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From Suvarna Kumari devi dasi – Russia, Moscow
Dear Srila Gurudev!Please accept my humble obeisances in the dust of your lotus feet! All glory to Srila Prabhupada! All glory to You!Your appearance in this material world is happiness and good fortune for all of us still living here in the darkness of the well of the material world. Krishna is so merciful to us that He sent Srila Prabhupada and you into our world! You have come to us from the Spiritual World and now by your grace, and through your hard and transcendental years of service to Srila Prabhupada, the Sankirtana of Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, people in every country are getting in touch with Krishna. Your festivals,…
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From Mayapuri devi dasi – Russia, Lipetsk
Hare Krishna, dear Srila Gurudeva! All glory to Srila Prabhupada! Let me congratulate you on the day of Vyasa Puja.You are my guide, my spiritual father, leading me to Krishna. By your boundless mercy and guidance, I can continue to live, developing spiritually, engaging in devotional service, developing humility and patience in everything, hoping to acquire the great gift of love for Krishna. Despite the situation in the World, under different circumstances and illnesses, you show an example of selfless service. Thanks to your diary “Traveling monk” I am always in touch with you. You give us the opportunity not to get lost in this vast world. I always try…
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From Mani Radhika devi dasi – Russia, Saint Petersburg
Hare Krishna Srila Gurudev!Accept my obeisances in the dust of Your lotus feet, all glory to You, all glory to Srila Prabhupada!I heartily congratulate you on the Day of Your Appearance! Please accept this small offering and my sincere gratitude.By Your example, Srila Gurudeva, You have grown great personalities, pure devotees!!! Every day, You and Your pure, devoted disciples inspire us to continue and continue serving, even in dark times. I especially thank You for Manjari Priya, it was only by Your grace that this precious meeting took place.From the bottom of my heart I’m very lucky to continue serving the Vaishnavas! Thank You for the opportunity to listen to…
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From Malini devi dasi – Moldova, city of Chisinau
Dear Srila Gurudeva.Please accept my bumble obeisances in dust of your lotus feet. All glories to Srela Prabhupada.All glories to you.On this auspicious day, the day of celebration of your Vaasa-pudja let me, from the bottom of my heart, thank you for everything. Thank you very much for your selfless love for all of us and for your concern. Thank you very much for everything that you do for us and for me, which we do not even know about. Thank you for my conscious life, thank you for inner fullness, thank you for my calm mind, even though it is sometimes indignant, it’s fresh not to rush about, thank…
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From Maharani Sri devi dasi – Germany, Berlin
‘The gift of love and the journey of surrender’ Vyasa Puja offering, 2022To my beloved spiritual master Srila Indradyumna Swami Maharaja for he is my life and soul, my eternal well-wisher and my shining beacon in the ocean of material existence that gives my a guiding light in my journey back home back to Godhead. Dear Srila Gurudeva,Please accept my humble obeisances in the dust of your lotus feet. All glories to Srila Prabhupad and you.I would like to share my heart with you and offer my words of appreciation on the occasion of your Vyasa Puja. Please kindly accept my humble efforts, for I’m not qualified to properly glorify…
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From Madhurya Rasika Dasi – Russia, Moscow
Dear Spiritual Master, please, accept my humble obeisances in the dust of Yourlotus feet!All Glory to Srila Prabhupada! All glory to You!Let me congratulate You on this wonderful day of Your appearance!Please, accept my humble attempts to glorify You.In Srimad-Bhagavatam 11.3.21, one of the nine yogendras, Sri Prabuddha, answers King Nimi’s question how even the most stupid materialist can get out of the influence of illusory energy: ‘Therefore any person who seriously desires real happiness must seek a bona fide spiritual master and take shelter of him by initiation. The qualification of the bona fide guru is that he has realized the conclusions of the scriptures by deliberation and is…
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From Madhavi Manjari devi dasi – Russia, Saint Petersburg
Hare Krishna, dear Srila Gurudeva!Please, accept my humble obeisances in the dust of Your lotus feet! All glories to Srila Prabhupada!All glories to you!Today, on the most important day for us, your disciples, I would like to say how much I love you and how grateful I’m for everything you do for us.I’m so sorry, that I begin my offering with sentiments. There is no true love in this material world, true love can be possible only in devotional service and spiritual world. The reason why I’m saying this, is that you fill our lives with this love, that changes and cleans our hearts step by step.Of course I’m too…
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From Lilavati devi dasi – Russia, Goryachiy Kluch
Dear Shrila Gurudev, accept my dandavats in the dust of your lotus feet. All glories to Shrila Prabhupada and your appearance day.Unbelievable, but true, this year is already 30 years since I first met you in Rostov in 1992. Then you asked me at the general darshan:—How old are you?—The day after tomorrow 19.—Oh, what a happy birthday!And now I am almost 49, and I feel as happy as at 19 under the shadow of your feet and the protection of your instructions.In ordinary life, we learn something and then leave the teacher, but in the spiritual life, the teacher is the student himself and is constantly learning, so we…
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From Siddhanta saraswati vilasa das – Russia, Moscow
Hare Krishna, Dear Gurudev. Please accept my obeisances. All glory to you and SrilaPrabhupada!I am writing to you on the eve of your Vyasa Puja of 2022.This year was a turning point in my life. The Lord led me to quite serious trials that required devotion and seriousness. Tests for adulthood, but compassion, for following Guru Parampara. Some of them I did not pass (divorce and accumulated debts), some passed (including following the instructions of my mentor shiksha, keeping vows, etc.). From time to time I prayed to you, Gurudev, remembering your answers to my letters, and prayed how I could be useful in the mission of preaching, how can…
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From Shakatari das and Gopal Govinda Ram das – Russia, Pervouralsk
Hare Krishna, Dear Srila Gurudeva. Please accept our humble obeisances in the dust of Your lotus feet. We are very fortunate that you have blessed us to travel all over the world together and spread the mission of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and Prabhupada in the form of books and seminars on the Holy Name, etiquette and preaching in general. During this period of the carunavirus, the virus of mercy, we felt it ourselves, distributing books in the Urals and in the North, going from house to house in the villages, in winter from apartment to town, at harinama, bhakti-vriksha, festivals. By Your mercy and devotees, we have distributed about 50,000…