Homages from ISKCON Centers

Çré Vyäsa-püjä 2012
We are all very eager to fulfill our obligation to make the Guyana yäträ a place you will be proud of.
We beg for your mercy and your blessings as we strive to increase and improve our sädhana, purify our
hearts, live by the standards you gave us, completely surrender to Their Lordships Çré Çré Rädhä–Gokula-
Chandra and Çré Çré Nitäi–Caitanya-Chandra, and become fully Kåñëa conscious. Çréla Prabhupäda, we
want to please you by following your instructions. Please bless us with the determination to continue
until ISKCON Guyana unfolds in the way you desire. We must be in harmony with your wishes, with the
things you prioritize, and with your vision so that we can appreciate the gifts you have so kindly left us
as our inheritance—starting with the storehouse of spiritual wisdom in your books. If we comply thus,
one day, by you mercy, we may become competent to be your true followers.
You stressed so much the need for cooperation over spiritual competition, as legitimate as that might
be. By cooperating, each devotee will give the best of himself to your mission and share his skills and
realizations with all. If this is neglected, the society you so meticulously nurtured with your undaunted
faith in Kåñëa will become fraught with petty politics, division, and criticism, and relationships among
us will be centered on a lack of respect for one another and a general lack of genuine Vaiñëava dealings.
Over the years we have tried to implement systematic training of our devotees, with the aim of making
our movement here in Guyana stable and peaceful—a condition that will not be achieved automatically.
Failing to do so, we may become a party to so many less Kåñëa conscious traits, forgetting that our real
party is the chanting party glorifying the holy name, form, qualities, and pastimes of Kåñëa. Failure in
this regard will cause us to lose precious opportunities for expanding Kåñëa consciousness in our yäträ.
Systematic education and training are essential for preaching and a peaceful and happy ISKCON. As you
taught us, we must be engaged according to our psychophysical nature and at the same time preach
Kåñëa consciousness.
It is not necessary to be a big expert on the çästras—it is enough to follow the process with honesty
and trust sincerely in you. In your books you have given us everything to guide our lives and attain
perfection. You gave everything in terms of the knowledge and practice of bhakti, and also for the conduct
of day-to-day life. You will always remain our eternal well-wisher. If only we imbibe the precious lessons
you painstakingly taught and apply them with great determination and patience, all so-called difficulties
will be removed.
But if we allow ourselves to become at all confused about the process, then it will be practically
impossible to achieve the type of focused activity required to push forward this wonderful and important
movement. Therefore we pray to you on this blessed Vyäsa-püjä day that you kindly watch over us as
grandsons and granddaughters so that we do not stray from the clear and precise process you have
given us. And we also pray to Lord Kåñëa that we may be empowered to please you, Çréla Prabhupäda,
by all our individual and collective efforts in the matter of spreading the Kåñëa consciousness movement
here in Guyana.
We pray for your special mercy today so we may be sincere in word and deed in our efforts to serve
you with love. It is then only that love, peace, and happiness will abound in our hearts and in our yäträ,
and lust, anger, covetousness, greed, and aparädha will automatically disappear.
Thank you, Çréla Prabhupäda, for your infinite and most powerful compassion. Your wonderful glories
are unlimited. Please give us all the ability to please you. Only then will our lives become successful.
Always eager to remain servants at your lotus feet, we remain
Your devotees at ISKCON Guyana.
(written by Paramätmä Däsa)
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