My Dear Guru Mahārājā,
Please accept my humble obeisances.
nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale śrīmate jayapatākā-svāmin iti nāmine
namo ācāryapādāya nitāi-kṛpa-pradāyine gaura-kathā dhāma dāya nagara-grāma tāriṇe
nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale śrīmate bhaktivedānta-svāmin iti nāmine
namas te sārasvate deve gaura-vāṇī-pracāriṇe nirviśeṣa-śūnyavādi-pāścātya-deśa-tāriṇe
mukam karoti vachalam pangum langhayate girim
yat-kripa tam aham vande śrī-gurum dina-taranam
Śrī Kṛṣṇa and His Devotees are so wonderful, so reciprocal, so merciful, so loving….I am overwhelmed…I fail to comprehend….I fail to appreciate….I am unable to express, but Guru Mahārāja today is the most auspicious Day of your Vyāsa-pūjā. Due to your causeless and uninterrupted mercy I have been given shelter under your most auspicious Lotus Feet though I am not qualified and so I make this feeble attempt to glorify you. I do so because I have full faith that as my Loving Spiritual Father you will overlook at all the shortcomings of my effort and make it whole.
Guru Mahārājā, your over a half century in service of Śrīla Prabhupāda’s mission is wonderful and inspirational. The most wonderful is your reciprocation with your disciples. Even when a disciples message/letter is being read out to you and the disciple greets you with “Hare Kṛṣṇa” you reciprocate by saying “Hare Kṛṣṇa” – as Ācārya you are demonstrating the that there is no difference between Vani and Vapuh and at the same time giving an opportunity to those present to hear the Holy Name from your Lotus mouth.
When we meet our senior Godbrothers and God-sisters and they narrate your pastimes and dealings with them, we are immersed in an ocean of bliss and are inspired by the lucid way in which you instruct and the observations of the Senior Devotees of your demonstration of different aspect of devotional service and dedication to ISKCONand mission of Śrīla Prabhupāda, the previous Ācāryas and Śrī Śrī Nitāi Gaur.
Guru Mahārājā, your clarion call of Gauuuuuuuuranaga, is like the Bhagavad Gita….Lord Kṛṣṇa spoke the Gita to inspire Arjuna to get up and fight and your call inspires us disciples to fight our own subservience to sense gratification. Today, His Grace Mādhava kanta Prabhu was narrating the incidence at Delhi when disciples were waiting to do Guru Puja but you returned late and was very tied, so when a Senior Godbrother came and requested you to be present for physically to accept Guru Puja of the assembled devotees you asked him to take your framed photo and offer Guru Puja to it, but the Godbrother was insisting for your presence in person and you were questioning him if he did not believe that you were present in your photo.
Guru Mahārājā, I am not capable nor knowledgeable to glorify you, so I offer my humble obeisances and pray that you may be merciful to me. I have no enthusiasm to serve and am struggling to diligently follow my initiation vows. I see around me the sincerity, dedication and enthusiasm of my Godbrother and how they are joyfully engaged in devotional service. I am inspired to continue to struggle and not give up. Your inspirational struggle with bodily disease and related physical inabilities seems like a demonstration to me to continue on the path of devotional service. I conclude by requesting you to kindly pray for me for I have heard there is great power in the prayers of devotees and that Kṛṣṇa does not refuse the prays of a pure devotee.
I pray to Kṛṣṇa that you may continue to serve Śrīla Prabhupāda and engage many more conditioned souls in devotional service.
Jaya Śrīla Prabhupāda!
Jaya Śrīla Gurudeva!
Sārathi Hṛṣīkeśa dāsa, (Dīkṣā)
JSSS Delhi, India