Sri Sri Radha Damodar (Sigatoka, Fiji) ISKCON Founder Acarya His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada His Holiness Vedavyasapriya Swami Maharaja Dearest Srila Prabhupada, Please accept my humble obeisances. I offer my false ego at your lotus feet so you may kick me so hard that it may fall far and dropped smashed. On this Rama Navami day in Srimad Bhagavatam class by my god brother, HH BV Nrasimha maharaj on SB 1:3:22, I received a big jolt by your purport that no one can change the order of The Lord Who has manifested reality by His internal potency. Not even Ravana could finish his stair case for anyone to go to heaven without proper qualifications. I was thinking preaching does require some calculated risk. How ever such risk must be calculated under full protection of the principles set in by Guru, Sadhu and Shastra so that the order of the Lord cannot be violated.. But seeing failure all around caused by uncalculated risk called deviation or transgracing the order of the Lord, I have become very much alarmed. Many examples started appearing before me like the demons who are envious of the Lord and His devotees, violated His order and got equvivalent smashing. The non devotee but liberated Jnanis, fall ungraceously from Brahmajyoti because violating the order of the Lord by dirty intelligence against taking shelter of the Lord’s lotus feet. Mayavadis are always smashed by their own perverted knowledge of becoming god themselves which itself constitutes violation in the order of the Lord. So what to speak of Ritvik vadis who manufacture meanings in the expressed desire of your divine grace? Similarly a lowly like me, who has so far failed to please you also gives a shrivering chill to my false ego telling me I must be violating the order of the Lord. Therefore on this holy appearance day of your divine grace, I pray humbly to you the representative of Lord Sri Krishna that please smash my false ego and lift me up. Your Servant, Vedavyasapriya Swami Vyasa Puja Offerings 2011 To His Holiness Vedavyasapriya Swami Maharaja Gita Kirti Devi Dasi & Gurusmarna Devi Dasi – Sigatoka, Fiji nama om visnu-padaya krishna -presthaya bhu-tale srimate bhaktivedanta svamin iti namine "I offer my respectful obeisances unto His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Pra hup a, who is very dear to Lord Kṛṣṇa, having taken shelter of His lotus feet." namas te sarasvati deve gaura-vani-pracarine nirvisesa-sunyavadi-pascatya-desa-tarine "Our respectful obeisances are unto you, O spiritual master, servant of Sarasvati Gosvami. You are kindly preaching the message of Lord Caitanyadeva and delivering the Western countries, which are filled with impersonalism and voidism." nama om visnu-padaya krishna -presthaya bhu-tale srimate tamal krishna goswamin iti namine "I offer my respectful obeisances unto His Divine Grace Tamal Krishna Goswami Gurudeva, who is very dear to Lord Kṛṣṇa, having taken shelter of His lotus feet." nama om visnu-padaya Krishna-presthaya bhu-tale srimate vedvyasapriya swami iti namine "I offer my respectful obeisances unto His Divine Grace Vedvyasapriya Swami Mahara j, who is very dear to Lord Krishna, having taken shelter of His lotus feet." (jaya) sri-krishna -caitanya prabhu nityananda sri-advaita gadadhara srivasadi-gaura-bhakta-vrnda "I offer my respectful obeisances to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabh, Sri Nityananda Prabhu, Sri Advaita Prabhu, Sri Gadadhara Prabhu, and Srivasa Prabhu." hare krsna, hare kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa kṛṣṇa, hare hare hare rama, hare rama, r ma rama, hare hare Sri Vaisnava Pranama vancha-kalpatarubhyas ca krpa-sindhubya ca patitanam pavanebhyo vaisnavebhyo namo-namah Dearest Maharaj, Please accept our most humble obeisance unto your lotus feet. Thank you so much for being so inspirational in our spiritual life. We cannot mention how much we appreciate your guidance and assistance that you have given us since the departure of our beloved spiritual master, His Holiness Tamal Krishna Goswami. Thank you once again. Without your divine grace's help we could not have completed this temple in sigatoke thank you thank you Maharaj. On this most auspicious day we pray unto the lotus feet of Sri Nrsimhadeva to protect you always and grant you a very long long life so that we dont get bereft of your divine association. Maharaj, we know that you are not a ordinary soul like us so please forgive us for any of our offences if we have treated you ordinarily. Maharaj, indeed you are very dear to Srila Prabhupada so please always shower your mercy upon us so that we can run the temple smoothly and be of some service to you, guru and gauranga. Yours fallen daughters, Gita Kirti Devi Dasi Gurusmarna Devi Dasi (Sigatoka, Fiji Yatra) Lavangalata Devi dasi oà