nama om visnu padaya krsna prestaya bhutale
srimate jayapataka swamin iti namine
nama acarya padaya nitai krpa pradayine
gaura katha dama daya nagara grama tarine
nama om visnu padaya krsna prestaya bhutale
srimate bhaktivedanta svamin iti namine
namaste sarasvate deve gaura vani pracarine
nirvisesa sunyavadi pascatya desa tarine
om ajnana timirandasya jnananjana salakaya
caksur unmilitam yena tasmai sri gurave namaha
All Glories to Srila Prabhupada
All Glories to you Srila Gurudeva.
Dear Gurudeva,
I beg you to accept my most respectful prostrated obeisances at your lotus feet.
Srila Gurudeva, on the occasion of your 71st Vyasa puja, I pray to Sri Sri Radha Madhava, Gaura Nitai, and Narasimha Deva to protect you and bless you with good health.
With your blessings and mercy, my husband and I have had the opportunity of staying in Mayapur since Oct 2019 to pursue our sastric study. We recently completed the Bhakti Sastri course and had the good fortune of getting the Degree certificates from you. We have also been doing a few other courses so that we can return to our yatra and make some contributions to teach the Bhakti Sastri course. We seek your blessings for this.
jogyata-vicare, kichu nahi pai,
tomara karuna—sara
karuna na hoile, kandiya kandiya,
prana na rakhibo ara...
This year, with your blessings, we also got the opportunity to join the Nabadvip Parikrama with the South Indian Group. I was a little skeptical if I would be able to walk such long distances, but it was a wonderful experience. I am particularly grateful for the opportunity to join in the sankirtan of the Holy Name all the way and to hear Mahaprabhu's lilas and the significance of each place that we visited during the parikrama. During the Bhakti Sastri course also we were able to participate in some short parikramas which were all very enlightening and gave me the opportunity to appreciate Mahaprabhu's Holy Dham and the glory of the acaryas.
I am ever grateful to you for giving us the association of your disciples like Caitanya Avatari Prabhu, Rasamayi Mataji, Vaisnavananda Nitai Prabhu and all the devotees in our New Rajapur Jaganatha Dham, who are helping us and engaging us in your services.
Guru Maharaja, I want to once again convey my sincere gratitude to you for accepting my husband, Visveswara Govinda Das, and myself as your disciples and giving us the shelter of your lotus feet. Please bless us that we may be steady in our devotional life and continue to be engaged in services to you and the Lord, in the association of devotees.
On the occasion of Your Divine Grace’s Vyasa Puja celebration, I reconfirm my surrender and dedication to serve your lotus feet and pray for your causeless mercy and beg forgiveness for all my offenses.
Your very insignificant disciple,
Lilamayi Rukmini Devi dasi