Europe & Russia, Homages ISKCON Centers, VP2026
Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda,
Please accept our humble obeisances at your lotus feet on this wonderful day of your appearance! All glories to you!
We glorify you on this day and on all other days throughout the year, and from year to year. Every ISKCON devotee feels gratitude toward and love for you. There is no official membership in our society, but we are united by one goal – pure devotional service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, performed by a pure soul. And you are the personification of this goal, our inspiration, and an amazing example – our ācārya. Therefore, the day of your appearance is a special celebration, and the feelings we experience on this day are accessible only to us, your followers, and this is our treasure.
In our yātrā, devotees always really want to make a special festival on your appearance day in order to somehow express their gratitude and their emotions. Despite the difficulties that the modern world is trying to overcome, devotees continue to serve Kṛṣṇa and glorify Him in all situations. We have learned this from you through your books, lectures, and personal example. We continue to study further, and along with this, our feelings of love and gratitude toward you are constantly increasing. Every time we read your books – over and over again – new aspects of sublime spiritual knowledge are revealed to us, and our desire to improve devotional service to Kṛṣṇa and give up our material attachments increases.
Every time we listen to stories about you, we are amazed at the example of your purity, simplicity, and single-mindedness in wanting to satisfy your spiritual master. Every time we come in contact with your disciples, we see their boundless devotion and appreciation for you. Every time we come in contact with the company of devotees, we remember the purpose of our existence and are filled with happiness and the mood of selfless service to Kṛṣṇa.
How fortunate and blessed we are now to see the smiles of the Vaiṣṇavas. For us, there are thousands of positive sources of Kṛṣṇa consciousness that have come and continue to come from you.
We would like to change our lives so that we can truly call ourselves a “Prabhupāda man.” Thanks to you, all the riches of the spiritual world are open to us, and we have the power to turn everything you wanted into reality. All we need to do is to let you into our hearts, removing all barriers, and this can be done if we continue to follow your instructions and adhere to the society of ISKCON devotees.
Śrīla Prabhupāda, please accept our attempts at service and give us your smile.
Aspiring to be servants of your servants,
Devotees at ISKCON St. Petersburg, Russia
Europe & Russia, Homages ISKCON Centers, VP2026
Hare Kṛṣṇa, dear Śrīla Prabhupāda,
Please accept the humble obeisances of the devotees at the Stuttgart yātrā. All glories to Your lotus feet.
You glorify your spiritual master by your example and deep devotion, and in doing so, show us the greatest example. Your instructions and the legacy you left for the devotees are for us oṁ ajñāna-timirāndhasya, and the torch of knowledge burns, showing the way, purifying with its light our ignorance and selfishness.
By your blessing on our living, strong, and friendly local community, we are happy to inform you of the welcoming of more and more local followers. Regular, stable programs are held at the yātrā, delicacies are prepared for the Deities, devotees are trained in practical etiquette, and Vaiṣṇava education is applied with eager desire. Thematic lectures are held where the speakers generously share knowledge from heart to heart – and this is experienced when we see their shining eyes, deepening questions, and curiosity.
Thanks to your enthusiasm for glorifying and chanting the holy name, we continue to carry it forward, offering lessons on musical instruments. For the inquisitive and insatiable, we conduct Sanskrit lessons and readings from the Bhāgavatam.
During the harināma held on April 11, 2026, we distributed 340 plates of prasādam and 46 books. Lakṣmī, fruit, a bottle of milk, and a stuffed toy for the Deities were donated to the temple. A new person joined the program from the harināma, hearing about the holy name for the first time. He sat and listened attentively to the kirtan with tears in his eyes, and his consciousness was transformed.
Our prayer to you is that you please allow our Stuttgart mini-temple to eternally serve your lotus feet. May we always be among our brothers and sisters – all sincere followers. Allow that which you spoke to continue to resound, and allow us to act as you acted so that the holy name, as foretold by Lord Caitanya, “may be heard in every town and village.” May the people we meet take shelter in your association, and may the devotees become more and more numerous. Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda, please accept these humble offerings and efforts so that we may become just as you wish to see us.
Your servants,
The devotees of ISKCON Stuttgart
Europe & Russia, Homages ISKCON Centers, VP2026
Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda,
Please accept my most humble obeisances in the dust of your lotus feet. All glories to Your Divine Grace!
