nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale
śrīmate jayapatākā-svāmin iti nāmine
namo ācāryapādāya nitāi-kṛpa-pradāyine
gaura-kathā dhāmadhāya nagara-grāma tāriṇe
Gurumaharaj, please, accept my most humble obeisances.
In this auspicious day of your appearance, I can only thank you for the great mercy you are giving us.
This mercy, like a tree, has many branches. Among them, there is the Bhakti Vrksa and the congregational preaching projects you started. Also, another branch is the love you give to even the devotees who abandoned the association of the vaisnavas, by going, if needed, personally to their homes and give them association and illumination.
Another branch is the book distribution one, as you always mention, “100.000 small books, 10.000 big books per month”, as Srila Prabhupada ordered you. Another branch is of your determination on fulfilling SrilaPrabhupada’s desire. There is also a branch for you austerity in living through such difficult body condition with a fixed consciousness on the service to Srila Prabhupada. Moreover, there is a branch for all the service of expanding ISKCON and Krsna consciousness you made throughout these years; and also a branch for the love and caring you give to your disciples, even while in pain or during a busy agenda, I beg so I won’t forget the few minutes we got the mercy to have your association, when you asked how were we, if we were confortable in mayapur and would listen with so deep attention, and gaze us so deeply. This gaze enters in my heart and wanes all material darkness, just as I remember it.
As lord Gauranga’s Devotional Service tree, the tree of SrilaJayapataka Swami Gurumaharaj’s mercy has uncountable branches, which I have not much intelligence to name or describe.
I feel greatefull to you, gurudeva, for, by distributing your mercy, saved me, and gave me such special godbrothers and such special siksa guru (which is your siksa disciple), Hara Kantaprabhu. I only ask for your blessings so I can always remain in their association, trying to serve you and them in this transcendental Sankirtana mission. I beg you to become useful in your service of spreading this Krsna Consciousness movement.
Your useless servant,
Mahaprabhu Dayasindhu Dasa