nama om visnu-padaya krsna-presthaya bhu-tale
srimate jayapataka-svamin iti namine
nama-acaryapadaya nitai-krpa pradayine
gaura-katha dhama daya nagara grama tarine
Our beloved Spiritual Father,
All Glories to Srila Prabhupada. All Glories to Sri Guru and Sri Gauranga.
Please accept our most respectful obeisances unto Your Divine Lotus Feet.
Guru Maharaja, on this most auspicious and glorious day of your Vyasapuja, we sincerely pray to their Lordships Sri Sri Radha Madhav Asta Sakhi Vrinda, Sri Narsimhadeva and Sri Sri Pancatattva for your good health.
Guru Maharaja, by your personal example, your divine grace is inspiring all of us that even in such a pandemic situation, Lord Caitanya's mission of spreading Krishna Consciousness shall not slow down. Your divine activities of spreading the glories of the holy name for saving the fallen conditioned souls from material nescience, even in such a challenging pandemic situation shows your unlimited compassion for the humanity. Your divine example is the best example for all of us to get inspired and increase our preaching services for the divine pleasure of Sri Guru and Sri Gauranga.
Guru Maharaja, by your causeless mercy and empowerment, Bhakti Vriksha Servant Leaders at Baroda have started 7 new online Bhakti Vriksha Programs. It’s all your mercy that participants of these programs are progressing well. We will be sending you a small report on the progress separately.
Guru Maharaja, your divine activities are inconceivable. Daily multiple meetings, multiple classes and on top of that Your Divine Grace does hundreds of Home Visits daily to shower your mercy on devotees around the world. It is amazing to see devotees getting Your Wonderful association so easily. Your Divine Grace has made yourself available and accessible to one and all in such a wonderful way that everyone is very excited to receive Your Divine Grace at their homes. These are all your divine extensions for engaging, encouraging, enlightening and empowering the struggling souls into divine Krishna Consciousness.
Sri Prahalad Maharaja prays to Lord Narsimhadev :
prāyeṇa deva munayaḥ sva-vimukti-kāmā
maunaṁ caranti vijane na parārtha-niṣṭhāḥ
naitān vihāya kṛpaṇān vimumukṣa eko
nānyaṁ tvad asya śaraṇaṁ bhramato ’nupaśye
“My dear Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva, I see that there are many saintly persons indeed, but they are interested only in their own deliverance. Not caring for the big cities and towns, they go to the Himālayas or the forest to meditate with vows of silence [mauna-vrata]. They are not interested in delivering others. As for me, however, I do not wish to be liberated alone, leaving aside all these poor fools and rascals. I know that without Kṛṣṇa consciousness, without taking shelter of Your lotus feet, one cannot be happy. Therefore I wish to bring them back to shelter at Your lotus feet.”
Guru Maharaja, Your Divine Grace is mercy personified like Sri Prahalad Maharaja who wish to bring back every single soul to shelter at Lord’s Lotus Feet. Your Divine Grace has inconceivably extended yourself for delivering the poor fools and rascals like us.
Guru Maharaja, we don’t have any qualification or eligibility to progress on the path of devotional service. Ignoring all our bad qualities, Your Divine Grace has accepted us as your spiritual children, engaged us in the transcendental loving devotional service and saved us from the most dangerous material nescience. Guru Maharaja we beg you to keep us at the dust of your lotus feet always.
Srila Gurudeva, we beg for your forgiveness for whatever offences we have committed and committing everyday unto your divine lotus feet. Please forgive us and kindly shower your blessings on us so that we can serve your divine grace with unflinching faith and devotion, without committing offences.
Your insignificant spiritual children,
Mantresh Gauranga das,
Nitya Yogini devi dasi and
All Baroda Bhakti Vriksha Members