nama om visnu-padaya krsna-presthaya bhu-talesrimate jayapataka swami iti naminenamo
acarya padaya, nitai kripa pradayine gaura katha, damodaya nagara grama tarine
Dear Srila Gurudeva,
Please Accept Our Respectful Obeisances
All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!
All Glories to Your Divine Grace!!
Every year in my homage I used to
always talk about me and my services but this year I really just want to truly focus
on glorifying your Divine Grace.. After many years of waiting, for us I think this
year will be very special because of your Divine Grace getting healthier and active
than before, after all the years of battle against health challenges. We were very
happy to see your Divine Grace travelling to USA, SA with no major health crisis in
2019. All this is giving confidence to us and all your spiritual children’s that you
are getting healthier and better. In fact, I was getting a glimpse of how you used
to be before stroke. Always on constant run either giving class, talking with
devotees, attending festivals, meetings, giving darshan, replying emails,
travelling, hearing/reading books, chanting, kirtan … the list is ever ending Guru
Maharaja… It’s truly amazing and inspiring to see how a devotee should constantly
serve and remember Mahaprabhu.. it seems to be so natural and spontaneous for your
divine grace… and when we are around you then it becomes seemingly simple for us
also to be Krishna conscious.I have to mention the historical Bhishma Panchaka
experience we all had with your Divine Grace in London was Wow !!!!!!! .. Yes surely
it was a unique and cherished experience which can’t be traded for anything in the
planet… It was not just me… all the devotees felt the same Guru Maharaja..I know how
dear it is for your Divine Grace to observe Bhishma Pancaka in Mayapur but due to
your causeless mercy you chose to observe Bhishma Panchaka in London - 1st time in
the history!! .. and no doubt it was miraculous experience. More than 150 devotees
observed Bhishma Panchaka and not a single day we felt any form of fatigue and even
got a thought that we need to have prasadam !!.. it was total absorption in serving
your Divine Grace in London… in fact I must say – this was the easiest Bhishma
Panchaka for us… even in mayapur we contemplate on prasadam during Bhishma Panchaka
but in London we didn’t think a second about prasadam.. it was super spiritually
surcharged Guru Maharaja!! I have no words to explain how much mercy you chose to
shower on us in London… Most of the time in our neophyte consciousness we rush our
way through and pop our head causing all discomforts to your Divine Grace to get
Jagannath stick blessing thinking that’s the ONLY blessing we can get from your
Divine Grace … BUT no words can explain the blessings you gave us by giving us an
opportunity to serve your Divine Grace personally during Bhishma Panchaka in
London.. that was the ultimate perfection I could ever pray for !! I am praying we
all can work together and get more & more of these unique personal services
which we can do for your Divine Grace in UK… so that we can be inspired & pumped
to constantly take shelter at your lotus feet and be an instrument to accomplish
very dear projects and services of your Divine Grace in this western world.. We
humble beg for your forgiveness for being lethargic in our enthusiasm to serve your
Divine Grace but please shower your causeless mercy on us so we can be always pumped
up in our service to assist to accomplish your goals in the western world Guru
Maharaja.. All Glories to Your All Auspicious Vyasapuja Celebration in Sridham
Mayapur Guru Maharaja!!! Eagerly awaiting to come and be part of this grand occasion
in Mayapur this year.. Thank You Guru Maharaja.
Your Dear Insignificant Servants,
Aravinda Krishna Das & Yamunesvari DD
East London BV, UK