Offerings of Love

Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda,

Please accept my prostrated obeisances in the dust of your lotus feet. All glories to Your Divine Grace.

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

I am unlimitedly eternally indebted to you as you have showered me your inconceivable causeless mercy of unlimited profound love of Krishna and His dear devotees.

In turn taking burden of unlimited sins accumulated over millions of life. I have no idea how all this fortune has come to me to be part of this glorious wonderful family.

Śrīla Prabhupāda, once a devotee asked you – “What pleases you the most?”. After a brief pause you replied “If you love Krishna”. My humble prayer to you on this most auspicious day of your divine appearance in this material world is to
– please give me the strength to follow your divine instructions with faith and conviction,
– please bless me that I can properly follow your footsteps, mold my life according to the examples you so mercifully set, and
– please bestow us with the capacity to co-operate together despite umpteen challenges, difficulties and ironies of Kali-yuga.

I pledge to renew my efforts to sincerely chant the Holy Names and study regularly your transcendental books. I fall at your lotus feet and beg to remove my various shortcomings due to my selfish egoism and spiritual laziness to push your divine movement.

Your eternal servant,
Sudhir Gopal das

Dear Srila Prabhupada

Please accept my respectful obeisance

All glories to you.

Over the years my appreciation for your teachings is increasing more and more. You are not just another teacher, but a tattva-darśi, one who has seen the truth. Bhagavad-gita 4.34 says a tattva-darśi can impart knowledge. Not just that you are one who has been proclaimed to spread the Krishna consciousness far and wide all over the world.

I try myself and try to inspire other to hear your lecture and read your divine books regularly. There is no other hope for us who are in the darkness of kali yuga to understand Krishna and oneself.

Thankyou Srila Prabhupada for your invaluable books and vani.

I am trying to keep the preaching spirit high by the inspiration and order of my Gurumaharaj. By endeavoring to execute the instructions of my Gurudev i am sure you will be pleased. May the instruction to make Bangalore the first Krishna Conscious city be constantly ringing in my mind.

On your auspicious Vyasapuja i pray that i always remain your servant. Please save me from various anartas, desire for sense gratification and desires for puja, labha and adoration.

Your servant

Hariksetra das

Dear Respected Srila Prabhupada,

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

One day one devotee told that there is one personality who is worshipped all the times in span of 24 hours, it is none other than you Srila Prabhupada. Because at any time there is somewhere in the world Guru Puja is going on. It means the real Jagad Guru.

Just concluded Sri Krishna Janmashtami, we can see your mission of spreading Holy name is continuously getting spread to all souls. Similarly few years ago it was me Srila Prabhupada, though it is my fortune but it is your causeless mercy that your bestow the supreme fortune on undeserved soul like me.

Although your gifts to the world are unlimited and inconceivable—because you distributed the most precious object of the spiritual world, love for Krishna- there are several contributions you made that are particularly significant, and we can break them down into three main categories:

i) Society where everyone can stay- ISKCON is the perfect manifestation of your mercy Srila Prabhupada. Due to the extremely difficult and sinful nature of the age in which we live, the age of Kali, it is practically impossible to practice Krishna Consciousness. Srila Prabhupada you gave ISKCON- a family and Holy name which is like a ship that is helping to pass through the ocean of material nature, where there is every opportunity to slip from the path of spirituality.

ii) Books- You went to the West and translated the most important of the Vedic texts, and presented them with his unique Bhaktivedanta purports for the ultimate benefit of the world at large.
You presented this books in such a systematic and sublime way that while a scholar will appreciate them on one particular level, a simple child can enter into their mysteries as well. Indeed your books are the most important aspect of your gift to humanity. You had boldly declared that these books will be the spiritual law books for this world for the next ten thousand years.

iii) Devotees- Touchstone is recognized by its quality to transform iron into gold, similarly Prabhupada you have transformed materialistic people into devotees. In general people would like to see the miracles- more than this what could be the miracles-transforming materialistic people into devotees.

