namah om visnu padaya krishna preshtaya bhutale
srimate jayapataka swamin iti namine
nama acharya padaya nitai kripa pradayine
gaura katha dama daya nagara grama tarine
namah om visnu padaya krishna preshtaya bhutale
srimate bhaktivedanta swamin iti namine
namaste saraswate deve gaura vani pracharine
nirvisesa sunyavadi paschatya desa tarine
Param Pujya Gurudeva,
Please accept my respectful obeisances (dandavat pranam).
All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to you on the auspicious occasion of your 70th Vyasa Puja.
Though I am not qualified to glorify you Guru Maharaja, with your blessings I will try my best to do so.
Yesterday I had the good fortune of getting brahminical initiation from you, and I am very grateful to you for this. During the day I had the opportunity to see a part of your busy schedule and how kindly and enthusiastically you gave time to all of us until late in the day. Beyond that you were also there for giving us a class even though it was much beyond the scheduled time.
You are ever inspiring and even your disciples are very inspiring. This year I had the occasion to meet and interview some of your disciples and hear from them about how you answered their prayers and helped them, in their preaching efforts and also in their personal life to enable them to be more dedicated in serving you and the Lord. I draw great inspiration from each of them and their realizations while serving you.
Taking inspiration from all of these I would like to be more serious in my own efforts to serve you and on this auspicious occasion, I would like to take it up as a challenge to engage myself more and more in this direction.
Your insignificant servant,
Lilamayi Rukmini Devi dasi