Dear Guru Mahārāja
All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda! All glories to your Divine Grace.
Guru Maharaja, We all know that you have passed through the most difficult health crisis last year, you never expressed anything which made us down morally, we are very well aware, that your connection to Kṛṣṇa is strongly bridged though great parampara which is giving you protection and kind shelter, our insignificant prayers will be just a kind of token, lordships would have considered but your requesting us to pray for you must be bewildering to Kṛṣṇa himself, as your asking us to pray is not for yourself but was meant for our own purification. To what limit you can extend to different souls to give Gaurāṅga, one can never understand from your reciprocation with devotees, every time you set some limits and teach us how and to what extend one should be compassionate to other jivas and next moment there is something more given by you !! this is simply inconceivable for any struggling devotee like me. We study scriptures and learn philosophy, your personality is a kind of practical laboratory which exhibit all the aspects of the science essential to understand our spiritual existence and duties attached to that.
It is extremely difficult to write about you, as anything coming out from our mind is not justifying your greatness, I tried to write something on your relationships with other spiritual masters and GBC members and their loving exchanges with you, i don’t have words !!, If I think to glorify you on your untiring efforts on devotee care activities, TOVP Construction progress, Navadvipa Mandal Parikrama site developments, Māyāpur Festivals, attending GBC meetings and many other sevas you are performing to fulfil the desire of His Divine Grace Śrīla Prabhupāda, I can’t justify by my limited writing skill.
Seeing you Guru Mahārāja, sometime I feel shame on myself to claim myself as your spiritual son, as on moral codes also son is supposed to share his father’s load, but I don’t see anything worth in me to justify this. However this kind of downgraded feeling has not discouraged me, but always look forward to render more and more devotional service. I very well know what you like and what you don’t. You like us to follow the instructions our senior god brothers, create a cooperative, loving and caring culture around us, Bhakti-vṛkṣa preaching, helping you in book distribution, extend the reach to give Gaurāṅga to more and more souls and many other sevas which is pleasing to His Divine Grace Śrīla Prabhupāda. One of my god brother has rightly said… His Holiness Jayapataka Swami Mahārājā means preaching !! so, being his son how can we sit silently… this spirit encourages me to do more and more. However telling this I don’t want to give you great picture from me, I with folded hands begging to you please shower your mercy, let me also do some good preaching which pleases you !, I have done and doing services which are still, I feel, being done on physical and to some extent to mental platform, let this goes to my heart to purify my consciousness and remain always in good serving mood. Guru Mahārāja! Apart from our regular BV programs, I have recently taken up active role in Festival committee and other facility management sevas. I assure you that I will always align myself with our Yātrā’s interest and help our leaders to keep everybody united, helping and caring to each other.
I request you to please bless all our God brothers and sisters here in Mathuradesh, BV members, my mother, my wife/your spiritual daughter Viṣṇupriya Devidasi and both the daughters –Bhakti and Caitanya Priya.
Your Humble Servant,
Saṅkarṣaṇa Caitanya dāsa (Diksa),
athura desa (Muscat)