When we look closely at your disciples Srila Prabhupada, it becomes quite obvious that most of them are very special personalities, with extraordinary spiritual qualities. Anyone- no need to have spiritual vision-can recognize that the real greatness of you Srila Prabhupada was your ability to elevate the most fallen souls to the highest spiritual platform.

On this very auspicious and special occasion, I can only hope and wish to become instrument by your causeless mercy in spreading your mission Srila Prabhupada.

Thank you so much Srila Prabhupada.
Your eternally debted soul,
Yugala Kisora das

Dear Srila Prabhupada

Please accept my respectful obeisances.

Every time I recite the prayer mukam karoti vachalam pangum langhayate girim yat-kripa tam aham vande shri-gurum dina-taranam, I feel that I do not have any good quality or capability in me. Whatever little I have learnt or got, it is all but of your kind mercy.

I am actually a dump person because even after completing my so called degree, I was not able to frame a single sentence in any language I had learnt. But now by your mercy, you gave me the capability to speak to and convince few people to take up the process that you have given us.

I am actually a lame person, spiritually. My life was without an orientation. I was living like a dog or cat without any purpose of life. It is you who are directing my life through your amazing books and enlightening lectures. Otherwise what hope do I have got to cross over this mountain of material existence being spiritually lame; it’s absolutely insurmountable. By your mercy, I am able to walk; I have confidence that I will be able to cross the mountain by your mercy.

Srila Prabhupada, your conviction in the words of your spiritual master; your strong faith in the teachings of Bhagavad Gita, Bhagavatam and the holy name of Krishna are all obviously revealed in your lectures and teachings. I am simply amazed at you. Your are my favourite personality of my life. I am simply trying to become a devotee like you. And you wanted all your followers to become like you or even more than you. You kick away our doubts and illusion in the coarse by asking “what is the difficulty?”.

Srila Prabhupada, I wish to take this opportunity to thank you for the amazing books you have given us taking so much of hardship in the coarse of writting them, for your thunderbolt like striking lectures which destroys all our ignorance, for the amazing and practical guidance you have given through letters, morning walks, conversations etc for all fallen people like me could also gain great hope in our spiritual journey and for demonstrating by your own personal example to the whole world how a devotee should always be living remembering and serving for the pleasure of guru and Krishna.

Srila Prabhupada, I wish to become a devotee as you expect but I have lots of non-sense in me. I am willing to co-operate with you to correct myself, to change myself for your pleasure. But I need your help. I am a fool. I don’t know what is ultimately good for me. My mind too cheats me regularly and takes me for a useless ride within this material world and gets me to do so many crazy things. But your message my savior again and again. You are my hope. I wish not to leave your dhoti. The only desire is to be in the association of your sincere followers. Also give me the intelligence to wholeheartedly accept that association as my great hope of deliverance. Please bless me with a drop of your mercy, so that I will be able to please you by spreading your message. Please bless me that I will be able please your disciple HH Jayapataka Swami Guru Maharaj who is your representative for me. I have no reason to demand your mercy as I have not done anything which would please you. But I need your mercy. I am hoping on it as my only hope.

Thank you Srila Prabhupada.

Your servant
Bandhu Madhava das

Dear Srila Prabhupada,

Please accept my humble obeisances.

I fumble on where to begin as I am far from being qualified to glorify you. All I know is that I would have continued to be as lost in this world as I was till a few months back had it not been for you and your mercy.

I cannot describe what I felt when I met you at your Samadhi mandir. You cast your mercy on me and decided to change my life. Thank you for that! In the days that followed, I thought of you as my grandfather who was showing me the right path.

You lovingly would wake me up early on several mornings to help me complete my chanting so that I could become serious in Bhakti.

Thank you for giving us the simple and beautiful process of Krishna consciousness and for helping us revive our lost relationship with Krishna.

Thank you for Iskcon and your wonderful disciples who are doing such a great job of helping fallen souls such as I. I am sure you must be very proud of their work.

