Dear Guru Mahārāja
Please accept my humble obeisances at the dust of your lotus feet.
All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda.
All glories to you Gurudeva.
This 70th Vyasa Puja is a defining one, as you have come through the clutches of death so many other odds in your personal health and it's such a blessing to have you back Gurudeva.
On this most auspicious day, I offer myself completely unto you and recommit myself to serving you with utmost dedication and love, for all that you have been through.
You have truly shown us what it means to love and serve Śrīla Prabhupāda.
You have shown us how much you love us, that you have decided to stay for a longer time on this planet to carry forward the Victory Flag, leading us from the front as the commander in chief.
I would like to personally thank you Gurudeva for accepting my small services in streamlining areas of e-Governance, Jayapataka Swami Archives and other digital systems for better efficiency and productivity as an organisation. It's only by your blessings and mercy that I was able to launch "The Digital Preacher" course for all the devotees of ISKCON, to use social media to exponentially grow the movement far and wide.
I would like to recommit myself to take this forward along with the guidance of all the senior leaders to help ISKCON become really powerful in the digital space in all aspects, marketing, systems, communication, efficiency and speed.
The love you have for Śrīla Prabhupāda is so strong that you are literally unstoppable in everything you do.
On this day I would like to profusely beg for your mercy and forgiveness for anything which I might have done knowingly or unknowingly.
I beg for getting the taste in chanting the Holy Names.
I beg for the association of the Vaishnavas.
I beg to always remain under your shelter and service.
I remember one time during the Māyāpur Parikrama when you were in your camp. I was serving in cleaning the room, and in one of the discussions which you were having with your servants, you strongly mentioned that "you wanted a clean heart". That moment struck me deep within and I always pray that I have a clean heart and clean intentions always, to serve you and Śrīla Prabhupāda, to fulfil the highest purpose of spreading the Holy Names far and wide, into every town and village.
I pray that we were able to serve you more and more as a family.
I pray that my two sons Rishabh and Dhruva are also able to carry forward to the mission as they grow up. It's only by your blessings that these two boys have come into our life. We would like to be a good example to demonstrate what an ideal grihastha life should be, for the next generation.
On this most auspicious day of your 70th Vyasa Puja, I pray to Lord Narsimhadeva to always protect you and bestow you with more and more energy and vitality to be able to drive forward the numerous initiatives which you are guiding and overseeing, for the pleasure of Śrīla Prabhupāda.
Once again, our deepest love and gratitude to you for blessing our family with the true gift of Kṛṣṇa Consciousness over the years.
We are ever indebted to you, for showing your causeless mercy upon us.
Your eternal spiritual son & daughter,
Sabda Hari dāsa & Bhaktin Vanita
Your eternal spiritual grandchildren,
Rishabh and Dhruva
Chennai, India