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Vyāsa-pūjā 2020

Navadvīpa Nārayaṇa dāsa (Mayapur - India)

My Dear Gurudeva,

All Glories to you and Śrīla Prabhupāda.

Please accept my sincere obeisances.

Your servant, Navadvīpa Narayaṇa Dāsa, wishes to express his gratitude for the ability to be able to write to you. You are very kind, Gurudeva, in that not only are you spending your time physically reaching out to people all over the world to introduce or reinforce their relationship with Kṛṣṇa, but also you allow those unable to meet you personally to seek you out digitally by email and social media. Thank you so very much.

I write to you because today marks my birthday, and I would have loved to have offered you service or even be in the proximity of your vision. However, the dangers of this coronavirus prevent this happening. I have longed to devote more of my time in your service, but since I cannot be present before you today, I would sincerely like to make an e-offering to you, 

1. Please accept my Intelligence. All that I can consider to be intelligent in my life has only ever been because Krishna gave me that wisdom through you. 

2. Please accept my Education. Were it not for your guidance alone, how would it have been possible to have the success of a legal education in this life that so many recognise as prestigious?

3. Please accept my Career. Thanks to your guidance again, Krishna has put me to work at the TOVP serving our home from within. How would this have been possible without you, Gurudeva?

4. Please accept my Experience. What little experience I have has taught me that I do not know much and I often like to hear my ego tell my I know it all. Only by giving to you the fruits of my knowledge will I ever learn anything actually important and real.

5. Please accept my Skills. All that I have accumulated as skills in this life I dream to put to use in the service of building and protecting Śrī Māyāpur Dhāma in your name.

6. Please accept my Time. What is the use of regretting one's past? It has already been written in stone. What is the use of calculating one's Future? It's hasn't happened yet. I offer both my past and future in the hopes of better serving you in the present.

7. Please accept my Wealth. Will I ever be free of the desire to be wealthy? I do not know, but I know that as long as I can use my wealth in the service of my guru's missions and instructions, I cannot fail. Therefore my wealth is yours.

8. Please accept my Varṇāśrama. Will I ever be free of the desire for partnership? I do not know. However, it is now irrelevant what I desire because I offer the result and decision of that desire humbly at your lotus feet.

9. Please accept my Sevā. Of what use is my bhakti to anyone? Who am I to aspire to go to Goloka simply because I am suffering in the material world? That is very selfish. I would much rather go wherever you tell me to, Gurudeva, and happily continue working on my bhakti under your auspices, life after life.

10. Please accept Me. I offer to you everything that I have and am. By your blessing, I should hope to grow to be a dedicated, disciplined, joyful and grateful servant of yours.

Once again, please accept my sincere obeisances, my gratitude for your presence in my life, and my apologies for such a long-winded letter. Kindly bless me in whatever way you deem fit. 

Ever proud to be a servant of yours,

Navadvīpa Nārayaṇa dāsa