Dear Srila Gurudev!Hare Krsna! Please accept my humble obeisances in the dust of your lotus feet. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!In honor of your Vyasa Puja, I want to try to put into words the changes that have occurred in my life over the past year. I do not yet have a clear understanding of spiritual life, and my relationship with you is only just beginning to emerge. But due to the opportunity to observe your activities and behavior, thanks to your lectures and memories of Srila Prabhupada that you share, this year I became a little more serious and conscious in the practice of Krishna consciousness.I am very inspired…

Dear Guru Maharaj,Hare Krishna! Please accept my humble obeisances in the dust of Your lotus feet. All glories to Guru and Gauranga! All glories to Srila Prabhupada!First of all, I would like to congratulate You on Your Vyasa Puja day and express my gratitude to You! Dear Gurudev! It will be only three years in September since I met the devotees, but you came into my life even before this wonderful event because in the chain of those who brought me to Krishna Consciousness were Your disciples. Actually, matajis who I watched for and admired on Instagram. And when I found out that each of them had a spiritual teacher,…

Dear Srila Gurudeva,Please accept my humble obeisance at your divine lotus feet. All glories to Srila Prabhupada and Guru-parampara!It’s hard for me to express how lucky I am to have the chance to associate with you, dear Gurudeva. You are the Divine Grace who day and night is trying to save us from suffering of this terrible material world and return us back home, to Godhead. Your glory is endless because you are connected with the unlimited Lord Krishna. And you are a genuine disciple of Srila Prabhupada, who is undoubtedly proud of you.Not in every life one can encounter such a pure Krishna Consciousness movement, and not in every…

Dear Gurudeva,Please accept my humble obeisances in the dust of your lotus feet. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! All glories to Guru and Gauranga!Dear Gurudeva, thank you so much for your association online and the lectures you give during the pandemic period. This time is very precious for me as I have a unique chance to know you in person.I have chosen your lotus feet as my shelter and I want to know more about you, to get a personal example of talking, treating the Vaisnavas, showing respect to the spiritual master, to the Deities and Lord Krishna, and having a broad mind for all the things happening in this…

Dear Srila Gurudeva,Please accept my obeisances in the dust of your lotus feet.I am very excited to write the offering, but I know it is my service.Let me congratulate you on your birthday and allow me to express my best wishes of health and strength in the service to your Spiritual Master Srila Prabhupada. Let your disciples be a source of great joy for you!I am very happy that you continue your service despite your complicated surgery. All the members of my family are praying to go to the Polish tour this summer and to the Holy Dham on Kartik.Unfortunately I don’t have a constant service at the temple. I…

Dear Srila Indradyumna Swami Maharaja,Please accept my obeisances in the dust of your lotus feet.You don’t know me, but by Lord’s causeless mercy I am lucky to write this offering to you personally.Just as one can see father’s features at his son’s face, I can see Srila Prabhupada’s compassionate and brave spirit in you, and therefore I can realize who our dearly beloved acarya was. One of his wonderful qualities was his deep love for children that lives in your heart, too.It’s a real wonder that at the previous Vyasa Puja in St. Petersburg, when my mind surrendered to my heart and to you, I was preparing a two-hour program…

Dear Srila Gurudeva,Hare Krsna! All glories to Srila Prabhupada! Please accept my humble obeisances!Please, allow me to congratulate you on your Appearance Day! And even more I would like to congratulate us, your disciples and all those, for whom you are their shelter!Thank you for the shelter, that you have been giving me all these years, since the moment when in 2014 in Kaliningrad you accepted me by some causeless mercy, and allowed me to read you pranama-mantra! It also happened due to dear Mathuresvari, who led me to you by the hand, seeing my confusion and inability to do anything on my own. And also due to Lila Avatara…

Dear Srila Gurudeva,Hare Krishna! Please accept my respectful obeisances in the dust of your lotus feet! All glories to Srila Prabhupada!On this auspicious day of your Vyasa Puja I dared to write this letter to you, though fully realizing that I do not possess a slightest speck of heart purity that would allow me to glorify even a minor part of your qualities. However, avoiding an imperfect attempt to do that seems to me even a greater omission.About six months have passed since I felt a heavy rain of Srila Prabhupada’s mercy showering upon my head for the first time. This happened during the Sadhu-Sanga Festival 2019, where you were…

Dear Srila Gurudeva,Please accept my humble obeisances in the dust of your lotus feet. All glories to you, all glories to Srila Prabhupada!On this wonderful day of your appearance I would like to express my gratitude to you for changing my life so significantly. I’m not sure that I am talented enough to do that in a proper manner, but I will try.I am at the very beginning of my spiritual path. You allowed me to chant your pranam a year ago. But that short time was enough to me to realize that you are the person whose instructions I want to follow. You have done a lot for me.I…

Dear Srila Gurudeva,Please, accept my humble obeisances to your lotus feet. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! Hare Krishna!How I wish to glorify you — the most outstanding person in my life… How I wish to tell you about my success in serving you… How I wish to bring you joy by opening my heart to you…But… this year haven’t been easy to me, because every day all my energy goes to my family, to our three growing kids, to my work as a first-grade teacher (there are nine more kids in the class), as a teacher of preschool development and a yoga instructor for children.I’m not sure if I really…