Srila Prabhupada Vyaspuja 2017

Dear Srila Prabhupada.

Please accept my humble obeisance’s all glories to your lotus feet.

Intervening distractions tampered and do
With my daily service as it should be
Since I made my connection with you
I have been able to sometimes see

Peripheral temptations are being subdued
As my body aches and grows old
Your complete mercy has imbued
Me to follow your courage so bold

Constant parapets my mind has tried
While daily hearing your instructing song
Shouting to the world that you never died
And your lotus feet is where we belong.

Your Eternal Servant

Hasti Gopala dasa

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Dear Srila Prabhupada

I offer my obeisances at your lotus feet

All Glories to you and your wonderful Krishna Consciousness Movement

Nama om Vishnu Padaya Krsna presthaya bhutale

Srimate Bhaktivedanta Swamin iti namine

Namaste sarasvate deve Gauravani pracarine

Nirvisesa sunyavadi pascatya Desa tarine

Bhakti siddhanta sishyaya Bhativedanta namine

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“In this age of Kali, people who are endowed with sufficient intelligence will worship the Lord, who is accompanied by His associates, by performance of saṅkīrtana-yajña.” (Bhāg. 11.5.29)

1.) Jan 15 1976 mayapur

So you have come from all parts of the world and living together in this temple. So train these small boys. I am very glad, especially to see that the small children from all other countries and Indian, Bengalis, all together, forgetting their bodily consciousness. That is the greatest achievement in this movement, that everyone forgets the bodily conception of life. Nobody thinks here as “European,” “American,” “Indian,” “Hindu,” “Muslim,” “Christian.” They forget all these designation, and simply they are ecstatic in chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra. So kindly what you have begun, do not break it. Continue it very jubilantly. And Caitanya Mahāprabhu, the master of Māyāpur, He will be very much pleased upon you and ultimately you will go back to home, back to Godhead.

Thank you very much. (end)

2.) Dont pollute the mantra

So don’t spoil the movement by manufacturing ideas. Don’t do that. Go
on in the standard way, keep yourself pure; then movement is sure to
be successful. But if you want to spoil it by whimsical, then what can
be done? It will be spoiled. If you manufacture whims and disagree and
fight amongst yourself, then it will be another edition of these
so-called movements. It will lose the spiritual strength. Always
remember it. You cannot…. Now, actually, people are surprised: “What
this Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra has got power that it is changing so quickly?”
And on the other hand, it is to be admitted, unless it has got power,
how it is changing? So we have to keep that power. Don’t make it an
ordinary musical vibration. It is a different thing, spiritual.
Although it seems like musical vibration, but it is spiritual,
completely. Mantrauśadhi-vaśa. Even, by mantra, the snakes can be
charmed. So mantra is not ordinary sound vibration. So we have to keep
the mantra in potency, potent, by offenseless chanting, by remaining
pure. If you pollute the mantra, then it will lose its effect.”
Srila Prabhupada’s Room Conversation — April 27, 1976, Auckland, New Zealand

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Letter to Srila Prabhupada, by Javier Figuerola o Haripada dasa
On August 16 we celebrate the Transcendental Appearance of Srila Prabhupada, all the devotees we serve and love Srila Prabhupada we make a letter called the letter of Vyasa Puja, Vyasadeva is a literary incarnation of God or Krishna, He wrote all the Vedic literature , The Bhagavad-gita, the Srimad-bhagavatam, the Mahabharata, etc., and the birthday of our spiritual master is called the day of Vyasa Puja, on this day the spiritual master is glorified and thanked for all his mercy , All this spiritual knowledge that Vyasadeva gave us is transmitted from the guru to the disciple through the chain of disciplic succession, all those truths are eternal and never change, so Srila Prabhupada always said that the philosophy of Krishna consciousness is very easy , Because we do not have to invent anything, we just have to repeat what the previous spiritual masters said.
Thanks to Srila Prabhupada we have found the Truth and the Truth will set you free. Thanks to Srila Prabhupada we have come out of ignorance, which is the cause of all suffering. Thanks to Srila Prabhupada we have understood the purpose of human life, to understand and love God or Krishna, and since there is only God or Krishna and His energies, in doing this in a natural way one loves everyone and everything. Thanks to Srila Prabhupada we have understood that this material world is full of envy and is not a place for a gentleman, here are only deceivers and deceived. Thanks to Srila Prabhupada we hope to return home with God and Krishna and His devotees, and the experience of being in this material world will be a bad nightmare. Thanks to Srila Prabhupada we have understood that we are not the material body, but eternal spiritual souls, eternal loving servants of God or Krishna and His devotees. Thanks to Srila Prabhupada we are no longer a ship without a rudder, now Srila Prabhupada is the person we most trust and love the most. If Srila Prabupada had not come, it would have been us.

Vyasasan Prabhu: Gurus and Godbrothers

Dear Srila Prabhupada,

Please accept my most humble obeisances, and kindly forgive my offences. In my last letter to you, which I titled “Return to the Hare Krishna Movement”, I was addressing some of the changes I witnessed to your movement since my return in 2006. I expressed some of my disappointments and concerns, and yet I still have faith in this mission of yours.

