Offerings of Love

Without you, our life would have been useless. But now, you have brought in a lot of purpose for our living. Now the life these servants of yours is to practise what you have given; Save ourselves by holding on to your teachings, strongly and then help other ignorant souls as your humble servant, as your messenger, your follower. Thank you Srila Prabhupada for saving all of us and giving us an opportunity to regain our lost relationship with Krishna.

Please bless us that we will be able carry out your instructions with more determination and preach this Krishna Consciousness for your pleasure. Please bless these servants with your service and engage us to do something significant for your movement before this carcass becomes useless. Service to you is our only hope. Please accept our service.

Your servants
Bandhu Madhava das
Sumati Jahnava devi dasi
Baladeva

You gave yourself to the world, Srila Prabhupada, through your Bhaktivedanta purports. Your purports teach us how to think for ourselves spiritually so that we can choose to become completely dependent on the will of the Supreme Lord. The spiritual training you give is unique in the history of the world.

On this most auspicious day of your divine appearance in this world, I prostrate myself to your lotus feet again and again and beg you to please teach me how to become the instrument of spiritual Master.

Thank you so much Srila Prabhupada.

Your eternally indebted soul,

Yugala Kisora das

I just finished the Bhakti Sastri course, which was one of my long-cherished desire. This involved systematic study of few of your transcendental books. The whole experience gave me immense appreciation to you Srila Prabhupada. In the last year almost every single day I heard your classes. This is one of the greatest nourishments I have in my life.

More I gain from you; more I am feeling indebted to you. I wish to serve you by serving your dear devotees and organization by preaching the message of Krishna consciousness as taught by you. There is a lot to be done to spread Krishna Consciousness to the many suffering people of this world.

On this Vyasapuja of yours, I pray that I always be engaged in your service.

Your servant

Hariksetra das

• Being predicted by the Lord Himself and previous ācāryas, you are the saktyāvesa-avatāra, empowered representative of the Lord to spread the Holy Name and deliver the universe.

“It is the desire of Bhaktivinoda Thākura to preach the Chaitanya cult all over the world and in 1875 he predicted that someone would come very soon who would individually preach this cult all over the world. So if his benediction is there and my Guru Maharaja’s blessings are there, we can go ahead without any impediment but all of us must be very sincere and serious.” (Letter to Jayapataka, 23 February 1971)

• Being indebted to you, we must be an humble instrument to share this precious gift that we have received from you.

“Spreading Krishna consciousness is Śrī Chaitanya Mahāprabhu’s mission; therefore His sincere devotees must carry out His desire… The devotees of Lord Chaitanya must preach Krishna consciousness in every village and town in the world. That will satisfy the Lord.” (CC Madhya 16.64 Purport)

• Being planned to preach in order to extend your compassion, we must practice. We should know you better and need to understand clearly your instruction through your books.

“Whatever I have wanted to say, I have said in my books. If I live, I will say something more. If you want to know me, read my books.” TKG’s Diary, June 9 1977

“The instruction given in my books is supposed to be personal instruction. When we read the Bhagavad-gita As It Is, it is understood that we are receiving personal instructions of Krishna. No physical barrier is there in the case of spiritual affairs.” (Letter to Dhrstaketu, 14 October 1973)

• Being engaged with so many mundane activities, we don’t find time to spend quality time with your books but you have mercifully showered upon us with your transcendental association of Vani.

“Although when a pure devotee speaks, the articulation of his voice may resemble the sound of this material sky, the voice is spiritually very powerful because it touches the particles of saffron dust on the lotus feet of the Lord. As soon as a sleeping living entity hears the powerful voice emanating from the mouth of a pure devotee, he immediately remembers his eternal relationship with the Lord, although up until that moment he had forgotten everything.” (SB 4.20.25 purport)

“When you are working and you cannot read, then listen to the tapes of my lectures and hear in that way. And never neglect to chant your 16 rounds of beads daily, rise early without fail, attend mangal arati, take bath, and follow the other regulative principles, and everything will come out very successfully, you can rest assured of that.” (Letter to Bhargava, 13 June 1972)

• Being dull minded, we can’t understand and fathom the deeper insights of your purports and instructions unless we take shelter of your sincere followers and living Guru.

“One should not proudly think that one can understand the transcendental loving service of the Lord simply by reading books. One must become a servant of a Vaisnava. As Narottama dasa Thakura has confirmed, chadiya vaisnava-seva nistara peyeche keba: one cannot be in a transcendental position unless one very faithfully serves a pure Vaisnava. One must accept a Vaisnava guru (adau gurv-asrayam), and then by questions and answers one should gradually learn what pure devotional service to Krishna is. That is called the paramparā system.” (CC Adi 7.54 Purport)

“I recommend you to read books more and more and try to understand the subject matter from different angles of vision and be always discussing it with your Godbrothers…” (Letter to Bhargava, 13 June 1972)

• Being studying and hearing your instructions, we get the most essential principle to sincerely chant minimum 16 rounds and to follow the four regulative principles.

“In our Krishna consciousness movement, we have recommended that the neophyte chant at least sixteen rounds. This chanting of sixteen rounds is absolutely necessary if one wants to remember Krishna and not forget Him. Of all the regulative principles, the spiritual master’s order to chant at least sixteen rounds is most essential.” (CC Madhya 22.113 purport).

