Dear and respected Guru Mahārājā,
Please accept my respectful obeisances! All glories to you and Śrīla Prabhupāda!
As a family, we feel you are very much part of our household. So many discussions revolve around your glories, how wonderful you are and so on. Thank you so much for accepting me and my family members as your disciples and giving us Śrīla Prabhupāda.
First and foremost, we are very very very very happy for your health recovery. We all were so anxious. Wishing and praying for long life and great health for you. We sleep with one less a worry on our heart that you need not have to suffer so much as the last 10 years.
The Guru Prasanga magazine due to the efforts of its publishers and distributors reaches our home regularly and that gives me a glimpse into all your activities and vani. My sincere thanks to them. Grateful to your servants who visit our home and give me an opportunity to serve them.
Guru Mahārājā, I am not sure if I can write the below prayer but as a parent, I thought I could share what is so heavy on my heart since last 2 years. We are so grateful for everything we have got by the mercy of Śrīla Prabhupāda - Kṛṣṇa, 4 regulative principles, Holynames, deities, services, Bhāgavatam, glorious vaisnavas and vaisnavis for association, and so on. There is nothing else greater in life. But as we have to live through this life, there are certain things to get and done..and now...as a family we are going through a bit difficult time trying to find a wife for my elder son. We are sort of hitting a dead end….and facing the outside society has been a bitter experience which we never dreamt of facing.
Since we have been with ISKCON for the last 20 odd years and our lifestyles are vaishanvic, the people from outside are not so much willing to come forward. And sadly, within the community of devotees who are from the Tamil culture, hardly we come across suitable girls matching his psychophysical nature. It has been very stressful Guru mahārāja testing our faith so much. The kind of people whom we want are outside but they find my son’s spirituality and lifestyle as a red flag and reject us, and he is not willing to accept anyone within devotee community just for the sake of it. And I have a younger son as well who needs to be married after my elder one. I have been criticized by so many relatives and anyone and everyone..….that it is due to me encouraging my sons early on in bhakti that they are like this now…I don’t know whom to turn to except my Lord Shyamsundara and Lord Jagannātha…..I am also getting older by the day and this whole process has been very tiring.
Guru Mahārājā, please bless us our family so that we could practice the most highest process of Kṛṣṇa consciousness without all these needless social/varnasrama things affecting the mind, and bless my sons with happy Kṛṣṇa conscious family life with good, healthy wives and children.
uru Mahārājā, one more desire… I want to see you again here in Coimbatore and render some kind of service to you and interact with you. Somehow I have not been blessed so far in my life to have had that kind of opportunity to interact with you. Please bless me with such a blessing as well.
Praying for your long life and good health. Śrīla Prabhupāda is so so so glorious. May you spread his glories far and wide.
Hare Kṛṣṇa Guru Mahārājā!
Your servants,
Rādheśvarī Bhakti devī dāsī