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Vyāsa-pūjā 2021

Maṇi Gopāla dāsa (Mayapur - India)

Nama om Visnupadaya Krsnapresthaya bhutale
Srimate Jayapataka Swamin iti namine
Nama Acaryapadaya Nitaikrpa pradayine

Gaurakatha dhamodaya nagara-grama tarine.

 

Dear Guru Maharaja, 

 

Please accept my most respectful obeisances at the dust of your lotus feet on the occasion of your most blessed appearance day Sri Vyasapuja Mahotsava. All glories to your divine grace. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. 

 

Gurudeva, when I think of pen down my feelings and insignificant realizations about you, it becomes so difficult from where to start and what to write. I have not seen Lord Nityananda with my eyes, but I have seen you crying in separation from the munificent Lord Nitai. More astonishing is that same personality (your divine grace) distributing Lord Nityananda's mercy indiscriminately! Yes, indiscriminately indeed. As part of my service at your office, I have the good fortune to see your holiness from very close, especially when it comes to connecting some souls to the guru parampara through Srila Prabhupada. Your divine grace knows no bound. It might not be good to go into the details here, but at least I must say that you accept the people with the least qualifications. You see through their hearts and see them getting tortured by the material nature, your heart gets melted and your divine grace accepts them as your disciple. What is the need to go far? I myself am the live example for that. I have zero qualifications to be your servant. If you count on me, I am a BIG ZERO, yet out of compassion you accepted this lowest creature as a servant of yours. What can be more surprising than this? You are compassion personified! With mountain-like tolerance for the fools like me. 

Guru Maharaja, on this most auspicious all of your qualified disciples will speak about your unlimited glories and extra-ordinary divine qualities. As a stupid, uneducated, fool, with no scriptural knowledge, I will never be able to tell your glories perfectly. Even if I try I will make offence by my stupid words. I am fool number one, lower than the lowest, still I am so much puffed up. Out of my utter ignorance I think I am always correct, I am a big devotee, devoid of any genuine humbleness and full of all vices. I am nothing but a black-sheep for this wonderful god family. Only your causeless mercy brought me here where I am today. You didn't see any bad qualities in me, though I am overloaded with innumerable bad things within me. You simply picked me up from the material existence when I was a mere small boy. I didn't know how to execute bhakti. Yet your divine grace gave me the opportunity to make my life successful. But alas! I have spoiled that most valuable opportunity of my life, I got drowned in the unfathomable ocean of material sufferings ignoring your lotus feet. I remained as a street dog who had no other business than doing sense gratification, and serving its senses for little flickering material happiness.

Guru Maharaja, I have been always offending at your lotus feet but your divine grace, in return, always tolerated this rascal. I think if someone can tolerate my stupidity and nonsense and still accept me, then they must have an unlimitedly big heart, and you are that great personality who with all ocean full of faults and blunders keeps on holding my hands. 

 

On this most auspicious day, I beg forgiveness at your lotus feet for all my stupid, nonsense and nefarious activities and offences I have committed at your lotus feet. As a loving father, kindly forgive your nastiest son. Please keep me always at your lotus feet considering the smallest dust particle there. Please give me strenghth to meticulously serve the mission of Srila Prabhupada, HDG Bhaktisiddhanta Saarasvati Goswami, and through the parampara to Lord Caitanya. Let me always remain as the shoe-bearer of the serious and sincere vaisnavas who has taken up Krsna consciousness as their life and soul. Let me eventually drown in the nectarean Gaura-Nityananda Prema-samudra. Please bless me so that I can make you happy by fulfilling your desires what you want from me to do in this movement with a sincere, honest and dedicated heart and ultimately get back to the lotus feet of Sri Sri Radha Madhava, Nitai Gauracandra.   

 

All glories to the victory flag of Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura - Srila Jayapataka Swami Acaryapada! 

All glories to the ISKCON founder acarya HDG Srila A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada!    


Your insignificant and worthless servant 

Mani Gopal das (Diksa disciple) 
JPS Office, Sridham Mayapur