Dear Gurudeva,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Your Holiness!
The karma baggage I carry is heavy. Only because of your mercy, has it become easier to carry. What justification can a “thank you very much” do to the deep sense of gratitude I feel toward you? Nothing but your compassion is my qualification to glorify your Holiness. In this world of repeated suffering, the only saving grace is your graceful grace.
My very livelihood depends on your compassion, as you have given me shelter by giving me an opportunity to serve you through Victory Flag Publications, which is trying to regularly produce books from the content redacted from your wonderful lectures.
Who can measure the love you feel for anyone that has shown even the remotest interest in Kṛṣṇa consciousness? With your beautiful smile and kind words, you reach the innermost chambers of every heart and enthrone yourself there permanently. You are Mayapur Candrodaya Mandir personified, for your heart is the resting place of Gaura Chand, the Moon of Mayapur. It is nothing but your mercy that is keeping me alive physically and spiritually. You definitely are ISKCON’s favorite, for you carry its glories wherever you go. You care about every living entity in the world, because you are a pure Vaisnava. I am sometimes surprised that even a fallen fool like me is somehow connected with you.
On this glorious day, I solemnly proclaim to the whole world: “Show me His Holiness Jayapataka Swami, and I will show you Magnanimity! Show me His Holiness Jayapataka Swami, and I will show you Compassion! Show me His Holiness Jayapataka Swami, and I will show you a Mobile Temple. Show me His Holiness Jayapataka Swami, and I will show you Selflessness!”
It is our great good fortune that you have come to this world, for you are like a secret shortcut to our destination: the spiritual world. Despite having been in ISKCON for so many years (from 13 years of age), I have developed very little devotion to Kṛṣṇa, as am anchored to material attachments which are holding me like a vice. Therefore, on this auspicious appearance day of yours, I implore you to shower your mercy upon me and pardon me for the offenses I have knowingly or unknowingly committed.
Always desiring your loving shelter, I remain,
Yours humbly,
SravanKirtan dasa