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Vyāsa-pūjā 2023

Akṣara Govinda Dāsa (Ujjain - India)

Hare Kṛṣṇa Guru Mahārāja

Please accept my respectful Obeisances

All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda and Your Divine Grace

All glories to Your 74th Appearance Day

Dearest Guru Mahārāja,

“One who knows the transcendental nature of My appearance and activities does not, upon leaving the body, take his birth again in this material world, but attains My eternal abode, O Arjuna.” Bhagavad-gītā As It Is 4.9.

Just as the appearance and activities of Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa are transcendental similarly the appearance and activities of his pure devotees are also transcendental. Thus it gives me immense happiness to submit this offering at your lotus feet on your auspicious appearance day.

I am eternally indebted to you for accepting me as your own disciple on the most auspicious day- Nityānanda Trayodaśī 3 Feb 2023. During my visit to Māyāpur for initiation I was blessed to get your mercy by getting your blissful darśana, attending Caitanya-līlā Classes, getting your Mahā māhā-prasāda, your Mahā Cloth and signing on Milwaukee Se Māyāpur book.

Śrīla Prabhupāda writes in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.16.6- “In the transmigration of the soul through different bodies, everyone, in every form of life—be it human, animal, tree or demigod—gets a father and mother. This is not very difficult. The difficulty is to obtain a bona fide spiritual master and Kṛṣṇa. Therefore the duty of a human being is to capture the opportunity to come in touch with Kṛṣṇa’s representative, the bona fide spiritual master. Under the guidance of the spiritual master, the spiritual father, one can return home, back to Godhead.” Guru Mahārāja, I being born and brought up in darkness of ignorance was destined to rot in this material world for millions of lifetimes but your mercy has given me a hope to make a solution to all problems by allowing me to access the process to go back to Godhead. But because of my misfortune I have no taste for Kṛṣṇa consciousness so please bless me to take best use of this rare opportunity.

In Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.3.22 it is mentioned “Accepting the bona fide spiritual master as one’s life and soul and worshipable deity, the disciple should learn from him the process of pure devotional service.” So it is my desire to serve you by taking as my life and soul and worshipable deity.

Guru Mahārāja, you are a very unique personality. You have unfathomable love for your Spiritual Master Śrīla Prabhupāda. In order to serve His Divine Grace, you extend beyond limits in all capacities. You daily attend Śrīla Prabhupāda Pushpa Samadhi Maṅgala Ārati, read his books, hear his lectures and encourage disciples and followers to associate with His Divine Grace by reading his books. To inspire the devotees and to give them enthusiasm for preaching you travel across the world and also give Daily Caitanya-līlā class- attending this class daily is one of the reasons that my devotional creeper is still alive.

Śrīla Prabhupāda said that Caitanya-caritāmṛta is his favorite book and it is very nectarean to hear your daily Caitanya-līlā Class i.e. hearing Caitanya-līlā from an eternal associate of Lord Caitanya and Śrīla Prabhupāda. Guru Mahārāja please give me blessings so that I can follow your mood and serve you and Śrīla Prabhupāda in this movement without any material motivations.

I joined ISKCON Ujjain temple as NDTP on Narasiṁha Caturdaśī, 2022. ISKCON Ujjain is a vibrant temple with beautiful deities and wonderful devotees. The temple has all the necessary facilities for devotees and the facilities, prasāda, blessings that I receive here seems to me as manifestation of your and your dear Godbrother His Holiness Bhakti Charu Swami Guru Mahārāja’s mercy.

I am aspiring to be a fulltime Brahmacārī for my entire life. In the temple I serve as Executive assistant, which is a management service. To be full time as of now I have some concerns in fixing the issues at home but I hope this material issue because of material attachment and ignorance can be settled by mercy of Lord Nityānanda and your Divine grace. In addition to management service, when I get a chance I also go for Saṅkīrtana (Hari Nam and Book distribution). Following your instruction and by your blessings I regularly read Śrīla Prabhupāda’s book. Please bless me so that I can stay fixed up in Kṛṣṇa consciousness for my entire life and render service to authorities favorably.

Guru Mahārāja being a beginner in Kṛṣṇa consciousness I have made only three visits to Māyāpur and in that I had darśana of your transcendental vapu during two visits. But by offering my prayers unto your lotus feet in separation by hearing Vaiṣṇava songs like śrī-rūpa-mañjari-pāda, sei mora sampada, śrī guru caran padma I feel your causeless mercy and compassion being showered on me.

I am eternally indebted to you for your kṛṣṇe matir astu, kṛṣṇe matir rahu, blessings at the end of your zoom classes and your blissful and empowering email replies.

I have heard this in a lecture of His Holiness Bhakti Charu Swami Guru Mahārāja that A Vaiṣṇava lives forever through his instructions, Godbrothers, God sisters, Disciples and deities that they give to us. Although I have less of your vapu association but I get association of your Godbrothers and God sister at ISKCON Ujjain and other temples like Māyāpur, Vṛndāvana when I visit them, so the service that they mercifully accept from me and the blessings and instructions that I receive from them I consider them coming from your divine arrangement. Because I hanker for your personal association which is usually not possible for me so you manifest your presence for me through your Godbrothers and God sister. By your mercy, His Holiness Gopal Kṛṣṇa Goswami Mahārāja, His Grace Bāsu Ghosh Prabhu, His Holiness Rādhā Govind Mahārāja, His Holiness Jayadvaita Swami Mahārāja, His Grace Gauraśaktī Prabhu, His Grace Bhāgavat Āśraya  Prabhu, His Grace Sarvamangala Mata ji, His Grace Akhildhara Prabhu, His Holiness Giriraj Swami Mahārāja, His Holiness Mahāmān Mahārāja, His Grace Pañca Gauḍa Prabhu and some other of your Godbrothers and advanced devotees of ISKCON have very kindly accepted service from me to purify my existence.

Guru Mahārāja you are an embodiment of Never Give Up Spirit. His Grace Bhagavat Asraya Prabhu (ACBSP) and His Grace Akhiladhara Prabhu (ACBSP) repeatedly gave me this same instruction personally. That no matter what, Never Give Up. Guru Mahārāja, your godbrothers His Grace Vaiśeṣika Prabhu, His Grace Akhiladhara Prabhu, His Grace Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Prabhu, His Grace Sureśvara Prabhu blessed me to have Guru niṣṭha and instructed me that you have got wonderful Spiritual Master, who is strictly following Śrīla Prabhupāda so just stick to him. Thus I aspire to keep your instructions and lotus feet in my heart and make my life successful by endeavouring to serve Śrīla Prabhupāda in his mission.

Thank you for everything

Aspiring to be your insignificant servant eternally

Akṣara Govinda Dāsa (Dīkṣā)

Ujjain, M.P. India