Vyāsa-pūjā 2023
Our dearest Spiritual father, guide, friend, external manifestation of Paramātmā and our well-wisher,
Please accept our respectful obeisances unto your divine lotus feet. All glories to you! All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda!
Every year during Vyāsa-pūjā, a disciple has to reflect on his Spiritual life the last year and offer the results for your pleasure. We see that you supersede a million of us put together in increasing your range of services in various areas. Your monthly letters are so moving, personal and heart-touching! How you find ways and means to connect to all of us is mind-boggling! As Kṛṣṇa promises in Bhagavad-gītā, ‘na me bhakta praṇaśyati’ your heart goes out to every disciple and you do Himalayan efforts to keep us engaged in devotional service in good association so that we won’t slip into Māyā.
You write in the app that you spent time in correspondence to show us that we can write to you and in spite of your super important busy services, you are available for us! You write in the app what you read Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam every day and you got the Bhakti-vaibhava degree.
This is with all your physical constraints - The things that we effortlessly do - get up, take a shower, walk, do ārati, read, make a phone call, read and answer emails, take prasāda - for all these and much more, you have to depend on someone’s help! And yet, the services you do in a day is only possible by a superhuman!
Guru Mahārāja, I am praying that I keep up the good faith in which you initiated me - I do the chanting of minimum 16 rounds and following the regulative principles and assist you in your service to Śrīla Prabhupāda day in and day out, ‘year in and year out ‘and ‘life in and life out’. I desire to eternally assist you in your service ‘to preach unlimitedly’. To be in the battlefield of preaching, we have to be always spiritually fit and practicing ourselves as we are being watched and then heard.
By your mercy, you are engaging us in services such Bhakti-vṛkṣa, book distribution, 18-day introductory Bhagavad-gītā course, kids’ classes.
This year by your mercy we started a new Bhakti-vṛkṣa and begging for your mercy to expand it and bring more people to the lotus feet of Śrīla Prabhupāda.
In the 18-day Bhagavad-gītā course we have 50 people attending from Toronto and Charlotte by your mercy and they are taking up chanting. Ten members from Tamil Bhakti-vṛkṣa under Tamil Gītā are chanting 16 rounds. Please give them your blessings to take your shelter.
By your mercy we had the opportunity to cook for Śrī Śrī Rādhā Kṣīracora Gopīnātha during Janmāṣṭamī, Rādhāṣṭamī and Govardhana-pūjā.
Due to the teamwork of devotees in Charlotte, we assisted you by distributing 325 Bhagavad-gītās during the December Marathon. Begging your blessings that we can increase our book distribution and Bhakti-vṛkṣa programs and outreach programs. All these are less than insignificant contribution to your dream that a significant number of world population take up Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
Praying for your good health and unhindered preaching unto the lotus feet of Lord Narasiṁhadeva.
Praying that we can serve you unconditionally, please forgive our offenses that we are committing in the name of chanting and services.
Begging your mercy on our sons so that they can take up Kṛṣṇa consciousness and serve Your Divine Grace.
Your insignificant servants,
Sevānanda Caitanya Dāsa
Lalitāṅgī Rādhā Devī Dās