Vyāsa-pūjā 2021

Srila Gurudev,

Please accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to Gauranga Nityananda.

All glories to Srila Prabhupad's Sankirtana movement.

Srila Gurudev,  I feel most fortunate to have your Holiness's mercy in my life.

You inspire daily, by your dedication to Guru and Gauranga.

Your love to Srila Prabhupad, your dedication to his instructions is really setting an example of how to serve one's own Guru.

We are not fortunate to have direct association of Srila Prabhupad , but when we see how you are serving, we can only slightly begin to understand with limited capacity what kind of mercy Srila Prabhupad has provided to us and how blessing us with pure Vaishanvas like your Grace we are able to glimpse of how it could have been in Srila Prabhupad's association.

I keep in touch with you via your Jayaptaka Swami app on my phone. Seeing your attendance to Mangala Arathi, Tulasi Seva and visits to temples, devotee houses is amazing.

You are occupied by soo many meetings throughout the day thinking about the real welfare of people.

You are proving that you are a Sanyasi, even in this pandemic you don't stop, you keep moving virtually.

Anyone can say ah Im in Mayapur, is a Dham taking Darshan of these deities is enough, but you continue to visit soo many temples on Youtube, take darshan of the deities all over the world.

You are so practical in your advice in the Covid -19 situation, you tell us to be responsible. You tell 

I listen to your daily evening classes on Lord Chaitanya , His followers and pastimes on Youtube, and occasionaly come on zoom to seek your Grace's blessings, I wish I am able to do it more and more regularly.

You advice us to become mature devotees, take Krishna Consciousness seriously, and as this material world is filled with miseries and danger at every step, we are short lived, we are to not stick around this material world. 

Whenever I think of this hard life of material existence, and happen to remember you I feel at peace.

Sometimes when I attend your online classes it's heart wrenching to see that you in such a difficult health situation, you still continue with wonderful classes, deal with so much correspondence, under take soo many responsibilities vested upon you as a GBC.

I feel ashamed of myself, that I am not able to inculcate your instructions and become a more mature devotee, contribute to preaching and book distribution activities.

Whenever I think of this hard life of material existence, anxiety etc, I happen to remember you I feel at peace and comforted. I always remember there is my Srila Gurudev who is still overseeing us all. Srila Gurudev also prays to Krishna on behalf of us.

Srila Gurudev, I am heavily indebted to your mercy in my life. I pray again to you only, to help me in chanting very good rounds, excellent book distribution, preaching activities, serving the wonderful Vaishnavas.

I wish to do some humble offerings to your Grace. This is my only wish.

This is my tiny attempt to write, it's meager but I pray I may contribute significantly in the future.

Your eternal servant

Vandita Subharda Devi Dasi, Sri Jaganath Mandir, Bangalore