Dearest Guru Maharaj
Please accept my most humble obeisances!
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
All glories to your Divine Grace!
On your 70th Vyas puja, I wish you good health and a long life. Your mere presence in this material world is to deliver fallen conditioned souls like me. I need your mercy, blessings, and presence to improve myself in pursuit of pure devotional service.
Writing a Vyas puja offering to glorify the spiritual master is the duty of a disciple. But glorifying a spiritual master who is so glorious is a difficult task and I am unqualified for it. Therefore, before I start my offering, I pray at your lotus feet to give me intelligence to do my service.
This year is a year of celebration for all your disciples. I thank Sri Radha Madhava Ashtasakhi, Panchatattva and Narsimha deva for giving you back to us. Your physical wellbeing is most important for all of us, as just by seeing you and being in your association even for a little while makes a big difference in my life. It surcharges me with great spiritual energy.
This year, I have been fortunate to see you everyday and hear nectar from you every single day. I look forward to your classes, because the nectar of the glories of Lord Chaitanya is so much sweeter when it comes from your lotus mouth.
Gurumaharaj, you embody the qualities of great Vaishnavas like Ambarish Maharaja and Prahalad Maharaja, who are completely Krsna conscious at every moment of their lives. You live your life only to distribute the greatest treasure of love of godhead to everyone without assessing the quality of recipient. Just like Vasudeva Dutta, you are willing to accept the sufferings of all the living entities and free them from their Karma so they can absorb love of Godhead. You come up with new plans to give Krsna consciousness to all. We can see how you are following the instruction of Lord Chaitanya of “yare dekh tare kah Krsna upadesh.”
A true vaishnava can see the suffering of living entity and is always ready to save them from greatest danger, I can see same mood in you, you try to engage every living entity who comes in your contact in the service of the Lord even though it comes to the cost of your own health.
You teach us by example to not only serve Krsna but also to serve the devotees of Krsna.
I observe how nicely you serve all your god brothers and god sisters. I think for me it will take 100 lifetimes to just understand your mood of selfless service, compassion, and tolerance.
I try to hear your classes and also try to practice everything I learn from you every day. But it is still hard to overcome all my anarthas. I don’t know how many lifetimes I will take to uplift my consciousness to a stage where I will not be affected by material things and will be ready to serve the Lord and His devotees unconditionally. My only hope is your blessings, please bless me that I should be able to follow everything what I hear from you. I really don’t know how my life would have been if you were not there.
This year was not a very good year for me in terms of making new BV members but I am trying to inspire those who are with me to take shelter of your lotus feet. We celebrated major festivals where we tried to invite new devotees. I also made a visit to Manipal to have session with students, which was really nice. As promised to you I will make more trips there whenever needed.
Many time in your classes you have told that if we want to please you we need to cooperate and serve the mission of Shrila Prabhupada. I am trying hard to do so. My only aspiration in life is to serve you and imbibe each and every quality you have, and follow your teachings completely. I am sure by your blessings and mercy I will be able to do so some day and my Krsna consciousness will improve and I would be able to please Shrila Prabhuapada.
Your instructions are always very simple but my Anarthas are so big that even simple things takes lots of time to understand and practice. I beg your mercy that you give me intelligence to understand your mood and follow your instructions sincerely. I pray at your lotus feet to bless me and my family to be always under your lotus feet.
Your insignificant daughter
Seva Padmā devī dāsī (Diksha)