namah om visnu padaya krishna preshtaya bhutale
srimate Jayapataka Swamin iti namine
nama acharya padaya nitai kripa pradayine
gaura katha dama daya nagara grama tarine
namah om visnu padaya krishna preshtaya bhutale
srimate Bhaktivedanta Swamin iti namine
namaste saraswati deve gaura vani pracharine
nirvisesa sunyavadi paschatya desa tarine
Dear Gurudeva,
Please accept my respectful obeisances at your Lotus feet.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to you on the auspicious occasion of your Vyasa Puja.
I am very grateful to you Gurumaharaj, for accepting me as your disciple and giving me an opportunity to spread the mission of Srila Prabhupada in whatever insignificant way that i can. I really like preaching and i feel very inspired by you. It is my heartfelt desire to bring as many souls as possible into your shelter and for that i need your blessings.Whenever i hear about your pastimes in JSSS meetings i feel so proud that you are my Gurumaharaj but at the same time i feel that you are suffering because of an unqualified disciple like me.
The way you are trying to fulfill the mission of Srila Prabhupada with your heart and soul, i wish that i can also follow your instructions the same way and dedicate my life unto your service. I have been facing a few obstacles in my preaching due to the many offences that i commit knowingly or unknowingly so i seek your blessings to overcome them and continue to preach.
I am very happy that my daughter(Sudevi Sunayana dd) got initiated by you last year. Since i don't know English that well, she keeps sharing with me what she heard in your lectures and she helps in preaching as well. I request you to please bless my son(Suraj), who is not as Krishna conscious but is supportive of us following the process and does some service when he visits us(He's currently working in Muscat or Mathuradesh). He also gives some purify money out of his earnings every month. Requesting you to please bless all of us Gurumaharaj, for it is by your mercy that fallen souls like us can be uplifted.
" jogyatā-vicāre, kichu nāhi pāi,
tomāra karuṇā-sāra
karuṇā nā hoile, kāndiyā kāndiyā,
prāṇa nā rākhibo āra "
Your insignificant daughter,
Ishani Rukmini Devi Dasi (Diksa),
ISKCON New Rajapur Jagannatha Dham,
Bangalore