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From Havir Hari das – Russia, Volgodonsk
Hare Krishna!Please, accept my obeisances, my dear Spiritual Master. All Glory to Srila Prabhupada. Today is Ramanavami and I have ventured to open my heart to You.Last year, on the day of Your appearance, I wrote that I was was about to finish a house for Krishna and I was in a relationship with a girl, a vaishnavi. We have remained friends ith that mataji. She is a hairdresser, and designed my hairstyle. She said a haircut suit me best. As a math teacher at school I have to look like a gentleman. I understand that we have to be gentlemans not only from the outside but also inside trying…
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From Tridandi das – Russia, Yekaterinburg
Dear Srila Gurudev, please accept my humble obeisances in the dust of Your lotus feet. All glories to You, all glories to Srila Prabhupada.On Your auspicious appearance day let me glorify Your personality as possible. There are no words that could describe my respect and gratitude to Your divine personality:Sakshad dharitvena samasta shastrairYou are the closest servant of the Supreme Lord. Mere thought about You and your instructions give incredible power, support and immense desire to serve You as much as possible and somehow be useful to You and Your mission of Lord’s Caitanya Harinama Sankirtana.As the leading General of Lord Caitanya’s army for 30 years You’ve been making incredible…
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From Padmini Radhika devi dasi – Russia, Lipetsk
My dear Spiritual Master, Srila Gurudeva, please, accept my humble obeisances in the dust of Your lotus feet!All glory to Srila Prabhupada!I heartily congratulate You on the occasion of your Vyasapuja!Thank you for your concern in the form of lectures that you tirelessly give twice a week for us, Russian-speaking devotees. Honestly, when I listen, and my mind is often inattentive. But nevertheless, I feel that they transport me to another reality, to a world where there is no suffering and everyone is happy. Sometimes it seems impossible for me to get there, but this nectar of listening as a powerful medicine cleanses my dirty heart drop by drop and…
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From Netrananda devi dasi – Russia, Saint Petersburg
Dear Indradyumna Swami Maharaj!Please accept my humble obeisances at the dust of Your lotus feet! All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga!All glories to Srila Prabhupada!All glories to You, our dear spiritual master!On this auspicious day of Your Vyasa-puja I bend down to Your lotus feet with grate gratitude and wish You health and strengh to continue the devotional service in Srila Prabhupada’s mission for many many years!In Your lecture”Lord Chaytanya’s journey to Vrindavan.Part 6” You quoted verse 33 from “Caitanya Candramrita” by Prabodhananda Sarasvati:“A stone, even if sprinkled with nectar, will never sprout a single blade of grass. A dog’s tail, no matter how carefully stretched out, will…
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From Narada Muni Das – Russia, Saint Petersburg
Hare Krishna dear Srila Gurudeva!Please accept my most humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!I want to say a few words of gratitude to you, for the example of your heart, your kind heart, which is very compassionate to everyone. To absolutely everyone and especially to those who now need support! Your merciful heart! It makes you travel all over the world, overcoming the endless difficulties associated with it: during flights, you have to sit in one position for hours when the body becomes completely numb, overcome difficulties due to changing time zones, travel for several months to different parts of our planet, not having even a little personal space…
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From Nadia Priya devi dasi – Russia, Moscow region, Marfino village
Hare Krishna, dear Srila Gurudeva.Please accept my humble obeisances! All Glory to Srila Prabhupada.Every day I think and remember how lucky I am to find refuge in the shadow of Your feet. It makes me incredibly happy. Every day I thank You in my heart for accepting me as Your disciple. The one who is absolutely not worthy of it. Every day I thank Krishna for arranging all this for me. I also pray daily to appreciate what you have done for me because I do not deserve even a hundredth part of the mercy that You have so generously shed on me and on my whole family doing it…
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from Shyamala Gopi devi dasi – Russia, Orenburg
Dear Spiritual Master, Srila Indradyumna Swami Maharaj! Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.Thanks to Your grace, I lived one more year in devotional service. And my life in this body continues only because you give instructions, and I try to follow them. Your every word supports me, inspires me to continue to fulfill my duty and not break the promises made to you. Please keep talking, I beg you with all my heart. Thank you for your blessings and prayers, for your purity, for being so kind. I am learning to live by lookingat you.This year I was lucky to draw illustrations…
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from Shakatari das and Gopal Govinda Ram das – Russia, base in Pervouralsk
Hare Krishna Dear Srila Gurudeva.Please accept our humble obeisances in the dust of Your lotus feet.We are very fortunate that you have blessed us to travel all over the world together and spread the mission of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and Prabhupada in the form of books and seminars on the Holy Name, etiquette and preaching in general. During this period of the carunavirus, the virus of mercy, we felt it ourselves, distributing books in the Urals and in the North, going from house to house in the villages, in winter from apartment to town, at harinama, bhakti-vriksha, festivals. By Your mercy and devotees, we have distributed about 50,000 books in…
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from Jayashri Rasarani devi dasi – Russia, Saint Petersburg
Dear Srila Gurudev, please accept my humble obeisance onto Your lotus feet! All glories to Srila Prabhupada, all glories to You!My dearest Srila Gurudev, I congratulate You on your birthday, the day when You came to this planet to save the suffering souls from the material existence! There are so many people in the world, but I’m so lucky that You found me and accepted me as Your spiritual daughter, it is the most valuable event in my life! I’m sooo grateful to You, it is Your causeless mercy! You and the Holy Names are my everything, my life and soul, I pray to Sri Krishna to always keep You…
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From Suvarna Kumari devi dasi – Russia, Moscow
Dear Srila Gurudev!Please accept my humble obeisances in the dust of your lotus feet! All glory to Srila Prabhupada! All glory to You!Your appearance in this material world is happiness and good fortune for all of us still living here in the darkness of the well of the material world. Krishna is so merciful to us that He sent Srila Prabhupada and you into our world! You have come to us from the Spiritual World and now by your grace, and through your hard and transcendental years of service to Srila Prabhupada, the Sankirtana of Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, people in every country are getting in touch with Krishna. Your festivals,…