“Nama Om Vishnu padaya Krsna presthaya bhutale
Srimate Jayapataka swamin iti namine,
Nama Acharya padaya Nitai kripa pradayine
Gaura katha dhama daya nagara grama tarine”
nama om vishnu Padaya krishna Presthaya Bhutale
srimate bhaktivedanta svamin iti namine
namaste sarasvate deve gaura vani pracharine
nirveshesh sunyavadi pashchatya desa tarine
Dear spiritual father,
Please accept my most respectful obeisances unto your divine lotus feet.
All glories to Srila Prabhupad!!
All Glories to Sri Guru and Sri Gauranga!!
Kindly forgive me for I am unable to glorify Your Holiness properly.
Gurudev, it is truly inconceivable to even try and understand the platform that you are on. Materially speaking, one can clearly witness the bodily troubles and austerities that you must be going through, however, you never let that come in the way of preaching or even your own daily sadhana.
We hear from many of your extremely dedicated servants about how tiresome and exhausting your schedule can get sometimes, especially when you are travelling and even then, you get up early no matter what time you sleep.
Your Holiness’ most fortunate disciples who get the chance to closely serve you, share some of Your Holiness’ most incredible pastimes where even us, who don’t get a chance to physically serve you, understand your glories and how dear you are to Lord Krishna. How, whenever, there have been multiple instances when your health was at a critical state and how you practically requested the Lord to let you be amongst all of us here on this planet because of the promises that you made to Srila Prabhupad and how you intend to complete all of your services. We have also heard how the Lord has been merciful unto Your Holiness when your transplantation was to be commenced. It is all glories to your selfless disciples who continue to serve you every day and also shower their mercy onto us by sharing such wonderful pastimes.
We had the good fortune of having Your Holiness’ Darshan on 23rd April in Mumbai during the GBC meetings when we came from here (Baroda). During that visit you were so kind upon us, where you gave all of us your ever-so-lovely glance when you were going into your room. That night when we were supposed to leave Mumbai, to go back to Baroda, in the middle of the lecture, you saw all of us get up one by one and you understood that we were leaving, Your Holiness showered unlimited mercy on all of us by addressing us and also blessing us to preach better in Baroda and confirming that there will be many devotees here.
It was after this wonderful exchange with Your Holiness, that all of us were surcharged with enthusiasm and energy to help serve you by trying to bring people into Krishna Consciousness. Many programs have been started since, one of which is a youth program that is being conducted at our house. Although the number of participants are very less, we wish to expand further by your blessings and unconditional mercy. There are some projects that we wish to complete that might help us in bringing more youth, which we hope may happen only by your grace, Gurudev.
Dear Gurudev, on this most auspicious day of Your Holiness’ 71st Vyasa Puja, I pray to Sri Sri Radha Madhava, Sri Sri Jagannath Baladev Subhadra Sri Sudarshan, Sri Nrsimhadev, Sri Sri Gaura Nitai and Sri Panchatatva to kindly always protect Your Holiness and allow us to have your association for as long as possible.
Lastly, kindly bless my father, my mother, my sister, all the devotees here and all the Bhakti Vriksha members so that we may always be engaged in serving you and Gauranga!
Your spiritual daughter,
Rasapriya Radharani Devi Dasi (Diksha)
Baroda, India