Thank you for all the beautiful books that you have written. We can pass our entire lives reading those. Every time I read your purports, I discover something new and find a meaning which I had not understood before.

Thank you for all your wonderful kirtans that I immerse my mornings in. Your transcendental voice cleanses my soul every time I hear it.

Thank you for all your lectures. I am hearing the Bhagavad Gita lectures and feel extremely fortunate to have access to this timeless wisdom in your voice.

Thank you for all your letters and teachings. I wake up to one of these snippets every morning. I have been meditating on one of those in which you say ‘I am your Spiritual Father, and Krishna is your Spiritual Husband’. Prabhupada, it’s been far too long now that this unchaste soul left her Spiritual Husband because she wanted to ‘enjoy’ in this material world. Please protect me, my Spiritual Father, from maya, till you have cleansed me enough to be delivered to my Spiritual Husband.

When I see your eyes looking at Krishna, I realize what a long way I still have to go. Please bless me, Srila Prabhupada, with your mercy. I beg that you forgive me for all the mistakes that I may make in this journey of Krishna consciousness and help me go back home to Godhead this very lifetime.

An aspiring servant of your servant of your servant,
Monomita

Dear Jagadguru Srila Prabhupada,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to you and Sri Sri Gaur Nitai.

I am not eligible to describe your unlimited causeless mercy on human beings. Everytime I hear or think about you, I can’t stop wondering about your efforts and achievements. They are all eternal and merciful to human beings such as travelling at the age of 68 to western countries, transforming hippies to vaishnavas by preaching inconceivable philosophy with simple analogies, establishing ISKCON globally and giving access to vedic scriptures to millions of people and so on.

It is still tough to understand your mercy for a selfish person like me who can’t spend a couple of hours a day in service.

By God’s mercy, I had a curiosity to understand God from my childhood. My mother used to tell Mahabharat and Ramayana as she knew it and fortunately I had access to harikathas, Annamayya Keerthanas and some philosophical books. I used to change my favorite god as per my understanding and finally attracted to Rama and Hanuman after a lot of mental friction. Even this level of spiritual attraction used to help me in making complex decisions without being influenced by polluted thoughts. I was almost settled with this level of progress as I was not getting a spiritual Guru who can help me understand the real philosophy.

I started associating with Art of Living and started following Sadguru to enlighten myself. Even then I was not satisfied with the answers. However you made spiritual wisdom easily accessible for all your disciples and also for others. Finally here I am holding a hand of a vaishnava in Krishna consciousness. Today I strongly believe I just need to hold a true vaishnava’s little finger and he will take me to the destination.

Please help me develop taste in hari nama sankirtan and let me associate with your disciples forever. I may not jump up and down freely with all the attachments I have developed so far and I may fail to serve your servants and Krishna too. Please help me constantly motivate myself to make honest attempts from my side and help me correct my mistakes that puts me on the right path.

I beg you to accept me as your servant even though I am not qualified yet.

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna krishna krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

Your Servant,
Jyotheeswara Reddy J

Hare Krishna Prabhuji
Dandavat Pranams

Thank you so much for allowing me to write offering to Srila Prabhupada. It is very hard to start describing what Srila Prabhupada has done to our lives over the past 2 years. Though utterly unqualified to write about this exalted personality, please accept my offering at your Lotus feet Srila Prabhupada and continue to give us shelter.

We were aimless in life just running behind money, name, fame, etc. which is of no value, without even realizing what this life is for. We had no real friends and didn’t even know what true love is. You have made us realize the importance of human life and how to really utilize this opportunity to attain the highest perfection.

We had read so many times that Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead in your purports but once we realized what Supreme Personality of Godhead when it was explained how Universes are created from the pore of Maha Vishnu, it was mind blowing. How easily you had given such high philosophy!! And how easily we neglect those words!! When you had asked us to read the purports scrutinizingly, I never understood what it meant unless I was allowed to take up Bhakti Shastri course. I really learnt how to relish your writings when senior devotees taught about it. Thanks for giving me that opportunity to learn from the seniors.

