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Heartfelt offerings by devotees of ISKCON Whitefield to Srila Prabhupada on the occasion of his appearance day

Offering by Mahateja Narahari Das

Hare Krishna srila Prabhupada
Please accept my accept my respectful obesciences to Srila Prabhupada

I am not image life with out srila Prabhupada. I come to basics of spirituality because of Prabhupada teachings. Worshipping cow,going to temples ,respecting deity come to know because of Prabhupada mercy.attending mangaarthi, come to know about brahma Murtha.Thank you for giving Bhagavatam, Bhagavad gita,Chaitanya charitamata. Please merciful unto me I should follow vows to my Guru Maharaj.
Come to know about goal of life because of you.please merciful to me i get test in chanting.
Please merciful to me.please forgive me if I commit offense against your lotus feet.

Offering by Praveen A R

Oh Acharya … Oh Srila Prabupad,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to you, the savior of the world and of me, I feel unfortunate that I couldn’t able to see or get the opportunity to touch your lotus feet to purify my sinful life, but you are very merciful that you gave nectar of devotion and lord Chaitanya maha prabu’s teaching and gave Harinam to feel your blessing and mercy up on all fallen souls including me, you mentioned that you live always with your books, I am just starting do Credle steps to understand the Lord’s message with your books and messages and trying to feel your presence, Please .. Please bless me and make me dance asper your instructions…..

Offering by Nishant Rajan

nama Om Visnu-padaya Krsna-presthaya bhu-tale
Srimate Bhaktivedanta Swamin iti namine
namas te Sarasvate Deve Gaura-vani-pracarine
nirvisesa-sunyavadi-pascatya-desa-tarine

Srila Prabhupad,

More and more time I have spent with Iskcon family, more I realize, what you have left for us is the most beautiful thing in this world. We are saved Srila Prabhupad under the wonderful umbrella of Iskcon devotees. You are the reason for it. In today’s world where Kali is becoming prominent day by day, because of you each of us and our kids have opportunity to build character and be great ambassadors of Krishna consciousness. Srila Prabhupad, When I feel down, your books always come to my rescue. You are my inspiration to realize that we should think of each soul on this world, use all our talent given by Krishna to attract souls to Iskcon family and cultivate krisna consciousness in them by mercy of you. In any relationship, humility is the key. You have showed us path on how to try to become humble while building relationship with devotees, how to take care of devotees, how to represent our self in front of this society. Srila Prabhupad, because of you , I have seen how the souls are transforming in this material work and getting attracted to Lord Gauranga. You have built wonderful acarya sangha where we can look to take shelter of our Guru and save ourself from material pangs Srila Prabhupad, whenever I as insignificant soul think of you, I feel inspired, motivated and always ponder on how can I make you happy. Yesterday on eve of Janamastmi, I saw your impact to the society and to the world. Even after so many years of your departure from this material world, the Krishna consciousness movement still is growing and how strongly it is growing. So many new souls are coming to know about Krishna consciousness because you Srila Prabhupada. You have given real meaning on what is the value of birth in human form and that too in bharat bhumi.

Various devotees from different sect caste creed coming together and joining forces to spread krishna consciousness without any conflicts can only happen in this material world because of you Srila Prabhupad. You are our grandfather, you are the jagad guru, you the messiah. Every member in the family is benefitted because of you be it kids, husband, wife, youth, grandparents… everybody. I was wandering in the forest filed with thorny bushes and venomous serpents. But like a caring father you held my hand and revealed to be the most important secret which was the cause of all my sufferings.

Dear Srila Prabhupada, Please give me strength so that like Avantī brāhmaṇa in all situations and circumstances I should tolerate the urges of my mind. Nothing in this world should agitate me. Nothing in this world should allure me. For me pleasure and pain remain the same. Happiness and distress should not distract me from my eternal goal which is to contribute in spreading Krishna consciousness in my limited ability to this world with the association of wonderful devotees.

Dear Srila Prabhupada, I am eternally grateful to you for all you have given to me. I am not qualified enough to express it in proper words. Or I think there are not enough words which can ever glorify you. Today the whole world especially the devotees are celebrating your Vyasa Puja. On this most auspicious day, I just want to say “Thank You” for everything. And I beg you to continue guiding me forever.

