Offerings of Love

Dear Srila Prabhupada,

Please accept my humble obeisances.

Because I am so fallen I shall never get a chance to see the Supreme Personality of Godhead. You gave an opportunity to serve the lord by taking his holy name though I am not at all qualified. Because of you I now have a hope that to goback to godhead. It is only through your words, your books and the sincere devotees who follow you that I learn your deep and gentle yet all-powerful compassion. All we have to do is open our hearts with humble humility. All glories to your divine lotus feet.

Your Servant
Prasad

Dear Beloved Srila Prabhupada,

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

You have given me Krishna Consciousness so generously to the most unqualified and fallen.

You are Always teaching and guiding me with your books and lectures.

Thank you Srila Prabhupada for your causeless mercy, unlimited grace and compassionate love.

Thank you very much, Srila Prabhupada. All glories to your divine lotus feet.

Your Servant
Sriramachandra

Dear Prabhupāda,

My humble obeisance to Srila Prabhupada. From the day I came to know about Srila Prabhupada I had developed a relationship like my grandfather and everyday without fail first I will pray to Prabhupada and start my day. And now I have started listening Prabhupada vani of Bhagavad-Gita everyday and there is so much to know and learn about Lord Krishna. Thank you Prabhupada my grand pa please keep your blessings for me to continue in Krishna conscious journey

Your servant
Manjula

Dear Prabhupāda,

I am deeply moved to see the amount of writing our Guru has done to explain the actual meaning of the great scriptures like Bhagavad-Gita and Srimad Bhagavatham. Just by reading these books, we will be able to lead a meaningful life. If we start following the principles, we will purify our lives and soul.

Yours

Kala

Dear Srila Prabhupada,

Hare Krishna,

Please accept my humble obeisances.

I am not qualified to even praise you, but you’re so merciful that you chose to pick me from this illusionary world.

How thankful could I be to you? Being grateful to you for one lifetime is not enough Prabhupada.

I have been so ignorant of this human life but only through your books especially science of self-realization I have realized the purpose of the life.

How would the humanity in large would have got the transcendental knowledge as it is if you wouldn’t have given us the translated books?

How could we even think of escaping this material world without your mercy?

Thank you is not enough.

I personally experienced you mercy showering on me.

Whenever I start thinking negative about life, your always present through your books.

Your books are the first step towards escaping the repeated birth and death, your teachings and instructions are the only solutions for any problems.

I am more than amazed how could you risk your life just to save us, I often question myself why am I still not understanding your efforts, what would I be without you?

You were a person with extreme strength, courage and love.

I will forever hold you in my heart and I truly learnt most from you.

Be merciful on this fallen soul Prabhupad because without your mercy I am nothing.

With very little time you have given us a treasure though your books and the organization called “ISKCON” I just hope I will make the most use of it in this very last birth and go back home back to godhead.

I am not writing a homage unto you but begging you for your blessings out of selfish and trying to purify me.

I am being saved by you and your servants through the continuous instructions and teachings.

I have become a better person just by reading your books and trying to purify myself by chanting more though I don’t have taste for the holy name but just hoping that one day I will get it.

Finally I want to thank you tons though it’s not enough.

The supreme lord couldn’t come directly hence he sent you, and you came but stayed forever through your books.

True love isn’t Romeo and Juliet who dies together, it’s you who risked your life just to save the fallen souls.

But our love towards you is insignificant.

I shall endeavor to advance in Krishna consciousness only by your mercy!

Hare Krishna,

Your insignificant servant
Chitra

Dear Srila Prabhupada,

Please accept my most humble obeisances on to your lotus feet.

While celebrating your 123rd appearance day at our IBC I heard your lecture where you mentioned about the meaning of Vyasa Puja, where you explained on importance of celebration of Vyasa Puja to devotees. I realised how you were eager to train your disciples to follow the great parampara we have. You also mentioned about what a devotee do to progress in Krishna Consciousness and I felt extremely fortunate to have you my first class siksha guru.

On your birthday I’m not qualified to glorify you but for my purification I would like to do this. I’m happy today due to your hard work on writing books and preaching spirit. I can’t imagine where I would be if not in our ISKCON moment.

You have taken so much pain during initial years of this moment like travelling across the globe, writing books, cooking for devotees tirelessly at the age of seventy. I see you as a great mahatma having fabulous leadership qualities, love for your disciples and compassion towards jiva.

