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Offering by Bandhu Madhava das
Dear Srila Prabhupada,
All glories to your divine grace. Please accept my humble obeisances.
I feel fortunate for having got a opportunity to write this offering on your 125th appearance day. I don’t know from where should I begin to thank you. You are the reason for everything auspicious in my life from all angles of vision.
My life in this living did not start when I was born, but when your books and teachings came in. That was my real birth.
My learning did not begin in school or college, but from when I started hear your transcendental teachings. That was my real education.
I am able coin words and speak few sentences today is only after learning your books.
I was a dumb fool. You made my life. Everything that others see in me today, is but a mercy that you have given, though I am not worthy of it. I am able repeat something from scriptures today, is only because of your mercy. I am able think something to be right and wrong today, is only because of your teachings. I am able to do something today is only because of you. I am writing this offering also, only because of your mercy.
I simply wish to spend my time ETERNALLY remembering and thanking you.
You have given so much transcendental instructions but I am struggling to put a lot of your teachings in my personal life. I am still in deep dark ignorance and I need to hold on to the rope you have thrown and climb up leaving behind all my useless habits. I am willing to change for your pleasure. I will continue to fight with my internal enemies. I am willing to improve. Your mercy is there to make my effort complete. I just need to step up to grab it.
Thank you Srila Prabhupada for making my life. I will try my best to follow your teachings. Today I am far away but hopefully sooner, I will also be given the entrance into your sincere followers list. I am willing to work for that change.
Writing this offering on behalf of your servants Sumati Jahnava Devi dasi and Bhakta Baladeva.
Your servant,
Bandhu Madhava das
Offering by Hariksetra das
Dear Srila Prabhupada
Please accept my respectful obeisance
All glories to you.
Thank you Srila Prabhupada for all that you have given me. I can never repay the debt. The success of my life is to constantly be engaged in your service.
Srila Prabhupada, you have already accepted me and all the people of this world, even those who are yet to come into this world for next ten thousand years as your disciples. When asked how many disciples you have, your response was “Unlimited! some know, some don’t know!!!” This is your unlimited mercy Srila Prabhupada.
Deeming to your position as the acarya, who has been personally sent by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu to save the fallen souls of kali yuga, it is the duty of every ISKCON leader to facilitate development of personal relation with you, Srila Prabhupada. In those lines, one of the meditations I had in the past few months is that Srila Prabhupada, you are personally present, and you guide devotees personally. In difficulties I approach you and pray to you and you surely respond. Whenever I am tormented by a particular anarta, I have approached you and Gurudeva, you mercifully pick me up and save me from that situation and give me better focus on devotional service. I developed the habit of pronouncing your pranam mantra clearly and legibly before every round of Hare Krishna mantra, praying for focus and attention on this most important service given to me. This has made a lot of difference in my chanting and in my very life. These experiences have intensified my faith that you are personally present, and you help me personally. Now I can share this confidently.
It is a glorious moment to celebrate this 125th Vyasapuja of yours Srila Prabhupada. Now we are trying to distribute a card containing your glories to almost 3500 people. We will also plan many other things to create awareness about you, who have come to save these people of kali yuga. We also wish to offer you a land in this area and build a glorious temple.
Thank you Srila Prabhupada for all that you have given me. Praying for your mercy.
Your servant
Hariksetra das
Offering by Acyuta Arjunasakha Das
nama om vishnu-padaya krishna-preshthaya bhu-tale
srimate bhaktivedanta-svamin iti namine
namaste saraswate deve gaura-vani-pracarine
nirvishesha-shunyavadi-pashchatya-desha-tarine
My dear eternal spiritual grandfather His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada,
Please accept my respectful obeisances unto your lotus feet on the auspicious occasion of your Vyasa-puja celebration. All glories to your Sankirtan lotus feet!
My dear Srila Prabhupada,
The Srimad Bhagavatam 1.18.23 says “O ṛṣis, who are as powerfully pure as the sun, I shall try to describe to you the transcendental pastimes of Viṣṇu as far as my knowledge is concerned. As the birds fly in the sky as far as their capacity allows, so do the learned devotees describe the Lord as far as their realization allows.” Since you are the unalloyed representative and confidential associate of Krishna, the above verse applies to you also (“sākṣād-dharitvena samasta-śāstrair”), and therefore I am simply dumbfounded in my ignorant and insignificant attempt to glorify you, but I will try as far as my capacity allows.
I am simply introspecting the extraordinary abominable condition I was in, before meeting you, in the form of your teachings and vaani. Thank you for introducing me to the purifying realm of Krishna Consciousness. Thank you for being such hope and inspiration in my life which uplifts me and saves me again and again. “We think that we have met Your Goodness by the will of providence, just so that we may accept you as captain of the ship for those who desire to cross the difficult ocean of Kali, which deteriorates all the good qualities of a human being.” (SB 1.2.22). Please instruct me so that I may always accept and follow your teaching wholeheartedly without any reservations.
My dear preeminent Shiksha guru,
Thank you for your tireless zeal to touch and deliver one and all. Thank you for spreading the Hare Krishna maha-mantra all over the planet. You created the fortune of the residents of this planet by travelling the world 14 times in 12 years distributing the Hare Krishna maha-mantra to one and all. You are your Krishna Conscious movement has saved humanity from degrading into utter darkness.
You have set such an exemplary example of the spirit of preaching. By your extraordinary compassion and your divine conduct, you have spoken loud and clear that the central purpose of Lord Chaitanya’s movement is to preach and simultaneously expand the as unlimitedly.
In your letter to Letter to Jayatirtha, 5 May 1974, you highlight and reflect the preaching desire/mission of Lord Chaitanya “Regarding your invitation that I attend the Rathayatra festival in San Francisco, on July 7th, it is possible that I may attend depending on when I finish my European tour. I am due to arrive in Rome on May 23, then after a week Geneva, then Paris and possibly Stockholm, Germany and England. If there is time I can fly directly from Europe to Los Angeles and go to the festival, then as you suggest, go to Australia Rathayatra via Hawaii. This is known as jet-age parivrajakacarya.” Your innermost desire is to spread Krsna consciousness everywhere at once. Please empower me to absorb a drop of that mood so that I play an insignificant role in your plan to expand the Krishna Consciousness movement.
My dear saviour,
Your unfathomably deep and infinitely unique personality has various facets.
Plain-living pioneer, World sankirtana party leader, Vaishnavi empowerer, Prasadam master, Literary fountain, Deity installer and much more. Please bless me so that I can become more faithful to you by being able to connect with one or more of your merciful aspects. The goal of my life is to simply deepen my connection and bond with you. That will give me an enlivening experience of your association. I fully understand that this would be possible only in the well-rounded, cooperative company of your serious & sincere followers. Only then will your full mercy manifest in my life. I beg you to accept me and empower me with your unfailing servitorship.
My dear Founder-Acharya,
The first & foremost way I can connect with you is by becoming a keen student of your spoken and written words. Regular and attentive hearing from my founder acharya —especially in the company of like-minded devotees, will ground me in my foundational relationship which will sustain and enrich me and also others. You made this point very clear in August 1968, during the Q&A after SB class, when a new initiate expressed that when you weren’t there in person, she felt far away from you. You replied: “Oh, that you should not think…There are two conceptions: the physical conception and the vibration conception. So physical conception is temporary. The vibration conception is eternal. Just like we are enjoying or we are relishing the vibration of Krishna’s teachings. So by vibration, He is present. As soon as we chant Hare Krishna or chant Bhagavad-gita or Bhagavata, so He is present immediately by His vibration. So we should give more stress on the sound vibration, either of Krishna or the spiritual master. Then we’ll feel happy and no separation.” (Srimad-Bhagavatam lecture, 7.9.12, Montreal, 18 August 1968). Please enable me to access you, uninterruptedly via your sound vibration.
Srila Prabhupada,
The success of my life is to find my mission in your mission. While some people focus on cultivating one’s confidential relationship with Krsna, you always emphasized that helping the spiritual master serve the Lord’s mission is the best way to become intimate with and dear to Him. In one of your purports you have mercifully revealed “When one becomes serious to follow the mission of the spiritual master, his resolution is tantamount to seeing the Supreme Personality of Godhead…In conclusion, if a disciple is very serious to execute the mission of the spiritual master, he immediately associates with the Supreme Personality of Godhead…This is the only secret of success in seeing the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Instead of being eager to see the Lord in some bush of Vrindavana while at the same time engaging in sense gratification, if one instead sticks to the principle of following the words of the spiritual master, he will see the Supreme Lord without difficulty.” (SB 4.28.51 purport).
Reflecting on how my Shiksa and Diksha gurus are enriching and deepening my foundational relationship with you by practically helping me contribute to your mission, is my saving grace. They are the most important people in our life.
My dear Srila Prabhupada,
The more I immerse myself in your life, teachings, mood & mission, the more I will understand how to be faithful & fresh as I re-present you, present you all over again, to the ever-changing times, places, and people.
You want me to carry your legacy and become a regular guru, not imitate or replace you, but to follow in your footsteps: “So we should follow this instruction of Caitanya Mahaprabhu, yare dekha, tare kaha krishna-upadesha. So you, every one of you, can become a guru. You may say that ‘I am not interested to become a guru,’ but Caitanya Mahaprabhu says that if you are not interested, that is not very good. You should be interested. You must be a guru. That is the success of your life.” (Room Conversation, Teheran, 13 Mar 1975).
Please empower me to imbibe and impart your legacy.
Please empower me so that your instructions become my only sadhana, my only sadhya and my only livelihood. I wish to never give up these instructions either in the stage of practice or in the stage of perfection. I beg that your instructions remain my only desire and my only responsibility. By your mercy anything is possible, I hanker to get a drop of it. I aspire to become a faithful servant of your servants.
Yours eternally,
Acyuta Arjunasakha Das JPS,
Offering by Amal Bhaduri
Revered Srila Prabhupada,
Please accept my prostrated obeisance’s in the dust of your lotus feet. All glories to Your
Divine Grace.
Srila Prabhupada, I am indeed fortunate to have been given the privilege and a chance to offer my respectful obedience’s unto your lotus feet through the Vyas Puja offering today. I feel extremely small and fallen to inform you that my youth and long active service period of this precious human life, meant for only Bhakti, as also despite being born in the God Conscious family, was spent totally in a different regimented environment.
I can only call it divine mercy of you, Jagat Guru Prabhupada and Lord Gaurango that better late than never happened, I could take shelter of my mentor’s lotus feet and was able to migrate with ease into the most revered, time tested, legally approved, religious service for mankind of Krsna consciousness. Me transforming into this regimented life, was just smooth sailing.
Your Humble Servant,
Amal Bhaduri.
Offering by Viraj Hegde
Dear Srila Prabhupada,
Hare Krishna, Dandavat Pranam,
Please accept my humble obeisance’s
You are an evergreen inspiration for me. The amount of hardships you had to face spreading Krishna Consciousness, what I am doing is very very insignificant.
Associating with ISKCON and devotees has brought in a sense of purpose in my life. You made life simpler for fallen soul like me with exceptional books, written with so much compassion and practicality.
With you as preeminent Siksa Guru, I have complete faith and belief that you will not let me fall down.
You are ocean of mercy, the friend of the poor, master of the devotees.
O master! Be merciful unto me.
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare
Ys
Viraj Hegde
Offering by Neelambari Radha dasi
Hare Krishna dear Srila Prabhupada,
Please accept my humble obeisance at your divine lotus feet.
All glories to you dear Srila Prabhupada.
Yesterday was Janmashtami, till couple of years back, Janmashtami was only a festival for us like many other festivals. But you’ve introduced the importance of this day and Lord Krishna in our life so your appearance on next day of Janmashtami is quite relevant for all of us.
I’ve accepted Krishna consciousness only because of your teachings. Not sure whether i’m advancing or not but i’m realizing day by day what you’ve done for human society. Also I’m realizing how much you are empowered to perform everything so perfectly. Your instructions and teachings are so practical and relevant in every situation.
Your teachings, your organization, your books and your followers are the most valuable assets of our life. I sincerely pray that more and more people in this world realize and accept these valuable assets in their lives.
Your eternal and grateful servant
Neelambari Radha dasi
Offering by Sudha
Dear Srila Prabhupada,
Please accept my humble obeisance at Your Lotus Feet.
This is my 3rd Vyasapuja Offering to you, Prabhupada. And for the first time, I am at a loss for words. I don’t know if it’s because I have too much to say or too little, being the insignificant baddhajeevi that I am.
The past year has been a partly blissful and partly painful experience for me. The time has come to stir the pot and let the contaminating muck that resides within my heart, in the form of false ego, pride, enviousness, anger and many other subtle anarthas, rise to the top. That is the only way to clean the pot. This has been particularly painful and disturbing to me. So, it is obvious that I have a long way to go and have not made much progress the last year. Deweeding the garden is a very painful job and requires an expert gardener, who can identify the weeds from the bhakti lata and I am hoping to approach one such expert gardener, many of whom you have gloriously provided us with, Prabhupada.
During Janmashtami celebrations yesterday, as we were blissfully watching the maha abhishekam and subsequent pushpa abhishekam of the deities after the bath, one of the devotees mentioned in the chat that she wishes the pushpa abhishekam goes on eternally, so that her eyes could experience continuous bliss and satisfaction. This made me realise that one of the aspects that attracted me most to ISKCON was the opulence of offerings to the Lord, the most opulent offering being flowers. The care and attention to detail that goes into each and every event, is the legacy of the love of Godhead that you left behind for us.
I am eternally grateful to you, dear Srila Prabhupada for the many different ways in which you have touched people's lives, the most important being shining the torch of knowledge, so that the darkness of ignorance is dispelled from our lives.
om ajnana-timirandhasya jnananjana-salakaya
cakshur unmilitam yena tasmai sri-gurave namah
“I offer my respectful obeisances unto my spiritual master, who has opened my eyes, which were blinded by the darkness of ignorance, with the torchlight of knowledge”.
There are many areas that need improvement in my sadhana bhakti and your directions in the form of your vani, has helped identify them, dear Prabhupada. I hope to improve on them and give you a better progress report in my Vyasa puja offering next year. I am eternally grateful to you, dear Prabhupada for giving my life purpose and making me realise that I am NOTHING if Krishna is taken away from me.
Your eternal “hoping to be truly humble” servant,
Sudha
Offering by Dilip Kumar
My Dear Prabhupad,
Please accept my prostrated and humble obeisances.
On this auspicious day of your 125th anniversary of your appearance, I am fortunate to express my heartfelt gratitude to you. Today the most fallen, sinful, fool like me is enjoying the fruits of your sacrifice in the form of luxurious ISKCON temples, tasting the most delicious Prasadam, getting access to transcendental books, and most importantly association of your pure devotees. Your devotees are like expert surgeons who are treating my heart disease of material enjoyment. And much more. I can never repay for your magnanimous compassion on me.
This is just and immature expression of my thoughts. I have a very long way to go and experience the true importance of you in my life. I am half baked please do not leave me. Please engage me in your mission and please lead me to your pure follower so that I can be under his shelter. Your mercy is my only hope. Because of hearing regularly from your devotees I am able to follow the 4 regularise principles. I tried by my strength to do this for past many year but failed miserably. But this year was magic just by hear Bhagawatam class every morning from IBC I am able to give up bad habits. This has increased my faith in the process. This is your cause less mercy. I have decided to chant 16 rounds attentively without offence and read your books everyday very thoroughly. I am also thinking of getting initiated. You have given a new hope. You have protected me and still protecting.
Thanking you,
Yours aspiring servant of the servant of the servant
Dilip Kumar
Offering by Nayana
Dear respected Srila Prabhupada,
Please accept my humble obesiances at your lotus feet,
I am eternally grateful to you for giving us organization like ISKCON which has become my true family. You have shown us the real engagement of this human life otherwise we had wasted our life in mundane affairs. I have been ignorant through out my life and your have shown us the absolute path irrespective of our eligibility. Srila Prabhupada I am a very poor reader but trying to read your books in devotee association and can’t express my gratitude towards you for generating our faith in scriptures by presenting them in most authentic and practical way without any compromising. Your books and lectures makes me realize that how merciful you are to all living entities of this world and how much pain you have taken for their real welfare.
I bow down again and again to express my gratitude for giving me and my family Krishna conciousness path.
Your insignificant servant,
Nayana
Offering by Ashwini
Dear Srila Prabhupada,
Please accept my humble obeisances
Nama Om Vishnupadaya Krishna prashtaya bhutale
Srimate Bhaktivedanta swamine iti namine
Namaste Saraswate Deve Gauravani pracharine
Nirvishesha Shunyavadi Paschatya desha tarine
Dear Prabhupada, Everytime I recite your pranam mantras I remember what a big difference u have made to my life and to the lives of the people around me. The biggest gift u have given me is bringing Shiksha gurus into our lives through Iskcon and making me realise the true purpose of my life . I know it is for me to repay this debt of yours by serving your disciples and encouraging others on this path of Krishna consciousness.
However preaching is not easy, doesn’t come naturally to me, but I hope with your mercy I can serve u and this wonderful organisation u have created ISKCON in some humble way.
I have a beautiful picture of you Srila prabhupada in my home and everytime I pay obeisances to u I feel happy and fortunate that somehow your mercy touched me and my family through your disciples and grand disciples. Where once upon a time our house was adorned with useless material accessories today my home feels like a temple with the Lordships and you gracing our home .
I would like to end my offering to u with this verse Yadi prabhupada na hoito tobe ke hoito ye Jeevan bahita kishe.
Thank u Prabhupada for coming to this material world and saving all of us unfortunate fallen souls !!! Indeed u are Krishnas most wonderful gift to us.