Small poem dedicated to you Srila Prabhupad:

Srila prabhupad aap humaari jindagi mein aaye
Humare jivan path ka matlab bataaye
saari prakritik badhaaon ko humare jivan se hataaye
bhakt banane ka matlab samjhaye
Bas aap ke dikhaye pad chinhon par chal na hai
Aap ke aashirwaad se sab ko is duniya mein bhakt banana hai
Bas yehi umeer hai ki aap ki charan dhuli humaare mastak par lagi rahe
Puri duniya Krishna bhavna se saji rahe

Your eternal insignificant servant
Nishant

Offering by Manu lali gopi dasi & Audarya Nimai das

Dear Srila Prabhupada
Please accept our respectful obeisance
All glories to you.

As the years pass by, my appreciation for your divine grace is steadily increasing.

Your instruction on chanting without offences is a simple yet difficult instruction to follow. When we seek your help chanting the lines “Krishna se tomora, Krishna dite paro, tomara sakti ache”, Krishna is yours and it is completely within your powers to bestow Krishna upon us, that helps us to focus on chanting and experience your shelter and protection.

We are insignificant disciples under your Divine Grace, who repetitively perform misdeeds, still constantly wait for your causeless mercy to be bestowed upon us Please bless us so that we may never give up our faith, or our love for you, nor the hope that someday we may become a worthy disciple. We pray to you to keep guiding and motivating us to follow your path and engross completely in Krishna consciousness.

Your eternally grateful servants ,
Manu lali gopi dasi
Audarya Nimai das

Offering by Gokulananda Gopesa Das

Dear Srila Prabhupada, I offer my humble obeisances at the dust of your lotus feet. All glories to you.

Due to your unmerited kindness, I converted from being a hard-core atheist from the South to at least praying to Krishna or respect devotion and devotees. I was compelled to stick to my native language from childhood, so I was only given the option of learning or reading in English other than tamil. As a result, I don’t have a natural interest in learning Sanskrit, Hindi, or Bengali, and my IQ has become so low that I am unable to memorize any slokas or don’t have interest in that . But you had shown your mercy right from my initial days that am not good for anything other than distributing your books and you spoke via many of my senior devotees to continue that.

I don’t like to read books from childhood, even in school, I only read for exams, where I receive mediocre or top grades. Many devotees or outside readers have complained that you keep repeating the same thing even though I felt the same for the first 5 years in my KC life. Day by day, my perspectives on this began to shift, and now I believe that the lecture and purports being repeated are actually Krishna or you communicating through the purports on every line, where we may relate to every moment of our lives to develop love for krishna. Particularly, after becoming married, the realization underwent significant modification. Every assertion you make serves as a remedy for my current difficulty.

You have created a Vaishnava community in a very practical way that devotees from different backgrounds miraculously stay in unity together. By your mercy, we are incredibly blessed to have your disciples and grand disciples who constantly direct us to have a taste for Krishna. You have carved out a very powerful sadhana program that aides this. You created a system in which a devotee can imperceptibly progress by just being present in it. It appears that the Lord is partial to devotees as His mercy is not taken by non-devotees although available. But it can be seen in Your transcendental pastimes that, by your mercy, even rock hearted atheists become eligible to receive Lord’s mercy, and that the highest mercy of devotional service is freely accessible even to the most fallen like me.

Throughout the year, while rendering service to yourself and Krishna, there are various occasions or opportunities to glorify you. However, Vyasapuja day is a very special day where we get the opportunity to pen down your glories. Your contribution to the living entities is unlimited and unfathomable. Among all, your books are something, devotees always yearn to distribute and people, in general, get the opportunity to read and change their consciousness. My only request on this auspicious occasion is, please engage me in reading and distributing your books and have taste for it, so that atheists like me can also get your mercy. As a master rewards a dog, I am sure, one day, you will reward me suitably with love for krishna.

Your insignificant servant,
Gokulananda Gopesa Das

Offering by G S Sainikhil

Srila prabhupad u have built a house where whole world can live😃
This year it was a great experience for me in trying to read ur books consistently and by distributing ur books my faith towards u and process has increased
When I read first volume of lilamrita I was crying tears in my heart how much sacrifice u have undergone in order to just save us…
By hearing you daily early in the morning we get strong dosage of krishna consciousness…these words which we hear from u gives us lot of faith and conviction in krishna consciousness
I have wonderful experiences of book distribution this year I could see how people are just waiting to take your books and we have to do our part nicely by distributing them on regular basis.
In marathalli bridge Shiva temple so many boys pg that we have visited people are really interested and eager to know about ur books this made us really happy

I was feeling very fortunate to be a humble insignificant instrument in order to place ur books in the hands of many souls
Preaching is the essence as u mentioned this time I can happily tell u that I have went out as an humble insignificant instrument to do this service as an offering to you in amogh Lila prabhu pass distribution and festival of enlightenment pass distribution and janmashtami registrations.
Please empower me to follow the principles of krishna consciousness so sincerely and empower me to distribute the message of lord chaitanya and lord nityanandas kripa as much as in bangalore by distributing ur books🙏🙏🙏
Thank you so much srila prabhupad without your shelter i would have been in some gutters rotting in the material existence.

