Respected Gurumaharaj,
Hare Krishna.
Please accept my most respectful obeisances unto Your Lotus Feet.
All glories to Your Divine Grace.
All glories to SrilaPrabhupada.
On this auspicious day of Your Vyasa Puja, I am sincerely praying to Lord Nrsingadeva for the quick and full recovery from Your illness and for the long duration of life so that many conditioned souls like me will get Your valuable association.
Spiritual Master is “Praptasya Kalyana Gunarnavasya”, an ocean of auspicious qualities. Gurumaharaj, even though I do not have least bit qualification to glorify Your transcendental qualities, I am doing it for my self purification.
Srila Vasudeva Datta had expressed his deep desire to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu that he is ready to undergo all the sinful reactions of the people in the material world and he requested Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu to take all of them back to Goloka Vrindavana. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu was very pleased with his behavior. In the same way, Your Divine Grace is very much interested in all your Disciples going back to Godhead in this life itself. For that sake, You are ready to undergo their karmic reactions. Your Divine Grace is having the same mood of Srila Vasudeva Datta. Symptom of a pure Vaishnava is his genuine compassionate quality for the suffering living entities. Gurumaharaj, Your compassion towards all of us is unimaginable. Being a Disciple of Yours, I will maintain strictly all my vows given to Your Divine Grace at the time of my initiation.
While practicing Bhakti, Neophyte devotees will put their faith in various fields i.e., instead of depending on Krishna, they will depend more on various external supports. It is mentioned in Bhagavad Gita that “Mam ca yo ‘vyabhicarena bhakti yogena”. Gurumaharaj, You are always performing Avyabhicarini Bhakti, that is, you will never invest your faith in the material fields in any situation. Even though Doctors have warned that Your Divine Grace should avoid crowded place due to your serious health problems, still Your Divine Grace went ahead to Mayapur for Gaura Purnima festival. This shows that you are always 100% depending on Gauranga Mahaprabhu in all types of situations. I am getting tremendous encouragement by seeing your transcendental behavior.
It is mentioned in the Bhagavad Gita “Nirvairah Sarva-bhutesu”. Pure devotee is not at all having any enemy in the whole world. Gurumaharaj, Your heart is very broad-minded. You are always in the mood of accommodating everyone inside Krishna Consciousness. Whoever comes to Your Divine Grace’s Lotus Feet seeking for some help or blessings, Your Divine Grace will never reject them and will do something in such a way that they are finally benefited. You will never treat anyone with hostile mentality. Your Divine Grace do not have a tinge of enmity with anyone in the whole world. This shows that You are truly possessing the quality of “Nirvairah Sarva-bhutesu”. This is because You are always keeping Lord Gauranga very strongly in Your heart.
I learned from Your Divine Grace’s behavior that our action preaches strongly than our words. We may speak big big philosophy, but if we don’t behave accordingly, then it will not inspire the conditioned souls. Lord Krishna attracts everyone by His unlimited transcendental qualities. In the same way, Gurumaharaj, You are also attracting everyone by Your perfect transcendental behavior. Whenever You are present in some temple or in some other preaching, immediately majority of the people are coming closer to Your Divine Grace to talk to You something or to hear from You or simply to have darshan of You. Since You are not envious of anyone, You are popular both with the gentle and with the ruffians. This is because Your Divine Grace is possessing pure Krishna Consciousness internally. I have seen this many times. Gurumaharaj, please bless me also with a tinge of Gauranga Prem.
Srila Prabhuapada was always Nidosa i.e., faultless. We can never see any fault or mistake committed by Srila Prabhupada during his whole life time. He was always perfect in all his preaching efforts. This is because Gauranga Mahaprabhu was very pleased with Srila Prabhupada’s pure devotion and the Lord was always giving right guidance from within his heart. In the same way, Gurumaharaj, You are very very dear to Lord Gauranga and You are very perfect in all Your behavior and activities. Whatever Your Divine Grace does, they are all-pleasing to everyone. I am very fortunate to have such a glorious Spiritual Master.
Srila Prabhupada is writing in The Nectar of Instruction that an Uttama-adhikari devotee is always thinking of how to expand the Krsna Consciousness Movement. As mentioned in Sri Caitanya Caritamrita, Madhya Lila, 22.78-80, Gurumaharaj, You are Sarvopakaraka, i.e., You are always thinking of doing welfare work for every one. Your Divine Grace is always thinking of how to spread Lord Caitanya’s glories throughout the world through many innovative ways. I have experienced this quality of Yours personally. During Your 2016 Vyasa Puja, I approached Your Divine Grace and expressed my inclination to accept Sannyasa. Your Divine Grace immediately grabbed this opportunity and interviewed me for Sannyasa eligibility and granted me Your merciful sanction, even though You were having very tight schedules. Later I came to know through Your senior disciples that Your Divine Grace is very keen that Your brahmacari disciples should go for Sannyasa when they are in the Movement for a long period. This shows Your transcendental quality of “bhuvi bhuvo bharavahantarakau” i.e., You are always engaged in missionary activities meant to deliver all the conditioned souls in the material universe.
Your Divine Grace will never postpone anything in performing Your devotional services. Whenever anything comes to You for getting Your valuable input, You will immediately attend to it and will give Your timely decisions. You are very clear about Your role and there is no ambiguity or procrastination in Your side. This shows Your transcendental quality of “apramatta” i.e., without inebriated. I have seen this many times personally. This shows that You are always very enthusiastic in performing devotional services for Srila Prabhupada’s Movement. Gurumaharaj, You are a perfect teacher and we are all learning many things from Your personal behavior.
I read from Srimad Bhagavatam that “bhayam dvitiya bhinivesatahsyad” i.e., fear arises when a living entitiy misidentifies himself as the material body because of absorption in the external, illusory energy of the Lord. Gurumaharaj, even though Your physical condition is very dangerous, You are not at all afraid of anything and going ahead steadily in spreading Lord Gauranga’s glories teaching all of us that we are not this body and we are spirit soul, servant of Lord Krishna. This shows that Your Divine Grace is always Krishna Conscious and are not at all coming inside the bodily concept. This is the quality of a true Sannyasi, abhayam sattva-samsuddhir….. Gurumaharaj, please bless this conditioned soul with Your causeless mercy so that I can be eternally engaged in devotional services under Your perfect supervision.
Your insignificant disciple,
Srinivas Hari Dasa (Diksha)
COIMBATORE, Tamil Nadu