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Vyāsa-pūjā 2025

Vṛndāvana Gopāla Dāsa ( - Russia)

Dear Guru Mahārāja,
Please accept my humble obeisances in the dust of your lotus feet. All glories to Your Divine Grace. All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda. 

Let me glorify the blessed day of your appearance. Because you are in this world now, I still have a chance to find love for God. I am constantly amazed by your growing desire to make all people happy. To realize this grandiose plan, you are working tirelessly, putting all your strength into it. This desire manifested itself in the compassionate heart of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, and thanks to your selfless love for His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedānta Swami Prabhupāda, it also became your desire. 

My mind has never imagined such intensity and determination in spiritual practice as I see in your life, and it has no choice but to give up. Last summer, I completed my Bhakti-vaibhava course. Without your example and without your guidance, I certainly would not have gone to study Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam because of my natural laziness. And even if I had gone to study, thanks to some unknown miracle, I would certainly have become proud, and nullified all the benefits of Vaiṣṇava education. Without the example of determination and dedication that you show to your disciples, I think I would have been able to hold out until the first exams, nothing more, because it cost me a lot of effort. Thanks to these efforts, the quality of the preaching in the lectures that I give has increased by an order of magnitude. The quality of communication with those devotees who have chosen me as a mentor has also improved. 

Thanks to the lectures that you regularly give for our benefit, last year I was lucky enough to join a small group of your sincere students, with whom we regularly discuss your guidance that you give in lectures. This has greatly enlivened my spiritual life, and has further increased the immense sense of gratitude I feel for you.

Your dīkṣā disciple,
Vṛndāvana Gopāla dāsa
Russia, Smolensk