Homages ISKCON Centers, VP2025
Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to you, Śrīla Prabhupāda, to Śrī Gaurāṅga,
and the entire gaura-vṛnda.
The mercy and love that the jīva receives from Guru and Gaurāṅga are immeasurable, limitless,
and beyond the grasp of my small, ignorant mind. It is a treasure so vast that words cannot do it
justice. If I were to express even a fraction of this divine grace, all I could do is cry and fervently
beg for more. You have fulfilled the desire of every town, and now it is time for every village to
be touched by your mercy. My only prayer is to be your humble instrument, used in any way you
desire for the advancement of your mission.
Writing on behalf of ISKCON Regina,
your most fallen, eternally indebted servants,
Cintāmaṇi Devī Dāsī
Jagannātha Dāsa Adhikārī
Canada & USA, Homages ISKCON Centers, VP2026
Dearest 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 most humble obeisances at your lotus feet on the most auspicious occasion of your Vyāsa-pūjā. We offer our obeisances to all the elevated Vaiṣṇavas that have come before you.
We offer our gratitude for your courage and perseverance in bringing Kṛṣṇa consciousness across the ocean, to the fallen souls in North America. Without you, we may never have been able to recognize or reconnect with our true selves in the service of and devotion to the divine personality, Śrī Kṛṣṇa.
The legacy and growth of ISKCON around the world is a testament to your utter devotion, pure knowledge, and deep compassion for fallen souls like ourselves. We are so fortunate to have been initiated into and associated with ISKCON and to have the opportunity to continue to uphold your mission at ISKCON Regina.
Although we are a humble facility, our congregation continues to be uplifted by hearing your voice through your books and philosophy. We sing your name with deep reverence and gratitude for all that you have sacrificed and shared with us. May we always have the opportunity to continue in your service and in the service of Śrī Kṛṣṇa and Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī.
Without your legacy our lives would be meaningless. Thank you for enlightening and inspiring us to continue on the path of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. We are forever in your debt.
Jaya, jaya Śrīla Prabhupāda!
Always, your most humble servants,
The devotees at ISKCON Regina
Homages ISKCON Centers, VP2025
Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda,
Please accept my most humble, respectful, and prostrated obeisances at your divine lotus feet.
I write to you with the deepest reverence and gratitude for your transcendental guidance,
which illuminates our path and continues, unstoppable, to inspire countless souls in their devo-
tional service. Your divine teachings constantly remind us that the word of the spiritual master
is the vital substance of our existence. Reflecting on your teachings, I am deeply moved by the
sentiment expressed in your purport to Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.24.15, where you state: “The disciple
should unhesitatingly think about the instructions or orders of the spiritual master and should
not allow himself to be disturbed by anything else.”
This sacred injunction encapsulates the essence of perfect meditation and serves as a constant
beacon for all devotees. Your life, teachings, and compassionate guidance have offered, and will
continue to offer, an unparalleled example of how one can truly serve the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa. It
is with this spirit of unwavering devotion and clarity that we strive to assimilate every instruction
you have lovingly imparted.
With a sincere desire to serve your mission, I am committed to promoting the expansion of
Kṛṣṇa consciousness in Rome and its surrounding areas so that more and more souls may benefit
from your mercy and teachings. I will endeavor – and we will all endeavor – with ever-increasing
determination, to ensure that the pure message of bhakti-yoga, which you have so graciously
bestowed upon us, continues to spread with strength and authenticity.
I humbly pray for your blessings so that I may always remain faithful to the teachings con-
tained in your divine books – our Vedas, our śāstra – and to their continuous distribution, perse-
vering in service with sincerity and humility. Only with your constant support and mercy can we
hope to obtain the strength and determination necessary to fulfill the mission you entrusted to us.
Your humble aspiring servant of your servants,
Hari-kīrtana Dāsa
on behalf of ISKCON Rome
Europe & Russia, Homages ISKCON Centers, VP2026
Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda,
Please accept our most humble and respectful obeisances at your divine lotus feet on the sacred day when your transcendental appearance is celebrated.
On this holy occasion, we first wish to glorify your inconceivable mercy and the extraordinary power of your devotional service. Your life is the living demonstration of how a pure devotee of the Lord can become a perfect instrument in the hands of Śrī Kṛṣṇa to transform the spiritual destiny of the world. With unshakable faith in the order of your spiritual master and complete dependence on Kṛṣṇa, you crossed oceans and continents to bring the holy name and the teachings of the Bhagavad-gītā and Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam to people who had never before heard of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
Contemplating your activities, we are especially struck by how your mercy works in subtle ways, often invisible to our limited vision, yet capable of producing the deepest effects in the hearts of conditioned souls. There is a very significant incident that illustrates this truth.
