My Dear eternal Spiritual Master and Father,
Hare Kṛṣṇa! Please accept my humble and respectful obeisances unto your lotus feet! All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda! All glories to you!
Guru Mahārāja ! I feel very happy to write this offering to you as my life has gone through a major change in this past year, all glories to you. It is also a great privilege and honor to be able to write this to one of the most elevated souls present in this planet. And I feel very fortunate to even think that such an elevated person is my spiritual master. To such a person, I offer my prostrated obeisances a million times, again and again.
After due discussions with my śīkṣā guru, His Grace Shrivallabh prabhu and with a lot of assurance from His Grace Harilila prabhu, me and my wife Sachi Janani Devī Dāsī, took a major decision to shift to Māyāpur. We were previously leading Gaurāṅga Deśa Yatra in Dubai for about 14 years. I went through many jobs in Dubai but I was not happy. My commitments got over by June 2017 when my daughter was married to another devotee aspiring from His Holiness Radhanatha Swami Mahārāja. After that I was actually toiling in Dubai for nothing. However, thanks to the above guiding devotees, this decision is one of the best in my live. So, we shifted to India in the middle of June, 2018. We first moved into Chennai, our native place, as His Grace Mahavaraha Prabhu wanted help and you were in and out of the hospital undergoing treatment. We are fortunate we were able to help His Grace Mahavaraha Prabhu and his team during your liver and kidney transplants in August and we were there in Chennai until end November helping them with your routine health report message to the entire world and with whatever little more was possible.
Over in Māyāpur by end of November, 2018, we got quite busy till the 2nd week of Jan as we tried to set up our house in Gupta Vṛndāvan and also visited Gaurāṅga Deśa for a month to help the current leaders with a few things. The house set up was not complete even by first week of Feb as we went to Chennai for the Devotee Database & E-Care meeting held in your presence along with His Grace Sabda Hari Prabhu and His Grace Vrajeswar Prabhu together with a few others too. During that time, I was deeply touched when one day you called us and spent half an hour with us caring about our shift to Māyāpur. You meticulously went through every angle of our would-be lives in Māyāpur instructing us about various things after duly discussing about them.
Just before we flew to Chennai early Feb ’18, we were told by Acintya Caitanya Prabhu that your office manager in Māyāpur was leaving. Acintya Prabhu wanted both of us to fill in that role, however we wanted to discuss with you before we decided anything. Unfortunately, we have not been able to meet you and take your blessings. However, we are very fortunate that a very important role has been assigned to both of us. As co-managers of your office, we assure you that we will do our very best in seeing that your best interests are kept intact and taken care of. However, we would like to ask for forgiveness if there are any lapses initially as we are new to Māyāpur and do not know the local language. Thus, we might take a while to really settle down. However, having said that, we are really happy to serve you and the devotees in Māyāpur.
I had a dream one early morning that you were dancing in front of the Māyāpur deities. There is a saying in South India that one’s dreams, early in the morning, will definitely come true. So, I strongly believe that you will dance in front of the deities one day.
We are very, very happy to see you recovering and we pray to Śrī Śrī Rādhā Mādhava, Śrī Nrsingadev, and Śrī Pancatattva to give you a long and healthy life. Kindly also forgive me for all the mistakes and offences committed at your lotus feet, knowingly and unknowingly, as a kind father would to his immature child.
Your eternal servant and fallen son,
Ramananda Gaura Dasa,
Sri Māyāpur Dhama, India