Deadline for submitting offerings: AUGUST 20, 2003
Absolutely no offerings will be accepted after this date. All offerings posted here will become public on SP Vyasa-puja day, before this date nobody can see it.
Who can write an offering here?
All ISKCON devotees initiated or not, but if you're in the following list, we encourage to send your offering diretly to Dravida.ACBSP@pamho.net in order to be included in the official Vyasa-puja book, we will try to forward any offering from the following listed devotees/programs to the BBT editors, but we can't warantee their reception.
Governing Body Commissioners
Sannyasis
Authorized representatives of ISKCON temples, preaching centers, farms, gurukulas, BBT offices, and "others," such as BTG magazine, ISKCON School, and ISCOWP (this is not a complete list).
The objetive of this Vyasa-puja forum is to allow all devotees not listed in the above list to glorify Srila Prabhupada in his appearance day, posting here not warantee the publication of your offering in the official Vyasa-puja book. If you're in the above list and want to post your offering here, this will be welcomed.
How can I make my offering?
No multiple offerings. For example, a temple should not enlist all its bhaktas to write offerings under the temple heading. Joint authorship (2--4 devotees) of a single offering is fine.
Please make sure you tell us where the offering originates. For example: Harinama dasa (HDG) Mexico. If we don't know where the offering comes from, we will not include it.
Please include the following info in your offering:<ol>
Devotional Name (if not initiated, your legal name
Guru (if not yet initiated, left in blank)
Congregation name or city where you asist.</li></ol>
Offerings can be in any language.
Please restrict the length to a maximum of 3,000 words or 15k of ASCII text.
Please omit all diacritics.
Do not "recycle" an offering--no offerings from previous years will be accepted.
The Vyasa-puja book is meant for glorifying Srila Prabhupada, not for venting grievances. We reserves the right to reject an offering it deems inappropriate or to ask for a rewrite.
When writing an offering on behalf of a temple or other unit, please try to write in such a way that the other devotees in your unit can also identify with the offering. This is not a hard and fast rule.
Always leave a double space between paragraphs. Please see the help section from the top buttons menu.
The only one way to submit an offering here is following the step by step procedure listed bellow.
Step by step procedure
Select from the bottom list your language.
In you selected language page click the start new thread link from the bottom blue line, go to the end, thus copy and paste or write your offering here.
If your language is not listed, please use the start new thread link from the bottom blue line, and specify in which language is your offering writed.
Write your username and password and click in the preview button (is necessary to be previously inscrited in the Virtual Istagosthi to can post your Vyasa-puja offering, if you're not, please go to the register button before proceed.
Once the preview is showed, and if all is ok, click in the send message button.