During a flight to America, while you were taking some prasādam – puffed rice – a stewardess on the plane, attracted by its fragrance, put her hand into your plate and took some of it. Your servant became disturbed, thinking that the prasādam had been contaminated, but you immediately stopped him with great simplicity and compassion, saying, “That is all right. She is taking prasādam. Very good.”
Years later, some devotees engaged in saṅkīrtana arrived in a small village in the middle of the Amazon jungle. Knocking on the door of a house, they were greeted by a woman who was wearing a sari, with tilaka on her forehead. When they entered her home, they noticed a tape of your voice playing and an altar dedicated to Śrī Kṛṣṇa. Surprised to meet a devotee in such a remote place, they asked her how it was possible that she had come to Kṛṣṇa consciousness while living in the middle of the jungle. She then explained that many years earlier she had been working as an airline stewardess and that one day she had taken some prasādam from the plate of Śrīla Prabhupāda. That simple contact with mahā-prasādam had transformed her life and led her to Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
Through incidents like this we begin to understand how deep and mysterious the mercy of a pure devotee truly is. Even an apparently small contact – a crumb of mahā-prasādam, a book, or a recording of your voice – can become the beginning of a complete spiritual transformation. In this way you have planted the seed of devotion in the hearts of countless souls, a seed that, in time, can sprout and lead them to devotional service.
In this way we can glimpse how the principle of ajñāta-sukṛti, spiritual merit obtained unknowingly, acts in subtle and mysterious ways. Even a small service rendered to a pure devotee can, in time, lead to a meaningful connection with Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
Meditating on such incidents, we increasingly understand how immense your compassion is for the conditioned souls. You did not simply preach a philosophy; you opened a doorway of mercy through which even the smallest contact with Kṛṣṇa consciousness can transform a person’s life.
For this reason, today we offer you our deepest gratitude. Without your mercy we would have no possibility of understanding the science of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Without you we would not have received Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Bhagavad-gītā As It Is, nor the living example of how to serve the Lord with complete dedication.
Through your teachings we also understand our duty toward the conditioned souls. In your purport to Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.8.5 it is explained that the devotee appears in this world precisely to help the souls who are imprisoned in material illusion. Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura explains that the word durvinīta, used by Hiraṇyakaśipu to insult Prahlāda Mahārāja, can be understood in a spiritual way: duḥ refers to this material world, which is full of suffering (duḥkhālayam), vi means “specifically,” and nīta means “brought.” Thus Prahlāda Mahārāja was specifically brought into this world to teach people how to become free from the material condition. When Kṛṣṇa is not personally present, His devotee is present, but the mission is the same: to free the poor conditioned souls from the clutches of māyā.
By your mercy, we have understood that Kṛṣṇa consciousness is a divine gift that must be shared with others. Just as that stewardess was transformed through a simple contact with mahā-prasādam, in the same way countless souls can benefit by coming into contact with the holy name, your books, and kṛṣṇa-prasādam.
Therefore, on the day of your Vyāsa-pūjā, we wish to renew our determination to serve your mission. We want to continue participating in your work by distributing your books, spreading your teachings, and offering people the opportunity to come in contact with Kṛṣṇa consciousness. We desire to engage more and more in saṅkīrtana so that more and more souls may receive even a small spark of your mercy.
We also wish to inspire those who approach Kṛṣṇa consciousness to understand the greatness of your mission and to take part in it. If even a small contact with mahā-prasādam or with one of your books can change the course of a person’s life, then we want to do everything possible so that more and more people may receive this spiritual opportunity.
We therefore pray that you grant us the strength, humility, and determination to continue this service in the sincerest way possible, becoming ever more useful instruments in your mission to spread Kṛṣṇa consciousness throughout the world.
Your aspiring humble servant,
Hari-kīrtana Dāsa
On behalf of the devotees at ISKCON Rome
Homages ISKCON Centers, VP2025
Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda,
nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale
śrīmate bhaktivedānta-svāmin iti nāmine
I offer my respectful obeisances unto His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
Prabhupāda, who is very dear to Lord Kṛṣṇa, having taken shelter at His lotus feet.
namas te sārasvate deve gaura-vāṇī-pracāriṇe
nirviśeṣa-śūnyavādi-pāścātya-deśa-tāriṇe
Our respectful obeisances are unto you, O spiritual master, servant of Bhaktisiddhānta
Sarasvatī Gosvāmī. You are kindly preaching the message of Lord Caitanyadeva and
delivering the Western countries, which are filled with impersonalism and voidism.
