Dear follower of Śrīla Prabhupāda!,
Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda!
This year, as always, we request you to submit your homage to Śrīla Prabhupāda for his Vyāsa-pūjā book by April 15.
In addition, if you’re a direct disciple of Śrīla Prabhupāda, please check out www.sptributes.com to learn about a Vyāsa-pūjā book open to all of his disciples. The deadline for submission to this book is also April 15.
In observance of the fiftieth anniversary of ISKCON’s founding, we have been requested to ask everyone who submits an offering to work in something about that theme.
The standards for submitting an offering to the traditional Vyāsa-pūjā book (the one published by the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust) are as follows:
Offerings must be in English.
Please restrict the length to a maximum of 3,000 words.
Please omit all diacritics on words that can be found in the VedaBase. It’s easier for us to put them in. If you quote a verse from outside the VedaBase or compose original Sanskrit or Bengali, please include diacritics.
Do not “recycle” an offering — no offerings from previous years will be accepted. The Vyāsa-pūjā book is meant for glorifying Śrīla Prabhupāda, not venting grievances. The BBT reserves the right to reject an offering it deems inappropriate or to ask for a rewrite.
When writing an offering on behalf of a temple or other unit, please try to write in such a way that the other devotees in your unit can also identify with the offering.
Who may write an offering?
1) Governing Body Commissioners
2) Sannyāsīs
3) Authorized representatives of ISKCON temples, preaching centers, farms, gurukulas, BBT offices, and “others,” such as BTG magazine and ISCOWP (this is not a complete list). If there is some doubt, we will request you to send written authorization from your GBC representative.
4) No multiple offerings. For example, a temple should not enlist all its bhaktas to write offerings under the temple heading. Joint authorship (2-4 devotees) of a single offering is fine.
5) Please make sure you tell us where the offering originates. For example: New Vaṁśīvaṭa (the Madagascar farm community), not just New Vaṁśīvaṭa. If we don’t know where the offering comes from, we will not print it.
6) Always leave a double space between paragraphs. If you want some special formatting, submit your offering as an attached file in Microsoft Word or RTF format.
7) Submit your offering by emailing it to Draviḍa Dāsa at dravida108@gmail.com.
Offerings may be submitted any time from now until April 15, 2016. We will confirm receipt of your offering by e-mail. If you do not receive a confirmation, resend it. The BBT is not responsible for lost offerings.
Your servant,
Dravida dasa
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