YS,
Ashwini.
Offering by Ved
Dear Srila Prabhupada,
Please accept my humble obiesances.
My Name is Ved and im 13 years old Since the day Krishna’s teachings have been taught to me it has been a wonderful and blissful experience. It is really great that u wrote so many books so we can learn about this material life , sense gratification and how to get closer to reaching our goal to go back home to Lord Krishna.
All the things you have taught us like getting up in the morning and doing the Mangala aarti ,Guru puja….., and playing the mridangam for the Lordships gives me lot of Joy .Srila Prapupada One of the new thing I have started this year is joining a spiritual school by one of your grand disciples where I am taught shlokas from the Bhagavad Gita ,Knowledge of who we truly are , how we should live our life and being in the association of young devotees like me.
Ys
Ved
Offering by Ganesh
Hare Krishna Prabhupada,
Dandavat pranaam 🙏🙏🌷🌷💐💐
Not only me the entire humanity is not able to repay or measure the benefits we received from you.
I kindly request with folded hand that please always keep us under your lotus feet for the unconditional service of Guru, Vaishnav seva and Krishna prem.
Yours servants of servants…
Insignificant servant,
Ganesh. 🙏
Offering by Tandrima
My Dearest Srila Prabhupada,
Happy 125th Anniversary to Srila Prabhupad !
With all due respect, I would like to express my heartiest gratitude to you. Please accept my humble obeisance at Your Lotus Feet. It is my great fortune that I have been able to associate with devotees of Lord Sri Krishna. This has been possible only by your grace. You have given me a completely new perspective to life and it’s so blissful. It’s inexplicable to quantify the degree of your blessings that you have showered on me. Despite being in the midst of unfavourable circumstances every other day under the clutches of Maya, you have been bestowing your grace to keep me connected with the wonderful devotees from ISKCON, Whitefield via Krishna katha, BG and SB reading classes and various services. I am also highly indebted to your lectures as I have drawn the most meaningful derivations from these. Life would not be the same without your grace.
Please accept my humble obeisance and bless me so that I can become a servant of your servant of your servant of your servant.
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare
Your eternal servant,
Tandrima
Offering by Diya
Hare Krishna Dear Srila Prabhupada
Dandavat pranam
Please accept my humble obeisances
Thank you for giving me the beautiful gift of Krishna Consciousness, I’m forever grateful.
Krishna is always by my side and always surprises with his subtle gestures. It is so wonderful.
Like Jayapataka Swami Maharaj said in the song he wrote ‘yadi prabhupada na haita tabe ki haita e jivana bahita kise?’ If Srila Prabhupada had not come, what would have happened? How could we have passed our lives?
Forever grateful to you. Hari Hari bol!
Hare Krishna
Diya
Offering by Ravi Shankar
Dear Srila Prabhupada
Please accept my humble and respectful obeisance in your lotus feet. All glories to you.
nama om vishnu-padaya krishna-preshthaya bhu-tale srimate bhaktivedanta-svamin iti namine
namas te sarasvate deve gaura-vani-pracharine nirvishesha-shunyavadi-pashchatya-desha-tarine
I have started taking very small steps in my spiritual journey, What I have received from you is the most important in my life. Even though I don’t know, It was urgent from how many life after life. You have bestowed your causeless mercy upon this fallen soul.
Srila Prabhupada please give me mercy to fallen souls like me and always engage me in the service of Srila Gurudev and Krishna.
Your insignificant servant
Ravi Shankar
Offering by Ashsih, Manju lali gopi Dd, Radhika, Vishakha
Hare Krishna dear Srila Prabhupada 🙏
Please accept my humble obeisances 🙏🙏
All glories all glories to you dear Prabhupada 🙇♀️🙇♀️
Every year I feel I’m getting more closer to you following in your foot steps to distribute your books and mercy to whoever I meet .
Dear Prabhupad you have taught us how to be compassionate towards everyone and anyone can receive Krishna Prema either through Prasadam , books , kirtan , Krishna conscious cultural activities and much more !
Utsavah manavaah Priya … festivals are very dear to humans because that is our original activity in Goloka … through the many exemplary festivals Ratha yatra, Janmashtami mahotsavas, Sri Radha ashtami …that you held on the platform of Iskcon have taught us how to attract the attention of all around us .
Servants of the servant of the servant ,
Ashsih
Manju lali gopi Dd
Radhika
Vishakha
Offering by Khushboo
Hare Krishna dear Srila Prabhupada! Please accept my humble obeisances! All glories to you !
Prabhupada is like a grandfather I always feel who is watching on me silently , there have been times I have faltered in my goal , not concentrating on my japa or not doing my services , which always disturbs me immensely . To my surprise , I feel as if Guru Maharaj Srila Prabhupada is always listening to my heart , and then I would listen to some Prabhupada lecture randomly which would have answers to my questions or the doubts I have in my mind. I always get surprised by how my questions get answered .
As Jayapataka swami Maharaj says – Yadi Prabhupada na hoi toh , tabhe kei hoyite!
YS,
Khushboo
Offering by Aditi
Dear Srila Prabhupada
Please accept my respectful obeisance
All glories to you.
nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale
śrīmate bhaktivedānta-svāminn iti nāmine
namas te sārasvate deve gaura-vāṇī-pracāriṇe
nirviśeṣa-śūnyavādi-pāścātya- deśa-tāriṇe
I don’t have any qualifications Srila Prabhupada but I am very fortunate to have this opportunity to offer my heartfelt thanks to you on your 125th appearance day for showing us the path of Krishna Consciousness.
It has been about 4 years now since I came in touch with Acyuta Prabhuji and then came to know you and ISKCON and met my other Shiksha Gurus and I still have a very long way to go. By hearing and reading your books Srila Prabhupada, I’m trying to understand more deeply what it means to be Krishna conscious and I know you and only you can help me.
Thank you very much for writing so many books which are like a single ray of hope for us Kaliyuga people who do not know anything, we all are eternally grateful to you.
I beg unto you for your causeless mercy so I can chant properly and do devotional service without any offenses. Please bless me that I be more and more Kṛṣṇa conscious by every passing second and surrender to Lord Krishna with all my heart and soul.
Please always keep me under your shelter and guide me to become a faithful devotee of Krishna and a better servant of your servants 🙏.
Thank you so much Srila Prabhupada,
Your eternal servant,
Aditi
Offering by Deepmala Golani
My dear Spiritual Grand father Srila Prabhupada,
Please accept my humble obeisance.
All glories to you.
On the occasion of your Vyssa Puja, I want to thank you for all that you have given me.
Thank you for accepting the fallen person like me and introducing me to the real bhagwan i.e “KRISHNA”.
I was in the darkness but you showed me the right path through your books and lectures.
Whenever I’m in dilemma or in any trouble,your lectures and books always help me and guide me.I always feel your presence.
Seeking your mercy,
Your eternal servant
Deepmala Golani 🙏
Offering by Sirisa Haripriya Devi Dasi
Namo Om Vishnu Padaya Krishna Presthaya Bhutale Srimate Bhaktivedanta Swamin Iti namine
Namaste Sarasvate Deve Gauravani Pracharine Nirvisesha Sunyavadi Paschatya Desa tarine
Dear Srila Prabhupad,
Please accept my most humble obeisances to your holy lotus feet.
Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and in his parampara Srila Bhaktivinod thakur both have predicted that a senapathi bhakt will appear who will preach the names & glories of the supreme lord throughout the world. After receiving instructions from Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvathi Thakur to preach the Krishna consciousness to the western world, Srila Prabhupad You have taken this great responsibility and proved the prophecy as conveyed by Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.
You knew it very well that the whole world is watching and following the west and if these people could be elevated then the whole world will follow them. Your prediction has come true. It is so amazing to see so many Hare Krishna devotees throughout the world. Your compassion to fallen souls is unparalleled. With practically no money, no followers you started this movement of Krishna Consciousness. The Asset you had however was faith in the words of your Guru maharaj . This faith and your sincere effort has lead to transformation of so many lives throughout the world. Earlier only India was the center of all this transcendental knowledge but with your divine movement the whole world is rejoicing . You have left your precious vani via several lectures, books and so on which will help generations to come. You have shown that Chanting of holy name is not mundane but it is coming straight from the Goloka and those whoever chants the Holy name :
“ Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare ; Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare” will be freed from the entanglement of birth & death.
Your Spiritual Grand daughter,
Sirisa Haripriya Devi Dasi
Offering by Shashank V
Hare Krishna Srila Prabhupada;
All glories to you.
I am extremely thankful to you and very very grateful to you for all that you have done and given for me I am really very much indebted to you and your disciples and followers,
I was rotting in this material world not knowing anything only struggling hard for sense gratification but you have revealed to me what is the goal of life and what is the mission of life. It is only because of your causeless mercy I am practicing a tiny amount of devotional service and what ever I am doing or serving the devotees and the Lord it is only and only because of you srila Prabhupada for this I am eternally indebted to you if not you then I had no hope at all for serving the Lord and devotees. You have always been with me and guided me through your lectures and books. What can i do for you for all that you have done for me and doing for me i just want to serve you all my life and eternally srila Prabhupad this is my success of this life please I am begging forgiveness at your lotus feet for all the Offenses I have done to you and your disciples and the Lord unknowingly or knowingly due to being completely ignorant.
Thank you very much,
Your servant
Shashank V
Offering by Deepika Raina
Hare krishna
Today on 125th vyasapuja I would like to express how deeply I am thankful to srila prabupada for bringing true spirituality in my life. krishna consciousness movement by srila prabupada taught me the real meaning of religion, my real purpose of human life and my relation with God and Iskcon is now helping me to revive my relation and achieve my real goal of human life.
All thanks and all glories to srila prabupada🙏hari bol🙏
Deepika Raina
Offering by Soma Ray Chatterjee
Dear Srila Prabhupada,
Hare Krishna
I offer my most respectful obeisances at your lotus feet.
All all all glories to Jagat Guru Srila Prabhupada
Dear prabhupada,
Jodi prabhupada na hoito
Tobe ki hoeto
Ay jiban bahita kishe
My Gurumaharaj’s words are so true. Without you, i would have been lost in my wasteful life. I would have kept suffering under the beatings of Maya. I would never know about the most merciful Gauranga & Nityananda. I would have never known the importance and power of the Hare Krishna Mahamantra. Infact, i would never have known the very purpose of my this human life. If it wasn’t for you, I would have continued to struggle in the cycle of birth, death, old-age & disease. Now having come in the association of your pure servants, who are most wonderful devotees, because of your causeless mercy, i am realising what an ocean of bliss, mercy, joy this krishna consciousness is. You have taken unthinkable amount of pain just to deliver fallen souls like myself from this never ending ocean of worldly sufferings. Dearest Prabhupada without your mercy, i would have never got the mercy of my Gurumaharaj and without Gurudeva I would have not received the mercy of my Siksha gurus.
Your most insignificant servant,
Soma Ray Chatterjee
Offering by Sripati Suresa das, Vrajasri Rupa devi dasi and Bhaktin Manasi Ganga
All glories to your divine grace all glories to your lotus feet
Please Accept my respectful obeisance’s to your lotus feet
Srila Prabhupda we were reading your lilamrta every day and we can feel your pain and unimaginable sacrifices to spread lord chaitanya message to all over the world. Where ever your divine grace lotus feet touched it became a temple.
Groundbreaking was the First initiation ceremony in the USA arranging everything from fire sacrifice initiation cooking feast washing vessels at the end washing prasadam plates.
Not only that you preached staying at Bowery no facility and the crowd was completely influenced by the material energy. In your room lights were always on writing Srimad Bhagavatham commentary and singing Hari Hari bifale at late night remembering spiritual master instruction.
You mercifully arranged the first marriage ceremony for Janaki mataji & Mukunda prabhu guiding them in jewelry, dress, colour of the dress & fire sacrifice you took wonderful care. You are spiritual father for every fallen soul in your words “ever well wisher”.
First public sankirtan you performed at Washington square park.
“A year ago, in Butler, the Agarwals had been sure that Prabhupäda had not come to America for followers. “He didn't want to make any waves," Sally had thought. But now he was making waves, walking through the New York City streets, headed for the first public chanting in America, followed by his first disciples.”
“With Prabhupäda leading they set out on that fair Sunday morning, walking the city blocks from Second Avenue to Washington Square in the heart of Greenwich Village. And the way Srila Prabhupada looked—just by walking he created a sensation.”
Your divine grace America was flooded with rock roll music and youths were exploited with senses, no hope for this planet but now you have mercifully descended as savior.
Your walk and first sankirtan at Washington park broke the silence of America not only that broke the silence of the universe. Your plantation of Gaura bhakti seed grown beyond this universe.
Without your unconditioned love on jive doya how can a person like me most insignificant soul know Krishna is supreme personality of God Head. Rotten soul loitering in this dangerous material world how can I able to chant hare Krishna maha mantra.
You said even dog can take a part of chanting hare Krishna maha mantra that was a big hope for me. Though I don’t have any qualification in bhakti you gave me your wonderful loving son HH Jayapataka Swami as my spiritual master. Also, you blessed us with many wonderful devotee’s lovable association. I have no intelligence I am the lowest among the fool to understand your philosophy and your transcendental writing. Bless me so that I can develop deep love and affection on your books, I take a owe that I will read your book. Seeking your blessing to understand your book and distribute your divine knowledge. Having very thick conditioning in my heart with your blessing soon I will be able to come out and serve you and your followers dear Srila Prabhupada.
Please forgive my offenses and I thank you from my bottom of heart for saving us from this most dangerous material world. All glories to your dust of lotus feet Serial Prabhupada.
Your insignificant grandchildren’s
Sripati Suresa das
Vrajasri Rupa devi dasi
Bhaktin Manasi Ganga
Offering by Sulakshana Madhavi Devi Dasi
Namaha om Vishnu padaya Krishna prestaya bhutale
Srimate BhaktiVedanta Swamin iti namine |
Namaste Saaraswate deve Gauravani pracharine
Nirvishesha shunyavadi paschatya desha tarine ||
Om ajnana timirandhasya jnananjana shalakaya
cakshur unmilittam yena tasmay SriGuruve namaha ||
Dear Srila Prabhupad,
Please accept my respectful and humble obeisances at Your Divine lotus feet on the occasion of Your 125th Vyasa puja. It is a fortune to be present at this auspicious time in the history of humanity on this planet. Your Divine Grace appeared on this planet to save suffering humanity. You have shared the most confidential spiritual knowledge to humanity to save us and give the most precious opportunity to be a part of Your mission, Lord Chaitanya’s Sankirtan Movement.
You endured many hardships and sacrificed Your life to fulfill the instructions of Your exalted Spiritual Master. You were never bogged down by the uncountable hurdles on your path and despite them, you moved with utmost faith and courage. It was Your unflinching faith in the Holyname and the unalloyed love and surrender to Your Spiritual Master – HDG Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Goswami Maharaj. I have read that Lord Rama had the support of Hanuman, Lord Chaitanya had the support of Lord Nityananda but Your Divine Grace, You had no support at all yet You were a one-man-army in Yourself and single handedly created a spiritual revolution on this planet.
You have given that which every soul is crying for but struggling to understand, due to contamination, what that craving is – the lost relationship with the very source and core of our existence – the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Your Dear Lord, Krishna.
You not just gave knowledge but most importantly You created a complete ecosystem in the form of the temples, deity worship, the system of mentoring, community programs and support – for people to practice this Krishna Consciousness and achieve success.
To create a process is probably the most difficult but You gave a practice-able process according to the limitations of this Kaliyuga but without any compromise in the principles. It’s a proof of Your superior vision, intelligence and mission of Your appearance.
You also gave precious jewelstones in Your beloved disciples who are brightening our lives through exemplary character, dealings, firm determination and unending love for you, who are working day-night as Your warriors to bring as many souls closer to You and Your teachings – the gateway to Godhead. We see You in them. I have learnt the meaning of love from Your life and Your beloved disciples. I personally am very grateful to You for giving the benediction of Srila Gurudev in my life without whom my life was a dark endless tunnel. Thank You immensely Srila Prabhupad.
I pray to You to forgive my offences and give me opportunity to serve You in Your mission as a servant of my Gurudev. I beg You to make me an instrument to spread Your teachings all over. Your glories are to be known by everyone especially the children. Please bestow Your blessings to spread Your glories and teachings.
I also pray to You to give Your blessings and shelter at Your lotus feet to my son and surrender to Your lotus feet to my husband to progress on this path of Bhakti.
I pray to You to protect me eternally in Your shelter and at Gurudev’s lotus feet and use this life meaningfully to the fullest extent for Your pleasure and Gurudev’s pleasure. I am praying for Your mercy, service, protection and guidance, Srila Prabhupad.
Your granddaughter seeking Your service,
Sulakshana Madhavi Devi Dasi
SNGM, Bangalore
Offering by Geeta Sriram
On the auspicious occasion of the 125th Appearance Day of Srila Prabhupada, the founder-acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), I offer my humble and respectful obeisances.
Srila Prabhupada, is a true spiritual ambassador of India, instrumental in spreading the priceless treasure of Vedic knowledge globally, in a short span of time.
He endeavored tirelessly to create awareness of the great spiritual happiness that was available in devotional service to Lord Krishna.
All glories to Him!
Hare Krishna!
Your Servant
Geeta Sriram
Offering by Balaji
Dear Srila Prabhupad,
My heart felt sincere obeisance to you. I touch your feet to take your blessings.
I am short of words today to tell how deep a positive impact you have created in my life.
I have already been attracted to Krishna (when in my family – Lord Balaji and Ram have been the primary forms of Vishnu that are prayed to), and the attraction to Him was very gradually increasing.
