“Nama Om Vishnu padaya Krsna presthaya bhutale
Srimate Jayapataka swamin iti namine,
Nama Acharya padaya Nitai kripa pradayine
Gaura katha dhama daya nagara grama tarine”
nama om vishnu Padaya krishna Presthaya Bhutale
srimate bhaktivedanta svamin iti namine
namaste sarasvate deve gaura vani pracharine
nirveshesh sunyavadi pashchatya desa tarine
sri-krishna-chaitanya prabhu-nityananda
sri-advaita gadadhara
srivasadi-gaura-bhakta-vrinda
Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare
Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare
Dearest Guru Maharaja,
Please accept our humble obeisances at the dust of your lotus feet. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to you the bearer of Victory Flag.
We are ever indebted to the love, care, compassion that you have showered on us, be it us or every member of our family.
You gave us the cheer when ever we were down, showed is the path wherever were lost, held our hand and helped us cross the road in the huge traffic of material world.
On this most auspicious day for the disciples and well wishers, I want to recollect few areas where you are teaching us by examples. This is just a abridge list it can just go on and on and on.
Tolerance : By tolerating the short comings of your disciples, tolerating the bodily pain that you go through.
Devotee care: By your shower of mercy on all the disciples and the devotee across the world. You make sure that your god brothers are taken care well where ever they go and your disciples are deputed to ensure that. You speak to the newest Bhakta as if you have known him for ages and you are his best friend/ well-wisher.
Preaching is the essence: You are reaching out to devotees in every nook and corner and making them Krishna Conscious. Thousands of devotees have taken to Krishna Consciousness just because they saw you and met you and interacted with you it could be at Pandal programs, airport lounges, temple program, online class, heard about you from devotees or it could be even seeing your picture.
Tech savvy : Even during the current pandemic you reached out to more number of devotees then you could physically proving that everything can be used in the service of the lord appropriately.
Friendliness : your relationship with your god brothers and senior devotees is example for disciples to learn how to remain friends despite disagreeing to agree on issues of mutual concern and management. We do not see any gap in your personal relationship on management issues.
Forgive and forget: your merciful natures forgive and forget the mistakes of people.
Commitment : Your nature of keeping up your commitment of chanting, distributing books, preaching, constructing temples, taking care of devotee etc despite your ill health and physical shortcoming is amazing. This is just a small example how one reaches krishna by making his spiritual master happy.
We seek your continued your blessing and mercy on us to follow the path you have carved for us and the energy to sustain our spiritual journey.
Your eternal servants
Uttama Damodar Das, Priti Purna Rohini Devi Dasi, Harsh and Maanasi.