If it had not been for your books in English, I would have never got an opportunity to study Bhagavad Gita or Srimad Bhagavatham as I don’t know Hindi or Sanskrit. I am always indebted to the dedication you had to get these books printed and distributed. When I read from your life history of how you were roaming on the streets of Delhi trying to distribute the Back to Godhead magazine all alone without any support from friends of family, even when attacked by a bull, it brings in tears looking at your compassion to deliver fallen souls like me. How devoted
you were to follow the words of your Guru and how much faith you had in Lord Krishna!!

The perseverance you had to travel to the West at an advanced age of 70 surviving two heart attacks on Jaladuta taking shelter of Chaitanya Charitamrta; the amount of tolerance you had when you had to stay with a family in the West sharing the kitchen where vegetarian food was not cooked; your determination of starting to write all over again even after your typewriter got stolen with the manuscript, to deliver Krishna to people thereby converting them from hippies to greatest devotees and Diksha Gurus; your resoluteness in speaking about Krishna to the mass of people who hadn’t even seen or heard about Krishna in their entire life; encouraging everyone according to their ability to serve in this mission; by continuing to serve as the preeminent siksha Guru to everyone who joins this
society even today, etc speaks volumes of your exalted personality and character which only a Senapati Bhakta can do as foretold by Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.

You had done so much to us yet still due to my fallen state I keep doing lot of mistakes. On this occasion of Vyas Puja, I fall at your Lotus feet and beg you to shower your mercy so that you empower us in following the four regulative principles, chanting 16 rounds everyday without any offense, not committing any aparadh to the devotees, keeping us in devotee association all through our life, continuing to do devotional service till our last breath, trying to serve the instructions of our seniors to our best, distributing your books and message to as many souls as possible, making our kid Krishna conscious and finally reaching Goloka Vrindavan.

Thanks once again to have given this opportunity to write to you Srila Prabhupad.

All glories to you Srila Prabhupad!!
Hare Krishna
Indhu R

Dear Srila Parbhupada.
Please accept My respectful obeisances. All glories to you.

Currently the whole World is suffering in pandemic and all living beings are in a distressed and diseased condition.

But we are so fortunate to be enlightened and enriched under your shelter, surrender and cared by the wonderful family of devotees gifted with your transcendental books and the Nectarian Holy name.

First time I heard your biography from one of the devotee which was a highly spiritually enriching experiences.

Srila Prabhupad is a monk from India. He mat his guru spiritual teacher in 1920s. So, his guru said that happiness is not in our Bank balances, is not our beauty, is not our degrees, its nothing to do External things or External pleasures. Its comes from with in, it is in our sprit. The true happiness comes when we connect this spiritual energy to the universal energy is the real happiness.

He was really inspired by this mind blowing concept. At that time Prabhupad was like us, his carrier and other things. He literally waited for 30 years himself to understand this concept. And finally in 1960 his guru said that share this knowledge through out the world. At that time he had the family, friends and his followers in India but out of his respect of his guru he left everything and He went to America. But don’t have any money. He went out and asked so many people, his age that time 69 years. Everybody said …. Hay…. Old man you will die….. if you go to United States. But he insisted “I have to share this message” and finally he got the ticket and he started on August 13 th 1965. He travelled for 35 days, in these 35 days, he is only passenger on the ship. Going through all sickness, decynes and he had two missive heart attacks and he landed in Boston. Finally by himself no money , no friends.

That personality we can see sitting on the Asana in ISKCON Temples. He is the founder of ISKCON and he takes the order of his spiritual master on his head goes to America at the age of 70. He attract the youth of America, who are their early 20s and they are one who takes this process of chanting . They do not even know what this Mantra all about, they do not know what this Aarthi all about. The place where Vedic culture do not understand , how difficult it must be to establish Krishna Consciences to show everything from the basic. But Srila Praphupad did that. The young boys and girls who are coming from hippy background they chanted Hare Krishna , associated with Srila Prabhupad , they became Hippies to Happies and they are one who are assisted by Prabhupad and publishing , writing all these books.

