Offerings of Love

Hare Krishna, dandavat pranam,

His divine grace AC Bhakativedant Srila Prabhupad ki jay.

Thank you Srila Prabhupadji for your love, compassion and guidance. It is all because of you and your dear disciples that I am on this path of Krishna consciousness.

Seeking your blessings so that I am be able to follow your instructions.

Your Servant,
Sonia

Dear Srila Prabhupada,

Please accept our heartfelt obeisances

We are very thankful to you for establishing ISKCON by taking lot of struggle at the age of 70(usually people prefer to take rest), providing us with authentic books and to get us know the process established by Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (Sankirthana Movement – Chanting holy names of Lord Srikrishna).

In our one-year journey with the ISKCON, your lectures, books and your messages through the disciples/devotees motivate us to progress in spiritual path and become good servant of the God, devotees and brought lot of positivity in our life

All Glories to you!
Venkat Gamidi & Sirisha Gamidi

Hare Krishna,

My offering to srila Prabhupad:
I really thankful to all my senior devetees to give such opportunities..all glories to srila Prabhupada..

You have started a very great and wonderful krishna conscieness movement, because of this mission we all are getting a krishna mercy directly from krishna.. your valuable books will save millions and millions of people including me and each and every day I hearing one lecture by Prabhupadavani by that your giving instructions directly to us..

there is no shortcuts here your giving everything As its..as a beginner i studied some of your books and I m distributing as much as possible to awaken the solus..As a guru I need your blessings
in all the situation so that we can enhance more in my spiritual path and i can spread this wonderful krishna conciesness opportunity to all..

Hare Krishna,
Vijayaragavan

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 humble obeisances on the Vyasapuja day. I am falen soul in Kaliyuga and not have enough qualification to understand your mood of devotion towards Krishna. It gives me lot of pleasure to share some drop of love for you. You have changed the world by putting your passion in Krishna Bhakti.

You showed the power of Krishna all over the world. I like your great passion,teachings,principals,guidelines,lectures and Kirtan. Before coming to ISCKON I had lot of bad habits but simply chanting and make association of devotees I had overcome most of the bad habits. This is your mercy and Lord Gouranga’s mercy. Over the time I feel I am able to develop some good qualities within my heart. This changes has not done by my parents and others it happened just simply following your instruction. I want to grow in spiritual path of life. I want to develop the mood of devotion within my heart like other exalted devotees.

Please bless me so that I can carry forward your instruction and your teachings in my future life. Please accept my service as I am not mature enough to do all service to you also please forgive me for mistakes and give me inspiration so that I can serve you, Lord Krishna and Lord Gouranga.

Your servant of servant
Jyotirmoy Daradi

Dandawat Pranam to Srila Prabhupad. Srila Prabhupad was a savior for this world who made the whole world know the simplest path told by bhagwan sri Chaitanya mahaprabhu to attain the highest goal of the life.

Jai jai Prabhupad
Manish Malik

Our dearest and loving Prabhupada, please accept our humble heartfelt obeisances on to your holy feet.

We are a set of worthless souls but with your grace we have got a meaning for our lives and a road map on how to become worthful.

For me BHAKTHI was always closing the eyes and reading out all my pettiest to pettiest requirements of life but after accidentally bumping in to ISKCON Janmashtami Mahotsav followed by Gita Course and Bhahti Vriksha I have been exposed to a scientific and systematic approach to BHAKTI. Today I pray to lord only to give me an opportunity to serve him and increase my focus and love on to him.

There was a great destination always available for this sinful and fallen soul but as we live in dark so always needed a torch and a helping hand to reach there. And even after knowing the route and means we don’t go in a right direction to achieve it. This is were both Sukruthi and Guru is required and we the most fallen souls of this universe are the luckiest ones to get in contact with this great and brightest sampradaya ‘Bramha Madhva Gaudiya’.

