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Vyāsa-pūjā 2023

Taptakāñcana Gauracandra dāsa (Mayapur - India)

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

My Dear Spiritual Father

Please accept my respectful obeisance unto the dust of your lotus feet on this most auspicious occasion of your Vyas pūjā day. Although being a most unqualified disciple of yours I take this opportunity to glorify some of your, many qualities for my purification. Although It is easy to Count the stars in the sky but to count your unlimited Vaiṣṇava qualities, is not as easy. Your tireless dedication to please Śrīla Prabhupāda and the ISKCON movement has made a remarkable impact in Gauḍīya-Vaiṣṇava-sampradāya. Your consistent service attitude despite of thousand obstacles, really inspiring to all the devotees present, and the generation to come. Despite of so many hindrance you have travelled different countries to inspire people to make the best use of their human form, as well as past couple of months you have inaugurated so many of temples around India and gave an incomparable opportunity for all fallen conditioned soul to practice bhakti. You never fail to connect with devotees via correspondence, which is the most compassionate care for all the disciples and well wishers. Your unstoppable gaura-līlā nectar has extinguishes the poisonous fire of material desire in the heart of listener. Hence I say,

bilāile tumi śuddha gaura-līlāra dhana
tāhā śuni jagatvāsīra nirmala hailo mana
śuddhite viśeṣa bhāgavata kathā haya śanivāre
apekṣā kari sei amṛta dhārāra tare

You have been continuous source of inspiration and hope for all the devotees, especially of me, by having a glance of your darśana I get filled up with lot of enthusiasm to continue devotional service nicely.

Presently, due to change in my job location I have been bereft of direct devotee association, and because of that my very small-scale preaching and book distribution activities has been hampered badly. Only by your blessings last marathon I could able to distribute 210 Bhagavad-gītā, 2 Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam sets and 4 Caitanya-caritāmṛta sets. On this auspicious occasion of your Vyāsa-pūjā, my humble prayer unto you, that; you please continue to give your blessings and mercy so that I can assist you in fulfilling the desire of dearest Śrīla Prabhupāda.

Because of lack of association, while practicing devotional service number of challenges coming are enormous, and sometimes I feel very low, but I have cent percent confident that I can overcome all of them easily by your causeless mercy. Gurudeva you know perfectly well that at every step of my devotional life I commit so many mistakes, and being a conditioned soul I have so many flaws and shortcomings, but still you are mercifully teach me, allows me to continue service to the Supreme Lord and his dear devotees; and never belittle me. Dear Gurudeva kindly bestow your mercy upon me to overcome all hurdles.

I pray to their Lordship, Śrī Śrī Rādhā-Mādhava, Śrī Śrī Narasiṁhadeva, Śrī Śrī Pañca-tattva Bhagavān and Śrīla Prabhupāda that they give their most precious blessings to you.

Yours Lowly Servant,

Tapta Kāñcana Gauracandra Dāsa (Dīkṣā)

Māyāpur, India