Vyāsa-pūjā 2021

Hare Krishna Dear Gurumaharaj,

Please accept our most respectful obeisances to Your lotus feet.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

On the occasion of your appearance day, I got this opportunity to write about you though I am not qualified to do so.

Before I took shelter at your lotus feet in Alachua, FL in November 2019, I was still not confident that I can take up Krishna Consciousness for the rest of my life. After I took shelter at your lotus feet, things happened one after another and established my faith so strongly that I cannot even imagine my life without Krishna Consciousness. As I retrospect, I can clearly see that it is only because of your mercy that I could get connected to the parampara. Without Your mercy, I would have been one of the souls entangled in the material sufferings.

Your mercy is flowing endlessly and effectively in the form of Bhakti Vriksha programs that it is touching souls who were far away from Krishna like me and at once attracting them towards Krishna. If someone diligently attends and follows the instructions in that 60-week program then there is no way they can escape from your mercy.

Once connected, all we have to do is to just watch you to not get pulled down by Maya. Any problem, challenge or difficulty we face or may face in the future is much smaller than those that you have been overcoming throughout your life. Your ability to inspire and motivate thousands of disciples and millions of people only proves that you are fully empowered by Krishna and Srila Prabhupada to deliver us by spreading the Krishna Consciousness movement so far and wide.

Please bless us, your disciples, that we keep increasing our service to Krishna and never commit any offenses towards any Vaishnavas.

Your insignificant servant,

Patitapavana Balarama Das

Columbus, Ohio, USA