It is only due to you:
* We understood that we are not the body but spirit souls
* We realised who our eternal father is
* Ways to go back to him
* Got introduced to Glorious Guruparampara
* With your purports we are relishing Bhagavat Gita and Bhagavatam that is leading to cleanse the contamination with in us
* Realised the need and results of offering the senses to Krishna
* We came to know where we should search for happiness that can never be lost

You are the light house of our lives.

You are the inspiration and means of motivation at every time we are pulled down in this chaotic life.

You are the most Integral part of our lives.

It is scary to even imagine what would have happened to our lives without you.

It is you who has given the real meaning of globalisation where world becomes one for one objective, Krishna.

You are converting Fools in to Phool (Flowers) that decorate the feat of our eternal father, Krishna.

My state of mind is ‘I don’t know that I don’t know’, which is most dangerous for myself and people around me. Through your structured approach of BHAKTI and realisation of Truth/Life has helped me ‘Understand that I don’t know’ and now I am taking baby steps towards acquiring knowledge of what I don’t know; which is who I am, what is the objective of my life and how can is achieve it.

Please be with me, Guide me, Hold me, Scold me when I don’t follow your instructions but please be with me.

We as a family pray at your lotus feet seeking your grace and help to come back home, to god head.

We as a family reiterate our strong will to always remain in devotee association at ISKCON and dedicate our life in the service of Krishna and his devotees.

Please bless us!
Your Servants
Deepak, Jahnavi & Sruthi Sai Sri

Dear Srila Prabhupada,

Dandvat Pranam!

My sincere thanks and gratitude to you for showing us the path of Krishna Consciousness. In short span of time, we feel the connect and Krishna’s blessings flowing into our lives. Now, we have the hope to enhance the level of our consciousness & make good use of this human birth.

Sincere regards,
Tapan

Dear Respected Srila Prabhupada

You are the epitome of devotional service, as each and every activity which a devotee is recommended to follow, you have personally set the standards for the same. For example if we take book distribution, you have single handedly released Back to Godhead magazine. If we take Kirtan who can forget the first Nagar Kirtan in Tomskin Square, Newyork. For prasadam distribution who can think of preparing feast for hippies all alone and even wrapping everything all alone after everyone left. You had spent several nights till your last breath in this material world just to give us these literatures in an understandable way.

No amount of words will be enough to describe the unconditional mercy and compassion that you have shown towards people like us. Through all these activities you have proven the fact that I on my personal behalf don’t even qualify to be a part of this mission because I am unable to execute even one these with the same mood.

In the beginning I said you “are” and not you “were”, because you continue to live through your books, lectures and mostly through the culture of Krishna Consciousness consisting of senior devotees and Maharajs. All these great souls continue the legacy and also teach us the most appropriate way of following the parampara. It was you only who thought about us and gave these great souls to us else for us it would certainly be ” na gatih kutoh api”.

If it was not you who would have told us that the real aim of life is selfless loving service to the supreme who were otherwise engaged in pleasing all the demigods and that too aimlessly.

If it was not you then who would have taught that it is practically possible to follow the seemingly impossible instructions of the spiritual master wherein yet again you had set the standards by travelling across the ocean to execute the instructions.

If it was not you who would have taught us the power of prasadam which is the simplest and the most attractive feature in all the preaching sessions for attracting not just non devotees but devotees equally.

If it was not you who would have considered this most insignificant downtrodden person like me to be considered for offerings to you. Even the so-called hippies were better placed than me who were at least wandering in search of spiritual happiness. I cannot compare myself to them also because they were fortunate to have got your personal association.

Please engage me further in your service so that I may be able to develop some affection towards the Supreme Lord and bring about some significance in my otherwise completely insignificant life.

Your most insignificant aspiring to be devotee
Anoop Kumar Srivastava

Dear Beloved Srila Prabhupada,
Please accept my humble obeisance’s at your lotus feet. All glories to You.

You have given us the true meaning of doing Bhakti, Lord Chaitanya mercy, hope for breaking chain of birth and death, and the process of getting closer to Krishna. You have lived your life to fulfill the instructions of your spiritual masters. you have introduced us to what does surrender actually means. Now you are guiding us through your books and recorded lectures.