Offering by Murari Radhamohana Dasa

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

Hare Krishna, please accept my humble obediences dear Srila Prabhupada,
Yadi prabhupada na hoito tobike hoite]
If you do not come, if you do not teach the right meaning of sastra nobody will able to understand. by reading your books i understand the goal of my life. The general mass of people mad after a sense of gratification
If somebody reads your books
Only they can able to get released from Maya.
Thank you very much, Srila Prabhupada.
To save us from the clutch of Maya
Your grandson.

Murari radhamohana dasa.
Hare Krishna.

Offering by Sulakshana Madhavi Devi Dasi

Namah om Vishnu padaya krishna preshtaya bhutale
Srimate Bhaktivedanta Swain iti namine |
Namaste Sarasaswate deve Gauravani pracharine
Nirvishesha shunyavadi paschatya desha tarine ||

Om ajnana timirandhasya jnananjana saklakaya
Chaksur unmilittam yena tasmai SriGurave namaha ||

Dear Srila Prabhupada,

Please accept my humble and respectful obeisances at Your divine lotus feet on the occasion of Your 126th Vyasa puja celebrations. Srila Prabhupada You are the purest and dearest messenger of Supreme Lord Krishna. You appeared as the commander-in-chief of Lord Caitanya to save the fallen souls in this age of Kali. You established the teachings of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu by emphatically preaching the glories of Holyname throughout the world. From the bowery street to Navadwip, You resounded the Hare Krishna Mahamantra making it a household chant and thus You opened the doors of fortune for the suffering souls. You established temples of Radha-Krishna all over the world teaching the bonafide pancharatrika method of worshipping the Lord. You taught self-absorbed, self-centered common man to rise from the platform of the rituals to the topmost, most-fulfilling, God-centered platform of Bhakti. You did so by teaching how to simply offer the heart to the Lord. You wrote more than 80 books translated to more than 70 languages, based on bonafide scriptures making the esoteric philosophy very very simple, for everyone to understand. Your Bhaktivedanta purports are like juice extracted from the sugarcane – all the ‘ras’ of the Vedic literature extracted and simplified in Your purports. You are changing millions of lives through Your books and I was fortunate to be picked up by You.

It is said that when Lord Caitanya was present, He gave His benediction to people in 3 ways:

sākṣāt-darśana, āra yogya-bhakta-jīve
‘āveśa’ karaye kāhāṅ, kāhāṅ ‘āvirbhāve’

“The Lord delivered the fallen souls in some places by meeting them directly, in other places by empowering a pure devotee, and in still other places by appearing before someone Himself.”

tā-sabā tārite prabhu sei saba deśe
yogya-bhakta jīva-dehe karena ‘āveśe’
sei jīve nija-bhakti karena prakāśe
tāhāra darśane ‘vaiṣṇava’ haya sarva-deśe

“To deliver people in regions throughout the universe who could not meet Him, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu personally entered the bodies of pure devotees. Thus He empowered living beings [His pure devotees] by manifesting in them so much of His own devotion that people in all other countries became devotees by seeing them.”

GuruMaharaj says, this is completely applicable to Your Divine Grace. You are the avesa-avatar. Therefore You continue to influence the whole world through the strength of Your bhakti. You are the Yugacharya who appeared to show the path and guide all deviated people to the real path of spirituality. Thank You Srila Prabhupad for saving, thank you for being the guiding light, thank you for the loving embrace to the wailing souls. Thank You for the most precious gifts of the Holyname and Your beloved disciples and followers who are the fortress of spiritual strength and protection. I am praying to You, to please forgive my foolishness, ignorance and offences in negligence. Please engage me in your service in a way that will make You and GuruMaharaj happy. Please bless me to chant attentively, to read and distribute Your books regularly. Please bless Aadyant and Vivek prabhu on their journey of Krishna Consciousness to surrender unto Your lotus feet.

