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All glories to Sri Sri Radha Krsna

All glories to Sri Sri Gaura Nitai

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

All glories to you

Please accept my obeisances

 On this very significant day I want to dedicate some words to you so that you know how important you are in my life and the meaning that your presence in this world has for me.

 Since I've known you, you have taught me a lot, thanks to that I grew as a person and as a devotee, now my heart is not as hard as it was before and I can better appreciate the service of others.

 Just by listening to you my mind is being purified, I know it because my thoughts have changed and every day when I wake up I think of you, "Gurudev, Gurudev, Gurudev",

 "I'm going to get up to chant my rounds early for my guru."

 Every time your Vyasa Puja arrives and I am going to write my offering, I feel a very strong emotion that leads me to tears, it is not sadness, of course not, but remembering everything you give me and knowing how lucky I am to have you makes me this day be unique. I don't have enough words to express how grateful I am.

 I can say that your presence illuminates the spiritual life of the people who are in contact with you because when I listen to classes from my spiritual brothers and sisters I can perceive all the realizations they have and how dedicated they are to the mission of Srila Prabhupada.

 The way you connect us with him and the Parampara is amazing, how you make us aware of all the effort that Prabhupada made to give us this treasure and aware of the path that this knowledge took from Krsna to us, how you make us appreciate the service of the previous acaryas, to see their arduous desire to glorify Krsna and to want to be in His presence.

I wish you a beautiful Vyasa puja and that you continue to enlighten more and more souls as you serve our beloved Radha and Krsna.

Your aspirant servant

Kirtida Devi Dasi

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Hare Krishna...Hare Rama...

oṁ ajñāna-timirāndhasya jñānāñjana-śalākayā

cakṣur unmīlitaṁ yena tasmai śrī-gurave namaḥ 

vāñchā-kalpa-tarubhyaś ca kṛpā-sindhubhya eva ca patitānāṁ pāvanebhyo vaiṣṇavebhyo namo namaḥ 

nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale śrīmate hannumat preasaka svāminn iti nāmine

Please accept my prostrated obeisances in the dust of your lotus feet. All Glories to Your Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedantha Swami Srila Prabhupada, all Glories to his representative, His Holiness Hannumat Presaka Swami.

Lovely Gurudeva: 

All glories to you on this most auspicious day of your appearance in this world. I can never be thankful enough for you, just I met you through Krishna’s mercy because you are a shelter among the kali age. I try my best to follow your instructions while doing anything in my day to day life. I try to take better care of anybody to I met and I pray: May perform any service I'll have to the best of my abilities remembering that you always teach us that a devotee is never negligent towards his duties and responsibilities. So that these are baby steps but I hope to live my life in way that ensures that I never forget or disregard any of your instructions. I try to read more and decode every line and every verse I read remembering you always emphasized on detailed study of Srila Prabhupada’s books. I am not reading as much as I want to, but hopefully with your mercy I’ll become better at reading someday. even though until today I'm just a fool, so

I will always be eternally indebted to you because without your blessings and guidance nothing would have been possible. Thanking you from the core of my heart, humbly seek your continued guidance and forgiveness. I know that I was never a good disciple and probably I failed you on your several expectations of me. Guru Maharaj you always showed us by example not to be lazy and be active, ¡how determined you are to show us by example, not to pamper the body!

Dear Gurudeva, you will always sit among us. 

And all glories to to you on this most auspicious day of your appearance in this world.

"The lotus feet of our spiritual master are the only way by which we can attain pure devotional service. I bow to his lotus feet with great awe and reverence. By his grace one can cross the ocean of material suffering and obtain the mercy of Krishna."

I wish you a very happy vyasa-puja and pray to Srimati Radharani for many happy returns of this auspicious day. I pray for keeping you at the centre of my life, each day I can feel how your causeless mercy flows unconditionally in the upkeep of my devotional service. And Just Ican say thanks, thanks a lot. 

bhukti-mukti-siddhi-kāmī ‘subuddhi’ yadi haya

gāḍha-bhakti-yoge tabe kṛṣṇere bhajaya 

Due to bad association, the living entity desires material happiness, liberation or merging into the impersonal aspect of the Lord, or he engages in mystic yoga for material power. If such a person actually becomes intelligent, he takes to Kṛṣṇa consciousness by engaging himself in intense devotional service to Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa.(CC Madhya 22.35) 

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Hare Krishna...Hare Rama...

nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale 

śrīmate hanumatpreśaka-svāmin iti nāmine

nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale

śrīmate bhaktivedānta-svāmin iti nāmine

namas te sārasvate deve gaura-vāṇī-pracāriṇe

nirviśeṣa-śūnyavādi-pāścātya-deśa-tāriṇe

om ajñāna-timirāndhasya jñānāñjana-śalākayā

cakṣur unmīlitaṁ yena tasmai śrī-gurave namaḥ 

Dear Guru Maharaja,

please accept my humble obeisances on your lotus feet.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

I am very fortunate to have the opportunity to write to you on the auspicious day of your appearance.

