Opening of an Offering:

An opening of an offering can be like this: “Dear Srila Prabhupada,
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to you on this auspicious day of your Vyasa Puja.
This is equally acceptable as an opening to your offering or anything equivalent to the above.

Suggestions:

Glorification of Srila Prabhupada:

His qualities, his pastimes, his contributions to society, the role that he is playing in our lives.
Scriptural References:
A verse describing the qualities of a pure devotee and our realization of those qualities in Srila Prabhupada or relating that to Srila Prabhupada.

Spiritual Progress:

How is your spiritual growth?
How are you meeting challenges? How has Srila Prabhupada helped you?
How are you carrying out his orders?
Requesting His Mercy and Blessings

Express Genuine Feelings:

Express your gratitude, love, and indebtedness to him.
How has your life transformed?
How has he reciprocated in your day-to-day life?

Typically, an offering can contain the above sections, but there are no hard and fast rules that it has to stick to this format only. The general idea is that a disciple expresses his gratitude and love to the spiritual master.

Finally, an offering should end with a nice phrase such as “Your humble servant” or something similar to show our desire to please the spiritual master, followed by your initiated name (if initiated) or your legal name (prefixed by “Bhakta” if men / “Bhaktin” if women). In case of legal name, mention your initials/surnames after your name only. Ex: Bhaktin Shailaja M S / Bhakta Raghuram P/ Bhaktin Suma Manikyam/ Bhakta Prashanth Mulkatte / Raja Rama Dasa / Pavana Putra Dasa / Sita Rani Devi Dasi.

We request devotees to read the other devotee’s offerings to get an idea of how to write an offering. Vyasa-Puja-2022-Digital.pdf (krishnatemple.com)

Editorial Standards
All the offerings will be compiled and published in a beautiful printed book, and these books are preserved in both hard copy and soft copy forms. So, we request devotees to maintain certain standards as given below. By respecting these guidelines, you will be supporting our devotees to perform their editorial services to Srila Prabhupada in a better way.

The Vyasapuja offering is meant for glorifying the Spiritual Master. So, offerings need to be made in that mood and not be used as a platform for airing one’s grievances.

You can read the previous years’ Vyasapuja offerings written by devotees, which can give you some ideas of how to express yourself. Kindly write your offering by yourself.

You may copy brief verses/quotations, if required, from Veda-base. Please retain the diacritics if any. Kindly mention the name of the book, chapter number, and verse number or any reference number, like it’s usually written in Srila Prabhupada’s books. For example: SB 6.4.15. Kindly include the English translation if the verse is not well known.

Kindly do not reuse or edit an offering from previous years or copy someone else’s writing.

Kindly address the offering directly to Srila Prabhupada instead of writing an essay about Srila Prabhupada.