I do not have enough words to thank you, as “thank you” is a very insignificant word for all your kind efforts in bringing us closer to Krishna. Without coming to this movement I would never have appreciated what it means to love and serve God.

It has taken me 3 years of trials and errors to get to a place where I am now able to practice Krishna Consciousness to some degree. now I have realized my only hope is to fully take shelter of my Shiksha Guru and my Guru Maharaj.

I have reached to Prabhupada Ashraya level where I have pledged to follow all regulative principles and chant 16 rounds without fail.
please bless me so that at least I could develop a desire to serve your mission.

your humble servant
Rahul R Mahajan

HARE KRISHNA SRILA PRABHUPAD I AM ETERNALLY INDEBTED TO YOU I WAS ROTTING IN THIS MATERIAL WORLD SINCE TIME IMMEMORIAL BY YOUR MERCY I WAS ABLE TO MEET YOUR DISCIPLES AND DEVOTEES OF LORD KRISHNA AND BY YOUR MERCY ONLY I AM ABLE TO PRACTICE A TINY LITTLE DEVOTIONAL SERVICE TO THE LORD.

SRILA PRABHUPAD PLEASE DONT LEAVE ME I AM NOT ABLE TO FOLLOW ALL OF YOUR INSTRUCTIONS BUT I AM ONLY TRYING TO FOLLOW SRILA PRABHUPAD PLEASE BLESS ALL OF US SO THAT WE CAN PRACTICE KRISHNA CONCIOUSNESS VERY WELL ONLY BY YOUR MERCY AND BLESSINGS CAN WE OVERCOME ALL THE OBSTACLES IN THE PATH OF BAKTHI AND ATTAIN THE LOTUS FEET OF THE LORD. SRILA PRABHUPAD PLEASE I BEG OF YOU NEVER EVER TAKE ME OUT OF KRISHNA CONCIOUSNESS THROUGH OUT ETERNITY THOUGH I AM THE DIRTIEST OBJECT IN THE WHOLE OF KRISHNA’S CREATION YOU HAVE ACCEPTED ME AND GIVEN ME THE HIGHEST SERVICE OF DEVOTION TO LORD KRISHNA NO ONE IN THE ENTIRE CREATION OF LORD IS MERCIFUL AS YOU BUT VERY UNFORTUNATE OF ME THAT I AM NOT ABLE TO SURRENDER UNTO YOUR LOTUS FEET . PLEASE SRILA PRABHUPAD I AM BEGGING YOU FOR THE EMPOWERMENT SO I CAN SURRENDER TO YOU AND RENDER SERVICE TO YOU ETERNALLY . THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ALL THAT YOU HAVE GIVEN ME BUT ALSO FORGIVE ME THAT I CANNOT EVEN REPAY YOU EVEN 0.0000001% ALL I CAN DO IS RENDER A VERY VERY TINY AMOUNT OF SERVICE TO YOU BY YOUR MERCY.

YOUR ETERNAL SERVANT
SHASHANK V

Srila Prabhupada is the eminent guru who spread Krishna consciousness to the entire world. His teachings are simple and practical (chanting of Hare Krishna maha-mantra and following four regulative principles) to be “happy” and achieve “purpose of human life”. He immensely contributed to human society by showing a path to break the cycle of birth and death and go back to home “Goloka Vrindavan”.

He is present in our thoughts via his books, voice (vani) and great learning institution as ISKCON.

Thank you
Shalini Goyal
Sanjeev Goyal

Hare Krishna

It’s our great fortune that we come to know about Srila Prabhupada in detail . Srila Prabhupada has given Vedic knowledge in its true form and revealed the easiest and practical path of Bhakti in this Kaliyuga .
We are very grateful for his teachings and blessings

Regards
Mrityunjay

Dear Prabhupad, Please Accept Our Respectful Obeisance’s at your lotus feet.

