Asia-Eurasia, Homages ISKCON Centers, VP2026
Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda,
Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Your Divine Grace.
Śrīla Prabhupāda, out of causeless mercy upon the people of Kali-yuga, you descended to this earth by the will of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa. The prophecy of your appearance is found in the scriptures and in the words of the ācāryas.
Śrīla Prabhupāda, you are an eternal associate of the Lord. By spreading sanātana-dharma across the world, you connected millions of people to Kṛṣṇa consciousness. This is your greatest compassion upon humanity.
Śrīla Prabhupāda, at the time of your appearance, neither India nor the Western world were favorable to the propagation of devotion. India was undergoing a struggle for independence, while the West was experiencing excess freedom. In such difficult circumstances, you accepted the responsibility of spreading sanātana-dharma on the order of your guru and fulfilled it successfully through great struggle.
Śrīla Prabhupāda, you received Vaiṣṇava saṁskāras from your father. Your guru, Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura, instructed you to preach Kṛṣṇa consciousness to the Western world. Though India was under foreign rule, your guru directed you to free people from the bondage of māyā. This instruction became a great blessing for humanity. You liberated countless souls from true bondage.
Śrīla Prabhupāda, the beautiful temples you established worldwide are one of your greatest contributions. Their cleanliness, management, decoration, worship, and Deity service are unparalleled. Today, millions are attracted to ISKCON temples and are learning the teachings of the Bhagavad-gītā and Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. These temples have become a global inspiration.
Śrīla Prabhupāda, the prasādam served in your temples is another great attraction. Your instruction that no one should remain hungry has borne fruit. This sattvic food is reaching many, even as midday meals in schools. Many people are becoming devotees through prasādam.
Śrīla Prabhupāda, your books are one of your most important contributions. You translated scriptures written in Sanskrit into simple English, making them accessible to all. You presented pure Vedic knowledge and revealed deep spiritual truths in a simple way. Your books answer countless questions and act as a guiding light for the world. Humanity will always remain indebted to you.
Śrīla Prabhupāda, you lived a life full of struggle. At that time, devotion was challenged by philosophies like Māyāvāda, impersonalism, and voidism. You removed these obstacles and created a clear path, allowing conditioned souls like us to progress easily.
Śrīla Prabhupāda, before leaving this world, you gave us many pure disciples who continue your mission. Through them, your divine service is expanding globally.
Śrīla Prabhupāda, at the age of 70 you undertook the difficult journey on the Jaladuta to fulfill your guru’s order. Despite physical, financial, cultural, and environmental challenges, you continued preaching. Your life is an inspiration for every spiritual seeker.
Śrīla Prabhupāda, you accepted hardships to connect souls with the Lord and uplift humanity through Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Your contribution is a debt that can never be repaid.
Śrīla Prabhupāda, in Baramati, a center is serving with your blessings. Through youth programs, Bhagavad-gītā courses, pilgrimages, festivals, satsaṅgas, book distribution, and prasādam distribution, we are trying to serve society. We pray that your blessings always remain upon us.
Your servants of the Baramati ISKCON center
Asia-Eurasia, Homages ISKCON Centers, VP2026
Hare Kṛṣṇa dear Śrīla Prabhupāda,
Please accept our humble obeisances at your lotus feet. All glories to Your Divine Grace.
As per Your Divine Grace’s desire to train youths in both the material and spiritual spheres and reach out to the local Thai people, we have been running a student center in Bangkok under the guidance of your senior disciples and our śīkṣā- and dīkṣā-gurus, His Holiness BVV Narasiṁha Mahārāja, His Holiness Kavicandra Mahārāja, and His Holiness Jayapatāka Mahārāja, all GBC secretaries of ISKCON Thailand. What follows is an account of some of our activities and outcomes:
- Resident local Thai youths: Around 10–12 Thai youths stay at the center and perform simple morning/evening Kṛṣṇa conscious programs – japa and kirtan, discussion on spiritual topics, cooking and cleaning. During the day, they study at nearby universities: Assumption (ABAC) University, Ramkamheng University, Stamford University, Kasetsart University, and others, and acquire a material education as per their interest and/or parents’ sponsorship. In the last twenty years since our center was established, a few dozen local and international students have benefitted from this scheme. Most of them have continued their spiritual life and several are initiated, and assist in spreading the mission of Lord Gaurāṅga in Thailand and other parts of the world.
- Weekly Saturday program: Around 20–30 devotees and others gather and perform kirtan, read and discuss the Bhagavad-gītā, which has been translated into Thai, attend Gaura-ārati, and honor prasādam. The resident youths help organize the program alongside the senior congregation members who live around the area.
