Beloved Guru Maharaja, my dear Spiritual Father Srila Jayapataka Swami,
Please accept my most respectful and prostrated obeisances at Your lotus feet. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
Today a devotee asked me some questions regarding You and I was meditating on what qualities completely conquered my heart and made me fully trust You.
You are not judgmental, You don't use any manipulative technique to control people's minds, You very humbly show, with Your example and love, what is Bhakti and dedication to Guru and Gauranga.
Of course, those are just a few of Your qualities. But here is when, by Krsna and devotees mercy, I saw with the eyes of my heart those qualities.
I was struck with owe and wonder when once I translated for a Mataji who had been hurt so much by another devotee. You, very attentively and compassionately, were listening and giving advice and I saw that simultaneously You were writing some notes. What struck me was that You were fully present, fully dedicated to that Mataji and the compassion You had, filled the room. Next day You asked me to translate a letter and what took, fully and irreversibly, my heart was that the letter was for the devotee who had hurt the Mataji, all the notes You had taken the day before were the points You were mentioning in the letter and those words poured out mercy, compassion and the desire to bring that soul closer to Krsna, no trace of judgment or pointing finger attitude, You were able to say the truth with such compassion that my heart completely melted while witnessing how You were helping both souls to come out from Maya’s clutches, in the form of miseries.
Yes, from that point I developed firm faith in You! I sincerely thought inside “this is the devotee I aspire to serve!”
Guru Maharaja You are a true well-wisher whose only interest is to please Guru and Gauranga by connecting souls to Krsna. I am just a tiny spark and You are the mountain giving me shelter, I bow down to Your lotus feet putting my heart in a such cooling place.
Thank You for showing us by Your example what is worthy to live for and what is not.
Begging to remain at the dust of Your holy lotus feet and to be able to please You.
Your grateful daughter,
Akarsini Radhika dd
