Namo Om Vishnupadaya Krsna Presthaya Bhu-tale
Srimate Jayapataka Swamin Iti Namine
Namo Acarya Padaya Nitai Krpa Pradayine
Gaura Katha Dhama Daya Nagara Grama Tarine
Respected Guru Maharaj,
Please accept my most respectful obeisances unto the dust of your lotus feet.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
All glories to you and our present Acaryas!
All glories to your 71st Sri Vyas-Puja Mahotsava!!
To write something about you seems very easy and at the same time difficult too. I have so many things to be grateful to you for but also I am not able to express those in some limited words. Still as a matter of duty, love and obedience I shall humbly try to write down something about the glories of you, Gurudev.
Without your shelter and incessant love for us, it would be impossible for us to continue in Bhakti. If I really want to be a Vaishnava, I should take lessons from your exemplary character. You never waste your time. In fact, yesterday itself I was discussing with a devotee and wondered how you could manage everything in just 24 hrs. It seems you need some more hours in a day. Your body, prakriti, time etc. may appear as some stumbling blocks in your motion of spreading Krsna-consciousness throughout the world. Still you never care of those things and move on like a King’s elephant.
There are many qualities of you I should learn and imbibe in myself. But out of those the most prominent I feel is your Caring nature. I have heard it many times from senior devotees that how you give yourself completely to listen to their problems and solve them, you are so concerned about others’ well-being. One time even before going to GBC meeting you stopped by an old lady and asked about her and her experience in Mayapur Dham. Being a Sannyasi, a Guru, GBC, a leader of many, could have avoided these petty things but you always make sure that everyone should be cared for . In 2015 day after Gaura Purnima, by Lord Krsna’s grace I was fortunate enough to get your personal association and that time also you asked me the same things and I felt very warmth coming in contact with your so much love and care. HG Haridhvani mataji also told that you once gave your own sunscreen to the safari devotees and I feel amazed that you care for the small things of the devotees.
Apparently we may see you sick, sometimes dependent on others for physical support but this is a fact that whenever and wherever you go, you simply infect people around you with spiritual energy, bliss and Gauranga fever and this way you actually cure us from our material sickness and give us various opportunities to serve you. It gives me goosebumps and tears in my eyes when you describe the very famous pastime of Lord Nityananda saving the two most fallen Jagai and Madhai where in spite of Madhai hurting Nityananda prabhu with a broken pot and made Him bleed, the all merciful, Patita-pavana Nityananda prabhu told him “merechhish kolshir kana, tai bole ki Prem debona!!" (Shall I stop giving you love because you have hit me with an earthen pot? All glories to Lord Nityananda! All glories to Lord Gauranga!! You not only preach the philosophy but practice it in your own life as an Acarya. You accepted the mood of Lord Nitai and the pastime reminded me of yours when a crazy man slit your throat in Spain airport and caused you bleed heavily and upon arresting the person you asked the Police to forgive him. Also some of your careless disciples who are not keeping their vows at the time of their initiation and thus making you suffer, you take that sufferings voluntarily and are ready to forgive them if they again take to Krsna-consciousness seriously.
I bow down my head before you and ask forgiveness for the offenses I have made in past that affected you physically and emotionally. I truly mean that Guru Maharaj and also I pray to you so that I may be able to rectify myself and be always engaged to activities which are pleasing to you. With your blessings I may enter into Grihastha ashram this year. I beg your blessings for our Krsna-consciousness life ahead and also kindly empower us so that we may also be able to serve you and Guru-parampara in spreading the glories of the Holy Name –
HARE KRSNA HARE KRSNA KRSNA KRSNA HARE HARE
HARE RAMA HARE RAMA RAMA RAMA HARE HARE!!
Your spiritual daughter and servant,
Isvari Lalita Devi Dasi [Diksa]
Kolkata, India