- Outreach programs: We have bhakti-vṛkṣa and children’s programs in the Sukumvit and Sathorn areas. We’ve been conducting these programs for around a decade, mostly on Friday evenings or Sunday mornings, as per the convenience of the host and leading devotees. Harināmas and other kirtans along with book distribution are held at times in nearby parks or areas such as Ramkamheng, Bangkapi, and Lumphini, and sometimes in trips from Bangkok to nearby cities like Pranburi, Suphanburi and Ayutthaya. We also hold yoga and mantra meditation sessions, organized at universities or other schools by the friends and acquaintances of the resident youth or members of our congregation.
Please continue to bless us, guide us, and give us your shelter through the association of senior Vaiṣṇavas – your disciples and granddisciples. Also, may we be able to assimilate more spiritual knowledge by studying your books deeply and may we relish the nectar of the holy names in the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra. May we continue to be an instrument for delivering the message of Lord Kṛṣṇa and Lord Gaurāṅga to the people of Thailand and worldwide. We hope and wish our endeavors please you and the previous ācāryas.
Trying to serve,
Sumādhuri Līlā Devī Dāsī and Antaraṅga Gopāla Dāsa
On behalf of ISKCON Ramkamheng (ABAC), Student Center
Asia-Eurasia, Homages ISKCON Centers, VP2026
Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda,
You truly are an ocean of mercy! We bow our heads in gratitude before your causeless and boundless mercy! We implore you to kindly accept our humble obeisances!
It is only by your mercy that the call of Caitanya Mahāprabhu, proclaimed five hundred years ago – “Jīv jāgo!” – has pierced through the thick layer of the rust of ignorance and reached our deaf ears. Through your disciples, who are the heralds of your divine mercy, and through other followers inspired by them, the battle that began in the late 1980s on a new front against the ruthless army of ignorance in the Republic of Azerbaijan – then one of the fifteen republics of the former USSR, now an independent state – still continues.
As we try to awaken upon receiving your message, in our struggle against the enchantments of Māyā, along with our successes, our losses have not been few. Many of the leaders of that front, those heroic warriors, unfortunately could not stand to the end before the cruel soldiers of Māyā. Yet their efforts were not in vain, and from their fire many others have been ignited and turned toward your path. Therefore, we also remember with respect those who have left our ranks and pray that they may once again return to their positions.
Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda, we are grateful to you for your disciples – those generals of the army of devotees – who inspire us on this front and who move forward with determination in your footsteps! It is through them that we have come to know you. Without their shining example, we would not have known how to apply in our lives what we have heard and read.
We are eternally grateful to you for Bhagavad-gītā As It Is, “Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, and your countless other books, purports, and lectures! We are grateful to you for Caitanya Mahāprabhu, for little Kāna crawling innocently in the courtyard of Nanda Bābā, and we offer our repeated daṇḍavats unto them for giving you to us! You are a truly wonderful team and a perfect family!
We beg you with the bhajana of Raghunandana Prabhu:
prabhupāda kṛpā karke, mujhko apanā lenā
maiṅ śaraṇa paḍā terī, caraṇoṅ meṅ jagaha denā
Prabhupāda, please be merciful and accept us into your family! Taking shelter at your lotus feet, we beg: please grant us refuge at your lotus feet!
With our obeisances,
The servants of the servants of the servants at the Baku yātrā
Asia-Eurasia, Homages ISKCON Centers, VP2026
Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to your lotus feet.
Lord Caitanya said,
yadi pāpi chāḍi dharma dūre deśe yāya
mora senāpati-bhakta yāibe tathāya
If some sinful people escape and, giving up religious principles, go to far-off countries, then my senāpati-bhakta (military commander) will come at that time to give them Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
It is clearly evident that you are that senāpati-bhakta, the military commander of Lord Caitanya, spreading the Lord’s saṅkīrtana mission to every nook and corner of the world.
Your purity attracted millions of people. Your love bound them to your lotus feet. Your transcendental teachings purified their hearts and the divine prasādam and holy name smashed their illusions. The Kṛṣṇa conscious lifestyle you taught us has actually made us become human and give up our animal way of living.
The greatest blessing on this planet earth is that one is able to know and worship Lord Kṛṣṇa in all parts of the world, just because of your divine compassion on fallen souls.
At ISKCON Attapur we are trying to put forth our best efforts to serve the Deities, care for the devotees’ physical, mental, and spiritual health, perform regular harināmas and book distribution, preach to the youth and our congregation, and more.
We are trying to cultivate the elite people of Hyderabad, like businessmen, celebrities, government officials, and others, inviting them to temple festivals, involving them in some kind of service to Their Lordships. It is so happy to see that how they really appreciate ISKCON’s efforts to spread peace, love, and devotion, as guided by Your Divine Grace.
