Homages from ISKCON Centers

Çré Vyäsa-püjä 2012
chanting of the holy name—Hare Kåñëa, Hare Kåñëa, Kåñëa Kåñëa, Hare Hare/ Hare Räma, Hare Räma,
Räma Räma, Hare Hare.
saj-jana, durjana, paìgu, jaòa, andha-gaëa
prema-vanyäya òubäila jagatera jana
“The Kåñëa consciousness movement will inundate the entire world and drown everyone, whether one
be a gentleman, a rogue, or even lame, invalid, or blind.” (Caitanya-caritämåta, Ädi 7.26)
Çréla Prabhupäda, we are so grateful for all the compassion that prevails in your heart. Perfect
knowledge is transmitted without adding any personally motivated interpretation, as it has come from
the divine lips of the Lord Himself through the paramparä system and through your books. These books
are another manifestation of your immense mercy, a manifestation that will bring about a transformation
of countless hearts in future generations of devotees, for the next ten thousand years. The success of this
movement rests on the foundation of our ardent desire to please you. This Kåñëa consciousness movement
is gradually changing the lives of all souls in the creation by dint of the purity of your representatives.
By the divine knowledge of Kåñëa consciousness we can understand God and reach His eternal
abode, where fear, lamentation, and death are conspicuous by their absence (açoka abhaya amåta
ädhära—Çréla Bhaktivinod Öhäkura).
Here at Çré Çré Rädhä-Räseçvara Ashrama, one of the spiritual hospitals of your ISKCON society, you
have given us everything to perfect our lives and achieve the ultimate gain—pure love for God, Kåñëa.
Our yäträ consists of a self-sufficient organic farm, a goçälä with two beautiful pregnant cows, and a
congregation of more than five hundred, mostly initiated devotees. We are now focusing on engaging
householders, both husbands and wives, in rendering regular service to the Deities at the temple. In
this way they will be trained up as brähmaëas and Vaiñëavas and thus allow the few full-time devotees
here to go out and distribute Kåñëa consciousness on a regular basis.
I am more insignificant than a blade of grass in the street, the lowest of the low, and very foolish.
Today, on this most auspicious day of your appearance, I am begging you to excuse us for whatever
big and small mistakes we have committed in the course of discharging service to your great mission.
Please do not let any of us become disappointed and pessimistic to the point of leaving your wonderful
society. We are begging for your mercy and guidance that might come through your GBC representatives
or other serious devotees from any part of the world. There is no difference between hearing directly
from the Supreme Lord and hearing from a personality like you or your true representatives. Please
protect us from Mäyä’s workings, by which she tries to bewilder us through deviant philosophies and
dangerous gossip.
In the spirit of brotherhood that prevails among all the disciples of different gurus in all the ISKCON
temples on this small island of Bali, we want to cooperate in harmony to develop and spread the unlimited
flow of your mercy in the form of a taste for the holy name of the Lord.
Säkñäd dharitvena—Bhagavän and bhakta-bhägavata are nondifferent. With a straw in my mouth I
offer this prayer/song of Çréla Bhaktivinoda Öhäkura at your divine lotus feet, O Çréla Prabhupäda, savior
of the most fallen:
kabe çré-caitanya more koribena doyä
kabe ämi paibo vaiñëava-pada-chäyä
When will Çré Caitanya Mahaprabhu show His causeless mercy to me by allowing me to attain
the shade of the lotus feet of all the Vaiñëavas?
kabe ämi chäòibo e viñayäbhimän
kabe viñëu-jane ämi koribo sammän
When will I be able to give up this false ego, which is so deeply engrossed in sense gratification?
And when will I be able to properly honor the associates of the Lord?
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