On this occasion I offer my heart and sole to you and our moment and will try to continue my services towards our cute IBC.

Thank you for all the love I and my family received by you and devotees of Krishna.

Your servant,
Vishwanath

Dear Beloved Srila Prabhupada,

Please accept my humble obeisances in the dust of your lotus feet. All glories to srila Prabhupada? Srila Prabhupada given Krishna Consciousness most unqualified and fallen people.

In this world Prabhupada is always teaching and guiding me with his books

We can learn everything by Prabhupada books…… that’ how to live our life, how to reach the Krishna’…..etc

Thank you So Srila Prabhupada for your mercy, and love. All glorious to your divine lotus feet??‍♀️

Your Servant
Vandhana

Dear Srila Prabhupada,
Dandavat pranam
My humble obeisances unto you.

A devotee of Krishna came into my life when I was in 9th-10th grade. My journey with Krishna consciousness started at this point. I only knew you to be the founder Acharya of ISKCON. Later I grew to know more about you. I will forever be grateful to you for the movement you have spread. The vast knowledge I have learnt through the last 2 years makes me wonder what a great thing I missed out on before.
Although sometimes it is hard to understand what you’re saying in your tapes, listening to it makes me develop even more affection for you.

‘Hare Krishna!’ The documentary on you was very overwhelming and made me realise how much you have done for us.
In Mayapur I visited you, the transcendentalality of the place is out of the world. My infinite gratitude to you for translating the Bhagvatgita and other works. Please bless me and my family so that we can become better devotees and servants of the Lord.

Ys,
Diya Hegde

Dear Srila Prabhupada,

Please accept my humble obeisance unto your Lotus Feet.

All glories to you!! All glories to you!!

Thank you so much Prabhupad to have shown mercy on me and showing me this wonderful path.

when I started my Krishna Consciousness journey I was not very serious. But somehow by your mercy I was able to sustain and now I feel how fortunate I am to be here in the devotees congregation. I also have the fear as to not fall down and I depend solely on your mercy Srila Prabhupad.

From a hesitant person to take commitment for 1 round, today I’m preparing for prabhupad ashraya and chanting 16 rounds.without your blessing it would not be possible. I had the opportunity to read your books and when I was reading your life, many a time I cried knowing all the struggle you went to thru just to save unfortunate souls like me.

I have begun to realize the taste of devotional service and because of your mercy I was able to do Book distribution service, cooking service and other such services. how it would have been possible for a soul like if not for your mercy.

Please bless me and my family prabhupad that we should not fall down and continue in Bhakthi and also bless us with opportunities to serve you and Krsna.

Hare Krishna

Your Servant
Karthik S

Hare Krishna, my respectful obceissance to srila Prabhupada
Srila Prabhupada ki jai!!

Srila Prabhupada you are not an ordinary human being….you are representative of lord Krishna, you are senadhipathi bhakta of Chaitanya mahaprabhu, you are the param siksha Guru for all the devotees. To such a person I pay my humble obceissance unto your lotus feet.

Prabhupada at the age of 70 you could have peacefully stayed in vrindavan and led your remaining life with serving the lord in vrindavan happily, but you went to America through cargo ship via Atlantic Ocean faced many difficulties in the journey, stayed in US for many days without proper food and shelter. With lots of struggle established many iskcon temples, made many people into great devotees. Without proper sleep , you used to write bhagavatam, Bhagavad Gita, Chaitanya charitramritha and many other books. Your health was also deteriorating, but not bothering you were continuously serving your spiritual Master instructions. In any condition you would travel all over the world just to preach the Krishna consciousness to the fallen souls. Only a great soul like you can do all these extraordinary activities in this age.

Now because of your mercy many many fallen souls like me are practicing Krishna consciousness all over the world.
It’s you who taught us how to come out of this material world and reach goloka vrindavan and serve lord Krishna eternally.

We are able to relish the nectar of Krishna bhakti even in the midst of difficulties. There is nothing in this world to repay back for what you have you given to us. All the struggle you have taken is just for us , it’s for us to elevate to spiritual platform.

Srila Prabhupada please shower mercy upon my family and the new devotees who have joined in our bhakti vriksha to serve the lord lotus feet eternally and attain Krishna in this very life as soon as possible.

