Heartfelt offerings by devotees of ISKCON Whitefield to Srila Prabhupada on the occasion of his appearance day
Offering by Shashi dua
We are gratful to srila prabhupad ji because at age of seventy he gave us motivational Bhagwad geeta in very simple way that any one can understand easily In an unknown country (America).At this age people think of retire but he starts his jerney with full dedication .It is impossible task that he makes possible with their guru’s grace and with the blessings of lotus feet .He spreads Indian scripture in western country and make them beleif that Krishna is God, he is such a great Guru that their deciples who live with them only ten year but implement their movement even after them , it shows that how pure and blessed Guru is he? We are grateful for them that they give us the right path through Bhagwad geeta as it is. Shashi dua
Please accept my humble obeisance s.. Thank you for starting this great mission of enlighting us with Lord Krishnas preaching s.. My life has been so very positive after hearing your lecture s n preaching… All glories to you …
I feel very fortunate that I came across this glorious parampara.The only parampara which tries to keep devotees connected like a family , teaches the importance of a spiritual master,tries to preach to as many people as possible irrespective of caste, creed, race, colour, gender, religion and give the sweet nector of Krishna Consciousness in order to attain Krishna in this very lifetime.And it’s all because of you .
You have answered all my questions that I had in my mind for so many years.
The only one who could convince me with all your purports and philosophy in general .In the 10 years of your preaching you have achieved something which is not possible materially therefore I always feel that you have been specially chosen by Krishna who sent you here to spread his message .Without a divine presence within you it’s not possible to achieve what you have achieved in 10 years at that age where people usually retire and relax in life. You made sankirtan heard and chanted in every nook and corner of the world .You will forever live in our hearts and mind through your words, instructions and purports .. You have made Bhakti so easy for all of us with all the hard work and pain that you went through at that fragile age. And took no credit for any of the work you did. Usually people keep movement names in their names but you didn’t want your name anywhere . All you wanted was to spread Krishna Consciousness as much as possible .
Please bless me so I can be in this path laid by you forever and never fall out of it and wish to read each and every book that you have written word by word and preach your message to the world whenever and wherever I can . Hare Krishna
Please accept my humble obeisance Guru Maharaj Srila Prabhupada.
Your teachings and lectures have inspired generations and made them realise the real meaning of this human birth. I am personally indebted to you for transforming me completely from leading an animal life to a meaningful life.
With your books ,lectures and association of iskcon devotees I have ventured into Krishna bhakti and my aim is to maintain this till my last breath .
Please accept our humble obeisances at the dust of your divine lotus feet.
This year has been eventful for us, both personally and spiritually. We have prioritised our Sadhana and personal goals. By your mercy we understood that devotional service is not just external but has to be cultivated internally. We started being truthful to ourselves, focusing on Chanting and Hearing.
We have completed Bhakti Sastri course, a careful study of few of your books. We could understand little more about your teachings. Though it has helped in improving our understanding, we feel it is just a drop, and there is more to be understood. We want to again study and understand your books carefully for our own purification.
I see material qualities like passion, pride, lack of empathy, etc even in devotees including myself and my wife. As you said, this is a spiritual hospital for curing material disease. However, I can see that despite all the disqualifications, many devotees are trying to follow your instructions and sincerely striving to spread the message of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. I humbly beg and pray that I don't bring my material faults and cause trouble to other devotees in the name of service. Please give us faith in holy name and strength to work on our own faults and truthfully show as we are to others without hypocrisy.
Please give me your mercy to understand your mood. Please give me strength to follow your instructions only to please Krsna and Your divine grace, but not for name, fame, position, etc.
With the encouragement of senior devotees, we are trying conduct Bhakti Vriksha even though we don't have sufficient qualification. Please bless all our Bhakti Vriksha members who are sincerely trying to understand the philosophy of Krsna consciousness.
I always felt personal connection with you from the first time I read Perfect Questions and Perfect Answers in 2002. It is only by your mercy and guidance I could get the fortune of Krsna consciousness. I humbly beg for the shelter at your lotus feet. Please give me the strength to understand and follow your divine instructions in words, action and my behavior.
We are eternally indebted for all the nourishment and arrangements you have made. Please shower your mercy so that we will be eligible to taste Krsna Prema. Without your mercy we cannot do anything.
Wishing to be your eternal servants, Mallikarjuna & Neelima
Please accept my most respectful obeisances again and again at your lotus feet.
“nama om vishnu-padaya krishna-preshthaya bhu-tale srimate bhaktivedanta-svamin iti namine namas te saraswate deve gaura-vani-pracarine nirvishesha-shunyavadi-pashchatya-desha-tarine”
Oh Prabhupada, i want to thank you with utmost sincerity for accepting me and allowing me to be a part of this glorious parampara. Neither do i have any qualifications nor any intelligence to understand the importance of Krishna Consciousness either in this or any other life. I would have continued to burn in the fire of this material world. Just because of your causeless mercy, i have come into this parampara and got association of most compassionate and loving vaishnavas.
