik Maas I was in Mayapur sitting on stairs in your pushpa samadhi mandir.It was your disappearance day and your disciples were offering homage onto you. Just by chance I looked back, and I found a row of varied complexioned devotees from different parts of the world in Vaishnava attire. That day I realised “what you have done!”

Prabhupad on this auspicious occasion of your appearance I recommit to you- to follow your instructions as it is, chanting minimum 16 rounds & following the 4 reg principles, read your books scrutinizingly, preach the message to as many people as possible that you have given us through the parampara, have only prasadam, attend morning program everyday and more importantly I will try my best to fulfil your desire of attaining Krishna this very Lifetime! 

Prabhupad please always keep me in your shelter, even if I commit biggest of the biggest offence please don’t throw me out of ISKCON, I want to serve you till my last breath in this life and after as a full time devotee.

Your Grand disciple,

Kartikeya Das

Dear Srilā Prabhupāda,

Please accept our prostrated repeated obeisances at the dust of your lotus feet.

On this auspicious appearance day of your Divine Grace, we would like to express our sincere heartfelt gratitude for giving us a blissful life. Currently the whole world is engulfed in pandemic and all living beings are in a distressed and diseased condition, suffering with tremendous anxiety all around. But we are so fortunate to be enlightened and enriched under your shelter, surrounded and cared by the wonderful family of devotees, gifted with your transcendental books and the nectarean Holy Name.

We remain eternally indebted to you for sacrificing so much to share the pure teachings of the Supreme Lord. You were ideal and perfect in everything you said and everything you did. You are the preeminent Param Shikshā Guru of all of us. Our first duty is to follow your instructions as the life and soul, then we would never be least deviated nor disturbed and forever be best protected and nourished. We have been meditating on few of the following drops of your unfathomable and incomparable oceanic literature to make our life success.

• Being predicted by the Lord Himself and previous ācāryas, you are the saktyāvesa-avatāra, empowered representative of the Lord to spread the Holy Name and deliver the universe.

“It is the desire of Bhaktivinoda Thākura to preach the Chaitanya cult all over the world and in 1875 he predicted that someone would come very soon who would individually preach this cult all over the world. So if his benediction is there and my Guru Maharaja’s blessings are there, we can go ahead without any impediment but all of us must be very sincere and serious.” (Letter to Jayapataka, 23 February 1971)

• Being indebted to you, we must be an humble instrument to share this precious gift that we have received from you.

“Spreading Krishna consciousness is Śrī Chaitanya Mahāprabhu’s mission; therefore His sincere devotees must carry out His desire… The devotees of Lord Chaitanya must preach Krishna consciousness in every village and town in the world. That will satisfy the Lord.” (CC Madhya 16.64 Purport)

• Being planned to preach in order to extend your compassion, we must practice. We should know you better and need to understand clearly your instruction through your books.

“Whatever I have wanted to say, I have said in my books. If I live, I will say something more. If you want to know me, read my books.” TKG’s Diary, June 9 1977

“The instruction given in my books is supposed to be personal instruction. When we read the Bhagavad-gita As It Is, it is understood that we are receiving personal instructions of Krishna. No physical barrier is there in the case of spiritual affairs.” (Letter to Dhrstaketu, 14 October 1973)

• Being engaged with so many mundane activities, we don’t find time to spend quality time with your books but you have mercifully showered upon us with your transcendental association of Vani.

“Although when a pure devotee speaks, the articulation of his voice may resemble the sound of this material sky, the voice is spiritually very powerful because it touches the particles of saffron dust on the lotus feet of the Lord. As soon as a sleeping living entity hears the powerful voice emanating from the mouth of a pure devotee, he immediately remembers his eternal relationship with the Lord, although up until that moment he had forgotten everything.” (SB 4.20.25 purport)

“When you are working and you cannot read, then listen to the tapes of my lectures and hear in that way. And never neglect to chant your 16 rounds of beads daily, rise early without fail, attend mangal arati, take bath, and follow the other regulative principles, and everything will come out very successfully, you can rest assured of that.” (Letter to Bhargava, 13 June 1972)

• Being dull minded, we can’t understand and fathom the deeper insights of your purports and instructions unless we take shelter of your sincere followers and living Guru.

“One should not proudly think that one can understand the transcendental loving service of the Lord simply by reading books. One must become a servant of a Vaisnava. As Narottama dasa Thakura has confirmed, chadiya vaisnava-seva nistara peyeche keba: one cannot be in a transcendental position unless one very faithfully serves a pure Vaisnava. One must accept a Vaisnava guru (adau gurv-asrayam), and then by questions and answers one should gradually learn what pure devotional service to Krishna is. That is called the paramparā system.” (CC Adi 7.54 Purport)

“I recommend you to read books more and more and try to understand the subject matter from different angles of vision and be always discussing it with your Godbrothers…” (Letter to Bhargava, 13 June 1972)

• Being studying and hearing your instructions, we get the most essential principle to sincerely chant minimum 16 rounds and to follow the four regulative principles.