All glories to srila Prabhupada

Gurudeva ki jai

Thank you
Your servents,
Sriram Iyyappan, Divya, Tattva Darshan

Dear Srila Prabhupada,

Hare Krishna Dandavat pranam,

Please accept my humble obeisances,

Yadi Prabhupad na hoito tobe ki hoito

Ye jivana bahita kise

Nitai gaurera apara karuna ke dita sakala deshe

If you Srila Prabhupad has not come what would have happened, How would we have passed our lives, Who would have distributed the mercy of Lord Nityananda and Lord Gauranga all over the world.

It has been 2 years for me in this Krishna consciousness journey and I want to thank you foremost for giving us

* Chaitanya mahaprabhus most precious gift of Hari naam,
* for writing the Bhagavad Gita, Bhagavatam and all your other wonderful books,
* creating ISKCON, giving us wonderful teachers who are following every word of your instructions and giving us knowledge that is burning the ignorance out of our minds.

I want to thank you for giving us this wonderful association of devotees that we are getting because of this divine organisation you created.

I want to thank you for the mangala aarti routine that you have made. It makes my day start on an auspicious note.

I thank you for the wonderful lectures that you have recorded for us, for the divine japa chanting mantra meditation tapes you have given us. Listening to them makes me more fixed in my Krishna conscious journey. I am so glad you thought about leaving all these things for us so we may also have the benefit of your association through your words and sound vibrations.

I will conclude by saying that I need your mercy to be a good devotee , hope you will give me and my family your blessings to always be fixed in our Krishna consciousness and not get pulled by the attractions of the material world. This year we have been made Bhakti vriksha servant leaders and it is a very important responsibility of being able to preach your teachings to others. We are not qualified to do so but I pray that you will give us your blessings to somehow enable us to give Chaitanya mahaprabhus message to the world

Ys,
Ashwini.

Dear Srila Prabhupada,

Hare Krishna Dandavat pranam, Please accept my humble obeisances

Srila Prabhupada , I was not interested in krishna consciousness in the beginning , but I started liking it in a few weeks. It taught me that this world was a material world and our real destiny was to go do godhead , because you recited so many shlokas and wrote the Bhagavad Gita now so many people have understood that this world is material and the real aim of life is to go to godhead , please give me your blessings so that I also can go to godhead.

YS
Ved Hegde

Dear Srila Prabhupada,

Please accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to you and Gauranga.

Thank you so much for giving Krsna Bhakthi, the highest elevation among all the yoga process to this
fallen conditioned soul. I’m unworthy to get a transcendental knowledge, but by the urge and
aspire arises from my heart to study Bhagavad-gita ,at that time very mercifully I got to know about
vedabase,which opened my eyes and my life got transformed. I haven’t got only Bhagavad-gita,I got
all the transcendental books by your mercy. In my life,I could not able to overcome all the hurdles in
the path of Bhakthi without your grace.

By your blessings and decisions directed,I got the spiritual master. Gradually I got the devotee
association. Dear Srila Prabupada,I’m so indebted unto your lotus feet, At each and every stage of
spiritual path, starting from following regulative principals, I’m seeing your mercy in my life.

I’m so aspired to preach about Krsna consciousnesss which is unworthy for me but desiring to serve
your lotus feet as a servant of the servant of the servant.I want to devote myself completely in Hare
Krsna movement. I’m so indebted unto your lotus feet. I’m offering myself unto your lotus feet. I’m
begging unto your lotus feet,If you wish,please engage me in your mission.

Hare Krsna!

Thank you so much.

Your aspiring servant,
Angala parameshwari.

Dear Srila Prabhupad,

Please accept my humble obeisance.
I have no qualification to write an offering to you. Only thing that I can say is a BIG THANK YOU for everything that you have done. If you had ever not guided us through your books and preachings and had not established ISKCON, i would have taken this whole life time or even might have not realized this life time as to how important doing devotional service is.
I am very thankful to Krishna for helping me to get connected with ISKCON and I am also very thankful to you Srila

Prabhupad for helping me understand Krishna more and more through your lectures and books.

Your Servant,
Vidya

Hare Krishna,

Dear Srila Prabhupada,

Please accept my respectful obeisance

All glories to you.

