Please accept my respectful obesciences at your divine lotus feet.

All Glories to Srila Prabhupad!

Some weeks back H.G Sukahada Prabhu and his wife Subhadra,told me that usually they have a 3 day festival for vyas puja every year but now that i am here,we can make it a four day festival, so yesterday by their inspiration n encouragement we celebrated vyas puja in our home,2day dwadasi feast we will celebrate at Nikhil Prabhu and Moni's house and tomorrow we will celebrate at Sukhada Prabhu house on a grand scale and Sunday at the temple,Initially i thought i should cook a feast for the devotees as it is Our Guru Maharajs vyas puja but then the devotees were so enthusiastic about taking various services that i thought maybe its more pleasing to GM that everyone serve and we offer a combined team love n devotion to GM, so Moni made gorgeous dresses for my deites for vyas puja and Sama Rice,Kala,wife of Murli Prabhu was so inspired that we were discussing the planning n preparations since weeks,she made Sabudana and her husband,b4 leaving home called and asked me if theres anything we need thats undone and i requested for so many things,H.G.Ram Charan Prabhu and his wife offered Icecream n yummy kadi to GM n prabhu was in tears begging GM for his mercy so that he gets GM's book distribution spirits,they are Radha Govind Maharaj's disciples n have two devotee daughters,Veni volunteered to make the flower garlands for the deites n brought so many lamps tht we lit, Samatha and her Husband Murlidhar prabhu offered a beautiful garland to GM and Prabhu was telling us despite seeing many Iskcon Gurus,why his heart chose our GM,Ramana Prabhu and his wife Sowmya,Srini prabhu and his brother in law Nivas prabhu attended the program in bliss,Yasoda sent peanut chutney and Madhavi sent mishti doi,Sukhada Prabhu read out a very warm offfering to your divine grace and emphasized that we your disciples must be more into devotee care,because of Prabhu's inspiration we had Your dear God Brother Bala Bhadra Prabhu celebrate with us your auspicious vyas puja,Bala Bhadra prabhu gave an inspiring talk on vyas puja and glorified your divine grace.I told the devotees all that your divine grace spoke in your vyas puja message and lecture.The whole program happened because of Sukhada Prabhu and his wife's initiative and then the devotees were all so enthusiatic,everyone wanted to serve in some way or the other,i am grateful to my good husband Shashi Shekhar,who is aspiring from Radhanath Maharaj, to support me throughout and help me in every possible and literally take most of the responsibilities despite his busy schedule at work,he was on his toes throughout organizing the whole program,cleaning,before and after,shopping etc etc,Thankyou Guru Maharaj for giving me a good devotee husband and such wonderful devotees to associate with, we hope to have your association here in philadelphia and we seek your blessings with all humility,may we spend our days and nights in your service,we offer loads of love and devotion at your lotus feet together from all the devotees of Bensalem Bhakti Group and we pray tht we get your blessings and we wish that your divine grace is pleased by our humble and incompetent efforts.

Ratipriya devi dasi and Shashi Shekar,

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