Vyas Puja Offering to Gurumaharaj H H Jayapataka Swami. April 2021
2021 VYAS PUJA OFFERING FOR GURUMAHARAJ, HIS HOLINESS JAYAPATAKA SWAMI GURUMAHARAJ.
Hare Krishna Dearest Gurumaharaj,
Please accept my respectful obeisances at your lotus feet. All Glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to your services, Gurudeva.
Namo om visnu pádáya Krishna prestaya bhútale
srimate Jayapatáka svamin iti námine
“We offer our respectful obeisances to His Divine GraceJayaptaka Swami Gurumaharaj, who is very dear to Lord Krishna, having taken shelter at His lotus feet.”
Nama ácaryas-pádáya nitai-kripá pradáyine
Gaura-kathá dháma dáya nagara gráma tárine
“I offer my respectful obeisances unto Srila Jayapataka Swami, who is dedicated to serve the desire, instructions, and lotus feet of the previous acaryas by offering the mercy of Lord Nityananda prabhu. He is freely distributing the glories of the transcendental pastimes, instructions, mercy and abode of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.”
Dearest Gurumaharaj, last year in Vyas Puja offering I had begged for your mercy to keep me engaged in any small services to serve you.
But your mercy and blessings has been so over-whelming. I had not realised how, out of thousands of Vyas Puja Offerings, you would be giving me so much mercy and blessings.
Throughout the year I have been engaged in serving Their Lordships Lord Jagannath, Baladeva and Lady Subhadra in Reading (UK). Where I hear other people getting bored due to lockdown, I have not had time to get bored. I feel that your mercy has kept me so engaged in services yet still protected from the pandemic.
I have been fortunate enough to be helping to cook for the Food for All in Reading yatra twice a week, been engaged in Bhagavat Gita reading sessions three times a week for 45 mins each session. This I have thoroughly enjoyed because it has helped me to read the Bhagavat Gita in more detail and at the same time helping other regular people to read and understand Bhagavat Gita.
All of them have a Bhagavat Gita but not able to read due to lack of guidance. Even though my understanding is very low level and basic, I feel that you have inspired me and guided me to do this. How else can I ever take on this task !, One person had this book for 20 years plus, but never been able to read it. And with your blessings and mercy and Srila Prabhupada’s eternal love for every living soul, I was used as an instrument to help this person.
That is the beauty of Srila Prabhupada’s Bhagavat Gita As It Is. It has so much power, so much pure beauty that whoever reads it will naturally fall in love with the Bhagavat Gita.
Also just before lockdown, the management at the Manor took away my services of sewing for Radha Gokulananda which I had been doing for the last 18 years. I did not understand what Gokulananda’s plans were. Initially I was upset but then I read somewhere that you had mentioned:
“ a devotee of Krishna uses every situation every difficulty every apparent obstacle to enhance the service of Krishna (in Calcutta on August 11th 1981)”.
Service is service whether we do at the Manor or elsewhere. So with your blessings and mercy I have been engaged in services to Lord Jagannath BaladevaSubhadra, (Big and Small Deities), Radha Krishna and Gaura Nitai and Giriraj etc at Reading Yatra , making new outfits and re-doing old ones to fit nicely. Also I have been engaged in helping with the PurshottomMonth programs and Damodara Month zoom programs. This was very enlightening for me because I had never really gone out preaching to groups of people. It gave me confidence to do so. Also taking on the task of making up and posting out packages for free Bhagavat Gitas, small books ghee wick sticks and prashad which was guidance from Amala Mangari dd and Vishal Gauranga das ( Reading ).
Gurumaharaj, I have never done so much preaching in my whole life before I first had your association on 13thJanuary 2020. You helped me and guided me from a road to nowhere and taken me on as one of your children. I am eternally grateful to you for taking me under your shelter and nurturing me. Even through your own difficulties with your health and the added covidpositive, you still gave us so much love and sacrificed your own personal time for all your children.
Since giving us Harinam diksha initiation in October 2020, I feel like a part of a big family and you as our staunch column of support to help, guide and nurture mein my path ahead. You give me so much guidance from your daily lectures and transcripts and your vani.
Hearing your vani on zoom Caitanya Caritamrita classeseveryday is highlight of the day for me. Hearing from you about the Lord Caitanya and feeling the mercy flowing through you. I feel highly energised with your blessings on home visits and I feel so happy that my Spiritual Father has just given me his darshan and blessed me. (I feel like a little girl.)
Gurumaharaj, you are one in trillion, or zillion. You are my Spiritual Father and I am eternally indebted to you. Thank you for picking my up from the ground and giving me confidence and support and helping me to stand on my own feet.
Your spiritual daughter,
Bharati Revati dd (Staines, UK)
14th April 2021
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