Dear Guru Mahārāja,
Please accept my most respectful obeisances. All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda. All glories to Your Divine Grace and the Vaishnavas.
I am sorry for submitting this Vyāsa-pūjā offering late.
It is very hard for us to imagine how we could serve Prabhupāda in a practical manner in Śrī Māyāpur without you pushing us hard, despite your own bodily difficulties, to serve Prabhupāda by carrying out his instructions. You had personally instructed me to fulfill his instructions as set out in his books, and have several times told me and us that we should use our body, mind and words to fulfill the instructions of Prabhupāda's predecessor-ācāryas too. You have often informed us of the importance of serving Śrī Navadvīpa-maṇḍala.
Despite my dull brain, gradually I am beginning to increasingly understand the significance of seriously serving Prabhupāda, his predecessor-ācāryas, Lord Nityānanda Prabhu and Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
An important feature of our services to Prabhupāda and his authorities under your guidance is the astonishing, interesting and challenging varieties of services. I speculate that this is a dim reflection of how astonishing, interesting and challenging it must have been for Your Divine Grace and your Godbrothers and Godsisters to have served Prabhupāda prior to 1978.
I pray to Lord Kṛṣṇa to give you a good health so that you can happily fulfill all of Prabhupāda's personal instructions to Your Divine Grace, and beg Him to make us obey Prabhupāda and his predecessor-authorities to the fullest extent, as insisted upon by you!
Your lowly servant in the service of Prabhupāda and his followers,
Vidvān Gaurāṅga dāsa