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The Glorious Appearance Day ofOur Beloved Spiritual MasterHis Divine Grace Om Vishnupada Paramahamsa Parivrajakacharya Astottara-sata Sri Srimad A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami PrabhupadaFounder-Acharya: International Society for Krishna ConsciousnessSri Vyasa Puja2012arra surpa tath v kalatrayaa-cru citra dhana meru-tulyamanacenna lagna guror-anghri-padmetata ki tata ki tata ki tata kimEven if you have a beautiful form, a pretty wife,Great fame and a mountain of money,If your mind does not bow at the Teachers feet,What is the use? What is the use? And what is the use?kalatra dhana putra-pautrdi sarvagha bndhav sarvam-etaddhi-jtammanacenna lagna guror-anghri-padmetata ki tata ki tata ki tata kimEven if you have a wife, wealth, children, grand children.House, relations and are born in a great family,If your mind does not bow at the Teachers feet,What is the use? What is the use? And what is the use?a-agdi-vedo mukhe stra-vidykavitvdi gadya supadya karotimanacenna lagna guror-anghri-padmetata ki tata ki tata ki tata kimEven if you are an expert in six angas and the four Vedas,And an expert in writing good prose and poetry,If your mind does not bow at the Teachers feet,What is the use? What is the use? And What is the use?videeu mnya sva-deeu dhanyasadcra-vtteu matto na cnyamanacenna lagna guror-anghri-padmetata ki tata ki tata ki tata kimEven if you are considered great abroad, rich in your own place,And greatly regarded in virtues and life,If your mind does not bow at the Teachers feet,What is the use? What is the use? And What is the use?kam-maale bhpla-vndaisad-sevita yasya pdravindammanacenna lagna guror-anghri-padmetata ki tata ki tata ki tata kimEven if you are a king of a great region,And is served by kings and great kings,If your mind does not bow at the Teachers feet,What is the use? What is the use? And what is the use?bhpayao me gata diku dna-pratpjagaddhastu sarva kare yat-prasdtmanacenna lagna guror-anghri-padmetata ki tata ki tata ki tata kimEven if your fame has spread all over,And the entire world is with you because of charity and fame,If your mind does not bow at the Teachers feet,What is the use? What is the use? And what is the use?na bhoge na yoge na v vjirjauna knt-mukhe naiva vitteu cittammanacenna lagna guror-anghri-padmetata ki tata ki tata ki tata kimEven if you do not concentrate your mind,On passion, yoga, fire sacrifice,Or in pleasure from the wife,Or in the affairs of wealth,If your mind does not bow at the Teachers feet,What is the use? What is the use? And What is the use?araye na v svasya gehe na kryena dehe mano vartate me tv-anarghyemanacenna lagna guror-anghri-padmetata ki tata ki tata ki tata kimEven if your mind stays in the forest,Or in the house, on in great dutiesOr in great thoughts If your mind does not bow at the Teachers feet,What is the use? What is the use? And what is the use?anargyni ratnni muktni sayak,samligita kmin yminu,manacenna lagnam guroranghri padme tata ki tata ki tata ki tata kim Even if you have priceless jewel collection,Even if you are in the company of desirable women,If your mind does not bow at the Teachers feet,What is the use? What is the use? And what is the use?guror-aaka ya pahet-puy-dehyatir-bhpatir-brahmacr ca gehelabheddh-vchitrtha pada brahma-sajaguror-ukta-vkye mano yasya lagnamThat blessed one who reads this octet to the teacher,Be he a saint, king, bachelor or householderHe would get the great gift of attainment of the Supreme personality KrishnaIf his mind gets attached to the words of the teacher.Adi Sankaracharyas Guru AshtakamSriVyasa Puja2012ISKCON, Bangalore iiiVyasa-puja 2012INDEXGoverning Council Members1 Amitasana Dasa .......................................................................................................................... 12 Chanchalapathi Dasa .................................................................................................................. 13 Madhu Pandit Dasa .................................................................................................................... 74 Rajiv Lochan Dasa ..................................................................................................................... 175 Ratnangada Govind Dasa ........................................................................................................... 176 Satya Gaura Chandra Dasa ......................................................................................................... 187 Stoka Krishna Dasa .................................................................................................................... 218 Suvyakta Narasimha Dasa .......................................................................................................... 229 Vasudev Keshav Dasa................................................................................................................. 22Temple Presidents1 Achyutha Krishna Dasa .............................................................................................................. 242 Jaganmohan Krishna Dasa ......................................................................................................... 253 Janardhana Dasa ......................................................................................................................... 274 Karunya Sagar Dasa ................................................................................................................... 285 Niskinchana Bhakta Dasa ........................................................................................................... 326 Radhapran Dasa .......................................................................................................................... 33Other DevoteesAhmedabad Temple1 AbhiRama Caitanya Dasa ................... 342 Adi Keshava Dasa .............................. 353 Dheer Damodara Dasa ........................ 364 Ghan Shyam Dasa .............................. 365 Kirti Chandra Dasa ............................. 376 Madhumangal Dasa ............................ 387 Pratap Rudra Dasa .............................. 398 Rasa Parayana Dasa ............................ 399 Raya Rama Dasa ................................. 4010 Srivilasini Devi Dasi .......................... 4111 Vidya Sagar Nimai Dasa..................... 4212 Virupaksha Dasa ................................. 4213 Vishwambar Dasa ............................... 4314 Bhakta Akshay Shetty ......................... 4415 Bhakta Amit Kumar ............................ 4516 Bhakta Anil Rawat .............................. 4517 Bhakta Anuj Dimri ............................. 4618 Bhakta Arjun Rajarshi Trivedi ............ 4619 Bhakta Bal Mukund Singhal .............. 4720 Bhakta Bhagyavan Shetty ................... 4821 Bhakta Bharat Shah ............................ 4822 Bhakta Chandra Singh ........................ 4923 Bhakta Devraj Yadav .......................... 4924 Bhakta Dhawal Shah .......................... 5025 Bhakta Dhruv ..................................... 5026 Bhakta Dilip Soni ............................... 5127 Bhakta Dinesh Gopalani ..................... 5128 Bhakta Dinesh Rawal ......................... 5129 Bhakta Divyesh Patel .......................... 5230 Bhakta Gaurav Ohri ............................ 5231 Bhakta Gyanesh Kumar ...................... 5332 Bhakta Jayesh Bariya .......................... 5333 Bhakta Jignesh Kumar Daraji ............. 5334 Bhakta Kishan Makwana .................... 5435 Bhakta Kunal Bhanawat ..................... 5436 Bhakta Mahesh Vyas........................... 5437 Bhakta Manoj Gehlot ......................... 5538 Bhakta Manoj ..................................... 5539 Bhakta Mayur ..................................... 5640 Bhakta Nainesh Varma ....................... 5641 Bhakta Naman Mehta ......................... 5642 Bhakta Narendra Vyasa....................... 5743 Bhakta Natarajan S Iyer ...................... 5844 Bhakta Nayan ..................................... 58ISKCON, Bangalore ivVyasa-puja 201245 Bhakta Niranjan Upadhyaya ............... 5946 Bhakta Pandya Kalpesh ...................... 5947 Bhakta Pavan Rathod ......................... 5948 Bhakta Prashant Kumar ...................... 6049 Bhaktin Purvi Patel ............................. 6050 Bhakta Rakesh Patel ........................... 6151 Bhakta Rasik....................................... 6252 Bhakta Ravi Anand............................. 6353 Bhakta Ritesh ..................................... 6354 Bhakta Rohit ....................................... 6355 Bhakta Rudresh .................................. 6456 Bhakta Samarth Patel ......................... 6557 Bhakta Sanjay and Uday..................... 65Bangalore Temple1 Adideva Dasa...................................... 732 Agrani Krishna Dasa .......................... 743 Ajithashray Dasa................................. 744 Akinchana Chaitanya Dasa ................. 755 Amalabhakta Dasa .............................. 766 Amalanandhi Devi Dasi ..................... 777 Anagha Krishna Dasa. ........................ 778 Anantha Kirthi Dasa ........................... 779 Anjana Sutha Dasa ............................. 7910 Annapoorna Devi Dasi ....................... 8011 Bhaktavatara Dasa .............................. 8012 Chitra Devi Dasi ................................. 8113 Deenanatha Krishna Dasa................... 8114 Divya Rupa Devi Dasi ........................ 8215 Eswara Puri Dasa................................ 8316 Gangamayi Devi Dasi ......................... 8317 Gaurangi Devi Dasi ............................ 8418 Gopinatha Dasa .................................. 8419 Goura Mohana Dasa ........................... 8520 Govinda Datta Dasa............................ 8721 Govinda Kirthana Dasa ...................... 8922 Gunakara Rama Dasa ......................... 9023 Gunarnava Dasa.................................. 9024 Halayudha Dasa .................................. 9125 Hari Bhakta Dasa ................................ 9226 Hayagriva Dasa................................... 9327 Hema Sundari Devi Dasi .................... 9528 Hemanaga Gaura Dasa ....................... 9629 Hemanga Chaitanya Dasa ................... 9630 Janaka Dasa ........................................ 9731 Jayashree Devi Dasi ............................ 9732 Kalakantha Dasa ................................. 9833 Kalanidhi Dasa ................................... 9834 Kulasekhara Chaitanya Dasa .............. 9958 Bhakta Shashidhar .............................. 6559 Bhakta Shobhraj Prajapati .................. 6660 Bhakta Sneh Patel ............................... 6761 Bhakta Sumanth Reddy ...................... 