Then I passed through some low time, which I now understand – was a shake from Krishna to pull me up. And then He handed over me to you – what else could I have asked for.
I have been hearing that the Guru would come in your life when the time comes, and then it happened on 23rd Aug 2020 that I started the Gita course from ISKCON Whitefield, and my life slowly started changing.
The more I hear about you, I get so astonished, but then I realise that only a real acharya from the spiritual world could have done this.
Also, what a splendid foresightedness – to have got all your lectures and classes recorded and that too in those early times of 1960s/70s- we are able to hear your voice and experience the divinity.
I hope by next year, with your blessings and Krishna’s Grace, I would have grown little more and would be able to write out my mind better and able to open up my heart in words.
My humble heart felt obeisance to you again.
Thank You
Regards
Balaji
Offering by Ram,Diya, Aishvarya Vrinda devi dasi and Vikram Caitanya das
Dear Srila Prabhupada,
Please accept our most humble Obeisances unto your lotus feet on this Glorious occasion of your 125th Vyasa Puja!!
May your glories continue to grow stronger and stronger year after year!! May more and more people get to understand, adopt and share Krishna consciousness and the whole world become Krishna conscious as you had wanted!!
Out of compassion and mercy upon all the fallen souls you gave us the absolute knowledge through your books and the purification process of Harinam sankirtan! Everytime we read your books we get to appreciate more and more of your mercy upon all of us. How much care you had for everyone and wanted all of us to make our this life itself a success. You have given us the sense of urgency and purpose. Chanting in your vani association gives us so much contentment in our hearts.
But Prabhupada, we are so conditioned that we are still taking this opportunity lightly.
Your insignificant servants,
Ram,Diya
Aishvarya Vrinda devi dasi
Vikram Caitanya das
Offering by Monomita
My dearmost Prabhupada,
Please accept my humble obeisances.
Thank you for taking mercy on me Prabhupada. After all, you are patita-pavana, and so it’s not surprising that you chose to take me in your shelter despite how gravely fallen I am.
Thank you for guiding me with your vani and your purports. You took so much pains to write the purports to so many transcendental books. I can feel you speaking to me and guiding me everyday via your purports. I would be so lost without them.
Earlier this month in Mayapur, as I sat meditating on you on the steps of your Pushpa samadhi mandir, you reciprocated so wonderfully to my prayers and apprehensions. It left me even more convinced that you are here with me every moment, helping me, guiding me and answering my prayers.
I can’t do anything without you. You often say with respect to devotional service ‘What is the difficulty’. Only if you are with me Prabhupada, there will be no difficulty. Else nothing seems possible. Prabhupada, you know it well that I am just a toddler in Bhakti. Please don’t leave my hand Prabhupada. I need you to be able to stand up and walk, now and forever. Please always be by my side as you have been.
Servant of the servant of your servant,
Monomita
Offering by Sachi
Dear Srila Prabhupada
Please accept my respectful obeisance
All glories to you.
Being involved in this material nature fully, it was highly impossible for me to even believe that I can walk on the journey of spiritual life. But your mercy enabled me on this path by showing the light of divine teachings. So I’m very grateful to you!!
Would like to say that journey of your life truly inspires and motivate me as at the age when usually general people fear and wait for end of their lives , You started new journey of your life and your pure Krishna conscious soul awakened mankind with totally divine and joyful aspect of life. Your divine soul is mesmerising and a guiding light to us.
Thank you so much for all your selfless efforts and dedication to enlighten us.
Yours eternally,
Sachi, Krishna sevika
Offering by Mitra Roy
Respected Dear Srila Prabhupada,
Hare Krishna,
Please accept my humble obeisances unto your lotus feet. You have given me Krishna consciousness. You gave an opportunity to serve the Lord by taking his holy name. My heartfelt thanks to you Srila Prabhupada for your causeless mercy. By your mercy now I have understood the purpose of life by reading your books and hearing your lectures. Because of you now I have a hope to go back to Godhead. Thank you so much Srila Prabhupada.
Your servant
Mitra Roy
Offering by Kavirupda Kesavi devi dasi, Viswa, Radha Sakhi, Bhanumati Yasoda devi dasi
Hare Krishna Dear Srila Prabhupada,
Please accept my respectful obeisances !!! All glories unto your Lotus feet.
First of all I don’t have any qualification to offer homage unto your exalted divine self, but I am doing this for my own purification.
First, I beg unto you for your causeless mercy to give me strength, to write my offerings unto you. I have no hope for anything in spiritual life what to speak of attempting to glorify you.
- You are the greatest among preachers who tirelessly worked to fullfil the mission of a disciple that is to serve the instruction of spiritual master, At the age 70+ creating an empire of Krishna consciousness who can dream of
- You are the epitome of Love, otherwise how in your books you have been so kind to conditioned soul like me providing the unlimited mercy of Guru parampara
- You are unstoppable at the face of any obstacles, what to speak, you had everything from life threatening experiences to legal issues, to name a few, but depending upon your Guru and Krishna you successfully created this movement
- Prabhupada means great, what else, you are an empowered incarnation, you lit everyone into Krishna consciousness, no matter whatever is the person is
- You are phenomenal in being straight forward, your preaching is nail on the head, many such sweet wounds I had in my initial days
- Krishna means all attractive, Prabhupada means all that is Krishna consciousness, your life is such that Prabhupad
- Your one pointed focus on book distribution as a means to spread Krishna consciousness shows how much you are dedicated to your spiritual master instruction and it gave tremendous success and continuing
- Your smile is so mesmerising and heart melting even for hard hearted person like me
- You transformed the hippies to happies, which is unimaginable taking into circumstances of age, place, time etc. You are simply superb
- Your walk is so majestic, infact every move of your is so majestic, and you walked like a lion and drove away all the sins of people such like how small animals run when lion roars
- I want to read your books thereby satisfy your disciple HH Jayapataka Swami maharaj who is constantly meditating on your instructions. Please protect your disciple from all challenges so that he shall continue your mission
- Dearest grandpa, Please always keep me under your shelter and save me from any influence of maya so that I can try serving your movement for your pleasure
- Please give me strength to not commit any anarthas and always abide to Guru, Sadhu sastra instructions
- Please help me to preach and expand your movement for your satisfaction and to fullfil the mission of Lord Chaitanya
- Recently I have been challenged by my Karma or by Sweet will of Lord, I request your kind mercy so that I will be able to face situations in a more devotional way
- Please bless my wife, son and daughter, mother in law and all family members so that they can develop Krishna consciousness and preach nicely for your satisfaction. Please bless rest of my family to come into Krishna consciousness
- Please shower your blessings upon my BV members so that they can cross over all obstacles
- Please bless my congregation so that we can try doing our preaching to bring all conditioned soul to Krishna consciousness and make Bangalore a Krishna conscious city as envisioned by your dear disciple HH Jayapataka swami Maharaj
- I don’t know anything, and you are everything so please bless me
Last but not least, I beg unto you,
Ø Please, Chastise me whenever I am not obedient to sastric instructions or acharyas words
Ø Please, Drag me back whenever I am deviating from path of pure devotion
Ø Please, Save me from committing offenses especially against Vaishnavas
I am requesting from the deepest part of my heart to please bless your potential grandsons and granddaughters whom I trying to humbly serve as per your teachings so that I can one day bring them to your lotus feet for your causeless mercy and connect to your bonafide parampara. Please always make me an instrument as per your liking by providing me the strength of understanding and ability to execute for your satisfaction.
Please forgive your insignificant grandson for any incompetence in paying you homage.
Yours ever trying insignificant servant
Karunapati Kesava das
{Kavirupda Kesavi devi dasi, Viswa, Radha Sakhi, Bhanumati Yasoda devi dasi}
Offering by Suprita
Please accept our respectful obeisances. All glories All glories!!! All glories!!! unto you.
I am really thankful to all my senior devotees to give such opportunities..all glories to Srila Prabhupada.
You have started a very great and wonderful krishna consciousness movement, because of this mission we all are getting a Krishna mercy directly from Krishna. Your preaching will save millions and millions of people. Your daily quotes inspire me every morning and reenergize my devotion.
Warm Regards
Suprita
Offering by Aravind & Sowmya
Dear Srila prabhupada,
Please accept our humble obeisances.
I consider myself as not qualified to write this offering but I have to show our gratitude as you have given the path to grow under the Krishna bhakti. We know, you have travelled to many countries and faced a lot of turbulence to spread the Krishna Consciousness across the world. We are really indebted to you for giving us the great scriptures. Please bless us to move closure to krishna.
All glories to Srila prabhupada.
Thank you,
Yours Aravind & Sowmya.
Offering by Ravi Shankar Prasad
nama om vishnu-padaya krishna-preshthaya bhu-tale
srimate bhaktivedanta-svamin iti namine
namas te sarasvate deve gaura-vani-pracarine
nirvisesha-sunyavadi-pascatya-desa-tarine.
Dear Srila Prabhupada,
Please accept my most humble respectful obeisances.
On your very auspicious 125th Vyasapuja day, it gives an utmost pleasure to share a few words for you. Forever grateful for saving me and all others souls from this miserable material world by giving the Bhakti cult process presented by Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Your exemplary practical teachings were indeed direct, explicit, decisive, solution-oriented to root cause problems and eventually Krishna Conscious in its purest form.
Thankyou for giving us everything!!! Especially Krishna, ISKCON where we get to associate with devotees and practice Krishna Consciousness joyfully, the books which forms the basis when read and gives reflections about various facets of material and spritual life.
Your most insignificant aspiring servant,
Ravi Shankar Prasad
Offering by Rupamayi Sudevi Dasi
Dear Srila Prabhupada,
nama om vishnu-padaya krishna-preshthaya bhu-tale
srimate bhaktivedanta-svamin iti namine
namas te sarasvate deve gaura-vani-pracarine
nirvisesha-sunyavadi-pascatya-desa-tarine
Please accept my humble obeisances unto your lotus feet. All glories to you! On this auspicious occasion of your 125th Vyasa Puja, I shall attempt to glorify your Divine Grace, although I have absolutely no qualification.
ei candra sūrya dui parama sadaya
jagatera bhāgye gauḍe karilā udaya
These two, the sun and moon (Lord Sri Krsna Caitanya and Lord Nityananda), are very kind to the people of the world. Thus for the good fortune of all, They have appeared on the horizon of Bengal (CC Adi 1.102). They appeared on the horizon of Gauḍadeśa to spread the science of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, and as predicted that just as the sun and moon gradually move west, you brought the movement They began five hundred years ago to the Western civilizations. You truly are the jagad-guru; you are that senapati-bhakta of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Yet, out of humility, you attribute your contributions to your disciples.
Dear Srila Prabhupada, on your 125th appearance day, I pray to you, desiring to imbibe your mood in carrying out devotional service- not to maintain a rustic image of a lone Indian sage from an ancient village sparking a spiritual revolution; an image that might appeal to many on a superficial platform, but to fulfil the desires of your spiritual master and deliver the conditioned souls in the western world, who Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura said needed saving more than anyone.
You have given me the good fortune by which I am given the opportunity to chant the Holy Names, to have Lord Sri Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Himself dance on my sinful serpent-like tongue. It is all by your causeless mercy that I am able to associate with the teachings of the most exalted acaryas, who are all eternal associates of the Lord (nitya siddhas). I meditate on how eternal associates of the Lord (nitya siddhas) like you descended to this martya loka, dukhalayam, facing so much criticism and suffering just to deliver the foolish suffering fallen souls, who are oblivious of their constitutional position, which is eternal. Yet, I am such a rascal that I often get bewildered and do not fix my consciousness.
kṛpālu, akṛta-droha, satya-sāra sama
nidoṣa, vadānya, mṛdu, śuci, akiñcana
sarvopakāraka, śānta, kṛṣṇaika-śaraṇa
akāma, anīha, sthira, vijita-ṣaḍ-guṇa
mita-bhuk, apramatta, mānada, amānī
gambhīra, karuṇa, maitra, kavi, dakṣa, maunī
You are the uttama-adhikari devotee we have read of. You personify the qualities of a spiritual master that the Vedas sing of (vede gāy jāhāra carito). You embody humility; you considered yourself a servant of your disciples; you considered yourself to be fortunate to have the association of your disciples.
Srila Prabhupada, you can see the past, present and the future. You understand the mood of your disciples and reciprocate with them accordingly. I recall and meditate on the incident when one of your disciples remarked that he was the most fallen, and you replied, “you are not the most anything, you are simply insignificant.” Please make this insignificant and fallen rascal humble.
ohe!
vaishnaba thakura, doyara sagara,
e dase koruna kori’
diya pada-chaya, sodho he amaya,
tomara carana dhori
“O venerable Vaishnava, O ocean of mercy, be merciful unto your servant. Give me the shade of your lotus feet and purify me. I hold on to your lotus feet.”
krishna se tomara, krishna dite paro,
tomara sakati ache
ami to’ kangala, ‘krishna’ ‘krishna’ boli’,
dhai tava pache pache
“Krishna is yours; you have the power to give Him to me. I am simply running behind you shouting, “Krishna! Krishna!”
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 useless and insignificant servant,
Rupamayi Sudevi Dasi
Offering by Nagaraj Kurkoti
nama om visnu-padaya krsna-presthaya bhu-tale
srimate bhaktivedanta-svamin iti namine
namas te sarasvate deve gaura-vani-pracarine
nirvisesa-sunyavadi-pascatya-desa-tarine
Dear Srila Prabhupada,
Please accept my respectful obeisance’s. All glories to you !!
After being associated with your glorious organization for more than 15 years, I am making a first attempt to put few lines of glorification and gratitude at your lotus feet on a piece of paper.
Although informally I have spoken about your glories on several occasions, but never attempted to write something on your birthday. I am such a fallen and wretched person that even to write few lines of Glorification of Your glorious self I need Your mercy.
Now that I have spoken about “Your Mercy” I want to thank you for saving me by “Your Causeless Mercy”:
- Thank you for creating Krishna Conscious warriors(devotees) who pulled me out of dark hell and handed over to me bead bag to kick start my service to you and Krishna by chanting the Holy name.
- Thank you for giving clarity on the Krishna Conscious philosophy , I was a wandering like a mad elephant with no ambition, you brought clarity in my life that Krishna is God and we as humans should serve him with a consciousness of being eternal servants.
- You showed by example , how to be a devotee, how to deal with a devotee, how to love a devotee, how to preach, how to manage, how to tolerate, how to forgive, how to pass Lord Nityananda’s Mercy. Thank you for all this. Despite reading so much, learning so much about you, I am a stone hearted person who is refusing to mend my ways, I always have difficulty in interaction with devotees due to my conditioning. Please bless me so that I become humble and realize that I am dependent on you and your warriors, like Purandara Dasa asked us to become “Guruvina Gulaama – Slave of your Guru” , I want to become one slave, but all the past conditioning and week will power stops me from becoming one. I from bottom of my heart thank you for making so wonder full devotees , they simple forgive all my misdeeds and accommodate me in your organization, engage me in services despite my infinite faults. Due to engagement in services I am saved from falling down fully into animalistic propensities.
- Laziness and complacency overcomes all my aspirations to strictly follow the devotional regime you provided us, by following which one can become a good servant/slave of Lord and Guru. Even at the ripe age you showed how to be enthusiastic, how to write/read books, how to be strict in your spiritual practices, thank you very much for being so compassionate towards us. At least by repeated contemplation of how you guided us someday by your mercy I will be able to follow all that you instructed (I mean atleast the basic instructions for a devotee)
- Your books are nectar , but due to lack of enthusiasm , strong interest, strong will power I am unable to taste that nectar daily and pass it on to others. By the grace of your warriors I sometimes feel a rush of adrenaline and go a reading marathon, which eventually dies out. On this one aspect of bhakti I need your special mercy, I want to be steady in my reading practices, which I am failing in my every attempt all these years. Sometimes I feel only a miracle can help me overcoming the mental blockage of steady reading habit of your books. I heard from HH Romapada Maharaja, that how you used to raise in the middle of night to write books for us and I, a thankless , lazy, ungrateful person does not even take time to read them. One thing I am sure Dear Srila Prabhupada that being with devotees and serving them, by their mercy, I may improve in this habit.
- Without you I would have been doing the same things again and again without deriving any happiness. Now I have bhajan, kirtan, katha, prasad, association of wonderful devotees, my kids are also engaged in various aspects of devotional life from very beginning of their life, all this is possible by Your grace and mercy upon generations to come. Thank you on behalf of Sunita, Vishnu and Arjun, for giving us a life of devotion.
O Ocean of Mercy, although you are mercifully delivering me, I am unable to properly serve you at any time or in any way. I beg at your Lotus feet that Your merciful message of sanity continue to reverberate in my heart, subduing the egoism and foolishness therein, sustaining the conviction that I must remain at your lotus feet or I am doomed.
Desiring to be your worthy servant, eternally indebted
Nagaraj Kurkoti
Offering by Abhayacarana Acyuta das JPS, Pooja
Dear Srila Prabhupada
Please accept my respectful obeisance
All glories to you.
Thank you so much Srila Prabhupada for giving us so many amazing books and translating books like Srimad Bhagavatam & Caitanya Caritamrta. I am trying to scrutinisingly study them and understand how to live in this material world. Thank you so much for giving us your association through the books.
We feel really obliged to come under your shelter, few years before we didn’t knew only about you and when we came to know about you we were mesmerised at your achievements at that age and in so much less time. We understood that you are a pure devotee of Lord Sri Krishna.
We seriously beg for your mercy Srila Prabhupada that we are able to chant nicely daily and preach. We want to become preachers of this message of Lord Caitanya. Seeking your blessings this day.
