oṁ ajñāna-timirāndhasya jñānāñjana-śalākayā
cakṣur unmīlitaṁ yena tasmai śrī-gurave namaḥ
My Dearest Śrīla Gurudeva,
Please accept my humble obeisance’s in the dust of your lotus feet. All glories to His Divine Grace AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Śrīla Prabhupāda! All glories to Śrī Gaurāṅga and your lotus feet. In your presence or by your association I can taste the sweetness of Bhakti which you got from Jagat Guru Śrīla Prabhuada
Over 10 years ago, the very first books of Śrīla Prabhupāda I read were the Science of self realization and Kṛṣṇa the supreme personality of god head. Through His Devine Grace elaborate purports convinced me to join ISKCON. You are ŚRĪ VYĀSA-PŪJĀ 2019 indeed the ideal preacher of Mahāprabhu’s message, also established in the transcendental position. By your action, behavior, and sound we know well that it is your foremost desire that spreading the holy name to be preached in every nook and corner of the world. I am not so well-qualified, but I have experienced that simply by following your foot prints and Śrīla Prabhupāda’s purports, people become convinced to take up the process of Krṣṇa consciousness.
Whenever I am in trouble Your Holiness saved me by direct instructions or in dream, I remembered last year I met you in Chennai before your surgery told me to chant more and more. It is keeping me sustaining in Kṛṣṇa Consciousness I realized that how much focused you are to spread the glories of the Śrīmad Bhagavad-gita and Mahāprabhu’s message to this world, the way you trained by Prabhupāda and same way guiding whole world to take up this message is the life and soul, in recent your health crisis whole world was witnessed the miracle, how you’re recovered that shows us Your dedication and faith on your spiritual master? one lecture you mentioned the importance of devotees association…. “Don’t give up the company of devotees. Then it will be lost. Even there is inconvenience, don’t give up the company of the devotees. Even I am not devotee, with the company of the devotees, working with devotees, I become devotee. Association got such power. Please forgive me I am not able to serve you fully because of uncontrolled emotions and mind. Please bless me that I can serve all the devotees and this movement to till my last breathes without any deviation.
Your unworthy son,
Śrīvatsa Śyāmasundara Dāsa,
Sri Māyāpur, India