6762 Bhakta Tejas ....................................... 6863 Bhakta Tejas Trivedi ........................... 6864 Bhakta Vanaraj .................................... 6865 Bhakta Vijal prajapat .......................... 6966 Bhakta Vishal Kathiriya...................... 6967 Bhaktin Avanti Bhagia ........................ 6968 Bhaktin Kruthika ................................ 7069 Bhaktin Seema .................................... 7170 Bhaktin Sushila Sharma ..................... 7235 Kumudini Devi Dasi ........................... 9936 Lakshmana Dasa ............................... 10037 Lakshmisha Dasa .............................. 10138 Madhana Mohana Dasa .................... 10239 Maha Bhadra Dasa ........................... 10240 Maha Nidhi Dasa .............................. 10541 Maha Sunder Dasa............................ 10542 Mahotsaha Chaitanya Dasa............... 10643 Mohana Chaitanya Dasa ................... 10844 Nanda Kishora Dasa ......................... 10945 Nanda Suta Dasa............................... 11046 Narahari Thakur Dasa ....................... 11047 Narottama Dasa ................................. 11148 Navaneet Krishna Dasa ..................... 11149 Nayanabhiram Dasa .......................... 11250 Nitai Charan Dasa............................. 11251 Padmahastha Devi Dasi .................... 11352 Pankaja Nabha Dasa ......................... 11353 Prabhupada Vani Devi Dasi .............. 11454 Prarthana Devi Dasi .......................... 11555 Prithu Dasa ....................................... 11556 Priyavrata Dasa ................................. 11657 Purandara Vitthala Dasa ................... 11658 Radha Kanta Dasa ............................ 11759 Radhe Shyam Dasa ........................... 11760 Raghava Pandita Dasa ...................... 11861 Ramanisha Dasa ............................... 11962 Ramya Rupa Devi Dasi .................... 11963 Rasajna Dasa .................................... 12064 Raseshwara Dasa .............................. 12165 Sachi Devi Dasi ................................ 12166 Saci Tanaya Dasa .............................. 12267 Sampati Dasa .................................... 12368 Sanatana Dasa................................... 124ISKCON, Bangalore vVyasa-puja 201269 Saddharma Dasa ............................... 12670 Satyabhama Devi Dasi ...................... 12771 Shabari Priya Devi Dasi ................... 12772 ShantNarasimha Dasa ....................... 12873 Shatrugna Dasa ................................. 12974 Shauri Krishna Dasa ......................... 13075 Shree Hari Dasa ................................ 13176 Shreshta Rupa Dasa .......................... 13177 Shurasena Dasa................................. 13178 Shyama Vallabha Dasa ..................... 13279 Shyamala Devi Dasi ......................... 13480 Shukadeva Dasa................................ 13581 Sitakanta Dasa .................................. 13682 Srikanta Govinda Dasa ..................... 13783 Srikara Govinda Dasa ....................... 13884 Sriniketan Dasa................................. 13985 Srivigraha Dasa ................................ 13986 Sugopi Devi Dasi .............................. 13987 Suguna Krishna Dasa ....................... 14188 Sulochana Devi Dasi ........................ 14289 Surabhi Devi Dasi ............................ 14390 Urjita Krishna Dasa .......................... 14591 Vainateya Dasa ................................. 14592 Vamshidhara Dasa ............................ 14693 VedaVyasa Dasa ................................ 14794 Venuvadana Gopala dasa .................. 14895 Vibheeshana Dasa ............................. 14896 Vilasa Vigraha Dasa.......................... 14997 Vishwamohan Dasa .......................... 15098 Vrindavan Dham Dasa ...................... 15099 Bhakta Abhishek............................... 150100 Bhakta Abhishek Singh .................... 151101 Bhakta Adarsh .................................. 151102 Bhakta Alok B .................................. 151103 Bhakta Ameet Gondali ..................... 152104 Bhakta Anantha Muniseerappa ......... 153105 Bhakta Anil Kumar ........................... 153106 Bhakta Anil Kumar T B.................... 154107 Bhakta Aniruddha ............................. 155108 Bhakta Anjan kumar G ..................... 155109 Bhakta Anjani kumar ........................ 156110 Bhakta Arun RamaKrishnan ............. 156111 Bhakta Arun S S ............................... 158112 Bhakta Arun V.................................. 158113 Bhakta Arun...................................... 159114 Bhakta Bhadrinath K ........................ 159115 Bhakta Balaji Natarajan .................... 160116 Bhakta Balaji R................................. 161117 Bhakta Balvir .................................... 161118 Bhakta Basavaraju K S ..................... 162119 Bhakta Bharatesh kumar G............... 162120 Bhakta Bharath Singh ....................... 162121 Bhakta Bhargav T ............................. 163122 Bhakta Bibhas Roy ........................... 163123 Bhakta Chethan ................................ 164124 Bhakta Devanand D.......................... 164125 Bhakta Dileep kumar ........................ 165126 Bhakta Dipak Patil ............................ 165127 Bhakta Dipri Ranjan Mohoapamu .... 166128 Bhakta Durga Chavan Padhi ............. 166129 Bhakta Ganesh.................................. 167130 Bhakta Gangadhar ............................ 168131 Bhakta Gaurav R .............................. 168132 Bhakta Gobinda Krushna ................. 169133 Bhakta Goutham Sharma.................. 169134 Bhakta Guptaa M.............................. 170135 Bhakta Harish B N............................ 170136 Bhakta Harsha B Raj ........................ 171137 Bhakta Ishan Thodge ........................ 171138 Bhakta Ishwar N Kaushik ................. 172139 Bhakta Jaya Ganesh G...................... 173140 Bhakta Jayanna ................................. 173141 Bhakta Jeetendra Ramkishan Verma 173142 Bhakta Kamlesh Kharpuse ............... 174143 Bhakta Kannan Aditya ...................... 174144 Bhakta Karthik ................................. 175145 Bhakta Kiran Bhandari ..................... 176146 Bhakta Kiran K K............................. 176147 Bhakta Kiran Kumar B..................... 177148 Bhakta Kiran Kumar M .................... 178149 Bhakta Kishon Deori ........................ 179150 Bhakta Kishore Krishna ................... 179151 Bhakta Krishna Chaitanya ................ 180152 Bhakta Krishna Sagar N L................ 180153 Bhakta Krishnanand ......................... 181154 Bhakta Krishnan Ranganathan ......... 181155 Bhakta Kumar M .............................. 182156 Bhakta Kumaresh M......................... 182157 Bhakta Loknath D............................. 183158 Bhakta Mahesh P .............................. 183159 Bhakta Mahesh Patil ......................... 183160 Bhakta Manjunatha R Gangappa ...... 184161 Bhakta Mallikarjun ........................... 184162 Bhakta Manas Kumar Sandha .......... 185163 Bhakta Manish Kumar ...................... 185164 Bhakta Manoj Payra ......................... 186165 Bhakta Manu Bachu ......................... 186166 Bhakta Manu .................................... 186ISKCON, Bangalore viVyasa-puja 2012167 Bhakta Markandey Singh ................. 187168 Bhakta Mayank Agarwal .................. 187169 Bhakta Mohan Krishna G B ............. 188170 Bhakta Mohit Kasera ........................ 189171 Bhakta Mohith Yadav ....................... 190172 Bhakta Mrityunjay ............................ 190173 Bhakta Muralidhara H ...................... 191174 Bhakta Nagaraja H............................ 192175 Bhakta Nagaraja ............................... 192176 Bhakta Narasaraja T M..................... 192177 Bhakta Narinder Singh ..................... 193178 Bhakta Naveen Kumar S .................. 194179 Bhakta Neelesh Malviya ................... 194180 Bhakta Nekraj T ............................... 195181 Bhakta Niladri Bihari Nayak ............ 195182 Bhakta Parthiban N........................... 196183 Bhakta Pavan Kumar N V ................ 197184 Bhakta Pavan Kumar R .................... 197185 Bhakta Prabhakar G.......................... 198186 Bhakta Prabhakar Reddy .................. 198187 Bhakta Pradeep ................................. 198188 Bhakta Pradyumna Rao .................... 199189 Bhakta Prafulla Kamble ................... 200190 Bhakta Prakash Mallavolu N V ........ 200191 Bhakta Pramod B K.......................... 201192 Bhakta Pramod G M......................... 202193 Bhakta Pramukh ............................... 203194 Bhakta Pranay Sharma...................... 203195 Bhakta Prasad B C R ........................ 204196 Bhakta Prasad Gowda T S ................ 204197 Bhaktha Prashanth Kumar ................ 205198 Bhakta Prayag Dutt ........................... 205199 Bhakta Priti Kumar ........................... 206200 Bhakta Purna Kumar P ..................... 206201 Bhakta Raajagopal V ........................ 207202 Bhakta Raghavendra Rao S .............. 207203 Bhakta Rajasekhar ............................ 208204 Bhakta Rajendra Ray ........................ 208205 Bhakta Rajendra ............................... 209206 Bhakta Rajipth BalaKrishnan ........... 209207 Bhakta Rajbhupal Nadgouda ............ 209208 Bhakta Rajiv Khandoori ................... 210209 Bhakta Raj Kumar Khunujmr ........... 210210 Bhakta Raju Reddy M ...................... 210211 Bhakta Ram Prasad R....................... 211212 Bhakta Ramaswamy L N .................. 212213 Bhakta Rameshbabu ......................... 212214 Bhakta Ramesh J .............................. 213215 Bhakta Ramesh Kasthuri .................. 213216 Bhakta Ramakanta Mehard .............. 214217 Bhakta Ranjith K .............................. 214218 Bhakta Raveendra Kumar Tripathi ... 214219 Bhakta Ravi K R............................... 215220 Bhakta Ravikumar C G .................... 215221 Bhakta Ravi T................................... 216222 Bhakta Ravi Yadav ........................... 216223 Bhakta Ravichandra S B................... 217224 Bhakta Ravi Shankar B T ................. 217225 Bhakta Sachidanada Padhi ............... 218226 Bhakta Sachin ................................... 218227 Bhakta Saibaba Gowd E ................... 219228 Bhakta Sandeep Kumar Eddla .......... 219229 Bhakta Sandeep Kumar .................... 220230 Bhakta Sanjay S S ............................ 221231 Bhakta Santosh ................................. 222232 Bhakta Santosh K ............................. 222233 Bhakta Santosh K ............................. 223234 Bhakta Santosh B R.......................... 223235 Bhakta Santosh Kumar ..................... 