Homages from ISKCON Centers

Çré Vyäsa-püjä 2012
Your ISKCON movement is growing bigger by the day. It was growing when you were physically with
us, Çréla Prabhupäda, it’s growing stronger now, and it will continue to grow for the next ten thousand
years by your mercy. We can see how the lives of so many people are sublimely transformed when they
come in touch with ISKCON’s main preaching programs of book distribution, prasädam distribution,
and harinäma saìkértana. Practically anyone who is a devotee today owes his devotional life to one or
more of these programs.
Here in South Africa we can see how the Ratha-yäträ Festival of the Chariots is having a huge impact
on society. This festival, which you so expertly introduced to the West, is a perfect way to introduce the
Kåñëa consciousness culture to society. Indeed, ISKCON is at its heart a cultural presentation for the
respiritualization of the entire human society!
May the movement you so expertly started grow stronger by the day, and may your fame spread
throughout the universe!
I am simply praying at your lotus feet out of desperation and helplessness, even though I am painfully
aware that I lack the adhikära to approach you. But where else can I go for shelter? I want to shout out
loud, “Çréla Prabhupäda! Please pluck out the firmly rooted weeds of lust, anger, greed, illusion, envy,
and pride embedded in my heart! Please make me a proper instrument to be used in the saìkértana
movement in a way that your servants deem fit, within the short time I have left in this ever-deteriorating
material body.”
All glories unto your divine lotus feet, at which all other masters sit!
Your fallen granddisciples at ISKCON Soweto, South Africa.
(written by Mahäprabhu Däsa)
Taiwan
Our dear Çréla Prabhupäda,
Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Your Divine Grace!
O dear Çréla Prabhupäda! Thank you so much for mercifully distributing Lord Kåñëa’s names in this
world despite so many obstacles. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to discover Kåñëa’s existence
through your many wonderful books. Through your established ISKCON society we have received the
opportunity to contact your followers and become attracted to this wonderful family. By watching your
devotees’ love and devotion for Lord Kåñëa we also felt your love and Kåñëa’s. Thus our appreciation
for you has grown deeper and deeper in our hearts. Although in this Age of Kali the world is full of all
sorts of materialism, with so many allurements and quarrels, your example and the example of your
dear followers are the inspiration for us to follow. By following in your footsteps and adhering strictly to
your instructions, we are able to practice the discipline of bhakti and thus take this path very seriously,
very steadily.
Dear Çréla Prabhupäda, we are eternally grateful for everything you gave us. We are convinced that
to advance in Kåñëa consciousness we must depend on your mercy. Please, dear Çréla Prabhupäda,
always shower your mercy upon us and bless us. Although we desire to advance in devotional life, we
still have many material desires. We pray that you will allow us to be immersed in Kåñëa consciousness
always. Please allow us to always have the opportunity to serve the devotees, because only by serving
them and hearing from them about Kåñëa can we learn how to love you and Lord Kåñëa.
We are proud, fallen, and less intelligent. Please empower us. Please help us always remember that
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