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Vyāsa-pūjā 2018

Mālinī Prīti devī dāsī (Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia)

nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale
śrīmate jayapatākā-svāmin iti nāmine
namo ācāryapādāya nitāi-kṛpa-pradāyine
gaura-kathā dhāmadhāya nagara-grāma tāriṇe

nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale
śrīmate bhaktivedānta-svāmin iti nāmine
namas te sārasvate deve gaura-vāṇī-pracāriṇe
nirviśeṣa-śūnyavādi-pāścātya-deśa-tāriṇe

Dearest Srila Guru Maharaj,

Hare Krishna. Please accept my most respectful obeisances unto the dust of your lotus feet.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
All glories to Srila Guru Maharaj.

mukhaṁ karoti vācālaṁ panguṁ laṅghayate girim 
yat kṛpā tam ahaṁ vande śrī-guruṁ dīna-tāraṇam

It is the biggest blessings for me, to be given an opportunity to offer my homage to Srila Guru Maharaj on this most auspicious day of your Vyasa Puja, for I am not worthy and unqualified to speak anything about you.

Srila Guru Maharaj,

When I was just a five year old kid, I would wait for you at the temple porch, very eager to get your blessings whenever you would return from the japa walk session just before deity greetings. Srila Guru Maharaj would smile so widely and so sweetly and would put your bead bag on my head as you step into the entrance. At times Srila Guru Maharaj would put your danda. And as kids, we would jump and be so happy. That feeling is so blissful! That love has been planted at the core of my heart eternally. That memory has never fade and it is full of sweetness. I really miss those moments of my life. It is our greatest fortune to have met Srila Guru Maharaj at that tender age and to have been taught about Srila Guru Maharaj’s qualities. And in my mind and heart, it was Srila Guru Maharaj who is my spiritual master, then, now and forever.

There was a period in my life, where my spiritual life was in ambiguity. When Srila Guru Maharaj asked me on this, I tried to avoid discussing about it. But Srila Guru Maharaj was so merciful to me, immediately helped me and that turned my life to one hundred percent better from what it was.

During Srila Guru Maharaj’s last visit to Malaysia in September 2017, some of your secretaries spoke during the JSSS Meeting at Kuala Lumpur. One of the glorifications that they had mentioned that really touched my heart is that Srila Guru Maharaj is not only a spiritual father to the initiated disciples, so much so that they get confused who are actually the disciples because Srila Guru Maharaj’s heart is full of compassion for all living entities. Also that all the other devotees they have equal amount of respect and love for you as their spiritual master, they come approaching “Guru Maharaj, Guru Maharaj…” . One of the secretaries said that once at an airport, a lady was sitting on a wheelchair and she was really sick but no one took notice of the lady except for Srila Guru Maharaj. Then, Srila Guru Maharaj said to enquire on how we can help the lady. In 2015, when Srila Guru Maharaj was admitted in the ICU (New Delhi), Srila Guru Maharaj wanted someone to read Chapter 15 of the Bhagavad Gita, to the person who was next to Srila Guru Maharaj, who was leaving his body. In September 2017, when a devotee met with accident in Malaysia, Srila Guru Maharaj was also admitted at Sunway Medical Centre for a procedure, but Srila Guru Maharaj prayed for the devotee’s life and safety. Srila Guru Maharaj’s love and care is for everyone equally.  Srila Guru Maharaj is selfless, always so merciful, always thinking of reaching out and helping everyone to give them Krishna Consciousness.

Below is an excerpt from the Bhaktivedanta Purport of Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 4 Chapter 21 Text 47:

Prahlāda Mahārāja is the topmost example of a Vaiṣṇava, who is always compassionate toward sinful persons suffering a hellish life within this material world. Kṛṣṇa is therefore known as para-duḥkha-duḥkhī kṛpāmbudhiḥ, or one who is compassionate toward others’ suffering and who is an ocean of mercy. Like Prahlāda Mahārāja, all pure devotees of the Lord come to this material world with full compassion to deliver the sinful. They undergo all kinds of tribulations, suffering them with tolerance, because that is another qualification of a Vaiṣṇava, who tries to deliver all sinful persons from the hellish conditions of material existence.

