My dear most, merciful worshipable eternal Spiritual Master,
All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda and Guru Paramparā !
On this auspicious occasion of 70th Vyasapua Celebrations, it is with great pleasure we your eternal servants like to glorify your Holiness for the unconditional love and mercy, that you have shown us ever since we came in touch at your lotus feet. This has turned our lives from hellish condition to a blissful life. Opened the door of spiritual life for us.
From day first when you appeared in our lives, your Holiness have continuously guided and motivated us for the best way of life. As a stalwart acharya on this planet, who teach us by his own example, your Holiness is continuously reminding us of our eternal position as servant of Supreme Personality of Godhead. We also realise that you are our best example of living Bhāgavata to demonstrate the Vaishnava quality of tolerance and compassion. Though we have heard many lectures about this, but only from your life style, we understand that on how it is practically possible.
My Dear Gurudeva, even after undergoing so many difficult situations with respect to Your health, your Holiness are so merciful to dedicate all your time to look after all of us. We notice that everyday lectures, translations of literatures, ISKCON management meetings, personal time for devotees, travels are some of your everyday routine activities regardless of any circumstances. All these so-called situations are arrangements of the Lord to show the glory of his dear devotee to the entire world.
Just like Lord Nithyananda, you don’t discriminate to whom to give your mercy, you are merciful compassionate and kind with everybody. I firmly believe that I am also the recipient of your causeless mercy and consider myself so fortunate of being under your loving protection.
Another year has passed by, and I could write to you again the challenges, tests that have come my way as well as the wonderful moments that I have been blessed with. My parents have taken up KRSNA consciousness very nicely within the last one year and we are thankful to Your Holiness Gurudeva for giving them your causeless mercy. When they heard of your severe austerities for the benefit of the fallen souls like us, their faith increased rapidly and now they are endeavouring to take shelter at your lotus feet very soon Guru Maharaj. I have been active for seven months in a new preaching activity at the western suburbs of Melbourne as outreach program at a community centre on last Sunday of the month. Lot of realisations I received during this seva and it has been rough period of how it all started but the good news is that it is stabilising now, and we need your glorious blessings and guidance on how we can take this preaching seva further. I am also trying to help members of the JSSS Godfamily here and at times seems very difficult to understand the maturity level and nourish them accordingly. But, I am confident that my futile attempts will one day fruity to please you Srila Gurudeva. Very recently, with some changes in workplace environment has troubled my mindset by constantly thinking about it and I could reflect on myself on how I am getting angrier and more frustrated in life. This proved that there is long way to go for me in terms of accepting the instruction by Lord in Bhagavad gita in the verse – “mātrā-sparsās tu kaunteya”.
You are always present showering us with your mercy, but our fallen condition is that we hardly appreciative of it. We don’t even take advantage of the opportunities you provide us for our rapid advancement in KRSNA Consciousness. Yet you are very patient, blessing us with nice association, service to the mission and inspiration to keep moving in KRSNA Consciousness.
Māyā seems very powerful and we are constantly being beaten by the whips of Māyā. We beg and pray at Your lotus feet that our minds be fixed on executing Your instructions and not think of anything else. May our powers to think and strength to function and all other faculties be completely used in your divine service. We repeatedly beg and pray at your lotus feet to give us the required strength and determination to dedicate our self in fully in serving your Holiness, Srila Prabhupada and Their Lordships. Right now, we quite often in the lap of māyā, falling to her allurements every now and then, completely covered by lust and other vices, stumbling in the spiritual path. I really pray at your lotus feet Srila GuruMaharaj to please take me out of this unnatural condition and please place me fully in devotional service.
We take this opportunity to beg forgiveness from you lotus feet for our offenses, all the times when we have not been serious in spiritual life and stumbled back to illusion. Kindly forgive us for all the offences that we have committed, and we are committing everyday knowingly or unknowingly. Also please bless us that we serve Your Divine Grace and your servants with unflinching faith, love and devotion without committing offences.
We are eternally indebted to you for having accepted, the fallen souls like us as your disciple and taken such a big responsibility of purifying us.
Your insignificant servant’s,
Guru Gauranga Krsna das (Diksa) , Kirtimathi Padma devi dasi (Diksa) & Bhaktin Saadhya Vilashika
(Melbourne – Mahaprabhu Mandir – Australia)