Most respectful Srila Gurudeva, Hare Krishna! Please accept my most respectful obeisances unto the dust of your lotus feet. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! All glories to you! On the most auspicious occasion of your Vyasa Puja day, I would like to remind myself of the good fortune I had some 15–16 years ago when I came in contact with your wonderful self through your amazing diaries. The reason I want to remind myself is because over the years while practicing Krishna bhakti, one may start to take things lightly and start believing that the mercy received by a pure devotee is just another event in one’s life. This can…

Dear Srila Gurudeva, Please accept my most humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! All glories to you! Our family moved to live in Mayapur almost ten years ago. Our decision was made mainly because we wanted to raise our son in a spiritual environment most of all. And we were happy about that. We are still happy. My husband’s service includes cooking lunch prasadam for devotees, I am helping him. We continue prasadam delivery even during lockdown: many devotees are asking for prasadam to be brought to their doorsteps. So we are kept busy more than ever. Our son Narottam is more enthusiastic to follow devotional practice as to…

Dear Srila Gurudev, Please accept my humble obeisances! All glories to Srila Prabhupada! All glories to your divine grace on the auspicious day of your Vyasa Puja. Nowadays the word “guru” has become the household word all over the globe. People talk about online gurus, guitar gurus, business gurus, finance gurus, etc. Delightful as it seems, the wide acceptance of the term is tainted with the wrong connotation people give it. Just like the word “pandit” just means “a scholar” according to their interpretations, the word “guru” just bears the meaning “an instructor” regardless of what kind of knowledge you can gain from his/her instructions. Fortunately enough from the Vedic…

Dear Srila Gurudeva, Please accept my respectful obeisances. All glories to you, my spiritual father. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. “Material existence is something like a blazing fire in the forest, which can be extinguished by the mercy of the Lord Sri Kṛishṇa. The spiritual master is the mercy representative of the Lord. Therefore, a person burning in the flames of material existence may receive the rains of mercy of the Lord through the transparent medium of the self-realized spiritual master. The spiritual master, by his words, can penetrate into the heart of the suffering person and inject knowledge transcendental, which alone can extinguish the fire of material existence.” [Srimad…

Dearest Srila Gurudev, Please accept our most humble obeisances in the dust of your lotus feet. All glories to you, our beloved lord and master. All glories to Srila Prabhupada, who delivered us in this dark age of Kali, by his causeless mercy. Gurudev, I use this opportunity to thank you for all these things you have given me out of your causeless mercy. I could see how you were there for me, in the most difficult times of my life. When I was in desperate need of guidance and help, Gurudev, you were there for me in terms of your personal phone call, or your appearance in my dreams…

Dear Srila Gurudeva,Hare Krsna! Jai Srila Prabhupada! Kindly accept my humble obeisances to your lotus feet.First of all, I want to wish you a very happy Appearance day and a happy Vyasа Puja. Srila Gurudeva, I was wondering like a blind before meeting you, and I was in the darkness of my grief, which was making me very weak and mentally disturbed, too. I did not know anything, and the whole situation was hindering my bhakti also, but the day when I met you at your house in Vrindavan and told you everything about myself, I got a bit relieved, though I still was nervous whether you would accept me…

Dearest Srila Gurudeva,Hare Krishna! Please accept my most respectful obeisances at your lotus feet. All glories to you! All glories to Srila Prabhupada!I wish you a very happy 71st Vyasa Puja. While I’m thinking of speaking some words to glorify you, I’ve literally gone back into time (about 5–6 years back). Back then, though I had already been introduced to Krishna Consciousness, I was not very serious about it. I remember it was about that time when I heard you singing “Jai Radha Madhava” in Russia in a YouTube video. I somehow got very attracted to this tune and was sharing it with my friends. Then as I searched more…

nama om vishnu-padaya krishna-preshthaya bhu-tale srimate indradyumna-swamin itInaminenamah prabhupada-priya dasaya jagannatha-yatrananda murtaye bhakta-sukhaya krishnot-kirtanena narasimhena rakshitaya nama oṁ ajñāna-timirāndhasya jñānāñjana-śalākayacakṣur unmīlitaṁ yena tasmaIśrī-gurave namah “I was born in the darkest ignorance, and my spiritual master opened my eyes with the torch of knowledge. I offer my respectful obeisances unto him”.Dear Gurudeva,Hare Krsna! Dandavat Pranam. Please, accept my humble obeisances to your lotus feet. All glories to you, Gurudeva! All glories to Srila PrabhupadaIt is the most auspicious day for all of us, the day you chose to come here, in this material world, only to shower your mercy and compassion and deliver the fallen conditioned souls, such as me. Gurudeva,…

Om ajñāna timirāndhasya jñānānjana salākayacaksur unmilitam yena tasmai sri gurave namah 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 Hare Krishna,Please accept my humble prostrated obeisance at the dust of your lotus feet. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.On this occasion of Vyasa Puja I can reflect upon your magnanimous merciful nature with my whole heart. And I take the opportunity to glorify you, even though I am unqualified to do that.First of all, please accept my sincere gratitude, Guru Maharaja, for taking me under your divine shelter as a loving and caring father. Even though it can seem that I…