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Vyāsa-pūjā 2025

Vrajeśvara Gaura Dāsa (Mayapur - India)

Om anjana timirandasya jnananjana salakaya

cakshur unmilitam yena tasmai sri Gurave namah!

 

Nama Om vishnu padaya krsna prastaya bhutale

Srimate Jayapataka Swamin iti namine

Namo acarya padaya Nittaya Krpa pradayine

Gaura kata Dhama daya nagara grama tarine

 

Nama Om vishnu padaya krsna prastaya bhutale

Srimate Bhaktivedanta  Swamin iti namine

Namaste Saraswati deve Gaura vani Pracarine

Nirvisesa sunyawadi paschatya desa tarine

 

Dearmost Gurumaharaj,

 

Please accept my respectful obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

 

I offer my respects to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Sri Krishna Caitanya Mahaprabhu, by whose mercy I have become your disciple and suddenly taken to the writing glorification of your divine self, although I am a fool.

 

Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto Sri Krishna Caitanya Mahaprabhu, who is known as Gaurasundara. I also offer my respectful obeisances unto Nityananda Prabhu, who is always very joyful and whose mercy is unlimited!!!.

 

Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto Advaita Acarya, who is very merciful, and to that great personality Gadadhara Paṇḍita, the learned scholar.

 

Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto Srivasa Ṭhakura and all the other devotees of the Lord. I fall down to offer them respect. I worship their lotus feet.

 

By remembering the lotus feet of the Panca-tattva, a dumb man can become a poet, a lame man can cross mountains, and a blind man can see the stars in the sky.

 

Let me offer my obeisances to our dear ISKCON Founder acarya again. Let me offer my obeisances to each one in the ISKCON guru vrinda which includes the future gurus.  And let me offer my obeisances to all your disciples irrespective of junior, senior, male or female.

 

If a person offers obeisances to you, even due to accepting you only as an ordinary sannyasi, his material distresses will diminish, and he will ultimately get liberation.

 

By cultivating philosophical knowledge one can understand his spiritual position and thus be liberated, and by performing sacrifices and pious activities one can achieve sense gratification in a higher planetary system, but the devotional service of the Lord is so rare that even by executing hundreds and thousands of such sacrifices one cannot obtain it, but you are simply performing the devotional service  also teaching us and you always engage us into such direct devotional service! This is quite amazing!!

 

If a devotee wants liberation or material sense gratification from the Lord, Kṛṣṇa immediately delivers it, but pure devotional service He keeps hidden. However, you openly perform the pure unalloyed loving devotional service which is visible to even our materialistic eyes by your divine mercy, and also you give us the mercy, potency to perform, and sukriti to follow you. This is quite astonishing!!

 

Lord Sri Krishna Caitanya Mahaprabhu has freely given  love of Kṛṣṇa everywhere and anywhere, even to the most fallen, such as Jagai and Madhai. You are perfectly representing Lord Caitanya in this regard and distribute freely  all time the very same love of Gauranga to one and all. You,  as the representative of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is fully independent and inconceivable. Therefore, although it is the most confidentially stored benediction, You  can distribute love of Gauranga to anyone and everyone without consideration.

 

Whether  offensive or inoffensive, anyone who chants the Hare Krishna Maha Mantra for long time and still not experiencing the bliss, you engage him in chanting Sri-kṛishna-caitanya prabho-Nityananda and he is immediately overwhelmed with ecstasy, and tears fill his eyes.

 

Simply by talking of you one awakens his love for Gauranga. Thus all his bodily limbs are agitated by ecstasy, and tears flow from his eyes like the waters of the Ganges. On this most auspiscious day of  your vyasa puja it is evidently seen and experienced by all your dear disciples.

 

The whole world is waiting to read Your Lord Caitanya Book! By reading this book anyone  can understand all the glories of Sri  Caitanya Mahaprabhu. As Vyasadeva has compiled all the pastimes of Lord Kṛishna in Srimad Bhagavatam, You have compiled the pastimes of Lord Caitanya consolidating all the exalted Vaishnava thakur's writings about Lord  Gaura Hari. Hearing this book annihilates all misfortune. By reading Lord Caitanya book  one can understand all the glories and truths of Lord Caitanya and Nityananda and come to the ultimate conclusion of devotional service to Lord Kṛṣṇa. In this book you have reflected the same conclusion and essence of devotional service by quoting the authoritative statements of  Srimad Bhagavatam as quoted by previous acaryas. If even a great atheist hears this Lord Caitanya book, he immediately will become  a great devotee. The subject matter of this book is so sublime that it appears that Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu has personally spoken through the writings of different authors who in turn spoke through your lotus mouth. I offer millions of obeisances unto the lotus feet of all these authors and you the consolidated compiler of all such wonderful narrations.  No one else could write such a wonderful book for the deliverance of all fallen souls. This I mention here before the book is released because I heard this as you were working on it and sometimes you very kindly and mercifully engaged me as  part of this transcendental service.

 

It has become a  well-known fact by your causeless mercy that, Simply chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra without offenses vanquishes all sinful activities. And pure devotional service, which is the cause of love of Godhead, becomes manifest. There are offenses to be considered while chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra. Therefore, simply by chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa one does not become ecstatic. But You by making him chant the panca tattva maha mantra make him feel the ecstacy of chanting the Holi name.

 

But Oh, my beloved master, my heart does not change, tears do not flow from my eyes, my body does not shiver, and my bodily hairs do not stand on end as I chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa maha-mantra, which means it should be understood that my heart is as hard as iron. And this must be due to my offenses at the lotus feet of the Lord’s holy name. Although as a result of chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa maha-mantra, one makes such great advancement in spiritual life that simultaneously his material existence terminates and he receives love of Godhead, this does not become  applicable to me. Though the holy name of Kṛishna is so powerful that by chanting even one name, one very easily achieves these transcendental riches, I am so unfortunate that repeatedly by committing offenses whether knowingly or unknowingly I lose all such transcendence again and again! I chant the exalted holy name of the Lord again and again and yet my  love for the Supreme Lord does not develop and tears do not appear in my eyes, This  is the evidence that because of my offenses in chanting, the seed of the holy name of Kṛishna does not sprout. As the devotional services increase so should one's bliss and potency to perform more devotional service. However, in my case only the offenses are increasing. It is due my iron heart that doesn't melt at your transcendentally amazing wonderful spotless character and exalted qualities.

 

So, On this most auspiscious day of my eternal existence, I fall at the lotus feet of all Vaishnava spiritual masters starting from Sri Krishna Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Sri Nityananda Prabhu who are the supreme spiritual masters and till the last disciple of your divine self inclusive and beg forgiveness for my unlimited offenses that I have committed. Also I pray that may my offensive mentality be totally terminated at once and let me be established in pure unalloyed loving devotional service without any tinge of attachment to anything material gross or subtle. May my existence be known only by such dedicated love and services unto your divine lotus feet Guru Maharaj and not by any other means.

 

Vanca kalpatarubyas ca Krupa  sindhubya eve ca

patitanam pavanebyo vaishnavebyo namon amah.

 

Dearmost Guru Maharaj, I desire to be in your service eternally without cessation and I seek your blessings and mercy for this. Kindly keep me engaged in your service so that I would remain eternally your friend and servant.

 

Your eternal servant and aspiring friend

Vrajeshwar Gaura Das