namah om visnu padaya krishna preshtaya bhutale
srimate jayapataka swamin iti namine
nama acharya padaya nitai kripa pradayine
gaura katha dama daya nagara grama tarine
namah om visnu padaya krishna preshtaya bhutale
srimate bhaktivedanta swamin iti namine
namaste saraswate deve gaura vani pracharine
nirvisesa sunyavadi paschatya desa tarine
Param Pujya Gurudeva,
Please accept my respectful obeisances (dandavat pranam).
All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to you on the auspicious occasion of your Vyasa Puja.
Though I am not qualified to glorify you Guru Maharaja, but by your mercy and the mercy of the vaisnavas I will try to express my gratitude to you. With your blessings, I hope that I will be able to write something in your glorification.
Gurudeva you are so merciful that you have given shelter even to a very sinful person like me. By the mercy of you and the vaisnavas I am trying to do some devotional service at New Rajapur Jagannatha Dham. However, I am still not able to render the services with full devotion. Due to this sometimes I also commit vaisnava aparadha. Whenever I observe you, I find that you are executing the instructions of your spiritual master, Srila Prabhupada, with full devotion and dedication. Taking inspiration from you, it is my heartfelt desire to develop atleast a drop of the sincerity and devotion that you have towards Srila Prabhupada and our acaryas.
While hearing the pastimes of Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Srila Prabhupada I can understand how you have imbibed their mood in spreading the message of the Lord through extensive preaching activities so that everyone can get the mercy of Lord Sri Krsna. It is my sincere desire that I also imbibe your mood to preach extensively by spreading the message of Caitanya Mahaprabhu and get more and more people to take your shelter.
By your mercy and the mercy of devotees, I am practicing Krsna consciousness along with my family under the guidance of H. G. Caitanya Avatari Prabhu and H. G. Rasamayi mataji. I have been practicing Krsna consciousness for the last nine years, however, I find that sometimes I am unable to control my false ego and desire for name and fame. With the help of the devotees in our community I have taken up the study of Srila Prabhupada’s books, to develop my spiritual intelligence to control myself in difficult situations.
I seek your blessings for my mother(Gita Devi), my wife (Sumukhi Nandini Devi dasi) and my children (Kunjeshwari, Karunamrta, Doyal Nitai) and myself so that all of us can continue to be engaged in serving the lotus feet of Srila Prabhupada and you, and make advancement in our spiritual lives under the guidance of H. G. Caitanya Avatari Prabhu and H. G. Rasamayi mataji.
I would like to express my heartfelt and sincere thanks to you for everything in my life.
Your useless servant,
Om Krsna das