I genuinely do not deserve any of this. It is only because of your mercy Prabhupada. You are so loving and merciful to even the most undeserving soul as myself. Several times when i have lost all hope of being able to continue my battle in this material world, you have protected me and saved me from falling down further.
Prabhupada, i wish to always serve you and my Gurumaharaj, HH Srila Jayapataka Swami Maharaj, who is your very dear representative, in all ways that is most pleasing to you and Gurumaharaj by serving your servants of the servants of servants. I have no other hope but the back door that you have mentioned about. I am just trying to hold on to your dhoti. Please do not leave me and never allow me to leave your dhoti. I surrender myself completely at your lotus feet.
Your insignificant, aspiring servant of servant of servant
Please accept my humble obeisances in the dust of your lotus feet. Srila Prabhupada, over the last 15 years since the day you had sent one of your dedicated servants in the form of my college friend to get me connected with your beloved ISKCON society to this day I have seen your causeless mercy on me acting in various ways. Srila Prabhupada you may know it very well due to my bad habits and prior conditioning during this spiritual journey there were some down moments and tribulations and whenever I look back, I see your loving caring arms which had held me steady by not allowing me to go astray. Sometimes through the medium of service in congregational preaching activities, Sunday feast services, Janmastami and Ratha yatra services etc., when I need personal guidance you have given me two elder brothers in Syama Kund pr and Yugala Kisora pr, then when I was roaming like an orphan and I needed someone who exactly represented you, Srila Prabhupada you showed my spiritual father and like you he accepted me unconditionally.
How can I properly glorify you Srila Prabhupada? Yes, there is a way that is somehow I perfect my life and make myself a proper instrument in your service. However, there is one thing I can boldly declare Srila Prabhupada that is “You were always there for me. You are always there for me. You will be always there for me. In this I have no doubt about it. By your causeless mercy one day I will attain perfection. That day I will get the opportunity to smear the dust from your lotus feet all over my body and wish to bathe your lotus feet with tears of gratitude.”
Srila Prabhupada, I also would like to offer this for your pleasure that over the last six months my desire to scrutinizingly read your books has increased a bit and I have found a hero whom I would like to follow. Thank you Srila Prabhupada. My words cannot do justice to what I have received from you. Again, as you have said a disciple or grand disciple cannot repay the debt to the spiritual master or previous acaryas. My only wish is that I can forever deepen my gratitude to you.
Wishing, waiting, praying and will also be trying for the day I may get a chance to meet you personally dear Srila Prabhupada.
When I introspect myself, getting Krishna’s Prema Bhakti is like a beautiful dream coming true, which is certainly not possible in this life time due to my conditionings and habits, however in this world, where in talking also, people have their vested interest, because of you, I got the opportunity to associate with such wonderful selfless devotees. Because of your righteous instructions only, age, geography, job profile or any material things doesn’t come in between while listening to the Hari Katha or Bhajan.
We go to any place, devotees and their attitude look same, which is their serving attitude, which helps us bringing us closer to them, which is another way to be closer to you. Thank you Prabhupada ji for making such congenial environment around us for progressing in Krishna Consciousness. Finally I would beg at your lotus feet to keep me engaged in your and Krishna’s service, where I ultimately belong.
Please accept our respectful obeisances. All glories All glories!!! All glories!!! unto you.
We thank you so much for mercifully allowing us into your Vaishnava family, We beg and pray to you that we remain in the association of the Vaishnavas and serve this family of yours always… Prabhupad we have been living a hopeless animalistic life, you gave us Krishna, the regulative principles, the bhakti process and made us understand the purpose of life going back to Godhead. Thankyou so much that we are blessed with the rich Krishna conscious teachings and Vaishnava culture that you left for us mercifully.
Prabhupad we are tiny tots in your movement, and we have a lot of things to mend in ourselves to become a devotee by developing the Vaishnava qualities. We have many many lessons to learn from our godbrothers and godsisters who are reflecting your qualties on them, I meditate and pray to you that we develop these qualities too, being humble, tolerant, compassionate, glorifying the vaishnavas, and especially being enthusiastic in giving the love of God. Please mercifully help us in this Prabhupada. We beg you to please bless us and engage us in serving your movement and spreading Krishna consciousness and the rich Vaishnava culture to please you.
Thankyou a lot Prabhupad. Your grandchildren, Malarmannan and Kavitha and Harinandhan
Dear Srila Prabhupada, Please accept my humble obeisances.
