Srila Prabhupada ~ Vyasa Puja

Dear Srila Prabhupada,

My respectful obeisances unto your lotus feet.
The scripture compare devotees to swans but you are the incomparable swan, swimming in the opulent clear lake of Krsna's transcendental mercy. As spiritual master, you invite everyone to swim along with you by chanting Hare Krsna. We are priveleged to know someone like you because by knowing and serving you we have the chance to get a glimpse of Krsna through your eyes.
In your kind and fatherly way please be merciful unto us fallen souls by giving us the shade of your lotus feet.

Your fallen servant,
Bhakta Aubrey

Poem by Srila Prabhupada

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Adore, Adore Ye All

A poem by Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada ~

written on February 25, 1935;

in honor of his Gurudeva Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Prabhupada.

VYASA-PUJA OFFERING

to 

Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura Prabhupada

from 

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

1.

Adore, adore ye all the happy day,
more blessed than heaven, sweeter than May,
when he appeared at Puri, the holy place,
my Lord and Master His Divine Grace.

2.

Oh! my Master the evangelic angel,
give us thy light, light up our candle.
Struggle for existence a human race,
the only hope, His Divine Grace.

3.

Misled we are, all going astray,
save us, O Lord, our fervent pray.
Wonder thy ways, to turn your face,
adore Thy feet, Your Divine Grace.

4.

Forgotten Krsna, we fallen souls
pay most heavy the illusion's toll.
Darkness around, all untrace,
the only hope, His Divine Grace.

5.

Message of service Thou hast brought,
a healthful life, as Caitanya wrought.
Unknown to all, it's full of brace,
that's your gift, Your Divine Grace.

6.

Absolute is sentient thou hast proved,
impersonal calamity thou hast removed.
This gives us a life, anew and fresh,
worship thy feet, Your Divine Grace.

7.

Had you not come, who had told
the message of Krsna forceful and bold?
That's your right, you have the mace,
save me, a fallen, Your Divine Grace.

8.

The line of service as drawn by you
is pleasing and healthy like morning dew.
The oldest of all but in new dress,
miracle done, Your Divine Grace.

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Srila Prabhupada ~Vyasa Puja

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Nama Om Visnu-Padaya Krsna-Presthaya Bhu-Tale Srimate Bhaktivedanta-Svamin Iti Namine Namaste Sarasvate Deve Gaura-Vani-Pracarine Nirvesesa-Sunyavadi Pascatya-Desa-Tarine

Dearest Srila Prabhupada,

Please accept my humble obeisances. I am eternally in debt to you. You have served Sri-Sri Radha-Krsna, the ultimate goal of life, for all living entities, in pure perfection. You have set an example for all the world to follow. You have given everyone knowledge of the Supreme Person Krsna, through your wonderful classes and supernatural literature, filled with information and explanations of Sri-Krsna and His devotees. You have spread the glories of Sri-Sri Radha-Krsna by distributing the holy names, the Maha Mantra all over the world. Thus you have fulfilled the desires of Sri-Nityananda prabhu and Sri-Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabu, saviors of the most fallen. I recognize you as Lord Sri-Krsna's pure devotee. Thus you should be given all respects and honor. You are Sri-Sri Radha-Krsna's personal servant, through the Guru Parampara. That is recognized by all Acaryas to be the perfection of life.

I pray to you. Dear Srila Prabhupada, please engage me in pure unalloyed loving devotional service of your lotus feet. So that someday I may also become a servant of Sri-Sri Radha-Krsna.

Thank you for all your super excellent blessings you have bestowed upon me. Thank you for guiding me to His Holiness Kapindra Goswami and all the loving devotees I have served in my life.


