My Vyasapuja offering to Srila Prabhupada 2012

[Paramananda das]

My dear Srila Prabhupada, my beloved Param Gurudeva

Please accept my most humble obaisences in the dust of your lotusfeet

Once more I am here to offer you my  Vyasapuja offering. Srimad Bhagavatam 1.1.2  has stated:

dharmaḥ projjhita-kaitavo 'tra paramo nirmatsarāṇāḿ satāḿ

vedyaḿ vāstavam atra vastu śivadaḿ tāpa-trayonmūlanam

śrīmad-bhāgavate mahā-muni-kṛte kiḿ vā parair īśvaraḥ

sadyo hṛdy avarudhyate 'tra kṛtibhiḥ śuśrūṣubhis tat-kṣaṇāt

 

Completely rejecting all religious activities which are materially motivated, this Bhāgavata Purāṇa propounds the highest truth, which is understandable by those devotees who are fully pure in heart. The highest truth is reality distinguished from illusion for the welfare of all. Such truth uproots the threefold miseries. This beautiful Bhāgavatam, compiled by the great sage Vyāsadeva [in his maturity], is sufficient in itself for God realization. What is the need of any other scripture? As soon as one attentively and submissively hears the message of Bhāgavatam, by this culture of knowledge the Supreme Lord is established within his heart.

dear Srila Prabhupada you came to bring us Krishna, and in every page of Srimad Bhagavatam you have glorified Krsna in your purports. How important are your books, but though I have read you books many times, I am not reading them enough still ,why? Because you told one devotee , you can read my books 24 hours a day .Instead I am being filled from all directions about problems in ISKCON.When you left this world you was full of anxiety for ISKCON , my Gurudeva told you that you have done everything in your power and that now you please just focus on Krishna and let Krishna take care.

Today however we are here to remember your appearance.. you appeared in a very humble way in Calcutta in 1886 on september 1 on Nandotsava , to this day , very few devotees have even seen the place of you birth into this world. I once served your mission in ISKCON Calcutta in  december of 1992 distributing your books and was told a certain location was your birth place I went there and immediately took some dust from this place. ( near Aligarh ) ,later i was told this was not the actual place so to this day ,I am not very satisfied for not having visited the holy place where you appeared.

Lord Caitanya showed us to honor the birthplace of the pure vaisnava: Caitanya-bhagavata Adi 17

98 - The Lord, Sri Caitanya Bhagavan, personally visited the birthplace of Isvara Puri.
99 - Prabhu said: 'I offer my salutations to the village of Kumarahatta, where Sri Isvara Puri advented.'
100 - Caitanya cried profusely at that place, and spoke nothing other than the name of Isvara Puri.
101 - Prabhu took some dust from the place and tied it into a knot in His cloth.
102 - Prabhu said: 'The dust from the birthplace of Isvara Puri is My life, wealth, and living force.'
103 - The Lord exhibited such love for Isvara Puri because He takes pleasure in increasing the glories of His devotees.
104 - Prabhu said: 'I came to Gaya to offer oblations to My forefathers. This journey has become successful upon seeing Isvara Puri.'

Srila Prabhupada my prayer is that I  will finally be allowed me to visit  the place where you appeared .I pray to Krishna , ISKCON will one day reveal where you actually appeared in this world and make it into a holy place, and where many of your books can be distributed on a daily basis.

So many devotees will today write many nice offerings to you.Since I did not meet you in person , my realizations of you are however not inferior as I have understood you from the lips of my diksa Guru and many devotees and your disciples, and from your books and many years of service in ISKCON.

I want to glorifie your internal relationship with Krsna as this aspect is rarely discussed. Some years back an interesting discussion errupted over your internal identity in Krsna lila and your sthiya bhava eternal relationship with Krsna.

