Hare Krishna dear Guru Maharaja, Please accept my respectful obeisance to you. All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda. All glories to Your Divine Grace. On this auspicious day of your appearance, please accept my wishes to you. Hare Krishna to you dear Gurudev. I am very grateful to you for the shelter and spiritual guidance you are providing. I take this opportunity to thank you from the bottom of my heart, to express my sincere love to you and my earnest request to always keep me under your protecting vision. As HH Bhakti Purusottama Swami Maharaja mentioned, " Your determination to stay behind to fulfill the desires of Śrīla Prabhupāda, Prayers of countless devotees and special mercy of the Lord has made it possible that you are still with us." We are very happy and grateful to Lord for letting you be with us, giving us your valuable association and guidance. We are very thankful to you also for coming back to us even after you received transcendental vision of being with acaryas and your departed god brothers. Srimad Bhagavatam (SB 10.80.34), Lord Sri Krishna says “I, the Soul of all beings, am not as satisfied by ritual worship, brahminical initiation, penances or self-discipline as I am by faithful service rendered to one’s spiritual master.” Dear Guru Maharaja, your loyalty and service to Srila Prabhupada is beyond words. The above words of assurance from Lord make me realise that you are so dear to Lord that He sanctions your desire to serve here more. I pray to Lord Nrsimhadev that He protects you and removes all hindrances to your determination to continue your service to Guru and Gauranga. Long back, from one of your lectures, I read about the position of a spiritual master as instructed by Lord Krishna to Uddhava. SB 11.17.27 translation - One should know the ācārya as Myself and never disrespect him in any way. One should not envy him, thinking him an ordinary man, for he is the representative of all the demigods. One should always think of the spiritual master in terms of his intimate relationship with Mukunda (Śrī Kṛṣṇa)( SB 11.17.27 purport) Everytime I see your photograph, hear or read your lecture or hear about you from someone, I try to remember this instruction, to never see you as an ordinary person. You are a close associate of Lord and out of your compassion you are guiding fallen souls like me. No ordinary person can take so much pain and austerities like you do to preach, spread the holy name and give association and care to devotees across the globe. All glories to you . You utilize every moment of your life in Srila Prabhupada's service. All your efforts are to please Krishna and the Guru Parampara. You show us by example, how we should make the best use of our body and our time in rendering devotional service . Even when you are physically unwell, you come online and give us your invaluable association. You transmit your eagerness and enthusiasm to perform devotional service and inspire many. I pray that I may also develop this service attitude and not waste time . Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.7.46 purport says - A sinful soul cannot approach the Lord directly, but such a sinful man can very easily approach a pure devotee of the Lord. And if one agrees to put himself under the guidance of such a devotee of the Lord, he can also understand the science of God and can also become like the transcendental pure devotee of the Lord and thus get his liberation back to Godhead, back home for eternal happiness. These words of Srila Prabhupada reflects my relationship with you. You are the pure devotee of Lord , approachable by us. You are the loving representative of Lord , who is more kind and more easy to approach. Dear Guru Maharaja, I am one of your diksa disciples and I feel I have a lot to progress in spiritual life. I beg you to forgive me of any offenses committed to you unknowingly. Recently I heard in one of the Mayapur sravanotsav lectures that when one is in problem, one should pray to one's Guru. I have so many shortcomings and insecurities . I pray that I do not commit offences to you or anyone. I pray to you that my practice of devotional service become fixed . I understand that as a disciple , it's my duty to serve you. I try to serve you by engaging in children's classes, assisting in Bhakti vrksa at home , transcribing your lectures etc. Kindly accept my insignificant and humble service. I beg your blessings to serve you more and better.I pray that we may get opportunities to to serve vaisnavas. I pray to you to strengthen our devotion and empower us to help others through preaching. Kindly bestow your blessings on our family members, who are yet to come into Krishna conscious association , to develop an attraction towards devotional service and become devotees. I also request your blessings on all our bhakti vriksa members and children attending classes, to develop devotion, servitude to Lord and to advance in Krishna consciousness. I thank you for accepting me as your disciple, giving guidance directly and through your senior disciples. Whatever tiny steps I have taken in spiritual life is only because of your causeless mercy. I pray that I may please you some way through my tiny acts of devotional service. Please bless us, give us your mercy so that we may serve you and Lord better. Gauuurangaaa ! With well wishes and humble prayers, Your insignificant servant, Lakshmi Radha devi dasi. (Diksa disciple) , Vinay Nitai Chand das (Diksa disciple) Nandakishore Vineeth.(son-11 years old) & Saumya Radhika (20 months old)