2020-offerings-public
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From bhaktin Viktoria Krul – Belarus, Minsk
ear Srila Gurudeva, Please accept my humble obeisance in a dust of Your lotus feet. All glories to the sacred day of Your Vyasa Puja. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! yasya deve parā bhaktir yathā deve tathā gurautasyaite kathitā hy arthāḥ prakāśante mahātmanaḥ “Only unto those great souls who have implicit faith in both the Lord and the spiritual master are all the imports of Vedic knowledge automatically revealed.” [Shvetashvatara Upanishad, 6.23]. Dear Srila Gurudeva, please allow me to praise You on that great day. You often tell in Your lectures about faith in Lord Krishna and spiritual master. We can confirm as Your disciples that You have such unwavering…
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From Rasa Murti Dasi – Belarus, Minsk
Dear Srila Gurudeva, Please accept my humble obeisances! All glories to you! All glories to Srila Prabhupada! A year has passed since your anniversary Vyasa Puja in St. Petersburg. These were three days of a loving exchange between you and your disciples: I remember sweet kirtans, exciting classes, presents, creative performances and going to the cinema together with you to watch your “Journey to Kailash”. These memories fill my heart with joy. We all felt like children having a loving father. A year has passed. And again we are waiting for your Vyasa Puja. But we cannot come to you, and you cannot come to us. And we will not…
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From Radha Kripa Dasi – Belarus, Minsk
Dear Srila Gurudev, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to Vyasa Puja celebration. The meaning of Vyasa Puja ceremony is to serve to a spiritual master as a representative of Srila Vyasadeva. In scriptures it said, that a spiritual master is non-different from God and only by his mercy it is possible to achieve Krsna’s mercy. yasya prasādād bhagavat-prasādo yasyāprasādān na gatiḥ kuto ‘pi On this Vyasa Puja day I am trying to offer my service to you, glorifying your unlimited grace and begging for your mercy. Srila Gurudeva, you are so much inspired with a position of being Prabhupada’s man, that you yourself…
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From Kundalatika Dasi – Belarus, Vitebsk
Hare Krishna! Please accept my humble obeisances in the dust of your lotus feet! All glories to Srila Prabhupada! I am glad to wish you a happy birthday! Your birthday is like a New Year eve to me. Thanks to the devotees for the amazing opportunity to personally congratulate you! Everything is possible by the mercy of the devotees! By the mercy of the spiritual master, our eyes are opened and the darkness is scattered away by the rays of knowledge. It is said that spiritual masters are asked only about spiritual development. But I am sure that the guru can reply all the questions. And the answers come mystically.…
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From Hema Gauri Dasi – Belarus, Minsk
My dear spiritual master, Srila Gurudeva. Please accept my humble obeisances in the dust of your lotus feet. All glory to you on this auspicious day of your Vyasa Puja! All glories to Srila Prabhupada! All glories to guru-parampara! I aminfinitely grateful to Krishna and Srila Prabhupada for meeting you. Dear Srila Gurudeva, thank you for accepting me as your disciple. By your own example, you inspire and lead me on the path of devotional service. Being a disciple and faithful servant of Srila Prabhupada, you follow his instructions with faith, determination and love. Therefore you show us how to practice the spiritual principles and what devotion in the service…
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From bhakta Abzal Toktarbaev – Kazakhstan, Aktobe
Dear Srila Gurudev,Hare Krishna! Please accept my humble obeisances in the dust of your Lotus feet. All glory to Srila Prabhupada, all glory to you!Let me congratulate you on the day of your appearance and thank you for your support, love and care for all fallen souls. I wish you good health and strength.Your books and the books of Srila Prabhupada have helped me to find my true purpose in life: to serve Sri Sri Gaura Nitai, Srila Prabhupada and your Lotus feet.Thank you for being enthusiastic and infecting all of us in the service of Lord Krishna, regardless of your age. Thank you for everything you do for us.…
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From Vrajadevi Dasi – Kazakhstan, Almaty
Dear Srila Gurudeva!Please accept my humble obeisances un to Your lotus feet. All Glories to Srila Prabhupada! All glories to You!Dear Gurudeva, more and more gratitude comes into my heart for each past year of my life which is led by You, and which is filled by more and more miracles… Your mercy and kindness, giving constant support and spiritual energy, continuously nourishing my life through it all, — is the biggest miracle.If a chance of getting human form of life can be compared to the chance of a turtle getting its head into a hole of a wooden lid on the surface of the ocean,so then what would be…
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from bhakta Karan Vig – India, Jaipur
Dearest Gurudeva, Hare Krishna! All glories to Srila Prabhupada! Dandavats to your lotus feet. I would like to take this opportunity to wish you a very happy Krishna Consciousness birthday, Gurudeva. Today, on this most auspicious day I would like to share my journey of five years under your guidance and my progress during that period and also my developing a mood of serving you and Prabhupada more sincerely. With your kind permission, Gurudeva… I clearly remember the day when I met you for the first time; that was 28th November, 2014 when you were on your Kartik Parikrama and one of my godsisters Gandharvika asked me to come to…
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from Vrajapati Suta Das – India, Mumbai, Govardhan Eco Village
Dearest Srila Gurudeva, Dandavat Pranams. Please accept my humble obeisances at the dust of your lotus feet. All Glories to Srila Prabhupada. All Glories to You Srila Gurudeva on your divine appearance day. I am eternally grateful to you for all of the love, care and shelter provided by you and allowing me to render some service to you at various instances. My prayers at the lotus feet of Lord Nrsimhadeva to give you long life and good health so that you can continue to deliver conditioned souls for many more decades by your majestic preaching. Last year during your stay at Govardhan Eco Village I got an opportunity to…
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from Vraja Premika Dasi – India, Manipal
Dear Srila Gurudeva, Hare Krishna! Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to guru and Gauranga! Wishing you a very happy Krishna Consciousness Vyasa Puja, Srila Gurudeva. Thank you so much for being my eternal father and guiding me every single moment.You are the torch of knowledge in the path of darkness of ignorance that I am in. You are an ocean of mercy who is helping this most fallen soul to get out of thismaterial world and attain the divine love of Radha and Krishna. You teach us by your example how to be a bona fide devotee. Your taste for harinam, Deity worship,…