By your mercy, we again celebrate your blessed appearence in this world. Our material and spiritual health is a gift of God, Lord Krishna. You taught and showed us how to receive that mercy. You taught us to see the wonders and the tribulations of this world as a gift of God. With endless patience, you guided  … H.D.Goswami’s 2022 Vyasa Puja Offering to Srila Prabhupada

As I reached the age at which you came to America on the Jaladuta and founded your great mission, ISKCON, I found I could understand and appreciate more than ever your bold, straightforward, and skillful presentation of Krishna consciousness. Sociologists confirm that a movement must grow its core of committed followers in order to achieve sustainable, meaningful growth. You expressed this very idea in your unforgettable metaphor — you were looking not for many stars, but for a moon that could actually illumine the darkness of Kali-yuga. … H.D.Goswami’s 2020 Vyasa Puja Offering to Srila Prabhupada

I bow in reverence at your lotus feet. I come to you with a simple prayer — that you petition your Lord Krishna to mercifully empower your servants to restore your Western mission to the glory that you created for it. As we walked with you one morning in Rancho Park, Los Angeles, you stopped and wonderfully recreated Lord Krishna’s dialogue with Arjuna, speaking both parts. … H.D.Goswami’s 2019 Vyasa Puja Offering to Srila Prabhupada

I bow to my eternal spiritual master, Srila Prabhupada. This year, I will reflect on a sublime period that I think of as a golden age of ISKCON’s mission in the West. I speak of the time from 1966 to 1970, a time when Prabhupada personally knew most of his devotees and they personally knew him.  … H.D.Goswami’s 2018 Vyasa Puja Offering to Srila Prabhupada

I bow at the feet of my eternal spiritual master, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, who intensely desired that in each country, we convince local people to join and lead our movement. He repeated declared that ISKCON was not an Indian movement outside of India. We hear this clearly in his own words. … H.D. Goswami’s 2017 Vyasa Puja Offering to Srila Prabhupada