Prabhupad we do not have words and capability to explain about how you have changed our life, still just trying to convey our feelings. His Divine Grace, If we Look back 5 years in to our life – When we came in contact of you through your Krishna Conscious family, We can really see the positive change in all aspects of our life, be it Sanctity, Discipline, True devotional Practice etc.

Prabhupad you are giving us the true Knowledge on what is our actual position, who we are? Who is Supreme personality of Godhead, Where he is and how we can go back to him. By your causeless mercy only we are able to inculcate the true brahminical qualities otherwise we would have wasted our life in a wrong notion that we have already taken birth in Brahmin family and we know devotion.

One of the astonishing thing which we felt is that initially after hearing about you and reading your biography – we used to think that we now understand about you and your mood, but as we progress in association of your books and lectures we always feel that there is still much to know and we still have to go long long way to understand you a bit. Your Books works like a lighthouse which throws rays of light in the darkness of this material ocean to show us way back to Godhead. His Divine Grace, you practically showed this material world that what is the actual goal of life, how a devotee should live and die by constant remembrance of lord while performing all his actions in devotional service. We know that we don’t deserve to serve you by our words and even committed offences several times in past by belittling your position, understanding you as mere a saint; but now by your mercy only we understood that you came from lords abode and took so much of hardships to take the fallen souls back to Lord Krishna. Words can’t express how much you have given to us by allowing us in your mission – We are indebted to you forever. You are our true father, Please forgive us and keep holding our hand forever otherwise we may fall down anytime.

As we contemplate on “Guru Mukh Padma Vakya, Chhitte te Koriya Eikya, Aur na Koriho Mane Aasha” we pray at your lotus feet to give us enough strength so that we can reflect the same in our life and successfully serve in your mission by dedicatedly following your teachings and instructions in letter and Spirit.

Your Humble Servants
Abhishek, Priyanka and Ayonija

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

I am very fortunate to get shelter and serve the lord in this material world,it happened all because of you, “Lord krishna protected people by lifting govardhan hill and you protected us in this kali yuga by creating krishna Consciousness”.Please forgive me if i have done any mistakes

On this occasion with your blessings my resolution for the next 1 year is that
1) I will never leave chanting
2) Follow the instructions of my Counsellor “Karthikeya prabhu”
3) Be polite and respectful with other devotees

I beg for your mercy to give me the strength to progress on the path of Krishna Consciousness.

Your servant
Hari

Gurupranam and obeisances to Srila Prabhupada on the auspicious occasion of Vyasa Puja for having shown the world the path of Krishna consciousness.

All glories to your Grace.
Hare Krishna!
Geeta Sriram
Kadugodi Zone

Hare Krishna, Dear Srila Prabhupad,

Please accept my humble obeisances.I am unworthy to glorify, because I have not gone through or read many of your books. Recently I started reading Bhagavad-gītā, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam etc., and now I am having contact with so many senior and learned devotees association. Your spiritual masters words were your life and soul. Your servant preachers are taking on line classes. Those teachers are following exactly what is in the publications. Following and hearing that Online classes, I am inspired so much.

This and all because of your love and mercy Srila Prabhupadaji , now I am really glorifying you. Without you, I wouldn’t have been to Krishna consciousness, Thank you for the books explaining how to leave this body and to reach Goloka Virndavana with go back to Krishna

Your Servant
Vinodhini

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

Hare Krishna.

Dear respected Prabhupada,

Please accept my Astanga Pranama.

You single handedly conceptualized and set up such a big international organization to practice devotion with participation from all corners of the world. You included the entire world in this endeavour. For a long time the world had forgotten the actual meaning and process of devotional service you showed the path how pure devotional service can do all good to not only human being but also to all the living beings of all the Bramhandas.

You showed the path how one can practice devotion in any situation and become purified. You implemented real innovation in devotion by converting many waste lands, buildings, abandoned churches and many insignificant places to the place of devotional practice which later on became places of worship and very famous. Also you gave real meaning of life to many insignificant people through out world. This is real miracle.