Your loving servant,
Bhakta Steven

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Srila Prabhupada ~Vyasa Puja

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Nama Om Visnu-Padaya Krsna-Presthaya Bhu-Tale Srimate Bhaktivedanta-Svamin Iti Namine Namaste Sarasvate Deve Gaura-Vani-Pracarine Nirvesesa-Sunyavadi Pascatya-Desa-Tarine

Dear Srila Prabhupada,

Please accept my obeisances. All glories to your beloved Spiritual Master Srila Bhaktisiddanta Saraswati Thakur Prabhupada.

Before your appearance in the western world in 1965 everything and everyone was like a dead man without any meaning to life.

By your supreme potency you brought the living dead to life. Now you are our life, real life, meaningful life.

By studying your beautiful qualities one may wonder how you obtained them. Maybe you have come from the heavenly planets. We have never experienced such a magnanimous personality as yourself. Soo sweet, soo charming, soo friendly, soo fatherly, soo calm, soo peacful, soo jolly, so kind, soo compassionate, soo wise, soo beautiful, soo merciful, lovingly, soo simple, soo authoritative, soo humble, soo gentle, soo grave. Every word you speak has a deep meaning. Your order cannot be denied.

You are the teacher of everyone because you know everything that has to be known. You only speak what you have heard from the Vedic literature, which was originally spoken by God Himself and you only speak of Him,the greatest personality who has no equal, nor is anyone greater. Everyone is subordinate to Him.

Srila Prabhupada, you have opened our darkened eyes with the torchlight of transcendental knowledge that directs us to associate directly with the Adhoksaja, the Lord beyond our sense perception, and reviving our lost relationship with Him.

By translating the Vedic scriptures as Srimad Bhagavad Gita AS IT IS and Srimad Bhagavatam you have caused a revolution in the hearts of honest men who have attentively heard them or read them. In these literatures you have given the lost souls the name of God, His address, His Activity, His form and personality, His entourage, His love for His lost children in the material existence and His desire to reclaim us.

Dear Srila Prabhupada, by distributing the holy name of Krsna all around the world in every town and village you have fulfilled the prediction of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu proving you are not an ordinary man or guru, but directly empowered by Krsna.

It is said in the Caitanya Caritamrita that unless one is empowered by the God Himself, no one can spread the holy name of the Lord around the world.

We can understand by the Vedic scriptures and by authorities in the line of devotional service to Krsna that by your qualities and symptoms that you have descended from eternal kingdom of God, Vaikuntha, a nitya siddha an eternally liberated soul.

Therefore who can imagine the great fortune of one who can gain a slight glimpse of your real eternal nature and obtain your mercy. For without your mercy no one can obtain the mercy of Lord Krsna or make any spiritual advancement. Therefore your lotus feet is our object of meditation.{Guruvastakam 8}

In the same Guruvastakam sloka 7, Vishvanatha Chakravati Thakura sings that the bonafide spiritual master is to be honored as much as the Supreme Lord being His most confidential servant. He states in Guruvastakam sloka 1, that the spiritual master also delivers us from the suffering of material existence where the continual repetition of birth and death is perpetually going on, unknown to the conditioned souls residing in Murtya Loka, the planet of death.

Srila Prabhupada, by your kindness and compassion mysteriously you have entered into our lives and bringing us to our real and original home Goloka Vrindavan.

Therefore let us serve you with all our heart and soul, and serve you according to your instructions in full surrender and spread your glories in every town and village on the globe while distributing your precious books enthusiastically and always chanting Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare.

Your very fallen disciple and son,
Kapindra Swami 

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Homage to Srila Prabhupada

by premanandi devi dasi

futile as a child
in a candy store
try to stay wild
never-ending "more"
highs born
to float away
love torn
paved in pain
forget you
in search of joy
crying mule
maya's toy
only tone
i reach to hear
your voice alone
liberate my tear
gravity of my heart
never let me go
i just fall apart
trying to go solo
press play
bathe in your sound
amazing grace
lost soul you found
garlands draped
your robes waterfall
scents of fate
i swoon to your call
your feet a pool
of blossoms fresh
you stand cool
fade the blazing mesh
gift of you breathing
i see clear
no doubt of us meeting
you are always near
subtle exchange
secret you know
grateful and ashamed
guide my soul
all i want to do
desire to share
sing about you
in the open air
your devotees
sincere
frees
what is real
my trellis
lifeline
bliss
soul shine
Prabhupada
i'm your child
in a candy store
i want to sing hare krishna wild
serving loving sharing you more
i want to share you with the world
Srila Prabhupada
Your Divine Grace
you are my link
your feet, your form, your voice, your face
you are why my heart can sing

