Respected Guru Mahārāja,
Hare Kṛṣṇa. Please accept my most respectful obeisances unto Your Lotus Feet.
All glories to Your Divine Grace. All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda.
On this auspicious day of Your Vyasa Puja, I am sincerely praying to Lord Narasiṁhadeva for the quick and full recovery from Your illness and for the long duration of life so that many conditioned souls like me will get Your valuable association.
Guru Mahārāja, by your mercy, I am gradually understanding that all activities are happening in this material world due to the influence of Modes only. Only if we are raised to the Sudha Sattva (i.e., Sattva Guna unmixed with Rajas and Tamas), we will be able to handle all the situations in a very magnanimous way and also as per the Sastras. Rajasic person will always handle all the situations as per the dictations of his material intelligence and will create more confusions. Guru Mahārāja, You will always handle any tough situation in a very magnanimous, liberal and compassionate way and also as per the Sastric injunctions. In this way, you will easily solve any problem in a very smooth manner without giving any opportunity for argument and fight. That is why, Your Divine Grace is very much respected and loved by the entire Vaishnava community. This is the proof that Your Divine Grace is always situated in Suddha Sattva platform. Kali Yuga is the age of quarrel and hypocrisy. We, the Disciples of Yours, should learn this very important quality of magnanimity/liberal attitude from your personal example in order to have a comfortable atmosphere within ISKCON movement. Guru Mahārāja, please bless me with this divine quality of yours.
As long as the living entity is not freed from the influence of the 3 modes, engaging the devotees in devotional services according to their inclinations is always best. Then the devotees will be situated comfortably. Guru Mahārāja, You will always give top priority for your Disciples being situated comfortably and therefore You are very expert in engaging your Disciples in devotional services according to their talents or inclinations. This shows how much personal care you are giving for your Disciples. I am blessed to have such a glorious Spiritual Master.
While practicing devotional service, one may easily get carried away by a desire to attain a big position, or desire for earning wealth or desire for cheap reputation etc. We may be thinking that I am practicing Bhakti. But, Spirituality is completely different from all these desires and they are only material. That is why, Nectar of Devotion is saying that Pure Devotional Service is very rare to obtain. Guru Mahārāja, You are always teaching everyone from your own example for practicing pure devotion. I am deriving great inspiration from your personal conduct. Recently I realized that if our devotion is not ahaituki, then one will create lot of problems for one’s personal spiritual life and also for others. Guru Mahārāja, by your blessings only, I am getting these realizations (divya-jñāna hṛde prakāśito).
We are reading from Śrī Caitanya Caritamrita that one of the divine qualities of Śrī Kṛṣṇa is ksama silah i.e., forgiving. Kṛṣṇa is ready to forgive any type of offences committed by the living entity if the spirit soul is turned towards Kṛṣṇa for practicing pure devotion. Spirit Soul is trying to enjoy matter independent of Kṛṣṇa from time immemorial. If Kṛṣṇa is not ready to excuse this grave offense of living entities, then I don’t have any hope to go back to Goloka Vṛndāvana. But, Kṛṣṇa is not like that. He is always ready to forgive all living entities. This is one of the beautiful qualities, Kṛṣṇa is possessing. Spiritual Master is the confidential representative of Śrī Kṛṣṇa. Hence, the Spiritual Master has captured the same mood of Kṛṣṇa correctly and he is also ready to forgive any type of offences committed by the Disciple.
Guru Mahārāja, You are the perfect example for exhibiting the forgiveness quality. I have witnessed on several occasions. Taking advantage of this divine quality of Yours, I am sincerely hoping that Your Divine Grace will forgive me also from all my offenses committed so far.
It is mentioned in Kṛṣṇa book by Śrīla Prabhupāda that “One’s greatness has to be estimated by one’s ability to tolerate the provoking situations”. You are the personification of tolerance. When you came to Coimbatore for ayurveda treatment, you had “Lich therapy” to suck out all the poisonous blood. After the end of treatment in a particular day, Doctors told to keep your legs up, to stop the bleeding from the leg. You had returned from the hospital by around 8.45 P.M. in the night. But you waited for 1 ½ hours and you came out for giving Bhagavad Gita class to the devotees by around 10.15 P.M. in the night. I was amazed to see your eagerness to preach the message of Lord Caitanya.
From this incident I understand that Your Divine Grace is teaching all the disciples by your own behavior that we are not this body and we are spirit souls. I can very clearly understand from your activities that you are mercifully giving opportunity to your disciples to do some Vapu seva. But, you are not affected by your physical disorders and you are still constantly travelling and preaching the holy name. You are proving to all of us by your own example that pure devotional service is “ahaituky and apratihata”. I can clearly see that māyā has failed in her attempts to stop your preaching. You are highly focused only in fulfilling the mission of Śrīla Prabhupāda (vyavasāyātmikā buddhiḥ).
Guru Mahārāja, please bless this conditioned soul with Your causeless mercy so that I can be eternally engaged in devotional services under Your perfect supervision.
Your insignificant disciple,
Śrīnivāsa Hari dāsa, Dīkṣā Disciple
ISKCON, Śrī Jagannātha Mandir, Coimbatore