This is an inspiring Vysapuja offering by Sivarama Swami on Sri Vyasa-puja 2002

Dear Srila Prabhupada,
Please accept my humble obeisances in the dust of your lotus feet.
I meditate upon those glittering particles of dust, which, by the prayers of your true followers, have received the great fortune of always cushioning your lotus feet. How fortunate they are! May I also become a grain of this dust, forever united with your divine service?

Q: Are there any quotes or references regarding offering grains to non-vaisnavas on Ekadasi? For example, Ratha Yatra sometimes occurs in Ekadasi. What standard is to be followed?

1. In Mayapur in 1976 Gaura Purnima day, Srila Prabhupada instructed that grains be distribution throughout the day.

March 16 1976 -  Mayapur
[From Hari-sauri dasa's Diary]

Attendance at our temple for the Gaura Purnima day was phenomenal. Estimates of the number of pilgrims entering the front gate ranged between 9,000 - 25,000 per hour, depending on the time of day. The flow continued for well over seven hours.

Bhaktivinode Thakur states in Saranagati:

"Mayavadis consider the glories of devotional service, the object of worship, and the Lord's servants as temporary. Their hearing, chanting, serving, and offering prayers, therefore are felt by Krishna as blows of thunderbolts."

Below is a link to Srila Prabhupada's Vyasa-puja book for this year.

 http://files.krishna.com/en/pdf/vyasapuja/2012/

My wife and I currently reside in India. Usually, when we travel by train, I take books with me to distribute. En route from Kolkata to Chennai, I went to distribute and, as sometimes happens, could distribute only one big book.

On my way through the compartments one morning I met a young Muslim and showed him the books. He told me in broken English that he lives in Navadvip, nearby our Mayapur temple and was now traveling to his work place. After that I went back to our compartment.

Anyone, however, who tries sincerely to present Bhagavad-gita as it is will advance in devotional activities and reach the pure devotional state of life. As a result of such pure devotion, he is sure to go back home, back to Godhead.

Bhagavad Gita 18.69 purport

Each and every member of this Society was rescued from a very abominable condition, but now they are engaged in preaching the cult of Krsna consciousness. They are not only cured of the disease called materialism but are also living a very happy life. ... If one wants to be recognized as a devotee by Krsna, he should take to preaching work, following the advice of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Then one will undoubtedly attain the lotus feet of Sri Krsna Caitanya, Lord Krsna Himself, without delay.

Caitanya Caritamrita Madhya 7.148

I'm here at Grand Canyon again for another summer of SKP. As usual, I'm amazed by the kinds of people who walk away with a book--generally, the rule being, the most unlikely. Seems like this is a special place for learning the lesson that "you can't judge a soul by her cover". And also for learning patience, knowing that although nothing happens for hours on end, that just one good hour can salvage the whole day. Grand Canyon is a place of extremes--one minute, calm as can be, the next a 60 mph gust sweeping up everything in its path. The same goes for the preaching.

"In answer to your second question, you should know that Arjuna and Kunti Devi are not in Krishna Loka. They are associated with Krishna eternally only in the material world. Just as Krishna is always in the spirit world and similarly He is always in the material world and His hobbies also happen there. In the material world, Krishna also has eternal associates such as Arjuna and Kunti Devi. There is a difference between body and soul of Arjuna and Kunti Devi. But while Arjuna is with Krishna in innumerable different material universes, while there is still only a spiritual soul who is Arjuna. This spiritual soul expands in many different bodies and so you can understand that there are also incarnations of devotees as well as incarnations of Krishna.

In the morning on Juhu Beach many gentlemen used to walk their dogs. Srila Prabhupada pointed to a fat and fit gentleman walking with an equally fat and fit dog. the man was walking briskly and confidently with his dog on his leash, and the dog was walking equally briskly and confidently with his master by his side. Srila Prabhupada commented that every dog wants a good master. If the dog has a good master he is happy. He holds his head high; he wags his tail. He knows that his master will maintain and protect him, so he has no anxiety. But the street dog -- "The poor fellow has no master. Therefore he is always suffering." Srila Prabhupada then pointed to some stray dogs. "They have no master. They do not know where they will sleep, how they will get food.