You have always been very merciful upon me which kept me associated with ISKCON from childhood. Even though I wasn’t so sincere in devotional practice, you ensured that my skruthi keeps increasing for me to become steady in Krishna Consciousness. By your mercy, as each day spent in Krishna Consciousness I’m able to feel the purification of my consciousness slowly and steadily.

Now I’m able to lead a 100% (My capacity) Krishna Conscious life, having Krishna Conscious environment along with devotees and at home. This is all due to your mercy and gratefulness upon me.

I want to serve you in your mission, and by your mercy and disciples mercy, I’m able to take classes for children and elders.

Please bless my attendees so that they become devotees this very life time.

I want to get connected to the parampara and become a sincere dog to His Holiness Jaypataka Swami Maharaj as soon as possible.

Please bless me that I get initiated this very life time.

I’m placing all my prayers at your lotus feet and kindly accept it.

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna

Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

Hare Rama Hare Rama

Rama Rama Hare Hare

Your Servant
Supraja

Dear prabhupad ,
Please accept my repeated Obeisences.

“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”

Dear prabhupad, I am very much blind to recognize your causeles mercy on this useless soul. Like an ignorant orphan child after being adopted by a rich man forgets his past after getting all the facilities and finally ignores the person who adopted him, I am also the same kind of beggar loitering around the streets for sense gratification forgot the mercy showered by you through your glorious devotees.

But still I try my best on this auspicious occasion of your appearance day to remember and put forward your blessings and mercy on me.

Dear grandpa, you have given me your devotees through whom I got to know the purpose & goal of life. Your lectures and books are really enlightening. With your empowerment even in this sinfuIl body I am able to do a little devotional service.When I heared for the first time about you I got goose bumps that how can a man can perform such an unimaginable, inconceivable task almost at the end of life just to deliver the fallen souls.Because of your greatest risk today I am able to practice Bhakti in the association of the devotees under a proper guidance even in the midst of this pandemic peacefully where the whole world is in chaos. Durvasa muni glorifies Ambrish maharaj as “Ati Karuna Aatmanaa”(being extremely merciful) which implies that every devotee of the lord is extremely merciful. This statement was proved by you Prabhupad once again. Devotees being extremely merciful they are literally maintaining me materially ,spirituallly and also gave me the shelter to be always in devotee association and practice Bhakti well.But even after getting such wonderful opportunities to practice Bhakti I am so adamant and foolish to take the process sincerely and seriously and always being attached to sense enjoyment.

Dear grandpa my only goal is to attain KRISHNA in this very life time as soon as possible but having this sinful body I am always allured by sense objects and forgetting the goal for tiny pleasure. Prabhupad please always keep me in your shelter, even if I commit biggest of the biggest offence please don’t throw me out of ISKCON.

I am greatful for all you have done for us. Please send your perfected pure devotee in my life so that I can achieve the goal and help your mission in full Krishna Consciousness .

Your grand disciple
Charan

Dear Srila Prabhupada,

Please accept my respectful obeisances

All glories to you

Whenever i hear your vani through your recorded lectures and Kirtan, i feel so fortunate. Your Vani reaches my heart and thoughts. Thank you thank you thank you for establishing Iskcon, it’s a blessing for fallen soul like me. I have no idea how all this fortune has come to me to be part of this glorious wonderful family.

Geeta course offered by Iskcon have impacted me positively. I am just beginner in this beautiful journey of Krishna conciousness but i can confidently say that i am more happier, calm and a peaceful person than i was. When i see my kids chanting Hare Krishna Mahamantra, it gives me immense pleasure and all my worries goes away.

Its only because of your efforts, your books,Harinaam sankirtan has become so popular that knowingly or unknowingly so many souls all around the world are getting benefitted.

Prabhupada, I sincerely admit that I’m not eligible but its only by your mercy that I can use this human life to please you & move closer to Krishna, atleast by a few steps.

Your humble servant,
Nayana

Dear Srila Prabhupada,

Hare Krishna, Dandavat Pranam,
Please accept my humble obeisance’s

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

This has been the second year of my journey in Krishna Consciousness. Two things which transformed me into where I am in Krishna Consciousness today

1. Mayapur Yatra in Oct 2019 transformed the way I think about Krishna and ISKCON’s movement towards spreading Krishna Consciousness.

