Call for Homages for Srila Prabhupada’s 2023 Vyasa Puja Book.
January 27, 2023
Dear follower of Srila Prabhupada,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
Kindly submit your homage to Srila Prabhupada for his Vyasa-puja book by April 15.
NOTE: This year a new team of devotees will be producing Srila Prabhupada’s Vyasa-puja book. Therefore please do not send your homage to Dravida Dasa at dravida108@gmail.com but rather to Ananda Tirtha Dasa at Ananda.Tirtha.pvs@pamho.net.
In addition, if you’re a direct disciple of Srila Prabhupada, please check out www.sptributes.com to learn about a Vyasa-puja book open to all his disciples. The deadline for submission to this book is April 15.
The standards for submitting an homage to the Vyasa-puja book published by the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust are as follows:
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*Absolutely no homages will be accepted after April 15, 2023.*
Homages must be in English.
Please restrict the length to a maximum of 2,500 words.
Please omit all diacritics on words that can be found in the VedaBase. It’s easier for us to put them in. If you quote a verse from outside the VedaBase or compose original Sanskrit, please include diacritics. Any quotes from Srila Prabhupada’s writings or spoken words must be available in the VedaBase.
Do not “recycle” an homage — no homages from previous years will be accepted.
The Vyasa-puja book is meant for glorifying Srila Prabhupada, not venting grievances. We reserve the right to reject an inappropriate homage or ask for a rewrite.
When writing an homage 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 homage.
Who may write an homage?
1) Governing Body Commissioners
2) GBC Emeriti
3) Sannyasis
4) Authorized representatives of ISKCON temples, ministries, preaching centers, farms, gurukulas, BBT offices, and “others,” such as BTG magazine and ISCOWP (this is not a complete list). If there is some doubt, we will request you to send written authorization from your GBC representative.
No multiple homages. For example, a temple should not enlist all its bhaktas to write homages under the temple heading. Joint authorship (2-4 devotees) of a single homage is fine.
Please make sure you tell us where the homage originates. For example: New Vamsivata (the Madagascar farm community), NOT just New Vamsivata. If we don’t know where the homage comes from, we will not print it.
Always leave a double space between paragraphs. If you want some special formatting, submit your homage as an attached file in DOC, DOCX, or RTF format.
Submit your homage by emailing it to Ananda Tirtha Dasa at Ananda.Tirtha.pvs@pamho.net.
Homages may be submitted any time from now until April 15, 2023. We will confirm receipt of your homage by e-mail. If you do not receive a confirmation, resend it.
We are not responsible for lost homages.
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Hoping this meets you well, I remain
Your servant,
Dravida dasa