Hare Krishna dear beloved Gurudev
Please accept my respectful obeisances at your beautiful lotus feet.
As always I do not have the qualifications to glorify you, it is like a glow worm trying to glorify the sun. I still try to, for my own purification.
Gurudev we have gone through many ups and downs in our lives, many things have changed but the only constant unchanging blessing in our lives is YOU.
You are the most merciful Gurudev. The fact that I am still in Krishna Consciousness is proof that you are the most merciful.
You are the most tolerant person I have ever known. You are the most witty, extremely knowledgeable, with the best memory, the best judge of time and situation, the most benevolent, a wonderful linguist, extremely selfless, always adjusting, the person who prays for everyone, wonderful poet, most impartial, very powerful.
When I watch the weekly JSSS meetings on youtube, I feel so happy to hear about your glories from our senior god family.
I remember the temple president of Auckland- Kala Samvara Prabhu liken you to Bhishma Pitamaha. I felt it was so apt. You are a lifelong bramhachari sannyasi who has fought and is valiantly fighting with the forces of Maya on behalf of your beloved Srila Prabhupad.
Your pranam mantra being so powerful so as to make the water in the cup boil....so powerful to save that disciple who was attacked by the drunkards, your presence so powerful that it scared away the snakes which were swimming in the flood waters, your prediction that Tirupati's Deities will come to Iskcon Tirupati to enact Their pastimes, the Spanish devotee who had the greatest fortune to listen to you singing your favourite bhajans in ecstasy ( you didn't know that he was under your table - he had come to quietly clean your room while you were away)......all these pastimes of yours fill my heart with great joy and satisfaction that I - the Kali Yuga fallen rascal have been initiated by you. I can carry on in Krishna Consciousness only by clinging on to your merciful lotus feet.
I have saved your caranamrta since 2007 and have it sparingly, the dust from your lotus feet when you went for a walk in Melbourne many years back, a big straw you had used to drink juice, a garland you had worn, a soap you used - which is still as fragrant as your beautiful qualities, a rose petal on which you had unknowningly walked on, your saffron japa bag, a piece of your sannyas cloth.....there are other disciples who have so much more, but I have saved these treasures for life. They give me solace and the power to carry on in tough times.
Dear Gurudev, we pray to Lord Narasimhadev to always protect you and let you see not only the opening of theTemple of the Vedic Planetarium as is your transcendental wish, but for many many more years.
Without your blessings, prayers and mercy I am helpless.
You are my inspiration, my kavach, my power, my light, my guide and my most beloved spiritual father.
Our spiritual grandfather Srila Prabhupad is very proud of you. You are extremely dear to him, as we are to you.
Wishing you a very happy vyasa puja dear Gurudev.
Purely your mercy case
Saranmukhi devi dasi (Sydney)