224236 Bhakta Santosh Kumar N ................. 224237 Bhakta Sathya Narayana ................... 224238 Bhakta Satin Bajpai .......................... 225239 Bhakta Satyabrata ............................. 226240 Bhakta Senthil Murugan P................ 227241 Bhakta Sarath Sasidharan ................. 227242 Bhakta Shekar Patil .......................... 228243 Bhakta Shyam Sundar Katti ............. 228244 Bhakta Siddesh ................................. 229245 Bhakta Som Mishra .......................... 229246 Bhakta Sreedhar V............................ 229247 Bhakta Srikanth G H ........................ 230248 Bhakta Srinivas K V S...................... 230249 Bhakta Shreenivasa YG.................... 230250 Bhakta Sriraman Devarajan .............. 231251 Bhakta Subburaman R...................... 232252 Bhakta Subhasish Jana ..................... 232253 Bhakta Sudesh Dosaj ........................ 232254 Bhakta Sudhakar Reddy ................... 233255 Bhakta Sudheer Reddy ..................... 233256 Bhakta Sumit Debnath...................... 234257 Bhakta Sunil Kumar T...................... 234258 Bhakta Suresh K N ........................... 235259 Bhakta Suresh Kumar ....................... 236260 Bhakta Surjeet Yadav........................ 237261 Bhakta Suvesh Kumar ...................... 237262 Bhakta Tarkeshwar P R Yadav.......... 238263 Bhakta Tarun Vinay Krishna M ........ 238264 Bhakta Tushar Nayak........................ 239ISKCON, Bangalore viiVyasa-puja 2012265 Bhakta Umesh Pattar ........................ 239266 Bhakta Umesha A ............................. 240267 Bhakta Upendra Chausana................ 240268 Bhakta Upendar R ............................ 241269 Bhakta Utsav Hedge ......................... 241270 Bhakta Vasanth T.............................. 241271 Bhakta Veeranna ............................... 242272 Bhakta Velladurai T .......................... 242273 Bhakta VenkateshBabu S.................. 243274 Bhakta Vignesh D............................. 244275 Bhakta Vijay Kumar M..................... 245276 Bhakta Vijay Prabhakaran ................ 245277 Bhakta Vinay Jangid ......................... 246278 Bhakta Vinayaka M Sakre ................ 246279 Bhakta Vinod Meharwade ................ 247280 Bhakta Vinod Moger ........................ 247281 Bhakta Vishal Krishna ...................... 248282 Bhakta Vishal Patil ........................... 249283 Bhakta Vishnu .................................. 249284 Bhakta Vishwanath ........................... 250285 Bhakta Vivek Jayaraman .................. 250286 Bhakta Vivek Viswam ...................... 251287 Bhakta Yathish Surineni ................... 251288 Bhakta Yuvaraj A.............................. 252289 Bhaktin Ashwini B ........................... 252290 Bhaktin Bharthi S ............................. 253291 Bhaktin Bimala Devi P ..................... 254292 Bhaktin Gayathri Sri Ram ................ 254293 Bhaktin Girija Ramanan ................... 255294 Bhaktin Haripriya ............................. 256295 Bhaktin Hemamalini P ..................... 257296 Bhaktin Kalavathy D ........................ 257297 Bhaktin Nagaratna ............................ 258298 Bhaktin Namitha Ananda Bhakthan . 258299 Bhaktin Navya .................................. 259300 Bhaktin Nidhi Sharma ...................... 259301 Bhaktin Nikita M.............................. 260302 Bhaktin Pallavi K ............................. 260303 Bhaktin Poornima Devi .................... 261304 Bhaktin Prathibha ............................. 261305 Bhaktin Priya Rajshekhar ................. 262306 Bhaktin Priyadarshini N ................... 262307 Bhaktin Priyanka Sanjeevi ................ 263308 Bhaktin Ramya A.............................. 263309 Bhaktin Ramya N ............................. 264310 Bhaktin Ranjitha ............................... 264311 Bhaktin Rashmi Angadi .................... 265312 Bhaktin Ruchira G............................ 265313 Bhaktin Sangeetha ............................ 267314 Bhaktin Shashiprabha ....................... 267315 Bhaktin Sharvani K .......................... 267316 Bhaktin Sowmya R........................... 268317 Bhaktin Srilaxmi Gandikota ............. 268318 Bhaktin Sunitha R ............................ 269319 Bhaktin Vaidehi A............................. 270320 Bhaktin Vasanthi ............................... 270321 Bhaktin Tanushree Veryani ............... 271322 Bhaktin Thapasvee Appanna ............ 271323 Bhaktin Tejaswini Prasad ................. 272324 Bhaktin Ujjvala Bharath ................... 272325 ISKCON Truth.................................. 273Bhilai Temple1 Prema Vilas Krishna Dasa ................ 274Chennai Temple1 Adi Purusha Dasa ............................. 2752 Lalita Dasi ........................................ 2753 Mukunda Madhava Dasa .................. 2764 Sadachara Dasa ................................. 2775 Sarvajna Chaitanya Dasa .................. 2786 Shravana Mangala Dasa ................... 278Delhi Preaching Centre1 Bilvamangala Dasa ........................... 2842 Bhakta Abhinav ................................ 2843 Bhakta Ajay Madan .......................... 2854 Bhakta Alok Kaushik........................ 2865 Bhakta Amarnath Sharma ................. 2877 Sureshwar Dasa ................................ 2798 Bhakta Chandni Nathani ................... 2809 Bhakta Vinay .................................... 28110 Bhaktin Chetna Nathani ................... 28111 Bhaktin Diya Venkatesh ................... 2826 Bhakta Amit ...................................... 2877 Bhakta Amit Shiv ............................. 2888 Bhakta Ankit ..................................... 2889 Bhakta Chandra Bhushan ................. 28910 Bhakta Charu Gupta ......................... 289ISKCON, Bangalore viiiVyasa-puja 201211 Bhakta Devendra Gurjar ................... 29012 Bhakta Gaurav Saxena ..................... 29113 Bhakta Govind Basaiwala ................ 29114 Bhakta Jagdish.................................. 29215 Bhakta Keshav Bajaj ........................ 29216 Bhakta Krishna Kumar Bansal ......... 29317 Bhakta Madhav Gupta ...................... 29318 Bhakta Mani ..................................... 29419 Bhakta Manish Nagpal ..................... 29420 Bhakta Nakul .................................... 29521 Bhakta Savmit Grover ...................... 29622 Bhakta Siddharth Kapoor & Family . 29623 Bhakta Sudarshan Hegde .................. 29724 Bhakta Sudipto Chatterjee ................ 298Guwahati Temple1 Balaram Dasa.................................... 3072 Chakradhar Dasa .............................. 3073 Radhika Devi Dasi ............................ 3084 Ramakanta Dasa ............................... 3085 Satya Sandha Dasa............................ 3096 Surashreshta Dasa............................. 3107 Vaikunta Narayana Dasa ................... 3118 Vijay Pandit Dasa ............................. 3119 Bhakta Anant Kumar Sharma ........... 31210 Bhakta Gautam Sarma ...................... 31211 Bhakta Nawal Kishor Sharma .......... 31312 Bhakta Omprakash Agarwalla .......... 31313 Bhakta Parag Jyoti Saikia ................. 31425 Bhakta Sundeep Talwar .................... 29826 Bhakta Surendra Khanna .................. 29927 Bhakta Surinder Madan .................... 30028 Bhaktin Ananya Talwar .................... 30129 Bhaktin Anita kaushik ...................... 30130 Bhaktin Bindu Dey ........................... 30131 Bhaktin Isha Kaushik ....................... 30232 Bhaktin Isha Madan.......................... 30233 Bhaktin Ishitha Madan ..................... 30334 Bhaktin Kuheli Mukherjee ............... 30335 Bhaktin Manisha Kaushik ................ 30436 Bhaktin Padmini Singh..................... 30437 Bhaktin Ritula Talwar ....................... 30538 Bhaktin Shalima Madan ................... 305Hubli Temple1 Akshobhya Dasa ............................... 3232 Anantha Rupa Dasa .......................... 3233 Dhira Krishna Dasa .......................... 3244 Muralidhara Dasa ............................. 3245 Nityananda Anuja Dasa .................... 3266 Prasanatma Dasa............................... 3277 Raghottama Dasa .............................. 3278 Rama Gopala Dasa ........................... 3289 Shailendra Govardhan Dasa ............. 32910 UjjwalRupa Devi Dasi ...................... 32911 Vyasa Maharishi Dasa....................... 33012 Yagneshwara Dasa ............................ 33113 Bhakta Arun H D.............................. 33214 Bhakta Phani Bhushan Dasa ............. 31415 Bhakta Rubul Kr Gogoi .................... 31516 Bhakta Sajjan More .......................... 31517 Bhakta Sanskar Agarwalla ................ 31518 Bhakta Subhajit Saha........................ 31619 Bhakta Sunil Bhansal ....................... 31620 Bhakta UpenSaikia ........................... 31721 Bhakta Vijay Gupta........................... 31722 Bhakta Vivek Jaiswal Vyas ............... 31823 Bhaktin Preety Agarwalla ................. 31924 Bhaktin Rashmi Sharma ................... 31925 Bhaktin Rupa Sharma ....................... 32026 Bhaktin Vibha Gupta ........................ 322Hyderabad Temple1 Kaunteya Dasa .................................. 3392 Krishna Nama Dasa Adhikari ........... 3393 Krishna Prema Dasa ......................... 34014 Bhakta Girish K................................ 33215 Bhakta Govinda ................................ 33216 Bhakta Jagadish ................................ 33317 Bhakta Manjunath ............................ 33418 Bhakta ManjunathG Patil ................. 33419 Bhakta Parsuram B N ....................... 33520 Bhakta Rajesh kumar D.................... 33521 Bhakta Santosh ................................. 33622 Bhakta Sharanu H............................. 33623 Bhakta Venkatappa ........................... 33724 Bhakta Vinaya K............................... 33725 Bhakta Vinod T................................. 3384 Mohini Devi Dasi ............................. 3405 Namamruta Dasa .............................. 3416 Prema Bhakti Dasa ........................... 342ISKCON, Bangalore ixVyasa-puja 20127 Raja Hamsa Dasa .............................. 3428 Raja Rama Dasa ............................... 3439 Ravi Lochana Dasa ........................... 34410 Shruthidhara Dasa ............................ 34511 Srinidhi Govind Dasa ....................... 34612 Srivasa Pandit Dasa .......................... 34613 Syamakunda Dasa............................. 34814 Venkatesh Dasa Adhikari .................. 34815 Bhakta Ajit L .................................... 34916 Bhaktha Aniruddh............................. 35017 Bhakta Gopal .................................... 