Dear Guru Maharaja,
Please accept my respectful obeisance
All glories to Srila Prabhupada
All glories unto your divine lotus feet
My attraction and appreciation for you are constantly increasing as I am able to realize a bit what you are doing. You are on a completely transcendental platform, with only mission of executing Srila Prabhupada’s instruction, doing so many activities. Since I am primarily immersed in ignorance and passion only able to see a bit of your glory.
Few aspects that I meditate and try to ponder upon are
#1. Your enthusiasm for Devotional Service: I am speechless to see how much enthusiasm you have for giving multiple classes, meetings, temple visits, meeting devotees personally. This gives me a lot of inspiration to dedicate my life more and more in your service.
#2. Your personal care: I am touched by your personal care that you extend to your disciples. Your blessing devotees on their birthday is very touching. I am an impersonal person, but hankering to become personal. I am sure that, by meditating on your personal qualities, I can someday become personal in my dealings with devotees. Thus will be able to please you.
#3. All merciful nature: I am regularly following the short but nourishing JPS media e-newsletter. In one of the issues it was mentioned about how to please you. You mentioned that, if someone can preach, it will please you, else even if they practice Krishna Consciousness and be a devotee it will please you. Because of your merciful nature, you are ready to accept whatever a devotee may offer and become pleased. When a pure devotee is pleased with a devotee, he makes tremendous advancement. Just to help devotees advance you are ready to accept even a small service and become pleased. Seeing this my desire to surrender unto your lotus feet completely, is increasing more and more.
These are few of the aspects that I meditate upon about your divine grace.
I also would like to mention the instructions that I am meditating upon.
#1. Make Bangalore Krishna Conscious city.
#2. Sending regular preaching reports & book distribution reports. (this I am poor at, but working on it)
#3. Making something special for Srila Prabhupada’s 125th year.
#4. Hearing attentively
- Chanting of the Hare Krishna Mahamantra
- Lecture of Srila Prabhupada and Yourself
(I learn this in recent newsletter)
Hoping and praying that my services of preaching in Bangalore may offer you pleasure. Pleasing the spiritual master is the only business of a disciple.
Seeking your blessing for rendering service unto you. Begging to forgive my offences in course of my services.
Your disciple,
Hariksetra Das.