“Thus by chanting the holy name of the Lord one can directly associate with the Supreme Lord by sound vibration.” (CC Adi Preface)

“Wherever you may go to perform your devotional service, you should always be very careful to observe very strictly the rules and regulations. Rise early, attend mangala arati and class, chant 16 rounds, and follow the four regulative principles without deviation. This will guarantee your spiritual perfection.” (Letter to Jayahatakosthaka, 14 March 1975)

• Being understood your instructions, practicing and preaching the devotional process, we will not forget your foremost and the last instruction to cooperate to serve the mission. You have mentioned ISKCON is your body, simply by associating with ISKCON, we are directly associating with you.

“Your love for me will be shown by how much you cooperate to keep this institution together after I am gone.” (Srilā Prabhupāda lilāmrita, I Have Done My Part)

“If one associates with this movement, he directly associates with the Supreme Personality of Godhead.” (SB 9.24.56 Purport)

Srilā Prabhupāda, kindly bestow upon us a drop of your mercy so that we can carry out all of your orders up to the last breath of our life, both here and in the hereafter.

Your insignificant spiritual grandchildren,
Sudhir Gopal Das
Subhadra Priti Devi Dasi
Seshadri and Subhangi

Prabhupad I am so grateful to you for everything that you have given us. We all are like toddlers & you are doing all spoon feeding. The purports that you have given are so amazing, they are like the cereal powder which can be easily consumed & digested by toddlers like us. Whenever I read your purports I feel that you are personally answering my questions. Everything is there in your books. Everything needed to attain Krishna this very Lifetime is there in your books. You have planned & given every single nutrient that a toddler needs for a healthy growth viz. Mahamantra, pure devotees , temples, books, lectures, festivals, dhaam……

 From last few weeks I am meditating on one point- “How can someone practicing Bhakti with this sinful body?”, every time I think about it, I get Goosebumps. The fact is no one can practice Bhakti with this Sinful body. But you have made such a nice arrangement that anyone & everyone can take to Bhakti & engage this sinful body in service of Krishna. You are a master mind, you are an expert spiritual master, you have established this glorious organization- ISKCON where everyone has an opportunity to engage all their tendencies & skills in Krishna’s service. 

Prabhupad if today people from different parts of the world- the whites, blacks, browns, small eyed, wide eyed, tall ones, short ones, all the category of people, are chanting the great deliverer mantra-The Mahamantra “Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Ram Hare Ram  Ram Ram Hare Hare” only by your mercy. You have given us this most valuable treasure for FREE! You are the personification of mercy of Nityananda Prabhu. No Acharya in the past has done this herculean task of delivering the mass of sinful people in this age of Kali by giving the treasure of Goloka- “Golokera prema dhana Hari naam sankirtana”. 

In 2017 Kartik Maas I was in Mayapur sitting on stairs in your pushpa samadhi mandir.It was your disappearance day and your disciples were offering homage onto you. Just by chance I looked back, and I found a row of varied complexioned devotees from different parts of the world in Vaishnava attire. That day I realised “what you have done!”

Prabhupad on this auspicious occasion of your appearance I recommit to you- to follow your instructions as it is, chanting minimum 16 rounds & following the 4 reg principles, read your books scrutinizingly, preach the message to as many people as possible that you have given us through the parampara, have only prasadam, attend morning program everyday and more importantly I will try my best to fulfil your desire of attaining Krishna this very Lifetime! 

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 want to serve you till my last breath in this life and after as a full time devotee.

Your Grand disciple,

Kartikeya Das

Taking the instructions of your spiritual master, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, as your life and soul; you took Lord Krsna Caitanya’s message of “pṛthivīte āche yata nagarādi grāma, sarvatra pracāra haibe mora nāma” as your life’s mission. Each of the previous acharyas accomplished one significant task. But you did all the tasks that the establishment of the movement of Krishna consciousness entails. Evidently, you embody all the great qualities of the previous acharyas. You truly are the jagad-guru; you are that senapati-bhakta of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.

You not only taught us the art of living, but also the art of dying. You taught the world every aspect of life, based on scriptures in your lectures and books. You taught us how to remain equipoised and unperturbed in every situation. When you lost all hopes in your business in your early days, you remembered Krishna’s words (SB 10.88.8: yasyāham anugṛhṇāmi/ hariṣye tad-dhanaṁ śanaiḥ/ tato ’dhanaṁ tyajanty asya/ svajanā duḥkha-duḥkhitam). You had firm faith and conviction in the words of your spiritual master. You preached to the westerners without altering the truth, irrespective of whether or not they would accept the harsh realities, and boldly spoke against their abominable habits.

acare pracare sada amadere ke karita niyojana

You taught us to practise while preaching Lord Caitanya’s teachings, by personally practising while you preached. You constantly emphasized the differences between a bogus guru and a bonafide guru and taught us to exercise our discretion in this regard, with your own example. A first-class guru is a first-class disciple; a good speaker is a good listener, and who else would demonstrate this better than your divine grace? Every word of His Holiness Jayapataka Swami Gurumaharaja’s song, yadi Prabhupada na hoito, speaks volumes on your glories and contribution to the world.

It is said that if one gets even one syllable from a guru, a person becomes eternally indebted to him for that spiritual gift. We are truly eternally indebted to you as we received thousands of purports, which comprise millions of syllables.

śakti-buddhi-hīna, āmi ati dīna, koro’ more ātma-sātha

With a grateful heart, I beg at your lotus feet for your blessings so that I can serve you. The world has been blessed by your mercy. Please forgive me for my offences at your lotus feet and bless me with intelligence so that I do not commit offences further. Please give me the intelligence so that I can follow your teachings. I have no intelligence of my own. All that I have is your mercy.

