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Vyāsa-pūjā 2021

Darshak Lakhlani (Leicester - United Kingdom)

Dearest Jayapataka Swami,

Please accept my humble obeisances unto your lotus feet. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. 

Wishing you a very blessed 72nd Vyas Puja!

I wanted to take this auspicious opportunity to express my heart felt gratitude to you, for the strength, care, love and service attitude that you emanate Maharaja. Your positive and caring nature encourages me so much in my spiritual journey. I look up to you so much with all the challenges and hurdles that you have faced and are facing in life. Despite all the challenges, you are a pillar of strength for all to aspire to achieve this.

I am very blessed and grateful to have the association of lovely devotees in my life that are very dear to me. Those that are initiated by you, aspiring to serve you as well as your well wishers. They are strengths for me, they continue to inspire me, motivate me and always have my best interests at heart. I am very grateful to have guidance from Seva Priya Mataji here in Leicester. She is my Siksha guru, a motherly figure who has been guiding and  supporting me in my Krsna Consciousness. She is an embodiment of a pure devotee and what I aspire to become. 

I am very grateful to my dear partner Umeeka, who is aspiring to take shelter of your lotus feet. She is a very pure soul, with the grace of Radha and Krnsa our lives intertwined in such a blessed way. My humble request dear Maharaja that you kindly bless us in our union, our spiritual adventure and our service to each other, our gurus, all the Vaishnavas and Lord Chaitanya’s mission to spread Krishna Consciousness to one and all. Please bless us that we may continue to collectively and individually flourish in our Krsna Consciousness. I pray that with your kind blessings one day in the near future we become a married couple, living happily as a family in Krishna Consciousness, and always keeping Lord Krsna at the centre of our love and bond. 

Maharaja, I am currently serving ISKCON Leicester congregation & Leicester Pandava Sena which are teaching me so much and allowing me to develop so many transformative qualities such as empathy, patience, compassion, surrender, humility and much more. Please bless me Maharaja, that I may continue serving with all my strength and determination to please Srila Prabhupada and my seniors. I wish to keep serving the devotees selflessly, to grow and not expect anything in return as I have the most important, key cherished beauty which is Krsna & Krsna’s divine mercy.

Please also kindly bestow your blessings on my spiritual mentor Bhutha Bhavana Prabhu, who has been very merciful to me guiding me in my Krishna Consciousness and constantly inspiring me to become my best self. Please kindly bless my loving parents also, my brother, family and friends to assist them on their spiritual journeys back home to Krsna. I know it is with your grace, blessings and love that we can continue nicely on our journeys. 

I feel very humbled and grateful that I have had the divine opportunity to offer my gratitude to you, my well wishes and prayers to you Maharaja. I pray deeply for your good health, continued devotion and determination to serve in Srila Prabhupada’s mission without obstacles. 

With the encouragement of my partner Umeeka, your spiritual aspiring daughter, I write this homage to you, please accept this and kindly forgive me for any mistakes I have made in writing this to you. Umeeka is very inspiring for me, as she continues to selflessly serve you and your devotees with pure love, gratitude, strength, warmth and positivity. I pray that I too will have the opportunity to serve you more Maharaja. 

Please bless me that I may find deep within my heart and soul my Spiritual Master that I wish to surrender to, to aspire for and take shelter of. Please bless me, that I may take shelter of the guru that Krsna decides for me. 

My final prayer in my offering to you is that I pray that you continue to inspire, encourage and motivate all of us fallen souls who need so much of your care and guidance. We are all spiritual warriors and continue on our spiritual journey. Thank you for the strength that you radiate and the overflowing positivity that you readily offer to one and all. 

Your humble servant & well wisher, 

Darshak 

(Leicester UK)