35118 Bhakta Kalaiselvan ........................... 35119 Bhakta Krishna Pirangi ..................... 35220 Bhakta Manik Prabhu K ................... 35221 Bhaktha Muthuraj ............................. 35222 Bhakta Naveen P .............................. 35423 Bhakta Nikesh KumarP .................... 354Jaipur Temple1 Adinarayana Dasa ............................. 3642 Ajit Krishna Dasa ............................. 3653 Ananta Virya Dasa ............................ 3664 Anantha Sesha Dasa ......................... 3675 Arjunnath Dasa ................................. 3676 Brajendra Nandan Dasa .................... 3687 Dhanurdhara Dasa ............................ 3698 Keshi Hanta Dasa ............................. 3699 Krishna Charan Dasa ........................ 37010 Lakshman Dasa ................................ 37011 Madan Gopal Dasa ........................... 37012 Madan Murari Dasa .......................... 37113 Madhav Charan Dasa ....................... 37114 Mahakurma Dasa .............................. 37215 Nikhileswara Krishna Dasa .............. 37316 Padma Malini Devi Dasi .................. 37317 Pradeepta Narasimha Dasa ............... 37418 Prana Vallabha Dasa ......................... 37419 Premanjana Dasa .............................. 37520 Radha Priya Dasa.............................. 37621 Raghupathi Dasa............................... 37722 Rasaraja Krishna Dasa ...................... 37723 Rasollasa Krishna Dasa .................... 37824 Sandipani Krishna Dasa ................... 37925 Sarvalakshna Dasa ............................ 38026 Shukamrita Dasa............................... 38127 Subhadra Devi Dasi .......................... 38228 Vaishnav Charan Dasa ...................... 38229 Vishnu Murti Dasa............................ 38330 Vraj Raja Dasa .................................. 38324 Bhakta Prashanth A .......................... 35525 Bhakta Rajesh B ............................... 35526 Bhakta Ramesh P.............................. 35627 Bhakta Ravi Kiran ............................ 35628 Bhakta Ravi Kumar Shinde .............. 35629 Bhakta Ritesh Shaw.......................... 35730 Bhakta Santosh K ............................. 35731 Bhakta Santosh V ............................. 35832 Bhakta Shravan N............................. 35833 Bhakta Srikanth P ............................. 35934 Bhakta Srinivas A............................. 35935 Bhakta Syam Kumar ......................... 36036 Bhakta Veeresh B.............................. 36137 Bhakta Venkateshwarlu .................... 36238 Bhaktin Gaurangi .............................. 36239 Bhaktin Jaya Ravindran.................... 36240 Bhaktin Malati .................................. 36331 Bhakta Abhishek Agrawal ................ 38432 Bhakta Ajay Choudhary.................... 38433 Bhakta Akhilesh Kumar Gupta ......... 38534 Bhakta Amarendra Saxena................ 38535 Bhakta Anand Ameta ........................ 38636 Bhakta Anmol ................................... 38637 Bhakta Anurag Dwivedi ................... 38738 Bhakta Amish Kumar Nahak ............ 38739 Bhakta Basukinandan ....................... 38840 Bhakta Bhupendra Singh .................. 38841 Bhakta Bimal Prasad Aggarwal ........ 38842 Bhakta Brajesh Goyal ....................... 38943 Bhakta Chandrasekhar Sharma......... 38944 Bhakta Chirangi Lal Jangid .............. 38945 Bhakta Deepak Sharma .................... 39046 Bhakta Deepak Tiwary ..................... 39047 Bhakta Devarishi Sharma ................. 39048 Bhakta Dhabhai ................................ 39149 Bhakta Dheeraj Kumar ..................... 39150 Bhakta Govind Kumar Maurya ........ 39151 Bhakta Govind Sharma..................... 39252 Bhakta Hari Mehra ........................... 39253 Bhakta Harsh .................................... 39254 Bhakta Himanshu ............................. 39355 Bhakta Himanshupandya .................. 39356 Bhakta Hitesh Gupta......................... 39357 Bhakta Janmejaya ............................. 39458 Bhakta Kamal Kumar Sharma .......... 39459 Bhakta Lokesh Yadav ....................... 39460 Bhakta Manaraj ................................ 395ISKCON, Bangalore xVyasa-puja 2012Kozhikode Preaching Centre1 Bhakta Arpit Roy .............................. 4232 Bhakta Komal ................................... 4233 Bhakta Rajesh V R ........................... 4244 Bhakta Ravindra ............................... 42461 Bhakta Manas Kumar Sandha .......... 39562 Bhakta Manish Agarwal ................... 39663 Bhakta Manoj ................................... 39664 Bhakta Manoj Khathri ...................... 39765 Bhakta Manoj Kumar Jain................ 39766 Bhakta Mukesh Kumar Sharma........ 39767 Bhakta Mukesh Sharma.................... 39768 Bhakta Naam Narayan Rao .............. 39869 Bhakta Navneeth Jain ....................... 39870 Bhakta Nishant Verma ...................... 39971 Bhakta Nitai das ............................... 39972 Bhakta Nithish Bahuguna ................. 39973 Bhakta Pankaj Jethwani .................... 40074 Bhakta Pankaj Sharma...................... 40075 Bhakta Pankaj Sharma...................... 40076 Bhakta Paranesh Sharma .................. 40077 Bhakta Pawan Kumar Sharma .......... 40178 Bhakta Pradeep Kumar Kakkad ....... 40179 Bhakta Pradeep Kumar Sharma........ 40180 Bhakta Prakash Vijay........................ 40281 Bhakta Praveena Narayan ................. 40382 Bhakta Prerana Parikh ...................... 40383 Bhakta Rajesh Kaushik..................... 40384 Bhakta Rajesh Rohra ........................ 40485 Bhakta Rakesh Sanduja .................... 40486 Bhakta Ranjeet Pandey ..................... 40487 Bhakta Rishapal Kumavat ................ 40588 Bhakta Rojer Dinesh Patel ................ 40589 Bhakta Sachin Gaud ......................... 40690 Bhakta Sameer Naagar ..................... 40691 Bhakta Saurabh Kumar Bhuban ....... 40692 Bhakta Shailendra Parikh ................. 40793 Bhakta Shakul Sharma ..................... 40794 Bhakta Sharma S K .......................... 40795 Bhakta Shyam Prakash Gupta .......... 40896 Bhakta Shyamal Mallik .................... 40897 Bhakta Srinadh ................................. 40898 Bhakta Subhash Gaud....................... 40999 Bhakta Surendra Singh ..................... 409100 Bhakta Uthkrish................................ 409101 Bhakta Vipin Jaiman......................... 409102 Bhakta Vishwanath Kumar ............... 410103 Bhakta Vivek Mehta ......................... 411104 Bhakta Yash Pal Sharma ................... 411105 Bhakta Yatin Pushkarna .................... 412106 Bhaktin Anita Sharma....................... 412107 Bhaktin Annupriya............................ 413108 Bhaktin Aparajita Kaushik ............... 413109 Bhaktin Archana Chaturvedi ............ 414110 Bhaktin Chandra Kanta Verma ......... 414111 Bhaktin Deepa .................................. 415112 Bhaktin Divya Khatnar ..................... 415113 Bhaktin Garima Agarwal .................. 416114 Bhaktin Geeta Rohra ........................ 416115 Bhaktin Heena Shikawar .................. 416116 Bhaktin Jyoti Joshi ........................... 417117 Bhaktin Kavitha Agrawal Dasi ......... 417118 Bhaktin Lakshmi .............................. 418119 Bhaktin Madhuri Parasar .................. 418120 Bhaktin Manasi Maheshwari ............ 418121 Bhaktin Maya Jaugith ....................... 419122 Bhaktin Meenakshi Sharma.............. 419123 Bhaktin Priyanka Sanjeevi ................ 419124 Bhaktin Sakshi Sharma .................... 420125 Bhaktin Sangeetha Sharma ............... 420126 Bhaktin Shipra Agarwal ................... 420127 Bhaktin Surbhi Verma ...................... 421128 Bhaktin Vidhi Kakkar ....................... 421129 Jaipur Devotees ................................ 421Malaysia Temple1 Caru Radhika Devi Dasi ................... 4282 Gandhari Devi Dasi .......................... 4283 Govardhan Dhari Dasa ..................... 4284 Ishvari Devi Dasi .............................. 4295 Jaya Sri Devi Dasi ............................ 4296 Jiva Krishna Dasa ............................. 4295 Bhakta Shashank M.......................... 4256 Bhakta Sridharan .............................. 4267 Bhakta Venkat Swaroop.................... 4267 Kamala Kantha Dasa ........................ 4308 Keshari Suta Dasa............................. 4319 Madhava Mohan Dasa ...................... 43110 Padma Gopi Devi Dasi ..................... 43211 Padmini Devi Dasi ............................ 43212 Prema Bhakt Devi Dasi .................... 432ISKCON, Bangalore xiVyasa-puja 201213 Radha Ramana Dasa ......................... 43314 Rama Ragava Dasa ........................... 43415 Ranga Devi Dasi ............................... 43416 Rasheshwari Devi Dasi ..................... 43417 Sankarshan Nityananda Dasa ........... 43518 Sethu Mathava Dasa ......................... 43519 Shaila Vashini Devi Dasi .................. 43520 Shanta Gopi Devi Dasi ..................... 43621 Soora Krishna Dasa .......................... 43622 Subha Devi Dasi ............................... 43623 Tapana Krishna Dasa ........................ 43724 Tapodhana Rama Das ....................... 43825 Trilokya Sundari Devi Dasi .............. 43826 Tusta Gauranga Dasa ........................ 439Mangalore Temple1 Nandana Acharya Dasa ..................... 4452 Nandasuta Dasa ................................ 4453 Prananatha Dasa ............................... 4464 Radha Vallabha Dasa ........................ 4475 Raghava Chaitanya Dasa .................. 4476 Sanandana Dasa ................................ 4487 Sharad Vihari Dasa ........................... 4488 Vishnu Pada Dasa ............................. 4499 Vrajalila Dasa ................................... 45010 Bhakta Avinash ................................. 45011 Bhakta Deexit ................................... 45112 Bhakta Gangadhar K ........................ 45213 Bhakta Hardik Koria......................... 45314 Bhakta Harshavardhan...................... 45315 Bhakta Karan .................................... 45416 Bhakta Kaustubh .............................. 45517 Bhakta Manoj Kumar Soothwal ....... 45518 Bhakta Melantha............................... 45619 Bhakta Naveen Guntur ..................... 45627 Vaidehi Devi Dasi ............................. 43928 Vishuda Devi Dasi ............................ 44029 Vraja Kishora Dasa ........................... 44030 Yogeshwar Dasa ............................... 44131 Bhakta BalaKrishnan ........................ 44132 Bhakta Klang .................................... 44233 Bhaktha Maniveloo .......................... 44234 Bhaktha Nedunselian ........................ 44235 Bhaktha Rakesh ................................ 