Vyāsa-pūjā 2021

nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale
śrīmate jayapatākā-svāmin iti nāmine
namo ācāryapādāya nitāi-kṛpa-pradāyine
gaura-kathā dhāmadhāya nagara-grāma tāriṇe

My dear spiritual father His Holiness Jayapatākā Swami Guru Mahārāja,

I offer my respectful obeisances unto your lotus feet on the auspicious occasion of your 72nd Vyāsa-pūjā celebration. All glories to your lotus feet! All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda!

I am very fortunate having been accepted by you as your disciple on 20th of November, 2020. I was intensely praying for the same from past few months and it happened. I am really indebted for all my senior godbrothers who helped me achieve this stepping stone in my spiritual life. Thank you so much Guru Mahārāja for accepting such a degraded person as your son. I will put my best efforts to not become a burden on you and rather serve you by any means possible. Mind is always trying to pull me down inspite of 4-5 hours of daily sādhana. Yet I am constantly trying to get up and pick up things faster, in your initiation lecture you mentioned that one should be good at ignoring the mind and immediately get up and start doing any services which will bring one back to the track, this mediation is going on Guru Mahārāja daily. The only fact that I am still practising Kṛṣṇa consciousness being so adamant and so much surrendered to mind’s demands is just because you are so tolerant and merciful upon me.

I had and still have the good fortune to associate with my senior godbrothers that I learned so many things from them, they are always busy in expanding the mission and this is how they are able to preach and make so many young devotees in Bangalore. I am also trying to assist them in their preaching programmes Guru Mahārāja to make Bangalore a Kṛṣṇa conscious city.

I have been assigned to lead a book distribution every Saturdays along with some more unmarried devotees and we are able to do around 20-30 books in two hours from 5pm to 7pm. I have been attending a preachers programme every Sundays from 7:30pm to 9:00 pm and my seniors wants me to preach and lead a Bhakti-vṛkṣa in future. They feel that I am qualified to do that. I was also a part of Gītā Course management for an outreach programme we did last year and we were able to retain around 10 boys. I request for your blessings this very auspicious day that I will be able to help you in your mission in some way.

Now the success of my life is to please you, to please you I am putting efforts to cultivate unmarried boys to take up to Krishna consciousness; I am fighting my own conditionings and trying to live as a devotee, as a servant for your pleasure. Every day is a struggle to do Sadhana, every single day is a new challenge in life, every single day is a struggle to train the mind, I beg at your lotus feet to kindly give me the strength to continue this journey whole heartedly and preach this Kṛṣṇa consciousness to newer and newer people. I am positive that by your mercy and with the blessings of all Vaiṣṇavas I will be able to accomplish something significant and please you. I have confidence in you, I have confidence in the teachings of Śrīla Prabhupāda. Please give me the strength to take full shelter of your instructions and become your faithful servant and representative. I aspire to become a faithful servant of your servants.

Begging for your blessings on this auspicious day.

Yours eternally,
Abhayacaraṇa Acyuta dāsa,
Śrī Śrī Narasiṁha Giridhārī Mandir,
Bangalore, India