Dear Guru Maharaj.
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to your service to Srila Prabhupada.
What a great blessing it has been to have had your support and shelter all these years.
A bad son or daughter blames the parent for things that go wrong in life, but actually it is the job of the material world, coupled with our own karma, to destroy all our dreams. And the transcendental institution of the Guru parampara is here to free us from the future disaster of birth in this awful material world.
There is nothing that can go right in this life for anyone. If one falls down a deep, deep well, just because some days are even worse than others, one cannot reasonably say one ever has a good day down the well. Falling down a deep, deep well is the mother of all bad days.
No-one intends to suffer in this material world, and yet is has happened. Similarly without personal intention one is again connected by the mercy of the Guru parampara received through the instructions of the Spiritual Master.
Even if one has no gratitude, somehow the Spiritual Master makes service so irresistible that one inadvertently serves him.
In this mood I offer my humble obeisances at your lotus feet, thank you very much for your service, your empowerment and your friendship which is fulfilling my desires. Today has been my first good day down the well since I fell in. Thank you Guru Maharaj.
Hare Krishna,
Your servant,
Antardwip das
(Mayapur)