44336 Bhakta Rishikesan ............................ 44337 Bhaktin Alankar ................................ 44338 Bhaktin Rajesware Maniveloo ......... 44439 Bhaktin Uma Mageswary ................. 444Mysore Temple1 Alarnath Dasa ................................... 4672 Harinam Dasa ................................... 4673 Jagat Jivan Das ................................. 4684 Madhu Nimai Dasa ........................... 4695 Mahabhagavata Dasa ........................ 4706 Mahaprabhu Gauranga Dasa ............ 4707 Mahapurana Dasa ............................. 4718 Narakesari Dasa ................................ 4729 Pragosh Krishna Dasa....................... 47310 Radhika Devi Dasi ............................ 47411 Rasaraja Dasa ................................... 47512 Rasika Shekara Dasa ........................ 47520 Bhakta Phani Krishna K ................... 45721 Bhakta Prabeeth................................ 45722 Bhakta Ravi Kumar .......................... 45723 Bhakta Roshan.................................. 45824 Bhakta Rukhamaiah K...................... 45925 Bhakta Sai Mitra............................... 46026 Bhakta Shailesh Shetty ..................... 46127 Bhakta Shivaprasad Rai .................... 46128 Bhakta Somashekhar ........................ 46129 Bhakta Sudhakar Srinivasa ............... 46230 Bhakta Sujan S Shetty ...................... 46231 Bhakta Sunil ..................................... 46232 Bhakta Suraj ..................................... 46333 Bhakta Venkata Ranganath ............... 46334 Bhaktin Padmavathi Gangadhar ....... 46435 Bhaktin Samitha ............................... 46436 Bhaktin Saritha ................................. 46537 Bhaktin Sujatha Rao ......................... 46538 Bhaktin Swati Varma ........................ 46513 Soumya Rupa Krishna Dasa ............. 47714 Srivatsa Dasa .................................... 47815 Uttama Achyuta Dasa ....................... 47816 Vishnu Charan Dasa ......................... 47917 Vishva Bhavana Dasa ....................... 48018 Bhakta Abhilash B R ........................ 48119 Bhakta Alok ...................................... 48120 Bhakta Anjan B K............................. 48221 Bhakta Arun Chandra ....................... 48322 Bhakta Basavaraju M.N. ................... 48323 Bhakta Bhargav H ............................ 48424 Bhakta Bhaskar Pathak ..................... 484ISKCON, Bangalore xiiVyasa-puja 2012Puri Temple1 Chandra Lochan Krishna Dasa ......... 5282 Chinmaya Krishna Dasa ................... 5293 Jagannath Prasada Dasa .................... 5294 Niranjana Bhakta Dasa ..................... 5305 Pancha Ratna Dasa ........................... 5316 Vasudeva Datta Dasa ........................ 5317 Bhakta Aditya Kumar Pradhan ......... 5328 Bhakta Aditya Prasad Satpathy......... 5329 Bhakta Biren ..................................... 53210 Bhakta Chittaranjan Mohapatra ........ 53311 Bhakta Dinesh Kumar Patel ............. 53325 Bhakta Chandrakanta........................ 48526 Bhakta Chaitanya N G...................... 48627 Bhakta Dattatreya ............................. 48628 Bhakta Deepak Kamath .................... 48729 Bhakta Deepak Kini ......................... 48830 Bhakta Girish M ............................... 48831 Bhakta Hariraju ................................ 48932 Bhakta Jaisimha................................ 48933 Bhakta Kailash Kumar Roy .............. 49034 Bhakta Kiran Pathak ......................... 49235 Bhakta Kushal Aradhya .................... 49236 Bhakta Lakshmipathi ........................ 49337 Bhakta Manjunath ............................ 49338 Bhakta Manjunath S L...................... 49439 Bhakta Naveen.................................. 49540 Bhakta Pavan Kishore ...................... 49541 Bhakta Prakash T S........................... 49642 Bhakta Prashanth N .......................... 49743 Bhakta Praveen ................................. 49844 Bhakta Praveen Kumar ..................... 49845 Bhakta Preetham Bharadwaj ............ 49946 Bhakta Purushotham......................... 49947 Bhakta Purushotham......................... 50048 Bhakta Raj Gopal Rao ...................... 50149 Bhakta Rajan .................................... 50150 Bhakta Rakesh .................................. 50251 Bhakta Ravi ...................................... 50252 Bhakta Ravishankar B G .................. 50353 Bhakta Sawan Kumar ....................... 50454 Bhakta Shashank .............................. 50455 Bhakta Shekar A............................... 50556 Bhakta Shiva..................................... 50557 Bhakta Shivakumar .......................... 50658 Bhakta Shiva Prasad ......................... 50759 Bhakta Shravanth Vasisht ................. 50760 Bhakta Srikanth M E ........................ 50861 Bhakta Srinidhi ................................. 50862 Bhakta Srinidhi B.V. ......................... 50963 Bhakta Srivatsa ................................. 50964 Bhakta Sunny.................................... 50965 Bhakta Ujwal Raj ............................. 51066 Bhakta Ujwal Kumar ........................ 51067 Bhakta Vinay .................................... 51168 Bhakta Vinay Kumar N .................... 51169 Bhakta Vinay Raj M U ..................... 51270 Bhakta Vinesh................................... 51271 Bhaktin Anushka Pathak .................. 51372 Bhaktin Devika ................................. 51373 Bhaktin Girija ................................... 51474 Bhaktin Jyothi Hosakere................... 51475 Bhaktin Lakshmi S ........................... 51576 Bhaktin Lalitha ................................. 51577 Bhaktin Meera B............................... 51678 Bhaktin Mohaneshwari ..................... 51779 Bhaktin Padmashree ......................... 51780 Bhaktin Radha .................................. 51881 Bhaktin Sanjeevani ........................... 51882 Bhaktin Shamantha........................... 51883 Bhaktin Shanthi Rajan ...................... 51984 Bhaktin Syamala Kumari .................. 52085 Bhaktin Spoorthy Sujay .................... 52086 Bhaktin Srinidhi K. ........................... 52187 Bhaktin Srividya B V ....................... 52288 Bhaktin Suchetana ............................ 52289 Bhaktin Sudha P ............................... 52390 Bhaktin Vidula Mane ........................ 52391 Bhaktin Vidya Shankar ..................... 52392 Bhaktin Vrinda Devi ......................... 52493 Bhaktin Vrinda Vijay Mane .............. 52494 Bhaktin Vyshnavi .............................. 52595 Bhaktin Yashaswini .......................... 52696 Mysore Devotees .............................. 52612 Bhakta Dinesh Patel ......................... 53413 Bhakta Jagannath Pradhan................ 53414 Bhakta Murali Chandra Nayak ......... 53515 Bhaktin Nalini Devi .......................... 53516 Bhakta Rabi Narayan Sahoo ............. 53517 Bhakta Satyanarayana Patra.............. 53618 Bhakta Srinath Pathi ......................... 53619 Bhakta Tarun Sahoo.......................... 53620 Bhakta Venkateswara Rao ................ 53721 Bhakta Vivekanand Yadav ................ 537ISKCON, Bangalore xiiiVyasa-puja 2012Sunnyvale Temple, USA1 Sri Krishna BalaRama MandirDevotees ........................................... 5392 Aravinda Lochana Dasa.................... 5403 Bhakta Vrinda Dasa .......................... 5414 Jahnavi Devi Dasi ............................. 5415 Nanda Kishore Dasa ......................... 5426 Premadhatri Devi Dasi ..................... 5437 Priyasakhi Devi Dasi ........................ 5438 Sukhada Govinda Dasa..................... 544Tirupati Temple1 Bindu Madhava Dasa ....................... 5492 Mahadhyuthi Dasa ............................ 5503 Murari Hari Dasa .............................. 5504 Pratapa Rudra Dasa .......................... 5515 Sadhvi Radha Devi Dasi ................... 5516 Sharangi Krishna Dasa ..................... 5527 Sahadeva Sakha Dasa ....................... 5538 Ayodhyapati Dasa ............................. 5549 Bhakta Achyutha............................... 55510 Bhakta Gadadhara Dasa.................... 55511 Bhakta Harigopal D J ....................... 55612 Bhakta Kalyan Prasad....................... 55613 Bhakta Kamishetty Srinivasalu ........ 55714 Bhakta Kiran K Guditi ...................... 55815 Bhakta Lakshminarayana.................. 55916 Bhakta Mahesh ................................. 56017 Bhakta MuraliKrishna A................... 56018 Bhakta Nagesh Kumar G B .............. 56119 Bhakta Shivananda Reddy ................ 5619 Bhakta Kiran..................................... 54510 Bhakta Prashanth .............................. 54511 Bhakta Rajesh Sundaram, ................. 54512 Bhakta Rajesh ................................... 54613 Bhakta Vamshi .................................. 54614 Bhaktin Keerthi Cheekoty ................ 54715 Bhaktin Rajini Cindula ..................... 548Udaipur Preaching Centre1 Bhakta Amar ..................................... 5732 Bhakta Ashuthosh ............................. 5733 Bhakta Bhupendra Kumar Sanhathay 5744 Bhakta Chandra Prabha Singh .......... 5745 Bhakta Chirag ................................... 5746 Bhakta Deepak Kumar Shini ............ 5757 Bhakta Prahalad................................ 5758 Bhaktha Pranjil Dadheeh .................. 5759 Bhaktha Mahendra Singh ................. 57620 Bhakta Srinivasa Dasu...................... 56121 Bhakta Sumanth C............................ 56222 Bhakta Thyagaraju M ....................... 56323 Bhakta Tilak ..................................... 56324 Bhakta Vijay G ................................ 56325 Bhakta Vinay Kumar ....................... 56426 Bhakta Viswanth Reddy A................ 56427 Bhakta Umapathi .............................. 56528 Bhaktin Chenchumunemma A.......... 56529 Bhaktin Jansee .................................. 56630 Bhaktin Keerthi ................................ 56631 Bhaktin Mandha Venkataramanamma56732 Bhaktin Munineshwari S .................. 56833 Bhaktin Ramalakshmi M.................. 56834 Bhaktin Rupa K ................................ 57035 Bhaktin ShylajaVishwantha Reddy .. 57136 Bhaktin Siddeswari A....................... 57237 Bhaktin VasudhaJaladi. ..................... 572Visakhapatnam Temple1 Ambarisha Dasa................................ 5802 Dhira Govinda Dasa ......................... 5803 Narottam Dasa .................................. 5814 Navadeep Narasimha Dasa ............... 58210 Bhakta Nihal Aamera ....................... 57611 Bhakta Rajkumar .............................. 57612 Bhakta Sagar Kalavani ..................... 57713 Bhaktin Seema Sanadhay ................. 