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Vyāsa-pūjā 2025

Vadim Venediktov ( - Russia)

Your Holiness Jayapatākā Swāmī,

Please receive my humble obeisances in the dust of your lotus feet.

All glories to your auspicious appearance day!
All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda!

When I first saw you and learned about you, I was amazed. You are the embodiment of the example of a devotee from the scriptures—the standard. What a strong, unbreakable desire to fulfill the will of your Gurudeva and live by it. Only through such personalities as you can one see and realize Śrī Kṛṣṇa.

I admire your example of courage and determination.

When I see requests on social media to pray for your health, this is a real benefit to me. It seems to me that this is done so that people like me can receive the mercy of Kṛṣṇa—His glance—by praying for a devotee so dear to His heart.

In Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.8.5, in the first paragraph of the purport, Śrīla Prabhupāda says that “one pure devotee of the Lord is capable of delivering all the fallen souls of this world. Therefore, one who closely associates with pure devotees like Nārada or Śukadeva Gosvāmī and receives empowerment from his spiritual master, as Nārada received from Brahmājī, by the power of his pure devotion can liberate not only himself but also the whole world from the bondage of māyā, illusion.”

To offer you my respects is my great fortune!

Venediktov Vadim
St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
Local Religious Organization
“St. Petersburg Society for Krishna Consciousness”
Sincere well-wisher