It was interesting to see which of my older God brothers was still practicing their Krsna Consciousness within the framework of ISKCON, who had remained and who had left. I read one very sad statistic the other day on the Internet, and am sorry to report that 90% of your initiated disciples are no longer practicing their KRSNA Consciousness within the structure of ISKCON. I was very alarmed by this, because it indicates to me there is a fatal flaw in the way the society is being managed.

This is not to say that they are not still practicing their Krsna Consciousness, for “once a devotee always a devotee”, or as is stated in the Srimad Bhagavatam 1.5.19, a person who has once relished the taste of the lotus feet of the Lord can do nothing but remember that ecstasy again and again, but sadly most are not practicing their faith within the structure of ISKCON.

So who is still practicing within this once great society of ISKCON? I would have to say that today’s membership is mostly reduced to my Godbrothers who have become Gurus, their disciples, and those devotees who support the current Guru system as it was set up after your departure. Many of your devoted disciples are no longer practicing within the structure of ISKCON, but rather have formed their own separate groups or societies, (such as the Bhaktivedantas and Prabhupadanugas, Hare Krishna Society, etc.). Those devotees who are opposed to the new guru structure which was formed after your untimely departure, and believe that only you, Srila Prabhupada, are the true Sampradaya Acarya for this Hare Krishna Movement, are often banned from ISKCON temples altogether, and are not allowed to lead Kirtan, give Srimad Bhagavatam classes, or attend services at the temples. This I found to be very sad, and am sure is not very pleasing to you.

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In 1974,Srila Prabhupada came to Melbourne to attend the Rathyatra festival.He had just come from a preaching tour in Europe.Madhudvisa prabhu had learnt that Srila Prabhupada had changed his preaching activities to include more external types of programmes and to preach to VIP,s.Recently in Europe he had met with Cardinals and city mayors.Before this ,most of Srila Prabhupadas preaching was just to his followers.

My service was to arrange with VIP,s to meet with Srila Prabhupada.So I made arrangements for Srila Prabhupada to meet with the Catholic Bishop of Melbourne,the head of the Australian Jesuits,The moderator of the Presbyterian church,various Govt departmental heads,and scientists from the CSIRO.

Also I arranged public speaking programmes at the Melbourne town hall,Ormond hall,Saint Pascals Franciscan seminary college and at Latrobe University.

All of these programs were a resounding success and Srila Prabhupada was so pleased.Everything was wonderful except for the University Pragram at La Trobe University.

We had plastered the University with posters advertising Srila Prabhupadas lecture.

The programme was held in the Universitys main lecture hall.More than 500 students came,all the seats were full and many had to stand in the side aisles.

But unbeknown to us ,a group of radical left wing students had come to disturb Srila Prabhupadas lecture.

The vietnam war had just ended,but the radical students were still trying to disrupt civil society,and were still very militant.

Srila Prabhupad began to speak.After a couple of minutes one of the students yelled out and accused Srila Prabhupada of being a puppet of the CIA.We were all totally confused,why was this guy yelling at Srila Prabhupada? Srila Prabhupada stopped speaking momentarily,the abuse stopped,Srila Prabhupada continued to speak.After another minute the student again yelled out abusing Srila Prabhada.Again Srila Prabhupada stopped,then resumed speaking.By this time the devotees were becoming disturbed by the students abuse The audience were also becoming unsettled.

The 3rd time the student yelled at Srila Prabhupada.That was it ,we had had enough.

Immediately Myself,Buddhi Manta,Ugrasrava(there was one other devotee,I cant remember,It may have been Caru)charged through the crowd ,grabbed the offender and dragged him out the side door.Many in the crowed booed us,and said leave him alone,you are supposed to be a religion of peace.No one fought with us,because Buddhi Manta and Ugrasrava are big guys,6ft3,and no one wanted to meddle with them.

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If you always chant Hare Krishna, read my books, and preach this philosophy sincerely,
then Krishna will provide you with all facility, and you will not fall down into material entanglement.

Srila Prabhupada letter to Devotees, March 30, 1967

Bonds of Love: Jyotirmayi Devi Dasi

compliments of Aprakrita das from vedaveda.com

Jyotirmayi was planning to go to Nepal to become a Buddhist monk when the devotees in Paris suggested that she and her friend, Mondakini, visit Prabhupada in London instead.

When I met Prabhupada, I expected something mystical to happen, but he was practical, and that put me off. Yet, I was attracted when Prabhupada looked at me because I felt he was seeing everything inside me.Three other things made me become a devotee instead of a Buddhist: First, I loved chanting the Hare Krishna mantra, and the most extraordinary thing I’d ever heard was Prabhupada chanting it. Prabhupada made kirtana a meditation; he was completely absorbed in the mantra and he absorbed us in it.

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Vyasa puja offering from Vyasa asana dasa

Vyasasan Prabhu: Gurus and Godbrothers

Srila Prabhupadas mercy

Srila Prabhupada on how to stay away from material entanglement

Bonds of Love-Jyotirmayi devi dasi remembrances of Srila Prabhupada

Bonds of Love: Jyotirmayi Devi Dasi

Jyotirmayi was planning to go to Nepal to become a Buddhist monk when the devotees in Paris suggested that she and her friend, Mondakini, visit Prabhupada in London instead.