Dear Srila Guru (Diksa+Siksa) Maharaja,
Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to Sri Guru and Sri Gauranga.
I feel very delighted to write few words glorifying your holiness on this auspicious day of your appearance.
When I initially read the term servant leader in the Congregation Development Ministry (CDM) magazine I was a little surprised, because it seemed a little contradictory and confusing. How can a servant be a leader, because a servant is supposed to serve and make others happy? And if one is a leader he should enjoy, rule over his subjects and cherish his kingdom.
However, over the years as I get more opportunity to have your personal association, listen to your spiritual discourse (live/recorded), read your books and share your glories in the association of god-brothers I have realized you are an epitope of a "servant leader". You have taken the position of leadership simply to serve/deliver the innumerable confused, fallen and egoistic souls of kali-yuga. As a bonafide and dear associate of Lord Caitanya and Lord Nityananda you are distributing their mercy freely to us - unworthy and offensive disciples and personally suffering our sins and anarthas/offences. By your example, I have realized a genuine leader takes up the responsibility to lead the general people not for his own aggrandizement or enjoyment but rather to guide/deliver the fallen souls by helping them go back to Godhead and attain Krsna prema.
Please bless me so I can take some of your burden of love and mitigate your sufferings and assist you in your service to Lord Gauranga and Srila Prabhupada.
Trying to serve,
Antaraṅga Gopāla dāsa and Sumadhurī Līlā devī dāsī.
(On behalf of ISKCON Student Center, Ramkamheng (ABAC),
Bangkok, Thailand.)