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On the most auspicious occasion of Srila Prabhupada’s Vyasa-puja, we would like to present a humble offering showcasing how Srila Prabhupada and his followers are fulfilling the prediction of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu by spreading His teachings throughout the world.

ISKCON GLOBAL TIMELINE PROJECT | 1966–2026

The ISKCON Global Timeline Project is being developed by the ISKCON Mayapur Master Plan Office as a step towards fulfilling Srila Prabhupada’s instruction:

"I want that our Mayapur festiv

Ahead of the Appearance Day of ISKCON’s Founder-Acharya His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the Vyasa-puja book team has released the 2026 edition, marking 57 consecutive years of annual tributes compiled in his honor.

The new volume underscores the rapid international growth of Srila Prabhupada’s movement over the last five decades. In 1969, the inaugural book contained just seventeen temple homages, with Hamburg and London as the only participating centers outside North Ameri

The Most Wonderful Day of the Year!

The most wonderful day of the year is fast approaching: Srila Prabhupada’s Vyasa-puja day! Please sharpen your pencil or boot up your keyboard and let your love and appreciation flow for the most wonderful personality, whom we’re so fortunate to have as our eternal master.

Written homages are due by May 1, 2026. You will note that this deadline is later than usual, so please also be aware that NO homages will be accepted after this date!

Please email homages t

As the global ISKCON community prepares to celebrate the appearance day of its Founder-Acharya, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, devotees around the world are invited to submit written homages for inclusion in the 2026 Srila Prabhupada Vyasa-puja Book. Organizers have announced that submissions are due by May 1, 2026, noting that the deadline is later than usual this year but emphasizing that no homages will be accepted after this date. Offerings should be emailed to vphomag

The Srila Prabhupada Vyasa-puja book team, made up of Ananda Tirtha Das, Praghosa Das, Satya Medha Gauranga Das, and Kaisori Devi Dasi, has issued a call for submissions for the 2025 Srila Prabhupada Vyasa-puja book reminding us “the most wonderful day of the year is fast approaching: Srila Prabhupada’s Vyasa-puja day! Please sharpen your pencil or boot up your keyboard and let your love and appreciation flow for the most wonderful personality, whom we’re so fortunate to have as our eternal mast

The Srila Prabhupada Vyasa-puja book team, made up of Ananda Tirtha Das, Praghosa Das, Satya Medha Gauranga Das, and Kaisori Devi Dasi, has issued a call for submissions for the 2025 Srila Prabhupada Vyasa-puja book.

The Team announced that this year all submissions are due by April 2, 2025 by emailing it to vphomages@iskcon.net.

Who may submit a homage?

a) Governing Body Commissioners

b) GBC Emeriti

c) ISKCON Sannyasis

d) Authorized representatives of ISKCON temples, preaching centers, farms, s

“Gone are the days of traveling in a van,

Of street corners, Santa suits and donation cans.

I had three different IDs and a wig or two,

Lord Chaitanya’s army – The brave and the few.

I went to jail, out on bail,

Our determination seemed never to fail,

Long time ago, when I was young,

My best years to serve were yet to come.

I loved it all and I don’t look back,

Except for humility that I did lack,

With whom I served, a lasting bond,

Enduring friendship, forever fond.

All your devotees sacr

By Atma Tattva Das

The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust Africa (BBTA) has once again honored the legacy of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada with the release of the 2024 Pan-African Vyasa-puja book. This annual offering, now available for free download on the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust-Africa (BBTA) website, provides a platform for devotees, friends, and well-wishers across the African continent to express their gratitude and reverence for Srila Prabhupada.

This year marks the 128th Vya

The 2024 Srila Prabhupada Tributes Book has just been released in multiple digital formats. Each year, “the book provides an opportunity for all of Srila Prabhupada’s direct disciples to express their realizations, reflections, and gratitude – and for other devotees to read and reflect upon what these disciples have expressed,” notes the Introduction. “The book can [also] help fill your mind with thoughts of Srila Prabhupada and his devotees as the sacred day of Vyasa-puja draws near. And later

Dear follower of Srila Prabhupada,

Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Thank you for submitting so many heartfelt homages to Srila Prabhupada last year. You can view the full 2023 Vyasa-puja book here:

https://gbc.iskcon.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/spvp2023.pdf

This year we request you to submit your homage by April 2, 2024 by emailing it to vphomages@iskcon.net. Below are the standard parameters.

Hoping this meets you well, we remain

Your servants on the Sr

As usual, this year’s Vyäsa-püjä book will be available as a free PDF file.
We will not have a traditional print run, but if we get pre-orders for at least fifty books we can produce the book as a print-on-demand project for North America only. The cost will be approximately $33 per book. Shipping is extra, priced according to destination.
Please call the BBT (1-800-927-4152) to place your order. Orders must be received by Friday, July 30!
If you reside outside North America, please contact you

My dear Indradyumna Swami Maharaja,

Please accept my prostrated obeisances at your lotus feet. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. And all glories to your service.

I could speak for many days about your service to Srila Prabhupada and Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, and for many hours about how you have helped me personally. But today I wish to focus on one area in particular in which you have helped me—my writing, which Srila Prabhupada said I should take up as my “first business” and which thus is my

January 4, 2020

Dear follower of Srila Prabhupada,

Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Kindly submit your homage to Srila Prabhupada for his Vyasa-puja book by April 1.

In addition, if you’re a direct disciple of Srila Prabhupada, please check out www.sptributes.com to learn about a Vyasa-puja book open to all his disciples. The deadline for submission to this book is April 15.

The standards for submitting an offering to the traditional Vyasa-puja book (the one

One of Sripada Bhakti Charu Swami Maharaja’s most prominent qualities is his deep love for Srila Prabhupada. Very soon after Maharaja met Srila Prabhupada, Prabhupada included him in his personal staff and made him his secretary for Bengali and Hindi correspondence. Soon thereafter, Srila Prabhupada gave him first and second initiation and then sannyasa. And Maharaja personally served Srila Prabhupada throughout Prabhupada’s last days.

His Holiness Bhakti Charu Swami is also very devoted to ISK

My dear Gopal Krishna Maharaja,

Congratulations on your seventy-fifth appearance day!

 My first vivid recollection of you is from 1973. I had heard about you how you had studied at the Sorbonne in Paris and then at McGill University in Montreal and then held responsible positions with Pepsi Cola and Bristol-Myers, and how you would come to the New York temple every day and were so humble that you would go around the temple room and offer obeisances to all the spiritual paintings on the walls. S

namo om visnu-padaya

krsna-presthaya bhutale

srimate bhaktivedanta-

svamin iti namine

namas te sarasvate deve

gaura-vani-pracarine

nirvisesa sunyavadi-

pascatya-desa-tarine

Srila Prabhupadaji Maharaja ki jaya! 

It is the causeless mercy of Sri Guru and Sri Gauranga that I came here to meet you all, I am very happy at such causeless mercy of Guru and Gauranga. Unless one gets such mery, how can one cross