57714 Bhakta Shanthi Swaroop Sharma ..... 57815 Bhakta Suresh ................................... 57816 Bhakta Vishnu Shankar Sharma ....... 57917 Bhakta Yash Garg ............................. 5795 Paramananda Dasa............................ 5826 Srivishnu Dasa.................................. 5837 Sruti Sagara Dasa ............................. 5838 Vaikunteshwara Dasa........................ 584ISKCON, Bangalore xivVyasa-puja 20129 Yaduraja Dasa ................................... 58510 Bhakta Anirudh................................. 58611 Bhakta Anudeep................................ 58612 Bhakta Arunkumar Voona ................ 58613 Bhakta Bala Krishna Prasad ............. 58714 Bhakta Charan Kumar ...................... 58715 Bhakta ChowdhavarapuNagamaneshwara Rao ...................... 58816 Bhakta Jagannadh ............................. 58917 Bhakta Janaki Rao ............................ 58918 Bhakta Jeethesh Reddy B ................. 59019 Bhakta Jitendra V ............................. 59020 Bhakta Karthik S .............................. 59121 Bhakta Kaushal ................................. 59122 Bhakta Kiran kumar ......................... 59123 Bhakta Krishna Kishore TN ............. 59224 Bhakta Lakshmikanta G ................... 59225 Bhakta Mahesh K ............................. 59326 Bhakta Murali Krishna ..................... 59327 Bhakta Murthy SRKSN.................... 59428 Bhakta Naidu BV ............................. 59429 Bhakta Naresh .................................. 59530 Bhakta Naveen Kumar...................... 59531 Bhakta Prasad PVR .......................... 59632 Bhakta Praveen Kumar ..................... 59633 Bhakta Rama Rao ............................. 59734 Bhakta Ramesh Kumar K................. 59835 Bhakta Ramesh Reddy...................... 59836 Bhakta Renganathan R K ................. 59937 Bhakta Roopesh Kumar .................... 60038 Bhakta Sagar V................................. 60039 Bhakta Sairam .................................. 60140 Bhakta Sandeep D ............................ 60141 Bhakta Santhan C ............................. 60242 Bhakta Siva Kumar........................... 60243 Bhakta Srinivas M ............................ 60344 Bhakta Subrahmanyam P.................. 60445 Bhakat Surya Teja ............................. 60446 Bhakta Surneddy Venkateshwar Rao 60547 Bhakta Venkata Ramana M .............. 60548 Bhakta Yashwant .............................. 60649 Bhaktin Amruthavallli ...................... 60650 Bhaktin Anusha ................................ 60751 Bhaktin Jyothi Ramesh ..................... 60752 Bhaktin Jyothi Lakshmi Shivaji Rao 60853 Bhaktin Krishnaveni B ..................... 60954 Bhaktin Lakshmi YR ........................ 60955 Bhaktin Madhavi .............................. 61056 Bhaktin Nagamani ............................ 61057 Bhaktin Puspha Saroja R.................. 61158 Bhaktin Roja ..................................... 61259 Bhaktin Shalini Reddy B .................. 61260 Bhaktin Surekha S ............................ 61361 Bhaktin Vasantha Shobha ................. 614Vrindavan Temple1 Akrura Krishna Das .......................... 6152 Angada Dasa..................................... 6153 Dinadayal Chaitanya Dasa ................ 6164 Madhuvrata Dasa .............................. 6165 Para Brahma Dasa ............................ 6176 Pitavarna Chaitanya Dasa ................. 6187 Rama Tirtha Dasa ............................. 6188 Ramachandra Kaviraj Dasa .............. 6199 Ranchor Krishna Dasa ...................... 620Other Centres1 AdbhuGauranga Dasa, Indore .......... 6262 Anada Devi Dasi, Hampshire, UK ... 6263 GopinathaDasa, Mayapur ................. 6274 Krishnapriya Devi Dasi, Amsterdam 6285 Labangalatika Devi DasiRoha, Maharastra.............................. 6306 Mandapa Dasa, Australia .................. 6307 Murali Vihari Dasa, Dubai ................ 63110 Sangini Indulekha Devi Dasi ............ 62011 Satya Vrata Das................................. 62112 Shuklambhara Dasa .......................... 62213 Sudheera Sampad Dasa .................... 62314 Vishnu Bhakta Dasa ......................... 62315 Bhakta Deepak.................................. 62416 Bhakta Rahul .................................... 62417 Bhaktin Hema V ............................... 62518 Bhaktin Jeesha .................................. 6258 Premanjana Dasa, Mumbai ............... 6319 Bhakta Gopal Narasimhan, Kuwait .. 63310 Bhakta Lakshmiranjan, Canada ........ 63411 Bhakta Pradeep ................................. 63412 Bhakta Ramesh Kasthuri .................. 63513 Bhakta Santosh Baratam, Vellore ..... 63514 Bhaktin Monalisa, Darjeeling........... 636VyasaPuja2012 ISKCON,Bangalore Page1Amitasana Dasa Respected Srila Prabhupada, Please accept my humble obeisance at your lotus feet. Srila Prabhupada, last year has been very eventful for us. We have been systematically streamlining your organization with disciplined and focused meetings. Please empower all of us to build a strong and powerful organization to effectively and efficiently spread the mission of Lord Chaitanya. Although we may be empowered by you to achieve big preaching goals, and instrumental in building big projects, let us always remain humble and remember the true source of all our abilities and power. Arjuna mentions to Yudhisthira Maharaja: I have the very same Gandiva bow, the same arrows, the same chariot drawn by the same horses, and I use them as the same Arjuna to whom all the kings offered their due respects. But in the absence of Lord Krishna, all of them, at a moments notice, have become null and void. - REF. SB 1.15.21 You have so mercifully given us, what we should pray and aspire for: Simply our prayer should be, my dear Krishna, please remind me to always chant Your holy name, please do not put me into forgetfulness. You are sitting within me as Supersoul, so You can put me into forgetfulness or into remembering You. So please do not put me into forgetfulness. Please always remind me to chant Hare Krishna. While we are enthusiastically building the organization, let us not forget our first duty, which you have mentioned in the following quote: If one remembers his first duty - keeping in constant contact with the Supreme Personality of Godhead - everything will be successful. - REF. SB 4.24.72 Please bless all of us to serve this great mission of yours, enthusiastically. Empower us to take this Movement to unparalleled heights, for your pleasure. Please allow me to remain your servant eternally. Amitasana Dasa, Vice President, ISKCON Bangalore Chanchalapathi Dasa Becoming Sensitive to the Spiritual Masters Instructions Dear Srila Prabhupada, Please accept my prostrated obeisance. All glories to your divine grace. I wish to present this homage in the form of remembrance of your instructions in the context of what is happening in ISKCON today. Fact 1: Secret of success in spiritual life is to serve the instructions of the spiritual master as ones life and soul and never deviate: VyasaPuja2012 ISKCON,Bangalore Page2Srila Prabhupada has mercifully revealed the secret of success in spiritual life: The secret of success in spiritual life is in satisfying the spiritual master and thereby getting his sincere blessings... It is essential, therefore, that a disciple be very much obedient and submissive to the bona fide spiritual master. (Srimad Bhagavatam 1.1.8 Purport) In various lectures, correspondences, the daily practices that Srila Prabhupada instituted in ISKCON, his own lifes example he has emphasized this principle. For instance, once in Philadelphia after the Bhagavatam class, he mentioned: Guru-mukha-padma-vkya, cittete koriy aikya. Now citta means consciousness or heart. "I shall do this only, bas. My Guru Mahrja told me; I shall do this." Cittete koriy aikya, r n koriho mane . So it is not my pride, but I can say, for your instruction, I did it. Therefore whatever little success you see than all my Godbrothers, it is due to this. I have no capacity, but I took it, the words of my guru, as life and soul. So this is fact. Guru-mukha-padma-vkya, cittete koriy aikya. Everyone should do that. But if he makes addition, alteration, then he is finished. No addition, alteration. You have to approach guruguru means the faithful servant of God, Kaand take his word how to serve Him. Then you are successful. If you concoct, "I am very intelligent than my guru, and I can make addition or alteration," then you are finished. (Srila Prabhupada lecture, July 12th, 1975, Philadelphia) Fact 2: Authorization is essential to become Spiritual Master: You have stated in the purport of the Srimad Bhagavatam: One should take initiation from a bona fide spiritual master coming in the disciplic succession, who is authorized by his predecessor spiritual master. This is called dk-vidhna. (rmad-Bhgavatam 4.8.54) Not only did Srila Prabhupada state this in the purport, you mentioned this during a conversation with an Indian gentleman in Nairobi: Indian man: When did you become the spiritual leader of Ka consciousness? Prabhupda: When my Guru Mahrja ordered me. This is the guru-parampar. Indian: Did it... Prabhupda: Try to understand. Dont go very speedily. A guru can become guru when hes ordered by his guru. Thats all. Otherwise nobody can become guru. (Bg class Oct 28th, 1975 Nairobi) During the Bhagavatam lecture in Mayapur in 1977, Srila Prabhupada stated this principle even more forcefully: Guru cannot be self-made. No. There is no such single instance throughout the whole Vedic literature. And nowadays, so many rascals, they are becoming guru without any authority. That is not guru. You must be authorized. Eva parampar-prptam ima r... [Bg. 4.2]. As soon as the parampar is lost, sa klena yoga nao parantapa, immediately finished. The spiritual potency finished. You can dress like a guru, you can talk big, big words, but it will never be effective. (Srimad Bhagavatam class, Mayapur, Feb 27th, 1977) Fact 3: Srila Prabhupada did not authorize or appoint any of his disciples to become Spiritual Master or Diksha Guru after his disappearance: VyasaPuja2012 ISKCON,Bangalore Page3It is a well established historical fact that Srila Prabhupada did not appoint any one to become an Acharya or Spiritual Master after his disappearance from the material world. Srila Prabhupadas personal secretary, HH Tamal Krishna Goswami has stated: Actually Prabhupada never appointed any gurus. He appointed eleven ritviks. He never appointed them gurus. Myself and the other GBC have done the greatest disservice to this movement the last three years because we interpreted the appointment of ritviks as the appointment of gurus. HH Tamala Krishna Goswami, (Personal Secretary to Srila Prabhupada during the last