28.2.2020
Respected Gurumaharaj,
Hare Krishna. Please accept my most respectful obeisances unto your Lotus Feet. All glories to your Divine Grace. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
On this auspicious day of your Vyasa Puja, I am sincerely praying to Lord Nrsingadeva for the quick and full recovery from your illness and for the long duration of life so that many conditioned souls like me will get your valuable association.
It is mentioned in Srimad Bhagavad Gita that Spiritual Master is “Jnaninas tattva-darsinah”. Spiritual Master has realized the truths about Krishna. Spiritual Realisations are completely transcendental. One cannot simply acquire it by his erudite scholarship. Only by submissively hearing from the Guru and practicing those teachings very sincerely, one can understand it. Gurumaharaj, You are full of transcendental realisations. I realized this recently after reading one of the e-mail from JPS Office Database. The following is mentioned in that e-mail:
“As soon as we let the mind go it’s own way, we are in trouble. We should keep the mind always under the control of the intelligence, according to sadhu, sastra and Guru. Never depend on the mind. The mind will always let us down. But depend on the intelligence, analyzing what the mind is doing. If we are careless, not watching what the mind is doing and just accepting whatever the mind is coming up with, surely we will be in trouble. One has to be dhira(sober), controlling the mind with the intelligence”.
I admired greatly how Gurumaharaj had explained the most difficult topic i.e., controlling the mind, in a very simple and profound manner.
Gurumaharaj, recently I got an opportunity to read one of your 1981 lecture. In that lecture, Your Divine Grace had explained the following wonderful point:
“ Material (ism) mean that which is not – that which is not letting us see Krishna. And transcendentalism (or) spiritualism means that which gives us the association, the vision, and the service – the connection with Krishna”.
Materialism and Spiritualism is a very complicated topic and Your Divine Grace had just explained it in 2 sentences. I am surprised to see your clarity of thought about the ultimate conclusions of the scriptures and your strong conviction in it.
Gurumaharaj, your commentary on ‘Vaishnava ke’ is full of rich transcendental realisations and it is the most valuable contribution for the entire Vaishnava community. I am greatly fascinated to read again and again.
This shows you are the perfect example for “Tattva Darsinah”. I am more and more attracted to studying, understanding and applying your deep transcendental realisations. Indeed, we are very fortunate to have such a glorious spiritual master.
Gurumaharaj by your mercy, I have understood from the above e-mail that advancement in Bhakti is not based on some external achievements, it is fully about internal realisations only. That is why Krishna is saying “ mad-gatenantar-atmana sraddhavan bhajate……” . I am gradually understanding that to what extent one is getting spiritual realisations due to the mercy of Guru and Krishna, to that extent he is advanced in Bhakti. Gurumaharaj, You are the personification of transcendental realisations. Please bless this fallen conditioned soul also with your compassionate nature.
From Your personal conduct, I am learning that when Krishna Bhakti manifests in our heart, then our heart becomes softened. That means we will be able to handle any rough situation in a very magnanimous way or in a very liberal manner and we will be able to excuse anybody’s mistakes. Because Lord Krishna Himself is possessing these beautiful divine qualities i.e., Daksinah – very simple and liberal, Vadaanya – magnanimous. Krishna will never reject the conditioned souls at any point of time giving the reason that Jiva wants to enjoy independent of Krishna. If Krishna rejects the conditioned souls, then one can never have any shelter in this material world. Because Spiritual Master has captured exactly the same mood and desire of Lord Krishna, Guru is the perfect representative of Krishna. This is the meaning of Krishna’s representative. Spiritual Master being a confidential representative of Krishna, will never act in any way that will displease Krishna. We are learning this from the pastime of Lord Vishnu’s handling of Sanat Kumaras in the Vaikuntha gate. In this pastime, Lord Vishnu is teaching that “These servants of Mine have transgressed against you, not knowing the mind of their Master”.
Gurumaharaj, You are attracting everyone by your wonderful transcendental qualities of compassion, very liberal and magnanimous nature. Being your insignificant disciple, I should capture your inner mood as my life and soul.
I heard from one of your personal servant that Your Divine Grace had asked him why Srila Prabhupada was saying in almost 85% of his lectures that we are not this body, we are spirit soul. Your personal servant was not able to answer your question. Your Divine Grace had answered him that “Srila Prabhupada wanted me to understand that I am spirit soul”. After hearing this from him, I am learning your many divine qualities from this particular incident. That is, you are very humble even in front of your disciple. This is because you are completely freed from all types of false identifications. Another quality I am understanding from this particular incident is, you have taken the instruction of your Guru Srila Prabhupada very deeply in your heart i.e., vyavasayatmika buddhi. It is not that you are simply saying this instruction but you are exactly behaving as per that instruction i.e., while undergoing your recent major critical surgeries, you were not at all affected by the health issues and you continued to preach the glories of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu with full enthusiasm showing all of us that we are not these bodies, we are spirit souls. You are the perfect Acharya- one who teaches by example.
Pure Devotee is very dear to Sri Krishna only because of possessing many attractive transcendental qualities. Gurumaharaj, since you are also possessing many beautiful divine qualities, you must be very dear to Sri Krishna.
Gurumaharaj, even though I am having many anarthas, I am very confident that you will never reject me at any point of time because you have captured the inner mood of Sri Krishna. So, taking advantage of your compassionate nature, I am sincerely praying to your Lotus Feet that please bless this poor fallen disciple also with Krishna Prem.
Your insignificant Disciple,
SRINIVASA HARI DASA, DIKSHA DISCIPLE
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