71st Vyasapuja offering 2020
My most beloved and respectful Gurumaharaja,
Please kindly accept my prostrated obeisances at the dust of your divine feet.
Gurumaharaja, on this most auspicious occasion of your 71st divine appearance day, devotees from whole world are glorifying you. Chanting your divine glories and thus making unlimited progress in their lives. I am also trying to meditate upon some of your transcendental qualities, like a sparrow tries to take out some drops of water from an ocean. I heard from a Vaisnava that, a good disciple should celebrate the Vyasapuja of one’s Spiritual Master every day by meditating upon the transcendental qualities of the Guru and simply glorify them and aspire to live based on those qualities.
Gurumaharaja, You are the ocean of Vaisnava qualities. Your heart is the resting place of Lord Govinda. The non-envious nature of yours has occupied innumerable hearts of devotees. You are ajatashatravah, means one’s enemy has not born. You never consider anyone as your enemy.You are always free from criticism, nindadisunyam. You never like to hear criticism. As a part of your service to Srila Prabhupada or his mission, you may have to hear from others, but you never like to. In the management you are so perfect ati daksha, that you can do everything without hurting anyone. You are always focused to please Guru and Krishna. Your selfless attitude wins everyone’s heart and gives joy to everybody. Your love and respect towards your Gurudeva, Srila Prabhupada is so much that you are having so much pains in your body still you are continuing preaching and distributing the same teachings that you have received from your Gurudeva Srila Prabhupada. Gurumaharaja, You are given the title of ‘’Acharyapada’’ is very much befitting. Achayra means one who teaches by his own example and also means the previous Achayras. Pada means the lotus feet or blessings. There are many meaning of Acharyapada and all are befitting to you.
- Acharyapada means- One who has taken shelter of the blessings of the previous acharyas.
- Acharyapada means- One who is following the footsteps of the previous acharyas.
- Acharyapada means- One who is distributing the same blessings in the form of Teachings of the previous acharyas to others. You have taken shelter of the previous acharyas, blessed and empowered by the previous acharyas and distributing Krishna Consciousness based on the teaching of the previous acharyas without any discrimination throughout the world.
Gurumaharaja, you are the live n practical example of the foundamental principle of Krishna Consciousness which is ‘’We are not this body but spirit soul’’. In this condition of your body still the way you are preaching is not possible by an ordinary person. Being in the ICU, you can think of other’s benefit is the proof of your natural kindness, jive daya. You are always poro dukhe dukhi. Being fully sense controlled, still you are dukhi just because of seeing our conditionings and short comings. Your concern for others, touches the hearts of others. One of the 26 Vaisnava qualities is Kavi, means one who can express his feelings through writings. You expressed your gratitude towards Srila Prabhupada through the poem ‘’yadi prabhupada na hoito tabe ki hoito, e jibon bohito kishe, How it would be if Prabhupada had not been there, how the life would have spent. When one is very much realized and his heart is filled with the love and gratitude for the Lord, he is excited to express it to others. Even in this condition you are still writing the glories of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu in the form of a book named Caitanya, its nothing but simply your feeling of ecstacy, Pure Love for the Lord Caitanya.
Gurumaharaja, I am feeling a great need of your blessings to be able to access your mercy in the form of Divine instructions and value them by taking them seriously and following them lovingly. My good wife Rameshwari is carrying 8 months pregnancy and trying her best to practice Krishna Consciousness, kindly bestow your divine mercy upon us so that we can take and do the responsibility with service attitude and can set an example of good parents to the would be coming child.
I thank you thousands of times for bestowing your limitless and countless mercy upon me.
All glories to You Gurumaharaja.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
All glories to Sri Gauranga Mahaprabhu and Nityananda Prabhu.
HARE KRISHNA.
Aspiring to be your loving servant life after life
Bir Krishna Balaram Das.
Vrindavan. Uttar Pradesh. India.