Your grand-daughter seeking Your service and divine protection,
SMDD

Offering by Mohan Lal Singhal

Hare Krishna.

Thank you Srila Prabhupada for mentoring and guiding us through your books to help us go back to our destination where we originally belong. Heartfelt gratitude to you for making us aware of the process of Krishna Conciousness.

I am a poor soul bereft of any understanding and you have provided guidance to a wretched soul like me.

Your contribution to this material world is immense and I am fortunate to have come in association with you and your disciples. Please continue to have mercy on me.

Offering by Raja

Hare Krsna Dear Srila Prabhupada ! Dandwat Pranams at Your lotus feet.

namah om visnu padaaya Krsna presthaaye bhuutale |
srimate bhakti vedaanta swaamin iti naamine |
Namaste saarasvate deve gaura vaani pracaarine |
Nirvisesa suunya vaadi paascaatya dese taarine |

It is divine day today when Krsna Consciousness came in person to give Krsna consciousness in another persons.
Please accept this small offering at Your Lotus feet, a four stanza framed from my mere understanding which is equal to water in calf’s hoof print, although it is impossible for me to describe a vast ocean like You, Srila Prabhupada.

The stanzas goes like –

Your presence in my insignificant life
With every step feeling to be full with strife
Your action words and guidance, so transparent & divine
It is You who has saved me from a dreadful materialistic dive.

O, can’t express this Materialistic dive
Making me, Sri Sri Gandharvika Giridhari’s averse
But Goloka beings as You and your servant’s have their divine chime
It is You who has saved me from a dreadful materialistic dive.

The parampara of eternal Goloka servants in line
with You who made descend for a goal to save.
A goal, Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu made for every fool & wise.
It is You who has saved me from a dreadful materialistic dive.

I pray, I pray, I pray You in intense and immense
For mercy, that gives me, an insignificant, a significance
I hope, eternally, to always see you on my every head’s raise
It is You who has saved me from a dreadful materialistic dive.

Thank You Srila Prabhupada for all.
Please forgive me for any offence I might have committed at You and Your eternal servant’s Lotus feet by my body, mind or words.

Your Servant
Raja

Offering by Sudarshan Reddy D N

Saviour of whole world jagadguru srila prabhupada

Your voice is not melodious but attracted millions of souls ..
Your presence looks normal but your association created great devotion across the globe..
Your personality looks like average but great personalities fell in your lotus feet to beg the mercy to attain the divine couple …

You are truly a divine spirit and mercifully comes for purify the millions of millions of fallen souls like me …

I beg your mercy to get at-least mustard seed of love on the divine couples lotus feet …..

Ys
Sudarshan Reddy D N

Offering by Deepali and Deepak Porwal

Hare Krishna Dear Srila Prabhupada
Please accept our most humble obeisances unto your lotus feet. 🙇🙇
All glories to you Srila Prabhupada

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

Dear Srila Prabhupada you are the saviour of the whole world and so for us. You have given us so much Prabhupada that we can’t even pay a fraction of that back to you. We are very thankful to you Prabhupada. 🙏
We are engaged in serving Iskcon whitefield temple and its community members.
Srila Prabhupada this year for Janmashtami 2023 I have given seva of preaching stall and Gita Course registration. I am just a neophyte and still learning and understanding Krishna conscious philosophy and trying my best to implement in my life, but if you bless and impower me Srila Prabhupada I can do wonders. On my own I am nothing but with you and your teachings Prabhupada we can convince others.

Srila Prabhupada my wife Deepali is carrying and the expected date is in Oct. We pray to your lotus feet that we would bless with a devotee child who can be a humble instrument in spreading your glories in this glorious Lord Caitanya mahaprabhu’s mission.

Once again Srila Prabhupada our repeated gratitude unto your lotus feet for giving us opportunity to understand the importance of human life, our relationship with Lord Krishna, and giving us the most precious thing which is chanting the Holy name –
“Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare”
🙏🙏

Your insignificant servants,
Deepali and Deepak Porwal

Offering by Sonia Anand

My humble obeisances to His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Last year I promised that I will complete hearing your lectures on Bhagavad gita. I am sorry, two chapters are still pending. I promise to finish hearing them on priority.

The more I hear your lectures the more my surrender towards Krishna and your divine movement deepens.

