Anantasesa Balabhadra Das (Sydney, Australia)
My dear spiritual father, HH Jayapataka Swami Guru Maharaj!
Please accept my respectful prostrate obeisances at your lotus feet!!!
All glories to you Guru Maharaj!!!
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!!!
I beg to offer you my homages on the occasion of Your Divine Graces 72nd Vyasa Puja!
I want to first thank you for giving this unworthy soul a privilege to be your son. It was my humble prayer in last year’s vyasa puja offering to get harinam initiation from you and I was overjoyed when you accepted it. This year on 27th March you showered your unconditional and causeless mercy and accepted me as your disciple. My sincere prayers to you Guru Maharaj to please always keep me under your shelter and provide protection from pride and envy, so that I can always act as your menial servant and carry out your orders with utmost humility.
Your Divine Grace is an ocean of mercy, always singing the glories of Sri Krishna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. As a true representative and a bona fide transparent medium, you are giving us a very rare opportunity to relish the pastimes of Mahaprabhu via your daily ‘Chaitanya Lila’ classes. Even under severely limiting physical circumstances, you continue to enthusiastically spread the glories of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and Mayapur dham, but this unfortunate soul is still not regular to receive this priceless mercy. I beg to you on this auspicious occasion to please help me to listen to your vani daily, so that I can purify myself and taste a tiny portion of this nectar, which alone is sufficient to inundate the world with Krishna prema.
Your Divine Grace is an exemplary example of a pure vaisnava. Sometimes when I meditate on the meaning of Shikshashtakam, I notice how wonderfully you have imbibed each and every quality mentioned therein.
You are showering the supreme benediction on entire earth far and wide by spreading the glories of Mahaprabhu – ‘Sarvatma snapam Sri Krishna Sankirtanam’
You have unflinching faith in Lord’s holy name that it can provide everything to a fallen soul. I vividly remember this from your pastime when you answered to one of the devotees’ question that the medicine to corona virus is chanting the holy name as holy name can destroy all the ill effects of kali yuga – ‘namnam akari bahuda nija sarva shaktis’
You are epitome of humility and patience. With such vast influence on so many devotees I don’t see even a tinge of pride in you Guru Maharaj – ‘trinad api sunicena taror api sahishnuna’
Time and again I see you intensely meditating on how to fulfil Srila Prabhupada’s mission and there is no other desire that you carry – ‘mama janmani janmanishvare bhavatad bhakti ahaituki twayi’
You only desire to stick to the lotus feet of Guru and Gauranga. You not only stop here but also uplift fallen souls like me, immersed in sense gratification, to make them achieve that topmost destination – ‘sthita dhuli sadrisham vichintaya’
Joyful tears flow through your eyes when you hear Lord’s name – ‘nayanam galad ashru dharaya’
You have repeatedly expressed your feeling of separation from our beloved Lord Gauranga. I vividly remember this when a devotee from Sydney had asked you ‘How are you?’ and in reply you said you were feeling separation from Lord Gauranga – ‘shunyaitam jagat sarvam Govinda virahena me’
Inspite of being put under intense difficulty and testing times of Covid-19, you always remained determined to serve Guru and Gauranga unconditionally – ‘yatha tatha va vidadhatu lampato mat prana nathas tu sa eva naparah’
Your Divine Grace has unlimited glorious qualities but one that I would specifically like to glorify with his mercy would be his love and care towards devotees. During the time of pandemic when personal visits are limited and restricted, you allowed us to have your association and darshan via online channels. You did not just stop there but went to the extent of ensuring that devotees all around the globe get prime time as per their time zone to have your mercy. What greater example I can think of where you always make adjustments to your own schedule to accommodate needs of other devotees and your disciples. I usually forget what activities I would have done a few days ago, but you amaze me by your caring attitude when you make devotees recall that you had stayed at their place many years ago, when you tell then you had met them at a certain place for the first time, when you instantly call out name of devotees when your servants struggle to recollect their names. You have kindly given me so many instances to get inspired by your caring and loving attitude, I now sincerely beg to help me develop these qualities so that I can carry forward the same mood as you carry for other devotees.
Inspired by your enthusiastic and relentless preaching, Your Divine Grace by your mercy I wish to preach more and get more souls to your lotus feet. I humbly beg to be used as a preaching tool in your hand, so that I always remain engaged in serving your lotus feet. I also sincerely beg you to remove deep rooted enviousness in me by your causeless divine mercy, which keeps blocking my spiritual growth.
My sincerely prayers to Lord Jagannath, Baladev and Shubhadramayi for your good health, well-being and long life so that you can guide more souls like me in fulfilling the glorious mission of Srila Prabhupada.
Dear Guru Maharaj, lastly please forgive me for any offense that I have done at your lotus feet knowingly or unknowingly. Please shower your merciful glance upon my parents and my brother and enable all of us to receive the mercy showered by you Guru Maharaj and please bless us so that we are always engaged in the service of Guru and Gauranga.
Please accept this humble attempt to glorify you Guru Maharaj!
Anantasesa Balabhadra Das