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Vyāsa-pūjā 2022

Keśī Damana Kṛṣṇa dāsa (Chennai - India)

Hare Kṛṣṇa!

nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale
śrīmate jayapatāka svāmin iti nāmine
nama ācaryapādāya nitāi-kṛpā-pradāyine
gaura-kathā-dhāma-dāya nagara-grāma-tāriṇe

oṁ ajñāna-timirāndhasya jñānāñjana-śalākayā
cakṣur unmīlitaṁ yena tasmai śrī-gurave namaḥ


My dear Guru Mahārāja,

Hare Kṛṣṇa!

Millions of humble and respectful daṇḍavat praṇāmas to the dust of your lotus feet. Please accept them, out of your own sheer causeless mercy... Guru Mahārāja!!

All glories to Śrī Guru and Śrī Gaurāṅga.
All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda.
All glories to Your Holiness.
All glories to all the Vaiṣṇavas.

Guru Mahārāja, this is your insignificant servant – Keśi Damana Kṛṣṇa dāsa, attempting to offer this homage letter and my deepest gratitude to your Holiness on your auspicious 73rd Vyāsa-pūjā. I humbly request at your holy feet to accept it out of your sheer causeless mercy alone.

Your holy self, being a sincere disciple of Śrīla Prabhupāda, has been serving his mission and ISKCON untiringly for many decades with tremendous enthusiasm and joy, without displaying even an iota of tiredness in your spiritual journey. That gives me more encouragement to serve you in my little insignificant way and earnestly trying to do so.

Guru Mahārāja, even though you know that I do not have any qualification or eligibility to become your disciple, still you mercifully blessed me with Harināma dīkṣā in 2016. Because of your unlimited mercy and blessings alone, I’m still hanging on in Kṛṣṇa conscious life and able to hold my blessed beads everyday morning for chanting. I’m ever grateful to you and I wish to serve you for eternity and beyond as a servant of servant of your servants.

Guru Mahārāja, I was very much worried for you when I got to know about your abdomen internal bleeding that happened recently, and you had to be airlifted to Chennai for further treatment. It was too painful to know that you had to undergo many surgical procedures. However, by our dear Rādhārāṇī and Kṛṣṇa’s mercy only, you recovered soon and you are back to Māyāpur. During your stay in Chennai, I got the golden opportunity to humbly serve Your Divine vapuḥ in the form of washing your transcendental clothes. I felt myself the most fortunate person in this world that I could personally serve my Pūjya Gurudeva (you) in my little way, which I never thought even in my dream that I can personally serve you anytime, though it was my humble deep wish always! Thank you very much for lovingly accepting our insignificant services and blessing us with this rare opportunity. I wish I would become your “eternal washerman” to wash your divine clothes, my dear Guru Mahārāja! We wish to see you again in Chennai, not for your treatment, but with good health only. My deep and sincere prayers at the lotus feet of our dear Rādhārāṇī and Kṛṣṇa to bless us with your physical presence for many more years to come Gurudeva!!

Gurudeva, knowing well about my helpless inabilities, I humbly and sincerely beg at your lotus feet to please, please, please bless me to serve you in the way it pleases you the most. Without your merciful glance upon this THE MOST FALLEN conditioned soul, I don’t have any strength to perform any service to your lotus feet and to our dear Rādhārāṇī and Kṛṣṇa and all the guru-paramaparā. Just like a honeybee finds a cool shelter in the lotus flower, I feel safe and secured only to be under the shelter of your lotus feet, Guru Mahārāja!
Guru Mahārāja, as it is said that Vaiṣṇavas are generally very merciful always, and on their divine appearance day, they are even more merciful than ever to the fallen souls – like myself. Keeping this truth in view, on this auspicious occasion of your Vyāsa-pūjā, I humbly fall at your lotus feet and earnestly beg and beg and beg to you, dear Gurudeva, please forgive your this patita sevaka for all the offences committed—knowingly and unknowingly—towards your holy self and towards any other devotees and disciples.
Gurudeva, I heard from my sīkṣā-guru that the greatest gift that we can ever offer to anyone is to sincerely pray to Kṛṣṇa for them. Although I do not at all have any qualification whatsoever, keeping this truth in mind, Gurudeva, on this auspicious occasion, from the very depths of my heart, I earnestly pray to our beloved Rādhārāṇī and Kṛṣṇa, Śrīla Prabhupāda and all the guru-paramparā to please give you Their merciful blessings in your mission to please Śrīla Prabhupāda, Rādhārāṇī and Kṛṣṇa. This is what this poor, helpless, unworthy and unfit servant of yours can do for you. Out of your own sheer causeless mercy alone, please accept this insignificant service of mine as a small token of my love for you, dear Guru Mahārāja.

Please bless me that my love for you becomes really pure, unconditional, uninterrupted and limitless, and it keeps on ever-increasing, and my guru-niṣṭhā and my commitment to your mission keeps on deepening, and I render— most lovingly and most unconditionally—pure, loving, unconditional, uninterrupted, limitless, unflinching and unmotivated devotional service to your holy self, all the guru-paramparā, all the Vaiṣṇavas, and our beloved Rādhārāṇī and Kṛṣṇa, in the way it pleases Them the most – eternally and even beyond. Your merciful blessings alone can take me in that direction – Guru Mahārāja!

With my heartfelt deep gratitude and millions of humble obeisances at your lotus feet,

Aspiring to be the servant of the servant of the servant of your holy self,

Keśi Damana Kṛṣṇa Dāsa (dīkṣā)
India (Chennai)