My dear spiritual master Om Visnupada Paramahamsa Parivrajakacarya Astottara-sata-Sri-Srimad Jayapataka Swami Maharaja,
Please accept my respectful obeisances,
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
First, I would like to express my (insufficient) gratitude towards your inconceivable efforts to pour the mercy of Lord Nityananda on our spiritual lives. We see that your holiness is a true mahajana of the finest quality by the way you fight against maya and all the limitations that are imposed externally on your transcendental body and path. This is the fuel of this insignificant aspiring servant, I'm poor in my faith and I truly have no qualifications whatsoever, but I'm humbly trying to serve a true servant of yours, Hara Kanta Das Brahmacari. Your example is so beautiful that the possibility of betraying your holiness (breaking a principle or not chanting my rounds) breaks my heart to pieces and I become disgusted at the thought, I'm so much inspired by your activities that when I meditate on them simultaneously the desire to surrender my life to the fullest becomes stronger, and I comprehend that if I could constantly be meditating on your lotus feet my life would be perfect. But this is my real problem dear Guru Maharaja, is that I'm oblivious of Krishna and my spiritual master, even thought I'm living in a temple and trying to render my life and soul to your mission, to the mission of Śrīla Prabhupāda, to the mission of our Guru-Parampara and Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu, I many times forget your holy lotus feet and I get attacked again and again by the 6 enemies.
The only question I could make personally to your Holiness, when you came the last time to Brazil, in deceber 2019 was "how could I make sankirtan my life and soul?" Which you answered "make Gaura-Nitai your life and soul". Well, dear gurudeva, I'm trying, but my stone-heart is so hard that only the sweetness of your causeless mercy and blessings can transform its luxury into affection to the Supreme Personality of Godhead in his most merciful manifestation. You demonstrate, as an eternal associate of Lord Caitanya what pure love of Krishna-Caitanya is.
My debt for your mercy so far could not be paid even if all the drops of blood and sweat of this and my next thousand bodies be shed on the service of your lotus feet. But in the same way I still ask for more from your limitless heart, even thought I can never reach the price.
Dear Guru-Maharaja my desire is that even thought I cannot repay you, I may be eternally busy in trying to do so. Maybe in this way I can be useful in the transcendental mission of our acaryas and in this way make our society stronger.
Recently we see so many devotees that are fallen here in the Brazilian context, and so many are entering different humors (many times not so much connected to our Founder-Acarya Śrīla Prabhupāda). In this connection also I beg for your mercy so that we can maintain the purity of our intentions and efforts, and in this way we can help many devotees to return to devotional service and many new ones to become serious in their devotional lives. We see practically that the programs you started are very successful to introduce, train and maintain the devotees in our society, to the pleasure and glory of Śrīla Prabhupada.
All glories unto your lotus feet and transcendental activities!
All glories unto His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada!
All glories to Śrī Śrī Gaura-Nitai and the sankirtan movement.
Always yours, your insignificant servant Vinaya Śrī Nitay Das Brahmacari
