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Vyāsa-pūjā 2018

Gaurāṅga Prasada Dasa (Bangalore - South - India)

Dear Guru Mahārāja,

 

Please accept our respectful obeisances. All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda. All glories unto you Śrīla Gurudeva.

 

nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale

śrīmate jayapatākā-svāmin iti nāmine

namo ācāryapādāya nitāi-kṛpa-pradāyine

gaura-kathā dhāmadhāya nagara-grāma tāriṇe

 

nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭāya bhū-tale

śrīmate bhaktivedānta-svāmin iti nāmine

namas te sārasvate deve gaura-vāṇī-pracārine

nirviśeṣa-śūnyavādi-pāścātya-deśa-tāriṇe

 

Gurudeva, having had the opportunity to hear about your glories from some of your sincere and dedicated disciples and hearing their realization about your glories, we could not even comprehend your greatness. You have been an epitome of mercy, for you have accepted us as your disciples. How fortunate are we that we have been blessed by having you as our spiritual father, in spite of us not even having an iota of qualities that the śāstra enjoins for a disciple to possess. As much as being emphasized by Rūpa Gosvāmī in Bhakti-Rasāmṛta-sindhu that 'one who observes discipline, he is called disciple', we definitely have a long way to go to even call ourselves your disciple. Added to that, we now have huge responsibility of bring up our daughter Khishori, who is now 1 year and 8 month old, in a nice Kṛṣṇa conscious environment.

 

On this auspicious occasion of your 69th vyāsa-pūjā, we seek your blessings, so that we may become useful in assisting you in your mission of serving Śrīla Prabhupāda, the promise that we made during initiation but were never able to do proper justice all these years.

 

Your useless spiritual children,

 

Gaurāṅga Prasada Dasa and Śrīguru Sevanandi Devī Dāsī (Dīkṣā), Bangalore, India