For the past few months, Srila Guru Maharaj had been writing on your health and so much pain that Srila Guru Maharaj is going through. When I was writing this Vyasa Puja homage, it was the period of Srila Guru Maharaj going through the angiogram procedure in Chennai. It really breaks my heart every time to get a message on Srila Guru Maharaj’s health and I am not able to handle it. It weakens my spirit. How do you do it Srila Guru Maharaj? We can’t even tolerate simple pain, can’t tolerate injuries to our body, what to speak of so many health procedure, complications, so many test and hospitalisation? When I seek for spiritual advice for some of my personal problems from Srila Guru Maharaj’s god-brothers, one of them told me that you have the best example, the best living example, who is your spiritual master, who is showing example to everyone, not to give up.  HH Srila Radhanath Swami Maharaj spoke in Mayapur in February this year, HH said that “And, one of the greatest inspiration of my spiritual life is to see how HH Jayapataka Maharaj has truly imbibed that spirit of compassion, that spirit of giving Lord Caitanya’s message to the world, in his physical state, it is practically impossible to do anything, and yet even in this condition for the last several years.. Now he is in the hospital, still, with all his being, he is sharing the message of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu with the world. He is truly following the footsteps of Srila Prabhupada. Let us offer our sincerest gratitude to him, by loudly chanting “Jayapataka Swami Maharaj Ki! Jai. Srila Prabhupada Ki! Jai”.

How would I describe this feeling, it is very intense love. This bond between spiritual master and disciple is so pure, full of love, that it is immeasurable to anything else to that we experience in life.  It is irreplaceable by any form of relationship, it is eternal, ecstatic and sublime.  This relationship is full of sweetness and it is the best gift given by the most merciful Lord Nitai Gaurasundar.  And everything that we do, we think first about our spiritual master. Srila Prabhupada says in the purport of  Sri Caitanya Caritamrita Adi Lila 1.46 “In all the ancient literatures of devotional service and in the more recent songs of Śrīla Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura, Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura and other unalloyed Vaiṣṇavas, the spiritual master is always considered either one of the confidential associates of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī or a manifested representation of Śrīla Nityānanda Prabhu.” I really wish that I can always meet you on countless time every year, like how it used to be before, like how you used to visit Malaysia before. I am hoping so much that things will be better.  It is my daily hope, wish and prayer.

This beggar, Malini Priti devi dasi prays to Lord Narasimhadeva for your health, protection and longevity and so that all Srila Guru Maharaj health procedures will be minimized.  We ultimately depend, beg the mercy of Sri Sri Nitai Gauranga to be upon Srila Guru Maharaj. The Lordships are so compassionate towards all of us, especially me who is so fallen that I don’t deserve at all to have a spiritual master like you, but They are so merciful and kind towards me for giving me a transcendental soul who has compassion and love for the whole wide world as my spiritual master. Srila Guru Maharaj, you are the warrior of Srila Prabhupada’s movement and the anchor of our spiritual life. Thank you for lifting me up from this dirt of the material world, accepting me as your spiritual daughter and encouraging me in all ways to make progress in my spiritual life.

On this auspicious day of your Vyasa Puja, I beg on my knees to Srila Guru Maharaj to please forgive me for all my offences. Please help me to be better person, to have compassion and love for all, to have a gentle heart, to always be tolerant, never ever to leave this spiritual family of Srila Prabhupada, constantly be engaged in services Sri Guru and Gauranga till my last breath, to always read and understand Srila Prabhupada’s books, never ever to give up despite all challenges and circumstances and always remained sheltered at your lotus feet. Happy Vyasa Puja Srila Guru Maharaj. You are the love of my life, my dearmost spiritual father.

Patitapavana Srila Guru Maharaj Ki! Jaiii!!!!!!

Your unworthy servant and most fortunate spiritual daughter,
Malini Priti devi dasi (Diksa)
Sri Jagannatha Mandir, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia