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Vyāsa-pūjā 2025

Ayushi Sharma (Ivano-Frankivsk - Ukraine)

Hare Kṛṣṇa, my beloved Śrīla Guru Mahārāja,

Please accept my most respectful obeisances unto your beautiful lotus feet.
All glories to His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Śrīla Prabhupāda!
All glories to you, Śrīla Guru Mahārāja, on your 76th auspicious appearance day!

I am feeling immense bliss in offering this humble submission on your most sacred appearance day. It is my greatest fortune to be under your divine lotus feet and your merciful guidance.

I want to thank you deeply for always reciprocating with me, elevating me in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. No matter the situation, you are always there for each of us through your vāṇī and teachings. Especially your evening classes on Śrī Caitanya-śikṣāmṛta have been vital in my spiritual journey. Every day, I receive answers to my unsolved questions—without even asking, you understand my heart and solve my doubts. This shows how deeply compassionate and merciful you are to an insignificant fallen soul like me.

You fulfill my unheard prayers and desires, even through dreams. You always protect your children like a loving spiritual father. In this material world, no one can love me the way you do—you care for the soul, enduring pain and difficulty, yet continuing your preaching. Your strength and boldness in delivering the instructions of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu inspire me daily to follow in your footsteps and to one day make you proud.

All I desire is that you remain eternally my Gurudeva, lifetime after lifetime. I pray that I may always serve you with great love and unwavering attachment to your divine lotus feet. May my love, moment by moment, condense like fresh churned butter—pure and sweet—offered at your lotus feet, pleasing to you and to the butter-lover Śrī Śrī Rādhā Mādhava.

With all my heart and soul, I desire to serve you.

May your divine lotus feet forever remain the object of my meditation and the treasure of my love. May I become qualified to be your eternal servant of the servant of your lotus feet.

In 2021–2022, I wrote in my diary a manifestation:
"By 2025, I will be officially accepted by you as your spiritual daughter."
Now, I humbly beg at your lotus feet to please accept this poor, fallen, insignificant soul as your daughter—where my soul truly belongs.

Without your mercy and shelter, this life holds no value or meaning.

I have unwavering faith, and even during difficult times, when I witnessed your struggles with health, my heart trembled, yet my faith never broke. I knew, through your divine mercy, that one day you would accept me. That your compassion knows no bounds. That your love would guide me.

When I first saw you during the Spiritual Safari 2021, my soul experienced peace, bliss, and divine connection. It was clear to me that you are my eternal spiritual master, and your guidance would illuminate my path, which my soul had been yearning for.

I want to be your dedicated disciple, so I beg at your lotus feet:
Please make me a puppet in your divine hands. Guide me as you will.
After many lifetimes stuck in saṁsāra, I’ve forgotten my eternal relationship with Śrī Kṛṣṇa and with you, my spiritual master. Out of your causeless mercy, I have been blessed with this rare human birth, and now I realize its value. May it be properly used—for attaining prema-bhakti in this very life, and for following your every instruction, Guru Mahārāja.

As Śrīla Prabhupāda, our preeminent śikṣā-guru, wrote in his poem to Śrī Kṛṣṇa:

"I am just like a puppet in Your hands; You have brought me here, and now You can make me dance as You like."

On this most auspicious day of your appearance, I pray the same.
I know nothing. I am ignorant and trapped in material illusion. Now I surrender unto your divine lotus feet.

Millions and millions of times, I offer my daṇḍavat-praṇāmas unto your divine lotus feet and beg for your special blessings to become your loyal, insignificant, aspiring servant of the servant of your lotus feet.

I aspire to complete all spiritual degrees you frequently mention—Bhakti-śāstrī, Vaiṣṇava Vedānta, Vaibhava, and Sārvabhauma—in this lifetime, and to follow every single instruction of yours, and of guru, sādhus, and śāstra.

I pray to remain in the loving association of pure devotees, to never commit vaiṣṇava-aparādha, to be free from anarthas like anger, lust, pride, greed, ego, and material attachments, and to serve the guru-paramparā with my whole heart and soul, especially by living the Śikṣāṣṭakam prayers in thought, word, and deed.


All glories to His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Śrīla Prabhupāda,
the most magnanimous founder-ācārya of ISKCON.
All glories to Śrī Śrīmad His Holiness Jayapatākā Swami Śrīla Guru Mahārāja.
All glories to the 76th auspicious Vyāsa-pūjā appearance day of our glorious spiritual master!