2. I was more into service mode last year, this year one change I see in myself is reading books written by you and listening to your lectures under able guidance of Shiksha guru Acyuta Arjunasakha Das. Not a day goes by without listening to your lectures, if I happen to miss hearing your lecture due to some reason, I feel the void throughout the day. The process of chanting, reading and hearing has brought in a discipline in a chaotic material life for me.

I would like to quote two points you have explained in one of the lectures I heard

1. So if we want to increase our attachment for Kṛṣṇa, then the śraddhā is the basic principle = faith. “Yes. Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead.” Even if we don’t accept Him… At least everyone accepts Kṛṣṇa, the greatest personality. So that much faith is the beginning of āsakti, attachment for Kṛṣṇa. That little faith. Svalpam apy asya dharmasya trāyate mahato bhayāt. Now you have to increase that faith.
2. If you can raise yourself to that platform of faith, that is the beginning of faith. Kṛṣṇe bhakti kaile sarva-karma… Sarva-karma kṛta haya.

With every passing day, the faith on Krsna, Supreme Personality of Godhead is strengthening. As a fallen soul in material world there is a long way to go. Many a times I get overwhelmed by looking at volumes of books you have written and tons of audio transcripts – always have a question in mind when will I be able to absorb everything. I have no words to describe your scriptural knowledge, and how you can quote any verse from scriptures with right examples.

I am still taking baby steps towards Krsna, with lord’s mercy and your vani, I am hopeful that I will be able to make little spiritual progress and establish connection with Supreme Personality of Godhead.

All glories to you!

Your servant
Viraj Hegde

Dear Srila Prabhupada,

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

Prabhupada it was second entrance for me to enter into ISCKON family. Initially i thought why Krishna left me like that, but when ever i felt bad or not able to get sleep without any second thought i used chant Hare Krishna, may be it was already written to me that i might enter into this again with your grace in the form of great devotee.

I used to have a doubt that you being a North India wanted to spread the message of Krishna to everyone how should i believe and even you are not a Brahamana.

But later on seeing the videos of your journey in establishing ISCKON and how determined you are in carrying your spiritual master words,taking the risk of going to foreign countries to spread the mercy even though not having sufficient penny with you.

Your dedication in finishing the commentaries on SB waking up in the midnight at that late ages.

Its not really needed for you, but you stood up for a create cause making conditioned souls like many of us to come BACK TO GOD HEAD.

I also saw your last days videos i was also able to feel the breathe of your chanting, how devotional you are. Also how strict you are in following varna sharma Dharma. It cannot be even followed by Brahamana, this proves you are pure devotee.

But in recent realizations i just understood one thing ,what ever questions i have keep it aside and just blindly follow this process which is sublime of all the process, Prabhupada reveals slowly with the intense you surrender to Krishna. I can see a lot of change in my life, then why should i not?

I pray to you that when ever i get a thought of backstep from this process please please i beg you as a grandfather you have all the rights of beating me, scolding me, tuning me back to this process.

Prabhupada every time i include it my prayers but still i want to open to you heartfeltly, pls release me from this material bondage of working, i want to be your instrument in preaching others Krishna Chaintanya movement, but its not happening i am not able to get full conviction of releasing from it.

I need your help, pls support me ,pls reveal me the actual duty of a women. Theoritaically iam able to understand them but not able to implement practically, i beg give to shower your mercy that one or the other day i get freed from this bondage and will try to dedicate my life in preaching proving that i follow in your steps as your Grand Daughter.

Your Servant
Divya Bitra

Dear Prabhupada,

Dandavarpranaam

Please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Guru and Gauranga.

I am a fallen soul in the darkest material world always trying to get happiness from that and getting attached to the temporary things.

May be I have done some pious activities or due to the agnathasukruthi i got a chance to meet a devotee who changed my life and also helping me in identifying things which are permanent and temporary.

I’m really debted so much to you Prabhupada for giving the great scriptures with detailed explanation and easily understandable and also providing an association which always uplift the fallen souls like me and bring them to Krishna Consciosuness.

Prabhupada, please shower your mercy and remove my intelligence which is driving me towards material sense enjoyment and give me the strength and knowledge to surrender to the words of Guru and Gauranga and not deviate to any other temporary material things.

Your Servant,
Suresh Vinjamuru