Hare Kṛṣṇa Dear Śrīla Guru Mahārāja,
All glories to Śrī Śrī Rādhā Mādhava,Śrīla Prabhupāda and all glories to you Guru Mahārāja.
Please accept my humble dhandavat praṇāms at your lotus feet. Wish you a very happy and healthy 70th Vyasa puja and more to come my dear father.
As my good fortune, I became your daughter Shyamala Gopika Devī Dāsī by the mercy of you and Kṛṣṇa Balaram in ISKCON, Tirunelveli and currently serving Śrī Śrī Rādhā Saradbihari in ISKCON, Philadephia. Even though, I am not at all qualified to become your servant, but only by your causeless mercy I am trying to serve you by spreading the message of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu as squirrel helped Lord ram.
I still remember when I first saw you during Coimbatore rathyatra on 2003 with big cymbals in your hand doing ecstatic kirtan. My sincere prayers to Lord narasiṁha dev to give you good health, so that again you do amazing kirtan with that big cymbals by travelling all around the world and deliver all the fallen souls. As Śrīla Bhaktivinod thakur words "The Vaishnavas die to live and living try to spread the holy name around". Inspite of all your health problems, you have mercifully tolerated and decided to stay with us to give the gaurāṅga mahāprabhu mercy and we are so grateful to you for being with us to help the conditioned souls like me. You always reminded us that we are not this body and spirit souls and how dedicate a disciple should be in serving spiritual master by your example.
I didn’t marry a devotee, but with your drop of mercy, now my prabhu also started chanting and following four regulative principles and my son Lokesh Kanna aged 8yrs old doing 5 rounds and serving in ISKCON, Philadelphia It’s all definitely by your mercy Guru Mahārāja. I am saying all these to please you and offer all these glories humbly at your lotus feet. Whatever the seva I involved now and whatever austerity I am doing, even if I offer all the results at your lotus feet, it will not be equal to your mercy Guru Mahārāja. I feel so fortunate that, I got Subhadra mathaji association in Philadelphia and Kalasudha mathaji association and many dear disciples of you and they are all inspiring to serve you seriously.
But I feel unfortunate that I didn’t even get one chance for serving you personally. On your auspicious occasion of your appearance day, I beg you to kindly bless me so that before I leave my body, I want to serve you personally even though I am not qualified for that. I consider that as the success of my life because, I strongly have faith by pleasing you Guru Mahārāja, I can go back home, godhead. Not by my qualities, I can achieve. Please forgive me and my family for sins and offenses that we did in our ignorance. Please bless me and my family so that we can become more serious in Kṛṣṇa consciousness without doing any offenses and serve Śrī Caitanya mahāprabhu mission under your guidance Guru Mahārāja. It’s all my heart felt prayers to you.
Your insignificant humble servants,
Shyamala Gopika Devī Dāsī, Suresh Kumar Dhinakaran, Lokesh Kanna
Philadelphia, United States of America