Homage to Srila Prabhupada

Nama om visnu-padaya krsna-presthaya bhu-tale
srimate bhaktivedanta-svamin iti namine

namas te sarasvate deve gaura-vani-pracarine
nirvisesa-sunyavadi-pascatya-deas-tarine

Om ajnana-timirandhasya jnananjana-salakaya
caksur unmilitam yena tasmai sr-gurave namah

Dear Srila Prabhupada,

How can I say say Thank you enough? It's not possible. Out of your great compassion for us you have taken countless other souls from the ignorance of birth in this material world, given us rebirth, retrained us to focus our lives to try and please Krishna, and taught us everything we need to know to make this lifetime successful by advancing in Krishna consciousness.


Our reciprocation, our love for you, will be shown by how we co-operate that's what you told us before you departed this mortal world. And how have we scored in that regard? Very poorly, I have to say, with deep regret.


On reflection I have come to realise that vaisnava sanga is very different from material association. In material life, if we don't get on with someone, if we don't like them or we don't agree with them, we can shun their association. But shunning our godbrothers and godsisters is not an option. If there are issues, we must seriously attend to somehow or other trying to resolve whatever the issues might be, and to always keep the door open to(as you say)work cooperatively.


But of course we can lead a horse to water, but we cannot make it drink. Not everyone cares about your wishes. So I have found my circle of association has factionalised, even amongst Prabhupadanugas The situation is not good.


So on this day I pray to you, Srila Prabhupupada, to kindly help me remember that I must deal with the sore spots in my field of devotee association. Our collective failure to do so is hampering your transcendental mission most dreadfully and this pains us all very much. We are both the perpetrators and the victims of being remiss in these matters.

He reasons ill who says that vaisnavas die

whilst thou art living still in sound.
The vaisnavas die to live,
and living; spread the Holy Name around
Such a vaisnava, Srila Prabhupuda, is you - Your Divine Grace. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your unlimited causeless mercy.

Your aspiring disciple

Shyamasundara dasa

Homage to Srila Prabhupada

Since meeting Srila Prabhupada, He has become our life and soul.
Before meeting Him, we had no life, no meaning to our existence .
we had just frustration in an empty world devoid of real substance .
Thank you for coming Srila Prabhupada . Thank you for writing
so many books and giving so many lectures, and 12 years of your personal
time. You were with us seven days a week 24 hours a day.
Srila Prabhupada Ki Jai
Srila Prabhupada Ki Jai
Srila Prabhupada Ki Jai

Satyahit dasa

Phalguna Krishna Pancami

Vyasa-Puja homage glorifying
Srila 108 Bhaktisiddanta Sarawati Goswami Thakura. Presented on the commemoration of his appearance by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
Prabhupada at the Radha-Damodara temple
in Vrindavana, India, 1961.

First Vasistya

1. On this day, O my master, I made a cry of grief; I was not able to tolerate the absence of my guru.

2. On this auspicious day I have come with this offering just to worship you, remembering your lotus feet.

3. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's judgement is that renunciation is most important. Not only that, but such knowledge must be delivered to every conditioned being.
4. The beginner in devotional service has no ability to solve this dilemma, but you are a maha-bhagavata, you have given us direction.
5. One bewildered by ignorance, what kind of renunciate can he be? He will only be a "phalgu-vairagi"; renouncing externally.
6. Renunciation is actually the result of real spiritual emotion. Without such feeling it is simply known as show-bottle.
7. But there is another "show-bottle" for the purpose of preaching. That is the Lord's sannyasa by which the Mayavadis are defeated.
8. Lord Caitanya's Philosophy is beyond varnasrama; it is Bhagavata dharma, for putting an end to all cheating processes of religion.
9. Performing dry renunciation there can be no real preaching. Therefore "Yukta vairagya" is given the highest essential understanding.
10. "That sannyasa which I have given you" is for preaching in devotion. The faithless sense enjoyers are unable to understand this.