days in Vrindavan; excerpts from Pyramid House Confessions, Dec 3rd, 1980) The GBCs have admitted in various forums that Srila Prabhupada did not appoint Gurus to succeed him. Like in this excerpt from a debate on this issue, HG Ravindra Svarupa Dasa says: And its a fact that Srila Prabhupada never said, Alright here is the next Acharya, or here is the next Acharya and they are authorized gurus for the Movement, for the world. He did not do that. (Ravindra Svarupa Das, San Deigo debate, 1990) HH Bhakticharu Swami, a personal servant of Srila Prabhupada during his last days in Vrindavana, further testifies and elaborates the circumstances during that period: During the last days of Srila Prabhupadas physical presence in 1977 in Vrindavana, there was a lot of pressure on Srila Prabhupada to appoint the successor gurus. Once after the devotees had left Srila Prabhupadas room, he turned to me and said in Bengali, My Guru Maharaja did not appoint an Acharya. They expect me to appoint one! It is well established that there was pressure on Srila Prabhupada to appoint the next Acharya from the disciples and Srila Prabhupada did not want to appoint one. How can someone be insensitive to these facts? How can someone not be sensitive to these wishes of Srila Prabhupada? Fact 4: Srila Prabhupada describes the history of Gaudiya Mutt and analyzes the causes of its decline to be deviating from the spiritual masters instruction on successor acharya. Srila Prabhupada recounted the history of the Gaudiya Mutt and the last days before the disappearance of Srila Bhakti Siddantha Saraswathi Thakura. In one of the letters Srila Prabhupada wrote: Still he requested his disciples to form a strong Governing body for preaching the cult of Caitanya Mahprabhu. He never recommended anyone to be crya of the Gaudiya Math. But Sridhara Mahrja is responsible for disobeying this order of Guru Mahrja, and he and others who are already dead unnecessarily thought that there must be one crya. If Guru Mahrja could have seen someone who was qualified at that time to be crya he would have mentioned. Because on the night before he passed away he talked of so many things, but never mentioned an crya. His idea was crya was not to be nominated amongst the governing body. He said openly you make a GBC and conduct the mission. So his idea was amongst the members of GBC who would come out successful and self effulgent crya would be automatically selected. So Sridhara Mahrja and his two associate gentlemen unauthorizedly selected one crya and later it proved a failure. The result is now everyone is claiming to be crya even though they may be kanistha adhikr with no ability to preach. In some of the camps the crya is being changed three times a year. Therefore we may not commit the same mistake in our ISKCON camp. (Srila Prabhupada letter to Rupanuga, April 28, 1974) VyasaPuja2012 ISKCON,Bangalore Page4Srila Prabhupada explains that Srila Bhakti Siddantha Saraswathi Thakura also did not appoint any of his disciples as a Spiritual Master. Srila Prabhupada also says that this was not an inadvertent slip but a consciously meditated plan on the part of Srila Bhakti Siddantha Saraswathi Thakura to not to appoint any of his disciples as the next Spiritual Master or Acharya. Srila Prabhupada describes the happenings in Gaudiya Mutt once in the purport of Chaitanya Charitamrita: Bhaktisiddhnta Sarasvat hkura, at the time of his departure, requested all his disciples to form a governing body and conduct missionary activities cooperatively. He did not instruct a particular man to become the next crya. But just after his passing away, his leading secretaries made plans, without authority, to occupy the post of crya, and they split into two factions over who the next crya would be. Consequently, both factions were asra, or useless, because they had no authority, having disobeyed the order of the spiritual master. (Chaitanya Charitamrita, Adi 12.8 purport) In yet another room conversation in 1976, Srila Prabhupada analyzes why the Gaudiya Mutt failed and links to disobedience to the order of the spiritual master with regard to successor Acharya: Why this Gauya Maha failed? Because they tried to become more than guru. He, before passing away, he gave all direction and never said that This man should be the next crya. But these people, just after his passing away they began to fight, who shall be crya. That is the failure. They never thought, Why Guru Mahrja gave us instruction so many things, why he did not say that this man should be crya? They wanted to create artificially somebody crya and everything failed. They did not consider even with common sense that if Guru Mahrja wanted to appoint somebody as crya, why did he not say? He said so many things, and this point he missed? The real point? And they insist upon it. (Room conversation Aug 16, 1976, Bombay) Particularly important in this context is Srila Prabhupadas statement: They did not consider even with common sense that if Guru Mahrja wanted to appoint somebody as crya, why did he not say? He said so many things, and this point he missed? The real point? And they insist upon it. In yet another purport to Chaitanya Charitamrita verse, Srila Prabhupada writes: One must judge every action by its result. The members of the self-appointed cryas party who occupied the property of the Gauya Maha are satisfied, but they could make no progress in preaching. (Chaitanya Charitamrita, di 12.8 purport) It is to be noted here that Srila Prabhupada is describing the Gaudiya Mutt situation with the words: self-appointed acharyas. Fact 5: The disciples of Srila Prabhupada were very ambitious to become Gurus and Srila Prabhupada was conscious of this: As early as 1967, Srila Prabhupada wrote this about his first sannyasi disciple: Kirtanananda was awarded the position of a Sannyasi because he wanted it although I could understand it that he wanted to be a spiritual master himself. (Srila Prabhupada letter October 27th, 1967) During the brief eleven year period of founding and growing of ISKCON, Srila Prabhupada encountered again and again his disciples trying to become Spiritual Master, the most honored position in the society. HG Bhurijana Dasa writes in his book, My Glorious Master: VyasaPuja2012 ISKCON,Bangalore Page5Prabhupada began criticizing his disciple, Gaurasundara, and his anger was as intense as the monsoon rains." He wants to be guru, but he is not qualified. All of them, they want to be guru without qualification and they will fall victim to sex life." Even a few months before Srila Prabhupadas disappearance, one of his senior GBC man and sannyasi was trying to become a spiritual master: Prabhupda:.... People complained against Hasadta. Did you know that? Tamla Ka: Im not sure of the particular incidences, but Ive heard general... Prabhupda: In Germany. In Germany. Tamla Ka: The devotees there. Prabhupda: So many complaints. Tamla Ka: Therefore change is good. Prabhupda: No, you become guru, but you must be qualified first of all. Then you become. Tamla Ka: Oh, that kind of complaint was there. Prabhupda: Did you know that? Tamla Ka: Yeah, I heard that, yeah. Prabhupda: What is the use of producing some rascal guru? Tamla Ka: Well, I have studied myself and all of your disciples, and its clear fact that we are all conditioned souls, so we cannot be guru. Maybe one day it may be possible... Prabhupda: Hm. Tamla Ka:...but not now. Prabhupda: Yes. I shall choose some guru. I shall say, Now you become crya. You become authorized. I am waiting for that. You become all crya. I retire completely. But the training must be complete. (Room conversation, April 22, 1977, Bombay) Fact 6: Srila Prabhupada was very meticulous in his working and had deep concern for his institution, ISKCON: There is abundant testimonies from disciples who witnessed the meticulous working of Srila Prabhupada. Prabhupda was meticulous. He put on his Vaiava tilaka that way, artistically and methodically performing each function. He used his pen that way also. He took it out of his pen box, used it, and then returned it to the box on his desk. Prabhupda warned his servants never to touch anything or move anything on his desk. His book writing was also like that. His standard was that each and every word out of tens of thousands of words from thousands of verses must have its own synonym. Prabhupda had a limited time for writing the Bhgavatam every day, yet he never diminished his standard that each word gets its own synonym. Then he always gave the English translation, and then a purport. Whenever he saw the editors or publishers failing in this meticulous standard, he became very upset. (Recollections by HH Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami, Secretary to Srila Prabhupada) VyasaPuja2012 ISKCON,Bangalore Page6Another devotee who served as his secretary also recalls: Working in the capacity of rla Prabhupdas secretary during his visit to South Africa, I would read the letters addressed to him and type out his reply for signing. rla Prabhupda was very meticulous about his correspondence. He read all his mail and gave a reply to almost every letter he received. He was always giving guidance and encouragement. He read each and every one of his letters prior to signing them, making corrections or additions. (Recollections by Pusta Krishna Das, Secretary of Srila Prabhupada) Srila Prabhupada exhibited such concern for the institution ISKCON that he founded. Srila Prabhupada had witnessed the decline and failure of the Gaudiya Mutt institution. Would he leave the matter concerning the succession of Acharya in ISKCON without clarity? Let us take a look at all these facts read together: Fact 1: Secret of success in spiritual life is to serve the instructions of the spiritual master as ones life and soul and never deviate. Fact 2: Authorization is essential to become Spiritual Master. Fact 3: Srila Prabhupada did not authorize or appoint any of his disciples to become Spiritual Master or Diksha Guru after his disappearance. Fact 4: Srila Prabhupada describes the history of Gaudiya Mutt and analyzes the cause of its decline to be deviating from the spiritual masters instruction on successor acharya. Fact 5: The disciples of Srila Prabhupada were very ambitious to become Gurus and Srila Prabhupada was conscious of this: Fact 6: Srila Prabhupada was very meticulous in his working and had deep concern for his institution, ISKCON. It is important to see what the position of the GBC is as expressed by one of its leading voices, HG Ravindra Svarupa Dasa, in this article officially published: There is a failure to appreciate the problem Srila Prabhupada faced in his last days. We can be sure that he knew his own disciples better than they knew themselves; he