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Vyāsa-pūjā 2018

Bandhu Baladeva Dāsa (Dāmodara Deśa - Middle East)

Dearest Śrīla Guru-Mahārāja,

We offer our most respectful and humble Daṇḍavat praṇāmas at the dust of your lotus feet. All glories to Jagad-Guru, Śrīla Prabhupāda and all glories to your loving divine grace.

We wish you a very happy vyāsa-pūjā and pray to Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī for many happy returns of this auspicious day. Guru-Mahārāja, the last year has been full of realizations and new spiritual experiences by your blessings. Keeping you at the center of my life, each day I can feel how your causeless mercy flows unconditionally in the upkeep of my devotional service. Although it’s been 5 years since Lord Kṛṣṇa mercifully sent you as my master and savior, that first darśana of yours is still fresh in my mind.

Guru-Mahārāja, you have made all arrangements not only for your disciples but for humanity at large through your many innovative ways of getting your association through your lectures, live internet broadcasts, activity reports, social media posts etc. In every activity of yours, you never fail to strengthen our commitment and conviction to Śrīla Prabhupāda and his movement. In a very exemplary way, you teach us the mood of becoming an eternal śiṣya by displaying your unconditional pure love for Śrīla Prabhupāda. Please Guru-Mahārāja, instill in our hearts a drop of that mood of servitor-ship that you have for Śrīla Prabhupāda.

Guru Mahārāja, the way you are serving the movement of Śrīla Prabhupāda, notwithstanding your physical condition, is a perfect example of “guru-mukha-padma-vākya, cittete kariyā aikya”. In one of your lectures you told “Don’t try to see God but act in a way that God will see you”. I will only be able to achieve this by rendering service to you with all my heart. Please Guru Mahārāja, instruct, chastise and guide me to become a better servant. Just as Lord Kṛṣṇa’s glories are unlimited, so are your divine glories. For a dull minded person like me, it would take many lifetimes to properly glorify you.

My beloved Guru Mahārāja, I pray to continue to receive your mercy and hope that someday, we will be in your personal association to celebrate this auspicious day and directly get the nectar of your association

Your insignificant children,

Bandhu Baladeva Dāsa

Ratnāṅgī Revatī Devī Dāsī