This blessed day of your Vyāsa-pūjā is yet another wonderful opportunity to immerse myself in meditation on your lotus feet. They are the only shelter for all of us – the conditioned souls. In the Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta (Madhya 19.151) it is said:
brahmāṇḍa bhramite kona bhāgyavān jīva
guru-kṛṣṇa-prasāde pāya bhakti-latā-bīja
According to their karma, all living entities are wandering throughout the entire universe. Some of them are being elevated to the upper planetary systems, and some are going to the lower planetary systems. Out of many millions of wandering living entities, one who is very fortunate gets an opportunity to associate with a bona fide spiritual master by the grace of Kṛṣṇa. By the mercy of both Kṛṣṇa and the spiritual master, such a person receives the seed of the creeper of devotional service.
On our journey, we have met many teachers, yet we have never become truly happy. For how can anyone find happiness without being connected to the source of all bliss?
Kṛṣ indicates “the all-attractive existence,” and ṇa indicates “spiritual pleasure.” Thus, only Kṛṣṇa can bestow true happiness upon us. How, then, can we establish a connection with Him? He answers this Himself in the Bhagavad-gītā (4.34): tad viddhi praṇipātena paripraśnena sevayā – “Just try to learn the truth by approaching a spiritual master …”
Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda, you taught us devotional service and, by doing so, have given us real life, for can service to one’s own material senses truly be called life? Serving dead matter makes the consciousness increasingly material and condemns the living entity to descend into lower forms of existence. This is nothing other than spiritual death.
All of humanity today is following this false path. However, the Lord is most merciful to the fallen souls. He appeared as Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and gave the world His saṅkīrtana movement – the congregational chanting of the holy names of Kṛṣṇa. This is the only method capable of dissipating the darkness of ignorance in this age.
Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda, it was the Lord’s desire that you, specifically, should lead His movement in this world, and therefore you are our only hope. Since the moment your lotus feet stepped onto Western soil, the entire world has been given the chance to join the saṅkīrtana movement of Lord Caitanya. Everyone can now, in one way or another, serve this movement and chant the names of Kṛṣṇa.
The mercy of Kṛṣṇa flows through your lotus feet. Anyone can find shelter at those feet and thus be delivered from the fear and suffering of material existence. Those feet are the only means to attain pure devotion and love for Kṛṣṇa. The only thing required for this is faith.
Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda, please be kind to this fallen soul and grant me deep and unshakable faith in your lotus feet and in the mercy of the holy name so that life after life, I may serve you with pure love.
Your unworthy servant of your servants,
Vāmana Dāsa, temple president
Europe & Russia, Homages ISKCON Centers, VP2026
Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda,
nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale
śrīmate bhaktivedānta-svāminn iti nāmine
namas te sārasvate deve gaura-vāṇī-pracāriṇe
nirviśeṣa-śūnyavādi-pāścātya-deśa-tāriṇe
Please accept our humble obeisances at your lotus feet on this holy day, the anniversary of your appearance. On this day, which is the most important day for us, we gather as a community united by your mercy to offer you our hearts filled with gratitude.
Looking at our lives, we are overcome by a profound and stirring realization: had we not had the opportunity to encounter this unique spiritual movement initiated by your unconditional grace, we would still be lost today in the utter darkness of ignorance. Without your divine intervention, we would have remained prisoners in the pursuit of fleeting pleasures, strangers to the concept of true spiritual happiness, and without any real chance of liberation from the merciless clutches of Māyā.
It was Your Divine Grace who shattered the walls of illusion in which we lived. Through your example you gave us the vision necessary to understand that we are eternal servants of Kṛṣṇa, transforming a purposeless existence into a life dedicated to the Absolute. Through your kindness, that which was once completely unknown to us – love of God – has now become the ideal of each of us, an ideal we strive to place at the center of our community’s life.
Thank you for not leaving us prey to the despair of this Kali-yuga. Every moment we gather for harināma, every page we read from your books, and every portion of prasādam shared within our community is a testament to your victory over the ignorance that once held us captive.
