Vyāsa-pūjā 2025
Vyāsa-pūjā Offering 2025
Pāvanī Gaura-priyā Devī Dāsī
My dear Guru Mahārāja, Spiritual Father,
Please accept my most respectful and grateful obeisances at Your lotus feet.
All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda!
All glories to Your Divine Grace!
This is my first Vyāsa-pūjā offering since you most mercifully accepted me (as well as my husband, Manohara Śrī Gaura Dāsa) as your disciple on 10th April 2024 in Vṛndāvana. My greatest fortune has been granted to me by you—nitāi-kṛpā-pradāyine. My gratitude goes out to His Divine Grace Śrīla Prabhupāda for arranging everything, and to Lord Nityānanda, Lord Balarāma, for bestowing hope, strength, and mercy upon me to become a part of the guru-paramparā.
My endeavor will be to become a good disciple to you in all possible ways. Your compassion for fallen, suffering souls like me gives me the determination to follow your instructions with all my might. You are voluntarily accepting such great hardships for our sake that we feel deeply guilty for our sins and offenses. It reminds me to stay alert and never be slack in my chanting vows, in following the regulative principles, in doing any service, and in avoiding offenses.
My daily prayers to Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva are to protect you in all ways, at all times, and never let any suffering affect you. Your presence gives hope to millions of devotees.
Listening to your lectures makes my faith in Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu firm and steady. The desire to read Caitanya-caritāmṛta daily has developed in me. The way you connect Lord Caitanya’s teachings and pastimes to everything, the enthusiasm and energy with which you loudly call out "Gaurāṅga!"—just pierces my hard heart and injects the realization of this great opportunity to acquire Kṛṣṇa-prema so easily.
Observing your deep connection to your Guru, Śrīla Prabhupāda, and your wholehearted, single-minded dedication to serve him, makes me desire the same connection with you. I am inspired and wish to imbibe these wonderful qualities that you have. You are the perfect idol in my life whom I want to follow and emulate in many, many ways.
I really look forward to your daily detailed messages regarding your services. They make me wonder how you are able to achieve so much. Your prayers to the Lord for our Kṛṣṇa consciousness and well-being warm our hearts with an assurance that you are always looking after us with causeless love. I have never felt so protected and taken care of. Koṭi-koṭi-koṭi thanks to you will not be enough to express my gratitude to you.
I can feel that you are helping me every moment during the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and Bhagavad-gītā reading sessions which I have undertaken by relying on your and Śrīla Prabhupāda’s blessings. You are giving me the understanding I need, and the right thoughts and words to explain the verses. Kindly bless me that I continue to preach and never get affected by anarthas like lust, pride, anger, etc.
All glories always to you.
All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda.
All glories to Gaurāṅga.
My only wish is that I always remain at your service in Śrīla Prabhupāda’s and Lord Gaurāṅga’s mission.
Your spiritual daughter,
Pāvanī Gaura-priyā Devī Dāsī