Currently I am reading the book, “I will build you a temple.” (by-Giriraj Swami). I feel deeply indebted to your Disciples who have selflessly and with full surrender contributed towards your mission.

Thank you Srila Prabhupada for guiding all of us through your books.

Your servant
Sonia Anand

Offering by Amal Atma Hari das & Chinmayi Chitra Sakhi Devi Dasi

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

oṁ ajñāna-timirāndhasya
jñānāñjana-śalākayā
cakṣur unmīlitaṁ yena
tasmai śrī-gurave namaḥ

Dearest Srila Prabhupada.

Salutations to you on your 127th appearance day!!! I offer my koti koti dandavat at your divine lotus feet, it is a time of great rejoicing. You are so merciful that you give me an opportunity to glorify you, year after year. You took life risks by going to the West in your old age with no clear plan or resources to fulfil your spiritual master’s mission. Yet Krishna protected you from the dangers and empowered you to spread His mission. Your life is a demonstration that Krishna never lets down His devotees when they take risks for spreading His mission.

You taught us to dynamically strike the right daily balance between personal sadhana and anxieties for institutional expansion of the preaching mission, to expand Krishna Consciousness Movement, you have said, “Purity is the force.” You have cautioned us that without studying your books and chanting and hearing Harinama offencelessly, your golden command “Chant Hare Krishna and hear exactly that very same sound.” the holy names are Chintamani or touchstone that fulfils all our desires to serve Guru and Krishna. Remembering always it is our false ego alone that is the hindrance to serve you as you would expect us to. I beg you to continue to hold me and bless me, so that I remain in Krishna consciousness always.

Various services in this movement launched by you are opportunities for us conditioned souls to come out of the darkness of our false ego and nurture our true self and be bathed in the sunlight of Krishna consciousness. Your movement is so wonderful that it has the capacity to provide shelter to the whole world and usher in a golden age. As has been said, “Vede Gaye Jaharo Charito,” Please give me the spiritual strength to execute my Krishna conscious duties and thus cultivate my true self interest. Though I am unqualified materially and spiritually to do any of your divine works, yet based on your spiritual anxiety, my Guru Maharaja’s orders to make the world Krishna conscious, particularly, Bangalore, the Lord in our heart will provide strength and resources to mystically execute your mission.

I beg your mercy so that I chant the Holy Names and serve Nama Prabhu attentively and purely.

Your Fallen Servants,
Amal Atma Hari das,
Chinmayi Chitra Sakhi Devi Dasi, Bangalore, India

Offering by Abhishek Kumar

Dear Srila Prabhupada
All glories unto your Lotus feet

It has been some time since I joined the moment you started. I cannot express how much your wisdom of bhakti has helped me in my personal life. Your own story of all the great struggles and unflinching faith in your own guru, Maharaj, is so deep. Not to say your compassion for all the jivas. You were the one man at such a ripe age who knew how to execute the mission of your guru Maharaj. How much faith is required to do so? At the age when people retire and enjoy life with kids, grandkids, and their loved ones to take care of them, you were living alone, struggling alone. Bearing all the hardships, saving every penny so that you can print books, and you used to distribute them to people personally. All of this just so that people can understand the message of Krishna. This shows your love for Krishna and how much you actually care about all of us who are kept like prisoners in this material world and you came just to free us. For us, you represent the entire guru parampara. You are one who is connecting us to Krishna and the entire guru parampara.

You have always maintained such great loyalty to the parampara and not deviating even one inch from what Srila Chaitanya Mahaprabhu taught, what the Six Goswamis wrote, the entire philosophy and the practice. You kept the purity of the parampara and presented things as they are.

Your vision, your love, your devotion are just out of the world.

I am trying to follow as you have prescribed. There are so many pitfalls every day, but still, I have faith in your mercy. I am still caught in a lot of complexities of material life and at the same time trying to follow your instructions. Kindly bless me so that I can follow you as you had told us, what you have preached to us.

Hare Krishna
Your servant
Abhishek Kumar

Offering by Kartikeya Das

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

Prabhupad, on this Vyasa puja ceremony I am making this insignificant attempt to glorify you! My homage is like the kinder garden kid’s attempt to make a birthday card for his father’s birthday who hardly knows writing, language or hardly has any maturity.

Prabhupad this vyasa Puja I had questions and for all of them I could get only one answer. I am presenting these questions & answer as my offering at your lotus feet.

