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 master.” Written homages are due by April 2, 2025. Please email your offering here.
Here are some developments for this year’s Vyasa-puja book:
• We’re building a website/app to host this year’s Vyasa-puja book. A printable PDF of the full Vyasa-puja book, with its 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.
For helpful photo guidelines and to submit your photos, please click here.
• We’ll be embedding a translation tool into the Vyasa-puja website/app so that devotees across the world can read the offerings in their own language. (This year we will be able to accept offerings only in English, but we hope to become more multilingual in future years.)
• We’re setting up a YouTube channel so our congregation worldwide to hear offerings read aloud by their authors and to gather inspiration even after Srila Prabhupada’s Vyasa-puja day has passed.
For helpful guidelines on creating your video and to submit the video, please visit https://www.vyasapuja.world
Photo and video uploads are due by July 15, 2025.
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 to 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.
If you’re a direct disciple of Srila Prabhupada but not in one of the above categories, you submit your offering to sptributes.com.
Standards for submitting a Vyasa-puja offering:
1. Homages are due on April 2, 2024.
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. Once you’ve submitted your homage, we will confirm receipt by email. If you don’t receive a prompt confirmation, please resend it.
Submit written homages by emailing them to vphomages@iskcon.net
Source https://iskconnews.org/vyasa-puja-book-team-shares-reminder-for-submissions-to-the-2025-edition/
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