Om ajnana-timirandhasya jnananjana-salakayacaksur unmilitam yena tasmai sri-gurave namah nama om vishnu-padaya krishna-preshthaya bhu-talesrimate indradyumna-swamin iti naminenamah prabhupada-priya dasaya jagannatha-yatrananda murtayebhakta-sukhaya krishnot-kirtanena narasimhena rakshitaya namah Dear Srila Gurudeva,Please accept my humble obeisances in the dust of your lotus feet. Today is your 71st appearance day and I would like to congratulateyou! And wish you to always have good health, lots of inspiration and enthusiasm. Let your disciples always please you with their spiritual achievements! Last year on Kartik you mercifully initiated me. I am very thankful for that! You gave a chance to such a fallen soul like me to serve you, other Vaisnavas and Lord Krishna and changed my life…

My dearest Srila Gurudev, Please, accept my most humble obeisances in the dust of your lotus feet. All glories to our beloved Srila Prabhupada. All glories to your divine grace and causeless mercy. My glorious master, on this auspicious occasion of your 71st Аppearance Day, I am feeling extra fortunate, that you picked me up from ignorance once again in this lifetime. Your causeless mercy has no boundaries as you say that we inherited Krsna’s unlimited mercy, although I am really unworthy. The mercy of guru and the mercy of Krsna is greater than our own disqualification. I actually feel it, and it gives me more strength to assist you…

Dear Srila Gurudev, Hare Krishna! Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada and All Glories to Srila Gurudev. On this most auspicious day. I offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of my spiritual master, His Holiness Indradyumna Swami, he is an ocean of auspicious qualities. Chanting the holy names, dancing in ecstacy, singing, He is always relishing the mellows of pure devotion. I love kirtan and I love Your kirtan mood. Pray for Your good health on this auspicious day. You are not an ordinary person. For the pleasure of His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada, You continue persevering in Your preaching. You inspire so much…

My Dearest Srila Gurudeva, Hare Krishna! My beloved Spiritual Master, please, accept my most humble obeisances at your lotus feet. All glories to Srila Pr- abhupada! All glories to your Divine Appearance Day! All gloriesto Sri Krishna Sankirtanam! Today is my favourite and the most important day of the year. Words fail to express my feelings, but I’ll try. My dearest Srila Gurudeva, no doubt, you are an amazing Spiritual Personality, empowered personally by Lord Sri Krishna Caitanya in the sankirtana mission. Lord Sri Krishna Caitanya endowed you with all His Divine Energies. You are saving billions of living entities flooding them with the nectar of the Holy Names! Hare…

Dear Srila Gurudev, Please accept my most humble obeisances in the dust of your lotus feet. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! The day of Vyasa Puja is very special for a disciple. It gives the disciple a chance to express his love for his spiritual master through writing his offering. The spiritual master enlightens the disciple through light of proper understanding of Vedic knowledge. This is confirmed in Bhagavad Gita’s verse [4.35]: yaj jñātvā na punar moham evaṁ yāsyasi pāṇḍava yena bhūtānyaśheṣheṇa drakṣhyasyātmanyatho mayi “Following this path and having achieved enlightenment from a Guru, O Arjun, you will no longer fall into delusion. In the light of that knowledge, you…

Hare Krishna! All Glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga! All glories to Srila Prabhupada! All glory to you, Srila Gurudeva, my dear Spiritual Master! Please accept my humble obeisances in the dust of yourLotus feet, from Your insignificant disciple. The day of your Vyasa Puja is coming soon and we, your spiritual children, have the opportunity to voice our gratitude to you again! For a person who wants to achieve the highest perfection of life, the most important thing is to find a real Spiritual Master and give his life to Him, accepting His guidance as the captain of the ship. I fall again and again into the dust…

My dear Srila Gurudeva, Please accept my most humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! All glories to you! In a Vyasa Puja offering to Srila Prabhupada in 2007 you wrote: “Then suddenly, without notice, you appeared in my life. I did not know you were coming. I did not know who you were — but through time I have come to understand your supremely exalted position as a pure devotee of the Lord, an intimate servant of Radha and Krishna. By inconceivable mercy I am one of your servants.” Coincidentally this was the year I received the good fortune of becoming your disciple. And I can say that this…

Dear Srila Gurudeva, Please accept my obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! All glories to you! Having lost my father in 2009, I had always wished that he should have been around for a little longer, so that he could see me become a responsible man. It would have been difficult to cope up with this loss unless I did not come across some good devotees back in 2010 at my office in Pune. They helped me understand the quality of the soul and the science of birth and death. Learning that the soul cannot die gave me a lot of solace, and I understood that my father is not…

Respected Gurudeva, Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet! All glories to Srila Prabhupada! All glories to you, dear Srila Gurudeva! You have been a savior for this drowning soul in all respects. You have taken this insignificant soul under your able wings. I literally feel like a spiritually orphaned child who has got the shelter of a most able captain for a journey home. So I am utterly grateful for your mercy upon this disciple of yours. Gurudeva, when I first got the opportunity to serve you at Murwillumbah, when the troop got blocked out due to heavy rains, your hope-giving class changed my viewpoint completely. As…

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 om ajnana-timirandhasya jnananjana-salakaya caksur unmilitam yena tasmai sri-gurave namah titiksavah karunikah suhrdah sarva-dehinamajata-satravah santah sadhavah sadhu-bhusanah “The symptoms of a sadhu are that he is tolerant, merciful and friendly to all living entities. He has no enemies. He is peaceful, he abides by the scriptures, and all his characteristics are sublime.” [Srimad Bhagavatam, 3.25.21]. mukam karoti vachalam pangum langhayate girimyat-kripa tam aham vande shri-gurum dina-taranam “I offer my respectful obeisances unto my spiritual master, the deliverer of the fallen souls. His mercy turns the dumb into eloquent speakers and enables the lame…