Nama Om Vishnu padaya Krsna presthaya bhutale
Srimate Jayapataka swamin iti namine,
Nama Acharya padaya Nitai kripa pradayine
Gaura katha dhama daya nagara grama tarine
My dear Guru Maharaj,
Please accept my respectful obeisances. All glories to Your Divine Grace! All glories to HDG Srila Prabhupada!
Dear Srila Guru Maharaj, while reading Srimad Bhagavatam I came across these beautiful verses spoken by Lord Krishna Himself to His dear devotee Akrura:
SB. 10.48.30-31
bhavad-vidhā mahā-bhāgā
niṣevyā arha-sattamāḥ
śreyas-kāmair nṛbhir nityaṁ
devāḥ svārthā na sādhavaḥ
Exalted souls like you are the true objects of service and the most worshipable authorities for those who desire the highest good in life. Demigods are generally concerned with their own interests, but saintly devotees never are.
na hy am-mayāni tīrthāni
na devā mṛc-chilā-mayāḥ
te punanty uru-kālena
darśanād eva sādhavaḥ
No one can deny that there are holy places with sacred rivers, or that the demigods appear in deity forms made of earth and stone. But these purify the soul only after a long time, whereas saintly persons purify just by being seen.
These two verses immediately reminded me of Your Divine Grace. I once again realized my greatest good fortune that I am allowed to serve Your Divine Grace. Guru Maharaj, I am extremely grateful that you have kindly kept me in your service all throughout my life in Krishna Consciousness. Although I am so unqualified in all aspects, YDG is so expert to engage even an insignificant person like me in devotional service.
Simply by your mercy a team of sincere devotees have joined me in serving YDG’s Facebook Bangla Page and JPS App. I pray for your mercy that we can work cooperatively in a way that is pleasing and exemplary and that we can attract many more enthusiastic devotees in such preaching services.
Recently you have mercifully engaged me in serving your Secretariat assisting you in fulfilling the instructions that Srila Prabhupada gave to YDG. Such a great service opportunity and yet this responsibility keeps me in anxiety of being able to satisfy you. This indeed is a special blessing. I know I am not qualified for this but I do know I want to do whatever effort it takes to please and assist YDG in whatever little is possible by me.
Also, I am thankful to Maha Varaha Prabhu for giving me the service to maintain and produce the annual report of YDG’s daily activities and I am also grateful to the devotees who are helping me in this and other services for the pleasure of your divine grace.
On this auspicious day of your Vyasa-puja, all I can pray is to kindly forgive my unlimited offences that I may have committed knowingly or unknowingly at your lotus feet and at the lotus feet of Sri Hari, the Guru parampara and all Vaishnavas, and beg for your mercy to keep me engaged in your service even life after life. All I wish for in this life and whatever lives I am to receive is to serve you in a way that pleases you for I know this will also please Sri Guru Parampara, Sri Nityananda Prabhu and Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.
Thank you Guru Maharaj for everything you have done for us. I sincerely pray to Lord Nrsinghadev for your good health.
Thank you for being unlimitedly patient, compassionate and tolerant.
Your insignificant spiritual daughter,
Ahladini Radha Devi dasi