oṁ ajñāna-timirāndhasya jñānāñjana-śalākayā
cakṣur unmīlitaṁ yena tasmai śrī-gurave namaḥ
nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale
śrīmate jayapatāka-svāmin iti nāmine
nama ācaryapādāya nitāi-kṛpa pradāyine
gaura-kathā dhāma-dāya nagara-grāma tārine
Hare Krishna dear Guru Maharaj,
Please accept my humble respectful obeisances at your lotus feet.
All glories to you Guru Maharaj !!!
All glories to Srila Prabhupada !!!
Śrīla Gurudev, on the occasion of your Vyāsa Pūjā this year, I pray to Śrī Śrī Rādhā Gopinath, Gaura Nitāi, Jagannath Baladev Shubadra and Narasiṁhadeva to protect you and bless you with good health.
We were hoping that you will be coming to Sydney this year since you started to travel. Unfortunately, you had to visit other countries that needed your immediate attention and you could not come to Sydney. By your causeless mercy, I could not imagine how fortunate I was to get your physical association when we visited Chennai earlier this year. You had to come to Chennai for your regular check-ups after travelling abroad at the same time I was in Chennai. Not only we were able to see you in person, you gave shelter to my son Achyuth under your lotus feet. I have read a conversation between Srila Prabhupad and Guru dasa prabhu. Srila Prabhupada explains the meaning of krpa-siddhi. Srila Prabhupad says “Kṛpā-siddhi means that you are not willing take this bag. I say, "Take it, take it, take it." "No." That is kṛpā-siddhi. Even you are unwilling, I give you in your pocket, push it. That is kṛpā-siddhi.”. On the day you gave shelter to my son, I understood that you are a manifestation of that krpa-siddhi.
We had a very busy Damodar month in Sydney. By your blessings, we were able to achieve 24000 lamps offered to Lord Damodar. Please continue to give us your blessing so that we can help many people to come to Krishna consciousness.
By your mercy, we have been able to start new Bhakti Vriksha classes and Manjari programs based on the training provided by HG Caitanya Avatari das prabhu and HG Rasamayi devi dasi mataji. Time and time again, we can clearly see that we are incapable of doing anything on our own. But it is only by your mercy that these things are happening.
Recently I heard one of your lecture and you mentioned about the time you were stabbed. You said “I can just tell you frankly as a person who did not know whether I would be living or not, I only had two concerns, either that if I died I get back to Srila Prabhupad and that if I live I could continue to serve Srila Prabhupad in this life and I don’t see there is any other priority in my life or purpose, to any disciple of Srila Prabhupad.”. Dear Gurudev, I do not know how long it will take me to be fixed in your instructions. Only with your mercy, I can become fixed in your service. I beg at your lotus feet to help me to imbibe this mood and be fixed in serving you.
Many times we are clueless and we are struggling to even understand whether what we do is good for our Krishna consciousness. I feel that my ego and pride is growing rapidly. I am feeling helpless to curb the growth. Serving you should be the only identity for me and I strongly believe that if I can become strong in this identity, everything else will automatically fall inline. Dear Gurudev, please help me so that I do not commit any vaisnava aparadh and I do not lose my Krishna consciousness.
Once again, I am repeating the same wish that I placed before you every year. Myself, my wife Sriguru Bhakti devi dasi and my son Bhakta Achyuth are trying hard to bring many souls unto your lotus feet with the help of our Bhakti Vriksha devotees. Everyone is very sincere to please you except me. My sincere heartfelt prayer to you to bestow your mercy upon them so that all of them can be fixed in your service.
I am struggling to be a good father to my son Achyuth and a good husband to my wife. Please help me so that I can guide both of them materially and spiritually.
On this auspicious day it is my sincere prayer that please help myself, my wife and my son to remain in the service of your lotus feet without succumbing to the materialistic pleasures. I also sincerely pray to Lord Nrsimhadev to always protect you so that more and more conditioned souls can be delivered by your mercy.
your fallen and unworthy servant begging for your mercy,
Anandamaya Gopinath das (Diksha Disciple)