Homages from ISKCON Centers

Çré Vyäsa-püjä 2012
desire. I beg you, Çréla Prabhupäda, please let all the Las Vegas devotees serve Lord Kåñëa’s lotus feet
under your divine guidance, completely depending on Kåñëa’s mercy and looking only to Lord Kåñëa
for shelter. Please bless us all to cooperate, respect one another, and appreciate one another’s efforts
so that you and Lord Kåñëa may enjoy our humble attempts to serve you.
Çréla Prabhupäda, please bless all the Las Vegas devotees with your mercy so that we may quickly
advance in Kåñëa consciousness, attain spiritual maturity, and ultimate receive the privilege of performing
pure devotional service at your lotus feet while always remembering Kåñëa and never forgetting Him.
Çréla Prabhupäda, please bless all of us that we may become less and less selfish and thus spiritually
richer in Vaiñëava behavior to properly represent you. May we become wealthier by receiving more and
more opportunities to perform pure loving devotional service for your satisfaction and Lord Kåñëa’s.
Çréla Prabhupäda, please bless all the Las Vegas devotees that all of us may cultivate and develop in
our hearts only one desire and only one goal: to do everything to satisfy you by spreading Lord Çré Kåñëa’s
glories to the maximum extent and as nicely as possible, solely for your satisfaction and Lord Kåñëa’s.
Your very grateful and humble servants at ISKCON Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
(written by Surapäla Däsa)
Lenasia
Dear Çréla Prabhupäda,
Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Your Divine Grace!
It seemed that life had consumed us. We scurried rapidly for personal gain while achieving nothing.
We worked hard, only to break ourselves. We tried to enjoy, only to find the poison chalice. We just kept
going, hell-bent for disaster.
But then through all the din your instructions rang through, and we acknowledged them with an
exclamation of “Yes, Prabhupäda is right! There is no hope in this material world.”
It’s with this backdrop that we wonder how it is that we have wandered into this oasis called ISKCON,
the paradise island in the swarming ocean seas? We wonder how in this paradise, in a small location in
the far corner of South Africa, there is a place called Lenasia, where there are two effulgent personalities
called Gaura and Nitäi, with long upraised arms, smiling blissfully at Their long-lost dependents?
How is it that the most beautiful Lords embrace a part of the world that has no significance compared
to Cape Town, Johannesburg, or New York City? How is it that in this remote land They draw the attention
of so many lost souls from far and wide? Who is the magician that has brought such wonder to our lives?
Like an expert artist, you waved your hand without a wand, and so many things have happened. Even
in little Lenasia, a budding group of servants makes every effort to please you and our Lordships. We
put our heads together, embracing headaches, differences of opinions, contrasting ideas, and opposing
personalities to finally come to a decision on how to give the maximum pleasure to you, and then we
resoundingly exclaim, “For you, Çréla Prabhupäda, we are willing to do everything.”
It is in this spirit of embracing anything, even if displeasing to us, for your pleasure that we wish to
push the success of ISKCON Lenasia forward. Their Lordships came here, and we want to make this the
best place for Them. We want to make it a place that devotees in every corner of the world will take note
of, exclaiming, “Just see Çréla Prabhupäda’s magic! Lenasia is a spiritual haven for the devotees! They
have worked hard to make him proud through co-operation, communion, and love.”
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