Dear Srila Gurudev, Please accept my most humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! All glories to you on this auspicious day of your Vyasa Puja and birthday! It’s incredible to think about how ten years ago, I was holding your hand and sitting in the temple room with you in Dallas, just a 7 year old and with your guidance now an aspiring disciple about to graduate. Words can’t begin to explain how grateful I am to have been inspired by your work across the globe from dham to dham, to see how many people you take under your wings and how lucky I am that you have given…

Nama om vishnu-padaya krishna-preshthaya bhu-talesrimate bhaktivedanta swamin iti naminenamaste saraswati deve gaura-vani-pracharinenirvishesha-shunyavadi pashchatya-desha-tarine Dearest Srila Gurudev, Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to you on this auspicious day of your Vyasa Puja. It has been a year since I saw you last. Like always, I was scrambling in the prasadam hall at Sadhu Sanga, trying to serve your beloved devotees when I heard my god-sister say: “Gurudev! Gurudev is here.” As if time had stopped and I become tone deaf, we all gazed at you. You were coming towards us like this floating light, my heart was in my throat and my hands were…

Dear Srila Gurudeva, Hare Krishna! Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada and to you! I want to wish you a very happy Vyasa Puja and thank you for being an incredible role model and an inspiration for me and for all of your disciples around the world. After being elected by my family to give you an offering I realized that this moment brings back a memory from nine years ago when I last gave you an offering for your Vyasa Puja. The year was 2011 and your Vyasa Puja for your 60th birthday was held in Dallas and all of your disciples were there to…

Dear Gurudev, Hare Krsna! Please, accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! I always find myself at a loss for words when writing to you, solely because the gratitude I have for you is impossible to explain. That and I am not as eloquent of a writer as you are. But, dear Gurudev, I would like to thank you for continuously inspiring me to become a better devotee. Ever since I was a little girl your love, faith, and devotion for Krsna inspired confidence in my own devotional life. One of your disciples, Syamala Devi Dasi, recently expressed that her first memory of me was in Alachua during…

Dear Srila Gurudeva, Hare Krishna! Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada and to you. I want to wish you a very happy Vyasa Puja, and hope you’re staying safe and healthy in Vrindavan. I have had a lot of wonderful memories with you, like the time you stayed at my house in September of 2018 for your Viva Kultura Program. I loved how you worship your deities, Radha Rasika Rai, with your attention to detail and love for doing service for Them. At the end of your stay I promised you that I will be chanting four rounds every day and I have been keeping up…

Nama om vishnu-padaya krishna-preshthaya bhu-talesrimate indradyumna-swamin iti naminenamah prabhupada-priya dasaya jagannatha-yatrananda murtayebhakta-sukhaya krishnot-kirtanena narasimhena rakshitaya namah My dear Guru Maharaj, Hare Krsna! All glories to you! All glories to Srila Prabhupada! Please accept my humble obeisances. Wishing you a Happy Vyasa Puja 2020. Since it has been two years since I’ve seen you in Mayapur, I would like to give you an update on what I have been doing these past two years. After I left Mayapur, India in 2018, I went back to America to stay with my son. But I only stayed with him for a few months, then I went to stay with my mother. It was…

Dear Srila Gurudeva, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to You. I would like to say thank you, on behalf of millions of fortunate people you gifted with the seed of bhakti, over the last fifty years of your preaching efforts (I’m fortunate to be one of them). The magnitude of your hard work is difficult to comprehend and the fruits of it will continue manifesting for the next 10,000 years. Your bold preaching and the faith in the holy names are demonstration of modern days pastimes of Caitanya Mahaprabhu. The festivals you organize are modern times display of Vishnu Yagnas celebrated on the…

Dearest Srila Gurudeva,Dandavat Pranams. Srila Prabhupada ki — jai! All glories to You. On behalf of Keli Manjari Dasi, and my boys, Kisan and Gopal, Iwish You a happy Appearance Day, Srila Gurudeva. We do not have words that will properly address our gratitude for Your intervention in our lives. I had a rare privilege of personally meeting You twenty years ago in Detroit. Just months before I heard Your lecture, and I realized that only You could solve all of my problems. By Your intervention You permanently changed the direction of my life. For the past twenty years You have given us Your causeless mercy. Your instructions have given…

Dear Srila Gurudeva, Please accept my most humble obeisances at your lotus feet. All Glories to you! All glories to Srila Prabhupada! On this most auspicious occasion of your Vyasa Puja, I want to take the time to sincerely thank you for not only the substantial positive impact that your guidance has had on my own life, but also to acknowledge and honor the profound impact you have had on people around the world. Through your tireless preaching efforts so many souls have come into contact with Sri Krishna, have fallen in love with Srila Prabhupada’s teachings, and kirtan. I remember clearly how in 2016 I had enthusiastically joined your…

Dear Srila Gurudeva, Please accept my deepest humble obeisances at the dust of Your lotus feet. It is my great fortune to be able to read my Vyasa Puja offering for the year 2020. You had accepted this fallen soul as Your duly initiated disciple in 2015 in Vraja Mandala, Sri Vrindavan Dham. I suffered so much in this material world when I wasn’t a devotee of the Lord may because of my sinful past karma. I am deeply indebted to Your mercy. You have given your mercy freely like Lord Caitanya and Lord Nityananda in their Navadweepa pastimes. I don’t want to take this mercy for granted. I am…