Srila Prabhupad letters to his Devotees and His Preaches

1976
“ Eat Prasadam how much you want , you became a Krishna Consciousness”
Because in Kaliyuga all people mostly thinking about food and eating . If we eat outside food we will fall in diseases. Similarly of we eat Krishna Prasadham , we will fall in disease of Krishna Consciousness.

1968
Vrindavan does not require modified. It has its Natural Beauty. Krishna and Balaram has 9lakhs cows protected by them and cowboys. As of today also Vrindavan looks like village, small cottages and simple living people , lots of Temples and vans.

1968
In the King’s seat a bug is sitting and King also sitting. But king is king and bug is a bug. They
never be equal. Similarly God and living entity is different. When Krishna came to Bhuloka , he was playing and staying with friends and family, but still Bhagavan position is different and living entity position is different.

1976
When a child will born , Mother will get immediately breast milk. Elephant can eat 200kg everyday , An ant will eat a small. Who is suppling this ? Only Krishna. Everything God will see. So we have to do only Krishna Consciousness.

1975

We cant stop fighting between cats and dogs. Some people are saying Hindu and Muslims, India and Pakistan, Man and Woman. We are all bodily concept . We have all Atma inside our body.

1969
Special Devotees will come from Bhagavan’s dham. They will do their duties in this material world to recover like us fallen soles. Still if fallen soles will not do Krishna Consciousness Again they will return to this material world. Vaisnavas never die.

There is no end of Srila Prabhupada ‘s glorifications. We have a strong desire to purify our self and chant Hare Krishna Mantra offenselessly. So

please shower your mercy to us.

Your Servant,
Kabita Choudhuri

Dear Srila Prabhupad,
We offer you our respectful obeisance.

We all devotees are thankful to you because today we got rid of this harmful world by chanting the names of Krishna which was invented by Chaitanya Mahaprabhu the incarnation of Krishna. We all know that you worked hard for translating Bhagvat Gita which gives us true knowledge instead of the millions of which teach us ‘darkness of ignorance’ but your book consists of reality of life in this material world. Millions of people got to know Krishna Consciousness by reading your holy books.

Today we are the servants of the lord of senses because of you. You have fulfilled the dreams of many great sages and without you we would be useless. Please bless us so that we can carry out your instructions and spread Krishna Consciousness.

Please accept our sevice.
Your servant,
Nikita Sahu

Dear Srila Prabhupada,

Please accept my respectful obeisance

All glories to you.

You have shown us the way to get advanced in bhakti. You told us that our entire life is the preparation time for final exam and death is the final exam and showed us this by your own example. You are very faithful to Krishna. When you started the journey for U.S.A you had only 40rs with you, but you had strong faith in Krishna that he will take care and Krishna really took care of you personally as you are a pure devotee. It is because of you we are able to practice bhakti so comfortably.

You had gone through a lot of struggle so that we can practice bhakti comfortably and can go back to home, back to godhead. You had constructed 108 ISKCON temples in just 10 years all over the world, including the countries like Russia and Pakistan. You have published 55,314,000 books in 23 languages in just 10 years which is not even imaginable for a normal person to publish in one lifetime. You have explained the Vedic culture so scientifically and logically that everyone can understand it easily. During translation of the books you had gone through lot of hardship as you could sleep only 2-3 hours in a day. You had one pointed focus on preaching Krishna consciousness. You are an ideal person, teacher and philosopher. You had given your life to Krishna and lit up the Ray if hope for us. we are very lucky to have your association through audio recordings. I will follow your footsteps and hope I can get the association of your lotus feet.

