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Vyāsa-pūjā 2025

Priyātmā Caitanya Dāsa (Kanpur - India)

Hare Kṛṣṇa, Guru Mahārāja,

Please accept my most humble obeisances at the dust of your lotus feet.
All glories to you and Śrīla Prabhupāda.
All glories to your auspicious appearance day.


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


Respected Guru Mahārāja,

I feel completely unqualified to glorify you, but for your pleasure, I will try to express my sincere gratitude to you in a few words.

I am eternally grateful to you, as you accepted me under your shelter in May 2022 in Patna. Currently, by your mercy, I am engaged in online preaching and preaching services in ISKCON Rishikesh and serving the ISKCON Kanpur temple financially by giving monthly donations. I am greatly inspired by your unwavering commitment to preach Kṛṣṇa consciousness all over the world and fulfill the mission of Śrīla Prabhupāda and Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.

As prophesied by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu in the Caitanya-bhāgavata:

pṛthivīte āche yata nagarādi-grāma
sarvatra pracāra haibe mora nāma

“In every town and village of the world, My name will be heard.”

I feel so fortunate to witness you fulfilling this very prophecy. Even though you are undergoing many bodily inconveniences and health challenges, still you are traveling all over the world to spread the holy name of Kṛṣṇa and Caitanya Mahāprabhu. I feel greatly fortunate to be a recipient of this great mercy of yours.

Recently, you also inaugurated the great Candrodaya Mandira of Māyāpur, which was envisioned by Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura. Surely, this great service of yours will help connect sincere souls all over the world to the lotus feet of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu by attracting them to Śrīdhāma Māyāpur.

Your nectarean lectures are my only shelter in difficult times. Whenever I feel low in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, your taste for Gaurakathā and the holy name inspires me to sincerely take shelter of the name myself and follow the instructions you so mercifully give through your lectures.

I am especially grateful to you for responding to all my emails whenever I write to you. Indeed, it is inconceivable how you take such wonderful and personal care of each and every one of your more than 70,000 disciples.

On this most auspicious day of your appearance, I pray at your lotus feet that I may never forget you and that whatever I do, I may do it as service to your lotus feet, and in the mood of the servant of the servant of all Vaiṣṇavas.

By your mercy, may I also become an instrument in spreading the holy name of Kṛṣṇa to one and all, and may I serve the mission of Śrīla Prabhupāda and Caitanya Mahāprabhu to the best of my capacity—for your pleasure and the pleasure of all Vaiṣṇavas.

Your eternal servant,
Priyatma Caitanya Dāsa