Yours eternally,
Abhayacarana Acyuta das JPS, Pooja
Offering by Ajit Booyi
Dear Srila Prabhupad,
Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama Hare Hare
Please accept humble obeseinses to the greatest devotee who has come on this planet to deliver all degraded souls on this planet. When Krishna wish to purify this material world he sent purest devotee like you. At the age of 70 most wants to Retire but you Retried to spread the Krishna Consciousness. This world might have not thought that one person comes from Vaikunta, will work 22 hours and sleep 2 hours with Elephantinefocused advantage , whose only wish to spread the glories of the lord though mission called ISKCON with order of spiritual master Srila Bhakthi SiddhantaSaraswathi Thakur.
“Guru-mukha-padma-vakya, cittete koriya aikya “
Your mind desire nothing but the service of Kṛishna.
You have established gutu tattva with ISKCON. And learning which I am gaining in my day to day life from your purports from Bhagavad Gita, Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Raja Vidya, Beyond Birth and death are cleansing my heart and mind. When I was finding my purpose my life and when I was asking why me? Krishna has sent you in my life. And finally understood attening Krishna and serving you is goal of life.
I have no words to explain on Hare Krishna MahaMantra. The Mantra itself brings the peace of mind and brings the positivity in life. All glories to you.
Please accept these words from bottom of my heart on this beautiful occasion of Vyasa-Puja.
Hare Krishna,
Your Servant,
Ajit Booyi
Offering by Shashi Dua
On this auspicious day we have no words to explain his glories.without his efforts we can’t imagine the whole world is in one string of krishna conciousness. At the age of retire he came out without any resources only with his guru’s will and with his blessings he succeed in unimanigable spiritual journey. Truly he is a Gem of india ,should be included in 7 previous stones of india.
My humble respectful obeisance to him🙏🙏🙏🙏
Offering by Mallikarjuna
Dear Srila Prabhupada!
Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet!
‘sādhu-saṅga’, ‘sādhu-saṅga’ — sarva-śāstre kaya
lava-mātra sādhu-saṅge sarva-siddhi haya
When I first read your Perfect Questions Perfect Answers book in 2002, I was amazed by the answers you gave. You said, “Krishna means all attractive. Unless God is all attractive how can he be God? Therefore, if God has any name, or if you want to give any name to God, only ‘Krsna’ can be given”. I never heard such an answer before. Though I always believed in God in my childhood, it was a mere sentiment rather than conviction and faith. Your words have made me think, “This person who is giving such wonderful answers is really amazing”. Little did I know that my connection with you and Krishna Conscious journey has started from that time.
Again in 2007, during my Post Graduate college, I saw the same PQPA book displayed after Bhagavad Gita discourse by one devotee in my hostel. I could immediately remember the book I had read long ago. Thereafter my connection with you and faith on you has further developed by reading your books and hearing your lectures.
In this age of hypocrisy, quarrel, vice, groupism, etc., you showed us how to be genuine, how to lead by example, how to walk the talk, how to be a perfect teacher and a great leader. Though I lack all those good qualities of a devotee, my only qualification if any is faith in your words. I never had even an iota of doubt in your words. I humbly beg that my faith in your teachings increase more and more. I wish to come to a stage where I conduct my behaviour as per the standards set by you. I want to follow Krishna Consciousness only to please Krishna and Your Divine Grace and nothing else. Please give me strength to properly understand your instructions and follow them.
Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu is called patita pavana. Being an empowered acharya in the line of Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, you have also come to help fallen souls like me and make us taste the nectar of Krishna prema. I humbly beg for your mercy that I get full conviction that Krishna is indeed the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Who else, other than you, can I seek shelter and mercy from?
From the lectures of HH Romapada Swami Maharaja, I can feel his love for you. I can feel the love and genuine affection that you have showered on your disciples, which have made them dedicate their life for your mission. Please shower that mercy on me too.
Please bless all our Bhakti Vriksha members who are so sincerely trying to understand your message.
Please bless all the Vaishnavas who are sincerely trying to spread your message.
Please bless and shower your mercy on myself and my wife Neelima. You are our real shelter.
Your servant,
Mallikarjuna
Offering by Ramesh, Vinodha
Dear Srila Prabhupada,
Please accept our humble obeisances unto your divine lotus feet. On this auspicious appearance day of your Divine Grace we would like to express our sincere heart felt gratitude for showing us the path to attain Krishna.
In Bhagavad Gita chapter 16 shloka 24 Lord Krishna says one should understand what is duty and what is not duty by the regulations of the scriptures. And knowing such rules and regulations one should act so that he may be gradually elevated. Our senses have 4 defects : They are imperfect, they have a propensity for cheating, they commit mistakes and they are under illusion.
Therefore in chapter 4 shloka 34 of Bhagavad Gita, Krishna says, Just try to learn the truth by approaching a spiritual master. Inquire from him submissively and render service unto him. The self realised soul can impart knowledge as they have seen the truth.
Your books have saved us from this materialistic existence and we are always indebted to you for having saved us from this material existence. You have come to this material world to deliver the fallen souls like us.
We have a strong desire to purify ourself and chant offensively. Please shower your mercy on us.
Your servant,
Ramesh, Vinodha.
Offering by Raji
Please accept my humble obesenses on to your lotus feet.
Dear Srila Prabhupada,
My heartfelt gratitude to you, as I was looking at my first offering last year , you have blessed with all I requested. I’m chanting 16 rounds, reading your books, doing some seva, also lot of changes, I’m always happy by listening to many lectures of iskcon Vaishnavas.. You have created many many lotus masters in iskcon… They all are showering their mercy and they teach us and guide us with out any expections… This is a great place for devotional path…. Being associated with Iskcon itself is being in vaikunta… Thank you very much Srila Prabhupada…
This year, I beg on to your lotus feet and request you to make me an instrument to serve Vaishnavas and give strength to do more charity… Also Prabhupad bless me to have only krishna prasad always.. As you know I have issues in family… Kindly bless me to come out from all the obstacles are there in my devotional path… And instruct me always…I don’t want to fall back to this material life Prabhupada… Bless me..
Hare krishna
Krishna sevaki
Raji
Offering by Nishant
Dear Srila Prabhupada,
All glories to your divine grace. Please accept my humble obeisances.
As every year pass by , in the association of inspired devotees under your shelter, it becomes more and more clear & evident that in this world of Kaliyuga, what you have done to each of us is beyond our imagination.
You are the backbone of the devotee community and your past times thru lila mrta keeps inspiring every soul who is coming into Krishna Consciousness.
Your books are the heartbeat of our spiritual progress. If we read sincerely, tt helps us to chant better than yesterday
We are what we are today is because of you Srila Prabhupad.
You have given meaning to us otherwise would have been mundane life loitering in this material world.
It is amazing to see that with your divine association how the conditions soul are transforming every day , every minute every second in some part of the world.
I cannot imagine anybody doing that. You are the real magician, you are our path pradarshak, we are so so much dependent on you
Me and my family are very fortunate to be under your shelter & you are our real grand father who is the torch bearer for us and showing the path to come out of ignorance & onto the path of bhakti.
You have made Krishna Consciousnes easy to understand for everybody,…
I am offering a poem to you Srila Prabhpad. Please forgive me for my mistakes here.
कृष्ण भावना मृत है जीवन का सार
नहीं तो पढ़ रही थी माया की मार
एक प्यासे को होती है पानी की तलाश
श्रीला प्रभुपाद, आप आए मेरे जीवन में बन के कुछ खास
आप के छत्र छाया के बिना जीवन था नीरस और उदास
आप के किताब, भक्तों के संघ से आ पाया भक्ति के पास
बस श्रीला प्रभुपाद, हमें दिशा दिखाते रहिए
हम सब को अपने चरण कमलों के सेवा में लगाते रहिए 🙏🙏🙏
Thank you Srila Prabhupad … Thank you
Trying to be your servant
Nishant
Offering by Vennila
Dear Srila Prabhupada,
My heartful obeisances to all the great spiritual masters in the guru parampara. A special spiritual guru who gave a lot of books to open our dormant spiritual knowledge and the truth about our true self is you (Srila Prabhupada).
Your important lecture that gave an efficient solution for the soul to come out of this material world is the first step for spiritual life for beginners and that was to see in this human life as “we are not this body but the soul within”. That was a great start for spiritual life.
I pray to you to give me all strength to go ahead with this goal to get achieved that would value as much people as possible.
Your novice eternal servant,
Vennila
Offering by Anand Jayaraman
Dear Srila Prabhupada,
Please accept my humble obeisances.
I am very fortunate to be able to write this offering on your 125th appearance day.
A life without purpose isn’t a life that is lived. Srila Prabhupad by making me aware of the purpose of my life you have given me an opportunity to live meaningfully than to merely exist and perish. The innumerable books that you have written are my shining light in the darkness of this world.
Each line that you have penned I see as a direct instruction. I consider myself fortunate because many a times questions that arise in my mind are answered within the next 10 mins of reading your books.
If not for your presence in my life, this lifetime would have gone begging bereft of Krishna’s service possibly like many lifetimes in the past. If I have any understanding of life it is only because of this movement that you have so mercifully started.
I beg at your lotus feet to continue to keep me always in your service. Looking forward to your blessings that my enthusiasm to serve vaishnavas always remains.
As Srila Rupa Goswami in Upadeśāmṛta 3 says:
utsāhān niścayād dhairyāt
tat-tat-karma-pravartanāt
saṅga-tyāgāt sato vṛtteḥ
ṣaḍbhir bhaktiḥ prasidhyati
Your Insignificant Servant
Anand Jayaraman
Offering by Raghavendra A N
Om Ajnana TimirAndhasya JnanaAnjanaShalaakaaya
Chakshurunmilitam Yena Tasmai Sri Gurave Namaha
My humble pranams to the lotus feet of Sri Abhay Charanaravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami – Srila Prabhupādacharya
It goes without saying that for getting liberated from the shackles of birth n death – to attain supreme bliss r nirvana r emancipation from this world one should first find a suitable guru, fall at his/her lotus feet and surrender totally.
Dear Gurudev, personally I am indebted to your struggle for unfolding the Path of Krishna Consciousness to the wandering souls and elevating them to the spiritual journey. You are an incredible inspiration for each and every devotee by showing that age is not a matter for learning/preaching spirituality to the thirsty souls.
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare Hare; Hare Rama Hare Rama, Rama Rama Hare Hare
Your ever-loving devotee
Raghavendra A N
Offering by Dipsundar Kanjilal
HARE KRISHNA my dear spiritual grandfather Srila Prabhupada 🙏.
My heartfelt obeisance during your glorious 125th birthday.
All glories to you.
It is your devine birthday my spiritual grandfather and also my birthday from the darkness to KRISHNA consciousness.
I know it was not hidden from you, when I was also born on this day, that the entire Calcutta was flooded in 1978 and hence, I always remembered this day with sorrows. You made me realised how much blessed I am today, and what are the reasons of Sukha and Dukha in this material life.
It is Krishna’s mercy, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s demands and your grace that me and my family have started understanding the true Vedic knowledge and hence got a purpose of this material life.
You left with your precious Vani, priceless books in every cities, towns in this world which I beleive is enough assets for us to remain happy and make our transcendental journey successful in this Kali Yuga.
My dear grandfather, what I have to offer you? In reciprocation, you have offered me such a blissful Satsang, Seva and Bhakti which are main tatwa of my surviving today.
Please forgive me from all mistakes and consider me as a your grand child and please accept my Dandavat Pranaam with sincere respectful, blissful love in your devine Birthday.
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare Hare; Hare Rama Hare Rama, Rama Rama Hare Hare. 🙏🙏
Your servant
Dipsundar Kanjilal
Offering by Chatur .B
IF DESTINY HAD A PILOT
FOR I BECKON,ON THE INSIGHT OF MY GLOOMY SELF
HE WHO STEARED MY PALLET TO A HIGHERSELF
ABANDONING ALL THE INCLINATION WAS HARD
BUT WHEN THE HIGHER TRANSCENDENCE SEEKS TO PLAY
FOR THEE SHALL LEAP IN THE ZEPHYR OF EDICT
I WAS BEFUDDLED FROM THE GUSSY WIND OF THOUGHTS
THE PLANE WHICH ALLIED,THE DISCIPLINE OF LIMPIDITY
FOR THE MANUALS OF FLIGHT THAT YOU BESTOWED
MAY I SPREAD THE EFFORTS DELEGATED BY YOU
AND DRIVE OUT THE VENEERED GOD MEN
HOISTING THE FLAG OF THE GOLDEN LORD
ABIDING BY THE LINE OF CAPTAINS ,MAY YOU EMPOWER ME
SEEKING YOUR GRACE ,I SHALL REST IN YOUR PLANE
YOUR HUMBLE SERVANT
Chatur .B
Offering by Sahana
Dear Srila Prabhupada
All glories to you Srila Prabhupada.
Please accept by very humble and respectful obeisances.
Heartfelt gratitude for the ISKCON society, which you have created, and, for the teachings you have shared through your lectures, books and your disciples. If it wasn’t for your teachings, I would have been lost in this jungle of miseries. You have made the path, and, so beautifully paved it for us, so that we can follow you back to Godhead.
Prabhupada, your books are so enlightening. Everytime I realise, how much efforts you have taken to write the books, so that fallen souls like me, can be guided towards Home back to Godhead, I feel, I am not doing even the least effort to read and study them all.
Srila Prabhupada, since you are empowered by Krishna, and, you are an eternal beloved devotee of Krishna, you translated all the beautiful scriptures and wrote beautiful books. I am so fallen that I am not able to study your books regularly, and even when I study, my memory and intelligence is so very low that I am not able to recollect and comprehend whatever I have studied.
Praying and begging to You, to be able to serve You, in the way, You want me to serve,
sahana
Offering by Srikanta Srinivasa Dasa, Vridavana Venkata Lakshmi Devi Dasi, Vaikunta Vishnu Priya Devi Dasi & Krishna Priya
nama om vishnu-padaya krishna-preshthaya bhu-tale
srimate bhaktivedanta-svamin iti namine
namaste saraswate deve gaura-vani-pracarine
nirvishesha-shunyavadi-pashchatya-desha-tarine
My dear eternal spiritual grandfather His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada,
Please accept my respectful obeisances unto your lotus feet on the auspicious occasion of your Vyasa-puja celebration.
My dear Srila Prabhupada,
On this auspicious day of your 125th anniversary of your appearance, I am fortunate to express my heartfelt gratitude to you.
Thank you for giving me the precious jewel of Krishna Consciousness.
As Naradamuni instructed Vyasadev to write Krishna leela on every page of srimadbhagavatam, your beloved spiritual master instructed you to print books and preach Krishna consciousness in western world. You as senapati bhakta of Chaitanya maha Prabhu..fulfilled the instructions of your spiritual master.
You have created a beautiful Spiritual home (ISKCON ) in which entire world stay together and practice Krishna consciousness and go back home back to Godhead
Thank you for your wonderful teachings through your books. But I am so fallen somethings I can not understand with my dull head. Please be merciful on me, so that I can read all your books In this life time and be an instrument in your eternal preaching mission.
With love
Srikanta Srinivasa Dasa
Vridavana Venkata Lakshmi Devi Dasi
Vaikunta Vishnu Priya Devi Dasi
Krishna Priya
Offering by Vijayanaroyani Sriram
Dear Prabhupada,
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare, Hare Ram Hare Ram
Ram Ram Hare Hare.
Nama Om Vishnupadaya Krishna prashtaya bhutale
Srimate Bhaktivedanta swamine iti namine
Namaste Saraswate Deve Gauravani pracharine
Nirvishesha Shunyavadi Paschatya desha tarine
Please accept my humble obesciences.Dandavat Pranam.
Happy 125th Anniversary to you. You are the great inspiration in my life, which made me to chant the Holy Name of Lord Krishna. I express my gratitude to ISKCON for giving me this opportunity to write thankful offerings.Please forgive me for the errors I commit.
I am trying in my life to follow the instructions you have given in your precious books. I am so poor in reading your amazing writings, but trying to do it.
Beyond words to express our gratitude for the wonderful books and lectures, you have provided for us.
Preaching is so difficult for me, but with the mercy of Spiritual Master (yourself)and blessings, I can serve you and ISKCON which you have started in a humble way.
I humbly beg you for your extreme mercy towards me, to chant and practice Krishna consciousness nicely without any anarthas. Please bless me to do the devotional service with full of love and devotion. Kindly give your blessings to read all your books regularly with enthusiasm.
Thank you so much Jai Sri Prabhupada for coming into my life and for guiding me in the spiritual path. We are such a fallen soul and you are great saver of our life.Please give your blessings to be in devotee association.
Thank you,
Hare Krishna,
Dandavat Pranam
Vijayanaroyani Sriram.
Offering by Mohan Lal Singhal
Srila Prabhupada, Dandavat Pranaams to you again and again.
You have showered mercy on us by showing us the way to Krishna Consciousness. There is no better well wisher than you, for a lowly person like me to be taken care of and your guidance in the form of your books keeps us in constant association with you. Please keep me in Krishna Consciousness throughout, so that I can be servant of the servant of the servant of you and please keep me eligible to be so.
Your servant,
Mohan Lal Singhal
Offering by Vishal and Prerna, Bhaktin Avni & Vrinda
Hare Krishna Dear Srila Prabhupada
Please accept our respectful obeisances
Dear Srila Prabhupada, thanks for your mercy which you are showering on us through your transcendental books,your lectures,your visuals,your audios of chanting Hare Krishna Mahamantra , various other vaishnava songs and association of devotees.All these always keep us motivated to stay in Krishna Consciousness.