Second Vasistya

11. Generally the sannyasis renounce everything and go and stay in the mountain caves, but you, O master, keep your sannyasis in mansions of marble.
12. To see a sense enjoyer is just like drinking poison, but you, O my master, go far and near, even abroad, to give them your darsana.
13. Mlecchas and Yavanas are forbidden to enter the Hindu temples, but you my Lord, make them chairmen and sit them in the assembly of devotees.
14. Hindus are not allowed to cross the ocean, but you send your devotees overseas to preach.
15. In the cities of Kali-yuga, the instructions of the bona fide spiritual preceptors are forbidden. Still you remain here in any way possible.
16. The devotees want to hide in a secluded place to perform their bhajan. You, however, do not accept this in your judgement.
17. Whenever there is an increase in population, there in that place preaching is to be found.
18. In London you want a student hostel. You explain that it must be first-class.
19. In the land of barbarians a student hostel for preaching Hari-Katha! Who can understand the significance of these things?
20. To resolve all the apparent contradictory statements is not the play of some incompetent fool.
21. If everyone simply sat down together and considered these things, what nice preaching there could be.
22. What is your order also, that everyone, coming together, should merge in your message and preach it to the world.
23. If everyone just initiates then there will only be a contradictory result. As long as it goes on there will be only failure.
24. Now even, my godbrothers, you return here to the order of our master, and together we engage in his puja.
25. But simply a festival of flowers and fruits does not constitute worship. The one who serves the message of the guru really worships him.
26. The service of the message is the real meaning of the Vedas. Don't be proud, brothers, come back to this.
27. Kalidas Nag (a learned man who was defeated by Srila Saraswati Thakura and later became his disciple), that master said in public forum one day.
28. That Kali's mission was to kill the entire world while the essential meaning of Lord Caitanya's message was kept locked up in a cage.
29. O shame! My dear brothers, aren't you embarrassed? In the manner of businessmen you increase your disciples.
30. Our master said to preach. Let the neophytes stay in the temples and ring the bells.

Third Vasistya

31. All these things are not our spiritual master's preaching methods. These are all the things done by the caste Gosvamis.
32. But just take a look at the terrible situation that has arisen. Everyone has become a sense enjoyer and has given up preaching.
33. In the temples they have also begun to lock the doors. Preach this bhagavata dharma, don't hesitate.
34. Within this world is another world, Whose sound is the unequaled penetrating force.
35. The preaching that "mullah (Muslim priest) only goes as far as the mosque and no further" should be put to an end today.
36. From the seas, across the earth, penetrate the universal shell, come together and preach this Krishna consciousness.
37. Then our master's service will be in proper order. Make your promise today. Give up all your politics and diplomacy.
38. Everyone come together on this day and make your valued comment. The five of you get together and decide what should be done.
39. You have become renouncers, brothers, so renounce everything. But if you also renounce the order of the spiritual master, then what kind of renunciation is that?
40. The one who renounces the guru's order (guru tyagi) and the one who tries to enjoy the assets of his spiritual master (guru-bhogi) are two kinds of useless persons. First become a servant of your spiritual master (guru-sevi) and then you will understand things clearly.

