200403031 Śrī Vyāsa-pūjā Adhivāsa Address

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oṁ ajñāna-timirāndhasya jñānāñjana-śalākayā
cakṣur unmīlitaṁ yena tasmai śrī-gurave namaḥ

nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale
śrīmate bhaktivedānta-svāmin iti nāmine
namas te sārasvate deve gaura-vāṇī-pracāriṇe
nirviśeṣa-śūnyavādi-pāścātya-deśa-tāriṇe

śrī-caitanya-mano-'bhīṣṭaṁ
sthāpitaṁ yena bhū-tale
svayaṁ rūpaḥ kadā mahyaṁ
dadāti sva-padāntikam

he kṛṣṇa karuṇā-sindho
dīna-bandho jagat-pate
gopeśa gopikā-kānta
rādhā-kānta namo 'stu te

tapta-kāñcana-gaurāṅgi
rādhe vṛndāvaneśvari
vṛṣabhānu-sute devi
praṇamāmi hari-priye

vāñchā-kalpatarubhyaś ca
kṛpā-sindhubhya eva ca
patitānāṁ pāvanebhyo
vaiṣṇavebhyo namo namaḥ

śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya
prabhu-nityānanda
śrī-advaita gadādhara
śrīvāsādi-gaura-bhakta-vṛnda

Hare Kṛṣṇa Hare Kṛṣṇa
Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Hare Hare
Hare Rāma Hare Rāma
Rāma Rāma Hare Hare

mūkaṁ karoti vācālaṁ
paṅguṁ laṅghayate girim…

[…] All glories to all the previous spiritual masters, all glories to Vyāsadeva. So after being touched by so many auspicious articles, which are blessed by Anantadeva, Guru-varga, Bhūmi Devī is a form of preparation for seriousness of accepting the worship on behalf of Vyāsadeva and the guru-paramparā.

As an individual, I consider myself lower than the worm. In spite of I am unqualified or insignificant I am. I have to represent to my ability to Prabhupāda and all the previous ācāryas. Prabhupāda’s mercy was to give to everybody. Śrīla Prabhupāda in many places he said, he wanted thousands, or millions or tens of millions of spiritual masters in ISKCON to spread the Kṛṣṇa conscious message. I remember a lecture of oṁ viṣṇupāda paramahaṁsa parivrajakācārya aṣṭottara śata śrī śrīmad Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura, he was saying that one drop or one stack of dust from the lotus feet of my spiritual master can deliver the whole universe or all the universes. So, on the Vyāsa-pūjā, we can get forgiven for any offenses we made to guru, we can reestablish our proper alignment in the paramparā. We need to have a proper consciousness. So adhivāsa is to start to get us in the preparation for tomorrow. This is not Vyāsa-pūjā, this is pre-vyāsa-pūjā. Many little things are important we don’t know the meaning of. In Tokyo one time they forgot to do puṣpāñjali and Prabhupāda said, Vyāsa-pūjā cancelled, not bona fide. You didn’t do puṣpāñjali so Vyāsa-pūjā didn’t count. Let’s do everything over again. So then again, the next day they asked Vyāsa-pūjā with puṣpāñjali. Prabhupāda, he was very much concerned about observing all the details. So, I thank all the devotees for their good wishes and cooperation. We want to do something for His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, we want to something wonderful, exceptional and to do that if you all cooperate together, Prabhupāda said, he will be more pleased. I am happy to see so many devotees cooperating together. Śrīla Prabhupāda was over here for a Vyāsa-pūjā, I may be wrong, I don’t thing so, he used to come during Kārtika, Bhādra, and he would come for Gaura-Pūrṇimā, so we could never offer him Vyāsa-pūjā here in Māyāpur directly, we offered to his mūrti. Other temples had an advantage. So we were offering our Vyāsa-pūjā in separation in one sense. So here we have language problems, different people speaks different languages, we hope that somehow that will be overcome by the organizers. Prabhupāda gave us some assignments: distributing books, preaching, being very cooperative, practical, doing something you know…

As I went to South India for the Safari, we saw many temples are developing Tirupati’s construction is almost finished (Haribol!) Rajahmundry foundation stone started (Haribol!) Vishakhapatnam, they don’t have land, but the Government said, they will give them a land. Like that in different places, in Warangal, they already have a temple construction half-way. It is nice to see the devotees, they are all working hard to do something for Prabhupāda. Like that, every devotee should think what I can do for guru and Kṛṣṇa. May be Temple Presidents can do the temple and gṛhastha devotees, they can try to establish some Nāmahaṭṭa in your house or try to help the temple or do a Bhakti-vṛkṣa. Everyone should try to contribute something for the spreading of saṅkīrtana movement. So like this, we hope the warrior in Māyāpur dhāma, we get the mercy of the Pañca-tattva. Pañca-tattva kī jaya! We get the mercy of the Rādhā Mādhava aṣṭa-sakhi vṛnda. Then we get the Narasiṁhadeva mercy to overcome all the obstacles. So that when you go back to wherever you are coming from, you will be more enthusiastic to practice your Kṛṣṇa consciousness, to spread Kṛṣṇa consciousness and help the spreading of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

This time we went to Kūrmadeśa, where Lord Caitanya gave the order to the Kūrma Brāhmaṇa.

yāre dekha, tāre kaha ‘kṛṣṇa’-upadeśa
āmāra ājñāya guru hañā tāra’ ei deśa
[Cc. Madhya 7.128]

What we need, you tell the glories of Kṛṣṇa. You try to deliver your lands. This is my hope that everyone will work very cooperatively together to fulfil the desires of Śrīla Prabhupāda. Thank you very much. Hare Kṛṣṇa.