72nd Vyasa Puja Offering to my dear Gurumaharaj (His Holiness Jayapataka Swami)
My Dear Gurumaharaj,
All Glories to His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada!
Please accept my loving and humble obeisance unto Your lotus feet on this auspicious occasion of Your appearance day, Vyasa Puja!!!
On this auspicious day of Your appearance, I'm very much delighted and have no words to express my gratitude to You, Gurumaharaj, for coming all the way in search of me a picked me up from this material lifestyle and sowed the seed of Bhakti in my heart by accepting me as Your disciple in the year 2011. Since I’m very much fallen and sinful, I’m struggling very hard to fulfill Your instructions, desires and expectations which are in fact what Your Holiness meditate in pleasing your Spiritual Master His Divne Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. I want to become an extremely effective and fruitful instrument in the Lotus Hands of Your Holiness to serve everyone in Sri Lanka in achieving the perfection of their lives by distributing Your mercy to them and serve everyone to engage in the mission of Srila Prabhupada as You ever desire. My desired services are Devotee Care, Book Distribution and Preaching. My Dear Gurumaharaj, I seek Your full blessings so that I can perform these services without any offences to everyone in Sri Lanka and all over the World. In this desired endeavor, I want to learn Bengoli & Hindi languages very fluently, please bless me Gurumaharaj.
My Dear Gurumaharaj, my only desire is to be in the shade of Your lotus feet in this lifetime and birth after birth forever, in fulfilling Your desires. Gurumaharaj, also please bless me to be a caring servant in taking care of my family members and relatives by being an exemplary devotee and family member/relative to them, so that they will be inspired to take up/ advance in Krishna Consciousness life. I want to be a caring servant for all of them and I want to be a good exemplary devotee in ISKCON and an exemplary citizen of Sri Lanka, endowed with good transcendental and pleasing qualities, so that everyone around me and in the society will be inspired to take up Krishna Consciousness. Dear Gurumaharaj, please be with me always within my heart, thoughts, breath and action so that I will be able to extend your love and care to everyone I meet. If not for this purpose, why I should live Gurumaharaj?
I always thank His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada within my heart for giving You, Gurumaharaj, to us and I also seek His blessings so that I can serve You even better and better day by day and eternally forever.
Please bless this insignificant servant of You on this auspicious day of Your appearance in this planet. My dear Gurumaharaj, I do not even know to do anything and I’m a sinful, foolish and useless person, and therefore I’m begging Your special mercy in fulfilling my desires in what I have revealed to you above.
Dear Gurumaharaj, I offer billions and trillions times my loving and humble obeisance unto Your Lotus Feet and beg your blessings and mercy to be an eternal servant to Your Holiness, birth after birth forever!!!
My Dear Gurumaharaj, on this auspicious day of Your Vyasa Puja, though I’m insignificant and neither not noticeable nor of any use, out of my curiosity and gratitude & love towards You, I sincerely beg and pray to His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and Nittai Gauranga to bestow Their fullest love and mercy upon You, so that all Your desires will be fulfilled for your fullest satisfaction and also all Your disciples be fully imbibed in Your transcendental mood and divine qualities in executing their services in fulfilling Srila Prabhupada’s Mission as You always desire.
Many many millions and trillions of Thanks and Love for You dear Gurumaharaj, for accepting me and my family as Your disciple!
Always begging and praying your mercy and blessings at Your lotus feet,
Your every loving and humble servant
Yogendra Krsna das (the spiritual name Your Holiness have given me)
ISKCON Colombo, Sri Lanka.