You have given us this robust process of Krishna Consciousness just out of your causeless mercy ,though we fallen souls don’t deserve it at all ,but out of your compassion we got this mercy . Having access to all this treasure of your’s we are still not serious with this process of Krishna Consciousness.
So on this occasion of your 125th appearance day we recommit ourselves to this process of Chanting my rounds, reading your books, hearing your lectures on a daily basis. Recently I was hearing one of your lectures in which you asked about a particular shloka of Bhagwat Gita but audience present over there was not able to recollect that shloka and your response was “so you are not reading my books,you are just selling and am I writing these books just for selling ?”. So this shows how much importance you have given to reading your transcendental books.
Please forgive us dear Srila Prabhupada as we have made so many mistakes, we are making mistakes and we will make mistakes in future also but please continue shower your mercy on us ,as our efforts are very tiny , this is because of your mercy we are trying to practice Krishna Consciousness.
Also Srila Prabhupada thanks for keeping us always in association of devotees. your disciples and disciples of your disciples are taking good care of us.Thanks for everything Srila Prabhupada for core of our hearts, we will always remain indebted to you.
All glories to your lotus feet Srila Prabhupada .
Srila Prabhupada ki Jai.
Your loving grandchildren
Vishal and Prerna
Bhaktin Avni and Vrinda
Offering by Mahateja Narahari Das
Hare Krishna Dear Srila Prabhupada
Please accept my respectful obescenses onto to your lotus feet
Srila Prabhupada you made my illusionary life style to meaningful life. you showed us correct path I am trying to follow your footsteps.your teachings changed my entire life style.
Thank you for your books . Nectar is there in books.Thank your every thing you given to all humanity.
Thank you for your wonderful disciples they are carrying your wonderful mood.they contineously inspiring my Krishna consciousness journey.
Yours servent
Mahateja Narahari Das
Offering by Vijaya Lakshmi
Dear Srila Prabhupad
Please accept my respectful obesiences
All glories to you!
On this auspicious occasion of 125th vyasapuja I offer my pranam to srilaprabhupad.
I am not qualified to glorify the pure devotee like you srila prabhupad but if you can bless me then by following the order of senior devotees, I can speak few words about you his divine grace for my purification.
You are an ocean of mercy and you traveled to west to preach Krishna consciousness and you wrote the books to bring people closer to Krishna. You were always compassionate to all the people to take them from material world to back to godhead.
I want to thanks for changing my life, if you were not there I don’t know where I am, but yes I took many days to come to Krishna consciousness.you given us everything, how beautifully you have created Krishna consciousness setup for garihasthas like us.
You went to USA to spread Krishna consciousness at the age of 70 when most of the people are retire. Within span of 10 years, you have converted so many conditioned souls into wonderful devotees in and around the world. You are pure Devotee of krsna came to this world to inspire us to take Krishna conscious and take us back to godhead.
Srila prabhupada when I read your books I feel, you are instructing me through your books. Your books are saved so many souls in this world like me.
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.
Please give us the strength to do nice sadana and follow the regulations. 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 holyname of the lord.
I seek your blessings to make progress in this path of devotion.
Your servent
Vijaya Lakshmi
Offering by Tapan
Respected Srila Prabhupad,
Please accept my humble obeisances.🙏🙇♀️
All glories to you.
I consider this my great fortune that I get to know about you and the humanly impossible feat you accomplished for the ultimate benefit of humankind.
I have been ignorant all my life not realising what is the purpose of this human birth. It is your mercy that your teachings touched me through my Shiksha guru Hg Acyuta Arjunasakha Das and I have no words to express my gratitude for it. You took all the troubles in the world to follow the instructions of your Guru and in the process you have enlightened the mankind through the globe. Your books, this platform of Krsna Consciousness and simplified process of Bhakti that you gave has changed this world forever. Now, fallen souls like me see a hope to develop faith in Krishna and make this life worth by chanting the Holy name. I seek blessings of you, my guru and all devotees in my endeavour to walk on the path shown by you and be an insignificant soldier of your mission.
Your humble servant,
Tapan
Offering by Shruti Ganjiwale
My Dear Ajoba Srila Prabhupada🙏,
Please accept my humble obeisances,
I am a very fortunate soul that I found you and your teachings in this material world. It is through your books and the devotees I came to know about the Supreme Personality of God KRISHNA.
I always knew that KRISHNA is there but I never felt him with me until I met you through books, recorded lectures and devotees.
Lots of my unanswered questions got perfect answers. I am very thankful to you from within the core of my heart that my life got a meaning which I was always searching for.
Thank you for reminding me that I am a part and parcel of my beloved LORD KRISHNA.
Offering by Deepak Porwal
Hare Krishna Dear Srila Prabhupada
Please accept my most humble obeisance’s. 🙇🙏🙇
All glories to you Srila Prabhupada.
Srila Prabhupada I am very grateful to you for everything you have done for us, like Vedic literatures written by you, nice devotee community all over the world and elaborate deity worships and so many other things. I try to read Srimad Bhagavad Gita and Srimad Bhagvatam as often as possible but due to my shortcomings and laziness I am still not giving my full effort to absorb in holy name and holy scriptures. I beg for forgiveness for not being good reader Prabhupada but at the same time I pray to you for your mercy so that I can develop enthusiasm for reading your books.
Srila Prabhupada whenever I listen or read about you it inspires me a lot to serve you in your mission of spreading Krishna Consciousness. But somehow I am unable to serve you with my best capacity. I have desire to serve you Prabhupada in servant of the servant of the servant mood. Please bestow your blessing upon me so that I can always be in humble serving mood.
Srila Prabhupada on your 125th birth anniversary I pray to you for your merciful glance upon me. I am so fallen and there is no hope for me to crossover this ocean of birth and death. But this can only be possible with your mercy Prabhupada.
Thank you Srila Prabhupada!!
Your most insignificant servant,
Deepak Porwal
Offering by Jitendra Sabat
Dear Srila Prabhupada,
Please accept my humble obeisances!
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
om ajnana-timirandhasya
jnananjana-salakaya
caksur unmilitam yena
tasmai sri gurave-namah
By your pure teachings, I can understand that I am not this body made of material elements.
By your pure teachings, I can understand that the perfection of my life is to be cent percent engaged in the service of the Absolute Truth,
Lord Sri Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
You have written about Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami: “He lives forever by his divine instructions, and the follower lives with him.”
This also applies to you since you are permanently fixed at the lotus feet of your spiritual master. By your shining example, you show us how
to be fixed in the service of guru, the pure representative of Lord Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
There are so many ways in which I can glorify you, so many ways that you have bathed me in the ecstasy of your mercy:
– Chanting the Holy Name and dancing…
– Performing devotional service for the pleasure of Lord Krishna and His devotees…
– Preparing nice foodstuff for the Lord … and then honoring them
You are glorious for your books in which you have revealed the whole spiritual world.
Everyday I approach you for your instruction by reading your books.
My simple prayer, dear Grandfather Srila Prabhupada, is that I always be engaged as an instrument of Lord Krishna’s mercy without desire for material benefit.
I beg to remain in your service, eternally,
Your servant,
Jitendra Sabat
Offering by Abhishek & Priyanka, Ayonija
Respected Dear Prabhupada,
By your causeless mercy we have got the chance to express our gratitude towards you. We know we don’t deserve to get the knowledge which you have given us in this lifetime. We seriously believe that we have no qualification. Neither do we follow your instructions as it is nor do we render any service for your pleasure, yet you are so merciful to us. In one lecture, it was told that you are not merely a doctor who treats the patients, but you also train the patients to become doctors. We are the patients who have innumerable diseases. Please treat us and use us as an instrument in your mission. You are like a touchstone who has turned so many stones into gold. On your 125th appearance day, we request you to take charge of our life and use it as you like.
Your insignificant servants
Abhishek & Priyanka, Ayonija
Offering by Umamaheswaran & Indhumathi
Dear Srila Prabhupada,
Please accept my humble obeisance’s in the dust of your lotus feet. All glories to you.
Thank you Srilla Prabhupada for giving me wonderful devotees association and connecting me with bonafide guru parampara. I really thank you Srila Prabhupada making my Krishna conscious life. Because of you today I can able to write my offering glorifying dear devotee of lord chaitanya.
Srilla Prabhupada you met your guru maharaj (Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvathi Thakura) in 1922 and your guru maharaj said to go Western countries and spread Krishna conscious.
In 1944 you started Back to godhead magazine. You have published 1000 copies without any income.
Then you have translated Srrimad-Bhagavtam and Bhagavad Gita without your mercy we can not understand Chaitanya Charitamrita, Srimad-Bhagavtam and Bhagavad Gita
You have traveled to Western countries with Lot of struggles. But you want to fulfill your gurudev desire (to spread Krishna conscious in Western countries).
Then you started in 1966, lecturing in a storefront and your living in that apartment in New York. You began to chant Hare Krishna maha mantra. Slowly Krishna bhakti spreaded whole world .
Srila Prabhupada you did the unbelievable service to humanity as a offering to your dear spiritual master. You are the Acharya and the Master whole world take shelter at your lotus feet. You are pure devotee of krishna.
Srila Prabhupada please bless us so that we will develop Krishna bhakhi in our heart.
Writing this simple offering behalf of your eternal servant,
Umamaheswaran🙏,
Indhumathi🙏.
Offering by Binodini
Dear Srila Prabhupada,
Please accept my humble obiesances.
You introduced me to the spiritual world, added meaning to my life and explained the purpose behind it.
I bow down to your lotus feet for imparting the immense wealth of knowledge & wisdom. My light is rekindled by a spark from you. Deep gratitude to you for having lighted the flame within me.
You are the Only one who Enlightened My Path By Removing The Darkness Of My Ignorance.
Your servant,
Binodini
Offering by Mamatha
Respected Srila Prabhupada,
Please accept my humble obeisance unto your lotus feet.I’m not qualified enough to glorify you prabhupada but still I’m trying as you are so much merciful to the entire human society and such a fallen and conditioned souls like me.It is just because of your compassion and endeavour so that we have good fortune of serving Lord Shri Radha Krishna.It is because of your vedic knowledge and books today we are able to hear and chant the holy names of Lord Shri Krishna and how to serve the lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and Guru parampara.So I’m begging you unto your lotus feet prabhupada kindly give me determination, endeavour, intelligence and strength to enable transcendental Krishna Prema in my heart and to spread the Krishna consciousness. I’m so thankful to Guru Maharaj for his causeless mercy upon us which is always inspiring in this pandemic time giving darshan with out caring his health condition.Please bless me to have the devotees association forever.
Thank you,
Servant of servant of servant of the servant
Mamatha.
Offering by Manjula.M
Hare Krishna Prabhu. Dandavat Pranam.
My humble obeisance to Srila Prabhupada.
Everyday first thing I will do is i will pray to Prabhupada and start my day. And I understood how much you struggled alone to bring Krishna consciousness to fallen soul like me. listening Prabhupada vani of Bhagavad-Gita and started with Srimad-Bhagavatam there is so much to know and learn about Lord Krishna. You are the one in my difficult time helping me with all your preachings and blessings. I am not at all qualified to speak. Thank you Prabhupada my grand pa please keep your blessings for me to continue in Krishna conscious journey to make my self to know more about Krishna and also people to know about Krishna 🙏🙏🙏
Your Servent
Manjula.M
Offering by Sriram, Divya & Tattva Darshan
Hare Krishna, Our respectful obeisances to Srila Prabhupada!!!!
Srila Prabhupada Ki Jai!!
Srila Prabhupada you are not an ordinary human being; you are representative of Lord Krishna; you are Senapati-Bhakta of Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu; you are the param Siksha Guru for all the devotees. To such a person we pay our humble obeisance unto your lotus feet.
Srila Prabhupada if you had not come, what would have happened? How could we have passed our lives? Who else would have distributed the unlimited mercy of Lord Nityānanda and Lord Gauranga all over the world?
Srila Prabhupada the whole world was suffering due to covid pandemic and because of you teaching us the devotional service, we were able to practice in our home irrespective of the situation outside. We are able to relish the nectar of Krishna Bhakti even in the midst of pandemic. There is nothing in this world to repay back for what you have given to us. All the struggle you have taken is just for us , it’s for us to elevate to a spiritual platform.
Srila Prabhupada without your mercy and compassionate on us, in last 2 years under the guidance of HG Hariksetra Prabhuji and HG Kartikeya Prabhuji, we were able to complete IDC course, get shelter from one of your disciple HH Jayapataka Swami Maharaj.
Our son Tattva Darshan started learning mridangam to serve Lord Krishna. Our humble request, please shower mercy upon Tattva so that he is always under the shelter of Guru & Gauranga and serve them eternally.
Please bestow your mercy upon us such that we can get initiation from Guru Maharaj and serve Guru Maharaj eternally.
We have no words to express our gratitude towards you Srila Prabhupada. Please bless the Bellandur Devotees who have newly started Bhakti Vriksha. Please bless the devotees who are conducting Gita Courses for the first time. And bless the Bangalore devotees who are striving to fulfill the Guru Maharaj instructions to make Bangalore City a number one Krishna Consciousness City.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
Gurudeva Ki Jai
Thank you
Your servants of the servants,
Sriram, Divya, Tattva Darshan
Offering by Rajesh Dogra
O great sage of sages, I am indebted by your great mercy. You helped me see the truth. You helped me dilute the curtains of maya a little bit to further help me see Krishna in the form of Bhagvad Gita and Srimad Bhagvtm. If you were not there who else would have thought of me. I am so sinful but still you picked me to shower your mercy and pointed my focus on the great lord. How can I ever show you how thankful I am to you. Please accept my sincere obeisances to you mercy full feet.
Hare Krishna
Rajesh Dogra
Hare Krishna!
Dear Srila Prabhupada,
Please accept my humble obeisances!
We are eternally grateful for the divine association you have blessed us with. I still remember the first day I got connected to one of the follower connected to your movement, a day in August 2009. It was a life changing moment for me. I had all types of desires filled in my monkey like mind and all worldly ambitions in my head. But that day changed my perspective towards life. I had all lofty ideas about the spirituality, yoga and morality. The session was about ‘Power of Habits’ but it gave me a glimpse of the ‘ISKCON’ and you. The following sessions were eye-openers for me where I learnt about ‘Who am I’ and ‘What is the purpose of my life?’ I have been blessed with many matchless gifts from you and ISKCON movement and will try to list down some of them.
Your books are very simple and logical to make us understand the reality and futility of this world. Your extracted the essence of the Vedanta and gave us a library of ‘Bhakti Vedanta Purports’ where there is a solution to each and every problem of this world. You explained us we are not the body, the source of all identifications and misery. But as a pure soul we are always sat-cit-ananda and there is no other happiness than service to Lord Krishna! You convinced us the kindness of Lord, Who is there in every atom of the creation and how He is arranging for all the ‘jivas’ to come to Him but at the same time like broad minded father gives us ample free will out of infinite love for ‘jivas’. You have established ISKCON with seven main purposes and is one of the exemplary organization. Fortunately by Lord’s infinite mercy I have been to many of ISKCON temple and centers in India and in Amsterdam, Berlin and Hamburg. It gives a sense of how you have made ‘pure bhakti’ accessible and natural to all ‘jivas’ and you have empowered all your followers to continue the propagation of ‘pure bhakti’ far and wide.
Dear Srila Prabhupada, I assure you that I will always represent you and ISKCON as best as I can through my deeds and behavior. This will be my primary service to you and my spiritual master.
Thank you!
Your aspiring servant.
Vrshbhanu Prannath das
Jai Srila Prabhupada!
Offering by Deepank Bansal
Hare Krishna
Dandwat pranam,
Please find my offerings to Srila Prabupada as:
Respected Srila Prabhupada, please accept my humble obesiences, all glories to you
You are the saviour of entire human society in this world. People were not knowing the ultimate goal of the life. Noone speaks so bluntly that goal of life is to back home back to Godhead. You have shown us the path and the easy path to go back home back to Godhead. You invested your entire life for us else you could have simply served Lord Krsna, performing devotional service alone and achieve Krsna but since you were so merciful that you want everyone to make their life successful. You have translated the scriptures like Bhagavad Gita, Bhagavatam in English and many others languages so that entire mankind can take benefit out of it. This job is tremendous. Your lectures inspires me a lot and I get more and more inspiration from you.
Please bless me that I remain on the path of bhakti and serve Guru and Gauranga without any slippage.
Your eternal Servant
Deepank Bansal
Offering by Prasad Yadav
Dear Beloved Srila Prabhupada
Please accept my humble obeisances in the dust of your lotus feet. All glories to your Divine Grace.
Because of you, fallen soul like me got the Krishna Consciousness and understood the purpose of life, throughout your life you thought how one can learn process of devotional service and how to develop loving relationship with Krishna. I am saddened at times you are not with us in this material world but you are definitely with us guiding us through your books, kirtan and lectures.
Thank you very much Prabhupa for your causeless mercy, unlimited grace and compassionate love. All glories to your divine lotus feet.
Your humble Servant
Prasad Yadav
Offering by Jyotheeswara Reddy
My dear eternal grandfather Swami Prabhupada,
Please accept my humble obeisances unto your lotus feet.
You answered all questions of human beings, published so many books, translated each and every sloka of Bhagavad gita and Bhagavatham as it is, published books in all most all languages, recorded each and every speech, travelled all over the world at the age of 70 to give Krishna to all fallen souls, set an example of a real swamiji/guru/yogi to the world, explained about absolute truth(or God) in a way it is understandable to even kids, connected dots of all existing philosophies, made many followers, trained each devotee to realize their eternal relation with Krishna, constructed temples across the world, set simple and easy principles for highest perfection, taught us easiest ways to earn krishna prema and the list is endless.