As I write this offering, I feel utterly unqualified to write anything at all. Because though I have received so much I am still not able to really appreciate what you’ve given to us. It has been almost 7 years now since I began to follow your teachings. I still remember how in the beginning because of my sinful conditionings everything felt so alien to me. I couldn’t appreciate the Vaishnava teachings much. The philosophy that I was reading was completely demolishing all my ideals and my worldview. Though I completely disliked everything I was reading yet your words had such a potency that I had to agree that despite my disliking whatever you were saying in your books was true.
I remember praying to you that I may be able to get rid of my past conditionings and that I may be able to get a glimpse of the glories of bhakti. And over the years I’ve realised how you’ve been answering my prayer. I’ve started to cherish reading your books, I look forward to reading Srimad Bhagavatam every day. When I think about it, I do feel that if it were not for you and your books and your disciples, I would have never come to the Vaishnava path. I would have continued rotting in this material world gratifying my senses. You went through so much trouble just to give the mercy of Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu to everyone. I am deeply indebted to you for that. On the occasion of your appearance day, I pray from the core of my heart that I may be able to overcome my mental conditionings and other anarthas which prevent me from wholeheartedly taking shelter of the process. I also beg for your mercy that I get the strength, determination and genuine compassion to engage in the preaching mission that you asked all ISKCON devotees to take up.
Respectful obeisance to Shri Krishna Karunāmurty Param Pujya Shrila A. C. Bhakti Vedānta Swāmi Prabhupāda on his auspicious birth anniversary.
Shrila Prabhupāda can be considered as one among the few true ambassadors of Bhārat Bhumi to the entire World;
who at his 70s took all pain to travel to West (on a Cargo Ship) to carryout the order of his spiritual master, Shrila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Thakur to preach Krishna Consciousness to the entire World, at a time when there was rising Hippie culture in US.
With his great level of austerity; by the strength of his Guru’s mercy & by the purity of Hare Krishna Mahāmantra;
He could not only transform the Hippies into Happy Vaishnavas, but also he established 108 Shri Rādhā Krishna temples across the globe, which today act a spiritual embassy of Vaikuntha & Golaka Vrindavan & inspire innumerous foreigners & Indians to take up the top most Krishna Bhakti (Yoga).
He also translated (from Sanskrit), authored & published more than 80 volumes of Spiritual Literatures, which cover Bhagavad Gita, Shrimad Bhāgavatam, Teachings of Lord Chaitanya, Shrila Rupa Goswami’s Bhakti Rasāmrita Sindhu, Teaching of Nārada Muni, Ishopanishad and many more, which represent the glorious Philosophy of Achintya-Bheda-Abheda School of Vaishnavism.
If you see foreigners across the globe today practising Krishna Bhakti with highest level of dedication; Shrila Prabhupāda is the motivation behind them.
As correctly to said by Sri Vishwesa Teertha Swāmi Ji (the great Hindu Saint), “Just as Bhagiratha brought Gangā to India, Swāmi Prabhupāda brought the Bhakti Gangā to the whole world.”
In a age, where many Babas falsely claim themselves as God & exploit innocents; Shrila Prabhupāda has lived his life as a true servant representative of his Guru & Bhagavān Shri Krishna.
Dear prabhupad please accept my humble obeisances.
Srila Prabhupada always saw the INVISIBLE presence of Krsna in all circumstances, Srila Prabhupada always felt the INTANGIBLE mission of Lord Chaitanya through the instructions of his Guru Maharaj and Srila Prabhupada achieved the IMPOSSIBLE by saving countless souls from trading Royal road to hell. Otherwise fallen soul like me, not have any good karma that I can get the association of devotees or chant hare Krishna for a mili second also. Today because of your loyal soldiers (isckon devotees)all over the world fallen souls like me also chanting and hearing about supreme personality of godhead Krishna.
Thank you for showing me the path of self Realization of a human life. Without you as our Guru, our life would be incredibly different( stuck in material life). You opened my eyes to what i could be, what i could do, in a way that i have never thought possible.
I still remember the words from your lectures that Padam Padam yadvipadam na tesam, that in this material world every step is dangerous.
You have changed my whole aspect of my learning, I would not be where I am today without you.
First of all I would like to thank you Srila Prabhupada for setting the milestones very clearly and precisely. You very clearly laid down the priciples of going back to godhead. Now it only depends on the desire of me to whether follow it sincerely or rot in this material world for some more lifetimes.
I am struggling with my senses Srila Prabhupada, I need your mercy to cross over this stage. I pray to you on this auspicious day to kindly bestow your causeless mercy upon me to surrender to the authorities.