Your most useless and insignificant servant,

Rupamayi Sudevi Dasi

On this auspicious occasion of this Vyasa puja I pray for your blessings that I should always be part of this society and serve my Guru Maharaj ,Siksha Guru, Senior devotees and all the Vaishnavas.

Your Servant

Mohanaruppa madhusudhan das

Sucaru sudevi dasi

Deepika

Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu personally travelled to different regions of India to spread Krishna consciousness, by His personal behavior He has set examples for devotes to follow and He instructed

bhārata-bhūmite haila manuṣya-janma yāra
janma sārthaka kari’ kara para-upakāra

You are that perfect sena-pati bhakta of Lord Caitanya who followed His instruction by spirit. Having opportunity to live in Vrindavan Radha Damodara temple, desire for many, you spent sleepless nights translating Srimad Bhagavatam and framing up most valuable Bhaktivedanta purports for the welfare(para-upakar) of generations to come. Mediating on your Spiritual Master’s instruction and to fulfil Lord Caitanya Mahaprabu’s mission

“pṛthivīte āche yata nagarādi-grāma
sarvatra pracāra haibe mora nāma”

You, just by yourself, at an advanced stage of life attempted every possible way to preach and took the adventurous journey to West. With great difficulties and struggle when you gathered few devotees, you established ISKCON with solid mission and vision and wanted to spread the message of Krishna to every corner of this world. You were never deterred by your deteriorating health, all sorts of challenges.

We will be forever grateful to your relentless effort on writing books which are the foundation of ISKCON and sum& substance of all instructions.

Humbly pray unto your lotus feet and beg, be merciful on me and please use this very very insignificant fallen soul to render service unto lotus feet of servant of your servant.

ebe yaśa ghuṣuk tribhuvana, Prabhupada patita pavana-“Now let all the three worlds proclaim your fame!”

Your insignificant servant

Saravanatha Krishna Das

Your servant,
Krishnadas

On this great auspicious day we seek your blessings and please continue showering your mercy on us

Jai srila prabhupada jai srila prabhupada

Your grand children’s seeking your Blessings and Mercy always

Sripati suresa das & Vrajasrirupa devi dasi

Your eternal servant,
Revti Manoharini Devi Dasi

Your compassion for conditioned souls flows through your books. Your Bhaktivedanta purports are
the torch light of transcendental knowledge. It is predicted that these purports will be the guiding
light for humanity for the next ten thousand years. Anybody who comes in touch with your books
stand transformed forever. There is no question of not being touched by your mercy! You worked
very hard to make sure the future of humanity is secure. And You have given a complete ecosystem
for any fallen soul to get this opportunity to serve Lord Chaitanya. Just as a touch stone turns
everything into gold, the life of anyone who comes in contact with You through Your books, Your
warriors stands transformed.

We hear about Your glorious qualitites from your beloved disciples. We see how their lives revolve
around Your pleasure. It makes me wonder how charismatic Your Divine Grace must have been that
You captured hearts of Your beloved sons, daughters and anyone who came in touch with You?!
Though we do not have the fortune of your vapu association You are still with us through Your
books, always blessing us with divine knowledge as the shiksha Guru, steering our lives towards
Krishna.

You have been very merciful to give me a place in Your family. Thank You would be a very small
and inappropriate word. The most suitable way to express gratitude would be, to be an instrument in
Your movement to spread Your teachings all over the world, for that will bring most pleasure to
Your Divine Grace and my Spiritual Master. Srila Prabhupad, please bless me that I hold firmly the
lotus feet of my GuruMaharaj and fix my heart completely on Your teachings. Please bless me that i
use everything in myself and around me for Your service.

Please bless my son and husband to progress in Bhakti, to take this fortunate opportunity to
surrender and serve You.

I beg Your forgiveness for my offences to You and Your family, in ignorance, negligence,
foolishness.

Srila Prabhupad You have blessed my heart with love in all ways. Please hold my hand firmly on
this path of Krishna Bhakti and help to improve and move forward on the path to learn to serve, to
love.

Your little grand-daughter aspiring Your service,
Sulakshana Madhavi Devi Dasi

Your Books -> For the Hopeless, to have some Hope.

Your Lectures-> Nectar that convert the snake holes to path of Transcendence.

Your Life -> Itself a treatise of an ācārya, living by example.

Your ISKCON -> Real United Nations, The one and only platform for a civilized society.

Your Disciples -> The Inspiration to carry your mood.

Humble attempt

Every day me and my wife trying to tune our mind to your transcendental lectures to shape our life from insanity.

Being very insignificant, We are trying to conduct Bhakti viruksha and serve members to take shelter of your lotus feet.

Realizations

Step by step we are trying to understand how deep you are in sastric study and how nicely you have given us in a very simple manner.

It’s always new when we hear, so surprising and its so Fresh.

Your dear disciple His Holiness Jayapatākā Swami Mahārāja is carrying your mood perfectly to serve for your satisfaction irrespective of his external bodily comforts all by your mercy. So much grateful for that, please continue your blessings for him to fulfill your instructions.

Praying

We are very helpless to progress in Kṛṣṇa consciousness so please shower your blessings upon us to cross all over anarthas especially offenses against vaiṣṇavas.

Please bless our family of Bhakti Viruksha to go beyond obstacles in serving your lotus feet.

