Vyasa Puja offerings

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Dear Devotees,

 

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

 

This year (2004) the deadline for submitting homages for Srila Prabhupada's

International BBT Vyasa-Puja book is April 15. Below are the guidelines.

Thank you.

 

Your servant,

Dravida dasa

 

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Deadline for submitting offerings: > > > APRIL 15, 2004< < <

 

Absolutely no offerings will be accepted after this date.

 

Offerings must be in English.

 

Please restrict the length to a maximum of 3,000 words or 15k of ASCII text.

 

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.

 

Do not "recycle" an offering--no offerings from previous years will be

accepted.

 

The Vyasa-puja book is meant for glorifying Srila Prabhupada, not for

venting grievances. The BBT reserves the right to reject an offering it

deems inappropriate or to ask for a rewrite.

 

When writing an offering 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 offering. This is not a hard and fast rule.

 

 

Who may write an offering?

 

1) Governing Body Commissioners

 

2) Sannyasis

 

3) Authorized representatives of ISKCON temples, preaching centers, farms,

gurukulas, BBT offices, and "others," such as BTG magazine, ISKCON School,

and ISCOWP (this is not a complete list). If we feel its necessary, we'll

ask you to supply an authorization e-mail from your GBC representative.

 

4) No multiple offerings. For example, a temple should not enlist all its

bhaktas to write offerings under the temple heading. Joint authorship (2--4

devotees) of a single offering is fine.

 

5) Please make sure you tell us where the offering originates. For example:

New Vamsi-vata (the Madagascar farm community), NOT just New Vamsi-vata. If

we don't know where the offering comes from, we will not print it.

 

6) Always leave a double space between paragraphs. If you want some special

formatting, submit your offering in printed form or send it as an attached

file in Microsoft Word or RTF format (see 1. below).

 

 

Ways to submit an offering, in order of preference:

 

1) By uploading offering to Dravida dasa at dravida (AT) mindspring (DOT) com.

 

2) By hand-delivering your offering on a 3.5-inch floppy disk or other

medium to Svavasa Dasa, BBT Trustee, at Mayapur during the GBC Meetings.

Any Mac or PC format ok, but please label the disk. Also, include an e-mail

address on the label just in case we can't read the disk.

 

3) By sending offering on 3.5-inch floppy disk, CD-ROM, or other medium to

Vyasa-puja Book, PO Box 34074, Los Angeles, CA 90034. Any Mac or PC format

ok, but please label the diskette.

 

4) By faxing offering to BBT offices in LA: (310) 837-1056.

 

5) By mailing a typed or carefully handwritten offering to Vyasa-puja Book,

PO Box 34074, Los Angeles, CA 90034. (If you plan to send a printout, why

not send it on a disk or upload it and save us all that keying in!)

 

Offerings may be submitted any time from now until April 15, 2004. Receipt

of offering by e-mail will be confirmed on e-mail. For other offerings you

can confirm receipt by calling direct to (310) 837-5283. Don't expect a

return call or fax; keep trying till you get a live person.

 

The BBT is not responsible for illegible or lost offerings.