Homages from ISKCON Centers

Çré Vyäsa-püjä 2012
Aravade
Dear Çréla Prabhupäda,
Please accept our most humble obeisances at your lotus feet. All glories to you!
Your preaching was successful because you were submissive to your spiritual master. Your preaching
created a big wonder in the world, something that had never been seen before. No one in India ever
thought they would see the bright faces of Western Vaiñëavas, with all the godly symptoms.
Your endeavor was so powerful that even Kali could not stop you. Despite all difficulties, you just
went on preaching with great enthusiasm. Your preaching pastimes have made a great impact on us; in
fact, when we hear of them we became stunned with wonder. For the next ten thousand years you will
be glorified all over the world through your Kåñëa consciousness movement. We feel so fortunate that
we have taken birth so soon after your powerful preaching period.
By seeing your powerful disciples, we can understand the great endeavor you took to train them.
They are like illuminating diamonds. By circumnavigating the world at an advanced age, you connected
all these valuable gems. They are following in your footsteps, and Kåñëa consciousness is blooming
throughout the world.
We are just insignificant devotees trying to follow in your footsteps. Great souls like you are very, very
merciful toward fallen souls like us. So, Çréla Prabhupäda, we beg at your lotus feet that you will kindly
make us recipients of your mercy.
Out temple is a village temple. Many visitors, especially students on school tours, come here every day
from various places in the vicinity of our village. The visitors are especially attracted by the Deities, Çré
Çré Rädhä-Gopäla, who are so enchanting that whoever comes here to see Them can hardly leave Them.
We are trying to implement various programs you emphasized: book distribution, Food for Life, youth
preaching, village preaching, etc. Many people appreciate our endeavors. All this is happening due to
your causeless mercy. We all hanker for that mercy all the time. Only by your merciful glance we will
remain alive in Kåñëa consciousness.
Your servants at the Çré Çré Rädhä-Gopäla Mandir, the ISKCON temple in Aravade, India.
Atlanta
nama oà viñëu-pädäya kåñëa-preñöhäya bhü-tale
çrémate bhaktivedänta-sväminn iti nämine
I offer my respectful obeisances unto His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupäda, who is
very dear to Lord Kåñëa on this earth, having taken shelter at His lotus feet.
namas te särasvate deve gaura-väëé-pracäriëe
nirviçeña-çünyavädi-päçcätya-deça-täriëe
Our respectful obeisances are unto you, O spiritual master, servant of Sarasvaté Gosvämé. You are kindly
preaching the message of Lord Caitanyadeva and delivering the Western countries, which are filled with
impersonalism and voidism.
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