Please bless us that one day we will be able to try and succeed in pleasing you, your disciple His Holiness Jayapatākā Swami Mahārāja and Guru Paramparā.

This time I felt I will submit offerings along with my Bhakti Viruksha members. I request you to kindly accept them.

Your insignificant servants

Karuṇāpati Keśava das
Kavirupa Kesavi devī dāsī
Rādhā Sakhi
Viswa

Hare Krishna

Dandavat pranams

Yours servant of the servant of the servant.
Banumathi Yashoda Devi dasi

You made perfect arrangements for us and have given us the complete platform to make our life a success, but we are unable to make best use of it as we are still in ignorance and keeping ourselves busy with the worldly affairs and wasting valuable time.

On this auspicious occasion of your vyasa puja, Srila Prabhupada, we beg for your mercy as without your blessings there is no hope for us to make advancement in our spiritual journey.

We pray to you that we can long for your continuous association through your books and make advancement towards Krishna. Please forgive us for our ignorance and bless us that we can endure patiently the dualities of this world and apply your teachings in our lives in carrying out our material and spiritual duties and can by example share your message to others around us.

Your insignificant servants,

Aishvarya Vrinda devi dasi
Vikram Caitanya das

Srila prabhupada, you are always living with us in the form of your divine instruction in
transcendental books and your recorded lecture which nourishes the creeper of our
Krishna consciousness. You will always be pre-eminent acharya in your ever growing family
“ISKCON”, because It is your causeless mercy upon badh-jiva(condition soul) like me for
whom, you have sacrificed all your comfort life & even you left vrindavan dham and
traveled to paschatye desh to distribute the love of godhead at the age of 70 years. At this
age devotees generally prefer to stay in vrindavan and do not want to go out so that he can
die in vrindavan only .But you left all this just to fulfill the order of your spiritual master and
being compassionate upon conditioned soul. Oh my dear srila prabhupada, I pray to your
lotus feet & beg your causeless mercy so that I can also follow your instruction as it is by
following instruction of my spiritual master H.H Gopal Krishna Goswami maharaj who is
your faithful disciple.

When I hear or read about your struggle in India for preaching and forming the “league of
devotees” even though you were not getting mush support from public and government,
tear comes in my eyes thinking that how much you were compassionate upon us. When you
traveled by cargo ship, you got 2 heart attack on ship but still you did not lose hope and by
meditating on the lotus feet of lord Krishna, you were fixed on the mission of your spiritual
master Srila bhakti shidhanta thakur swami maharaj. I pray to your lotus feet again and
again on this auspicious occasion of vyas puja and beg your causeless mercy that I can also
get strength and eagerness to follow and preach the glories of sri chaitnya mahaprabhu
under the direction of my spiritual master.

Srila prabhupada, I do not know how to preach sri chaitnya mahaprabhu’s message and serve
you as your faith full dog. Even though I have desire to serve you but I am not able to do so
because of anartha in my heart. One thing I know that you can make me useful from useless
,wise from foolish and perfect from imperfect if you desire .Therefore, Oh my beloved srila
prabhupada , kindly bestow you causeless mercy upon me and make me dance as you
like, make me dance as you like.

It is mention in srimad bhagwatam(SB 7.7.30-31) that one should accept a bona
fide spiritual master. My dear Srila prabhupada, it is because of your causeless
mercy, I got shelter of the lotus feet of my beloved spiritual master H.H Gopal
Krishna goswami guru maharaja who is your very dear disciple and who has
dedicated himself in preaching, printing books & its distribution, building
many temples in different cities and last but not the least, cooperation with his
God brothers & other devotees and guiding them whenever require specially in
some panic situation. Cooperation is require otherwise it will also disintegrate
like gaudia math which srila prabhupada does not want to happen.

guru-śuśrūṣayā bhaktyā
sarva-labdhārpaṇena ca
saṅgena sādhu-bhaktānām
īśvarārādhanena ca

śraddhayā tat-kathāyāṁ ca
kīrtanair guṇa-karmaṇām
tat-pādāmburuha-dhyānāt
tal-liṅgekṣārhaṇādibhiḥ

One must accept the bona fide spiritual master and render service unto him with great devotion and
faith. Whatever one has in one’s possession should be offered to the spiritual master, and in the
association of saintly persons and devotees one should worship the Lord, hear the glories of the Lord
with faith, glorify the transcendental qualities and activities of the Lord, always meditate on the
Lord’s lotus feet, and worship the Deity of the Lord strictly according to the injunctions of
the śāstra and guru.

My dear srila prabhupada, A good grand disciple can only understand your mood & mission
and dedicate their everything in your service but I am so foolish and unfortunate that I am
not able to do so as it is. Please forgive me for all my offences committed to your lotus feet
and please bless that the tendency of offending pure vaishnava like you also goes away
from my heart.

My only desire is to please my spiritual master in any case without fail, then only lord will
be pleased (ysaya prasada bhagvat prasado…) and always be in association of devotees. if
you so desire please bless me so that I can always be in devotee association and please my
spiritual master.

Thank you so much srila prabhupada. All glories to you srila prabhupada!

