Dearest Gurumaharaj,
Please accept my most respectful obeisances at the dust of your divine lotus feet. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! All glories to your divine grace! Happy Vyasa Puja dearest Gurumaharaj!
“This is the business of the disciple, how to glorify the spiritual master, paramparā. I glorify my spiritual master, you glorify your spiritual master. If we simply do that, glorify, then Kṛṣṇa is glorified.”-Srila Prabhupada’s lecture on Srimad-Bhagavatam on Aug. 4, 1974 in Vṛndāvana.
On this auspicious occasion of your 72nd Vyasa Puja, I wish to thank you Srila Gurumaharaj for everything and try to glorify your divine grace in my humble offering.
This year has been a challenging year for you from the very beginning, it still continues to be one. Your coming out victorious does not amaze me, for ever since I have come to know you, I have seen you facing unsurmountable challenges and winning victory over them gracefully. Your undeterred determination to continue the Chaitanya Lila classes, attend meetings, bless devotees, perform physical exercises despite the severe health crisis mesmerizes me. No human being on this planet can tolerate so much suffering and continue to be jovial and bring happiness and smile to other’s faces.
For those who have achieved the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the master of the pure devotees, what is impossible to do, and what is impossible to give up?
SB 9.5.15
I witness the pages of Srimad Bhagavatam come into being when I see your activities. Please Gurumaharaj help me to appreciate a drop of your millions of good qualities with faith and devotion. For, by doing that my life will be successful.
Despite the severe health challenges, you never failed to sit longer after the Chaitanya Lila classes to offer your blessings to one and all. A disease that trampled people’s lives have not been able to shake you an inch from your determination to serve Srila Prabhupada! What an example for disciples and devotees for generations in ISKCON to follow! Alas, I am not enough qualified to become a recipient of your mercy.
I'm sitting here trying but it is difficult and I know, I am feeling that the only way to really glorify the spiritual master is to serve him and no amount of words can say how wonderful he is. That feeling, that blissfulness of the spiritual master that's the beauty of the spiritual master. The greatness of the spiritual master can be experienced by service. – Srila Prabhupada on Aug. 17, 1968 in Montreal
Dear Gurumaharaj, please bless me to be able to realize your causeless mercy and unparallel qualities and thus be grateful for that, for often, I take them for granted and the demoniac mind considers it cheap. May I render the services I have been given by your mercy sincerely and thus please you one day by my services.
You are so great that despite the health challenges and busy schedule, you take the burden to answer all the emails, answer questions, engage everyone according to their capacity in helping you fulfil Srila Prabhuapada’s instructions and thereby become a part of Lord Chaiatanya’s glorious mission in order to fulfil the purpose of our lives. I feel so cared for and protected. So blessed and loved. Please continue to shower your mercy upon me.
Although this pandemic has caused such chaos in our lives, everyone on the zoom call must be thanking Krishna daily for it, because of this unfortunate situation our good fortunes have been made with your divine presence in our homes every day. My family has experienced an alteration of misfortune to good fortune because of your daily darshans. Who can measure our good fortune?!
Your mercy has encouraged me to preach Krishna consciousness to our relatives and friends. Please bless them and myself Gurumaharaj, so that we can together make progress in the path of Krishna consciousness and please Srila Prabhupada and Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. Please bless me so that our endeavor in book distribution meets success and increases manifold.
You have transformed so many bell metals into gold by the touch of your compassion for them and the overflowing mercy of Lord Gauranga. Please change my heart too, which is so ungrateful and demoniac. With your mercy Gurumaharaj, I will develop taste for hearing the glories of Lord Gauranga and will be able to relish it like you do.
Thank you for the family of god siblings who have helped me on your behalf coming out of their way. Thank you for constantly encouraging us to follow the initiation vows and read Srila Prabhupada’s books. Thank you for setting an outstanding example by doing everything what you ask us to do.
“Actually I am not your spiritual master,” Prabhupāda replied. “That title is simply a formality . You should think of me as your spiritual father, your eternal father.”
Śrīla prabhupāda-līlāmṛta 1.30
Thank you for accepting me as your disciple and connecting me to this glorious guru parampara. Thank you for being my father! You have so kind and magnanimous in giving shelter to such a fool and rascal like me, please bless me so that I can remain grateful and inoffensive. Please never abandon me from the shelter of your divine lotus feet. Please forgive me for the unlimited offenses I have committed knowingly or unknowingly at the dust of your lotus feet.
Wishing to love you someday,
Your spiritual daughter,
Snigdhamayi Sudevi Devi Dasi(Diksha disciple)
Kolkata
India