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Vyāsa-pūjā 2021

Jaya Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa dāsa (Mayapur - India)

My dear spiritual father,

please accept my respectful obeisances at the dust of your lotus feet and

all glories to your auspicious appearance tithi, the kāmadā ekādaśī.

During the last one year of the Covid-19 pandemic, you have been tolerating all our mistakes, shortcomings and offenses and as a kind father and mother, you have been lovingly engaging all the servants in the lockdown and even those all over the world through virtual visits to their homes and temples.

I will just touch upon one such incident with me.

During my service of reading to you scriptures while you take rest, one night, it was very late past midnight. So I thought that I would take a little nap and get up to read for you, but I only got up in the morning. Through this you are teaching your disciples and well-wishers about the importance of reading Srila Prabhupada books irrespective of how busy one may be.

So, the next morning, I told, "Gurumaharaja, I am sorry that yesterday night I could not come for reading because I slept off."

I was expecting that you would forgive me, but you surprised me by saying, "I thought you were angry," and then surprised me more by saying, "I thought I had offended you and that is why you did not come."

Let your exemplary acts such as these be by guidelines and your loving ecstatic feelings while relishing the pastimes of Lord Caitanya be my inspiration.

Just now, while I am typing this vyāsa-pūjā offering and hearing the verse of Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 12.150 during the Caitanya-lila class:

This incident has been described in detail by Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura. Therefore I have described it only in brief.

Purport

This is a matter of etiquette. If a previous ācārya has already written about something, there is no need to repeat it for personal sense gratification or to outdo the previous ācārya. Unless there is some definite improvement, one should not repeat.

(Note: Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura comments that this is not described in Caitanya Bhāgavata) 

I inserted the above note and you said that we are deprived of the full description of the pastime of Fainting of Śrī Gopāla, the son of  Advaita Ācārya Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura while he was dancing during the cleansing of the Guṇḍicā Temple.

So, since Prabhupāda has said that you are an eternal associate of Lord Caitanya, you want to know relish more about the pastimes of Lord Caitanya. Thus not getting the description from the Caitanya Bhāgavata as told by Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī, you say that we are deprived of the full description of those pastimes.

You are patita-pāvana and I am also one such patita who falsely thinks of himself as paṇḍita and so by delivering me completely let you be known as paṇḍita-pāvana also.

Your worthless spiritual son, 

Jayarādhākṛṣṇa dāsa