How come so many thousands of people are accepting the teachings of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.
Prabhupad, its only by your inspiration.

How come so many thousands of people are getting connected to the glorious Gaudiya Vaishnav Sampraday.
Prabhupad, its only by your inspiration.

How come so many thousands of people have given up or aspiring to giveup 4 sinful activities viz. meat eating, gambling, illicit sex & intoxication.
Prabhupad, its only by your inspiration.

How come so many thousands of people have taken a vow of taking only Krishna Prasad and never eat unoffered food.
Prabhupad, its only by your inspiration.

How come so many thousands of people are aspiring to become pure devotees of Lord Sri Krishna by rendering offenseless Devotional service.
Prabhupad, its only by your inspiration.

How come so many thousands of people are desiring to go only to Goloka Vrindavan to serve the Lord eternally & not even think of Vaikunta in wildest of dreams.
Prabhupad, its only by your inspiration.

How come so many thousands of people are endeavoring to connect others to Lord Sri Krishna through this most powerful path of Bhakti sacrificing their personal & family time, energy, hard-earned, money and life.
Prabhupad, its only by your inspiration.

How come so many thousands of people having different natures in the age of Kali are staying in ISKCON and trying to push forward this mission amidst so many misunderstandings & fights.
Prabhupad, its only by your inspiration.

How come so many thousands of people in the age of glitter, glamour and sense gratification are giving up all that & becoming fulltime devotees of Lord Sri Krishna.
Prabhupad, its only by your inspiration.

How come so many thousands of people from all around the world are aspiring to settle in Vrindavan, Mayapur, Jagganath Puri permanently & continue their devotional services.
Prabhupad, its only by your inspiration.

How come so many thousands of people who were destined to go hell, are now destined to go to Goloka Vrindavan.
Prabhupad, its only by your inspiration.

How come even after your physical departure, ISKCON is still growing exponentially.
Prabhupad, its only by your inspiration.

How come a fallen soul like me, is still able to continue practicing Bhakti and aspire to attain Krishna’s eternal service this very life. I don’t have any other answer expect for these few words ‘Prabhupad, its only by your inspiration.’.

Thank you for accepting me as your own servant and allowing me to render service as a fulltime ISKCON devotee. Please continue to shower your blessings onto this most fallen soul and please empower me to act as your instrument in this mission.

Aspiring to serve you till my last breath & latter,
Kartikeya Das

Offering by Hariksetra das

Dear Srila Prabhupada
Please accept my respectful obeisance
All glories to you.

Srila Prabhupada, your greatness can be understood by the result that you have produced. I was listening to a Janmashtami lecture that you gave in 1968, in which you asked your disciples, at that time who had spent 1 or 2 years in ISKCON to speak on their realizations of Krishna. It was a spontaneous talk. It was amazing for me to hear them speak pure unadulterated Krishna consciousness with solid backing of logic and sastra. How can such new devotees speak so amazingly. It was all coming from their heart and what they are really practicing. This proves the greatness of your divine grace. You could inspire people to take up Krishna consciousness and enable them to advance greatly in a short time. The pastimes during your personal presence is the proof. Devotee still can get that effect if they follow your instructions and read your books regularly.

My personal prayer to you and my guru maharaj is the same since years. Every day I beg to get some taste for chanting and studying Srimad Bhagavatam. Due to my bad conditioning and offences towards the Holyname, i keep losing the right mood towards the Holyname. By chanting of your pranam mantra and offering prayers to you i feel sheltered and protected. It is Krishna that everyone is looking for and you have Him, and you are ready to give Krishna to anyone. This thought gives me lots of hope and it infuses life into my practice of chanting of your pranam mantra and offering of prayers unto you.

The spiritual master offers his shelter by offering bonafide instructions and bonafide service. To get these is the sign of great mercy of the Lord. We are fortunate to get your bonafide instructions and by the grace of your loyal followers, we are fortunate to get bonafide service to make Bangalore a Krishna conscious city. To make 100 centres in Bangalore. To create unity among the devotees. While preaching we may develop belongingness beyond limits and develop misunderstandings with other capable preachers, that simply weakens the mission and it is a disservice to your grace. Please bless me with qualities of sacrifice and tolerance to execute this difficult instruction of keeping devotees united and happy.

This year we celebrated Janmashtami in 13 different locations as against 8 in the last year. Each Janmashtami is a potential seed for a centre to be opened. By your grace we have been able to get a land in this area for building a nice temple which will act as an education and training hub for all the devotees. Still lots to be done in your service.