It is because of you Srila Prabhupada that I am now having some higher purpose in life. You keep hammering these points in your lecture everyday that we are not this body, we are spirit soul. I am still trying to understand this point Srila Prabhupada and it is very difficult for a conditioned soul like me to accept this fact as of now but I am struggling to understand this. I still have an independent mentality to make a choice, I am not surrendered to the authorities, hoping that I with my crazy mind will be able to do so one day. You have given everything in your books Srila Prabhupada, but I rarely read them, only on weekends I read them for one hour. But I want to make a habit of reading at least for 5 minutes everyday. Your books are the only hope in this misguided civilization. I find happiness in others defeat, such a crueal mentality I have Srila Prabhupada, please help me cross over this stage, sincerely praying on this day for your causeless mercy. I am like a rotten iron which doesn’t easily get attracted to magnet, I rarely relish the Krishna Katha. Please give me taste in hearing and chanthing.
On this Vyasapuja of yours, I pray that I always be engaged in your service.
nama om vishnu-padaya krishna-preshthaya bhu-tale srimate bhaktivedanta-svamin iti namine namaste saraswate deve gaura-vani-pracarine nirvishesha-shunyavadi-pashchatya-desha-tarine
My dear spiritual grandfather His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Please accept my respectful obeisances unto your lotus feet on the auspicious occasion of your Vyasa-puja celebration. All glories to your Sankirtan lotus feet! Very thankful shril prabhupad. Your servent, Yogesh Chhotu Patil.
First if all my sincere and heartfelt thanks to you for making me feel so blessed by accepting me as part of this auspicious Krishna Consciousnes movement. Otherwise I would have never realised the purpose of life and put any effort to make use of it the right way. Even though I am still very much covered by mode of ignorance, I promise you today that I will make all best possible efforts to come out of it by surrendering to your lotus feet. I am sure I will be able to succeed in this as I am very much surrounded by so many great vaishnavas who are non stop guiding me, motivating me to achieve the goal of life.
nama om vishnu-padaya krishna-preshthaya bhutale srimate bhaktivedanta-swamin iti namine namas te saraswate deve gaura-vani-pracharine nirvishesha shunyavadi pashchatya desha tarine
“I offer my respectful obeisances unto His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, who is very dear to Lord Krishna, having taken shelter at His lotus feet. Our respectful obeisances are unto you, O spiritual master, servant of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami. You are kindly preaching the message of Lord Caitanya deva and delivering the Western countries, which are filled with impersonalism and voidism.”
Please accept my Repeated OBESIENCES
THANK YOU prabhupad for giving the whole world the hare Krishna maha mantra , simply by chanting regurarly we can be freed from material existence
THANK YOU PRABHUPAD for giving us your golden voice which can purify our hearts and implant spiritual knowledge
THANK YOU PRABHUPAD for soo pains takingly translating the unaccessible books like Bhagavad gita and Bhagavatam into English . Your books are like the sun in this dark age of kali
All glories to you prabhupad , your mercy can deliver fools like me from this material pool , without your mercy I will become a wanderer in this material world like a madman
Please accept my respectful obeisance to your lotus feet
All glories to your divine grace..!! On this glorious day, I have few words to offer to you.
I am a new devotee in the path of Krishna consciousness, but your constant guidance through your books and lectures have shown the right direction towards spritual consciousness. I remember one of your words that “our senses are in this material world are corrupt and through them it is not possible to understand Krishna, only way is to surrender to Lord’s lotus feet and pray for his mercy to liberate us.” These words always guide me when my mind gets bewildered by the material energy on the path of Krishna consciousness.
I beg your mercy to help me grow in the krishna consciousness journey.
Eventhough am not qualified to speak or to write an offeing about you but your greatness and the way you have changed entire human society into Krishna consciousness inspires me alot
And also having strong faith in Krishna and implementing the order of spiritual master.
Not only in one aspect each and everything like going to Western countries at an age of 70, giving transcendental books to condition souls like me, making hippies to happies like devotees,
Even you have given such great contribution which is not comparable to anything in this world but still am not able to follow or to give 100 percent myself to follow your instructions please kindly excuse my faults and please bless me the way you showered till now ,that is causeless merry.
So I am very thankful for giving opportunity to write an offerings.
We are very very grateful to get your mercy by your devotees. Words cant express how much your teachings have transformed our heart and life. I couldnt image a life without your books. You have become so close to our heart and always remember you through your teachings and Krishna conscious movement.
You mercifully helped us all in bringing krishna to our life, else we would not have any idea about what Krishna(GOD) would have spoke to us. We had no intention/or even a thought which triggered, I should read bhagavat Gita..!!!
We were getting to know all stories of Krishna as just stories in a magazine. After Krishna consciousness, the same stories appear to be Heart and Soul.
Thanks a lot for showering mercy to this fallen/unqualified soul Prabupada.