Please accept our humble obeisances at your lotus feet.
We are eternally grateful to you for giving us this valuable opportunity to serve in Roorkee,
near Haridwar, in the sacred land of Uttarakhand. When you traveled to Rishikesh in May 1977,
you may have passed through Roorkee, and thus this place is also blessed. His Holiness Gopal
Krishna Goswami Mahārāja, your dear disciple, engaged us in this Roorkee outreach service, and
he would say, “Roorkee is a gold mine.” Currently, we are serving here under the guidance of His
Grace Mahāmān Prabhu and His Holiness Guru Prasad Swami Mahārāja.
For the past fifteen years, local congregation outreach and youth preaching at IIT Roorkee
have been going on actively. We are trying to follow your instructions on how to cultivate India’s
educated youth in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Your teachings, as given in your lectures and letters,
remain relevant and powerful. They serve as our guiding light as we strive to counter the igno-
rance spread by modern education.
Śrīla Prabhupāda, we wish to report our service and developments over the past year.
• Resident youth devotees: Currently, 27 students from IIT Roorkee and other colleges are stay-
ing at the center. We are trying to maintain a strong morning program, which begins at
4:15 a.m., and includes japa, cleaning, ārati, and a lecture. Devotees at the center are engaged
in various services related to youth outreach and maintaining the center. All of them are
chanting sixteen rounds and regularly reading your books. We organize camps, yātrās, and
association with senior devotees to keep them spiritually strong and inspired. Recently,
devotees completed the ISKCON Disciple Course, and many are preparing for initiation.
• IIT Roorkee outreach: We have two parallel programs, one for B.Tech students, and the other
for M.Tech and PhD students. Around 35 students are participating. Devotees conduct dis-
cussions and chanting sessions daily at the hostels. On weekends, the students come to the
center for kīrtana, prasādam, maṅgala-ārati, and verse recitation, which strengthens their spir-
itual journey. Additionally, 15–20 students are connected through the Prerna program. We
organize Sankalpa and Sphurti camps for new students, and are now registering students for
the Renaissance Camp, a hybrid two-month training program.
• Local congregation program: By your mercy, we also started a congregation outreach program
this year. Around a hundred members connect regularly through saṅkīrtana and other pro-
grams. We conducted twenty-five saṅkīrtana sessions, gathering the contact information
of nearly a thousand locals, whom we invite to monthly programs and festivals. Our IIT
faculty outreach is also growing, with about thirty-five faculty members and their families
connected. We conduct weekly and monthly programs for both groups. This year, we orga-
nized our first congregation camp at the holy land of Kurukshetra. Thirty-three devotees
participated.
• New center construction: Seeing the limitations of our current accommodations, we feel the
urgent need for a dedicated center that can serve both youth preaching and congregation
programs. By your mercy, on April 1, 2025, we acquired land in ISKCON’s name. We pray
for your blessings and guidance to build the center as soon as possible.
Śrīla Prabhupāda, we are inexperienced, weak in our determination, and prone to make mistakes.
Only by your mercy can we continue this most important mission that you pioneered, which
was originally established by Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. We humbly seek your blessings and
protection so we may remain absorbed in service and offer our mind, body, and intelligence to
push forward this divine movement. We also pray to strictly follow your instructions as revealed in
your books, lectures, and letters. Thank you very much, Śrīla Prabhupāda.
Your humble servants at ISKCON Roorkee
Homages ISKCON Centers, VP2025
Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda,
Please accept our obeisances at your lotus feet. All glories to Your Divine Grace!
We are so much indebted to you for your kindly picking us up out of the ocean of birth and
death. You have revealed the teachings of Kṛṣṇa, which grant eternal life to those who submis-
sively hear them, try to understand them, and strive to implement them in their lives.
We are desperately begging to be considered in the above groups. We simply want to please
Your Divine Grace by our every thought, word, and deed.
Please forgive us for all our shortcomings. Please rectify us as you see fit. We are your property.
We are your property. We are your property. Do with us as you wish. We trust you. We believe that
you are our ever well-wisher. We believe that you will always try to help us to grow ever nearer to
the will of Their Lordships, Śrī Śrī Gaura-Nitāi.
Your eternal servants and family members,
The residents and congregation of RVC
