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From Gunavati Devi Dasi – Ukraine, Chertkov
Dear Srila Gurudev, please, accept my humble obeisances in the dust of your lotus feet. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! On the day of your Vyasa-Puja I offer you myboundless gratitude for another year spent in your service. I was lucky enough to serve with my other God-brothers and God-sisters during the Polish Tour last year and to be very inspired by your courageous preaching at festivals, the professionalism and talent of the devotees who organize and conduct theseincredible events, the cooperation and friendliness reigning in the family of the devotees and by incredible gratitude and attention from the people who attend your festivals. Those were the happiest days of…
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From Gopika Rani dasi – Ukraine, Kiev
Hare Krishna, dear spiritual master, please accept my obeisances in the dust of your feet. Having recently spoken to my spiritual sister Krishangi Rasa, I am convinced that it is only from contact with you and your lectures that I feel the condensed happiness that was present in me in my early years of practice. Your lectures are so lucid, so simple and pure, so rare and so powerful. Srila Prabhupada used to say that for the simple, our path is very simple. I ask you to bless me to be as stoic in my practice of Krishna consciousness. I thank you for the company of spiritual brothers and sisters…
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From Vishnupriya Devi Dasi and Damodara Das – Ukraine, Kharkov
Hare Krishna! Dear Srila Gurudev, please accept my humble obeisances! Allow me to congratulate you on the day of your appearance! Let me express infinite gratitude for meeting you! Damodara Prabhu and I continue our spiritual practice and devotional service, living in a village in the Caucasus and trying to inspire new devotees. I serve at the temple on festivals to the Deities, while Damodara gives lectures. We always remember you with love and eagerly await the opportunity to meet you again! I deeply miss the Polish Tour and all the dear devotees of the tour, with whom I had the fortune to serve together once! I am very concerned…
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From Damodara Ananda Das – Ukraine, Kharkov
Hare Krishna, dear Srila Gurudeva! Please Accept my humble obeisances in the dust of your lotus feet! All glories to Srila Prabhupada! The war in Ukraine has been going on for more than a year. This is a difficult and difficult time. I am with my parents: my father and mother live just in the city of Kharkov, in the Northern Saltovka, one of the most dangerous areas at the beginning of the war. It is difficult to put into words what we experienced during the first 10 days of the war: these are constant bombings, fear and tension, fear for their lives, the lives of relatives, friends, and friends.…
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From Shyamala Sundari Devi Dasi – Ukraine, Chernigov
Dear Srila Gurudev, please accept my obeisances in the dust at your lotus feet. All glories to Srila Prabhupada and to you, his faithful servant!On this wonderful day of your appearance, I would like to express my gratitude to you for the example of loyalty, stability and enthusiasm in devotional service of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s mission! When I first joined the Movement, I saw devotees serving Srila Prabhupada with great love and enthusiasm, but over the years I began to notice that some devotees had faded away, some had become disillusioned, and some had left ISKCON society altogether. You, dear Srila Gurudev, despite the amount of service that you…
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From Prema Chandra Das – Switzerland, Zurich
Dear Srila Gurudeva! By Your grace, all wishes come true and what seemed impossible becomes very accessible. This year, my whole past life ended and began a new one. Second initiation, new residency, new service to You. Also i changed ashram and started relationship. It’s like a reincarnation, that everything started from the beginning, but in the same body, and what was before stayed in a dream. There is uncertainty in life and it is frightening. But remembering the example you set every day with your life, and the determination with which you serve Srila Prabhupada and Guru parampara, I stop being afraid, and keep going into the unknown. Seeing…
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From Krishangi Rasa Devi Dasi – Germany
Dear Srila Gurudeva, please, accept my and Rasa Manjari’s obeisances to you. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Thank you for the opportunity to be with everyone during this Vyasa Puja . You always inspire us with your service. Especially with your kirtans and lectures. You always travel so much and preach so much, despite all the difficulties in this world. Thank you for the great example of devotion to Srila Prabhupada and such ecstatic stories about Krsna and His associates. Thank you for the opportunity to still be in service with you on the Polish Tour and at other festivals! Thank you for your immense love for the disciples and…
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From Dvija Govinda Das and Kiev Yatra – Ukraine, Kiev
Dear Srila Gurudeva, please accept my humble obeisances in the dust of your lotus feet. All glories to you and Srila Prabhupada! I am trying to follow your personal instruction to me: always writing offerings to you, my Spiritual Master. On this most auspicious day of your Vyasa Puja, I would like to express my gratitude to you for the staunch example of complete surrender to the mission of Lord Chaitanya, Lord Nityananda and Srila Prabhupada. You are the embodiment of the principle of anugatya, following the instructions from above. As Srila Prabhupada writes, the spiritual master must have full confidence in the previous acarya, but at the same time…
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From Sri Nrsimha Das and Sundari Devi Dasi – Ukraine, Cherkasy
Hare Krishna, dear Srila Gurudev, please accept my obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! Two years ago You accepted me and my wife as Your disciples and during these two years many amazing realizations and strong shocks, revelations and awareness happened. On Your Vyasa-pujas You often said that till next Vyasa-puja the disciple must offer to his spiritual master his heart purified from some anarthas. And this will be the best offering. That’s why You say that if the goal is set, it is achievable. I would very much want to say that I got free from some inauspicious things during these two years, but unfortunately I can’t. These two…
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From Rasamandala-Seva Das – Ukraine, Smela
Dear Srila Gurudeva, please accept my humble obeisances at Your lotus feet! All glories to Srila Prabhupada and his sincere followers! Thank You very much, dear spiritual master, for Your service to the mission, love for Srila Prabhupada and the example of how to remain a real person despite the position and status, and despite understanding of the temporality of this existence remain sensitive and gentle with people. For more than 10 years my service is to help the agricultural communities and rural temples in the status of brahmachari. I am from Russia, from Saint Petersburg. But as soon as I began to practice I sold the flat and left…