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I. The Meaning of Vyasa-puja
Narayani devi dasi
Srila Vyasadeva, a literary incarnation of God, begins his glorification of Lord Krsna by saying om namo bhagavate vasudevaya. After offering worship to Lord Krsna, he gave this benediction to all: Lord Krsna will be captured within the heart of anyone who hears Srimad-Bhagavatam attentively and submissively. This is the process of parampara. The enlightened souls worship their spiritual masters and Krsna, receive the mercy flowing down, and then distribute it to those who would accept it. At the same time, the spiritual masters receive our offerings of love and deliver them to Lord Krsna through this chain of disciplic succession. While the worship flows upward toward Krsna, the mercy flows downward to us. Srila Prabhupada, as the representative of Srila Vyasadeva, also worshiped Lord Krsna, while simultaneously giving benediction to all members of suffering humanity who would listen to his messages and follow him.
Srila Vyasadeva concludes his first prayer with the word dhimahi. In 1971, in Gorakhpur, India, Srila Prabhupada explained this word on the Vyasa-puja day of his spiritual master, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati. Srila Prabhupada explained that by using this word Srila Vyasadeva is joining with all his disciples in worshiping Lord Krsna:
And we shall together offer flowers. Actually, the worship is . . . , that is my duty. But sagosthi. Now I’ll have to offer my respect with my spiritual family members, sagosthi. That is called sagosthi. Just like Vyasadeva says, dhimahi. He’s offering prayer sagosthi, with all his followers and disciples. That is the process.
In our temples in India we often see an Indian woman come to the temple holding one child on her hip, another by the hand, and perhaps still another in her abdomen, yet to be born. When she bows down to offer obeisances, all her children bow also. Similarly, Srila Prabhupada saw all living entities as part of Krsna’s family, and he desired to induce them all to surrender at Krsna’s lotus feet. Srila Prabhupada’s satisfaction was to see everyone happy by chanting Hare Krsna, taking prasadam, and reading Krsna’s books.
Narayani-devi dasi
Vrndavana, India
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