Dear Gurudēva, Jayapatākā Svāmī Āčāryapāda, all glories to your auspicious appearance day! Please accept my respectful obeisances at your lotus feet!
You told in lecture, how fortunate were Šrī Čaitanya’s Mahāprabhu associates to be with Him, to participate in His pastimes, to experience sat-čit-ānanda of the Lord, to enjoy Šrī Čaitanya’s playful dealings with the pure spiritual personalities, expansions of His eternal energy of Prema bhakti. Similar I say – how fortunate we are to be with you, to participate in your pastimes, to feel through you presence of Gauranga’s sat-čit-ānanda, to communicate with devotees, pure spiritual souls, who render full time service to you, what is possible only because they are granted with your own special bhakti shakti.
On the opening ceremony of TOVP Pujarī floor Vraja Vilāsa prabhu truly said, that Māyāpur is incomplete, is incomplete, is incomplete without you. It is like we cannot imagine Šrī Māyāpur Dhāma without transcendental pastimes of Šrī Šrī Nitai Gauranga.
Last year you started TOVP Daily Victory Flag Tradition, which will represent the victory of Šrīla Prabhupāda and will continue for generations to come. On Akshaya Tritiya, the most auspicious day of giving, you sponsored Flag above the central dome, and you invited us to participate in this tradition. I was thinking, that will be very nice, if in the same Akshaya Tritiya day, together with your Flag, on TOVP will rise also Flags from two of your disciples – from me and my husband, Mādhava Prēma dāsa, who left his body on 2010. So I decided to take this historical opportunity to please you and I sponsored Flags on both small domes.
After that these two Flags were giving back to me, and I sent them to good friend, Amala Prītī devī dāsī (devotee of HH Niranjana Svāmī), in my native country, Latvia. One Flag for the house of her with family - daughter Lalita Gopika devī dāsī (disciple of HH Radhanātha Svāmī) with her husband Urukrama dāsa (disciple of HH Bhakti Bringa Govinda Svāmī), where live beautiful big Deities of Jagannātha, Baladēva and Subhadra. Other Flag, I hope, one day will rise above my and my husbands country house, which now is under the care of Girirāja prabhu (devotee of Čaitanya Čandra Čarana Maharāja) together with others. Little by little they are renovating it for service to the Lord Šrī Krsna.
Now my body is 66 years old and I cannot be very active. I do my sadhana, serve to my Deities (Nitai Gauranga, Gopāla and Nrisimhadeva), attend Temple programs, study Srila Prabhupada’s, your’s and other devotee’s books, preach Krsna consciousness on Facebook, where are also my carmic friends from my native town Talsi, from school and from University. I stay in contact with my friends in Latvia, who publish the Krishna conscious magazine “RASA” in both Latvian and Russian languages under guidance of Višvavāsu prabhu (disciple of HH Niranjana Svāmī). I am thankful to him, because he helped me to return back to Šrī Māyāpur Dhāma. I keep my preaching work in this magazine. In every second issue there is my article also.
When you was very sick, before the surgery, I came to Māyāpur and started to chant extra sixteen rounds of Mahamantra before the Deities in Temple, so trying to help you. Now I am happy to see, that your health become better and better, but I will not stop my chanting for you. Please, teach me and let me always stay under the shade of your lotus feet. Thank you, dear Gurudeva! I wish you good health in nonstop service to Šrīla Prabhupāda and Šrī Šrī Nitai Gauranga! Rādhā Mādhava kī-jaya! Gurudeva kī-jaya!
Your insignificant devotee Audārya Dhāma devī dāsī (diksa) from Šrī Māyāpur, India.