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…

Dear Srila Gurudeva, Hare Krishna! Please accept my Dandavat pranams at your lotus feet. I wish you a very very happy 71st Vyasa Puja celebration. I’m fortunate enough to get an opportunity to express my offering unto you, my beloved Master. Your journey has always been my constant source of inspiration and blessing throughout my life. You showed your mercy on a fallen soul, like me. Srila Gurudeva, you’re a warrior, you are a king, you are a master, you are a blessing. Your words are like a constant source of Holy Ganga, that always purifies my heart and mind. Your great efforts to conduct webinars have been a blessing…

Dear Srila Gurudeva, Please accept my obeisances! All glories to Srila Prabhupada and all glories to you! “Once upon a time in a distant galaxy…” the pastimes of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu were going on! So it was this time, too! Once at the Polish tour we walked with the harinam along the beach and you took a short break. We all sat on the sand and went chanting the holy names; someone chanted gayatri and then you took some sand in your hand and started pouring it from one palm to another, saying: “In fact, the universes are more numerous than sand on this beach, and in every universe there…

Dear Gurudeva, I lost my father at a very young age. Around the age of five. It was very tough because I felt shelterless. After that me and my mother had to face a lot of troubles in terms of financial aspects. We wouldhave to change our houses frequently since we didn’t own one and had to keep renting. We changed around 8–10 houses. The moment I got attached to a particular place we would have to shift to another place no sooner, since the landlord would ask us to leave. It didn’t take me much time to realise that no shelter in this material word was infallible. It gave…

Dear Srila Gurudeva,Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. I wish you a very happy 71st birthday. Time flies. It’s wonderful thatyou’ve reached this age. I was very worried about you when you fell ill. I’m so happy that you’re well now. I hope that when the lockdown is over, you can come to Mayapur, because I’ve been living here since September last year. I came here to study and plan to be here for three years. I would really like to see you. It must be very strange for you, that you cannot travel because of the lockdown. This is something that probably has not happened…

Dear Srila Gurudeva, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories Srila Prabhupada! All glories to you! On your birthday, your disciples, followers and well-wishers glorify you. Actually, every day is glorious for us, because you are here for us as the leader of our spiritual lives, our role model and as our father also. Whatever you do, with each act, you preach Srila Prabhupada’s teachings. Wherever you are, with your world-famous festivals you bring the spiritual world to the audience. There they experience such deep taste, that even after they’ve returned home, they hanker for the same experience again and again. I feel the same way. I have received the…

Dear Srila Gurudev, Please accept my humble obeisance in the dust of your lotus feet, all glories to Srila Prabhupada and all glories to you, on this most auspicious day of your appearance. Thank you Srila Gurudev for accepting me as your disciple. Because of your mercy only I am able of handling myself during this difficult stage of my life, as my father passed away suddenly on 9th May. Srila Gurudev, you are the only hope of my life. I am so grateful to lord Krishna for giving you as my guru. Thank you Gurudev, Hare Krishna. Your servant, Kishori Dasi

Dear Guru Mahārāja, Please accept my prostrated obeisances in the dust of your lotus feet. All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda. All glories to you on this most auspicious occasion of celebrating your divine appearance in this world. As stated by Prahlada Maharaja to Lord Nrsimhadeva in the Srimad Bhagavatam, 7.9.28: evaṁ janaṁ nipatitaṁ prabhavāhi-kūpe kāmābhikāmam anu yaḥ prapatan prasaṅgātkṛtvātmasāt surarṣiṇā bhagavan gṛhītaḥso ’haṁ kathaṁ nu visṛje tava bhṛtya-sevām “Thus, by associating with material desires one after another, I was following the general populace by falling into a blind well full of snakes. My dear Lord, O Supreme Personality of Godhead! Then the great sage Narada Muni kindly accepted me as…