Your insignificant servant
Rasa murti das
Simantdwip BACE (Lado sarai)

You have written so many books to guide us in the profound knowledge of Bhagavad Gita, Srimad Bhagavatam, Chaitanya Charitamrita and many many more. You are so expert in everything. I read that you have taught your disciples many skills like cooking, Vaishnava etiquettes, Deity worship, preaching – dealing with other devotees and even non devotees, financial matters(dealing temple property deligently) , and many more. This shows that you had so much enthusiasm and a vision of urgency in cultivating krishna consciousness to other souls.
You have exemplified by showing the jewles of Sadhana, sadachar, seva and satsanga. Your legacy is carried by your dear most disciples and Grand disciples and they whole heartedly serve the soceity and guide us at every step.
My Guru Maharaj HH Jayapataka swami has written a very beautiful song explaining his realization on you – Yadi Prabhupad na hoito. Every single verse in it shows his greatest respect towards you. I wish i can also develop such love and respect towards my Guru one day.

Thanks dear Prabhupad for placing me under your divine shelter and for giving me this wonderful family. Kindly bless us that my entire family practices krishna consciousness with enthusiasm and we always remain under the shade of your divine lotus feet.

Your spiritual grand daughter,
Sirisa Haripriya Devi Dasi

Thank you Krishna for giving us Srila Prabhupada.

Please bless that we can become pure devotees and spread this movement throughout the world.

Your aspiring eternal servant,
Amala Purana Das

Today and always praying to the lotus feet of Sri Sri Radha Shyamsunder to always keep you under Their shelter so that you may continue to empower generations to come !

Nitai Gaur Premanade Hari Hari Bol!!

Your insignificant servant,
Manju lali gopi Devi dasi

We personally admire the kind of intense care and concern you showed with the devotees , that though most of them had no awareness about Indian culture, values or even knew about Krsna being the Supreme Personality of Godhead , simply by being with you and appreciating your qualities they were ready to surrender their lives to your purpose and mission… how wonderful is that Srila Prabhupad!!

We wish to also thank your disciples on this wonderful day, dear Prabhupad, on how they have tirelessly worked to save your precious lectures, books, conversations and letters and make them available for all of us very mercifully.
Please give us the strength to do nice sadana and follow the regulations. Along with mercy come strength, so we beg to shower your mercy on us, so that we will be able to avoid offenses at the lotus feet of all vaishnavas and gain the taste for chanting the holy name of the Lord.

Thank you for giving us this transcendental institution “ISKCON” which mercifully keeps us engaged at your service.

Thank you for the various ways of reciprocation that you have given us dear Srila Prabhupad ! Please bless all of us that we may submit to your will and become a useful instrument in your hands and mission !

All glories to your divine grace,

Your servants of your servants,
Premasundara Madhava Das,
Nityasevini Vishaka DD
Janardan

YS
Mahateja Narahari Das

Yours servent of servent of servent
Sumukhi harini devi dasi

Thankyou Srila Prabhupada for your invaluable books and lectures. Please give us strength to read all your books during this life time and encourage others to read.

Please bless us with your mercy abundantly so that we will be able to please you by spreading your message. Please bless us that we will be able please your disciple HH Jayapataka Swami Guru Maharaj with our preaching efforts.

Thank you Srila Prabhupada.

Yours Sincere servants
Srikanta Srinivasa Dasa
Vaikunta Vishnupriya Devi Dasi

When I was reading Lilamrita I could feel that you had done so much for the whole world.You have given one of the best medicines of Srimad Bhagwatam and Kirtana.
In spite of being unqualified you have given me spiritual master.
You have given us ISKCON without which I can’t imagine to progress in spiritual life.

I have a desire to distribute your divine books which can change the life of people.Please shower your mercy so that I can become an instrument and please you and my spiritual master.

Thank you Srila Prabhupada for giving us everything.
Happy Vyasa Puja Srila Prabhupada.

Yours Servant
Sarveshwara Nanda Kumar Das.

Begging for your mercy,
Your insignificant servant of servant
Manorama Chaitanya das

instructed us, being awake all night

But I am still at the beck and call of maya

Look at my pitiable plight

Playing the role of a postman

you delivered krishna’s messages

Alas! bewildered by my foolishness

I flip those books like mere textbook pages

But if you’ve chosen me to be your grandchild

I know you’ll not let my mind go wild

Watching  me roaming endlessly in this material world

I am sure, you’ll take this “rascal” back to your world

Yours’s eternally indebted grandchild

Preeti

From Krishna book 4th chapter i saw when kamsa heard from durga, Krishna already born he realized that and ask forgiveness to devaki and vasudeva .and then finally they forgiven also (Devotees are like bancha kalpataru) but when he went to his demon friend again his mind changed
i am also a kamsa mentality servant when i am with your (book) or with devotees association i am feeling sorry and i want to proceed in Krishna consciousness want to preach but when i am away i am drowning in this material life.
I am praying at your lotus feet and asking to give some mercy so that i can obey my guru and proceed in Krishna Consciousness. This prayer also i taken from your jaladuta prayer, and Here i am praying.
rajas tamo guṇe erā sabāi ācchanna
bāsudeb-kathā ruci nahe se prasanna
tabe jadi taba kṛpā hoy ahaitukī
sakal-i sambhava hoy tumi se kautukī

Means in this material world all are drowning but if your mercy is there then everything possible.
So in this servant of servant of servant mood i am praying at your lotus feet.
I don’t know much more, if any mistake is there please forgive me.
Hare Krishna
Your servant’s servant
sarojini

Hare Krisna.

Amal Bhaduri.

If I can please you even in a very insignificant manner then it will be perfection of my life. Though for that also, I need your blessings.

