Homages from ISKCON Centers

Çré Vyäsa-püjä 2012
tulayäma lavenäpi na svargaà näpunar-bhavam
bhagavat-saìgi-saìgasya martyänäà kim utäçiñaù
“The value of a moment’s association with a devotee of the Lord cannot be compared even to
the attainment of the heavenly planets or liberation from matter, and what to speak of worldly
benedictions in the form of material prosperity, which is for those who are meant for death.”
[Caitanya-caritämåta, Madhya 22.55]
All the above statements prove that the reason this great movement started is not because you
accidentally reached the right place at the right time. No, this is not why you were successful. Your
success was due to scientific spiritual principles. Today or any day you could go to any planet anywhere
and the result would be the same: the deliverance of millions of souls.
I am so fortunate to have taken shelter of your fearless lotus feet. Although I am a very neophyte,
fallen, degraded creature, I have hope that if I keep your lotus feet in my heart I will join you again in
your saìkértana movement. Please keep me in your shade.
Thank you very much.
Your servants in ISKCON Ahmedabad
(written by Jashomatinandan Däsa)
Forgotten Kåñëa,
We fallen souls,
Paying most heavy
The illusion’s toll.
Darkness around,
All untrace.
The only hope,
His Divine Grace.
Allahabad
nama oà viñëu-pädäya kåñëa-preñöhäya bhü-tale
çrémate bhaktivedänta-sväminn iti nämine
namas te särasvate deve gaura-väëé-pracäriëe
nirviçeña-çünyavädi-päçcätya-deça-täriëe
Dear Çréla Prabhupäda,
Please accept our humblest obeisances at the dust of your lotus feet.
In Çrémad-Bhägavatam (11.29.6) Çré Uddhava speaks this verse to Kåñëa,
naivopayanty apacitià kavayas taveça
brahmäyuñäpi kåtam åddha-mudaù smarantaù
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