We desperately beg for your mercy and blessing that we may be able to fulfill your desire to cooperate and succeed in the only mission for which it is worth living and dying in this world: the spreading of the chanting of the holy name to every village and city. We ask for your blessings to remain forever in the shelter of your lotus feet, the only place where Māyā cannot touch us.
Your servants,
The devotees of ISKCON Timişoara
Europe & Russia, Homages ISKCON Centers, VP2026
Our most dear and worshipful A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, all glories to you.
From Shadow to Service: Our Lives Awakened by Your Mercy
From time without beginning, we wandering jīvas
turn upon the wheel of our own choosing,
misdirecting that fragment of freedom,
turning away from our natural harmony with the Divine.
Covered by the ever-changing conditions of material nature,
we pass from one body to another,
sometimes rising, sometimes falling,
yet always mistaking the temporary for the eternal,
the reflection for the substance.
Thus, in ignorance, we too have wandered,
chasing fleeting shadows of happiness
across the vast expanse of repeated birth and death,
embracing again and again
that which can never satisfy the soul.
Bound by action and reaction,
and influenced by the three modes of material nature,
we have remained forgetful of our eternal identity
and of our loving relationship
with the Supreme Lord, Kṛṣṇa.
But you, O Śrīla Prabhupāda,
did not come into this world
under such conditions.
You did not arrive driven by karma,
nor compelled by the forces that bind the ordinary soul.
You were sent,
sent by the Supreme Lord Himself
as an instrument of His divine will
to awaken those who had forgotten Him.
An ever-liberated soul,
untouched by illusion,
you appeared among us as if one of us,
walking, speaking, acting within this world,
yet always established in transcendence.
An eternal servant of the Lord of Vraja,
a resident of Goloka Vṛndāvana,
you came to fulfill the deepest desire
of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu
that the holy names of the Lord
be heard in every town and village,
and that the sleeping souls of this age
be awakened to their eternal life of devotion.
Carrying forward the current of divine grace
revealed by Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura,
and powerfully established by
Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura,
You crossed oceans, cultures, and boundaries,
planting the seed of devotion
in hearts that had never before heard the name of Kṛṣṇa.
O Śrīla Prabhupāda, all glories to you,
At a time when our hearts were awakening
from the barren landscape of misunderstanding,
we found ourselves suspended in a strange emptiness,
caught in the painful grip of illusion.
Having wandered without direction,
having acted in ignorance,
we remained deprived of our eternal relationship
with Him – the Absolute Truth,
the Supreme Beauty.
Ignorant of His form, His abode, and His pastimes,
we found no true happiness
in this chaotic and suffering world.
In that helpless condition,
with all our hearts, our entire being, we prayed,
that someone who truly knew Him,
who had seen Him,
who lived in devotion to Him,
might come and guide us.
And by your causeless mercy,
you came.
Without delay,
you revealed the Supreme Person, Śrī Kṛṣṇa,
not as an abstract conception,
but as the all-attractive Lord of the heart.
You revealed Rādhā,
the highest embodiment of divine love,
and through your teachings,
you opened before us
the vision of an eternal spiritual family
we did not know we had lost.
You revealed the path of devotion,
not as sentiment,
but as the eternal function of the soul,
and by your mercy alone,
we came to take shelter
at your lotus feet.
Yet, O most merciful Śrīla Prabhupāda,
the shadows of illusion do not disappear at once,
and still, your compassion never diminishes.
Conditioned since time without beginning,
our hearts could not at once
cast off the coverings of forgetfulness,
yet you never abandon us.
For such is your mystic kindness:
that even through the movements of this world,
you guide, you arrange, you transform.
The experiences come,
sometimes gentle, sometimes severe,
yet never without purpose,
never beyond your care.
For you are always there,
not only as the instructing master,
but as the unseen guide of our lives,
quietly directing, carefully shaping,
leading us toward Kṛṣṇa step by step.
Even when we cannot understand,
your hand is ever present,
orchestrating each circumstance
with perfect wisdom,
knowing precisely what our souls require
to gently loosen the shackles
of material existence.
What we mistake for difficulty
is, in truth, your higher mercy.
What we perceive as loss
is your divine and compassionate arrangement
for our eternal gain
and the gentle dissolution of our false ego.
But more than freeing us
from the futility of this temporary world,
you have revealed to us
the reality of the spiritual world.
