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From Gandharvika Sakhi devi dasi – Russia, Naberezhnye Chelny
Dear Srila Gurudeva! Please, accept my obeisances. All glory to You! All glories to Srila Prabhupada!I am grateful to the Lord that I have the opportunity to glorify and congratulate my spiritual teacher on this amazing day. I am grateful to You, dear Srila Gurudeva, that more than two years ago You accepted me as Your disciple and from that day my real spiritual life began.Once, long before initiation, I had a dream that I was in absolute darkness and surrounded by countless living beings, who were in prison, but still trying to enjoy life. I remember how I realized that I was in complete darkness and there was no…
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From Vilasini Priya Devi Dasi – Russia, Vladimir
Dear Srila Indradyumna Swami Maharaj, please accept my most humble obeisances unto the dust of your lotus feet. All glories to you!In 2015 in Vladimir I came to the society of Krishna Consciousness and felt at ease, because I’ve found the solution for all the suffering of material world.And at New Year’s Eve I’ve joined Harinama group Nama Amrita, which travels around “golden ring” of Russia under the guidance of Nrisimha Shalagram Prabhu. By his mercy I participated in Vyasa Puja in your honour in Saint Petersburg and by the mercy of devotees they lead me towards you to get pranam mantra… in reality back then I didn’t realise what…
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From Suvarna Kumari d.d – Russia, Moscow, Sri Sri Doyal-Nitai-Shachisuta Temple
My dear beloved spiritual teacher Srila Gurudev! Please accept my humble bows in the dust of your Lotus Feet! All Glories to Srila Prabhupada! From my heart I sincerely congratulate You on your Birthday! May Lord Krishna grant you good health, a long and happy life filled with the happiness of serving the Lord and Srila Prabhupada, and the happiness of seeing the Bhakti vine grow and blossom in the hearts of your disciples! The blazing fire of Kali-yuga is now raging all over the world and trying to burn people’s hearts with material hatred so that they forget Krishna. But despite our heaviest human karma, every lecture you give, every kirtan you give, it is…
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From Sarasvati Jayasri devi dasi – Russia, Moscow
Dear Srila Gurudev, please accept my respectful obeisances!All glories to Srila Prabhupada!All glories to you!On this day of your Vyasa Puja, I want to thank you for all the mercy you are giving me. Thanks to you, I am trying to get out of this material world, which is full of illusions. Thanks to you, Krishna has become for me not someone far away, but a close friend who will never leave. I once heard that a spiritual master is someone who opens and reveals Krishna to us. And at that moment I became convinced that no one else reveals Krishna to me the way you do.I also want to express my gratitude…
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From Radha Chandra Bihari das – Russia, Moscow (Bhaktivedanta Ashram)
Hare Krishna dear Srila Gurudeva! Please accept my humble obeisances at the dust of Your lotus feet. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!On this wonderful day of Your Vyasa Puja, I want to glorify You to the best of my ability. I was amazed by a story that I read in Your diary. As I meditate on it, I rejoice that I have an opportunity to be Your disciple, because this story very clearly shows how much the help of a spiritual master is necessary for progress in spiritual life. While reading it, I saw many parallels with Your concern for disciples. So. In the third volume, You write about a trip to Rajasthan…
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From Rasa Vilasini dd – Russia, Krasnoyarsk
Dear Srila Gurudeva, accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! I sincerely thank you for the example of an ideal disciple of your spiritual master. I thank you for the example of the perfect preacher. You have always been my spiritual hero. Your life is completely perfect. You have traveled all over the world helping your spiritual master to spread Krishna consciousness, and you have achieved absolute success. How indescribably happy and grateful I am to you that in February of this year, on the auspicious Narottam Das Thakur Appearance Day, you accepted me into a spiritual family and allowed me to be your disciple. Thank you for your faith…
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From Rasa Vallari dasi – Russia, Saint-Petersburg
Hare Krishna, dear spiritual master Indradyumna Swami. Please accept my obeisance! All glory to Srila Prabhupada, Guru ISKCON and all the devotees. On this significant day of your Vyasa Puja, let me express my gratitude to you. By your grace, such a large number of lost souls take refuge at the feet of Srila Prabhupada, Sri Krishna. I am very happy to have such a unique opportunity too. Exactly a year has passed since you accepted me as your student. I feel very grateful to you for this. I feel more and more the importance and value of this moment every day, as if spiritual practice and relations with the personality of God…
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from Shvirst Valentina – Russia, St. Petersburg
Dear Guru Maharaja, 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!Thank you for this year spent under your protection and in the flow of your generous mercy, which you shed on your disciple. During the last Kartika parikrama in Jayapur, you recalled the case of buying a plane ticket to London. Srila Prabhupada was supposed to be on this plane and you wanted to fly withhim on the same flight.The determination which you acted to be near the spiritual master just knocked me off my feet! Your…
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from Chizhova Alexandra – Russia, Moscow
Dear Srila Gurudeva, please accept my humble obeisances unto your lotus like feet. All glories to you! This year has been a shower of your mercy! I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for the mission, family, holy name and world of pure love and devotion. World that has real sense and meaning. That is eternal and full of fulfilling loving relationships between devotees and Krishna. Thank you for letting me see a little glimpse of this reality through your lectures. Every time I hear your lecture it’s like a reaaaly good teaser or promotion for the big movie, for the big show that is going on forever…
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from Feklistovy Ekaterina&Alexander – Russia, Novosibirsk
Hare Krishna dear Gurudev!Please accept humble, respectful obeisances from your unworthy servant Ekaterina.All glory to you!All glory to the devotees!All glory to Srila Prabhupada!My name is Ekaterina, my family and I live in Russia, Novosibirsk. At the moment we live in the Holy land – Mayapur.Dear Indradyumna Swami Maharaj, from the bottom of our hearts, me and my husband congratulate you on the day of your apparition!We want to sincerely wish you inexhaustible happiness, bliss in Krishna consciousness, love, prosperity in everything! Spiritual well-being and eternal pure love for the Lord!It’s a great reward from the Lord, and His causeless mercy, we receive the pranamamantra, and we also pray very…