nama om vishnu-padaya krishna-preshthaya bhutale
srimate bhaktivedanta-swamin iti namine
namas te saraswate deve gaura-vani-pracharine
nirvishesha shunyavadi pashchatya desha tarine
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
Hare Krishna Dear Srila Gurumaharaj,
Please Accept My Respectful Obeisances
All Glories to Srila Prabhupada
All Glories to Srila Gurumaharaj
Dear Srila Gurumaharaj,
vancha-kalpatarubhyash cha
kripa-sindhubhya eva cha
patitanam pavanebhyo
vaishnavebhyo namo namaha
Gurumaharaj, no words can describe my gratitude to you. You are filled with compassion for this fallen wretched soul. On this auspicious day of your Vyasa Puja, I can only beg for your mercy in order to execute my spiritual vows I have taken and to be able to carry out devotional services in assisting you to execute the orders given by Srila Prabhupada to you.
Dear Gurumaharaj, you are ever inspiring my family and I including thousands of souls in this world with your own example in practicing Krishna Consciousness. You are a living example of a pure devotee and the embodiment of a pure Vaishnava as revealed in the scriptures. I am completely dependent on your mercy and hope to overcome the cycle of birth and death unless it is to assist you and your servants in preaching activities elsewhere.
Srila Gurumaharaj, by your blessings and mercy, my husband, His Grace Rasa Parayana das , your disciple as well, and I have expanded our preaching activities and pray that we can sustain them for a long term and expand more in the future. Here is a short report of our preaching activity for your pleasure:
Covid-19 lockdowns saw a decline in our school preaching activities for year 2020 where we only managed to reach a total number of 2844 students and a distribution of 4798 packets of Prasadam. Subsequently, during the full/ partial schools lockdown in Klang Valley, we have resumed online school preaching programs at only 5 schools for now in Year 2021. The rest of the schools have their own challenges in having virtual classes , therefore we are unable to resume virtual preaching programs in those schools. We seek your blessings for us and the team of preachers to continue on with this school preaching overcoming any obstacles that may come.
Our outreach preaching at Myskills Foundation institution is proceeding well despite the lockdowns. We are now conducting classes for 142 students , both girls and boys together at their campus in Kalumpang, Hulu Selangor on every two weeks basis. We cannot thank ISKCON Klang team of devotees enough for they sponsor the Prasadam for 160 pax every two weeks. By your mercy, we have trained some boys who may become full time devotees. We pray this happens. A couple of outreach programs at community centers have begun too, through our contacts we expanded preaching to Sg Cho Gurukulam , a local community help center as well as Bukit Beruntung community center. Classes are held on weekly basis. His Grace Naganampathi prabhu is kindly assisting us to conduct regular classes in these places. We have planned to have some festivals soon at Sg Cho temple and extend the invitation to the Bukit Beruntung Community too.
Dear Gurumaharaj, the Temple Management Council have entrusted an important service to my husband and I, which is to serve and guide the young from our congregation. We find ourselves now guiding the youth boys and girls from ages 13 to 25. This is indeed a challenging service , as we need to be highly considerate and as humble as possible. With so many other distractions for youth in Malaysia, we still encourage the Youth to engage in Krsna Consciousness. We try to present Krsna Consciousness in a very attractive manner. Therefore, we find ourselves constantly encouraging them to engage themselves in Krishna Consciousness by finding various different ways and methods in keeping their interests up. We are also expanding the membership of Pandava Sena and Kaisora Youth ,whereby, we are inviting Youth from non- Krishna Conscious background to take part in the activities. Thus, this has also become a preaching activity. We thank you for your mercy in executing this service, as it helps us to purify ourselves, train our humility and always be on a positive mode.
Dear Gurumaharaj, my personal target for this year is to improve myself further, to subdue my demoniac tendencies which I do find them popping up from time to time. I sincerely pray for your blessings to overcome such tendencies, to be more tolerant even when I am wronged and be more compassionate to everyone regardless of who they are. I do want to clear my anarthas, but at times it is such a difficult thing to do. I am also grateful to the many wonderful associations of devotees, especially senior Godbrothers and God sisters who are very inspiring. Personally, I am so grateful to Dato Kevin prabhu who showed my family the path to Krsna Consciousness. Totally indebted to him. Also, please bless our God Brother His Grace Patita Pavana Chaitanya prabhu, who is so kind and who never hesitates in supporting us in all our services. Dear Gurumaharaj, imagining life without you and Krsna is terribly scary and I pray that I never for once lose this wonderful association of devotees, you and Srila Prabhupad.
Dear Gurumaharaj, again, I seek your mercy and blessings not only for me, but for my entire family and our Yatra. Thank you so much Gurumaharaj. Wishing you a very happy and blessed Vyasa Puja celebrations. Praying to Their Lordships Sri Sri Jagannatha, Baladev and Subhadra Mayi to bless you with good health and many more years on this planet with us. Thank you for everything Srila Gurumaharaj. All Glories unto you, All Glories to your auspicious appearance day. All Glories to Srila Prabhupad.
Your Unworthy Spiritual Daughter,
Rati Gopika Devi dasi ( Sri Jagannatha Mandir, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)