 In your enlightening association is hope for everyone and with all your travelling you bestow the ultimate benefit upon people in general.

Thank you for your austere and sacrificial life,

In Srimad Bhagavatam (8.7.44)

it is said that great personalities almost always accept voluntary suffering because of the suffering of people in general.

This is considered the highest method of worshiping the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is present in every one's heart.

Purport:

Here is an explanation of how those engaged in activities for the welfare of others are very quickly recognized by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The Lord says in Bhagavad-gita ( 18.68-69 ) ya idam paramam guhyam mad-bhaktesv abhidhasyati, na ca tasman manusyesu kascin me priya-krttamah, "One who preaches the message of Bhagavad-gita to My devotees is most dear to Me..."

 There are different kinds of welfare activities in this material world, but the supreme welfare activity is the spreading of Krishna consciousness.

...if one tries to spread Krishna consciousness all over the world,

he should be understood to be performing the best welfare activity.

The Lord is automatically very pleased with him.

If the Lord is pleased with him, what is left for him to achieve?

  GURUDEV!

kṛpā-bindu diyā, koro' ei dāse,

tṛṇāpekhā ati hīna

sakala sahane, bala diyā koro',

nija-māne spṛhā-hīna

 Gurudeva, O spiritual master!

Give to this servant just one drop of mercy. 

I am lower than a blade of grass. Give me all help. 

Give me strength. 

Let me be as you are, without desires or aspirations.

jogyatā-vicāre, kichu nāhi pāi,

tomāra karuṇā-sāra

karuṇā nā hoile, kāndiyā kāndiyā,

prāṇa nā rākhibo āra

Your useless servant

Murari das

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Hare Krishna...Hare Rama...

Hare Krishna Dear Gurudeva

PAMHO

ALGTSP

I am obliged to write this letter to ask for respect and equality towards all the devotees since I have seen that when a professional guest or with good economy status comes, they treat him better than the devotee who has faithfully doing service in the temple.

It seems unfair to me that when a person has some service and is in charged, he has favoritism only with his friends.

there are devotees who because they are professionals and have studied at the best universities treat other devotees badly and that seems very bad to me. We have to learn to treat devotees well to ask with love and humility for that person to do the service.

I could make a list of the mistreatments that prabhu Abhirama das thakur had towards me and towards my father but I am not going to do it, I believe that he is aware of his Anarthas and he knows that he has a strong character and likes to command and I just hope it gets better for its own sake.

I just wrote to you recently about a gossip that he told my brother, well I called to prabhu Abhirama and i asked him if you were asking to speak with me to clarify things and he said that you did not say anything but it would be good if i clarify and I did it. I do not understand why he has to be saying one thing and then change the story but it seems wrong to me that he says something and not face the situations with the true story.

When I called him, he told me that we do not have any relationship but in reality we do because we are spiritual brothers.

For my part I will continue with my service but I had to write this to you because until now I have not had the opportunity to speak with you or to have your association even though we are a few kilometers away and I could not get close either since Prabhu Abhirama is in charge.

I have grown up in Iskcon, I have seen so many things and if I am still here it is because of Srila Prabhupada and you and because I know this is the path.

Vanca kalpa.

Jay Gauranga !!!

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Hare Krishna Dear Gurudeva

Pamho

ALgtsp.

My civil name is : David Yallico Torres .

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Hare Krishna Maharaj

PAMHO & AGTSP

I ask about a Oxford research from Oxford University that you mencion on your classes. This professor give very positives comentaries about the Bhagavat Purana. I need know the name and where I can get this quotes to use in my academic studies.

Ys,

Maha Krsna |Nam das

HpS - AGTSP - paoho. I was probably quoting a personal comment that Professor Narasimha Rao made to Radhika ramana Das.

That would not be too useful in rigorous academic work.

Prof. David Haberman's Introduction to his commentary on Bhakti rasa amrta sindu is tremendous.