Dear Guru Maharaj,
Please accept our respectful obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
On your Vyasapuja day, we wish to remember and cherish our connection with you and this glorious parampara. We could only be thankful and try to be loyal for all the fortune and auspiciousness that this parampara has blessed upon these unqualified through you.
We are fortunate to have an acharya like Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur who was so attached to his spiritual master Srila Gaurakisore das babaji and was intensely feeling that his life is useless without obtaining the shelter of his guru. His cry for babaji maharaj to accept him as his disciple; His work to fulfil the desire of his instructing father Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur; His fight against mayavada and concocted representation of absolute truth; His purity was the force that gave way to cremate his spiritual master's body in a Vaishnava way; His uncompromising bold preaching; His clarity in presenting the absolute truth ... All had pleased his previous acharyas and his living as a ray of Vishnu was a great success.
We are fortunate to have a revolutionary acharya like His Divine Grace A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada who was instructed by his spiritual master on the first meet. He meditated on that first instruction from his spiritual master and the subsequent one which he received at the bank of Radha Kunda for throughout his life as his connection with his guru. His travelling to US at an advanced age; His struggles in Jaladuta with two heart attacks, sea sickness, vomiting and finally taking shelter of Sri Caitanya Caritamrta; His peom of surrender at the Boston harbour; His life risking endeavours to start this international society; His sleepless nights to translate precious literatures in English; His fight against maya and constantly giving good counsel to his sincere disciples; His round the globe travelling to bring about revolution in hearts of generations of men; His whole life as an example to the whole world ... Srila Prabhupada also had pleased his previous acharyas and made his living a great success.
Amongst many wonderful disciples Srila Prabhupada had left behind, we are extremely fortunate to have you as our dear spiritual father. Your very living in this planet is to fulfil the orders of Srila Prabhupada. Every thought, every action, every endeavour, every word, every travel, every lecture and every day’s every struggle of yours is to make Srila Prabhupada's word come true. You have no other desire in your life other than to please Srila Prabhupada. You take such pains and travel even today to give Gauranga's mercy in the form of His nectarean pastimes to all you meet. You are empowered personally and recognised by Srila Prabhupada as an eternal associate of Caitanya Mahaprabhu, the most munificent incarnation of Lord. For your offering to Srila Prabhupada – “Jayapataka's life is not his own. It's Prabhupada's to do with as His own'', He replied “I feel very much obliged to you for your nice understanding about my mission”. Although you have pleased Srila Prabhupada with your intensions and heart, Srila Prabhupada has given you a daunting task of spreading Krishna Consciousness unlimitedly and your living is for this. I am very sure all our previous acharyas are also pleased with you, Guru Maharaj.
Now the success of our life is to please you. To please you we are putting our fight to help few families take up Krishna Consciousness; we are helping them to become servant leaders; we are fighting against our own conditionings and trying to live as a devotee, as your disciple, as a servant for your pleasure. We are positive that by your mercy and with the blessings of all Vaishnavas we will also be able accomplish something significant and please you in this lifetime by preaching Krishna Consciousness as presented by Srila Prabhupada. We have confidence in you. We have confidence in the teachings of Srila Prabhupada. We will put up a good fight against maya to prove that we are part of this irresistable army of Lord Caitanya.
Begging for your blessings on this auspicious day.
Your children,
Bandhu Madhava das
Sumati Jahnava devi dasi
ISKCON Sri Narasimha Giridhari Mandir
Bangalore