Vyāsa-pūjā, the Appearance Day of Spiritual Master

Regarding Vyāsa-pūjā, the appearance day of the spiritual master, Srila Prabhupada writes as follows in his purport to Bhagavad-gita, Chapter 18, Text 75:

"In Bhagavad-gītā, all the yoga systems—karma-yoga, jñāna-yoga and bhakti-yoga—are explained. Kṛṣṇa is the master of all such mysticism. It is to be understood, however, that as Arjuna was fortunate enough to understand Kṛṣṇa directly, so, by the grace of Vyāsa, Sañjaya was also able to hear Kṛṣṇa directly. Actually there is no difference between hearing directly from Kṛṣṇa and hearing directly from Kṛṣṇa via a bona fide spiritual master like Vyāsa. The spiritual master is the representative of Vyāsadeva also. Therefore, according to the Vedic system, on the birthday of the spiritual master the disciples conduct the ceremony called Vyāsa-pūjā."

Therefore, even though I don't worship my birthday, for my disciples and followers according to the illuminating Vedic system, the day I was born is to be worshipped and it is my duty to accept their loving worship on this day just as it is the duty of the tax collector to collect taxes for the government and not keep any of it for himself.


Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Click here to read the Vyas Puja offerings from my beloved disciples.

Click here to hear Srila Prabhupada's Vyas Puja lecture given in New Vrindavan in 1972.

P.S. I am present in the picture below standing on the raised platform behind the sannyasis. I was very much relishing Srila Prabhupada's association.

Devotees Worship Srila Prabhupada on His Appearance Day in 1972 in New Vrindavan

Srila Prabhupada’s appearance day

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Answer: Here's How

The enlightened person revives our factual destiny, which is to escape our mundane destiny in the cycle of repeated birth and death and return to our original home in the spiritual world. He does by teaching us the science of how to become perfect lovers of God.

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ISKCON Founder-Acharya, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, ordered his disciples to become gurus and deliver the world. Sankarshan Das Adhikari has taken this order very seriously and is thus accepting disciples all over the world and has dedicated himself fully to the mission of making the entire world Krishna conscious as soon as possible. He requests your help in this most urgent world deliverance mission to save the suffering humanity from gliding down to the animal kingdom in their next births.

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