Dear Gurumaharaj,
Please accept my respectful obeciences at the Dust of Your Lotus Feet. All glories to your Divine Grace!! All glories to Srila Prabhupada!!!
“Nama Om Vishnu padaya Krsna presthaya bhutale
Srimate Jayapataka swamin iti namine,
Nama Acharya padaya Nitai kripa pradayine
Gaura katha dhama daya nagara grama tarine”
nama om vishnu Padaya krishna Presthaya Bhutale
srimate bhaktivedanta svamin iti namine
namaste sarasvate deve gaura vani pracharine
nirveshesh sunyavadi pashchatya desa tarine.
All glories to your most auspicious appearance day Gurumaharaj. I offer my all respects with utmost humility to one who is an eternal assosciate of Nityananda Prabhu, to the one who is the foremost soldier in the army of Srila Prabhupada, to the one who is unstoppable, unbeatable by any external circumstances in serving the instructions of Srila Prabhupada, to the one who by his own example is inspiring each and every one who is coming in his contact even for a second, to the one who is drowning the entire universe into the pools of ecstacy by narrating Lord Chaitanya's pastimes. All glories to you Gurumaharaj!!!
The lines written by Bhaktivinoda thakur , it seems as if it is for me only:-
"jogyatā-vicāre, kichu nāhi pāi,
tomāra karuṇā-sāra
karuṇā nā hoile, kāndiyā kāndiyā,
prāṇa nā rākhibo āra
If you examine me, you will find no qualities. Your mercy is all that I am made of. If you are not merciful unto me, I can only weep, and I will not be able to maintain my life."
Srila Gurudev, I have no qualification to glorify you, I have neither appropriate mood, nor appropriate words. Neither adequate surrenderence nor adequate understanding, but I have learnt from you that if we glorify Guru, Sadhu and Krishna , that is for our purification, so i am just making an attemt to do so. Please forgive me Gurumaharaj if I commit any offence in my this very attempt. Gurumaharaj for us you are like Nityananda prabhu only, daily giving your mercy through zoom visits, accepting our all menial offerings with so much of love and blessing us a ton. Gurumaharaj by reading your daily activities in the Jayapataka Swami App and hearing JSSS classes, inspires us so much, that inspite of all the problems and difficulties, you are meeting so many devotees ,attending so many preaching programs through zoom, attending so many meetings and taking so many importants decisions, giving us class without fail, and reading Srimad Bhagvatam at night, everything done everyday, it gives us so much motivation to practice krishna consciosness with utmost sincerety in every situation of life.
Your example is the most important gift for us Gurumaharaj, as stated in Bhagvad Gita:-
yad yad ācarati śreṣṭhas tat tad evetaro janaḥ
sa yat pramāṇaṁ kurute lokas tad anuvartate
“Whatever action a great man performs, common men follow.
And whatever standards he sets by exemplary acts, all the world
pursues.” (Bhagavad-gītā 3.21)
Gurumaharaj by your examole we can see how much faith and conviction we should have in the words of our spiritual master. Is it possible for a fallen soul like me Gurumaharaj to have the same determination ?
I want to serve you Gurumaharaj eternally , birth after birth, I want to become an instrument in your hands, even tough insignificant, in fullfilling the magnanimous instructions given to you by Srila Prabhupada. The way you are so enthusiatic and determined to preach and spread the mercy of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, I also want to follow in your footsteps (although I have baby steps) and preach far and wide as much as you desire, but how it is possible for this fallen soul Gurumaharaj who is bereft of all knowledge and have no self realization yet. It can only be possible by your mercy Gurumaharaj, as you are the ocean of mercy.
"ohe!
vaishnaba thakura, doyara sagara,
e dase koruna kori’
diya pada-chaya, sodho he amaya,
tomara carana dhori
0 venerable Vaishnava, O ocean of mercy, be merciful unto your servant. Give me the shade of your lotus
feet and purify me. I hold on to your lotus feet."
Please accept me Gurumaharaj. Please engage me in your service .
Your aspiring servent
Smriti Agrawal, (sheltered), Jamshedpur, India
