Vyāsa-pūjā 2024

Dear Guru Mahārāja,

Please accept our respectful obeisances unto your lotus feet. All glories to you and all glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda and our Guru-paramparā!

Your service to Śrīla Prabhupāda is commendable we do not qualify in any way but for our purification, so we are writing this. You are doing so many services to Śrīla Prabhupāda, for example, recently you opened the Śrī Narasiṁhadeva altar in TOVP, and you have completed the target of 50,000 disciples, We have heard now it is around 70,000 disciples, you want all your disciples to study Śrīla Prabhupāda books so you are leading by example to go through Bhakti-śāstrī, Bhakti-vaibhava, and Bhakti-vedānta what a wonderful way to teach us.

You have compiled the Caitanya-līlā book, we are eagerly waiting to purchase and read the book. You are innovatively doing the book distribution and trying to fulfill your service to Śrīla Prabhupāda. You are doing the Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu pāduka installation in various places where Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu visited. You are perfectly following Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s instruction of whoever sees and wherever going preaching Kṛṣṇa consciousness, the best example is preaching in trains and preaching in hospitals. You are leading by example how co-operatively working for Kṛṣṇa’s service with your godbrothers.

With your blessings, we have been doing full-time service at ISKCON Whitefield from 2022 Nov to till now. In your mail, you ordered us to do the preaching, so we started our preaching under the guidance of His Grace Harikṣetra Prabhujī and other senior Vaiṣṇavas by starting two Bhakti-vṛkṣa near our temple construction to create a congregation for our temple. Recently we shifted to live nearby temple construction site to serve more. Apart from weekend preaching we are doing online book distribution, helping in the following services conducting exams and co-ordination for shelter/initiation services with the JPS office, compilation of temple documentation, getting government approvals, accounts-related services, and BBT book ordering. Both of us completed Bhakti-śāstrī and now I am pursuing Bhakti-vaibhava.

On this auspicious day, we are recommitting our vows taken at the time of initiation, a minimum of 16 rounds of Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra chanting on beads daily, following 4 regulative principles strictly, and helping in preaching. My son is cooperating in our services and helping in many ways with us and some of the temple services. Kindly bless us to do more services and our Bhakti-vṛkṣa members to become devotees of the Lord, we are just instruments in the hands of you and Gaurāṅga.

Your Spiritual Children,

Kṛṣṇa Karuṇāmūrti Dāsa

Yoginī Yamunā Devī Dāsī

Hemachandar K