Dear Guru Mahārāja,
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
Please accept my respectful obeisances at your lotus feet! All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda! All glories to Guru and Gaurāṅga! All glories to Your Divine Grace!
Another eventful year has passed, with your challenging health conditions and Lord Kṛṣṇa has willed that Your Divine Grace is here physically present with us to the great relief and happiness and jubilation of all your disciples and other devotees as well.. Materially at your age it is difficult to fathom going through two organ transplants despite so many health challenges! It is truly Lord Gaurāṅga's plan that you remain here to complete all the projects that Śrīla Prabhupāda wanted your Divine Grace to do. Guru Mahārāj's dire conditions caused us all to pray so hard to the Lord that if He so wills to allow your Divine Grace to be here longer with us. All the devotees prayers has been answered! Guru mahārāja as a spiritual master you were engaging all in vandanam in your fragile condition and caused us to have more faith in the Lord through the process of prayers!. What is so remarkable is that in any condition you are somehow engaging us in the Lord's service what to speak of those who are not even your disciples or not even devotees yet! Your love transcends all and cuts through many barriers.Even while in the hospital, you would be preaching to the doctors, nurses and others. These are your glories and a quality of a great vaisnava who only thinks of others and wants to lift all the conditioned souls who are suffering in this material world. I am trying to glorify Your Divine Grace...but I am so unqualified to do that and I am just only touching the surface of your glories and really not able to enter the depths of your glories!
In the mood of Lord Gaurāṅga, you used social media to avail yourself to devotees and preach through Facebook, Twitter I personally look forward to your daily classes on Facebook and your transcendental presence is felt all over the world. When I used to listen to the classes it felt like Guru mahārāja was right next to us and we were getting sadhusanga online! On my part I am trying hard to serve Your Divine Grace and especially this year I feel I am slipping down. I am totally dependant on your mercy to try to be a devotee! My short report of activities I did last year:
1. Revive book distribution in Iskcon Botanical Gardens, Penang. I try to get the congregation to sponsor 5 small books each and then they distribute those books.10-15 Bhagavad gitas sponsored, All this is betwen the months of May-June, 2018.
2. Facilitate Bhadra Purnima campaign in September, 2018, in ISKCON Botanical Gardens, Penang. Total of 6 Śrīmad Bhāgavatam sets sponsored. Out of this 6 sets, 2 were donated to 2 universities in Penang and another was donated to the Penang state public library.
3. Conduct a house program once in 2 weeks.
Guru Mahārāja, please forgive me the countless offenses that I commit at your lotus feet. I am always praying to Lord Nrsinghadev to protest Your Divine Grace.
Your spiritual daughter,
Kṛpātitā devī dāsī, Penang, Malaysia.