Due to my offensive nature and harsh speech i end up offending devotees. Even though unqualified in many ways somehow I am blessed to be engaged in bonafide service of the Lord. By your grace I am confident that I can become purified and be of some real service to you. Thank you for this great mercy upon me. I am eternally grateful for this special blessings.

Your servant
Hariksetra das

Offering by Harish Kumar Vaddepally

nama om vishnu-padaya krishna-preshthaya bhu-tale
srimate bhaktivedanta-svamin iti namine

namas te sarasvate deve gaura-vani-pracharine
nirvishesha-shunyavadi-pashchatya-desha-tarine

Dear Srila Prabhupada,

Hare Krishna,

Please accept my humble obeisances unto your lotus feet.

On this auspicious day of your 128th anniversary of your appearance, I am very fortunate to express my heartfelt gratitude to you.Oh prabhupada, today we are able to understand the most critical scriptures easily only because of your preachings and books. Today we are able to enjoy soul stirring Kirtan, delicious prasadam only because of you. If you would not have been there , then where was a mission called ISKCON and what would have happened to the fallen souls like me. We could have simply continued the culture of hippies and got stuck in this cycle of birth and death. It is only because of you prabhupada, we are out of this cycle and able to progress towards the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Even though I am very new to Krishna consciousness, I am able to follow and practice spiritual path very easily, it is only because of you and ISKCON. You gave an opportunity to serve the Lord by taking his holy name. By your mercy only I have understood the purpose of life with the help of your preachings and books.

I pray to your lotus feet, Please help me in absorbing Krishna consciousness, understanding your books & preachings and serving the Lord more and more

My heartfelt thanks to you Srila Prabhupada.

Your servant
Harish

Offering by Mamata Dey

Dear Srila Prabhupada

Please accept my respectful obeisance

All glories to you.

On the Vyas Puja Offering I am so fortunate to share my deep gratitude for you.

You have been an extraordinary personality and a Senapathi Bhakta of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.
You are very humble, kind and gave love to all living beings.
You have never compromised on the 4 Regulative Principles although preached in the west.
You have been a determined and surrendered soul who have shown the entire world that Krsna is the Supreme Personality of God Head and hence never compromised on the name Krsna Consciousness .
You have showed us that Guru Puja is first, if any one does not serves the Guru first then God does not accept his prayers.
You have said that, Your Guru Maharaj used you say, We should not try to see God.Just work in such a way that that God may see you.
I like your revolutionary statement “Dont waste your time how to solve your economic problem. This is non sense.”
When we understand that our father is the Richest man in this universe then there is no economic problem.

tasyaiva hetoḥ prayateta kovido
na labhyate yad bhramatām upary adhaḥ
tal labhyate duḥkhavad anyataḥ sukhaṁ
kālena sarvatra gabhīra-raṁhasā
SB ŚB 1.5.18

Persons who are actually intelligent and philosophically inclined should endeavor only for that purposeful end which is not obtainable even by wandering from the topmost planet [Brahmaloka] down to the lowest planet [Pātāla]. As far as happiness derived from sense enjoyment is concerned, it can be obtained automatically in course of time, just as in course of time we obtain miseries even though we do not desire them.

Thank you Srila Prabhupada for being so merciful to fallen soul like me.

The success of my life is to constantly being engaged in your service.
Srila Prabhupada, you have taught us that Krsna Consciousness makes a person perfect in everything.
You have taught us that Perfect Knowledge comes from God and distributed by Disciplic Succession.

As we know that all our senses are imperfect. We are not perfect, we commit mistakes, we are illusioned and we have cheating propensity.
Srila Prabhupada, with anarthas in me, I believe you are so merciful and kind and are always present and encourage during hard time of Book Distribution and sevas.
As I have recently been given the seva of Bhakti Vriksha servant leader. I know I have no such qualification and I pray to you during each and every BV session to empower me to convey the message as it is and the participants get the message as it is conveyed by you and that they enjoy this journey of Krsna Consciousness. Also it is through your mercy that I am able to take the BV sessions. Please forgive me for any offences.

Our Heart felt prayers unto your Lotus feet. Kindly keep us guided and shower your mercy so that we can continue our sadhana diligently and be in the Krsna Consciousness path forever.
Kindly Shower your abundant mercy to our Mentor and Bless all our Radha Raman BV members and their families to progress well in Krsna Consciousness.

