Hare Krishna Guru Maharaj,
Please accept our humble obeisance’s at your lotus feet
All glories to Srila Prabhupada
All glories to Sri Guru and Gauranga
We, your insignificant children Nagapavana Krishna Dasa and Mitravinda Radhika devi Dasi decided to write this offering together as Grihastha.
Guru Maharaj, we owe you so much on all that you have given us. A word of thanks would be most simple for all that you have done more than a father could do to us.
Oh Dear Father, how could we ever glorify you-being so insignificant in the ocean of mercy you have shown to us?.We just wish to pen our insignificance through this offering , please forgive us for any offences.
From Nagapavana Krishna Dasa your servant, this is the first ever offering I am making for all these years of being your insignificant son. You glanced me through your sons and daughters in the small town of Parasalla, Kannyakumari district,Tamil Nadu. It was there I started to follow you. You took me to Balramdesh and gave me a wonderful mentor and a lot of services who taught a lot about Spiritual life. I felt myself most happiest man in the world when I assisted you to lift yourself during your visit to Balramdesh during 2009-2010. I was not even Initiated that time, still I had a chance to touch your transcendental body which gave me a new perspective of my spiritual life, I was longing to do some personal service for you since 2009. During my stay in Balramdesh for 4 years, I never saw rain, but just the day before your arrival, it happens just the Bhoomi Mata cleaned herself to prepare for your arrival, It rained heavily. I kept telling this to everyone, On that moment I just know You alone could make all the wonders on my way back to The Lord – Krishna, Soon after that I was put up in my hometown where I took some weekly services in Nagercoil – Suseendharam, Soon It happened that you pushed me for good to Thuraiyur, Perambalur etc where I served as a full time devotee for 4 years. I was still in touch with my mentor from Balramdesh who along with my temple president advised me to take up initiation procedures. It was on an auspicious day (May 12, 2013 in Narasimha GIridhari Mandir, Bangalore) Your Holiness accepted this insignificant soul as your disciple, after 3 years on September 27, 2016, You gave me Brahmanical threadin Mayapur dear Guru Maharaj. A Situation in which I never dreamt of hailing from a small village.
Finally, It was just your grace, which brought me to Mayapur as a Bramachari in mid 2017. One of our god brothers showed me the way of serving you by serving in a place which is very close to you – Temple of Vedic Planetarium, I joined the construction team here in Mayapur and your thoughts keeps me going till this moment. Once again I felt my happiest days returning when I was permitted to do some cleaning services in your room, every day the Guru Puja was held and I felt more happy when I used to offer you flowers onto your lotus feet. It was then I realized that I should not offer you roses as flowers from my God brothers. I was so stupid to that out of my ignorance, but still you didn’t even sigh on seeing me offering roses to you. To my understanding, I like to be very simple in my thoughts and always took a back stage and do not like to expose myself. To a person like me doing a service in a different land that is never dreamt of, is something big, It all happened because of you. I have crossed 2 years living here and still I feel that this is my first day of being in Mayapur due to your presence.
When I decided to enter Grhastha Ashrama by the grace of the lord, I got to marry your daughter Mitravinda Radhika Devi Dasi. Now both of us are longing to serve you in Mayapur Dham . We tried to seek your blessings after our marriage but unfortunately due to you physical situation we were not permitted then. I do not know how we are here in your place, but we feel blessed. We attended Vyasapuja last year in Mayapur, It was our first ever after settling down in Mayapur. It was so grand, even though we missed you a little bit, we felt your omnipresence here. GuruMaharaj all of us in Mayapur did kirtans, yajnas and japa marathons etc for your physical health , but it is then we realized that it is an indirect instruction from you for our own spiritual upliftment. We understood your mercy overflowing there.
Presently we have completed one year of our married life. Our lives have greatly enlivened. When I was permitted to serve the Panchatattva for the night service, I felt your presence right there instructing my betterment for a higher purpose. When TOVP was requested to renovate your room, I was given the service of supervising it. To be very honest Guru Maharaj, it was then I realized that any kind of service in your living place is as equal as serving you directly. I felt so much blissful and happy. I felt eternal happiness and it gave me enthusiasm and strength to perform well I felt it is my father’s room which is getting renovated and I should be super careful to present him with the best of the things available in this material world, although your are transcendental. I hope I have done some justice to it Guru Maharaj.
My wife Mitravinda also wishes to serve you, It was my sister in law (Your daughter – HG Alankrta Sudevi Devi Dasi) who informed her that you need someone to assist in accounting. She is eagerly waiting for it and I keep encouraging her. She is still longing to serve you prasadam Guru Maharaj, but somehow one of the god brothers gave us a chance to feed your immediate servants and we felt blessed again.
She is presently serving In the TOVP Seva Office(fundraising office), she feels blessed to be there which she never imagined off. To speak about you, to speak about Srila Prabhupada and to see that his dream come true through your direction is out of the world. She says “ I could really feel how our uncle’s (Your god brothers) and our father are keeping their father’s instruction intact and serving day and night to have our grandfather-Srila Prabhupada’s dream fulfilled, She further adds while getting initiated, she has thought how she could serve Srila Prabhupada directlyand what it means to be, Now being in this project, she feels happy serving both - you and Srila Prabhupada, she says me every time “This is what is known as taking care of the family business, to grow what the forefathers have developed rather to change what they have done previously in the name of modernization”.
Guru Maharaj, Please bless us to serve you more, please bless us to have a good spiritual, mental and physical health. Please bless us to have Krishna Conscious children and Krishna Conscious household. Please bless us to serve more and more Vaishnavas and Sannyasis.
It would be our humble request that we would feel happy if we could receive all these above blessings from you in person. We are awaiting to know your convenient time to meet you Guru Maharaj.
Always waiting to serve your lotus feet with my wife,
Your poorest insignificant servants
Nāgapāvana Kṛṣṇa dāsa and Mitravindā Rādhikā devī dāsī