Forth Vasistya

41. If there is only one Supreme Lord, then a true sadhu, if his faith increases, he gives up the desire for profit, distinction and adoration in the material world.
42. Your gold, brother, is the father of sense gratification. This meaningful statement was spoken by Srila Prabhupada himself.
43. Give up your wealth for preaching. Sit down together and make some special judgement.
44. The Supreme Lord says that everything is Mine. Don't protest. Just unite and preach.
45. Srila Prabhupada gave this final message himself. Take care to follow that completely in all respects.
46. Otherwise your sannyasa will be wasted and useless. O saintly ones, be careful; afterwards you will regret.
47. So what is the difficulty for all of us to come together in this way and why do all these things even have to be said to you?
48. Give up your stubbornness, there is no time. Come all my brothers on this auspicious holy occasion.

Fifth Vasistya

49. When will that day come when there will be a temple established in every house in every corner of the world?
50. When the big court judge will be a Gaudiya Vaisnava with tilak beautifully decorating his forehead.
51. A Vaisnava winning votes will be elected president of the land and preaching will spread everywhere.
52. The demons simply plunder the Lord's wealth. The hapless populace cry, "Hai Hai" in distress.
53. The demons want so many plans just to cheat the people. They sell wheat flour at 32 rupees a mound.
54. Will opening a factory fill a hungry man's belly? Being oppressed by starvation they will eat grass and mango pits.
55. Wearing a two pisa string a man is called a brahmin. Wearing a saffron cloth he has become a sannyasi.
56. The householders beg from sannyasis, and why not? The sannyasis have tens of millions of rupees in the bank.
57. As the days pass, the influence of Kali-yuga increases and the poor are crying in distress.
58. Ten thousand cows are killed daily and the nations expert leaders are all eating untouchable foodstuffs.
59. People of muddy intelligence increase day by day. A man and his wife separate on mere word.
60. Everyone has become a witch by the influence of this age. Everyone is unhappy due to the absence of the mercy of the Vaisnavas.
61. The Vaisnavas are famous as "para dukha dukhi." This fame will increase as the preaching increases.
62. If eternally pure devotional service to Krsna is awakened in everyone, then Kali will flee, screaming of his own accord.
63. "Praninan upakaraya" do work for the benefit of all living beings. This is Mahaprabhu's teachings. This is the storehouse of happiness in this life and the next.
64. So much work has fallen into your hands, so gather together and do it.
65. Vasudeva Datta said to the Lord, paying his obeisances, save all the living beings in the material world.
66. Give all their sins and suffering to me, who am the lowest of all. In this way all the suffering and miseries of the fallen will end.
67. He was the best of the Vaisnavas, para dukha dukhi. He knows that there is not real happiness in gratifying the senses.
68. And what kind of mercy can the non-Vaisnavas give? They simply make offenses by their Daridra Narayana philosophy.
69. The mercy of the Vaisnavas is scientific and authorized, without their mercy this world is simply insurmountable maya.
70. If there is a kingdom of Visnu and Vaisnavas on the surface of the earth, then the world will be happy--so say the great sages and rishis.
71. Why is everyone crying for Rama-rajya? The only way it can be had is if there is a Visnu centered kingdom.
72. Lord Krsna enthroned King Yudhisthira; then the whole world was rich and fortunate due to the qualities of a Vaisnava.
73. The streams, rivers, trees and fields and mountains, were all full of fruits and flowers. The milk laden cows were floating in abundant milk.
74. The birds, beasts and lower creatures were all non-envious. Material life in the Vaisnava kingdom was regulated and perfect.
75. All immersed in bliss, singing the glories of the Hari. The hearts of Vaisnavas dance in ecstasy to see this.
76. The entire world is filled with the use of material objects, without a trace of devotion to the Lord.
77. Still they are searching after peace. Preach Krsna consciousness; fulfill their desires.
78. Today my brothers, get to this task. Save the battered souls by your preaching.
79. Srila Prabhupada, please be merciful today. This time have compassion. You are not a conditioned soul of this material world.
80. Whatever independence we have, let it be cast to the waters. The lowly Abhay offers this presentation today.

Vrndavana, Radha Damodara.