Your eternally grateful servant

Neelambari Radha dasi

I’m endeavoring to achieve vyavasayatmika buddhi that this process of daily reading your books & hearing your lectures alongside following your instructions – especially chanting minimum 16 good rounds in brahma-muhurta & 4 regulative principles – is the only means (kevalam) to practice unflinching devotional service that pleases all devotees, Sri Guru and attracts the mercy of Sri Sri Gaur Nitai. 

I started reading Srimad Bhagavatam this year, which gives me immense realizations that I feel we can never come to realize what extent of your mercy is treasured in your purports. May I regularly read Srimad Bhagavatam & desire to follow every word of your instruction by your Divine Grace.

By the mercy of senior devotees, I have been given the responsibility to act as servant leader of Bhakti Vriksha. On this auspicious day of your Vyasapuja, I earnestly pray at your lotus feet to shower your blessings upon me & our BV family so that we become worthy instruments in your preaching mission.

Your Servant,

Krishna Mohan Golla

Prabhu, you sowed the seed of bhakti in this age of Kali. Because of your mercy, we all nicely worshiping Krsna together.
You are the Bija for “The Krishna Conscious Movement” (ISKCON).

“Kṛṣṇa says, bahavo jñāna-tapasā. Jñāna, knowledge, and tapasā, austerities.
So this human life is meant for jñāna and tapasā. Then we become purified” if we don’t take tapasya and don’t take knowledge, then this human form of life is spoiled.

You are epitome for austerities and penances. Without your mercy, it is not possible for us to elevate in the path of Bhakti.
You have provided us all facilities like deities in temples to worship, books to read, audios to listen, songs to sing.

It Feels tough to follow regulative principles at first but with devotees association, kirtan, reading Bhagavad-gita & Bhagavatham, attending great senior devotees lectures, and especially your audios makes so much change in our life.
Every step is a challenge before coming to bhakti but after tasting your Vani and Literature it is easy to cross the ocean of this material world.

Your eternal servant,

Sreepathi

On this Vyasapuja of yours, please bless me and my family to progress in Krishna Consciousness steadily and my taste for the chanting, reading and listening for the Lord increases.

Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna,
Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare
Hare Rama, Hare Rama,
Rama Rama, Hare Hare

Your Servant
Deepak Prashanth

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

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

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

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 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

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

Your Servant,
Vidya

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.

* 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.

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

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

Ys,
Diya Hegde

Your Servant
Vandhana

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

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

Initially we were surprised how you have built so many temples world wide and how could you make so many devotees in western countries.

We believe that it would have happened because you are not a normal personality, you are divine personality who have come to this world to show us the correct path.

We have no qualification to ask you to shower mercy on us.

Kindly forgive our offences in ignorance.

On this Vyas Puja of yours, We pray at your lotus feet.

Please bless us and our family to grow in spiritual path and engage us in more and more services to serve the devotees Guru and Gauranga. Hold us firmly in this path.

Your insignificant servants
Krishnaveni & Sreekanth

I have personally seen so many souls life have been saved because of you Srila Prabhupad. Each of us in
human form have really got the purpose of our life now.

Srila Prabhupad, You always wanted Krishna conscious movement to spread thru out the world in the
spirit of Lord Chaitanya.

Yare dekho tare kaho krishna upadesa & bharata-bhumite haila manusya-janma yara

I will try to take these instruction & definitely try to contribute in spreading Krishna consciousness.

Thank you Srila Prabhupad for always being there tolerating our misgivings & always being merciful.

Your insignificant servant
Nishant

Thank you very much for writing so many books which are like a single ray of hope for us Kaliyugi people who do not know anything.

I beg unto you for your causeless mercy to give me strength and more power to my spiritual life. Please always keep me under your shelter and guide me to be come faithful devotee of Krishna and servant of your servants ?.

Thank you so much Srila Prabhupada.
Your aspiring servant,
Aditi

Still can never glorify you and all the devotees

Yrs
K Rohith raj

In one of your lectures I heard Srila Prabhupada mention that you are not able to distribute prasadam in initial days but chanting of Hare Krishna mahamantra could make devotees. This gives me a lot of inspiration and increases my faith in the holy name. In this pandemic time also we can spread Krishna Consciousness by sincerely chanting holy names and doing our sadhana.

Srila Prabhupada you also said that this movement can be accepted by anyone by grace of lord Chaitanya, we just need to do our endeavour and Krishna will be pleased with that.

On this special occasion I beg from you Srila Prabhupada for your causeless mercy so that I can get some taste to read your books and become a menial servant to repeat your instructions.

Also Srila Prabhupada please bestow your mercy so that I am able to take shelter under your lotus feet in association with your beloved disciple and fully surrender to him.

Thank you for everything Srila Prabhupada

Your aspiring Servant,
Deepak Porwal

I have innumerable occasions in life where I felt there was a protective cover around me and some invisible power protected me always.

That power is the divine blessing of Lord Krishna

best regards,
Reenu Sharma
Radha Damodar Bhakti Vriksha

I was fortunate to receive mercy from so many of your sincere disciples, especially HG Acyuta Arjunsakha Das, who literally picked me out of anartha and brought me in the company of highest class of people, the devotees of Lord Krishna.

Journey of Krishna consciousness seems difficult after so many years of conditioning in this material world. Sometimes feels like too uphill a task, and almost frustrating to see very less progress. Then I see most fallen people getting liberated by you in your documentary and get an assurance that someday I’ll be able to train my mind to quit material pursuits and surrender this life to Krishna completely.