It is our pleasure to bring to your kind notice that by your blessings, ISKCON Attapur secured first place in the outpost category for the 2025 book distribution marathon, with 113,342 book points. Also, we distributed more than 7 lakhs packets of prasādam over the past one year. Hundreds of youth are attending regular classes and chanting and performing other services. At Sircilla Farm, which is being managed by the devotees of ISKCON Attapur, a beautiful temple and farm project is gradually manifesting and will showcase an ideal Kṛṣṇa conscious lifestyle.
On this auspicious occasion of your divine appearance day, we devotees at ISKCON Attapur would like to beg at your lotus feet to bless us with increased spiritual energy and enthusiasm to do more wonderful services for your great mission.
Your insignificant servants at ISKCON Attapur
Asia-Eurasia, Homages ISKCON Centers, VP2026
Dearest Śrīla Prabhupāda,
oṁ ajñāna-timirāndhasya jñānāñjana-śalākayā
cakṣur unmīlitaṁ yena tasmai śrī-gurave namaḥ
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
On this sacred day of your Vyāsa-pūjā, we, the humble devotees of ISKCON Aravade – nestled in the blessed soil of Maharashtra, the birthplace of our gurudeva – bow our heads and hearts at your lotus feet. Words tremble upon our tongues, for how can mere syllables capture the ocean of gratitude we feel toward you? You are the empowered representative of Vyāsadeva, the eternal link between the disciplic succession and the suffering souls of this age.
You are the compassionate captain of the ship of bhakti, guiding us across the turbulent ocean of Kali-yuga. You are the lion-guru who roared the holy name across continents, awakening sleeping souls. You are the gardener who planted the seed of devotion in barren lands, watering it with your tears, your books, your lectures, your kirtans, and your unyielding determination.
Śrīla Prabhupāda, you are the embodiment of humility and boldness combined. With no resources but your faith in Kṛṣṇa and the order of your Guru Mahārāja, you crossed the ocean at an advanced age, enduring heart attacks and uncertainty, simply to give us the priceless gift of bhakti. You did not come to take; you came only to give. You gave us Kṛṣṇa, you gave us meaning, you gave us family, you gave us hope.
Your books are not ink on paper; they are the very voice of the paramparā. Each page is a lamp that dispels ignorance. Each purport is a jewel that illuminates the path of devotion. Each word is a seed that blossoms into love of God.
Your temples are not buildings of stone; they are sanctuaries of mercy. They are havens where the weary find solace, where the lost find direction, where the hungry find prasāda, and where the soul finds its eternal home.
Your disciples are not merely followers; they are living testaments of your power to transform. From hippies to devotees, from wanderers to servants, from skeptics to lovers of God – your touch turned coal into diamonds.
Śrīla Prabhupāda, you are the sun that rose in the darkest night. You are the flute that carried Kṛṣṇa’s song to every corner of the earth. You are the bridge between East and West, between tradition and modernity, between the eternal and the temporary.
We glorify you not only for what you did, but for how you did it – with unwavering faith, with boundless compassion, with fearless preaching, and with the sweetest humility. You never claimed greatness for yourself; you only pointed to Kṛṣṇa. Yet in pointing to Him, you revealed your own greatness, for only the greatest soul can so perfectly efface himself in service.
Śrīla Prabhupāda, your impact is immeasurable. You did not merely establish temples; you established a revolution of consciousness. You did not merely translate books; you translated eternity into language accessible to all. You did not merely chant; you ignited a worldwide movement of kirtan.
Because of you, the holy name resounds in cities and villages across the globe. Because of you, the Bhagavad-gītā is no longer confined to scholars but is embraced by seekers of every background. Because of you, prasāda is served in schools, prisons, hospitals, and homes, nourishing bodies and souls alike.
You gave the world a new culture – a culture of purity amid pollution, a culture of devotion amid distraction, a culture of simplicity amid greed. You showed that bhakti is not bound by caste, creed, or nationality. You proved that the soul is universal, and its hunger for Kṛṣṇa is the same in every heart.
In India, you rekindled the flame of devotion that was flickering under the winds of modernity. You reminded us of our heritage, our dharma, our duty. You showed us that our scriptures are not relics of the past but living guides for the present. You gave dignity to the saffron robe, respect to the tilaka, and relevance to the temple.
You brought back pride in our spiritual culture, not as nationalism but as universalism. You showed that India’s gift to the world is not technology or politics, but bhakti – the science of the soul.
And here, in Aravade, your impact is deeply personal. This village, blessed as the birthplace of our gurudeva, has become a vibrant center of devotion because of your vision.
Your movement reached even our humble soil, transforming simple villagers into devotees, turning ordinary homes into centers of kirtan, and making our festivals into grand celebrations of bhakti.
Because of you, ISKCON Aravade stands as a beacon in rural Maharashtra. Thousands gather here for Brahmotsava, Gaura-Pūrṇimā, and Janmāṣṭamī, chanting and dancing in ecstasy. Because of you, book distribution thrives even in dusty lanes, carrying your words into the hands of farmers, students, and seekers. Because of you, prasāda is cooked in massive pots and served to thousands, nourishing not only stomachs but hearts.
