My dear Gurudeva,
Please accept my humble and respectful obeisances to your lotus feet.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada! All glories to you on this auspicious day of your Vyasa Puja!
We are very happy. Only because of your unlimited compassion you remain among us, accepting continuous bodily inconveniences. Each of these new challenges comes to further prove its state of complete transcendence to any type of material identification and profound absorption in Lord Gauracandra's pastimes.
It is very inspiring realizing that you are always meditating on how to best perform the services that Your Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada has assigned to you and in each one of it you have been so successful. Your activities reveal the power of your determination, always victorious and fearless in defending the interests of our Society. You are in fact ISKCON's Victory Flag.
You are adept at creating new preaching strategies, to flood the world with the chanting of the Holy Names. We were very ecstatic to see how beautiful the temple of the Vedic Planetarium is getting, its growing number of disciples and cells of bhakti vriksa, your effort to always prioritize the distribution of Srila Prabhupada's books. Last year you ranked seventh in the world among book distributors! With its constant innovations, the whole world has been able to participate, without even leaving their homes, in parikramas, kartik offerings, ratha yatra, etc.! And while you perform such great services, you also dedicate yourself daily to enter the home of each of your disciples and ask them personally how they are going in Krishna consciousness, expressing their care and attention, offering their blessings, showing us that each one matters. You are the shelter of all, guru maharaj. And your mercy is limitless.
Please, guru maharaj, I implore you to forgive my offenses against your lotus feet and to help me overcome the offensive conscience that I have cultivated while trying to cultivate the bhakti plant. Certainly, unfortunately I have been feeding the weeds more than the creeper of devotion. Without your mercy I cannot make any progress. I implore you for your blessings so that, with my heart free from offense, I can develop true love for Krishna and for everyone and the desire to serve as an instrument for His pleasure.
We are starting our small Gurukula project. We ask for your blessings for this project, so that it can serve our children and that of so many devotees in Brazil who want a Vaisnava education for their children. Please, guru maharaj, bless us that we can live this simple life with high thought, maintaining purity and following Srila Prabhupada's instructions without deviation. And may we be your instruments to carry forward the Holy Names and Divine books of Srila Prabhupada tirelessly. May your example and instructions be my life and soul.
Your so fallen aspiring servant
Tungavidya Prema Devi Dasi.