Hare Kṛṣṇa
Most respected and dearest Guru Mahārāja,
Please accept my most humble and respectful prostrate obeisances at your lotus feet,
All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda and to your illustrious services to please Śrīla Prabhupāda!
I am neither eligible nor worthy enough to address your divine grace and attempt to glorify and thank you on the auspicious occasion of your pious Vyaasa-Pūjā. But because of your motivation and inspiration to do so, I am striving to express my truest feelings at your lotus feet.
Looking back to my spiritual journey from the joining up to this point in time, I have distinctively noticed that whenever I had the chance to take your lotus feet dust on my head and whenever your divine grace, somehow or the other, blessed me with your lotus hands, and whenever I had the chance to acquire your mahaprasāda, I found a leaping difference in my consciousness as well as in my progress of spiritual life. Not only that, but I also found a remarkable growth in the results of whatever insignificant preaching efforts that I made. The difference is so evident that there remains no doubt in the genuine spiritual potency your divine grace has to uplift the downtrodden and the fallen conditioned souls like my fallen self. The magnanimity with which you accept the jeevas under your merciful shelter, reminds me over and over again of the mood of Lord Shri Nityānanda Prabhu and hence, I sometimes wonder if you are yourself the munificent Lord or are you the Shaktyavesha of Lord Nityānanda? And the success of the Nama-hatta and the Bhakti-vriksha preaching programs compel me to believe so, as otherwise, no one other than Lord Nityānanda or His own potency, could have done what has been done. I am sure, I am not the only one to observe and witness this prowess and the splendor of your preaching programs all over the globe.
By your unfathomable mercy, we are now permanently residing in Shridham Vrindavan, trying to improve our Sādhana Bhakti. Our regular Bhakti-vriksha program is still going on in Ahmedabad and is growing by your causeless mercy. I am conducting online interactive classes every week and am closely monitoring their progress too. Kindly shower your choicest blessing upon all of us, so that we can all progress in rendering proper devotional services to your divine grace, Śrīla Prabhupāda and unto all the devotees of Their Lordships Shri Shri RadhaKṛṣṇa and Shri Gaurāṅga Mahaprabhu.
Holding a blade of grace between my teeth and falling flat at your pious feet, again and again, to thank you eternally for delivering a worthless wastage like me. Please very kindly do instruct me, chastise me or punish me directly, wherever and whenever the need be.
Your most insignificant imprudent servant,
Dāmodara Dhanañjaya Dāsa
Vṛndāvana / Ahmedabad Yātrā