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Vyāsa-pūjā 2025

Abhaya Viśvambhara Miśra Dāsa (Pune - NVCC Temple - India)

oṁ ajñāna-timirāndhasya jñānāñjana-śalākayā
cakṣur unmīlitaṁ yena tasmai śrī-gurave namaḥ

nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale
śrīmate jayapatāka svāmin iti nāmine
nama ācaryapādāya nitāi-kṛpā-pradāyine
gaura-kathā-dhāma-dāya nagara-grāma-tāriṇe

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

All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda, all glories to you, Guru Mahārāja!

I want to express my sincere gratitude to you for showing me the path of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Your sincere concern for all fallen souls like us is evident in the many ways you continuously shower mercy, including your nectarean gaura-kathā broadcast online every evening.

brahmāṇḍa bhramite kona bhāgyavān jīva
guru-kṛṣṇa-prasāde pāya bhakti-latā-bīja

"Out of many millions of wandering living entities, one who is very fortunate gets an opportunity to associate with a bona fide spiritual master by the grace of Kṛṣṇa. By the mercy of both Kṛṣṇa and the spiritual master, such a person receives the seed of the creeper of devotional service."

By the mercy and blessings of Śrī Śrī Rādhā-Madana-mohana and Śrī Śrī Gaura-Nitāi (ISKCON Kharghar), I am fortunate to have been guided and supported by Their Lordships to take initiation from you, Guru Mahārāja.

After hearing so many glorious pastimes of you, narrated by your sincere and dedicated disciples in JSSS meetings, with my limited intelligence, I've understood that you are concerned and caring for everyone around the world. You give so much of your time and energy to everyone without concern for your own health.

The least I can do as your disciple is to ensure that I serve everyone around me, especially Vaiṣṇavas, with utmost sincerity and aim to please them. This quality of yours is something I am always amazed by, and by your mercy, I hope to imbibe such wonderful qualities and help others as well.

I would like to offer my prayers at your lotus feet, as written by Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura, for a foolish disciple like myself, who doesn't even know how to offer proper prayers:

kṛṣṇa se tomāra, kṛṣṇa dīte pāro,
tomāra śakati āche
āmi to' kāṅgāla, 'kṛṣṇa' 'kṛṣṇa' boli',
dhāi tava pāche pāche

Kṛṣṇa is yours. You have the power to give Him to me. I am simply your servant running behind you shouting, "Kṛṣṇa! Kṛṣṇa!"

I sincerely pray at your lotus feet that I may serve you all my life as a true, bona fide disciple, assisting you in fulfilling the orders of Śrīla Prabhupāda in ISKCON.

Your loving spiritual son,
Abhaya Viśvambhara Miśra Dāsa