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From Nirmala Gaurangi dasi – Russia, Cheboksary
Dear Gurumaharaj!Accept my humble obeisances in the dust of your lotus feet. On the day of your Vyasa-puja, let me wish you good health! May your spiritual desires be fulfilled! May Lord Nrsimhadeva remove all obstacles in your way! The mercies of Radha and Krishna! The mercies of Pancha-tattva! Stay with us (your disciples) as long as possible.Gurumaharaj, I want to thank you for everything. I never cease to admire you and take an example from you in everything. I really like your lectures. You are opening up the spiritual world for me. Each lecture series is a nectar and an opportunity to remember Krishna. I listen to lectures several…
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From Netrananda devi dasi – Russia, Saint-Petersburg
Dear Indradyumna Swami, dear Gurudev!On this great auspicious Day of Your Vyasa-Puja please accept my humble obeisances at the dust of Your lotus feet! All glories to Srila Prabhupada!All glories to You, our dearest spiritual master!Dear Gurudev, please accept my most best wishes and great gratitude and this humble offering. O Gurudev, can I be able to describe Your transcendental features?How can a tiny servant reveal the glory of exalted master?Of course I can’tBut by Your mercy I’ ll tryPlease let my lips to open and speak the glorifying words. When You appeared in this worldYou soon experiensed much sufferings and thoughtThat there’s another sense of lifeAnd later on You met…
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From Narada Muni das – Russia, Saint-Petersburg
Dear Srila Gurudeva! Please accept my humble obeisances!All glories to Srila Prabhupada!How many amazing, wonderful disciples Srila Prabhupada has, who in various types of service show devotion to their dear Spiritual Master, demonstrating different qualities.And, undoubtedly, you, Srila Gurudeva, are one of the most prominent representatives of such qualities of devotion as self-sacrifice, giving yourself preaching 24 hours a day, literally falling down by the end of the day; fearlessness, preaching in the most dangerous places of this world, such as hot spots and the wild jungle of the Amazon, literally, in a river with cucarella – crocodiles; compassion, because of which you have been traveling all over the world…
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From Nadiya Priya devi dasi – Russia, Moscow, village of Marfino
Hare Krisna, dear Srila Gurudeva, please accept my respectful obeisances in the dust of your feet, this is the place where I especially feel safe and protected by you. This is not sentiment or analogy. This is really what I feel inside. The moment when I received a real shelter in bowing to you on the shore of the sacred Kusum Sarovar is forever imprinted in my memory. I constantly pray to the Lord that He will keep in my heart this reverent attitude to the infinite mercy I have received through you. How grateful I am that you literally pulled me out of my illusory reality that day and gave…
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From Nadia Lila dasi- Russia, Verhnya Salda
Dear Srila Gurudev, please accept my humble obeisances in the dust of your lotus feet! All glory to you and Srila Prabhupada! Glory to all the devotees!This year, by your causeless and boundless mercy, you accepted me as your disciple and initiated me in Vrindavana! I do not know how to express my love, because any words spoken will not describe the gratitude that I feel.The morning after the initiation, for the first time, I felt so clearly how big our family is, how thanks to Srila Prabhupada, we are all so different, united and moving towards a common goal. Although my attempts can mostly only cause laughter or tears,…
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From Nadia devi dasi – Moldova, Chisinau
Dear Gurudev!Thank You, Krishna, for giving you, our spiritual master, to us. Your enthusiasm and extremely hard work just seem unreal. On the last day of Kartik Parikrama 2022 you said, that you were not sleeping sometimes because of getting ready for lectures. All of those you gave, still give and, I hope, will give in the future are incredible. They all have lilas and at the same time they want to get to the Goloka Vrindavan! Thank you for this.This year I started studying how to play mridang and only by mercy of you and the devotees now I can play on short kirtans. Not as good as those…
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From Mukunda Madhava das – Russia, Nizhny Novgorod
Hare Krishna dear Srila Gurudev, please accept my humble bows I would like to thank you very much for accepting me into the ranks of your disciples. Today, 12 April 2023, as I am writing this offering to You, it has already been one year (with the deduction of 11 days) since the moment of initiation. And in spite of the fact that this year for me was one of the most difficult in all my life from the material point of view, from the spiritual point of view I feel unprecedented inspiration and enthusiasm, my faith grows stronger on the way of serving your lotus feet. Before initiation it was…
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From Mani Radhika dasi – Russia, Saint-Petersburg
Hare Krishna Precious Srila Gurudeva! Accept my humble obeisances in the dust of your lotus feet. All glory to you, all glory to Srila Prabhupada!From the bottom of my heart I express my respect and gratitude to you.Everything that happens in life, ever since the Lord gave the opportunity to serve under your guidance, is only your causeless mercy. Thank you, Srila Gurudeva, for the opportunity to be yourdisciple, to communicate with vaishnavas. Thank you for the grace of repetition The Holy Name and observance of principles, for the precious company of devotees and all-all your gracious disciples!Your personal example and the example of your students inspire us every day.…
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From Malini dasi – Moldova, Kishinev
Dear Srila Gurudeva, please accept my humble obeisances in the dust of your lotus feet. All glory to Srila Prabhupada. All glory to you, dear Srila Gurudeva.On this auspicious day of your appearance, let me express my gratitude, respect and glorify your wonderful qualities that inspire me, delight me and give me hope that such qualities can be developed to the maximum simply by following the instructions of someone who possesses them.Having been born in this world, for the most part, we follow in the footsteps of our parents, we should study at school, get an education, a profession, we should start a family, have children, and then …..!? Everything…
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From Lila Mohini devi dasi – Russia, Moscow region
Hare Krishna! Dear Srila Gurudeva, please accept my humble obeisances inthe dust of your lotus feet. All glories to Srila Prabhupada and the Guru Parampara. All glory to you. On this bright and auspicious day of your Vyasa Puja, solely by the grace of Guru Paprampara, Srila Prabhupada and you, let me say a few words in your honor, although I do not have any qualifications for this.Dear Srila Gurudeva, for me you are a bottomless ocean of mercy and compassion, a worthy disciple and successor of Srila Prabhupada, a fearless andtireless preacher, an example of a caring spiritual teacher with a soft, kind heart who knows how to sympathize…