Oṁ ajnana timirandhasya jnananjana salakaya
Caksur unmilitam yena tasmai śrī gurave namah
Nama oṁ Vishnu padaya Kṛṣṇa prasthaya bhutale
Śrīmate Jayapatākā swamin iti namine
Nama ācārya padaya nitāi kripa pradayine
Gaura kathā dama daya nagara grama tarine
Guru Mahārāja, my spiritual father,
Please accept my most humble obeisance to the dust of your lotus feet.
In this year, you could not visit you personally due to pandemic, but you have showered special mercy of having your personal association through Caitanya-caritāmṛta classes. This year we received your mercy also through JPS “E-Care team” we got opportunity to connect with you.
This year I fortunately got mercy to read the book “From Milwaukee to Māyāpur”. This gave me insight and more inspiration to serve the movement in under your guidance and footsteps. I came to know your option for serving Kṛṣṇa’s army rather serving American Army and thus you are the savior of the mankind. I wondered for my great fortune to become your disciple Guru Mahārāja.
This year you had many health upsets but your “Never Give up” attitude to serve Śrīla Prabhupāda is your dictation to all of us, in reminding our self, how to serve spiritual master. I fell short of words to glorify your serving attitude and mood to Śrīla Prabhupāda.
Guru Mahārāja, we in Kṛṣṇa Kathā Deśa, like many other places, were hit by the pandemic and was restricted personal association. But your virtual association/updates through Jayapatākā swami app
Your initiatives for congregation preaching through Bhakti-vṛkṣa program is your service to Śrīla Prabhupāda initiatives for developing the congregation all over the world to fulfill the Lord Caitanya prophecy. These results are ever increasing in Kṛṣṇa-kathā deśa in spite the pandemic challenges.
Serving the yātrā in the capacity of south Māha-cakrapati and one of mandala sevā dāsas. Year 2021-22 was another difficult year, but by your mercy we could still manage to get new members through with the other virtual alternatives taught by you (ideas of Virtual Rāma Navamī, Gītā Yagna, 1,00,000 Deepotsav, etc). I started one Hindi Bhakti-vṛkṣa with the help of Namānada prabhu via zoom in India. Happy to contribute, Kṛṣṇa Kathā Deśa yātrā in achieving 222 Bhakti-vṛkṣa groups.
Please bestow your mercy and empower me to fulfil the above aspirations without any tinge of pride and selfish motives while serving you in helping Śrīla Prabhupāda mission.
Guru Mahārāja on this special day of yours, I humbly beg you for the following benedictions that:
1) To have only one desire, that is to follow your instruction guru-mukha-padma-vākya, cittete koriyā aikya, with focus to purify my contaminated consciousness.
2) Need your blessings to consolidate the existing groups and inspire them to take higher serving responsibilities in the helping.
3) Require all your special blessings to my son Anirudh (for his success in his Engineering studies) and my daughter Amrutha (for her success in her future endeavors.)
4) My mother Varādhātri Paurṇamāsī devī dāsī (Your initiated disciple) needs your mercy to continue her sadhana.
Guru Mahārāja, My entire family (wife, Ujjvala Kālindī devī dāsī, your aspirant children, Amrutha and Anirudh and my mother Varādhātri Paurnamasi devī dāsī) joins me on the auspicious day of your 73rd Vyāsa-pūjā, in praying to Lordships Śrī Śrī Rādhā Mādhava, Śrī Śrī Gaura Nitāi, Narsimha dev and Pañch-tattva for your good health so that you will be in your best of spirit’s and also complete the “Lord Caitanya” book which would be a greatest treasure for entire Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava community in future.
Your insignificant disciple
Rādhāpati Śyāma dāsa, Dīkṣā Disciple
Kṛṣṇa-kathā deśa
