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Vyāsa-pūjā 2025

Keśava-kāminī Devī Dāsī (Gaurāṅga Deśa - Middle East)

Hare Kṛṣṇa, Guru Mahārāja,

Offering prayers and obeisances unto You and Your lotus feet. Sending You my humble good wishes on the occasion of Your Vyāsa-pūjā, Guru Mahārāja.

Your Vyāsa-pūjā is like a new birth for us, Your disciples. Every time Vyāsa-pūjā comes and I have to write an offering, I always fall short of words—because Your mercy is like an ocean, and it is truly difficult to put it into words. But it is important to write for You, because everything I have received in my life has come only through You.

You gave me a name and identity—Keśavā Kāminī Devī Dāsī.
You taught us the stories and lessons given by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, especially when They came home in the form of Gaura-Nitāi.

When They first came to our home, I didn’t know how to dress Them, or how to prepare proper prasādam. But as time passed, as Bhagavān continued to reside in our home, I could feel mercy flowing into our home and our family.

With Your blessings, Guru Mahārāja, I also want to tell You that Lāḍū Gopāla has now come into our home. His name is Nīla Keśava. Even though You usually do not recommend the worship of Lāḍū Gopāla, I humbly wanted to share that by His mercy He has walked into our home, bringing His blessings upon us.

While offering prayers unto Your lotus feet, I beg You to please keep showering Your blessings upon me, so I may continue to serve more sincerely, uphold the name You have given me, and live by Your teachings.

Please bless me to chant the holy name without any offenses:

Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa,
Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/
Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma,
Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare

Please bless me, Guru Mahārāja, that along with my entire family—my son Rājvīr Singh, my daughter Saṁskṛti Singh, and my husband Sandeep Singh—we may all grow steadily in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Wherever we are, may we remain connected to Kṛṣṇa, continue serving Gaura-Nitāi, performing Tulasī-devī worship, following the four regulative principles, and always chanting the mahā-mantra, free from offenses.

Your endless kṛpā—Your mercy—cannot be captured in words. But I can only say:

O Gaurāṅga Prabhu! O Nityānanda Prabhu!
Please keep my Guru Mahārāja always healthy—in fact, so healthy that whenever he speaks kathā, he does so with complete open-heartedness and vitality.

Because when You, Guru Mahārāja, speak from Bhagavad-gītā, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, or Caitanya-līlāmṛta, those words become quotes that guide our lives. You preach relentlessly, without even considering Your own health. I always pray to Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva to protect You and give You strength, so You can constantly continue to serve the Lord by spreading His holy names.

Guru Mahārāja, I pray that You bless me so that I may never commit offenses—nor ever hurt anyone. When I preach, please bless me to do so properly and effectively, so more and more people come into Kṛṣṇa consciousness and serve the mission of Śrīla Prabhupāda open-heartedly.

By Your mercy, I recently came to my mother’s house in Uttar Pradesh, and with Your blessings, I was able to take Gāṅgā-snāna at Triveṇī Saṅgama. I also visited Durvāsā Dhāma, and had darśana of Vindhyavāsinī Mātā. I felt as if she was personally telling me: “It is by your Guru Mahārāja’s blessings that you are able to do all of this.”

Indeed, everything I am able to do in devotional life is only and only because of You.

I conduct Bhakti-vṛkṣa classes, but recently attendance has decreased. Some regular attendees have even changed their paramparā and taken dīkṣā elsewhere—not even connected to Kṛṣṇa consciousness—and did not inform me. This breaks my heart, and I feel as though I have failed as a preacher.

I am constantly thinking of how I can improve my preaching, so I can help expand the family of Śrīla Prabhupāda. I beg You, Guru Mahārāja, to please bless me that I may speak Your quotes in such a way that people become attracted to Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

I pray to always have the strength and good health to continue deity worship, to have more time and more energy for sevā and preaching, and to serve devotees continuously. I want to serve more and more, and for a longer time. Please give me physical strength and determination to do so.

May my family and I always engage in devotional service—observe Ekādaśī properly, perform special vows on the days of Gaura Pūrṇimā, Nṛsiṁha-caturdaśī, Janmāṣṭamī, and Rādhāṣṭamī—with deep devotion and under Your blessings.

Please give me more opportunities to serve. I pray that whatever You ask me to do, I will do it with a soft heart and reflect deeply upon Your words.

With all these prayers, I conclude my offering and pray again to Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva for Your good health. And I always pray that I may get a permanent place at Your lotus feet, and that Your quotes always stay within my heart.

Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa,
Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/
Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma,
Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare

Your spiritual daughter,
Keśavā Kāminī Devī Dāsī
(Gaurāṅga-deśa Yātrā, Dubai)