Nama Om Visnu Padaya Krsna Prestaya Bhu-tale Srimate Jayapayaka Svamin iti Namine
Nama Acarya Padaya Nitay Kripa Pradayine Gaura Katan Damodaya Nagara Grama Tarine
Sri Krsna Caitanya Prabhu Nityananda, Sri Advaita Gadadhara Srivasadi Gaura Bhakta Vrnda
Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare
My Dearest Spiritual father Srila Gurudev,
Please accept my most humble obeisances at your lotus feet on this auspicious day of your divine appearance.
All Glories to Srila Prabhupada.
O Guru maharaj, I do not have any qualification to glorify you. I am making an insignificant attempt to glorify you by my limited conditioned mind & intelligence.
First, I would like to pray to Lord Narasimha Deva to protect and bless you so that you recover from your current health condition and gain good health to serve and fulfill Srila Prabhupada mission.
You have made me very fortunate by accepting me as your disciple and showering your mercy in this lifetime – else I was just wandering in this brahmanda for millions of life time with no spiritual goal, suffering in the blazing fire of material existence. We can see how compassionate you are to the fallen conditioned souls like me.
I would like to quote very apt verse from Srimad Bhagavatam 2.25.8
tasya tvaṁ tamaso ’ndhasya
duṣpārasyādya pāragam
sac-cakṣur janmanām ante
labdhaṁ me tvad-anugrahāt
Your Lordship is my only means of getting out of this darkest region of ignorance because You are my transcendental eye, which, by Your mercy only, I have attained after many, many births.
The word pāragam is very significant. pāragam refers to one who can take the disciple to the other side. This side is conditioned life; the other side is the life of freedom. The spiritual master takes the disciple to the other side by opening his eyes with knowledge. We are suffering simply because of ignorance. By the instruction of the spiritual master, the darkness of ignorance is removed, and thus the disciple is enabled to go to the side of freedom. After many, many births, one is able to find a bona fide spiritual master and surrender to such a bona fide representative of Kṛṣṇa, one can be taken to the side of light.
Only by your grace and favor, am I beginning to understand actual position of Lord, His eternal abode and His eternal associates and all the Vaishnavas. For a conditioned soul like me, it is very difficult to understand the transcendental aspects of the Lord, but only by your grace, I have got this opportunity without any difficulty.
It is also stated in Kaṭha Upaniṣad (1.2.9):
naiSā tarkeṇa matir āpaneyā
proktānyenaiva sujñānāya presṭha
yāṁ tvam āpaḥ satya-dhṛtir batāsi
tvādṛṅ no bhūyān naciketaḥ praṣṭā
The fact is that the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Supersoul, cannot be attained simply by explanations, logic and erudite scholarship. One cannot understand Him simply by one's brain substance. Even by studying all the Vedic literatures, one cannot understand the Supreme Lord. It must be spoken by an exceptionally qualified spiritual master to a knowledgeable disciple."
You have made me and so many conditioned souls so fortunate by showering your ocean of compassion, that in spite of having conditioned souls like me as disciple who were sinful, you have accepted this troublesome business for the deliverance of the victims of Kali-yuga by being a representative of Nityanand Prabhu.
I beg for your mercy to do the devotional services to the best of my capacities.
Gurudev,I beg you to please forgive me for my offences, help me to be very serious, do my sadhana sincerely and give up all unwanted desires…. Please let my faith in Shri Guru, Shri Gauranga and Vaishnavas grow stronger and stronger.
Please Bless me and my family so that we can follow your instructions sincerely.....Dandavats Pranaams at your lotus feet.
Your insignificant spiritual daughter
Shrutipriya Radhika Devi Dasi
Shyamadesh (Dubai Branch)