had no illusions about their spiritual qualification. Yet they were pressing for a selection of successor gurus, the ultimate position for the ambitious. Hamsadutta and Kirtanananda had already been rebuked by Srila Prabhupada for receiving guru-puja in the presence of the spiritual master, a serious transgression. Without any indication from Srila Prabhupada in this manner, there would have been chaos. Yet Srila Prabhupada clearly did not want to give his sanction to unfit people, a spiritual error. He therefore selected them without endorsement. In response to the question of initiation after departure, Srila Prabhupada gave a list of 'officiating gurus', designating them in an indirect or oblique manner. He expected them to become 'regular gurus' in the future, but there was no 'hand-picking of successors', no laying of hands and anointing with oil, no transfer of power to some special and exclusive group. Srila Prabhupada also knew that some, like Kirtanananda, would initiate with or without his sanction, so he named them. If he had not, there would likely have been a schism in 1978 instead of 1987. I feel that Srila Prabhupada's solution was brilliant, the best that could have been done under the circumstances. The result would depend on Krsna. (Cleaning House Cleaning Hearts by HG Ravindra Svarupa Dasa) It is to be noted in this article is the reasoning: He therefore selected them without endorsement. In response to the question of initiation after departure, Srila Prabhupada gave a list of 'officiating gurus', VyasaPuja2012 ISKCON,Bangalore Page7designating them in an indirect or oblique manner. He expected them to become 'regular gurus' in the future, On such an important matter as initiation in the future in ISKCON, which had caused the failure of Gaudiya Mutt, which Srila Prabhupada had witnessed over decades, would Srila Prabhupada leave the matter nebulous as mentioned here? It is surprising that on such an important matter of the Spiritual Master or Guru in ISKCON, the most important principle of following the orders of the spiritual master and not deviating is not being honoured. Srila Prabhupada, please bless us that we dont become insensitive to your instructions on this matter or any other matter. Your humble servant, Chanchalapathi Dasa, Senior Vice President, ISKCON Bangalore Madhu Pandit Dasa Dear Srila Prabhupada, Please accept my most respectful obeisances on this most auspicious Vyasa Puja celebration of 2012. All glories to Your Divine Grace. Srila Prabhupada, you are a very dear and most confidential servant of the Supreme Personality of Godhead Krishna, empowered to distribute the mercy of Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu to the population of the modern world. Your mission is not limited to your life time. Your manifest lila in the physical body that you exhibited in this world is only the first chapter of your mission. Many more chapters are yet to unfold in the decades and centuries to come. The world is yet to recognize the full glory of your mission founded and spiritually powered by you always as its Acharya. You instructed that wherever the name of your mission is mentioned, to always add Founder-Acharya meaning you are The Founder and The Acharya. Not Purva-Acharya of the disciplic succession. During your physical presence and after your physical departure, your transcendental power of touching the conditioned souls through your vani- written and spoken words- has been the greatest factor in transforming millions of hearts. Your vani has been spiritually frozen in time by modern technology of printed books and electronic media. It is available for any sincere person to simply apply the spiritual fire in the form of sincere enquiry and service of Absolute Truth, and the vani will melt and start vibrating once again, ever fresh, with exactly the same spirit and energy that you spoke those words during your pastimes in your physical body. In one sense your followers today are more fortunate due to easy access to your transcendental words. This is especially made possible by modern technology. We can see that the real purpose of these advances in technology has been masterminded by Lord Chaitanya, for propagating the Krishna Consciousness Movement. Your pastimes with countless conditioned souls of this world through your vani is your continued service in this world to Lord Chaitanya, to deliver the conditioned souls by distributing the Holy Name and transcendental knowledge, through the vessel of the organization that Your Divine Grace founded. Thus you are active even now and will continue to be active in the midst of humanity for centuries to come, beyond the limits of time and space, touching millions of lives of VyasaPuja2012 ISKCON,Bangalore Page8those who accept Your Divine Grace as their spiritual master. Those who are in touch with your vani are in touch with you every day, and you are personally guiding all such souls. Only the ignorant can think that there is any change in the intensity of your service to the Lord on this earth after November 1977. Your Divine Grace is present with us in no lesser way than you were present for the people of this earth before November 1977. Testimonials of these direct reciprocations are countless, my own life being one such, and we keep hearing more and more testimonials all the time. Unfortunately Maya has doubtlessly intervened to retard the growth of this transcendental movement by entering the minds of the Governing Body Commission (GBC) in the year 1978. There was no need to change anything in ISKCON after Your Divine Grace left your physical body. Yet the GBC thought that the reins of the organization had to be taken over by them as anointed spiritual successors rather than continuing as executors of your directions. In 1975 GBC passed a resolution defining GBC as Srila Prabhupadas executors : Resolved: The GBC (Governing Body Commission) has been established by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada to represent Him in carrying out the responsibility of managing the International Society for Krishna Consciousness of which He is the Founder-Acarya and supreme authority. The GBC accepts as its life and soul His divine instructions and recognises that it is completely dependent on His mercy in all respects. The GBC has no other function or purpose other than to execute the instructions so kindly given by His Divine Grace and preserve and spread His Teachings to the world in their pure form. (Definition of GBC, Resolution 1, GBC minutes 1975) The mandate to the GBC, as is seen clearly from the above, was only to be the executors of the instructions/ directions of Your Divine Grace, who was to remain the Supreme Authority in ISKCON for all times, and not for them to become successors of Your Divine Grace. Unfortunately GBC decided that there had to be change in the system/management of initiation in ISKCON, though the Supreme Authority of ISKCON, Your Divine Grace, had not even hinted at anything to that effect. Of all the changes that the GBC made post-1977, the most damaging one was with regard to this- initiations in ISKCON. Why did it have to change when the system set up by Your Divine Grace was running well without involvement of your physical role in any way well before your departure? Your Divine Graces delegation of the formal aspects of initiation did not happen all of a sudden. You planned it right from the beginning. First you delegated conducting the initiation fire sacrifice to the Temple Presidents. Then, even as early as 1970 you began reducing further your physical role in initiation by directing some senior devotees to chant on the mala on your behalf. Bombay 4 January, 1973 73-01-04 My Dear Revatinandana, Please accept my blessings. Just now I have received some more requests for giving first initiation from Dhananjaya, and now I am receiving weekly not less than ten to fifteen such requests from new students. So it is becoming very expensive to send so many sets of beads such long distance, and it has become little bothersome for me also, so I think now you may be appointed by me to give first initiations VyasaPuja2012 ISKCON,Bangalore Page9to new disciples by chanting on their beads on my behalf. In America Kirtanananda Swami is doing that. So now if there are two of you that will give me great relief. Kirtanananda will chant on the beads for new devotees in America, Canada, like that, you can chant on the beads for the European continent new disciples. They shall, of course, still be considered as my disciples, not that they shall become your disciples, but you will be empowered by me to chant their beads and that is the same effect of binding master and disciple as if I were personally chanting. Thus, only name giving was retained by Your Divine Grace as on May 1977. On May 1977 even that role of giving the spiritual name was delegated to some disciples and whom you asked to act as Officiating Acharyas. It is now an undisputed fact on record that when the GBC came to you in May 1977 and asked how first and second initiation would go on, especially when you are no longer present with us, your immediate reply was, I will soon recommend some of you to act as Officiating Acharyas. You did not even say you would appoint Officiating Acharyas. Rather you said the persons whom you would appoint would act as Officiating Acharyas. Officiating Acharya is not the title you gave to those whom you named for giving initiation, it was just a description of their institutional function. The title of these officiators of the Acharya for initiation, if any, was Representative of Acharya. The direct English meaning of these words act as Officiating Acharya, is that these persons will officiate for the Acharya in the matter of delivering the initiation of Your Divine Grace. Due to over stressing the physicality of the spiritual master over his vani or words, and due to so many other reasons of their own, the GBC took a wrong step in the matter of initiation of future devotees by introducing new speculations instead of continuing what was going on without your physical role. All this, in the name of following tradition. ISKCON has surely followed the wrong tradition of infighting after the Acharyas physical departure on who should take his place! Again in your last Will you said: The system of management will continue as it is now and there is no need of any change. (Srila Prabhupadas Declaration of Will, 4th June, 1977) Yet the GBC dared to change- and this change has taken a huge toll in the growth of the movement. One mistake after another, over the years, has resulted in institutionally eclipsing Your Divine Grace's influence in the life of each and every new devotee who joins ISKCON. The following ins