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Vyāsa-pūjā 2023

Gaura Govinda Priya Dāsa (Mayapur - India)

Dear Guru Mahārāja,

Please accept my humble obeisance at your lotus feet.

All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda. All glories to you Guru Mahārāja.

Gurudeva!!!

I have heard from devotees that during your initial days, when you were Temple President in Montreal Temple, in order to pay the bills of the temple you took up jobs outside. First you worked as a welder in a shop and then later on you worked in a cafe where you had to clean and sweep the floor after people have eaten there food, by doing this service you have shown extreme tolerance and humbleness in order to fulfil the desires of Śrīla Prabhupāda.

Prabhupāda initiated you as 11th sannyāsī in ISKCON and that time you were the youngest sannyāsī in the world history.

You strained yourself so much to reach out people, to make them devotees. Always you cared for devotees more than their own parents.

Your compassion flows through your eyes, your body and through the prasāda you distributed everywhere more prominently in Airports.

You took so much pain and took up austere situations and sacrificed a lot to preach in Bangladesh. What we see today in Bangladesh that many ISKCON temples and centers have been established is the result of your sacrifice Guru Mahārāja. Not only in Bangladesh in other parts of the world also you took so much pain to make devotees there through Bhakti-vṛkṣa programs and Nāmahaṭṭa.

During the Corona lockdown you visited the devotees house through Zoom meeting, which was first ever started by you and till now it is continuing.

In Māyāpur you took care of devotees by protecting everyone like a Big brother.

We understand that you are out of this world. You are eternal associate of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu as Prabhupāda has informed.

Gurudeva, though I am not at all qualified to present your qualities and past times as it is, still I tried to write something about your glories Gurudeva. Please forgive me for any mistakes and offences at your lotus feet.

Yours’ very insignificant unqualified Son,

Gaura Govinda Priya Dāsa