Ys,
Sourav Dey

Dear Prabhupad,

Dandavath Pranaam. Please accept my sincere obeisance. I started my journey with ISKCON (Bellandur sector) from the last October (2019). I was under the impression that ISKCON is a costly temple society with lots of funds (mainly from abroad), offers puja to Lord Krishna and sells books. Tasty Prasadam and Keerthan were the two attractive forces which pulled me towards free Bagawath Gita sessions. After joining the team, I started tasting the sweetness of chanting along with the classes. My spiritual master, Sri Karthikeya Prabhu delivered wonderful lectures and I started receiving some knowledge from these classes.

After completing basic course, we registered ourselves for the next advanced sessions in Gita after qualifying mandatory chanting of one round. In the meanwhile, pandemic of Corona started and we migrated to online sessions. We got sufficient time at home because of lockdown. Karthikeya Prabhu started sessions on Srimad Bagawatham and your biography. I started understanding very useful information from these sessions. I fell in love with you. I started to know about your movement of Krishna Consciousness, reading your books like Beyond Birth and Death, Krsna, Science of Self Realization, Srimad Bhagawat Gita and Bhagawatam. I tried to analyze the received information and put efforts in understanding your roles. I realized that your roles are multiple and at the same time they are contrast to each other. You are a sincere student to your Guru and at the same time, a great Guru for all of us. I learnt that you are a musician, singer, dancer, writer, administrator, chef, Visionary, fighter (in Court dealings), negotiator, spokesperson, fearless warrior, economist and many more. These are not possible for an ordinary person. Your service to the mankind is unbounded and your love is unconditional. Your respect to your Guru (Guru Nista) is incomparable. I admit that I am not a qualified soul to glorify you. Your mercy on us makes me to understand you to some extent. Your writings are very simple to understand and have strong message. You helped us in understanding our real nature of soul, who the God is, our relationship with God. You have shown us the easy path of going back to Godhead. Your purports for Gita Slokas and Bhagavatam are big boons to mankind. The positive energy received from reading your writings, hearing your lectures & Chanting Mahamantra is the main instrument in our survival during this pandemic situation. Now I realized what ISKCON is all about and what the contributions it made to the society. I feel fortunate for all the things you have given us in the form of books, audio lectures, letters, mantra chanting etc. I sincerely beg your mercy in continuing my journey with ISKCON through devotees association, following regulatory principles, following instructions given by Guru and going back to the Godhead.

Yours Servant of Servant,
B V N Ramakumar

Dear Srila Prabhupada!

Please accept my humble obeisances! All glories to you, Srila Prabhupada!

I have zero qualification to glorify you. But for my own purification, let me attempt to glorify you.

Srila Prabhupada, just like other ordinary person I was trying to enjoy my senses in this material world. Somehow by the causeless mercy of you and your disciples I reached this right place.

When I hear your lectures, I can understand how compassionate you are and how dedicated you are to your Guru. By seeing the dedication of your disciples, I can understand how much of gratitude they have for you, as you have given them everything. If not for you we would have not got this one big umbrella under which we all take shelter and progress towards attaining the love for Godhead.

Srila Prabhupada, last year I enrolled for Bhakti Shastri course and have completed most of the modules. During this course I could understand how much you have given to all of us. I also understood that it is not enough to just read your books. Just reading gives knowledge and I was becoming proud of my knowledge. Pride will have a fall, but before I fell you sent devotees into my life to make me understand my anarthas.

I have now started to contemplate on what I read and try to apply it in my practical life rather than reading books from mental platform. I am taking baby steps in doing this.

I have a materially stable situation to practise bhakti, I just pray that I utilise this wonderful opportunity. I request you to please bless me and give me strength so that I can please you and the Guruparampara.

Your granddaughter,
Hema

Dear Srila Prabhupada,
Please accept my humble obeisances.

Though I have no qualification to glorify you still I m writing it as a personal letter to you.

I know you will be reading this.

Prabhupada for your pleasure I would like to inform you that I read / heard 28 chapters of KRSNA book. I liked Govardhan lila as Krishna shows himself as the Supreme Personality Of Godhead in that lila. I would like to contiue reading / hearing pastimes from KRSNA book.

