Dearest Gurudev,
Please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada! All Glories to You!
I always find it difficult to write to you because I don't have enough words to express my gratitude to you. Daily I remind myself of what I am grateful for. Only by your mercy and guidedance, my family and I are able to render service in your mission towards serving Srila Prabhupada:
- Conduct Bhakti Vriksha for past 8 years
- Out of 1 Bhakti Vriksha, 6 initiated devotes now and expanded to 3 Bhakti Vriksha
- Training new Bhakti Vriksha leaders in different locations
- Serve Sri Sri Radha Giridhari at home and at the Cultural Center
- Make new dresses for the Deities on festivals
- Decorate temple and altar on festivals
- Cook and serve the devotees
- Regular pujari seva
- Conduct and coordinate seminars and courses at the center
- Give Sunday Feast Vedic discourses
- Do book distribution online
- Mentor new devotees in the center
- Raise Krishna Conscious family
I am eternally grateful to you for blessing me when I was going through cancer treatments. I still cherish that email of hope and inspiration that you sent to me. With your blessings, I have been free from cancer since several years. One commitment that I made to your picture on my altar is that for everyday that I survive cancer, I will dedicate it in serving your mission.
The strong medications that I am still taking cause side effects like anxiety, mood swings, memory loss, insomnia and more side effects. Each time I feel I am in a miserable position, I get inspiration from all that you are doing despite your health. Instead of complaining on how I can't remember what I read earlier, I just admire how you are narating all the pastime of Lord Caitanya daily on Facebook. You have defied every mental, physical or material challenges that common people like me will use as excuses to stop our service. Your enthusiasm, determination and perseverance in serving Srila Prabhupada's mission is unique and inspiring.
I pray that I get just a tinge of that strength to help you in your mission. I seek you blessing for every single day and minute left for me in this life.
Your menial servant,
Prema Gaurangi Devi Dasi
and Family (Aindra Dasa and Bhakta Dhruv)