I wrote something on this matter http://nimaipandit.ning.com/profiles/blogs/srila-prabhupadas-internal

Some devotees may not have interest in these matters ,but I want to glorifie you as I see you as an eternal assocaite of Subal Sakha.(this has been confirmered by your godbrother Srila Sridhara Swami to whom you revealed this)

in Vraja Vilasa Srila Raghunath das Goswami has stated:

Filled with deep love for him, and anxious that they may be separated, Subala never, even in dream, lets go of the hand of Sri Krsna, the moon of Gokula. Subala’s heart is sprinkled with the waters of the swiftly moving mountain stream of devotion to Srimati Radhika. I offer my respectful obeisances to Subala whose body trembles with love for Sri Sri Radha-Krsna.

 

Assembling the surabhi cows in one place, hand in hand, Krsna’s friends play and joke. For them the ocean of pure love has washed away the mud of awe and reverence in Krsna’s presence. Let us take shelter of these boys, whose hearts, lives, and property are all placed at Lord Krsna’s feet.

 

You wrote on Jaladutta: 

O dear friend, in Your company I will experience great joy once again. In the early morning I will wander about the cowherd pastures and fields. Running and frolicking in the many forests of Vraja, I will roll on the ground in spiritual ecstacy. O when will that day be mine? Today that remembrance of You came to me in a very nice way. Because I have a great longing I called to You. I am Your eternal servant and therefore I desire Your association so much. O Lord Krsna, except for You there is no other means of success.

Some persons have seen you as the maidservant of Sri Rupa Manjari and Nayana Manjari ( Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Maharajas nitya svarupa) .

There is no harm in neither perceptions as confirmed by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakuras that sometimes the disciples may have different eternal relationships with Krsna and sees the Guru accordingly to their spiritual contemplation.  Srila Prabhupada you represent Lord Balarama who is akhanda Guru tattva and no matter what relationship a devotee wants to Krsna or even any of His expansions.You can accommodate this and help inspire such a devotee as you are the external manifestation of Paramatma in the form of the spiritual master. In Brahma Samhita Krsna has stated:

dharman anyanparityajya

mam ekam bhajavisvasan

yadrsi yadrsi sraddha

siddhir bhavati tadrsi

kurvan nirantaram  karma

loko 'yam anuvartate

tenaiva karmana  dhyayan

mam param bhaktim  icchati

Abandoning all meritorious performances  serve Me with faith. The realization will correspond to the nature of one's  faith. The people of the world act ceaselessly in pursuance of some ideal. By  meditating on Me by means of those deeds one will obtain devotion characterized  by love in the shape of the supreme service.

Srila Prabhupada your ISKCON is plagued with many deviations,  I am trying to also do my part to help rectifie them, because you once came to me in a merciful way in my dreams and asked me repeatedly to help your ISKCON also with its many deviations. However I am just a tiny jiva what can I do? I am simply busy trying to chant one lahk as you wanted to introduce in ISKCON and reading your books and distributing your books. By keeping my life simple in this way.I believe I can best glorifie you in this body.Srila Prabhupada I  am happy with all you have given me and thank you , you are more merciful to me than to your disciples as, I am your grandisciple. I ask you to please discipline those of your disciples that fail to come up to the standards you have set .And should I deviate in any way I ask you to kindly protect and correct me even before such a thing would happen.I feel safe under the shade of your lotusfeet.You are my TP, my GBC, my Siksa Guru, my very life and soul, I know no one in this world that has cared for and loved this useless person more than you.

Many of you disciples and my godbrothers can not understand how you have guided me and you are still guiding me.You lectures of Srimad Bhagavatam ,Bhagavad Gita and Caitanya Caritamrta are all my life and soul, I listen to them daily .

I am not asking you for any thing of this world  Srila Prabhupada  , I ask you to please give me Krsna prema, and allow me to join your camp within the sakhas of Subal, and allow me to become a priya narma sahka and assist you to eternally serve Radha Krsna.

Srila Prabhupada you appeared on Nandaotsava  in this world ,the beautiful and joyus day of Krsnas celebration festival of Gokula, a day where the Gopis and sakhas threw so much youghurt at each other in Gokula ,I will also celebrate with your faithful followers ,  to you I am not insignificant as you see me as the eternal servant of Krsna Balarama and Radha Krsna and Nitai Gaura

Falling in the dust of your lotusfeet

your   servant

Paramananda das