As I remember you with gratefulness on this auspicious day, I pray to Lod Krishna to bless you with shelter in his lotus feet, and beg you for mercy towards me as I struggle to follow your path.

Want to reassure you that your disciples have followed your path so well after you quit the body, and are helping the fallen souls like me through your preaching, books and the ways you had taught for preaching.

Now that I have discovered the treasure of your books, lectures and disciples, it seems impossible that I could ever leave the path of Krishna consciousness in the company of ISKCON devotees.

I beg forgiveness for all the mistakes I have committed in life so far. Sometimes I can feel you scolding me every time I make a mistake.

I beg your mercy to forgive me and be happy with me in spite of all my sins, based on my eagerness to overcome all anarthas and to follow the path of Krishna consciousness.

As I closely interact with so many devotees, I beg you to save me from annoying any pure devotee and getting Vaishnava aparadh.

I beg you to keep me in your shelter as part of this home called ISKCON that you have constructed for suffering souls, and bless me with association of devotees so that I could progress further.

My heartfelt apologies and thanks to you, Gurudev.

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna,
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare,
Hare Rama Hare Rama,
Rama Rama Hare Hare

Last servant in the chain of your servants,
Sanjeev Thakur

Please accept this small token of love. Nobody in this matirial world will ever be able to thank you enough for how much you have done for us.

Thank you srila prabhupada!!!

Ys Samruddha

Thank you Srila Prabhupad for saving all of us and Please bless us that we will develop the love for Krishna and participate in all preaching activities with more and more enthusiasm for your pleasure.

Your Servant,
Anil Narayama & Family

Thanks a lot for showering mercy to this fallen/unqualified soul Prabupada.

Thanks
Vinupriyaa

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.

Your spiritual grandson
Kumarswamy

Jai Jai Srila Prabhupada

Your Servant
Vivek
Kadugodi congregation

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

Your indebted servant
Vivek

On this Vyasapuja of yours, I pray that I always be engaged in your service.

Your servant
Avinash

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.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._C._Bhaktivedanta_Swami_Prabhupada

Jai Shrila Prabhupāda…
Jai Guru Paramparā..
Jai Shri Krishna..

Your Dāsānudāsānudāsa
Shanti Bhusan

Aspiring to be your servant,
Siddharth

Thankyou a lot Prabhupad. Your grandchildren,
Malarmannan and Kavitha and Harinandhan

Ys

Rishabh Mishra

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.

Your eternally indebted soul
Hariharan

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

Soma Ray Chatterjee

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 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

Dandavat Pranaam
Your grand disciple,
Rashmi

Shraddha Bajpayee

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

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

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

Your Servant
Vinodhini

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

Your servant
Hari

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

YOUR ETERNAL SERVANT
SHASHANK V

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

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

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

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

Hare Krishna,
Vijayaragavan

All Glories to you!
Venkat Gamidi & Sirisha Gamidi

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

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

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 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

Yours Servant of Servant,
B V N Ramakumar

Ys,
Sourav Dey

Please accept our sevice.
Your servant,
Nikita Sahu

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

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

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

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

It is pleasure & blissful to read your books, listen to your lectures & the morning walk messages. Thank you for showering us with your mercy and introducing us to the spiritual world, making us realise the very purpose of human life.

I write to you to promise I will follow our footsteps, follow the regulatory principles and contribute to the mission of taking Krishna Consciousness to as many as possible in this very lifetime. My realisation from Bhagavatam is “Only a devotee can introduce an other devotee to krishna prema and Krishna always resides in the hearts of devotees”

I also understand in this age of Kali chanting & Hari nama sankeerthanam is the best way to attain krishna and go back to godhead thank you prabhupada for reviving the Hare Krishna maha mantra
“Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare”

yours truly
Balakrishna & Shanmuga priya

It is you, who has given us such a precious collection of so many invaluable gems like devotees, even though you had to go through innumerous amount of tribulation at the very advance age of your life where people think of living a comfortable life.

I have heard from all of your disciples and also their disciples that what would happened to us and this this world, if you had not given your causeless mercy to the so many undeserving conditioned souls, the world would have been just as it is “a highly disgusting and rotting place”. You have given us Bhagavad- Gita “AS IT IS” and so many other important books to show us the real picture of the world as it is without any fear or compromise!!

Dear Prabhupad, I am one such undeserving soul, conditioned and complicated to such a degree I can’t put it in words. By this offering on your Vyaspuja day, I am humbly trying to beg from you, the mercy to come out of this conditioning and become simple and humble so that I can get properly connected with your parampara in the form of ISKCON and try to serve your devotees to their full satisfaction.

Thank you Srila Prabhupad !!

Trying to be an insignificant servant in your parampara of ISKCON

Sidh Nath

The price for the ticket is very very neglible, but the end result is priceless. It is attaining Krishna/Goloka Vrindavan. Your process will take us to the priceless thing of attaining Krishna. Thank you prabhupad for gifting us such a wonderful and simple process.

You made all the arrangements for all the devotees, every nutrient for all the devotees. You established temples, Books, set of simple rules, festival worship, deity worship etc. All these establishments guide the devotee in each and every step even in the absence of your physical presence.

Recently this garbage, is given an service of guiding a Bhakti Vriksha. I am guiding around 11 families prabhupad. I have nothing to give these families, all I have is unlimited sins. Please shower your unlimited mercy unto them. They are doing a great job in following Krishna Consciousness. In fact, in the Janmashtami follow-up service they all took almost 40-50 contacts to call up, they did it very eagerly.