Srila Prabhupada shrinked the whole world to a small society. Showed how to follow the Guru Parampara from any corner of the world. He exemplified how to be strict in following devotional service yet show humility.

I personally benefitted so much by this process and don’t know how can I show my gratitude. It is a process to be happy all the time and try to achieve a higher purpose of life. It is awsome process.

I bow before you again and again and seek your blessings to be part of this movement at all the time and get taste to read your books very scrutinizingly.

Your aspiring servant

Sidhartha Kumar Subudhi

Namah om Visnu Padaya Krishna Prasthaya Bhutale Srimate Bhaktivedanta Swamin iti Namine.
Namaste Saraswate devai Gaur Vani Pracarine Nirvisesa Shunyavadi Pascatya Desa Tarine.

Dear Srila Prabhupada,

First of all I offer my respected obeisances to you and wish you a very happy 124th Vyas Puja.

I am an insignificant servant in your International Society for Krishna Consciousness.

To be really honest, thank you very much for creating this society and giving us the opportunity of serving the devotees. As long as we are serving the devotees in your society, this world full of miseries and uncertainties feels like full of bliss.

I get very much inspired by seeing your representatives who are your disciples and who are preaching your message. Thank you very much for leaving them behind for us. It is our great fortune that we get to see them and get an opportunity to serve them.

I only desire the association of fired up devotees, by serving them I can also become fired up. I also desire more service in your movement. Please give me more service. I want to offer every drop of blood in my body for your service. As long as I am inhaling air in my body I want to utilize it for your service.

I really don’t want to indulge in family life as cats and dogs and grihamedhis. Please bless me so I can become an ideal and responsible grihastha. Please bless me that I can become a nice missionary in your society.

I am full of bad habits, please accept me, after so many lifetimes I have got the fortune of serving your lotus feet and lotus feet of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. I want to finish the business of Krishna Consciousness as soon as possible in this lifetime and go back to the Godhead, now I am tired of the material world.

As you told in your Jaladuta prayers ‘make me dance, make me dance’, in the same way, I wish to pray dear Srila Prabhupada please make me dance, make me dance.

Thank you very much.

Please give me more service.

Thank you very much.
Onkar Makarandrao Joshi

Hare Krishna hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna hare hare
Hare Rama hare Rama
Rama Rama hare hare

Prabhupad!!!when I heard the words “we are not this body” simple words but it is so powerful that it changed my entire life upside down…. all the prior things I had in my life before following you had become the least prior things…….
The more I listen to your words the more I find meaning and purpose for my life…
The words you speak are not yours it’s Krishna’s,so through you Im so fortunate to listen to krishna himself….

If you not you there would be no ISKON
If not ISKON there are no devotees
If not devotees I’m not here who have realised krishna in my life…..so if not you there would have been no krishna conscious in my life I so I’m so indebt to you….Under your guidance I need to serve and use all that I’m learning at ISCKON for your service.

This day of Vyas puja of yours all I ask is please keep me under your shadow so that I can read your books and listen to your lectures more and more….. With your blessings I should strive more to perform my duties and services with more devotion “unattached”….

Srila Parabhupad ki jai

Hare Krishna
Santhoshi shanmuga

“Yadi Prabhupada na hoito tabe ki hoito
Ae Jiwan bahita kise”

I really can’t express through words that how much I’m thankful to our beloved spiritual grandfather Srila Prabhupada but with the help of this line from a beautiful bhajan by HH Jayapataka Swami Maharaj I would like to convey my thanks to Prabhupada for giving me and my family a wonderful association of dedicated devotees of Iskcon family..
It’s just because of you Prabhupada many people like us got to know the real reason of Human life…
You did a lot of efforts and faces lots n lots of struggles just to give us a simply amazing Krishna conscious life .

By seeing so much of cruelty in the world.. I feel safe and happy.
Thank you so much for giving us a protection cell of Krishna consciousness.
I wish I could always follow your instructions sincerely and apply them in my life.
Please forgive me for any offense.
Jagadguru Srila Prabhupada ki Jai.

Shraddha Bajpayee