Even then I am struggling to progress in Krishna consciousness. Please help me hold a little finger of one of your sincere followers that can drive me towards the highest possible perfection of this life. Also help me in removing all obstacles in Krishna consciousness one after the other.
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare.
Your most useless, unqualified and insignificant servant,
Jyotheeswara Reddy
Offering by Krsna Karunamurti Das, Yogini Yamuna devi dasi & Hemachandar K
Dear Srila Prabhupada
Please accept our most respectful obeisance unto your divine lotus feet
Your compassion to all fallen souls has no limits. Because of your compassion and sacrifice, the fallen souls (Krishnamurthy, Jamuna) took shelter of your beloved disciple HH Jayapataka swami Maharaj as Krsna Karunamurti Das and Yogini Yamuna Devi Dasi and many more is practicing bhakti yoga in the world today. It is impossible to understand Krsna without your teaching that Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
You gave us wonderful disciples, wonderful philosophy in the simplest way to understand the lowest of mankind (us) in mlellecha language since we cannot understand Sanskrit. You sacrificed your life in the advanced age completely to write Srimad bhagavatham, Chaitanya Caritaamrta, Srimad Bhagavad Gita and many more scriptures which are required to understand our philosophy completely. You read all scriptures and brought all the necessary philosophy in Srimad Bhagavatam and Srimad Bhagavad Gita in your purport, in this way you made our Kaliyuga bhadda jivas life who is practicing and trying to practice easy.
You nicely digested Goudiya parampara mood and philosophy and you are very well connected with our parampara and nourishing us with the mercy of our precious acarya.
Please shower your mercy on us to practice intense bhakti to Guru and Krsna and back home back to Godhead in this very lifetime.
Your insignificant grandchildren,
Krsna Karunamurti Das
Yogini Yamuna devi dasi
Hemachandar K
Offering by Ramakumar Bommisetty
Dandavath Pranam and sincere obeisance to His Divine Grace A. C. Bhakti Vedanta Swami Prabhupad. This is my second year in this congression. At the first, I want to convey my sincere thanks to my associates for bearing with me all these times. By the mercy of these associates, I started my baby steps in Krishna Consciousness. My first interest was the Prasada. Keerthana was the second to prasada. These two made miracles in my life. They created interest in Sravanam ( hearing Krishna Katha) and then chanting. Bhagavat Gita lectures by His Grace Karthikeya Prabhu and His Grace Harikshetra Prabhu were mesmerizing and helped me in clearing many of my doubts and get clarity on the purpose of life. Our Bhakti Vriksha leaders (Balaji Prabhu and Indu Mataji) are our real role models in Bhakti path. We learnt many things and keep learning for a life time.
I started reading Prabhupad’s books by the force initially. Listening Prabhupad’s lectures on Bhagawat Gita and reading verses from Bhagawat Gita became part of my daily life now. I am really blessed with these lectures and writings. I want to continue this habit for my entire life. I am taking hours of time in writing these few lines. I can’t imagine how much pain Prabhupad has taken for writing so many books and so many volumes. Our life span is too small to cover these books. He made enormous efforts in writing books, letters, Keerthans, Bhajans, building temples and many more. His lectures are very simple to understand and straight forward to the point. I do not have words to express my gratitude to Prabhupad for all his contributions. I beg lotus feet of Prabhupad to bless me and help me to progress in this path.
Ramakumar Bommisetty
Offering by Mohanaruppa madhusudhan das, Sucaru sudevi dasi & Deepika
Dear Srila Prabhupada.
Please accept my respectfull obeisance’s in the dust of your Lotus feet.All glories to Your Divine Grace.
I feel very fortunate to be given an opportunity to write an offering on to you on this 125th appearance Day .All though I don’t have any Qualification to glorify you as I am also one of the Rascals who has fallen in to the ignorance of conditioned living.It is because of the Cause less mercy of you and your Disciples that I have got this opportunity to glorify you.
Srila Prabhupada I was fallen in to the deepest well of Ignorance and was held in an abnormal condition of madness under the spell of Material energy.It was only after coming in contact with this movement that I am understanding the shear madness I am acting . It is because of the scriptures/philosophy that you have presented to us that I am able to realize my position and you have added a new dimension to my life.
I have been in this movement for almost 5years now and I am very grateful to you and this movement for the amount of transformations it has given to my life.
Prahbupad in one of you lectures you have said about the importance of scrutinizingly studying your scriptures not just reading it,After 5years of reading your books I am just now trying to understand what you meant.Every word in your books has lot of in depth meaning ,you have taken so much of pain to present us this philosophy but I am so much conditioned that I am not able to take time and study the philosophy which you have given a easy access and come out of my conditioning.
I am seeking your special mercy to end this current situation of being locked up and not taking physical association of Dieties and Devotees as early as possible.
Dear Srila Prabhupada we beg you to kindly bestow your mercy on us so that we may be able to serve you and your mission as a family .
Servants of the servant of the servant .
Mohanaruppa madhusudhan das
Sucaru sudevi dasi
Deepika
Offering by Shivagami Sundari Raja
On the auspicious day of Srila Prabhupda’s 125th Appearance Day, I offer my respectful obeisances !!!
Srila Prabhupada pioneered to spread the awareness of Krishna Consciousness successfully across the globe. We bow down in honour of His dedication and courageous mission.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
Hare Krishna!!
Shivagami Sundari Raja
Offering by N. Murali Mohan
ON THE OCCATION OF Srila Prabhupada 125th appearance day on 31 st August 2021 My Dear Jagadguru Srila Prabhupada my respectable Dandavat Pranams on to your lotus feet. I offer my repeated obeisance’s unto your lotus feet. Oh My dear Spiritual master, you gave spiritual knowledge to whole world without discriminating cast, colour, religion, country by translating the Bhagavad Gita, Srimad Bhagavatham and other books in to the English language from Sanskrit and Bengali languages. Without you, how we all in this world get the spiritual knowledge to understand Lord Sri Krishna and go back to home, back to godhead Lord Sri Krishna.
You used the English language in all your writings, which is very simple and easy to understand even by small kids.
The whole purpose of VEDAS to know about Lord Sri Krishna. You have given Bhagavad Gita, Srimad Bhagavatham and other books, lectures, videos, to know about Lord Sri Krishna only and nothing else.
Oh My Dear Jagadguru Srila Prabhupada, all your books videos, lectures explain about how to understand Lord Sri Krishna, how to become devotee of Lord Sri Krishna, how to practice Bhakthi, the relation between Lord Sri Krishna and his Devotees.
Oh My dear spiritual master, you never preach for the sake of getting followers, money or other material benefits. You always dedicated and spend your entire life for Lord Sri Krishna. My dear Guru, You are pure, you are eternal, you are immortal, you reside in all the temples of ISKCON and you reside in harts of your disciples.
Oh My dear founder Acharya of ISKON, Since you are pure, any one hear your vani, voice, lectures, watch your videos, they become pure and they become your disciples and they become devotee of Lord Sri Krishna.
Oh My dear Guru, you have under gone many difficulties after you left the your home for higher cause. That shows how a devotee should tolerate all the material worries and distress to reach Lord Sri Krishna.
Oh servant of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Goswami, by touch of your servant of servant of servant, I have come into contact with Krishna Consciousness on 23.08.2020 during online Gita courses conducted the ISKON Whitefield, Bangalore. Then onwards, I am practicing Krishna Consciousness under your guidance and also under instructions of your servant of servant of servant. I am soo fortunate in come and contact with your servant of servant of servant and following all your instructions and practice Bhakti verry intensely.
My Dear Guru, every lecture vani, video of yours informs, instruct us to understand easily the process of Krishna prema.
My Dear Guru, you have established ISKCON and established soo many ISKCON temples all around the world, that temples giving shelter under the lotus feet of Lord Sri Krishna, to all the fallen soule like me all the times mainly when we are in distress and trouble. The process you established to establish temples, develop and maintain was amazing and sublime. All your activities are transcendental, not effected by material nature.
Oh my dear Guru, because of you, I am trying to understand Krishna Tatva in the age of Kali yuga, Understanding Krishna Tatva is not an easy, however it is possible because of your mercy, I am abele to pursue in the path of Krishna Bhakthi. Jai Jai Guru Deva Srila Prabhupada.
My dear Spiritual Master without you, how can I come to know Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Panca-Tattva, Six Goswamies all the spiritual masters in the line of Disciplic Succession, Vrindavan dam, Puri Jaganatha Dam, Mathura, Yamuna Devi, Tulasi Devi, Ganga Devi, Govardhan Mountain, Krishna lilas, Srimathi Radharani, Balaram, Gopies, cowherd boys etc.
Oh My dear Guru, without you, I did not even know what is spiritual knowledge is, who is Lord Sri Krishna and what is Bhakthi and who is devotee is. I offer hart felt thanks to your lotus feet.
Oh my dear Guru, I am an insignificant servant of your servant of servant of servant. I am not qualified to write offering to you. I write this offering with my love on to your lotus feet. I beg my forgiveness for all the mistakes in writing this offering to your lotus feet. Jagad Guru Srila Prabhupada ki Jai, Jagad Guru Srila Prabhupada ki Jai, Jagad Guru Srila Prabhupada ki Jai, Jai Jai Srila Prabhupad. Srila Prabhupad Jai jai.
Hare Krishna,
N. Murali Mohan,
Offering by Saha S
My Dear eternal Father Srila Prabhupada,
All glories to your divine grace.
Please accept my obeisance to your lotus feet. I don’t even know how to pray to you. You have given me a direction, a path forward to the spiritual world.
On the occasion of your 125th birth anniversary vyasa puja I offer my obeisance again. When I sit for Hare Krishna mahamantra chanting I feel that you are also sitting in my heart and chanting for me. I pray to your lotus feet that please don’t allow my mind to trick in the path of devotional service.
Namo om vishnu padaya Krishna presthaya bhutale, srimate Bhakti vedanta svamin iti namine, Namaste svarasthate deve gaura vani pracharini, nirvishesha shunyavadi parchatya desa tarine. 🙏🙏🙏
Offering by Srinivas & Vijayalakshmi
Dear Srila Prabhupada,
Dandavat Pranam, our humble obeisances to you.
Thanks for giving us an opportunity to express my gratitude, though we are not qualified in any way neither spiritually nor materially to do so.
Words are not enough to express our gratitude.You have provided us a path for self-realization that we failed to understand in millions and millions of years.
At an age when everyone thinks of peaceful existence, you went through countless hardships to execute an instruction of a spiritual master and provide Krishna prema to most fallen people like us.
We are indebted to you more than what we are indebted to our parents, material teachters, friends, demigods all put together
I seek your blessings and causeless mercy, O messenger of Krishna, please bless us(people like me) that
We develop a taste for chanting holy name & maha mantra
We continued to remain faithful to the process and continue to follow the instructions of our mentors
Your humble servants,
Srinivas & Vijayalakshmi
Offering by Manish Parganiha
AGTSP,
Dear Prabhupad,
Sometimes I feel if you’ve not presented this philosophy to the west what would happen to creatures like me. You’ve reignited the love of Krishna and his name within me. Now this has become the sole goal of life.
It’s impossible to replay the debt of your causeless mercy. In Fact glorifying you, itself is a big task for a fallen soul like me. Today we’re trying to find a place for our center. We’re in need of your blessings so that we could able to succeed in this endeavour.
Due to your mercy there are lots of devotees and many more are joining the mission. The knowledge of Bhagavad Gita & Srimad Bhagvatam is lightening my life and is attracting many people to the mission. This transcendental knowledge is propagated by you and spread by your disciples throughout the world and one such devotee Amit prabhu brought this knowledge to me.
I will be eternally indebted to you & your disciples for changing my life for good.
All glories to Sri Gauranga & Nityanada.
All glories to Srila prabhupad.
Your Servant,
Manish Parganiha
Offering by Deepa
Dear Srila Prabhupada,
All glories to your divine grace. Please accept my humble obeisances.
I am a fallen soul materially lured by the “Free” word to learn Bahagvat Gita.And that bought me to the divine grace of Gauranga and Gurumaharaj and through them I could hear about your life and how you made the Krishna conscious movement reachable to millions of fallen souls like me.
Thank you for allowing me to get to know you and through your books and your devotees,Lord Krishna and Chaitanaya mahaprabhu.My life would have been meaningless if you have not extended your hands to pull me from the well of material world.
I request you to have the mercy on me so that I can read all the books you have written,listen to the lectures and help in spreading the Krishna conscious movement to my near and dear ones.
Please shower your blessings to my spiritual guide and Guru ,Acyuta Arjuna sakha Das and my mentor Amal Prabhu so that they can grow more in their journey of Krishna Consciousness.
Your servant
Deepa
Offering by Srinivas Vodnala
Dear Srila Prabhupada,
All glories to your divine grace. Please accept my humble obeisances. Hare Krishna 🙏
Without you, we would have continued to be darkness. You brought light of knowledge in our lives through your unambiguous and clear instructions and authentic books.
Why we should pray to God and what to be desired has changed completely since started following your instructions through your disciples.
Your insignificant servant of servants,
Srinivas Vodnala
Offeirng by Rajesh & Ragini
Dear srila prabhupada,
I offer my humble and respectable obeisances unto His Divine Grace Prabhupada A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami srila prabhupada, who is very dear to Lord Krsna on this earth, having taken shelter of the lotus feet of Sri Krishna. you are alone at the age of seventieth year, threw away your family and left India and set sail around the earth to foreign, unknown shores because your spiritual master spoke to you to spread krishna consciousness to the entire world. you carried the glorious message of the munificent Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhuto the entire world and you brought an ageless message of love for Godhead.
you landed in Manhattan with saffron robes, a suitcase and seven dollars and wandered at maya’s skyscrapers and empty, noisy dreams and you accepted residence with hippies and drug addicted people for spreading the message of lord chaitanya. you lost all your belongings at the initial stage of preaching but you didn’t left the moment to spread krishna consciousness. you journeyed downtown, out of compassion, and set up quarters in the Lower EastSide narrow mice-ridden storefront and trusted Krsna to bring next month’s rent.you don’t have place to stay and sleep but you tried to purchase the temple for krishna. whenever you see a good building you want to turn it into a Krishna’s temple.
you opened the storefront doors even to Bowery derelicts and clashed cymbals and chanted Sanskrit hymns to God, whose vibrations caught the ears of young psychedelic middle class renegades searching for alternatives to their legacy of lies and materialism. you had and everlastingly has infinite mercy, delivering it free of charge, a matchless gift, to whomever stops to hear, you never, to my knowledge, turned one soul away, you effused them all with kindness, affection, truth and love. you treated us as your children. who had mercy on my soul one bright July morning amidst the roaring Manhattan traffic of Houston and Bowery (Most holy spot! Transformed to Vaikuntha by his feet! Bowery transformed to Vaikuntha!).
All glories to His Divine Grace AC Bhakti vedantha Srila Prabhupada.
I am a very tiny dirty soul and not having even one percent of qualification to glorify you.
Please help me in progressing in krishna consciousness.
Your servants and childrens,
Rajesh & Ragini.
Offering by Poornima Chatterjee
Hare Krishna , Hare Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare.
Please accept my humble obeisances. I am just a neophyte in this process but feel delighted to pen down my thoughts, my feelings which have taken a sharp U turn , thanks to you. I had been living a life useless, clueless… meaningless… But dear Srila Prabhupada, your books, wisdom, knowledge and lectures have given meaning and goal to my life !!
I hope I use the right words in expressing gratitude towards you, I am immensely motivated, touched, changed and taken by storm by your kind, deep rooted and knowledgeable words. To start with, I have to write that you are an excellent teacher, the words in your books are so easy and to the point. Like a teacher, you give analogies for so many things which makes it so easy for students like us to not only understand and grasp the knowledge but remember too. Everyday when I read the quick short statements of yours or hear a small recorded video, I feel it’s like a phone call I get from you everyday. Your messages,explanations and purports are clear, easy and straight(no strings attached… they are told like crystal clear facts). Reading your books has changed my whole world which gives deep rooted, in depth knowledge and understanding about the principles, our prescribed duties, devotional service and many many many more.
I hope I improve and learn more and more everyday from you. I want to end by saying that I have known Krishna only from you, I have understood Krishna only from you, how to follow prescribed duties, devotional service and practice chanting and kirtan everyday, I have learned from you.
Thank you dear Srila Prabhupada from the bottom of my heart.
Hare Krishna
Poornima Chatterjee
Offering by Sonia Anand and family
Dear Respected Srila Prabhupada
Hare Krishna, dandavat pranam
All glories to Your Divine Grace.
My family and me are eternally indebted to you, for your causeless mercy, compassion and love.
Please bless us that we may always read your books and hear your lectures with all sincerity.
Thank you very much, Srila Prabhupada. All glories to your divine lotus feet.
Your eternal servants
Sonia Anand and family
Offering by Nagesh Prabhu
Hare Krishna
All glories to Swami Srila Prabhupada
I reverentially offer my obeisances to Srila Prabhupada who gifted the whole world, the universally renowned , respected and worshiped religious book ” BHAGAVAD GITA as it is”, the jewel of spiritual wisdom, leading to spiritual, cultural and social revolution in the whole of the world.
I respectfully bow before the world’s foremost vedic scholar far having taught the entire humanity to reach the lotus feet of Srikrishna Paramatma,the Supreme personality of gods head, through Bhakti marg.
I shall ever remain a servant of his divine grace Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada who single handedly wrote series of religious books and established ISKCON centres all over the world, to awaken the dormant Krsna conciousness among millions of people, leading to peace and prosperity on planet earth.
Nagesh Prabhu
Offering by Vineeta Dambal
Hare Krishna Dear Srila Prabhupada
Dandavat pranam!