“In our Krishna consciousness movement, we have recommended that the neophyte chant at least sixteen rounds. This chanting of sixteen rounds is absolutely necessary if one wants to remember Krishna and not forget Him. Of all the regulative principles, the spiritual master’s order to chant at least sixteen rounds is most essential.” (CC Madhya 22.113 purport).

“Thus by chanting the holy name of the Lord one can directly associate with the Supreme Lord by sound vibration.” (CC Adi Preface)

“Wherever you may go to perform your devotional service, you should always be very careful to observe very strictly the rules and regulations. Rise early, attend mangala arati and class, chant 16 rounds, and follow the four regulative principles without deviation. This will guarantee your spiritual perfection.” (Letter to Jayahatakosthaka, 14 March 1975)

• Being understood your instructions, practicing and preaching the devotional process, we will not forget your foremost and the last instruction to cooperate to serve the mission. You have mentioned ISKCON is your body, simply by associating with ISKCON, we are directly associating with you.

“Your love for me will be shown by how much you cooperate to keep this institution together after I am gone.” (Srilā Prabhupāda lilāmrita, I Have Done My Part)

“If one associates with this movement, he directly associates with the Supreme Personality of Godhead.” (SB 9.24.56 Purport)

Srilā Prabhupāda, kindly bestow upon us a drop of your mercy so that we can carry out all of your orders up to the last breath of our life, both here and in the hereafter.

Your insignificant spiritual grandchildren,
Sudhir Gopal Das
Subhadra Priti Devi Dasi
Seshadri and Subhangi

Dear Srila Prabhupada,

Please accept my respectful obeisance

All glories to you.

After I first read your lilamrita (biography), which was a highly spiritually enriching experience, I thought I understood a great person. But then as time progressed, I am realizing that indeed I understood a great person but only to an extent of a small fraction. It is not even possible to understand how much you have given to all of us. Srila Prabhupada, you have shown us the path to attain Krishna, you have created the facility to traverse the path, you have clearly laid down the milestones on this path, you have made sufficient arrangements to move from one milestone to another, you have arranged for all engagements/needs at each of the milestones, you have clarified the highest end goal of this spiritual journey, you have made this journey very adventurous and a practically viable path even for a common soul to traverse.

These are just some small realizations of my limited journey. I always eagerly anticipate the pleasant surprises that you have arranged in the way of my spiritual journey. Thus, it is very difficult to understand your glories and what you have done for all of us. More we traverse this auspicious spiritual journey, we keep discovering more treasures that you have left us within your books, lectures, devotees, organization, personal example, letters and many more.

I just finished the Bhakti Sastri course, which was one of my long-cherished desire. This involved systematic study of few of your transcendental books. The whole experience gave me immense appreciation to you Srila Prabhupada. In the last year almost every single day I heard your classes. This is one of the greatest nourishments I have in my life.

More I gain from you; more I am feeling indebted to you. I wish to serve you by serving your dear devotees and organization by preaching the message of Krishna consciousness as taught by you. There is a lot to be done to spread Krishna Consciousness to the many suffering people of this world.

On this Vyasapuja of yours, I pray that I always be engaged in your service.

Your servant

Hariksetra das

nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale
śrīmate bhaktivedānta-svāmin iti nāmine
namas te sārasvate deve gaura-vāṇī-pracāriṇe
nirviśeṣa-śūnyavādi-pāścātya-deśa-tāriṇe

Dear Respected Srila Prabhupada,

Please accept my respectful obeisances. All glories to you !!

Recently I was reading Chaitanya Caritamrita Adi Lila 17.96

śrīvāsa balena, — ye tomāra nāma laya
tāra koṭi aparādha saba haya kṣaya

Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura replied, “Anyone who takes Your holy name vanquishes ten million of his offenses immediately.

When I was reading this verse, I was amazed by you, Srila Prabhupada. What you have given us defies the material description. It is simply your mercy, descending from the transcendental platform to us here in this world. Understanding what you had given to me, it would be most unfortunate if I am not grateful to you? I don’t want to praise you?

“what could have been my situation while facing the Pandemic situation had I not come in contact with ISKCON” this was the comment of a devotee who had come in contact with ISKCON after last year’s Janmashtami. Srila Prabhupada, we can’t even imagine how many such fortunate souls would have come in contact with your teaching during this Pandemic and in general. Yes, Srila Prabhupada, amidst the confusion and growing challenges of Kali-yuga, you are like the sun that dispels the fog, for you clearly present Krishna as God and chanting His names as His surrendered servant as the process to attain Him.

You gave yourself to the world, Srila Prabhupada, through your Bhaktivedanta purports. Your purports teach us how to think for ourselves spiritually so that we can choose to become completely dependent on the will of the Supreme Lord. The spiritual training you give is unique in the history of the world.

On this most auspicious day of your divine appearance in this world, I prostrate myself to your lotus feet again and again and beg you to please teach me how to become the instrument of spiritual Master.

Thank you so much Srila Prabhupada.

