nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale
śrīmate jayapatākā-svāmin iti nāmine
namo ācāryapādāya nitāi-kṛpa-pradāyine
gaura-kathā dhāmadhāya nagara-grāma tāriṇe
nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale
śrīmate bhaktivedānta-svāmin iti nāmine
namas te sārasvate deve gaura-vāṇī-pracāriṇe
nirviśeṣa-śūnyavādi-pāścātya-deśa-tāriṇe
oṁ ajñāna-timirāndhasya jñānāñjana-śalākayā
cakṣur unmīlitaṁ yena tasmai śrī-gurave namaḥ
Dearest Gurudeva
Please accept my most humble obeisances!
All Glories to our most dearest Srila Prabhupada!!
All Glories to your Divine Grace on this most auspicious day as your Vyasa Puja!!
On this very auspicious day of your 72nd Vyasa Puja celebration, your undeserving daughter seeks your causeless mercy. I have been surviving purely founded on your blessing and prayers.
Gurudeva it saddens me that I have not had your direct darshan for the past 5 years. However I do know that you are always available in the form of your lectures, via social media, and the most important to me, is in the form of your presence in Your pictures that I talk to daily. Thank you for keeping me sane and guiding me through all the nooks and corners and paths I walk in my day to day life. I know its not easy but You have never left me despite the many years of not being able to see you in person. I love how you have your virtual visitings every Saturday and the cute Haribols, Krsna Matir Astu(s) and the way you make all our hearts melt by appreciating our prashad offering… Ufff Gurumaharaj!!! You would always be my favourite hello and hardest goodbye!!! My connection with you is strongest through whatever little service I do for Their Lordships.
You are truly Srila Prabhupada’s teaching in action. When I read Srila Prabhupada’s books, I find your message to do service to Their Lordships and to the devotees, of being tolerant, humble and simple living higher thinking, very prominent in those nectarial books. Dearest Gurudev, let my appreciation for you grow continuously. More importantly Gurumaharaj, I should become a sincere and serious disciple of yours. Let me make you proud. Through all these years of being with you, Guru Maharaja and seeing your mood in serving Srila Prabhupada, I’m reminded of what Prabhupada said: “I don’t know Krishna. I know my Guru Maharaja and he knows Krishna”. Like this, your seriousness in taking Srila Prabhupada’s instructions to heart, “Your love for me will be shown by how much you cooperate together”, is a fine example of how to love Prabhupada. So I always think, we don’t know what love for Krishna means. So if we can love Prabhupada like how you love Prabhupada, then we can love Krishna…
Thank you for teaching me to love, live and laugh despite being born in this material world that is filled with misery, Thank you for being the anchor in my Krsna Conscious life. You have always been the lighthouse that guides me home no matter where I go in life… I owe my all to You!!! Happy Vyasa Puja my eternal Protector!!! May you always shine so we are never in darkness!!!
Your Insignificant Servant,
Gandharvika Radha Rani Devi Dasi JPS