ajïäna-timirändhasya jïänäïjana-çaläkayä cakñur unmélitaà yena tasmai çré-gurave namaù I offer my respectful obeisances unto my spiritual master, who has opened my eyes, which were blinded by the darkness of ignorance, with the torchlight of knowledge. nama oà viñëu-pädäya kåñëa-preñöhäya bhü-tale çrémate vedavyäsapriya svämin iti nämine I offer my respectful obeisances unto Çréla Vedavyäsapriya Svämi who is very dear to Lord Kåñëa, having taken shelter at His lotus feet. Dear Guru Maharaja, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Çréla Pabhupäda. All glories to Çré Çré Rädhä-Çyämasundara. I am indebted to you for rescuing me from countless millions of years in the samsara of birth and death in this material world, so I try to render a little service to you in such a way as to please you. But I find that from devotional service it is I who am the beneficiary. So then I think that the best way to try to repay your mercy to me is to try to do a little preaching in order to assist you to recover more of us fallen conditioned souls. My efforts are very small and insignificant, and I think probably very ineffectual. And the also I realize that my insignificant efforts to do some preaching encourage me to study and meditate on Çréla Pabhupäda’s books and those of other previous acäryas, and so again I find that it is I who am the beneficiary because I am furthering my realization in devotional service. It is all very inconceivable. It reminds me when reading Sri Båhad Bhägavatamåta towards the end was a statement that ultimately Lord Kåñëa alone awards pure prema-bhakti to His devotees, and then when they surrender to Him utterly He feels indebted to them for their surrender and unable to repay them. Çré Caitanya-caritämåta Antya 20.37 “prema-dhana vinä vyartha daridra jévana ’däsa’ kari’ vetana more deha prema-dhana” TRANSLATION “Without love of Godhead, my life is useless. Therefore I pray that You (you) accept me as Your (your) servant and give me the salary of ecstatic love of God.” Sincerely trying to be your willing and humble servant, Lavangalata Devi dasi Nalini Devi Dasi, Madhava, Radharani and Rajvidya Das om ajnana-timirandhasya jnananjana-salakaya caksur unmiltam yena tasmai sri-gurave namah nama om vishnu-padaya krishna-preshthaya bhu-tale shrimate Vedavyasa priya swami iti namine Respected Srila Gurudeva, Brahmanda bhramite kona bhagyavan jiva Guru-krsna prasade paya bhakti lata bija (CC.Madhya lila 19.151) Srila Prabhupada elaborates: It is the transcendental knowledge received from a pure devotee that awakens our latent love for Krsna. The methods, rules and regulations by which one is perfectly trained in devotional service constitute the bhakti lata bija. We have been wandering for many births from once species to another in the darkest of ignorance. Even after attaining this rare human birth we are still in the same condition, under the spell of the three modes of material nature. You, the direct representative of the Supreme Lord, awaken within us the latent love for Krsna. Expertly you are nurturing the bhakti lata bija within us. You are so merciful to us conditioned souls that you have permitted us to worship Sri Sri Radha Symanasundara. You have bestowed upon us the dear most deities of Baa. Though we are not worthy or qualified to accept them, it is only by your mercy we are able to worship them. We thank you millions and millions of times for your special mercy towards us. Karnadhar Ivapare, bhagvan para darsakah (SB. 1.13.40) You are the captain of a ship in a great ocean and you can direct us to our destination Your divine appearance is on this auspicious day of Pavitropana dvadasi, the festival of Jhulan yatra. You have descended to this material world sacrificing such a great festival, simply to elevate fallen souls and take us back to our eternal destination. This is your great mercy towards us. Vyasa puja is the day when we disciples reaffirm our commitments and give an account of following your instructions. We are such wretched, fallen souls that we ignore your instructions. You instructed us to understand the mood of Guru (VP 2008 Auckland). Then again you instructed us personally the instructions of Narada Muni to Yudhistira Maharaj regarding detachment. We are still learning how to detach from material enjoyments. Once in reply to a devotees question you boldly explained that you did not have any direct association with Srila Prabhupada. Nevertheless, you are dedicated to following his instructions. In your love for Srila Prabhupada and your disciples you do not care for the bodily discomforts. You travel such long distances sometimes driving 18 hours yourself! Recently we realised the extent of this discomfort when Nalini was ill. At that time we specially thought of you and how you always go through bodily discomfort.