Your eternal Servant
Indrajit Dey
Mamata Dey

Offering by Hritik Shah

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

Dear Srila Prabhupada,
Please accept my humble obeisances unto your lotus feet.

There is a quote that says:
Live without pretending
Hear without defending
Speak without offending (and)
Love without expecting

O Srila Prabhupada, you are the personification of this statement. Although you have lived these qualities all your life, please accept my humble offering as I share some of your pastimes which exemplify each of them.

It is said that a person’s character is defined by his behaviour when no one is watching him. It is quite easy to act like a devotee but very difficult to become one. Your life was the instruction of your spiritual master to spread the message of Lord Chaitanya in the western world and you lived solely for that purpose. You did not pretend to be a guru in order to fulfil some ulterior motives like desire for fame and prestige. When asked if you are the guru of the famous hippi sensation Allen Ginsberg, you instantaneously replied that “I am nobody’s guru. I am everybody’s servant. Actually I am not even a servant; a servant of God is no ordinary thing.” Your immediate response shows your natural humility.

In the courtyard of the Radha-Damodara temple, when the whole world was fast asleep, you would piteously cry for the mercy of Srila Rupa Goswami while sweeping the Samadhi.

When your western disciples first started visiting the house of Sri Advaita Acarya in Santipura, the pujari there narrated that a grihastha Bengali devotee used to come alone and quite often and used to chant there for many hours, sometimes with tears in his eyes. Then, for a very long time, he did not come. In August, 1965 he saw a saffron-clothed sanyasi chanting and weeping constantly. He recognised that it was the same person who used to come 10-20 years ago. Upon asking for his introduction, the man said that “My name is Abhaya Charanaravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami Maharaja. I am an unworthy disciple of His Divine Grace Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, Srila Prabhupada, my divine master. I have been coming here for such a long time because my gurudeva has given me an impossible mission. His desire was for me to go across the ocean to the Western countries and spread the sublime teachings of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. There are countless souls there who have never heard of Sri Sri Radha-Krishna, and so they are suffering greatly. I have not known how this mission of his will be successful, so I have been coming here to this special house of Advaita Acharya, where He, Nityananda Prabhu, and Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu would gather together to plan the sankirtana movement. It was here that They launched the inundation of love of God that swept India and continues to this day. Thus I have been praying very earnestly here that They will all give me Their mercy that somehow They will empower me and guide me. I want to satisfy my gurudeva’s desire, but I am feeling unqualified to do this. Tomorrow I am leaving for Calcutta to go upon a ship across the ocean, to America. I do not know what will befall me there, but I am praying most earnestly here for help.” Thus, even when no one was watching you, your activities were the same which shows that you always lived without pretending.

When Mr. Mukherjee heavily insulted you in public for preaching in Christian countries, you simply heard his blasphemy and were not disturbed in the least. In fact, you again called for him to bless him. You humbly said that he took revenge from you for something from the previous life. In this way, you hear without defending yourself from personal insults but when Krsna or His devotees are blasphemed, you do not tolerate that.

Although your speech might seem harsh sometimes, but that doesn’t mean that you are offending. Just like a father sometimes speaks harsh words to discipline his son, similarly your chastisements are seen as your causeless mercy by your disciples. Despite that, in your last days, you very humbly asked for forgiveness from your disciples and godbrothers even though you always spoke without offending.

When a disciple of yours started smoking again, you asked to send the message that you will reject him if he doesn’t stop smoking. When asked again if you would really do that, you replied “No, I cannot reject anyone. The mercy of Lord Nityananda has no limit.” Another disciple of yours fell into bad association of bogus gurus and started doing some tricks in public to earn some money which was giving you and ISKCON a bad name. When advised that you should reject him your response was the same. Your love is the manifestation of the mercy of Nityananda Prabhu. Even though many of your disciples were not following your instructions, you did not withdraw your causeless mercy upon them which exemplifies your love without having any tinge of expectations.

Unless I turn 70 and go through 3 heart attacks at that age, only then I can begin to truly understand the price that you have paid to establish this movement.

Prabhupada, at the present moment, I’m really not sure of whatever I’m doing in the Krsna-consciousness movement, if it is really pleasing to you. But, if you are pleased with this insignificant offering, even just a little bit, please make me your humble instrument to execute your will and bless me with intelligence and determination required for the same.

Aspiring to be a servant of your servants

Hritik