Srila Guru Maharaja,
Hare Krishna
Please accept my respectful obeisances on to your Divine Lotus feet.
All Glories to Srila Prabhupada.
Guru Maharaj We are blessed to offer few words of glorification of a great Vaishnava like you on your 72nd vyasapuja day.
Gurudev you have ocean of good qualities. Seeing you, I have to learn how to accept inconveniences in life for the pleasure of guru which is the greatest sacrifice a disciple can do. It is not easy for conditioned soul like me covered by a body and mind to accept inconveniences. You have time and again transcended all these challenges and lived a life only for the service of Prabhupada.
Like this there are many more qualities, I just mentioned one.
Srila Guru Maharaja in the Srimad Bhagavatam 5.12.12 Sri Jada Bharata instructs Maharaja rahugana as such,
rahūgaṇaitat tapasā na yāti
na cejyayā nirvapaṇād gṛhād vā
na cchandasā naiva jalāgni-sūryair
vinā mahat-pāda-rajo-’bhiṣekam
“My dear King Rahūgaṇa, unless one has the opportunity to smear his entire body with the dust of the lotus feet of great devotees, one cannot realize the Absolute Truth. One cannot realize the Absolute Truth simply by observing celibacy [brahmacarya], strictly following the rules and regulations of householder life, leaving home as a vānaprastha, accepting sannyāsa, or undergoing severe penances in winter by keeping oneself submerged in water or surrounding oneself in summer by fire and the scorching heat of the sun. There are many other processes to understand the Absolute Truth, but the Absolute Truth is only revealed to one who has attained the mercy of a great devotee“.
From this it's understood that only by the mercy of pure devotee like Your Divine Grace a worthless person like me who is attached to sense gratification can become materially detached and attain pure devotional service to Krsna. On this auspicious day my prayers are
1. To always keep me under the shelter of your lotus feet.
2. To bless me that the quality of my sadhana especially chanting and hearing improve more
3. I should give up the fault finding mentality in other devotees
4. I should serve Srila Prabhupada's mission more and more
5. I should develop attachment to your Divine Lotus feet
6. I also should get more your personal association for which I am hankering
7. Right now i am serving at Iskcon Whitefield, Bangalore under the supervision of Hariksetra prabhuji, please bless that I would be able to contribute well.
8. Please bless me Gurudev, so that I can be always in devotees association and never leave Iskcon.
Please bless me that my mind, which constantly hovers on sense gratification be pulled into thoughts of executing your instructions.
Srila Guru Maharaja please forgive me for all my previous offences.
Your lowly servant,
Kotisasi Gauranga Das
Sri Narasimha Giridhari Mandir
Bangalore, India.
