Humble Vyasa Puja offering letter by Kesi Damana Krsna dasa
to Poojya Gurudeva – HH Jayapataka Swami Maharaja
Hare Krishna!
Nama Om Vishnu Paadaaya Krishna Presthaaya Bhutale
Srimathe Jayapataka Swami Iti Namine |
Namah Acharya Paadaaya Nitai Krupa Pradaayine
Gaura Katha Damadaaya Nagara Grama Tarine ||
Om Ajnaana Timirandhasya
Jnaanaajana Shalakaya
Chakshur UnimilithamYena
Tasmai Sri Guravennamah |
My dear Guru Maharaja,
Hare Krishna !
A million humble dandavat pranaamams to the dust your lotus feet. Please accept them, out of your own sheer causeless mercy. All glories to Sri Guru and Sri Gauranga. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to your Holiness. All glories to all the Vaishnavas.
Gurudeva, this is your insignificant servant, attempting to offer this homage letter and my deep gratitude to your Holiness on your auspicious 71st Vyasa puja. I humbly request you to accept it out of your sheer causeless mercy alone.
Your holy self, being a sincere disciple of Srila Prabhupada, have been serving his mission and ISKCON untiringly for many decades with tremendous enthusiasm and joy, without displaying even an iota of tiredness in your spiritual journey. That gives me more encouragement to serve you in my little insignificant way and earnestly trying to do so.
I feel very happy to know that you have achieved a major milestone of blessing 50,000 disciples at your lotus feet recently in Bangladesh yatra. My humble hearty congratulations to you Guru Maharaja! I feel very much blessed that I’m one among those 50,000 disciples whom you mercifully accepted and blessed with harinaam deeksha. I’m ever grateful to you and wish to serve you for eternity and beyond as your servant of servant of servants.
Gurudeva, knowing well about my helpless inabilities, I humbly and sincerely beg at your lotus feet to please, please, please bless me to serve you in the way it pleases you the most. Without your merciful glance upon this THE MOST FALLEN conditioned soul, I don't have any strength to perform any service to your lotus feet and to our dear Radharani and Krishna and all the Guru Paramapara. Just like a honeybee finds a cool shelter in the lotus flower, I feel safe to be under your lotus feet shelter, Guru maharaj!
Guru Maharaja, as it is said that Vaishnavas are generally very merciful always, and on their divine appearance day, they are even more merciful than ever, to the fallen souls – like myself. Keeping this truth in view, on this auspicious occasion of your Vyasa Puja, I humbly fall at your lotus feet and earnestly beg and beg and beg at your lotus feet, dear Gurudev, please forgive your this pathitha sevaka for all the offences committed -- knowingly and unknowingly -- toward your holy self and toward any other devotees and disciples.
Gurudeva, I heard in one lecture that the greatest gift that we can ever offer to anyone is to sincerely pray to Krishna for them. Although I do not at all have any qualification whatsoever, keeping this truth in mind, Gurudeva, on this auspicious occasion, from the very depths of my heart, I earnestly pray to our beloved Radha and Krishna, Srila Prabhupada and all the Guru Parampara to please give you Their merciful blessings in your mission to please Srila Prabhupad and Krishna. This is what your this poor, helpless, unworthy and unfit servant can do for you, dear Guru Maharaja. Out of your own sheer causeless mercy alone, please accept my this insignificant service as a small token of my love for you.
Please bless me that my love for you becomes really pure, unconditional, uninterrupted and limitless, and it keeps on ever-increasing, and my Guru-nishta and my commitment to your mission keeps on deepening, and I render -- most lovingly and most unconditionally -- pure, loving, unconditional, uninterrupted, limitless, unflinching and unmotivated devotional service to your holy self, all the Guru Parampara, all the Vaishnavas, and our beloved Radha and Krishna, in the way it pleases them the most -- eternally and even beyond. Your merciful blessings alone can take me in that direction – Guru Maharaja!
With my heartfelt deep gratitude and millions of humble obeisances at your lotus feet,
Aspiring to be the servant of the servant of the servant of your holy self,
Kesi Damana Krsna dasa.
Chennai.
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