Nama om visnu-padaya krsna-presthaya bhu-tale
Srimate jayapataka-svamin iti namine
Namo acharya padaya nitai kripa pradhayine
Gaura katha damodaya nagara grama tharine
Nama om visnu-padaya krsna-presthaya bhu-tale
Srimate bhaktivedanta-svamin iti namine
Namas te sarasvate deve gaura-vani-pracarine
Nirvisesa -sunyavadi-pascatya-desa-tarine
Om agnana timirandasya gnana anjana salakaya
Caksur unmilitam ena tasmayi sree gurave namah
Jay Srila Gurudev, My Spiritual father,
Please Accept My Respectful Obeisances
All Glories to Srila Prabhupada
All Glories to your Divine Grace
I am your servant Satyaraj Govinda das moved from Minneapolis, MN to Tallahassee, FL, USA in 2017 december with my family and very mercifully initiated by you in Minneapolis on Jun 12 2016.
We are under the resourceful guidance of HG Caitanya Avatari Das (NRJD, Bengaluru), HG Vaishnava Nitai Das(NRJD, Bengaluru) and personally mentored by HG Amani Gauracandra Das (Minneapolis) and HG Susevini Guru Gauranga Devi Dasi (Minneapolis) since 2014.
Although there is a very good oppurtunity to preach the teachings of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and spread the holy name in Tallahassee, but unfortunately due to some mistakes by local ISKCON preaching center management before year 2015, the Indian community here in Tallahassee lost the respect and hope for ISKCON. This is a big challenge for me in my preaching endeavor.
But the mercy of the Lord, your Grace and all my siskha gurus are more powerful that in the last 2 years the Karthik month outreach and public programs has crossed over 1200 lamps. I’m putting my possible efforts under the guidance of HG.Amani Gauracandra das in my preaching efforts and from 2019 Karthik month outreach program I got new contacts and added 1 more kids class(7 kids) and 1 more bhakthi vriksha (7 adults) making a total of 3 kids classes and 3 Bhakthi Vriksha since 2018 January.
Out of the 3 bhakthi vrikshas, 2 are fully online and from this Jan started hybrid bhakthi vriksha with prospective devotees from Tallahassee and online. Out of 21 bhakthi vriksha members there are 4+ devotees who are chanting between 2-4 rounds everyday and few are doing 8+ rounds every day. The holy name is very powerful and pure that by Lord’s mercy they started chanting. But there are 2-3 people who haven’t started with beads but chanting in their mind whenever they remember.
I wanted to read more scriptures and do more seva by waking up early morning consistently and complete my chanting in the morning itself, so that I can utilize the evenings for reading more scriptures, but due to my sleep apnea I’m unable to discipline myself to wake up early, so my rounds spills over to evenings and missing my reading time. I badly need your mercy and prayers for me so that I can fight over my physical illness and serve the lord like you.
Also please bless and pray for my family that we should always be engaged in Krishna Consciousness 24 / 7 and get myself equipped with knowledge given by Srila Prabhupad through his books and bring my family and people around me to your shelter so that you can take them back to Krsna.
I always pray to Lord Narasinga Deva, Srila Prabhupada, Jaganath Baladev Subhadra , Sudharsana and Radha Madhav to keep you in good health so you can deliver thousands and thousands of poor souls like me.
Your humble servant
Satyaraj Govinda Das
Acyuta Preyasi Tulasi Devi Dasi
Krsna Caitanya (10 year old took aspiring in 2019 Nov Alachua,FL)
Jahnavi (5 year old)
