Hare Krishna, dear Srila Gurudeva! All glory to Srila Prabhupada! Let me congratulate you on the day of Vyasa Puja.You are my guide, my spiritual father, leading me to Krishna. By your boundless mercy and guidance, I can continue to live, developing spiritually, engaging in devotional service, developing humility and patience in everything, hoping to acquire the great gift of love for Krishna. Despite the situation in the World, under different circumstances and illnesses, you show an example of selfless service. Thanks to your diary “Traveling monk” I am always in touch with you. You give us the opportunity not to get lost in this vast world. I always try…

Dear Spiritual Master, please, accept my humble obeisances in the dust of Yourlotus feet!All Glory to Srila Prabhupada! All glory to You!Let me congratulate You on this wonderful day of Your appearance!Please, accept my humble attempts to glorify You.In Srimad-Bhagavatam 11.3.21, one of the nine yogendras, Sri Prabuddha, answers King Nimi’s question how even the most stupid materialist can get out of the influence of illusory energy: ‘Therefore any person who seriously desires real happiness must seek a bona fide spiritual master and take shelter of him by initiation. The qualification of the bona fide guru is that he has realized the conclusions of the scriptures by deliberation and is…

Hare Krishna, dear Srila Gurudeva!Please, accept my humble obeisances in the dust of Your lotus feet! All glories to Srila Prabhupada!All glories to you!Today, on the most important day for us, your disciples, I would like to say how much I love you and how grateful I’m for everything you do for us.I’m so sorry, that I begin my offering with sentiments. There is no true love in this material world, true love can be possible only in devotional service and spiritual world. The reason why I’m saying this, is that you fill our lives with this love, that changes and cleans our hearts step by step.Of course I’m too…

Dear Shrila Gurudev, accept my dandavats in the dust of your lotus feet. All glories to Shrila Prabhupada and your appearance day.Unbelievable, but true, this year is already 30 years since I first met you in Rostov in 1992. Then you asked me at the general darshan:—How old are you?—The day after tomorrow 19.—Oh, what a happy birthday!And now I am almost 49, and I feel as happy as at 19 under the shadow of your feet and the protection of your instructions.In ordinary life, we learn something and then leave the teacher, but in the spiritual life, the teacher is the student himself and is constantly learning, so we…

Hare Krishna, Dear Gurudev. Please accept my obeisances. All glory to you and SrilaPrabhupada!I am writing to you on the eve of your Vyasa Puja of 2022.This year was a turning point in my life. The Lord led me to quite serious trials that required devotion and seriousness. Tests for adulthood, but compassion, for following Guru Parampara. Some of them I did not pass (divorce and accumulated debts), some passed (including following the instructions of my mentor shiksha, keeping vows, etc.). From time to time I prayed to you, Gurudev, remembering your answers to my letters, and prayed how I could be useful in the mission of preaching, how can…

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…

Dear Guru Maharaja, please, accept my humble obeisances in the dust of Your lotus feet!All Glory to Your beloved Spiritual Master, His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada! All Glory to You, dear Gurudev!On this bright day of Your appearance let me glorify You and offer all the fruits of my activities in Krishna Consciousness. Thanks to Your lectures and books, by the grace of Srila Prabhupada, Guru parampara and Lord Krishna, my japa has improved, and listening to the lectures and reading books are more focused. Accept it, please, as an offering to Your lotus feet, as my attempt to serve You.I see how You are constantly focused…

Dear Gurudev, please accept my humble obeisances in the dust of your lotus feet. I am not qualified to write beautiful offerings, the only thing I can offer you is a drop of sincerity and an attempt to glorify your exalted qualities.Your lectures are window to the spiritual world. It is a great fortune and inexplicable grace that you share the most secret knowledge even with people like me. Frankly, before we met, I was drowning in the ocean of ignorance, but out of great compassion you threw a lifeline, which I tenaciously hold on to, realizing that this is my only chance. Around me there is a deceptive calm…

Dear Srila Gurudeva,Please, accept my obeisances to shadow of your lotus feet.You bring happiness for all three worlds by spreading the Glory of Vrindavan. Your humble heart always stays in Vrindavan serving to Divine Couple and H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada. You generously give brightly sparkling, diamond-like, invaluable knowledge of Krishna Consciousness to everyone with no exception. Your mouth for sure has already turned into sugar lollipops because of countless sweet pastimes of Radha and Krishna you’d told. Dear spiritual master, I wish the glare of your preachment from your shining personality will never stop!According to your grace and to the grace of H.H. Srila Prabhupada, your servant copes repeating 16 rounds…