Your eternally indebted soul,

Yugala Kisora das

Dear Srila Prabhupada,

Please accept our respectful obeisances.

On your Vyasapuja day, it gives us immense pleasure to share our drop of love for you. We are always grateful to you for saving us from rotting in this material world. You saved us and millions of others by giving the process that was presented by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu in its purest form as it is. Your teachings were straight forward, clear without any ambiguity, conclusive, hitting the root of the problems and simply Krishna Conscious without any contamination.

Your books are real books of knowledge unlike other millions of books which only keep the readers in darkness of ignorance. Millions of them became devotees of Krishna by reading your books. Millions of them have got a hope that “I may also be accepted by the Lord by following these simple processes of Bhakti” which earlier seemed to be only a dream.

You brought life in the bodies of many spiritually dead human beings. You gave a purpose and goal for living in this human body. Not only in our lives, but in millions of others. You have done what even great acharyas wished. You fulfilled the dream of many great acharyas.

Without you, our life would have been useless. But now, you have brought in a lot of purpose for our living. Now the life these servants of yours is to practise what you have given; Save ourselves by holding on to your teachings, strongly and then help other ignorant souls as your humble servant, as your messenger, your follower. Thank you Srila Prabhupada for saving all of us and giving us an opportunity to regain our lost relationship with Krishna.

Please bless us that we will be able carry out your instructions with more determination and preach this Krishna Consciousness for your pleasure. Please bless these servants with your service and engage us to do something significant for your movement before this carcass becomes useless. Service to you is our only hope. Please accept our service.

Your servants
Bandhu Madhava das
Sumati Jahnava devi dasi
Baladeva

Hare Krishna

All glories to Srila Prabhupad. Please accept my humble obeisance.

I am indebted to you as through your books and lectures my queries regarding our very existence got answer. Even being bought up in a Hindu brahmin family I didn’t knew why and how we should love God. But after going through your books(which i am still reading) and devotee association my all questions are answered.
Thank you very much for making us understand that each and every creation made by God is beautiful and special in its own way and we are eternal beings. As we all are part and parcel of the Supreme Lord Krishna.

Hare Krishna
Regards

Hare krishna
All glories to Srila Prabhupada

In 2020 when world was facing a pandemic and everyone was tense and perplexed… when working hours in hospital were long tiring and full of fear..

From nowhere PRABHUPADA came to rescue me. I don’t deserve any of his mercy but he showed immense cause less mercy on me.

I have just taken baby steps in the direction of krishna consciousness all possible because of words of Srila PRABHUPADA

I pray to him to help me to grow in my every sec of my life in krishna consciousness.

YS
Girija Sharma

Dear Srila Prabhupada,

Hare Krishna, Dandavat Pranam,

I am extremely grateful to you for guiding me to the path of spirituality through your beautifully written books.Your charismatic personality, unwavering faith, unconditional love for Krishna and self motivated dedication to spread Krishna conscious movement to the world even at such an old age amazes me. It fills me with enthusiasm to pursue my spiritual journey and even deepens my faith in Lord Krishna. Hence, I take this opportunity to thank you from the core of my heart for your invaluable transcendental contribution in helping people understand their constitutional position and going back to their original home i.e. back to the Godhead.
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Thank you very much.

Dear Srila Prabhupada,

Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet. All glories to you.
You have been very merciful to all of us. It is due to your compassion we are fortunate to serve the Lord. It is because of you we have access to transcendental vedic knowledge. Through your mission we know about Chaitanya Mahaprabhu & have the opportunity to serve his mission. You are our great Godfather 🙇.

On this special day, I beg your mercy so that I do not forget my first duty which is mentioned in the following quote “If one remembers his first duty which is keeping in constant contact with the supreme personality of Godhead, then everything will be successful”. I beg you to give me inspiration, intelligence,determination & strength to accept only what pleases you and reject the other. Let me always remember the true source of my power & ability. Please allow me to remain your servant eternally.

Thank you Srila Prabhupada for all that you have given me. Prayers for your mercy 🙏

YS
Deepti Wahi

nama om vishnu-padaya krishna-preshthaya bhu-tale
srimate bhaktivedanta-svamin iti namine
namaste saraswate deve gaura-vani-pracarine
nirvishesha-shunyavadi-pashchatya-desha-tarine

My dear eternal spiritual grandfather His Divine Grace A.C. BhaktiVedanta Swami Prabhupada,
Please accept my respectful obeisance unto your lotus feet.

My dear Srila Prabhupada,

I am very fortunate to have been given the privilege and a chance to offer my respectful obedience unto your lotus feet.

Associating with ISKCON and devotees has brought in a sense of purpose in my life. I cannot express in words the amount of support and guidance I have received while I sailed through the most difficult times of my life till date. With all the storms, all-around me, I was capsulated under His divine grace.

It’s rightly said, Krishna will not remove the pains and sorrow but will glide us through it.

Memories don’t bother you when you love Krishna, with Krishna you will move on the worst of memories.

YS
Gargi