|| Hare Krishna ||
My most worshiped, respected, and dearest Gurumaharaj,
Please accept my most respectful prostrated obeisances at your lotus feet along with heartfelt warm wishes on the auspicious occasion of your Sri Vyasa-puja,
All glories to Srila Prabhupada and to your glorious services!
Your unparalleled determination to live and to preach is, in fact, the driving force, the fundamental source of inspiration, and the ultimate illustration of enthusiasm for us to comprehend and to learn how to serve and please the Guru. You are truly teaching by your own example. Additionally, your holiness has always provided us the cause to chant more rounds, do more parikramas, follow all regulative principles strictly, and be more austere in order to offer the results for your good health. This is the evidence of your unfathomably merciful personality. But alas, the most unworthy fools like my fallen self are still not able to corroborate even to the most fundamental standards, what then to speak of fulfilling your desires and pleasing you? Each day as I hear your talks on Shri Chaitanya Charitamrita, I feel more and more guilty and ashamed of myself and curse for not being able to get rid of the vicious sensual pleasures. Although I am saturated with the desire to please you completely by all my actions always, I find myself most incapable to do so due to my compelling attachment with Maya. Hence, I feel disoriented from your services at times. But by your blessings, somehow I am able to render one humble service for your pleasure. Since April 2020 I have been conducting daily zoom classes in 'Hindi' as a 'study class' with the devotees/members of various Bhakti-vrikshas. We have been scrutinizingly studying Srila Prabhupada's books line by line and word by word. We have successfully completed the study of Sri Bhaktirasamrita Sindhu, Sri Upadeshamrita, Sri Brahmasamhita, Sri Ishopanishada, Life and Teachings of Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Teachings of Lord Chaitanya (about to get completed), and Srimad Bhagavad-gita As It Is (just started). I have also been conducting online Bhakti-vriksha classes regularly on a weekly basis. Simultaneously, your dear spiritual daughter and my good-wife Līlāmṛtā Lakṣmī Devī Dāsī has also been conducting children programs online on a weekly basis. We have been uploading and sharing our sessions to YouTube channels, Facebook, LinkedIn, Reddit, Twitter, Tumblr, Blogger, Pinterest, and WhatsApp groups so that some or the other day, the devotees can benefit from these resources. I am humbly sharing the links in order to acquire your guidance to further improve our presentations:
Dāmodara Dhanañjaya Dāsa (YouTube): https://tiny.one/DDDaasaHHJPS
Līlāmṛtā Lakṣmī Devī Dāsī (YouTube): https://tiny.one/LLDDasi
Kindly also please accept most respectful obeisances from Līlāmṛtā Lakṣmī Devī Dāsī and my mother HG Devaki Jagat Janani Devī Dāsī on account of this auspicious occasion of Sri Vyasa-puja.
The faults in this offering are all mine and whatever is good is all due to your causeless blessings and mercy.
With ananta koti dandavat pranaams at your pious feet,
Your most insignificant and imprudent servant,
Dāmodara Dhanañjaya Dāsa
|| Hare Krishna ||
