Vyāsa-pūjā 2020
Hare Krsna Dearest Spiritual Father
Please accept my respectful obeisances
All glories to Srila Guru Maharaj
All glories to Srila Prabhupad
All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga
I am really blessed to have received you as my spiritual father. It is very inspiring to see how you are always active in preaching irrespective of the situation. You are unstoppable.
For many years, I was struggling with bhakti vriksha and was not able to make out how to serve members better and help them advance. Then, I learnt a lot from your personal example that how you take care of each and everyone you interact with. The loving exchanges that you have with devotees that leave an everlasting impression of your divine self unto them. I remember one recollection of a nurse from ILBS Delhi. She mentioned that she used to tell her name to patients but they kept forgetting. On the contrary, when she told you her name, although you were not fully conscious that time, you used to call her by name.
Recently, when you visited Bangalore, I handed over some dakshina in your lotus hands. Your servant tried to take it from you, but you pulled it back, touched to your head and kept it in your pocket next to your heart. For a person like me, who is not very advanced or known, but a very ordinary person, receiving such a reciprocation from your divine self was unimaginable. That was really heart touching. Or I can say, I was practically killed by that loving reciprocation. This also inspires me to deal very nicely with devotees irrespective of whether they are junior, senior or neophyte.
And one incidence I would like to share with you Guru Maharaj. It was Navadvipa Mandal parikarma 2013, my first parikrama. I was at Surabhi Kunj that time when your divine self came. I was next to the altar and you were right there at the entrance. I couldn't see you but when you reached, I felt an out of the world experience which I never felt before. It was alien to me but yet so much enchanting, that I still remember that feeling. That is the day I desired to receive initiation from you. In 2015, you kindly accepted me as your disciple.
At initiation, you asked if we would help you serve Srila Prabhupad. That made me realize how much love you have for Srila Prabhupad. You could have asked if we would be ready to serve you, but no, you asked if we are ready to serve Srila Prabhupad. So, my humble request at your divine lotus feet to bless me that I can always be engaged in serving Srila Prabhupad as a service to you Guru Maharaj. Please bless me as, without the blessings, it is not possible to do service unto Guru and Gauranga for eternity.
And with that desire, my humble request at your lotus feet to please bless me that I can soon get married to a suitable girl, who can be a good teammate and that together we can serve more and more and be an example of a good grhastha couple in this mission of Srila Prabhupad.
Seeking your blessings, love and affection,
Your spiritual son,
Akshay Gaursundar Das