You have opened the path
of eternal devotion,
as illuminated by Rūpa Gosvāmī,
and granted us shelter
at the feet of our revered guru-varga.
Through your teachings,
you gently awaken within our hearts
a deep and sacred attraction
for the divine service
of Śrī Śrī Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa,
the eternal Divine Couple,
the very essence and ultimate conclusion
of all Vedic revelation.
You unveiled not only philosophy,
but the inner current of devotion,
a glimpse of your own heart,
absorbed in loving service.
And by your causeless mercy,
our hearts have begun, however faintly,
to turn in that same direction.
Now, by your mercy,
Only service to Kṛṣṇa holds meaning.
Only the realm of divine love appears real.
All else slowly fades,
like a dream at dawn.
In this way, O Śrīla Prabhupāda,
you have given us everything –
purpose, direction, identity,
and the hope of one day rendering loving service
under your guidance
at the lotus feet of
Śrī Śrī Rādhā and Govinda.
And if there is any way
to bring even a moment of satisfaction
to your compassionate heart,
we pray, with complete submission,
under the shelter of your divine lotus feet
That, though without qualification,
by your mercy alone,
we may assist, even in the smallest way,
in carrying forward your mission,
the eternal mission of
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu,
that the holy names of Kṛṣṇa
will resound throughout this world,
awakening the wandering souls
to their eternal identity
as servants of the Absolute Truth.
You have given us everything –
knowledge, shelter, direction,
and the awakening
of a higher aspiration.
Still, we remain dependent,
at every step,
upon your continued grace.
We can only pray,
that we may never forget you,
that we may never turn away
from the path you have revealed,
and that we may remain always
under the shelter of your lotus feet.
Let our hearts be purified.
Let our intentions be made sincere.
Let our lives gradually become aligned
with the current of your mercy.
And if you so desire,
may the aspirations you have awakened,
one day mature
Into the genuine service
of Lord Caitanya and Nityānanda,
in the line of your eternal service.
For in truth,
we have nothing else to ask.
You have already given everything.
Let us simply remember this,
and remain always
your eternal servants.
Barcelona ISKCON Temple and Bhakta Community
(written by Hlādinī Śakti Devī Dāsī [ACBSP])
Europe & Russia, Homages ISKCON Centers, VP2026
Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda,
All glories to you, our beloved spiritual master and gracious Founder-Ācārya of the International Society for Krishna consciousness!
Bowing before your lotus feet, the devotees of the city of Vladivostok, located on the shores of the Pacific Ocean, offer our humble obeisances to you. We express our deepest gratitude to you for bringing the message of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu to every corner of the world – even here, to the far, far east of Russia.
We, your followers, live where the first rays of the rising sun touch the earth, where the sea winds remind us of the vastness of Kṛṣṇa’s mercy, and the waves of the Pacific Ocean seem to chant the holy name. In this picturesque land, full of natural beauty, we feel how your teachings fill every day of our lives with meaning.
Please accept this offering from our hearts:
- Worship and gratitude for opening the path of bhakti to us, teaching us to chant Hare Kṛṣṇa, serve the Vaiṣṇavas, and see the presence of Kṛṣṇa in everything.
- The promise to follow your instructions, to study your books, apply them in our lives, spread Kṛṣṇa consciousness, and live according to the principles of Vaiṣṇavism.
- A prayer for your grace – so that we can continue your movement, inspire others, and make Vladivostok a place where the light of Śrī Caitanya’s teachings shines.
The fruits of our service:
- Distribution of books written and translated by you
- Conducting kirtans and Bhāgavatam study programs
- Serving the community through prasādam and charity events
- Strengthening the Vaiṣṇava community in Vladivostok
Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda, we pray that you will always remain in our hearts, guide us with your gaze, and inspire us to walk the path of bhakti. May your blessing protect Vladivostok and fill it with an atmosphere of peace, love, and devotion. And may your teachings spread more and more widely here.
We remember your words: “Just spread this teaching cleanly and without distortion, and success will come.” With this faith, we continue your missionary work, hoping that you will be satisfied with our humble efforts. Please accept our humble obeisances again and again. We are your servants, ready to serve at your command.
With deep love and dedication,
Your humble servants,
The devotees of ISKCON Vladivostok
