Dear Guru Maharaj,
Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to you and your world-wide (Traveling)preaching.
saṁsāra-dāvānala-līḍha-loka-
trāṇāya kāruṇya-ghanāghanatvam
prāptasya kalyāṇa-guṇārṇavasya
vande guroḥ śrī-caraṇāravindam
The spiritual master is receiving benediction from the ocean of mercy. Just as a cloud pours water on a forest fire to extinguish it, so the spiritual master delivers the materially afflicted world by extinguishing the blazing fire of material existence. I offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of such a spiritual master, who is an ocean of auspicious qualities.
On this most auspicious day of your 71st Vyāsa-pūjā celebration, I want to express my gratitude for your unlimited mercy. If not for your causeless mercy, we would be rotting in the endless cycle of birth and death. Actually, I have no qualification at all to glorify you, but it is my duty to offer this homage. Even though it is impossible to glorify you adequately, please be merciful and accept it.
Taking the shelter of your lotus feet is the only way out of this hellish condition of life.
I am born in the darkness of this material world. It is only due to your causeless mercy that you have taken me as your disciple. O Gurudeva, how can I repay my debt to you? Indeed, I can’t: my debt to you will never be paid off.
Whenever we hear about your day-to-day activities, we get more inspiration and enlightenment that keeps us in Krishna Consciousness.
Simply by seeing you, any sinful person is purified. And by placing your footsteps upon this world, Mother Earth becomes purified of the heavy sins committed by evil men like myself.
You are a jewel of this world. May I take shelter under your lotus feet, O Gurudeva. Please be kind and splash a drop of your mercy upon us. Please cast your merciful glance upon us so that our lives will be successful.
O Gurudeva, may your glories be echoed throughout the three worlds!
Your insignificant servant,
Candra Vadana Gopala Das,
ISKCON Salem.