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Vyāsa-pūjā 2025

Sāsvata Nimāi Dāsa (Kolkata - India)

Hare Kṛṣṇa, Guru Mahārāja!

Please accept our most humble obeisances unto Your lotus feet.

All glories to Śrīla Guru and Gaurāṅga!
All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda!

Guru Mahārāja, thank you for everything good in my life. I am very fallen and conditioned, and yet You continue to bestow upon me Your blessings and guidance so that I am able to continue my bhakti life. Your greatness is unimaginable. All glories unto You!

In 2021, on the eve of Ratha-yātrā, we were bestowed with our daughter, whom Your Holiness kindly named Hemāṅgī / Haritā. We were able to perform all the saṁskāras to date amidst many challenges with the support of our senior godbrothers, and we are forever grateful to you for giving us such a loving family. However, in none of the saṁskāras, including Annaprāśana, could we get your direct blessings or physical presence. Hence, although we know that being the eternal spiritual master, You are always there with us, still we felt that emptiness.

We decided to perform the Vidyārambha-saṁskāra on Nityānanda Trayodaśī day in Kolkata in 2024, with the blessings of one of our senior godbrother sannyāsīs—His Holiness Bhakti Vijaya Bhagavat Swami—and prepared for the program at Nazrul Mancha with the Gītā Study Course devotees. Upon reaching there, we suddenly got to know that You were coming, and very unexpectedly, all our senior godbrothers helped us reach You. You very mercifully performed the Vidyārambha of my daughter Hemāṅgī on that day. We felt very happy and complete, since it was totally unexpected and You fulfilled our hidden desire so mercifully. Thank you, Guru Mahārāja!

Guru Mahārāja, I am now going through a very challenging phase in my workplace. Never before have I been under so much stress every day, with so little time for myself. I am missing the temple services and other duties I am supposed to offer to ISKCON. This year I was able to complete the Bhakti-vaibhava Module 1 (with the projects and ślokas still left to be submitted), and I am sure that by Your mercy, good times will come. I look forward to regularly serving in the movement, with eagerness to serve more.

Our daughter already seems to be connected to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, and we hope that by her strength, we may someday be able to do unflinching bhakti. Please bless me with unwavering faith and a sincere desire to serve the mission of Śrīla Prabhupāda.

Please bless me and my good wife, Pṛti Lalitā Devī Dāsī, so that pleasing Your Holiness becomes our life and soul. At this stage of neophyte devotion, it seems a myth, but we pray and beg for Your causeless mercy so that we may please You someday with our services. Please bless us that day comes soon.

Please accept my most humble obeisances once again—also on behalf of my good wife, Pṛti Lalitā Devī Dāsī, and daughter Hemāṅgī.

Your fallen, insignificant servant,
Śāśvata Nimai Dāsa
(Dīkṣā disciple)
Kolkata, India