Dear Guru Maharaja,
Please accept my respectful obeisances in the dust of your lotus feet.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada, and all glories to you on this most holy day.
This spring in Atlanta I got to see you for one weekend, but not on the big weekend where the devotees celebrated your 50th Anniversary of taking Sannyasa. Unable to come, I was glued to the events on Facebook Live!
I remember that you enthusastically taught the large crowd of Americans two lines from the Adhivas Song by Vrindavan Dasa Thakura. Anander Sima Nai, Nirananda Dure Jai. There is no limit of happiness and all unhappinesshas gone. This is what happens when we follow Lord Chaitanya's order, Bolo Krsna, Bhajo Krsna, Koro Krsna Siksa Chant The Holy Names of Krsna, Serve and worship Krsna, and ready and study the teachings of Krsna!
Guru Maharaja, you have blessed us by giving us Krsna Consciousness personally every day! You are instilling in my dull brain over and over again how valuable a gift we have been given....the chanting of The Holy names! Please bless me to imbibe this nectar!
You have recently been stressing the point that especially during this pandemic where we just see bad news, fake news, and panic and anxiety, that we must share this good news of how blissful and auspicious life will be when we just chant Hare Krsna or other Names of God.
Guru Maharaja, when I think of you, no matter what obstacles come your way, you have been UNSTOPPABLE! Your faith in Srila Prabhupada, and your determination to carry out ALL of his many instructions to you is what kept you here. When I think of you, Dear Guru Maharaja, three Bhagavad Gita verses seem perfect for illustrating my point in this offering.
The first verse is 9.2 Raja Vidya Raja Guhyam, Pavitram idam uttamam, Pratyaksavagamam dharmyam, su sukham kartum avyayam "This knowledge is the king of all education, the most secret of all secrets,. It is the purest knowledge, and because it gives direct perception of the self by realization, it is the perfection of religion, and it is JOYFULLY PERFORMED"
This mood fits right in with the glorious Anander Sima Nai, Nirananda Dure Jai! Because you are following Srila Prabhupada's instructions to you, and are deeply steeped in Gaura Katha consciousness, you are joyfully performing your devotional service 24 hours a day!
Krsna tells Arjuna in Bhagavad Gita 18.68 and 69: "For one who explains this supreme secret to the devotees, pure devotional service is guaranteed, and at the end he will come back to Me There is no servant in this world more dear to Me, nor will there ever be one more dear."
Guru Maharaja, as wonderful as we all know that you are, you remain humble and pure, free from all bad qualities.
Thank you for being our ever enthusastic, loving and caring father. Please forgive any offenses I may have made to you and please bless me to somehow please you and Srila Prabhupada.
Your insignificant spiritual daughter,
Kaivalya Sundarī devī dāsī