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From Shyamala Sundari Devi Dasi – Ukraine, Chernigov
Dear Srila Gurudev, please accept my obeisances in the dust at your lotus feet. All glories to Srila Prabhupada and to you, his faithful servant!On this wonderful day of your appearance, I would like to express my gratitude to you for the example of loyalty, stability and enthusiasm in devotional service of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s mission! When I first joined the Movement, I saw devotees serving Srila Prabhupada with great love and enthusiasm, but over the years I began to notice that some devotees had faded away, some had become disillusioned, and some had left ISKCON society altogether. You, dear Srila Gurudev, despite the amount of service that you…
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From Prema Chandra Das – Switzerland, Zurich
Dear Srila Gurudeva! By Your grace, all wishes come true and what seemed impossible becomes very accessible. This year, my whole past life ended and began a new one. Second initiation, new residency, new service to You. Also i changed ashram and started relationship. It’s like a reincarnation, that everything started from the beginning, but in the same body, and what was before stayed in a dream. There is uncertainty in life and it is frightening. But remembering the example you set every day with your life, and the determination with which you serve Srila Prabhupada and Guru parampara, I stop being afraid, and keep going into the unknown. Seeing…
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From Krishangi Rasa Devi Dasi – Germany
Dear Srila Gurudeva, please, accept my and Rasa Manjari’s obeisances to you. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Thank you for the opportunity to be with everyone during this Vyasa Puja . You always inspire us with your service. Especially with your kirtans and lectures. You always travel so much and preach so much, despite all the difficulties in this world. Thank you for the great example of devotion to Srila Prabhupada and such ecstatic stories about Krsna and His associates. Thank you for the opportunity to still be in service with you on the Polish Tour and at other festivals! Thank you for your immense love for the disciples and…
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From Dvija Govinda Das and Kiev Yatra – Ukraine, Kiev
Dear Srila Gurudeva, please accept my humble obeisances in the dust of your lotus feet. All glories to you and Srila Prabhupada! I am trying to follow your personal instruction to me: always writing offerings to you, my Spiritual Master. On this most auspicious day of your Vyasa Puja, I would like to express my gratitude to you for the staunch example of complete surrender to the mission of Lord Chaitanya, Lord Nityananda and Srila Prabhupada. You are the embodiment of the principle of anugatya, following the instructions from above. As Srila Prabhupada writes, the spiritual master must have full confidence in the previous acarya, but at the same time…
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From Sri Nrsimha Das and Sundari Devi Dasi – Ukraine, Cherkasy
Hare Krishna, dear Srila Gurudev, please accept my obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! Two years ago You accepted me and my wife as Your disciples and during these two years many amazing realizations and strong shocks, revelations and awareness happened. On Your Vyasa-pujas You often said that till next Vyasa-puja the disciple must offer to his spiritual master his heart purified from some anarthas. And this will be the best offering. That’s why You say that if the goal is set, it is achievable. I would very much want to say that I got free from some inauspicious things during these two years, but unfortunately I can’t. These two…
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From Rasamandala-Seva Das – Ukraine, Smela
Dear Srila Gurudeva, please accept my humble obeisances at Your lotus feet! All glories to Srila Prabhupada and his sincere followers! Thank You very much, dear spiritual master, for Your service to the mission, love for Srila Prabhupada and the example of how to remain a real person despite the position and status, and despite understanding of the temporality of this existence remain sensitive and gentle with people. For more than 10 years my service is to help the agricultural communities and rural temples in the status of brahmachari. I am from Russia, from Saint Petersburg. But as soon as I began to practice I sold the flat and left…
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From Mathura Shyam Das – France
Greetings, Srila Gurudeva. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. My name is Mathura Shyam Das, and I have a family, including your candidate for initiation, Bhaktin Marina, and three children. I would like to express my gratitude to you, Srila Gurudeva, and all the organizers for the stability and the opportunity to come together and immerse ourselves in katha every year. Your lectures and video reports on the victories of Lord Gauranga’s army come out regularly every month. Currently, we are in a very symbolic place – New Mayapur in France, for Nrsimha Chaturdashi. This is the temple where you were president in 1983, the year I was born. After 40…
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From Bhumipati Das – Ukraine, Smela
Hare Krsna, dear Srila Gurudeva! Accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet! During those 16 years, since you graciously accepted me into the ranks of your disciples, this is my first offering to you (not to count the emails). Becuase of listening to your lectures, ecstatic kirtans, reading ‘The Diary of a Travelling Monk’, I grew up spiritually and realized how important is the feedback from the disciples! I was deeply touched by the story of how you missed зrasad while you were delivering Srila Prabhupada’s suitcase. Since then, I have not eaten without first offering you, dear Guru Maharaj! It’s a pity that it’s all just in my…
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From Guru Nishtha Das – Ukraine, Krivoy Rog
Hare Krishna!Dear Srila Gurudeva, my obeisances at your lotus feet. Jaya Prabhupada!May your life be long, healthy, and prosperous. Many thanks to Prabhupada for introducing us to you.What fate would have befallen us if we had not received the mercy of the Guru and Gauranga? My humble obeisances to you. Today we celebrate the blessed day of your appearance. I ask for your prayers and blessings to continue the spiritual path in these difficult times. Please pray for my son Andrey, who is defending his homeland. I would like him to defend his consciousness with the Hare Krishna mantra.The Ramayana continues, and it is important to know that it is…
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From Sri Sakhi Vrinda Devi Dasi – Ukraine, Krivoy Rog
Dear Srila Gurudev, Hare Krishna. Please accept my respectful obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupad. All glories to You. The day of Your vyasa puja, of Your appearance is indeed one of the most important days in my life! My gratitude to You and Your mercy cannot be described or put in words. I am infinitely happy when by Your grace I am engaged in service to the Lord, You and devotees! Last year I went on a Polish tour for the first time. Honestly, I was quite surprised. Everything I had heard about the tour and life there happened to be just a mere trifle in comparison with my…