Please accept my humble obesciences!
As I sit down to pen my offering to you, it takes me back to 1970s, “seeing” a little school girl who was fascinated by these, large group of ‘Fair Complexioned’ people (appeared as foreigners), wearing Saffron colored garments & Garland around their neck, singing, & chanting ‘Hare Krishna, going around the street (where she lived in the Indian capital, New Delhi). Yes, this girl is none other than myself, and I called them musicians. My dad corrected me to say these were not musicians but devotees of an organization called International Society of Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) who were preaching about Lord Krishna, HIS glories and pass times. That made sense to me then.
A lot of time has passed since then and now. I got “reintroduced” to ISKCON three years back once we returned to India and settled in Bengaluru. Being in one of the wonderful residential complexes in Kadugodi area, I was fortunate to be amongst sincere devotees who continue to propagate your message. Emphasizing on “Culture that is Srila Prabhupada”, I am reminded of shloka 3.21 from Bhagwad Gita:
yad yad ācarati śreṣṭhas
tat tad evetaro janaḥ
sa yat pramāṇaṁ kurute
lokas tad anuvartate
Respected Srila Prabhupada, you set a standard for us to emulate. Through the basic tenet that of bhakti towards the Supreme Godhead, you preached selflessly to the Westerners and in a short time frame, established this cultural and spiritual mindset, Krishna Conscious movement, throughout the world.
Though you are not physically present amongst us now, you will live forever in our hearts and will continue to guide us as we progress on this noble spiritual path through your instructions, books, videos and audio recordings and above all the Hare Krishna Maha Mantra! I have not met you but was fortunate to have gained knowledge about you, your vision, through reading your various books and interacting with the senior devotees from ISKCON
Whitefield. Honored and blessed to be a miniscule part of your movement, I look forward to learning more and more about you, the founder Acharya of now famous ISKCON, the Hare Krishna
movement.
Ys,
Vineeta Dambal
Offering by Deepak, Jahnavi & Sruthi Sai Sri
Our dearest and loving Prabhupada, please accept our humble heartfelt obeisances on to your holy feet.
I am envious, of my self when I see those who are biting the pieces of meat. With your grace, at least now I know why I shouldn’t be also.
I am proud, that I am associated with a 1 st class sampradaya which is authentic and is crowned by great acaharyas like you.
I am greedy, to engage my senses in the service of guru and guarana. Because with your mercy now I know where the real nector is.
I am lusty, to take many births as women just to beget Krishna conscious kids who will join your moment in converting this Kunta in to Vikunta.
It is you and ONLY you who has transformed all my avagunas into satgunas, at least on gross platform and I am sure with your mercy one day we will surely develop satgunas on subtle platform too.
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 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
Offering by Jyotirmoy Daradi
Dear Srila Prabhupada,
All glories to your divine grace. Please accept my humble obeisances unto your lotus feet . I feel very fortunate as I got an opportunity to write this offerings to you as you already know I am an illiterate unqualified fallen soul in this material world. Sometimes it seems without your mercy and direction it is almost impossible to live in this world as a civilized person. When the entire world is suffering due to material misery and the three modes of material nature is dominating us like a warden. You appeared as a “bhakta senapati” who spread the holy name across the world and preaches the Hari Naam. In my life i am able to make lot of changes like doing seva in temple, following four regulative principals , engauge myself in book distribution , prashadam distribution, cleaning temple and other service as well due to your mercy and direction. I want to improve more in this path of spirituality so, please showers your blessings and mercy upon me so that i will not fall down from the devotional service. I personally feel you are a real grandfather all of us who exactly knows who want what and arrange that at right time. This is amazing when i was in school days my parents shouted on me but my grandmother always use to give me a chocolates. Similarly in my life your preaching and lectures are always chocolates within a messi crowd.
Thanks
Your servant of servants
Jyotirmoy Daradi
Offering by Karthikeyan
Dear Srila Prabhupada,
Please accept my respectful obeisances. All glories to you !!
I heartfelt thank you srila prabhupada because of you we are able to render service to Lord Krishna and sri chaitanya Mahaprabhu and all other acharya’s. Because of your mercy, we got the chance to understand the true meaning of our scriptures Bhagavad Gita and various other scriptures.
I sincerely admit that i am not eligible but still it’s only by your mercy that i can use this human life to serve you and move closer to Lord Krishna and Lord Gauranga alteast by a few steps.
Sincerely seeking your blessing in continuing my journey with ISKCON through devotee’s association, following instructions given by guru and going back to the Godhead.
Your Servant,
Karthikeyan
Offering by Rekha Sinha
JODI PRAPUOAD NAA HOITO,
TOBE KII HOITO,YEH JIVAN BOHITE KISHE-
My humble obesciences to the greatest Hero of my life SRILA PRABHUPADA who is making me understand the real essence of my life,the real goal and the most important to LOVE KRISHNA selflessly with prema bhaav. Now I can understand the difference between PUJA AND BHAKTI ,Thankyou Srila Prabhupada. You are giving me a ray of hope,you truly said… I WILL NEVER DIE,I WILL LIVE FOR EVER IN MY BOOKS. You are our real masiha
SRILA PRABHUPADA,the epitome of perfection,which is seen in all the books written by him,has given lives to so many, including me.
Dear SRILA PRABHUPADA,I have started reading BHAGAVAD GITA,SRIMAD BHAGVATAM,CHAITANYA CHARITRAMRUT, PLEASE shower your blessings so that I can do seva with more prema bhaav for krishna. Because of you I am understanding who is CHAITANYA MAHAPRABHU AND NITYANANDA PRABHU. and the importance of NAAM SANKIRTAN.
HARE KRISHNA HARE KRISHNA KRISHNA KRISHNA HARE HARE
HARE RAM HARE RAM RAM RAM HARE HARE
ALL GLORIES TO SRILA PRABHUPADA
SRILA PRABHUPADA KI JAI
Your Servant
Rekha Sinha
Offering by Mohan Kumar
Dear Srila Prabhupada, please accept my humble Obediences unto your lotus feet.
Dear Srila Prabhupada Thank you very much for Showing the path back to godhead for this fallen souls of Kaliyuga, you have awaken the bhakti to millions of hearts, millions of jivas just like by one lamp can illuminate millions of lamps, it is your mercy Srila Prabhupada.
HH jayapataka Swami GuruMaharaj written the poem *yadi Prabhupada na hoito tobiki hoito* If Prabhupada wouldn’t have come what would have happened to us.
Krishna is like a Big fire, We are like a small spark. If we forget krishna we will fall in this material world.Covered by Maya we forgot our real identity. By your mercy Srila Prabhupada millions of people get back to their real consciousness *krishna consciousness* from Maya consciousness.
Your grand child .
Mohan Kumar.🙌🙇.
Offering by Nagaveni M Badiger
Hare Krishna,
I am Nagaveni Badiger from Belgaum. It gives me great joy to say a few words on Sri La Prabhupadji. Sri La Prabhupadji was born on September 1, 1896 in Calcutta. He was the founder Acharya of the ISKCON. During his lifetime, he accomplished the gigantic task of building 108 ISKCON temples worldwide among which the 13- storied temple in New York stands out to be the largest and beautiful one in the world. Sri La Prabhupadji, through his literary work of translating Shrimad Bhagavad Gita, Shrimad Bhagavatam and other Vedic literatures into English from the ancient original texts, spread the teachings and messages of Lord Krishna. And today, millions of people the world over have become pure and ardent devotees of the ISKCON, and following the Vaishnava way of life by chanting the Hare Krishna Maha Mantra. Sri La Prabhupadji shed his mortal coils in Nineteen Seventy- Six. Let us all chant this Maha Mantra and be happy.
“ Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare ”
Nagaveni M Badiger
Offering by Aishwarya
Dear Prabhupad,
Dandwat Pranam.
Please accept my humble obeisances on your lotus feet.
Hope you were Physically present with us at this moment to see how your message of krishna consciousness is spreading all over the world like fire in jungle.
I am one small tiny particle of your huge movement who is trying to serve you with small endeavours.
In this era of Internet and social media its little easy to influence people or atleast send them some agyat sukriti but it’s hard to even imagine that how did you influence highly materialistic people and made so many devotees at that time all over the world and that too at the speed of 5G internet.
The transformation that you bought in thousands of people in 10 years and number of temple that you constructed is mind blowing.
Its nothing but a miracle. I heard some where ‘miracle happen with those who beleive in it’ and this reminds me of you making my faith in God and his miracles even more stronger.
I read somewhere that benediction of serving Guru is higher than Benediction of bhakti. Which made me realise that how fortunate I am to be member of your huge family where I have got opportunity to be around and serve many bonafide spritual gurus.
You opened my eyes and made me see my own beauty, being born in India in Hindu family and getting connected to iskcon was icing on cake.
Thankyou for giving me this confidence of being fortunate and being proud of my country my people and who I am.
Hope to serve you till my last breath.
Hare Krishna.
Your servant
Aishwarya
Offering by Anoop Kumar
Hare krishna Srila Prabhupada,
Please accept my humble obeisances at your Lotus feet. This is the second time I am writing you. In last year’s letter, I told you that I am doing 4-5 chanting rounds and I asked you to help me to advance in Krishna Consciousness. Thank you Srila Prabhupada! Now I am doing 10 rounds every day. Please shower your blessings forever to enhance me on the path of Krishna consciousness. While chanting, when I remember your last times in Vrindavan, when you left this material world, and how you were devoted to chanting holy names, it makes me emotional and this thing makes me focus on chanting. We all are thankful and fortunate that we have BhagwadGeeta books, Otherwise how our generations could understand the Bhagwad shlokas and so precious knowledge given by Lord Krishna. This world will always remain grateful to you.
Yours Obedient,
Anoop Kumar
Offering by Pradeeph Sundar
Dear Srila Prabhupada,
Kindly accept my humble obeisances.
I would like to start by sincerely thanking you for all that you have done to guide/help the fallen souls. Without a guru like you and your works, we would have been directionless.
The positive things that have happened to me since my last letter dated August 2020 are,
Reduction in anxiety levels
Better balance while handling good & bad news
A slight increase in the number of rounds chanted
Continuity in abstaining from non-vegetarian food
As I mentioned earlier, I understand there is a very long way ahead in this journey. Please find below the current status with regard to the commitments that I made in August 2020, I. Read thoroughly at least five of your books
I think I have achieved this target and I understand clearly that the bar was set very low
Please forgive me in case you believe my reading/level of understanding has not been up to your standards II. Get somewhere between 25 to 50 BG slokas by heart
I have read more than 25 slokas but not sure whether I remember them by heart currently (as I write this letter to you)
I would like to consider this as a failure from my end because repeated reading of the slokas should have made me remember them
On the other hand, something unexpected happened to me. I have started chanting more rounds, as compared to August 2020.
My spiritual journey has been very volatile in the last 12 months and I understand this will be the norm for a fallen soul like me. I request you to please guide me during all points – happiest, difficult & normal times of my life. I will put all my best efforts to ensure that I do not forget Krishna and great gurus like you. Having said that I know very well it would be possible only with your causeless mercy. Kindly continue to guide me as I do not have any other source to help me from this miserable conditioned life. I will follow up with a letter soon and that will have my spiritual goals for the year ahead.
Will try even harder than before to qualify as your servant,
Pradeeph Sundar.
Offering by Girisha, Vasavi and NagaSkanda
Dearest Guru Srila Prabhupad,
Please accept our humble Obeisance’s at your lotus feet. All glories to your Divine Grace.
This is our second Vyasa Puja offering. Please forgive us for any offenses we make. We are really blessed to be associated with Iskcon, a Krishna consciousness organization you started to uplift the fallen souls like us and help us in making progress on the real goal of life i.e., “Going back to Godhead”. I have taken baby steps in last one year by
• Increasing my daily Japa count from 1 round to 4 rounds everyday
• Reading the book “The science of Self Realization”
• Going through many videos and attending live sessions from Iskcon senior devotees
• Learnt ~25 Bhagavad Gita Slokas.
I Pray for your and all senior devotees blessings so that I can further progress in my journey. I would like to
• Increase my daily Japa count from 4 rounds to 6 rounds
• Read at least 2 of your books
• Learn another 20-25 Bhagavad Gita slokas
• Continue on my association with Iskcon through Bhakti Vriksha
I know I have many flaws and I need your mercy to overcome them. Please fortify my will to be forever true to your instructions and contribute at least a morsel in spreading your divine legacy to others.
Your Sincere Servants
Girisha, Vasavi and NagaSkanda
Offering by Vasavi K S
Dearest Guru Srila Prabhupada,
Please accept our humble obeisance at your lotus feet.
Right from the beginning,I was always interested in doing idol worship and celebrating festivals.However ,even after doing all this,I was always having negative thoughts and fear in my heart.I started observing some changes in my husband after he started attending Iskcon classes,so I was also inclined to explore on the same so I started doing chanting, attending Iskcon classes from senior devotees etc . this led to increase in my belief on krishna and also I started seeing changes in my thought process.
I would like to continue chanting more rounds, hearing more lectures, learning Bhagvad Gita slokas along with my son to continue my association.
I sincerely pray for your mercy and blessings so that I can make progress in krishna consciousness
Hare Krishna 🙏
Your sincere servant
Vasavi K S
Offering by KrishnakiMuskaan
nama om vishnu-padaya krishna-preshthaya bhu-tale srimate bhaktivedanta-svamin iti namine
namas te sarasvate deve gaura-vani-pracharine nirvishesha-shunyavadi-pashchatya-desha-tarine
Dearmost Srila Prabhupada,
Please accept my humble obeisances unto the dust of your lotus feet
All glories to Your Divine Grace
I got your mercy in July 2020, when my life was practically fallen apart. I had no purpose, no compassion and I was just a waste of space. But with your mercy and Bhakti Charu Maharaj’s mercy, I got to associate with lots of devotees and learn Bhakti from ISKCON Ujjain. All this is possible because of your devotees and their association that I got to advance in my spiritual life.
Since last year, I am trying very hard to advance in spirituality. I wished both material success and spiritual success. Now that I have received both service and material opportunities I don’t know how to balance them. I am doing my masters, I get tasks and services both, I don’t know how to keep my cool but with your blessings, I think I will be able to manage better.
I feel overwhelmed sometimes, but I also it is not enough.
Please give me strength Prabhupada ji to take the right and quick actions and spread Krishna Consciousness. You said whatever talent or skills one has they must use it to serve Krishna. I am trying to do that and spread Krishna Bhakti.
Seeking your blessings
Your Aspiring Servant,
KrishnakiMuskaan
Offering by Rajasree Madhava
On the auspicious occasion of Srila Prabhupda’s 125th Appearance Day, I offer my respectful obeisances !!!
Srila Prabhupada pioneered and spread awareness and knowledge on Krishna Consciousness across the world. On this great occasion, I pay my homage and seek blessings from Him to help me advance in my spiritual devotional service.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada! Hare Krishna!
Ys
Rajasree Madhava
Offering by Birupakshya Sahu, Kabita Choudhuri & Nikita Sahu
Hare Krishna His Devine Grace Srila Prabhupada. Please accept our humble obeisances unto your
divine lotus feet.
Srila Prabhupada ,you are one of greatest teacher in the universe. You are one of greatest leader as well. It is unbelievable how one can do this at the age of after 70s. You came to this material world to deliver the fallen souls. We are always indebted to you because you gave all the knowledge in your books Bhagavad gita, Srimad Bhagavatam and Chaitanya Charitamrta. Your books are real books of knowledge unlike other millions of books which only keep the readers in darkness of ignorance. Millions of them became devotees of Krishna by reading your books. You gave yourself to the world through your Bhaktivedanta purports so that it teach us how to think for ourselves spiritually. Prabhupada, I am so grateful to you for everything that you have given us. We all are like toddlers and you are doing all spoon feeding. You have planned and given every single nutrient that a toddler needs for a healthy growth viz. Mahamantra, pure devotees, temples, books, lectures, festivals, dhams…..
In 2019 Kartik Mass I was in Vrindavan. Everyday at evening I was visiting to Krishna Balaram mandir. I saw many devotes from different parts of the world in Vaishnava attire. That day I realised “what you have done!”.
Without you our life would have been useless. But now , you have brought in a lot of purpose for our living. Thank you Srila Prabhupada for serving all of us and giving us an opportunity to regain our lost relationship with Krishna.
Your servants
Birupakshya Sahu
Kabita Choudhuri
Nikita Sahu.
Offering by Pracchi Parihar Saxenna
Hare Krishna Srila Prabhupada,
Dandavat Pranam. Please accept my humble obeisance’s. All glories to you.
I strongly feel that you are the guiding spiritual force for so many lives on this planet Earth. I feel so fortunate to be able to associate with you and the ISKON family. Your books have been the guiding light for so many souls including me. Reading them gives so much clarity about our purpose of being born as human being. Till now we were lost in this dukhlaya and now we know how to steer them with all your divine guidance. Please give me shelter in your lotus feet so that ultimately, I can reach the shelter of Lotus feet of Srimati Radha Rani and Sri Krishna.
Gratitude from my BEING to you. Please shower your blessings on us and guide me to my journey back to Goloka Vrindavan.
Thank you again and my obeisance to you.
Your Aspiring Servant,
Pracchi Parihar Saxenna
Offering by Vidhu Saxena
Hare Krishna Srila Prabhupada,
Dandavat Pranam. Please accept my humble obeisance’s. All glories to you.
In my humble opinion, I look up to you HIS DIVINE GRACE A.C. BHAKTIVEDANTA SWAMI PRABHUPADA is an epitome of spiritual influencer and teacher par excellence. I owe my cognizance of ISKCON and its wonderful activities to your divine blessings.