Prabhupad, this garbage is a neophyte in Krishna Consciousness, any mistake I may commit knowingly or unknowingly, kindly forgive me mercifully as a grandfather and correct/guide me. But don’t remove me from ISKCON, Association of devotees, or your service. I always want to serve at your lotus feet till my last breath and life after life.

Your insignificant servant of your servants.
G. Balaji

Sincerely seeking your blessing in continuing my journey with ISKCON through devotees association, following instructions given by guru and going back to the Godhead.

All glories to you.

Hare Krishna!!

Your servant,
Karthikeyan

But, I know you are very mercy ful but you must scold me so that I can learn something in this very lifetime and become very closer to you. As you said you see Krishna daily then if your mercy will shower on me then even though I wont see Krishna but I will start experiencing Krishna in this very life time.

Yours fallen Soul,
Chandan
Bhagalpur,Bihar

I am a person who is living in ignorance, tangled in this material world with lots of expectations , so many questions arises in my mind why is this ,why that, why so misery, why so suffering. So many thoughts are coming in my mind and why God has not given me so many things and my life was in darkest ignorance..

I am a fallen soul but by the grace of God I came to know about ISKCON and about you Srila Prabhupad. You are an extraordinary person with extraordinary philosophy . As a bona fide guru with so many talents ,by hearing and reading yours lecture my heart started cleansing,and the prospective about life becomes clearer.I had never any interest in reading books but when I started reading your book; book reading became my passion.

You are my guru and your preaching removes the darkness in life.

If you shower your mercy then I will definitely receive the benediction of Krishna.

Yours Fallen Disciple,
Nisha
Bangalore

You will surely answer my questions of self realisation I know I had qualification but by the mercy of guru and gauranga I have got such a charismatic and exgubirating congregation of devotees may be I can also one grow to be sincere devoutee and look at Krishna with the anointed eyes which you and mahaprabhu wants the jiva of Kali to possess

Hare Krishna
Your servant
Chatur bharadwaj

Your servant
Chair bharadwaj

You have delivered people who were suffering like hell and gave them good life, generally in our culture we used to ignore people who are going through very degraded life or badly suffering but you specially went to convert Hippies into Happies.

By your mercy only we have this wonderful society of Krishna Consciousness on this planet

We always remains indebted to you

Namah Srila Prabhupada

Aakash Singhal

Insignificant Servant,
Srinivas Vodnala

Hare Krishna
Deepank Bansal

Yours Sincerely
Esha & Janardhan

Thank you for giving us spiritual knowledge through your books and preachings.

We are really blessed that we became a part of the Krishna consciousness movement.
Give us support and courage to move forward in this path and help us to gain spiritual knowledge.

Thank you,
your disciples
Poorna Chandra & Bhargavi.

Being delayed because of these mixed feelings, I lost time and midst of this I lost my loving Father, a resident of Vrindavan for the last 20 years, who did sow the seed of Bhakti in me, always dedicated in the service of Radha Krishna in the temple he managed for these years. Now having lost him, being beaten by the Waves of Time from one rock to another I realize that I am still standing because of your teachings which travelled to me through various recordings and from the mouth of glorious devotees. Today i want to prostrate in front of you remembering you with my father in my heart and Radha Krishna in his heart, sitting in Vrindavan. ….. At last I gather courage to write my offering.

I am “The Rascal” you have been referring to in many lectures , who being given the opportunity of having a Human body with facility of being close to Vrindavan still couldn’t dip myself in Bhakti rasa. But when acquainted with your simple tools of Bhakti – Starting with the Japa player which radiates divine Mahamantra sound vibration in your soulful voice, Your lectures on Bhagwat Geeta – Infinite Thanks to those who recorded and compiled those- which constantly hammered my coconut head with the real purpose of Life, then your books which are real eye openers pushing and shaking me hard to think what is supposed to be thought. The Japa beads – a constant companion giving solace to the heart and senses that the “Holy name ” is the real currency of the Spiritual world and one day we could have enough credits to get an entry .. I love my beads now it makes me feel that I am connected to you and the parampara ultimately leading to Krishna. Besides all your biggest tool – your devotees and second generation devotees whom I cannot thank enough for constantly endeavouring towards inspiring people like us to work and practice Bhakti.

Pls bless me and my family so that we can build and grow the cup of reception so that when the rain of Bhakti happens by your mercy and Krishnas mercy we are there to receive it.

Hare Krishna !
Yours faithfully
Harish K Nair

Your rascal
Rahul sisodia

In your service,
Anoop, Sapna & Dhairya

Lot of common sense, which is very uncommon in the contemporary world, is being dissipated in ISKCON temples and bhakti vriksha classes to take care of life. These are all countless benefits I am getting out of ISKCON founded by you.

Your servant,
Venkatesh

I Pray from my heart for only one thing prabhu – Please keep your mercy and blessings on me and my family members to always continue in Bhakti marg such that we can become a true devotee of Lord Krishna.

Your Servants
Ajay Kumar Sanwaria, Rashmi Sanwaria, Avishi Sanwaria

We sincerely pray for your and all senior devotees blessings so that we can make progress in Krishna consciousness. Please bestow your mercy on us. Please provide us strength, guidance and support in our journey and help us taste the nectar of Krishna Mantra and cross the ocean of materialistic desires.

Your sincere servants
Girisha, Vasavi and Nagaskanda