Nama Om Visnupadaya Krsnaprestaya bhutale
Srimate Jayapataka Swaminiti namine
Namoacarya Padaya nitaikripa pradayine
Gaurakatha dhamadaya nagara grama tarine
Beloved Gurudeva, please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories unto you and All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
Gurumaharaj, on this most auspicious day of your Vyasa puja, I am really glad to write an offering unto your lotus feet. I don’t know what qualification have I got to glorify you. But still I would do so in order to get purified. Please accept this humble offering.
As a true follower and disciple of Srila Prabhupada, you have imbibed from him, his mood of preaching and compassion for all the conditioned souls in this world. You see them as a part and parcel of the Supreme Lord and engage them all back in their own constitutional position in serving Krsna. Thus you prove yourself as the most merciful pure devotee present in this world today.
Gurumaharaj, you are just like a rescue boat sent by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu to fetch the conditioned souls suffering in this material ocean of nescience. You take in the boat anyone who wants to get in, not caring for their previous material backgrounds. This is very much true because even though undergoing very serious illness for the past several years, you still continue to travel and preach extensively and initiate thousands of devotees who have taken shelter at your lotus feet.
Gurumaharaj, I am one of those conditioned souls to whom you have given shelter at your lotus feet.Though I have got this rare human form of life and a chance to take birth in a devotee family and study in gurukula at ISKCON Salem, if I would not have had you as my glorious spiritual master, then surely these fortunate opportunities would have been of no use. Still I am not steady in my spiritual life.I have tremendous attraction for kirtans in our movement,but many times I feel that its only for the music and the instruments played in kirtan and not really for the holy name of the lord. Though my parents and other well wishers keep inspiring me and instructing me in devotional service I still tend to get slackened in my regular devotinal duties such as chanting attentively and regularly reading books of Srila Prabhupada’s and yours.
O Gurudeva, on this most auspicious day of your Vyasa puja, I pray that I myself with my brother and parents become steady and sincere in the process of devotional service and continue to preach the message of Krishna Consciousness, following in the footsteps of you and Srila Prabhupada.
Your insignificant servant,
Hemavarna Caitanya dasa (ISKCON Salem)