Vyasa-puja is an annual celebration by devotees of Krishna to offer homage to their guru, or spiritual teacher. Krishna says, \u201c. . . one who claims to be My devotee is not so. Only a person who claims to be the devotee of My devotee is actually My devotee.\u201d In the system of bhakti-yoga, the first duty is to accept a devotee as spiritual master and then to render service unto him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Each year, the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust publishes a limited number of copies of a Vyasa-puja book\u2014a collection of homages to Srila Prabhupada from devotees and temples all over the world. Srila Prabhupada\u2019s unique position as the founder-acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) is significant in numerous ways. Essentially, he is the instructing spiritual master for everyone within ISKCON.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Vyasa-puja is an annual celebration by devotees of Krishna to offer homage to their guru, or spiritual teacher. Krishna says, \u201c. . . one who claims to be My devotee is not so. Only a person who claims to be the devotee of My devotee is actually My devotee.\u201d In the system of bhakti-yoga, the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/srivyasapuja.com\/svp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/srivyasapuja.com\/svp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/srivyasapuja.com\/svp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srivyasapuja.com\/svp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srivyasapuja.com\/svp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/srivyasapuja.com\/svp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":947,"href":"https:\/\/srivyasapuja.com\/svp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions\/947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srivyasapuja.com\/svp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/srivyasapuja.com\/svp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srivyasapuja.com\/svp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srivyasapuja.com\/svp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}