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 to:
vphomages@iskcon.net
Here are some developments for this year’s Vyasa-puja book:
We’re improving the website to host this year’s Vyasa-puja book. A printable PDF of the full Vyasa-puja book, with approximately 50 beautiful photos of Srila Prabhupada and your offerings from around the world, will still be available. If you wish to print the Vyasa-puja book for your center or project, please contact Praghosa Prabhu at Praghosa.SDG@pamho.net. Otherwise, the PDF will be available for download or online reading just before Vyasa-puja day.
We invite devotees submitting offerings to show Srila Prabhupada what they’ve been up to through photos. Please send up to two photos to be included in the online and digital versions only of your temple or center, a project your center is engaged in, a group photo of your congregation, the Lordships you serve–whatever you’d most like Srila Prabhupada to see and bless. We want Srila Prabhupada and everyone connected to his mission to see the incredible scope of this international movement.
To submit your photos, please include them in your homages or email them separately. Photo submissions are otherwise due latest by July 15, 2026.
We’ve embedded a translation tool into the vyasapuja. com website so that devotees across the world can read the offerings in their own language. We hope in the near future to make the online version of the Vyasa-puja book more multilingual, with devotees able to write offerings in their mother tongue and have them translated live on the site.
Would you like to participate in bringing the Vyasa-puja book to the next generation? We’d love to hear your ideas. You can reach us at vphomages@iskcon.net. Please put “Ideas” in your subject line.
Written offering submission guidelines:
Who may submit a homage?
(a) Governing Body Commissioners
(b) GBC Emeriti
(c) ISKCON Sannyasis
(d) Authorized representatives of ISKCON temples, preaching centers, farms, schools, BBT offices, ministries, and other entities, such as BTG magazine, ISCOWP, and other such entities. If you re not sure, please write us.
Standards for submitting a Vyasa-puja offering:
1. Homages are due on May 1, 2026. Photos are due on July 15, 2026. No extensions or exceptions possible.
2. Homages must be in English.
3. Please restrict the length to a maximum of 2,500 words.
4. If you quote Srila Prabhupada, please give the reference (book, letter, conversation, or lecture).
5. Do not “recycle” homages–no homage from a previous year will be accepted.
6. The Vyasa-puja book is meant for glorifying Srila Prabhupada. It is not for venting grievances, nor for glorifying other devotees. If your homage to Srila Prabhupada references your own guru or other devotees, please do so without the use of honorifics or undue glorification. The editorial team reserves the right to reject an offering it deems inappropriate or to ask for a rewrite.
7. When writing a homage on behalf of a temple or other entity, please try to write in such a way that the other devotees in your project can identify with it.
8. Please ensure we know where your homage is from: New Vraja Dhama, Hungary, not simply New Vraja Dhama. Best is if you include city, state/province, and country to avoid mixups. If we don’t know where your homage comes from, we may not print it.
9. Please leave a blank line between paragraphs. If you want special formatting, submit your offering as an attached file in DOC, DOCX, or RTF format. Please do NOT send us PDFs of your offering.
10. Submit written homages (and photos) by emailing them to vphomages@iskcon.net
Once you’ve submitted your homage, we will confirm receipt by email.
Seeking inspiration? Feel free to go through last year’s book at:
http://vyasapuja.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Sri-Vyasa-Puja-Book-2025.pdf
Hoping this meets you well!
Your servants on the Srila Prabhupada Vyasa-puja Book Team,
Ananda Tirtha Das
Kaisori Devi Dasi
Praghosa Das
Rasasagara Govinda Das
Source: https://www.dandavats.com/?p=117535
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