Prabhupada please help me come back to you after this lifetime. Meanwhile I would like to help you to continue your mission of preaching Krishna Consciousness.

Your Great Grandson,
Prahlad

My first letter to Srila Prabhupada!

Dear Srila Prabhupada,

Please accept my humble obeisances.

In this material world for any work, they expect a qualification and it changes based on the kind/grade of work.

Being a conditioned soul with a bare minimum understanding of your books & teachings – I clearly know that I am not qualified to be your servant.

Knowing clearly well that I am asking for too much, I request you to kindly accept me as your servant. If at all you accept my humble request to be your servant, I would keep in mind it is not because of my qualification & would be because of your causeless mercy.

I always had questions regarding what life meant and the real purpose behind it – Those unanswered questions have haunted me throughout.

However, after reading your books, chanting and associating with great devotees here (who represent & carry your mission),
* I have found a great hope in life
* Life has become meaningful and
* I am able to identify/highlight most of my unwanted material activities

I have been able to completely abstain from non-vegetarian food for the past 5+ months (without much effort from my end) – All because of your mercy.

Having said these, I know there is a very long way ahead in this journey.

When I read your book “Perfect Questions & Perfect Answers”, some of the letters you have written to Bob seemed as if they were addressed directly to me.

In your books Srila Prabhupada you mention that a person, who is diseased, will not be able to appreciate the sweetness of a candy. There are many such incidents in my case where I fail miserably to understand/appreciate the taste of Japa due to my diseased condition and I just fall flat in your feet to help me/guide me during those instances.

I heard in a lecture that when you were asked – What can we do to make you happy? You replied by saying “Read my Books”. Keeping that in mind, as a token of gratitude, I would aim to do at least the following (setting a minimum threshold here) within the next one year –
* Read thoroughly at least five of your books
* Get somewhere between 25 to 50 BG slokas by heart

These are apart from my regular chanting.

As I write this my heart clearly says this is a very minimum threshold and is not good enough. So, I would revisit this letter again (in mid of Jan 2021) before my Birthday.

I cannot just thank you by words for the help and mercy you have bestowed unto me.

When I hear your lectures, I clearly feel (without any doubt) that God has appeared in your form to help us. Otherwise, no mundane person, can explain the kind of concepts you have dealt and enforce the higher purpose of life.

All kinds of challenges in this life can be addressed when we build our life on the premise you mentioned – “Simple Living & High Thinking”. Reading the pastimes like birth of Krishna in Vrndavana and his past times with cowherd boys helps us to strengthen the belief that even a simple life can have a great level of richness (based on our thinking). As the people of vrndavana were completely absorbed in the thoughts of Krishna even the simple things they did reflect their high level of happiness & unalloyed devotion.

Thank you once again for showing us the way and also lighting the pathway to make it easier for us to reach you. I hope I do not become the son who fails to appreciate the things his great & eternal father has done for him.

I will try to be as sincere as possible and do the best from my end in this spiritual and back to home journey. I am sure you will be guiding me from within my heart.

Please direct me whenever my thoughts are not in the right place and kindly provide me the strength (till my last breath) to meditate on the holy name and your teachings and not fall prey for petty materialistic things.

Will try even harder than before to qualify as your servant,

Pradeeph Sundar.
August, 2020.

I would like to thank Srila Prabhupada from the bottom of my heart for establishing ISKCON.
ISKCON is based on the teachings of Bhagavad Gita and Srimad Bhagavatam which makes it an authentic movement. As the doubts are cleared by the teachings of these scriptures so one has no confusion.
He taught by his personal experience that in Kaliyuga chanting the holy names is the best form of meditation and Bhakti yoga is a powerful way of self realisation.
Prabhupada left his comfortable life in Vrindavan and headed towards America at an advanced age of 70 yrs for the welfare of all

I am very fortunate that I came in contact with Prabhupada’s philosophy through his books and lectures.
Thankyou Prabhupada.

