My most dear respectful Spiritual Father,
Śrīla Jayapatākā Swami Guru Mahārāja!
Please accept my prostrated obeisances at the dust of Your Divine lotus feet on the occasion of your 71st Vyāsa-pūjā. All glories to Your Divine Grace.
It is said that the disciple should remember the mercy of his spiritual master every moment of his life. If not every moment atlist 3 time in a day. Though I am not upto the mark as a disciple but still I will take this opportunity of your Vyāsa-pūjā to remember your transcendental qualities and glorify You for my spiritual advancement.
Guru Mahārāja Your Qualities and glories are very very vast and unlimited. I can't explain it. From the beginning of your spiritual life Śrīla Prabhupāda has given you big big imprortant service and you have exiquted all those services very sincerely and successfully. Your have done unlimited service to Śrīla Prabhupāda like - distributing huge quantities of books, developing Navadvīpa Māyāpur dhāma, developing Namahatta - Bhakti-vṛkṣa, accepting 50,000 disciples, building TOVP, unlimitedly Traveling and preaching all over the world, developing Navadvīpa Maṇḍala Parikrama, taking care of management of huge zone as GBC etc. These shows how much you have won the trust of Śrīla Prabhupāda and how much he has empowered you. All these are very great example of your love and dedication to your spiritual master and his mission.
One quality really inspire me very much that you are completely fearless and fixed up to fullfill the disire of Śrīla Prabhupāda and privious ācārya's in all sercumstances. Even though there are many challenges, calamities one after another.it is not one year or 2 year. But year after years from the beginning 1970, when you came to Māyāpur dhāma it was only paddy field. Then learning Bengali language, traveling remote villages and preaching, cullecting funds to mentain temple, cultivating land and selling vegetable, working in the shop after being a grand son of millionaire, traveling tirelessly one continent to another continent, being physically attacked, getting removed from the precident posts in Kolkata 11 times, Brain Hemarage and becoming half paralysed and finally Liver and Kindly transplant. In all these extreme difficulties you never become disturbed and gave up a single service nor you are performing them with lots of tentions and dissatisfaction. Rather you are so blessfull and greatfull. This proves how much you are spiritualy advance and fixed up in transendetal platform.
When I got opportunity to do your personal service, I saw you are 100% engaged in Kṛṣṇa's service and always active to completel the project of Prabhupāda and privious acarya's. You are busy to attend different meetings, solving the problem of devotees. Even when you are in toilet either you are chanting or answering the questions of disciples in mail.at night devotees read Srimad-Bhagavatam to you or you are dreaming about Prabhupāda, Caitanya Mahaprabhu. I was completely shocked. How a person phisically challenged but 100% busy without any complain. It was giving me deep lesson in my life that how we should serve spiritual master.
Above all even though you are menifesting such an exsolted devotional quality, you are so simple, so humble, so loving and accommodative. No tinch of pride. In your all lecture you speaks the same thing,the sicret of success in spiritual life is to satisfy the spiritual master and privious ācārya's.Guru Mahārāja it is very difficult to understand you with material intellectual mind set. I am not able to understand you. Rencently you came to Bīrnagar to perchese the land to make some memorial and library for Bhakti Vinoda Ṭhākura. And you are fully active in that with a team of disciples. I saw this year there are many new place for Night stay in ISKCON's name in Navadvīpa Maṇḍala Parikrama. This year you have completed your 50,000 disciples. As soon as 1 year of doctors restrictions is completed you went abroad for long time for preaching. Such a short time so many things you are achieving. You are not at all attached to any place, post or comfortable facilities, not even to your disciples. You are fully attached to service to your Guru and taking all difficultiesand to fullfill the disire of Śrīla Prabhupāda and privious acharya's. Nothing can stop you. This transendetal quality wch you are showing by your life is very very important and Inspiring to all of us .today is your 71st Appearance day and 50th year of sannyāsa I beg your causeless mercy so that I can practice this quality atleast some extent to please you, though I am unqualified.
Guru Mahārāja you are reminding us the qualities of Rantideva, Haridāsa Ṭhākura. They have volunteeryly accepted all suffering to make others happy and delivered. Though your body is not fit to stay, your Godbrothers are calling you and you have also done sufficient service, still you have choose to stay in this world to train many neophyte disciples like me and deligate the ligacy of Śrīla Prabhupāda service and bring maximum saul to the spiritual world. His Grace Jananivāsa Prabhu was saying "I never saw you not doing service even for a second. Even after your health crisis you never stoped your sevā. This is Vaiṣṇava, who does not live for himself". In the most auspicious day of your Vyāsa-pūjā I beg that, Guru Mahārāja I don't want to increase your suffering, rather please bless me so that I can reduce some of your lodge by coming out from māyā and lazy zone and doing responsible service for your mission.
Guru Mahārāja you are fully surrender to Kṛṣṇa. In all these life threatening incident you are teaching us how to surrender to Kṛṣṇa. Mārobi rakobi nitya dāso prati tuā adhikāra.
And you are completely fearless.
When you were weating for new kindly, liver and seems that it will be not available. Every alternative day you has to go for dialysis. That time we saw you are taking report of preaching from different senior devotees, depts, temples and you asked us to pray and chant extra rounds. I was surprised to see that not only you are fearless but your mind is mixed in the service. Actually you don't need any of our prayers. We are practicing because of your prayers. But you are using this incident to increase our devotional service and our love for you.
Guru Mahārāja you are Rare Jewel Vaiṣṇava.I am very very fortunate to have you as my spiritual father and get your association. I pray to Kṛṣṇa so that I can take advantage of Your Divine association.
In this auspicious day I remember how you have offered your mercy to this unqualified saul also. When I was brand new just joined in ISKCON Māyāpur. I was not able choose my spiritual master and praying to Gaura Nitāi while dancing with many devotees. That time all of sudden you came and embresed me and encouraged me. As if you are answering my prayers to Gaura Nitāi. I was surprised how you are so mercy full even to a new boy. When I was giving my best efforts in Bhakti-vṛkṣa preaching and Book Distribution during Kolkata Ratha-yatra.we were trying to do something new to increase preaching. And we didn't inform you. But within our heart we are trying to satisfy you.and I don't know how before we inform you aksed me the reports and how we are planning. I was very happy to give our service reports. it was looking that you know everything what, we are doing and you are satisfied by our best efforts. After this incident I was convinced that this year our preaching going to become very successful. And exactly same thing happened, those 2-3 year we have highest registration in Bhakti-vṛkṣa stall and we distributed highest no of books in pandal. Guru Mahārāja thank you very much for your presence and blessings in our service to You. Guru mahārāja it was very satisfying and encouraging in my devotional service.
Recently for last some years due to some obctracles and my lack of sinciarity I am not able to give my 100% whole hearted efforts in devotional service and preaching to satisfy you. In this auspicious occasion of your Vyāsa-pūjā I beg your special mercy so that I can surender my life fully at your lotus feet and give my 100% in your service to Śrīla Prabhupāda. At the end I sincerely beg forgiveness for whatever offences I have committed at your Lotus feet. On the occasion of your vyāsa-pūjā please bless me so that I can become your trust worthy disciple of and strictly follow your instructions and guidance in my life. Guru Mahārāja please bless me so that I can become an insignificant instruments for your service to Srila Prabhupada.
Your unqualified spiritual son,
Mahadhama Vṛndāvana dāsa
ISKCON Kolkata