Dear Gurudeva, Jayapataka Svami Acaryapada, all glories to Your auspicious appearance day! Please accept my respectful obeisance at your lotus feet!
You said: “In material life, one has to have a spiritual master, because by the guidance of a spiritual master, he is reconfirming what we are already hearing from within. When one first hears from the spiritual master, it won’t be that what he’s speaking is completely new, but it will be almost as if we have heard these things, or as if it’s some type of intrinsic truth that we can understand very easily. We’ll even get confirmation from inside, that “Yes, this makes sense.” (From Your book “Black & White Jewels.”)
Sri Krsna said, that instead of offering honor to Him, much better is to honor His servant of the servant of the servant… It is only because of the pure service of His pure devotees to develop Krsna Consciousness in this material world, full of pain and danger, all good things for the spiritual advancement of the fallen souls can be done. That is why Sri Krsna Caitanya is called more merciful, than Krsna Himself, because Gauranga came to Mayapur as the servant of the Supreme Lord to establish possibility for everyone soul to get His mercy and to return back Home, Back to Godhead, Sri Radha-Krsna, very easily, simply by the chanting of His Holy names, simply by remembering Him and never forgetting Him.
Now we honor You as the pure servant of the pure servant, just because You constantly, very humbly, engage Yourself in different ways of devotional service to fulfill desires of Your spiritual master, Srila Prabhupada. I want to show little example, what is possible because of You, our spiritual master, as inspiring teacher for all of us, and how we are trying to do something to make You, maybe, little bit more happy about us, Your spiritual children, spiritual followers on the path of Nitai-Gauranga.
When I returned from Latvia to Sri Mayapur in 2018., I left my country house to good friends, devotees, in order to use it for Krishna, for developing Srila Prabhupada’s Krishna consciousness movement. They are disciples of HH Niranjana Swami, HH Radhanatha Swami, HH Bhakti Bringa Govinda Swami, HG Caitanya Candra Carana prabhu and also new devotees without initiation. They live in different towns, far from my house and do their everyday job, so can visit this country house only on weekends. But in spite of that, little by little, depending from free time and money, they are doing incredible things to please Guru, Gauranga and Sri Sri Radha-Krishna. For this new bhakti center plans for future are big, but for now they already did the main things - build new part for the house, where installed showers and toilets, separate for prabhu and matajis. Before that had put pipes for installing canalization and water inside the house. Also was made central heating in all the rooms by installing special system. Were changed all windows and outside doors.
Although rebuilding of the house will go on and on to make it enough comfortable for devotee service, preaching programs, in February there started to live in young family with two small children. Mataji Lila Manjari is from Latvia, but her husband Sumitra Sudama prabhu is from Orissa, from ancient brahmana family. They have very special ancient Gaura Nitai Deities to whom were doing service his family elders. He is Your disciple with diksa initiation. Their son Ajita Hari is 3,5 years old, but daughter Lakshmi Priya 1,5 years old. Krishna’s arrangement is not predictable. Every day I pray to all the Deities in Mayapur Temple about Their help to the devotees to develop this peaceful country house in the middle of nice forests for the service to Sri Sri Radha-Krishna, for the spreading Nitai-Gaurangas and Srila Prabhupada’s mission in every town and village, for the satisfaction of our spiritual masters and all the good vaishnavas, for helping to the fallen souls to obtain Krsna consciousness and get out of this miserable material world.
Dear Gurudeva, please give Your blessings for this project. Thank You very much for the help in every of my step in this dangerous, painful world. Please, always keep me under the shade of your lotus feet.
I wish you good health in nonstop service to Šrīla Prabhupāda and Šrī Šrī Nitai Gauranga! Rādhā Mādhava kī-jaya!
Audārya Dhāma devī dāsī (diksa)
Śrī Māyāpur, India.