Dear Gurudeva, Please accept my humble obeisances, all glories to Srila Prabhupada! Happy birthday most loving Gurudeva! On this day every year I absorb myself in hearing about you and listening to your words of wisdom and pure nectar. Even though on your birthday generally it is meant for me to be able to give you a gift and reciprocate for everything you do for me I find that actually you are giving me the greater gift, through serving the devotees and hearing from you the whole day I am constantly thinking of you and Krsna. You’re recounts of the transcendental pastimes of Vrindavan, your sweet melodic voice and your…

Dear Gurudeva, Please accept my obeisances.All glories to Srila Prabhupada and to you. Another year has passed, Srila Gurudeva, and this year I’ve been more frightened and child-like than ever. The world has changed so much in the past few months, that I have become afraid. What eases my fear and worry is your radiance. The strength and fearlessness I see in you, calms my heart. Your selfless love and faith gives me the strength not to despair or get lost. A quote from St. Francis of Assisi comes to my mind: “Let me bring faith to dissipate darkness, and joy to where life is suffering.” You are like this,…

My dearest Srila Gurudeva, Please accept my humble obeisances on your appearance day. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to you. Another year has passed, and this wonderful day, the day of your Vyasa Puja has arrived. The day, when together with my dear godsiblings, we can express our love and gratitude towards you. Dear Srila Gurudeva, I always listen with wonder to your disciples’ offerings full of love and devotion. I’d also like to thank you and express the same feelings towards you, but I’m not sure which one would be the most appropriate from the millions of thoughts that are running through my mind. I can never…

Dearest Srila Gurudeva, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to you. I would like to offer my best wishes and greetings on this very auspicious day of your appearance. Whenever I meet devotees whom I haven’t seen for a while, they often remind me that I’m a disciple of yours. It is so nice to see and hear them glorifying you with shining eyes: how loving and caring you are, what a soft heart you have, how sweet you sing the maha-mantra and how enthusing your classes are. They also comment on the wonderful preaching activities you perform year after year in Poland as…

Dear Srila Gurudeva, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to you. It is always such an exciting adventure to wait and to prepare for your Vyasa Puja every year. To write the offering, to prepare delicious bhoga offerings, to decorate the temple room and to see all the disciples gathering for the event. And then to offer flower petals to your lotus feet, to sing the Gurvastakam prayers and worship you with arati, to listen to your lecture about guru-disciple relationship, to hear the disciples’ offerings that describe your unlimited glories from so many different angles, and to dance in the kirtan along with…

My most beloved Srila Gurudeva, Please accept my most humble obeisances at your lotus feet. All glories to your divine master Srila Prabhupada. All glories to you. Recently I was listening to one of your classes that you gave thirteen years ago in Los Angeles. At the beginning of this class you read your new diary chapter to the devotees. That year, in January 2007, you went to India to find new performers for our annual festival tour in Poland and next you flew to Mangalore, South India for a wedding. The ceremony was to take place at a resort several hours away. While you were driving towards the coast…

Dearest Srila Gurudeva, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to you. Even though your Vyasa Puja day is the most auspicious transcendental occasion in a disciple’s life, it is hard to ignore the troubles of the material world now. We are confined to our rooms as lockdowns are imposed globally by local authorities and our minds keep returning to the lurking dangers of the pandemic. However, we are so lucky that even such an unprecedented, but still mundane, event has been turned into a unique spiritual experience by your mercy. We have been glued to the screens of our laptops to watch your webinars…

Dear Srila Gurudeva, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to You. Just one year passed since your last Vyasa Puja celebration, but it seems a much longer period of time, because the world is revolving in slow motion now. It is your appearance day, Srila Gurudeva, so I would like to thank You for a chance to appreciate Your association in 2019. Unfortunately, I am not good at formal offerings, so I chose to recall some of my favorite memories with You. First of all, in summer I was so fortunate to join the Polish tour and Woodstock for 3 and a half weeks.…

My dearest Gurudeva, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada, all glories to you. First of all, I would like to wish you a very happy birthday and thank you for the opportunity of being able to say again how perfect and pure you are, and how gracious you are to every fallen soul, including me. Thank you for helping me to understand what Krishna Consciousness really is. Thank you for allowing me to associate with you personally last year, and thank you for accepting me as your disciple (I hope maybe one day I will be worthy of it and grow to the task, and I…

Dear Gurudeva,Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Another year has passed, and I’m so grateful that you continue toshower your mercy upon me through your teachings. In the current circumstances, when our personal association has taken a very different form, when the mood of separation seems so common, all our relationships have become even more precious. Your inspirations still touch me deeply, and I have to confess that often these are the only thing that brings me back to the level of Krishna Consciousness. Last January, after many long years of waiting, we had the great fortune and mercy to welcome a soul into our family,…