You gave us the courage to organize, to preach, to distribute, to serve. You gave us the inspiration to overcome rural challenges, to harmonize relationships, to resolve conflicts, and to keep the flame of devotion burning bright.
Śrīla Prabhupāda, ISKCON Aravade’s devotees are your children. Every temple bell that rings here, every abhang sung in your honor, every book distributed in your name, every devotee who bows before the Deities – all of it is your mercy manifest.
Śrīla Prabhupāda, today we offer you not only words but our collective heart. We offer you the sweat of our festival preparations, the sleepless nights of our coordinators, the tears of our kirtan singers, the smiles of our prasāda servers, the determination of our book distributors, and the humility of our brahmacārīs.
We offer you the unity we strive for, the transparency we cultivate, the cooperation we nurture. We offer you our struggles, our challenges, our conflicts – transformed into opportunities for growth by your teachings.
We offer you our village itself: the fields that grow grains for prasāda, the homes that shelter devotees, the streets that echo with harināma, the hearts that beat with devotion.
We offer you our future: the children who learn your teachings, the youth who embrace your mission, the elders who guide with your wisdom.
Śrīla Prabhupāda, ISKCON Aravade’s devotees are not perfect, but they are sincere. We stumble, but we rise. We quarrel, but we reconcile. We struggle, but we persevere. And through it all, we hold onto your lotus feet, knowing that they are our only shelter.
On this Vyāsa-pūjā, we pledge anew:
- To distribute your books with greater zeal.
- To organize festivals with greater unity.
- To serve prasāda with greater love.
- To chant with greater sincerity.
- To live with greater humility.
We pledge to make ISKCON Aravade not just a temple but a family; not just a center but a sanctuary; not just a place but a movement.
Śrīla Prabhupāda, may our offering today be not only in words but in deeds. May our lives themselves become offerings at your lotus feet.
Śrīla Prabhupāda, you are our eternal father, our eternal guide, our eternal shelter. On this Vyāsa-pūjā day, we bow before you with gratitude that cannot be measured, with love that cannot be contained, and with faith that cannot be shaken.
May ISKCON Aravade’s devotees always remain your humble servants. May our village resound with your glories. May our lives reflect your teachings. May our hearts forever chant your name alongside Kṛṣṇa’s.
Your insignificant servant,
On behalf of all the devotees in Aravade
Asia-Eurasia, Homages ISKCON Centers, VP2026
Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda,
Please accept our most humble obeisances at the dust of your lotus feet. All glories to Your Divine Grace!
On this most auspicious day of your Vyāsa-pūjā, we, the devotees of Śrī Vrindavan Dhāma Farm, Almaty, Kazakhstan, offer our heartfelt gratitude for your immeasurable mercy. By your compassion, even in this distant land, far from the holy dhāmas, a small reflection of Kṛṣṇa’s culture is gradually manifesting.
You did not simply establish temples – you gave the world a complete way of life centered on Kṛṣṇa. Inspired by your vision, we are striving to create a place where bhakti is not theoretical but is lived daily through simple living and high thinking. Here, devotees, guests, and other local people come together to chant, serve, and honor prasādam. Festivals such as Janmāṣṭamī and Govardhana-pūjā are celebrated not as formal events, but as opportunities for heartfelt participation in devotional service.
By your guidance, we understand that true prosperity is spiritual, and that a sustainable life must be rooted in devotion. We are trying, in our small capacity, to care for the land, protect the cows, and engage everyone – villagers, families, and children – in Kṛṣṇa’s service. Step by step, a new generation is growing up hearing the holy name, learning the values of simplicity, humility, and devotion.
Śrīla Prabhupāda, the modern world pulls society toward complexity, dependency, and forgetfulness of Kṛṣṇa. Yet you have already given the perfect solution: farm communities centered on daivī-varṇāśrama, where life supports the natural growth of bhakti. We are trying to follow this path – sometimes we are able to take small steps forward, and sometimes we are not. In truth, we are still very far from your ideals, dear Śrīla Prabhupāda … yet our lives have already become perfect. By your mercy, despite hundreds and thousands of mistakes, we are already living a joyful and meaningful life in the association of devotees.
We humbly pray for your mercy that we may become your instruments – united, sincere, and determined – to serve your mission. Please bless us with the intelligence to accept what is favorable for Kṛṣṇa consciousness and reject what is unfavorable, and to always remember that real success is only in pleasing Śrī Śrī Rādhe-Śyāma.
From the depths of our hearts, we offer ourselves at your lotus feet, praying to remain engaged in your service, life after life.
Your servants,
The inhabitants Śrī Vrindavan Dhāma Farm
