nama om visnu-padaya krsna-presthaya bhu-tale
srimate jayapataka swami iti namine
namo acarya padaya, nitai kripa pradayine
gaura katha, damodaya nagara grama tarine
Dear Srila Gurudeva,
Please Accept Our Respectful Obeisances
All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!
All Glories to Your Divine Grace!!
Thank you for giving us an opportunity to glorify your Divine Grace on your 73rd Vyasapuja Celebrations Guru Maharaja.
Last 1 year has been a roller coaster ride with constant wave of anxiety because of many devotees getting sick and leaving their body due to corona virus.
It especially came as a shock when your Divine Grace was infected with covid which we didn’t dream of!.. But once again you proved your determination to kick out covid with rigid regime of steam therapy, gargling, rest and medications without giving up your preaching and meeting routine. It would be insane for us to even contemplate on how that’s possible because that’s the symptom of how a pure devotee functions amidst all challenges in this material world.
If there is anything we can learn in last 1 year from your Divine Grace’s routine – we can clearly point out – irrespective of lockdown or not, diseased or healthy, strong or weak, busy or free – your Divine Grace’s determination to follow your fixed schedule and using every single minute in service of Krishna is clearly an exhibition of how a liberated soul actually functions.
We sometimes think - why contemplate whether the lila’s in Srimad Bhagavatham and Sri Caitanya Caritamrta are true or not? We could see them all getting manifested just by observing your Divine Grace’s daily schedule in JPS App. One doesn’t need to be a genius to understand this!
Interestingly all the things your Divine Grace are doing looks so simple and obvious like taking You Tube Darshan of deities BUT for crooked mind like us even this apparent simple thing looks so difficult to do!!
This proves the point from Srila Prabhupada that Krishna consciousness is so simple; one may easily miss it!!
We thank Sathyamedha prabhu and his team for doing extraordinary service to assist your Divine Grace get connected with countless number of your disciples and well-wishers through your JPS mobile app. Its simply superb!!.. this is another exhibition of common sense in Krishna’s service. Everyone got mobile phone in their pocket literally 24x7 and your Divine Grace just nailed it by creating a JPS mobile app through which you can access your disciples 24x7 and even your disciples can access your Divine Grace 24x7.. simple genius work Guru Maharaja!
So we thank Sathyamedha prabhu and his team for being an instrument to manifest this genie (not genius :-) ) tool for your disciples. So that all we need to do is just wish to connect & see your Divine Grace by opening the genie tool (JPS mobile app) and within a minute we get to connect with your Divine Grace from any part of the world and get to see all your constant updates on what your Divine Grace is doing in Sridham Mayapur!
Last 1 year for sure has been a sad year for everyone due to some way or other experiencing the damaging effects of corona. BUT on the flip side, the magnitude of association and mercy we have received from your Divine Grace’s association cannot be compared with any other year!.. its been relentless personal association through JPS mobile app with your Divine Grace.
These are the things which just makes us wonder - WOW!!.. your Divine Grace is a spiritual think tank – storehouse of unlimited spiritual ideas, inspiration and mercy.
This is not for neophytes like us to imitate or even dream to do in our lifetime. We just pray we can be your eternal servant, serving purely in the mood of service and love, just to please your Divine Grace and Srila Prabhupada.
In other words, imbibe the mood and vibration of your Divine Grace, so that we can be that small squirrel carry little particles of sand to help your Divine Grace’s mission of building this big bridge across the ocean of this material existence towards spiritual world just like hanuman did carrying big mountains for Lord Ram building Ramsethu towards lanka.
On this most auspicious Vyasapuja day of your Divine Grace, please bless us so that we can celebrate your Divine Grace’s Vyasapuja in grand scale over zoom in UK.
We humbly seek your blessings Guru Maharaja, to be blessed with the mood to do pure devotional service for the pleasure of your Divine Grace. So that we can eternally serve your Divine Grace in bliss as your humble instruments just like your Divine Grace is serving your dear Gurudev His Divine Grace A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada with pure joy.
Please allow us to be part of this bliss party as your humble servants Srila Gurudev.
Please forgive us for all our offences Guru Maharaja and we beg for your mercy to be an effective servant in the service of your Divine Grace.
Happy 73rd Vyasapuja Celebrations Srila Gurudeva!!
Your Dear Insignificant Servants,
Aravinda Krishna Das & Yamunesvari DD
From East London BV, UK