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General guidelines for Your Vyasa Puja Offering:

Opening:

“Dear Srila Prabhupada.


Please accept my humble obeisance.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to you on this auspicious day of
your vyasapuja.”

This is equally acceptable as an opening to your offering.

Contents:

We need to glorify the role that the spiritual master is playing in our life as well as
express our indebtedness to him.

The spiritual master is interested in


 your spiritual growth
 how you are meeting challenges
 how you are carrying out his orders

Ending the offering:

It would be nice to show one’s appreciation and desire to please, by some nice
phrase such as “your humble servant” or something similar.

SAMPLE OFFERING 1
Opening
Dear Srila Prabhupada,

Please accept my humble obeisances at your divine lotus feet.


All glories to you on this most auspicious appearance day of your divine grace.

Contents
As the representative of Srila Vyasadeva you have lucidly explained the original
teachings of Srila Vyasadeva in your Bhaktivedanta purports for the benefit of all
conditioned souls. Your purports make the most difficult philosophy easy to understand
even for the common man.

The Srimad Bhagavatam explains that there are two classes of men in this world – the
crow class and the swan class. The crow class of men is attracted to the rubbish
literatures which are filled with topics of material sense enjoyment. The swan class of
men takes interest in the nectarine spiritual literature which contains the glories of the
Supreme Lord and His pure devotees.

Unfortunately the world is filled with the crow class men who are badly entangled in
sense gratification and are destined to suffer perpetually with no hope of liberation. You
have very kindly appeared to deliver all such suffering souls. Your Krishna
consciousness movement is meant to convert the crow class men into swan class.
Simply by reading or hearing even one line of your purport any person can experience a
change of heart. He begins to traverse the path back home back to Godhead.

You are the ideal acharya because you teach us everything about spiritual life by your
personal example. Even though you have been empowered by Lord Chaitanya to spread
the holy name of Krishna throughout the world, you perform your devotional service
strictly following the instructions of your spiritual master. By your personal example you
teach us to accept all austerities to carry out the order of the spiritual master. By your
tapasya you have given the wonderful gift of this Krishna consciousness movement to
the whole world.

On this most auspicious day I humbly beg you to continue to shower your blessings on
me to make me an instrument in serving your mission. I beg you to give me the inner
strength to take all austerities in serving your mission. Please forgive my offenses and
give me the intelligence to carry out your orders under the protection of your divine
movement in the association of your sincere devotees.

Ending the Offering

Begging to remain under the shelter of your lotus feet at all times and aspiring to be Your
humble Servant,

Name [Stoka Krishna Dasa], Centre [President, Hare Krishna Movement, Chennai]

SAMPLE OFFERING 2
Opening

All glories to my spiritual master , A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada,

I pay my humble obeisances unto your lotus feet.

Contents

Prabhupada By your merciful glance this insignificant soul has got a chance to begin its
spiritual life and everyday experiencing new realization in spirituality . In this two year of
my Krishna Consciousness life , I have achieved a lot. All the auspicious moment what
has come to my life it has come by your causeless mercy.

The most important one is my decision of joining brahmchari Ashram, and being full time
in service of lordship Radha Krishna Chandra, which has come true by your blessing.
Probably , I could never understand how spiritual master favors his sincere disciple, but I
could see the strong impact how my and everyone life has been transformed into better
human being and started their real journey towards ultimate goal. Now , my only desire
is that no forces in this world should shake my determination & take me away from
serving you.( Below is small rhyme presented by amateur soul)

O Prabhupada,
Your merciful Glance
Revived our remembrance
Your special favor
Adjusted Our Life Gear
For We Sleeping Soul
You taught our ultimate goal
We were rotting in gutter
You took special care,& made our life better.
Your mercy is available to everyone & everywhere
But can be realized only by Genuine seeker.
No one can be more dearer & Soothsayer
Because you are our real father & Mother
And ever Well-wisher,

Prabhupada, your glories cannot have full stop, just putting comma to continue further....

Ending the offering

Always in your Service

Name [Bhakta Chandan], Centre [Bangalore]

EDITORIAL STANDARDS

The book is meant for glorifying Srila Prabhupada. And we encourage you to do that in your
own way.

Certain kinds of content, however, we ask that you kindly avoid:

 Venting grievances

Vyasa Puja homage is not for this, please reserve that for some other place.

 Glorification of personalities other than Srila Prabhupada.

We respect that you may have received mentoring from other members as well of Srila
Prabhupada’s ISKCON or Hare Krishna Movement. But we ask that you express your
gratitude to them elsewhere.

Similarly, we respect that they too may have their own relationship with Srila
Prabhupada, but we ask that you refrain from highlighting that relationship as part of
your offering.

Size of Offering

 Font Arial for English offerings. In case of Hindi offerings (also send the font)
 Font size 11
 The offering should not exceed an A4 page

By respecting these guidelines, you’ll make the work of our editors easier. And you’ll still
have wide scope for glorifying His Divine Grace.

That said, if these guidelines seem too stringent for you, please don’t give up. We do try to
work with you, and we’ve been known to bend.

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