Gratitude my spiritual master for always serendipitously nudging me to tread the path of devotion to the supreme Lord Krishna, as every time I happen to step into ISKCON temple I get guided through your divine statue. More I get to know about your teachings, philosophy, and single focussed dedication towards spreading true Krishna consciousness, the more I am attracted towards taking the journey of total bliss and real joy! I am eternally grateful to you.
Your Aspiring Servant,
Vidhu Saxena
Offering by Sindhu
Dear Srila Prabhupada
Please accept my respectful obeisance
All glories to you.
nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale
śrīmate bhaktivedānta-svāminn iti nāmine
namas te sārasvate deve gaura-vāṇī-pracāriṇe
nirviśeṣa-śūnyavādi-pāścātya- deśa-tāriṇe
I am very fortunate to have this opportunity to offer my heartfelt thanks to you on your 125th appearance day for showing us the path of Krishna Consciousness.
It has been about1 year now since I came in touch with Acyuta Prabhuji and then came to know you and ISKCON and met my other PrabhuJi’s and Mataji’s who have helped me in this journey. I still have a very long way to go. By hearing and trying to reading your books Srila Prabhupada, I’m trying to understand more deeply what it means to be Krishna conscious every day .
Please bless me and guise me that I be more and more Kṛṣṇa conscious and surrender to Lord Krishna with all my heart and soul.
Thank you so much Srila Prabhupada,
Sindhu
Offering by Abhishek Mishra
Hare Krishna!
On the occasion of 125th Vyas Puja of Srila Prabhupada, I am trying to put down a few lines to express my most heartfelt gratitude towards him. Although, me commenting or writing anything about Srila Prabhupada is like showing a lamp to the Sun. I’d like to confess that before coming to Krishna Consciousness, I knew nothing about Srila Prabhupada. Occasionally, I had seen his photos on the internet, and had considered him to be just any another religious guru, as we have so many of them in India! However, when I read about his life. About how he went to the US at such a mature age and how he started Krishna Consciousness from scratch just with the help of a bunch of hippies, I felt a strong sense of attraction towards his personality. I mean no one could do that without Krishna by their side! The story about how the first edition of the ‘Bhagwad Gita As It Is” was published, has made my faith in him even stronger.
They will enable me! I never compromise on reading the books of Srila Prabhupada. They are so enlightening and have been written with so much authority. Srila Prabhupada himself used to say “ These books…. They are not my words. They are the words of Krishna Himself”
I don’t have enough words to thank Prabhupada and express my gratitude towards him. But this is my humble attempt to do so.
Thank you,
Hare Krishna
All Glories to Srila Prabupada!
Your Servant,
Abhishek Mishra
Offering by Sulbha Parkhi
Dear Srila Prabhupada,
Please accept my humble obesiences
You are an evergreen inspiration for me. You are teaching how to develop love for God by very simple method. Only hope for is to understand about Supreme Personality of Godhead. We feel safe and able to survive in this Corona time and in my old age associating with Iskcon devotees has brought in a sense of purpose in my life. You are an ocean of mercy.
I am very far from philosophy but when I read your biography, I was surprised and encouraged. You went to America at age 70. The hardship you had face spreading Krishna conciousness. You believed in Krishna and your guru. You went to many countries and spread Krishna conciousness movement and translated vedic scriptures. Today your disciples are spreading Krishna conciousness movement all over the world.
We also thank iskcon members for their tireless efforts in not just spreading the culture of India but also their social initiatives such as forming the world largest vegetarian food relief program.
On this occasion I offer my heart and soul to you and your movement.
Your servant,
Sulbha Parkhi
Offering by B S Bhat
Jai Srilaprabhupada ki..
Hare Kriskna….
Srila Abhay Charanaravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami ji…my Dandavath Pranam,
Thank you for introducing Krishna to us & your effort to carry forward Krishna Bhakti movement all over world in foot steps of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and his followers. Delighted with your simple & perfect teachings.Happy to spend our time in your society.Fortunate to hear & read your teachings.You are with us with your great books.Realised the power of honesty,simplicity,trust,punctuality,respect,studiousness,caring & sincerity through you. Always I remember your tasty Sri Krishna Prasad.
Hare Krishna…
From,
Your Student,
B S Bhat.
Offering by Umakant Babulal Agrawal
Dear respected Srila Prabhupada,
Please accept my humble obesiances at your lotus feet,
Nama Om Vishnupadaya Krishna prashtaya bhutale
Srimate Bhaktivedanta swamine iti namine
Namaste Saraswate Deve Gauravani pracharine
Nirvishesha Shunyavadi Paschatya desha tarine
Associating with ISKCON and devotees has brought in a sense of purpose in my life. Please give me your blessings so I may practise my Krishna consciousness nicely, do my chanting, follow the regulative principles , read your books regularly, always serve and remain in the association of devotees and develop sincere love for the Lord in my heart.
Your eternal and grateful servant
Umakant Babulal Agrawal
Offering by Ravi Ilpakurty
His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada,
Please accept my respectful obeisances. All glories to you !!
You have taken up the mission of spreading Krishna consciousness and Vedic culture across the world. You started with few devotees in Krishna consciousness and today there are millions of devotees in Krishna consciousness. You saved number of souls in western world from drug culture and given the world “Bhagvad Gita As it is”, free from personal political commentary.
Since I started attending Iskcon classes, your teachings have reinforced my faith in scriptures. I increased the time I spend thinking of god, through chanting, currently 1 hour per day. Most of my activity in Krishna consciousness is currently limited to chanting, reading and listening.
(From Ravi Ilpakurty)
Offering by Airesh
Dear Srila Prabhupada,
Please Accept My Humble Obeisance’s .
Thank You For Introducing Krishna Consciousness To Me In A World Where Most Of Us Are Indulged In Materialistic Activities And Desires.
Please Show Mercy So I Can Continue On This Path Of Krishna Consciousness Where I Can Chant The Holy Name Of The Lord, And Serve The Lord.
Your servant,
Airesh
Offering by Yuthika
Dear Srila Prabhupada,
Please accept my humble obeisance’s. All glories to you.
I thank you for introducing Krishna Consciousness and giving me the meaning and purpose in this life. Your books and lectures have been a constant source of motivation to me for improving my sadhana and chanting of the holy name
It is my great fortune that I am able to associate with the devotees of Sri Krsna.
You have shown me the right path, but please give me your mercy so that I can follow this path and not fall back into maya. It a constant struggle for me, and I hope to continue this journey with your blessings. Please forgive me for any offence i have committed.
Your eternal servant,
Yuthika
Offering by Devanand Achuthan
Please accepts my humble obeisance at your lotus feet Prabhupad!
It is only because of you that we have been made to understand true purpose of our life. All the 7 purposes you have laid out in ISKCON primarily meant for preaching the message of the Lord to anyone and everyone without any prequalification. As this knowledge is mostly reserved or not actively preached in other sects – you broke all the barrier and given an opportunity and hope to the fallen! May you live in your vani for eternity and please bless me that I develop ability and right consciousness to serve your mission of preaching. All Glories to you, your servant of the servant of the servant of the servant.
Offering by Swetha Ashok
Om Ajnana TimirAndhasya JnanaAnjanaShalaakaaya
Chakshurunmilitam Yena Tasmai Sri Gurave Namaha 🙏🙏
Hare Krishna Srila Prabhupada,
I’m thank ful for getting this opportunity to offer my respectful obedience’s.🙇♀️🙇♀️
Please accept my humble obeisance’s dear Srila Prabhupada..
You are my inspirational and motivational Guru , taught that age is not a barrier for doing Service to please Krishna.
THANK YOU for the HARE KRISHNA movement which is transforming our lives like anything🙏🙏
Reading Bhagavad Gita alone is different from reading along with GURU’s association.
I’m blissful to get this chance because of you in the form of
Dhakshayini Kannan Mathaji who introduced me to ISKCON and educated me about Kaliyuga Dharma – Chanting Hare Krishna Maha manthra, especially about Brahma Muhurtha Chanting and trying to understand the most possible Bhakthi Purvaka services to please Lord Krishna also redirected my actual thoughts of Maya world .
Respected Prabhupada,
Please enpower me to increase my Chanting rounds, to be part of Like Hearted association all the time and
please bless me to follow four regulative principles. 🙇♀️🙇♀️
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare.🙏🙏
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare.
Please bless me to Practice Krishna Conciousness effectively. 🙇♀️🙇♀️
Thanking you from bottom of my heart!!!
Hare krishna.
YS
Swetha Ashok
Offering by Seema
Dear Srila Prabhupada,
Hare krishna, Dandavat pranaam,
With all due respect,I would like to express my heartiest gratitude to you.Please accept my humble obeisance at your lotus feet.
Thank you for giving the Bhagavad gita in such a easy way that common people can also understand.
It’s quite unbelievable that you started at the age of 70 without any resource and totally in new land thousands of miles away from home land,You started Hare Krishna Movement.You constructed Krishna temples..
YOU ARE THE INSPIRATION..🙏🙏
HARE KRISHNA ..🙏🙏
Your servant
Seema
Offering by Poornima
Dear Srila Prabhupada
Dandavat Pranaam
Please accept my respectful obeisance at your lotus feet. All glories to you.
I am so graceful to you for everything that you have given us.
I went to iskcon temple few years back, but that time I really didn’t know about you.
Now I joined Bhagavadgita class and got to know so much about you from my teacher Dakashayani mataji. I am so fortunate.
You made Bhagavadgita easy to understand for everyone.
You gave us hare Krishna maha mantra. In this Kaliyuga let’s chant and be happy.
You showed us the way how to live spiritually in this material world.
I strongly believe that krishna consciousness movement will spread all over the world.
Hare krishna 🙏
Your servant
Poornima
Offering by Deepali
Dear Srila Prabhupada,
Please accept my humble obeisance at dust of your lotus feet
Thank you Prabhupada for showering your causeless mercy on this fallen soul by giving your association through wonderful devotees in ISKCON whitefield, through your books and lectures.
Also, I am very thankful to you Prabhupada, for helping me to connect to my Siksha and Diksha guru. Begging for your mercy so that I can serve them nicely and imbibe their mood and follow their instructions, so that one day I can become an insignificant servant in your mission.
I cannot repay what you have given Prabhupada, I will be eternally indebted to you dear Srila Prabhupada.
I want to admit Prabhupada, because of my annarthas I have committed, and I keep on committing lot of offenses, I want to get rid of this envy and pride, please Prabhupada help me to get rid of this quickly.
Thankyou Prabhupada for again and again helping me to realize, there is no happiness in this material world if my expectations are material or if I try to find happiness in any material exchanges.
Thank you Prabhupada for your causeless mercy and showing the path to Krishna.
Your insignificant servant,
Deepali
Offering by Shashi Dua
On this auspicious day we have no words to explain his glories.without his efforts we can’t imagine the whole world is in one string of krishna conciousness.
At the age of retire he came out without any resources only with his guru’s will and with his blessings he succeed in unimanigable spiritual journey
Truly he is a Gem of india ,should be included in 7 previous stones of india
My humble respectful obeisance to him🙏🙏🙏🙏
Shashi Dua
Offering by Revathi Ramesh
Hare Krishna Srila Prabhupada!
Dandavat Pranam. Please accept my humble obeisance!
I am always grateful to you for bestowing your mercy upon me to get into Krishna Consciousness. Because of my bad karma from all my previous as well as current life, it took me so many lives and years to come across your teaching and valuable books. But still you are very merciful to me and showed me the right path in life by picking me to be one of the souls to come to Krishna Consciousness in this very life itself. Every time when I get lost, you are taking care of me personally in the form of all great Vaishnavas surrounding me. Please please keep me in your mercy and forgive my shortcomings and help me to progress on the path of your teachings.
Your Servant’s servant’s servant,
Revathi Ramesh
Offering by Audharya Gopa Das
Dear Srila Prabhupad,
Please accept my humble Dandavats
It gives me immense pleasure that we are celebrating 125th Vyas Pooja for you. On this most important Day I would like to reflect upon some of your teachings although fully unqualified to understand and comprehend your qualities but still for my purification I would like to recall and recollect some of experiences in 17-year long journey in ISKCON.
To anyone maybe after 100 years or even now who is unknown to your wonderful achievements in establishing Bhakti movement all that you accomplished appears nothing less than a miracle. The unconventional ways you chose to spread the teachings and moods of Lord Chaitanya like being a Sanyasi marrying your own disciples, giving Brahmin initiation to the people externally born in Mlechas and Yavanas Families, To establishing temples in closed churches and synagogues will surely be remembered for generations to come and will continue to inspire souls to take risks and in the service of Lord Sri Krishna.
Any Acharya preaches according to time, Place and circumstances and attacks the theories and philosophies which are against the concept of Bhakti prevalent at that time place and circumstances when you were performing your glorious pastimes of Preaching though threats like Mayavad and Shunyavad were there which all the previous acharyas had to counter as well additionally you were facing threat from the most detrimental thought that is western atheism in the name of Science. So personally, for me your contribution in establishing the Vedic truths during this atheism which is covered in the mask of science is the most inspiring. One of the hippies in early days asked you how spiritual world looks like and your response that “Spiritual World is Full of LSD” reminds me of the Mood of Narad Muni when he was preaching to Valmiki who could not chant the name of Ram so he was told to chant the opposite Mara.
I pray at your lotus feet today that please bless me so that I can fulfill your unfulfilled desires and be the instruments of your unlimited compassion and Grace.
Jai Srila Prabhupad!!!
Your Insignificant Servant
Audharya Gopa Das
Offering by Suresh Gupta
Hare Krishna His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada
Please accept my humble obeisance unto your divine lotus feet. All glories to you.
Though, I don’t consider myself qualified to write this offering but I find this a great opportunity for me to show my gratitude towards the Society you have given for us.
You are one of the greatest teacher in the universe. You are one of the greatest leader as well. It is inconceivable how one can do this at the age of 70s. You came to this material world to deliver the fallen souls; the society is always indebted to you because you gave all the knowledge in many holy books and gave wonderful disciples to the world because they follow your instructions as it is.
I could able to start practicing my Bhakti now. I can really see amazing disciples each one of the gems on different bhavas.
I have a desire to purify myself and serve Guru and Gauranga; chant more and more and do Hari Kirtan, so please shower your mercy to me.
Your disciple,
Suresh Gupta
Jaipur and Bangalore
Offering by Gargi
nama om vishnu-padaya krishna-preshthaya bhu-tale
srimate bhaktivedanta-svamin iti namine
namaste saraswate deve gaura-vani-pracarine
nirvishesha-shunyavadi-pashchatya-desha-tarine
My dear eternal spiritual grandfather His Divine Grace A.C. BhaktiVedanta Swami Prabhupada,
Please accept my respectful obeisance unto your lotus feet.
My dear Srila Prabhupada,
I am very fortunate to have been given the privilege and a chance to offer my respectful obedience unto your lotus feet.
Associating with ISKCON and devotees has brought in a sense of purpose in my life. I cannot express in words the amount of support and guidance I have received while I sailed through the most difficult times of my life till date. With all the storms, all-around me, I was capsulated under His divine grace.
It’s rightly said, Krishna will not remove the pains and sorrow but will glide us through it.
YS
Gargi
Offering by Deepti Wahi
Dear Srila Prabhupada,
Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet. All glories to you.
You have been very merciful to all of us. It is due to your compassion we are fortunate to serve the Lord. It is because of you we have access to transcendental vedic knowledge. Through your mission we know about Chaitanya Mahaprabhu & have the opportunity to serve his mission. You are our great Godfather 🙇.
On this special day, I beg your mercy so that I do not forget my first duty which is mentioned in the following quote “If one remembers his first duty which is keeping in constant contact with the supreme personality of Godhead, then everything will be successful”. I beg you to give me inspiration, intelligence,determination & strength to accept only what pleases you and reject the other. Let me always remember the true source of my power & ability. Please allow me to remain your servant eternally.
Thank you Srila Prabhupada for all that you have given me. Prayers for your mercy 🙏
YS
Deepti Wahi
Offering by Rama Gupta
Dear Srila Prabhupada,
Hare Krishna, Dandavat Pranam,
I am extremely grateful to you for guiding me to the path of spirituality through your beautifully written books.Your charismatic personality, unwavering faith, unconditional love for Krishna and self motivated dedication to spread Krishna conscious movement to the world even at such an old age amazes me. It fills me with enthusiasm to pursue my spiritual journey and even deepens my faith in Lord Krishna. Hence, I take this opportunity to thank you from the core of my heart for your invaluable transcendental contribution in helping people understand their constitutional position and going back to their original home i.e. back to the Godhead.
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Thank you very much.
Offering by Girija Sharma
Hare krishna
All glories to Srila Prabhupada
In 2020 when world was facing a pandemic and everyone was tense and perplexed… when working hours in hospital were long tiring and full of fear..
From nowhere PRABHUPADA came to rescue me. I don’t deserve any of his mercy but he showed immense cause less mercy on me.
I have just taken baby steps in the direction of krishna consciousness all possible because of words of Srila PRABHUPADA
I pray to him to help me to grow in my every sec of my life in krishna consciousness.
YS
Girija Sharma
Offering by Smriti Ganjiwale
Hare Krishna
All glories to Srila Prabhupad. Please accept my humble obeisance.
I am indebted to you as through your books and lectures my queries regarding our very existence got answer. Even being bought up in a Hindu brahmin family I didn’t knew why and how we should love God. But after going through your books(which i am still reading) and devotee association my all questions are answered.
Thank you very much for making us understand that each and every creation made by God is beautiful and special in its own way and we are eternal beings. As we all are part and parcel of the Supreme Lord Krishna.
Hare Krishna
Regards