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From Rasika Kumar das – Ukraine, Dnipro
Hare Krishna! Dear Srila Gurudeva, please accept my humble obeisances in the dust of your lotus feet. All glories to His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada! In your book, there is an excerpt from Srila Prabhupada’s 1932 Vyasa Puja offering to Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura: “The human race is fighting for existence, and Your Divine Grace is the only hope.” And in 2004, in your Vyasa Puja offering to Srila Prabhupada, you wrote: “You, my illustrious spiritual master, have performed a miracle, liberating people in an unprecedented number in the history of human civilization! We, Your followers, only follow You. We could equal your achievements in order to force the whole world to give you the honors worthy of you.…
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From Rasa-Premika dd – Germany, Frankfurt
Hare Krishna, dear Srila Gurudeva. Please accept my humble obeisances in the dust of your lotus feet. All glory to Srila Prabhupada and you in your service to him. I sincerely want to congratulate you on the day of your Vyasa-puja and thank Srila Prabhupada for shedding His causeless mercy on me through you. Thank you for the family of brothers and sisters you have created, who are scattered all over the world. By нour Grace and following your example they react with lightning speed when help is needed. This year my brother, the last man in the family, left the body. This is a great grief. The situation was complicated by sanctions…
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From Radha Chandra Bihari das – Russia, Moscow (Bhaktivedanta Ashram)
Hare Krishna dear Srila Gurudeva! Please accept my humble obeisances at the dust of Your lotus feet. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!On this wonderful day of Your Vyasa Puja, I want to glorify You to the best of my ability. I was amazed by a story that I read in Your diary. As I meditate on it, I rejoice that I have an opportunity to be Your disciple, because this story very clearly shows how much the help of a spiritual master is necessary for progress in spiritual life. While reading it, I saw many parallels with Your concern for disciples. So. In the third volume, You write about a trip to Rajasthan…
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From Radha Rasamayi devi dasi – USA
Dear Srila Gurudev! Please accept my obediences! All Glories to Srila Prabhupada! All Glories to You! Happy appearance day!!! Hare Krishna to you Hare Krishna to you Hare Krishna to you Dear Gurudeva, You are the only One who enlightened my path by removing the darkness of my ignorance. Thank You!! For enriching my life and widening my horizons. Without You many aspects of my life would have been unexplored. Wherever I’m, whatever good exists in me is very much because of You. You have been such a Godsend to me, a true blessing in my life. I can’t express my gratitude enough for the wonderful impact you’ve had on me and…
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From Rasa Vilasini dd – Russia, Krasnoyarsk
Dear Srila Gurudeva, accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! I sincerely thank you for the example of an ideal disciple of your spiritual master. I thank you for the example of the perfect preacher. You have always been my spiritual hero. Your life is completely perfect. You have traveled all over the world helping your spiritual master to spread Krishna consciousness, and you have achieved absolute success. How indescribably happy and grateful I am to you that in February of this year, on the auspicious Narottam Das Thakur Appearance Day, you accepted me into a spiritual family and allowed me to be your disciple. Thank you for your faith…
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From Rasa Vallari dasi – Russia, Saint-Petersburg
Hare Krishna, dear spiritual master Indradyumna Swami. Please accept my obeisance! All glory to Srila Prabhupada, Guru ISKCON and all the devotees. On this significant day of your Vyasa Puja, let me express my gratitude to you. By your grace, such a large number of lost souls take refuge at the feet of Srila Prabhupada, Sri Krishna. I am very happy to have such a unique opportunity too. Exactly a year has passed since you accepted me as your student. I feel very grateful to you for this. I feel more and more the importance and value of this moment every day, as if spiritual practice and relations with the personality of God…
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From Radha Chandrika Devi Dasi – Ukraine, Odessa
Hare Krishna!! Please accept my obeisances dear Srila Gurudeva. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!! All glories to you, dear Srila Gurudeva!!!! Your servant Radha Chandrika Devi Dasi, from Odessa, Ukraine, is writing to you. Happy Appearance Day!!!! I wish you good health, more strength, easy travel, many ecstatic kirtansand preaching programs. Thank you for coming into my life and filling it with meaning. You have given me the most unforgettable, nectarine emotions in Krishna consciousness, a taste for chanting the Holy Name, harinam, book distribution, prasadam, because all your festivals are filled with this nectar. You took me to Europe with you and showed me beautiful Deities and wonderful devotees. You also gave me a…
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From Prerna Udhwani – India, Mumbai
Hare Krishna Dear Srila Gurudeva! Please accept my loving obeisances in the dust of your lotus feet! All glories to your beloved spiritual master Srila Prabhupada! All glories to your divine mercy! Your dear Govindaji was supremely merciful on two days, first when he sent you in this world to rescue all back to him and the other when he sent you in my life to give what was the most missing in it~ love! To have a human life is a rare fortune but to have a spiritual master to guide how to make the best of the rare fortune is in itself a rarest fortune! I am so fortunate to…
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From Premika Dasi – Russia, Saint Petersburg
Dear Srila Gurudev, please accept my most humble obeisances in the dust of your lotus feet. All glory to Srila Prabhupada! All glory to you! Today is the most auspicious and important day for disciples – the day of your Vyasa Puja. Because, as Srila Vishwanatha Chakravarti Thakur sings in verse 8 of the Gurvashtaka: Yasya prasad bhagavat prasada. Yasya prasadan na gatih kuto’pi Krishna’s blessings can be attained only by the grace of the spiritual master. Without his grace any attempt to attain perfection is doomed to failure. Therefore, spiritual progress and the attainment of love for God are possible only if the disciple has taken refuge with a true spiritual master. Undoubtedly, Srila Gurudev, you are just that, a true spiritual teacher and…
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From Prema Mani Dasi – Russia, Saint-Petersburg
Dear Srila Gurudeva. Please accept my humble obeisances in the dust of your lotus feet! All glories to Srila Prabhupada! All glory to you! Today, on such an important day, I would like to immerse myself in thoughts about the importance of your role in my life. Although I am not a disciplined disciple, and I do not do everything properly, I have not listened to all the lectures, and my sadhana is far from ideal, I clearly realize that you are my guide to Srila Prabhupada, you are my refuge, you are my strength and joy. For a long time I chose you as my spiritual Teacher, but due to various circumstances,…