Dear Srila Gurudev, please accept my obeisances! I remember very well that a year ago, during your online vyasa puja, we gathered at the temple on the Steppe inKrasnodar to congratulate you. Mataji Lilavati spoke from us, we did not see you and your emotions, but felt them in our hearts. When, suddenly, Mataji Lilavati told you that I was conducting morning puja to the Deities Sri Sri Avadhuta Chandra-Gauranga Roy and Sri Yoga-Nrasimhadeva -Prahlada Maharaja. I felt that you were very satisfied and a wave of your blessings washed over me, and froze with a pleasant warmth and happiness in my heart. I stood up and folded my hands…

Dear Srila Gurudeva.Please accept my obeisances.All glories to Srila Prabhupada.Today, on this most joyful day of the year, I want to thank you for being an important part of my life and completely changing it. Dear Srila Gurudeva, you are forgetting yourself by serving Srila Prabhupada. On May 1st of this year there was an initiation ceremony, and in your opening speech you noted that the relationship between the guru and the disciple is eternal. They never break. You said that you always care about our progress and always support your disciples. For us you have written 14 volumes of the book The Diary of a travelling monk, more than…

Dear Guru Maharaja,Please accept my obeisances.All glories to Srila Prabhupada.All glories to the disciples and followers of Srila Prabhupada.I congratulate you on the holiday of your appearance day in this world for devotional service to our beloved Srila Prabhupada.Your example inspires me to surrender more, be bolder in service and trust the Lord. Dear Srila Gurudeva, I just love listening to your lectures!There is so much happiness in the spiritual life, I bathe in it and matter attracts me less and less.Dear Gurudeva, in the last year I have grown a little in service to you—I have taken on more responsibility and I have become a mentor for several devotees.I…

Dear Guru Maharaj! Please accept my humble obeisances to Your lotus feet! All glory to Srila Prabhupada! All glory to all the devotees!On this amazing and very auspicious day of Your Vyasa-Puja, everyone expresses their gratitude to You for taking on a very big responsibility to bring the disciple back to Sri Krishna. Ignoring the obstacles that arise in Your path, You still bravely plow through the jungles of cities, endlessly mired in the forest fire of material existence. Like a huge cloud, You shed rain streams of mercy, a wonderful gift, the messages of the Supreme Lord, extinguishes the burning flame of anxiety in our heart. You are like…

Dear Gurudev!Please accept my humble obeisances at the dust of Your lotus feet.All glories to Srila Prabhupada!All glories to Guru-parampara!All glories to Sri Sri Gaura-Nutai! All glories to You, dear Gurudev!nama om vishny-padaya krishna-preshthaya bhy-tale srimate indradyumna- swami iti namine namah prabhupada-priya dasaya jagannatha yatrananda murtaye bhakta sykhaya krishnotkirtanena narasimhena raksitaya namaha Dear Srila Gurudev!Please accept my congratulations with Your Vyasa-puja Day!Let me congratulate You and express my gratitude for Your causeless mercy and permission to serve Your Divine Grace and take part in the mission of sankirtan-yajna of Lord Caitanya and Srila Prabhupada.The service to the pure devotee, the spiritual master, please the Supreme Personality of Godhead because You…

Dear Srila Gurudeva,Please, accept my most respectful obeisances and gratitude for one more chance to glorify Your Divine Grace at Day of your Appearance.All Glories to Srila Prabhupada by whose mercy all of us have got an ability to learn about spiritual abode of the Supreme Lord, about Personality of Sri Krishna and about a way to recover our eternal relations with Him and to come back for serving Sri Govinda at His Kingdom.Over the years learning you closer and closer by mercy of All-good Lord, I wonder more and more by versatility of your talents and by your art of knowing to use them in service to your spiritual…

Dear Gurumaharaj,Please, accept my sincere obeisances in the dust of your lotus feet! All Glory to Srila Prabhupada!Your Vyasa-puja is one of the most exciting and important days of the year for me personally.For me, this is a time of honest dialogue with myself whether I have done something that I can offer you, dear Gurudev.This year I want to express my gratitude not only for the sublime lectures on the lilas of Lord Krishna and Srimati Radharani. Through them, You have shed the grace of Lord Caitanya on us as your disciples.I thank You for the example of purity and depth of service to Guru and Krishna. For the…

Hare Krishna dear Srila Gurudeva, please accept my humble obeisances!All glory to Srila Prabhupada!By Your mercy, I am still chanting 16 rounds of maha-mantra every day andfollowing the regulative principles.Thank You so much that You care about your students, shedding a lot of mercy on us. Your family is very inspiring!Dear Srila Gurudeva, I ask for Your blessings for further chanting of the maha-mantra, and I would like very much to come back to Your dhama with my family. Please, take care of Yourself. Your servant, Kalindi-bindi Калинди-бинди даси Харе Кришна, дорогой Шрила Гурудев!Пожалуйста, примите мои смиренные поклоны, вся слава Шриле Прабхупаде!По Вашей милости я все еще повторяю 16 кругов…

Dear Srila Gurudeva, please accept my humble obeisances in the dust of your lotus feet. Glory to Srila Prabhupada! Glory to you on the day of Your appearance! Let me glorify you, although my eloquence is not enough for this, but I will try.Everyone should take shelter of a bona fide spiritual master, who is the representative of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The spiritual practice of a neophyte transcendentalist is so weak that it’s not possible to make any meaningful progress on this path without special grace. This is especially true of the age of Kali, which is the age of vices and enmity.And even if a person manages…