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From bhakta Piyush Malik – India, Navi Mumbai
Dearest Srila Gurudeva,Hare Krishna! Please accept my most respectful obeisances at your lotus feet. All glories to you! All glories to Srila Prabhupada!I wish you a very happy 71st Vyasa Puja. While I’m thinking of speaking some words to glorify you, I’ve literally gone back into time (about 5–6 years back). Back then, though I had already been introduced to Krishna Consciousness, I was not very serious about it. I remember it was about that time when I heard you singing “Jai Radha Madhava” in Russia in a YouTube video. I somehow got very attracted to this tune and was sharing it with my friends. Then as I searched more…
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From bhakta Parth Manhas – India, Jammu
nama om vishnu-padaya krishna-preshthaya bhu-tale srimate indradyumna-swamin itInaminenamah prabhupada-priya dasaya jagannatha-yatrananda murtaye bhakta-sukhaya krishnot-kirtanena narasimhena rakshitaya nama oṁ ajñāna-timirāndhasya jñānāñjana-śalākayacakṣur unmīlitaṁ yena tasmaIśrī-gurave namah “I was born in the darkest ignorance, and my spiritual master opened my eyes with the torch of knowledge. I offer my respectful obeisances unto him”.Dear Gurudeva,Hare Krsna! Dandavat Pranam. Please, accept my humble obeisances to your lotus feet. All glories to you, Gurudeva! All glories to Srila PrabhupadaIt is the most auspicious day for all of us, the day you chose to come here, in this material world, only to shower your mercy and compassion and deliver the fallen conditioned souls, such as me. Gurudeva,…
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From bhakta Nishant Pandey – India, Bangalore
Om ajñāna timirāndhasya jñānānjana salākayacaksur unmilitam yena tasmai sri gurave namah nama om vishnu-padaya krishna-preshthaya bhu-tale srimate indradyumna-swamin iti naminenamah prabhupada-priya dasaya jagannatha-yatrananda murtaye bhakta-sukhaya krishnot-kirtanena narasimhena rakshitaya namah Hare Krishna,Please accept my humble prostrated obeisance at the dust of your lotus feet. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.On this occasion of Vyasa Puja I can reflect upon your magnanimous merciful nature with my whole heart. And I take the opportunity to glorify you, even though I am unqualified to do that.First of all, please accept my sincere gratitude, Guru Maharaja, for taking me under your divine shelter as a loving and caring father. Even though it can seem that I…
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From Premika devi dasi – Russia, Saint Petersburg
Dearest Srila Gurudeva!Please accept my humble obeisances in the dust of your lotus feet. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! All glories to you!On the day of your Vyasa Puja, I would like to offer you with great gratitude all the service that the devotees have given me over the past year. I have a particularly strong taste and inspiration from Harinam and sankirtana, congregational chanting and distribution of the holy name and Srila Prabhupada’s books.Your amazing lectures full of taste, your words and your example constantly give me confirmation that it is on the chanting and preaching of the glories of the Holy Name that one should focus in life…
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From Premadhana devi dasi – Belarus, Minsk
Hare Krishna!Dear Srila Gurudeva!Please accept my humble obeisances in the dust of your lotus feet. All glories to you! All glories to Srila Prabhupada!I want to congratulate you on your appearance day! You are so merciful to come into this world to save us. And thank you! I want to thank you for accepting me as your devotee. Please forgive me for writing to you rarely, I did not dare to take away your precious time, which you devote day and night to the service to your spiritual master and devotees. And I do not dare to distract you with my small ministries. If I have any questions, I try…
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From Prema Radhika devi dasi – Russia, Omsk region, Ust-Zaostrovka
Hare Krishna dear Srila Gurudeva, accept my humble obeisances. All glory to His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada.I congratulate you on the day of your vyasa puja. Thanks to the grace of your guru Srila Prabhupada, I can practice chanting the holy names and serve the lotus feet of devotees. Srila Prabhupada’s lectures carry the simple wisdom of the sastras and help me live in Krishna consciousness. I want to thank you, dear Srila Gurudev, for taking shelter at your lotus feet and for your invaluable help in my spiritual life.“The lotus feet of a spiritual master are the only way to attain pure devotional service. With reverence…
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From Prahlad Nrsimha das – Russia, Ufa
Hare Krishna, dear to our hearts, Srila Gurudeva.Please, accept my humble obeisances to Your lotus feet, all glory to His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada.I congratulate You with the day of Your appearance. I want to express my great gratitude to You which cannot be conveyed in words or in any other way. You accept, support and tolerate us as Your disciples. Everything You do is attracting people and Your disciples to awake spiritual values instead of material ones with the final purpose to develop God consciousness, Krishna consciousness.You completely immerse into the mission of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada. You speak, You do and…
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From Padmini Radhika devi dasi – Russia, Lipetsk
My dear Spiritual Master, Srila Gurudeva, please, accept my humble obeisances in the dust of Your lotus feet!All glory to Srila Prabhupada!I heartily congratulate You on the occasion of your Vyasapuja!Thank you for your concern in the form of lectures that you tirelessly give twice a week for us, Russian-speaking devotees. Honestly, when I listen, and my mind is often inattentive. But nevertheless, I feel that they transport me to another reality, to a world where there is no suffering and everyone is happy. Sometimes it seems impossible for me to get there, but this nectar of listening as a powerful medicine cleanses my dirty heart drop by drop and…
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From Nikunja Lila devi dasi – India, Mayapur
Dear Srila Gurudeva, accept my humble obeisances in the dust of your lotus feet. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! All glories to Your Grace!Today your disciples are celebrating your birthday all over the world! And this day is very important for us, because with your arrival in the lives of your disciples , their lives have acquired meaning, mission and a chance to succeed. Today we glorify the spiritual master, the ocean of mercy and the friend of all fallen souls.This year is special, the most important in my life, because you accepted me as your disciple and gave me a beautiful sweet name. You took a promise from me…
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From Netrananda devi dasi – Russia, Saint Petersburg
Dear Indradyumna Swami Maharaj!Please accept my humble obeisances at the dust of Your lotus feet! All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga!All glories to Srila Prabhupada!All glories to You, our dear spiritual master!On this auspicious day of Your Vyasa-puja I bend down to Your lotus feet with grate gratitude and wish You health and strengh to continue the devotional service in Srila Prabhupada’s mission for many many years!In Your lecture”Lord Chaytanya’s journey to Vrindavan.Part 6” You quoted verse 33 from “Caitanya Candramrita” by Prabodhananda Sarasvati:“A stone, even if sprinkled with nectar, will never sprout a single blade of grass. A dog’s tail, no matter how carefully stretched out, will…