Hare Krishna,

Dear Srila Prabhupada,

Please accept my bhakti in your Lotus feet. Thank you Prabhu Ji for making thiss ISKCON association.

Srila Prabhupada ji you have shown us path of liberation & true knowledge. I was completely under ignorance but you have removed my ignorance. You are a true leader of true knowledge. Even your health was degrading but atill you have spread Krishna Conciousness all over the world.

You have given very wonderful explaination of BG and Bhagwatam . These are the precious knowledge which I have gained because of you.

Because of yoy only in this age of Kali, I am fortunate enough to get association of devotees which is very important for liberation and fighting with Maya.

Please give me your blessing & mercy so that I can overcome Maya and go back to godhead.

The humble servant of your servant,
Sandeep Tiwari

Hare Krsna !

Dear Srila Prabhupada ,

Please accept my Dandavat Pranam!
I offer my humble obeisance’s to you. All glories to you!!!

By Doing Krsna Consciousness I Have Learnt To Chant With Devotion And Learn New Mantras.
Krsna Consciousness Has Brought Peace Of Mind To Me And Help Me Stay Calm.
Chanting The Mahamantra Has Also Made Me Feel Good When I’m Sad Or Angry.
I Sincerely Thank you, your disciples and The devotees for their mercy for getting Me Into Krsna Consciousness.

Your Seva ,
Airesh

Sri Gurubhyo Namaha,

I only consider this a blessing. An opportunity to write few lines for The spiritual master on Vyasa Puja.

Getting an opportunity to have a copy of ” Bhagavat Gita, As Is” at home and reading it, is an experience which cannot be explained in words.

Thank you Prabhupada, for this wonderful treasure and showing us the path for Bhakthi.

Please accept my respectful Pranams.

Sincerely seeking your blessings,

Uthara

Dear most respected Srila Prabhupada,

Please accept my humble obeisance at your lotus feet. All glories to your books and disciples,

As Lord Krishna says that He takes everything away from the devotee whom He especially. When everything is taken away, the devotee feels helpless and frustrated in society, friendship and love. He feels that his family does not care for him any longer, and he therefore completely surrenders unto the lotus feet of the Supreme Lord. Same as this when myself and family frustrated in life with so called relatives and friends in the year of 2008 you chose me as your servant and gave me the Bhagavad Gita through a Sri Vaishnava Devotee from Madurai.

Since that day my spiritual life started and not sure I am qualified to be your servant and writing this offering but with my grateful heart the mercy that you show till now to me which I am consider myself a worthless person, your given us many devotees association at Madurai, Pune, Bangalore and all part of India and other countries, I pray at your lotus feet to kindly keep me at your devotee’s association, I am thankful to you to shown me my real guru Maharaj and hear from him continuously, I give my endless gratitude on guiding me through your books and directing me to all my beloved shiksha gurus, I am thankful to made my mother realize that Krishna is everything for her and given her strength and determination to chat 64 rounds a day.

Many humble obeisance at your lotus feet, I beg and pray to you that kindly forgive me for all the offenses that I did and doing knowingly or unknowingly and bless me with the boon that whatever situation and not sure how many births I might take in future, kindly keep me at your devotee’s association and give shelter under your dust of your lotus feet. Jai Prabhupaad.

Without your mercy I am useless, thank you for helping me to overcome obstacle in devotional service,

Kindly bless me with your endless service at your mission,

Your servants,

Praveen Ravi,
Ravi Chellam,
Thangam Ravi,
Nivetha Ravi

My humble obeisances to your Lotus feet Prabhupad. Had it not been for you, i would have been lost in this material world, without knowledge and purpose of my very existence. You personally came through your grand disciple and showered your mercy to reclaim this fallen soul. While the struggle continues, I have firm faith that the institution you have built will take me home back to Godhead and all I have to do is to keep my association alive and stay the course. Seeking your mercy upon this fallen soul. Your Servant of the servant of the servant of the Servant.