Dearest Guru Mahārāja, Hare Kṛṣṇa!
All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda!
All glories to Śrī Guru and Śrī Gaurāṅga!
I am Lakṣmī Priyā Sundarī devī dāsī from Rimini, Italy.
On this sacred day of Your apparition and Your 73rd Vyāsa-pūjā I would like to express to You what I feel.
I don’t feel up to writing proper words, because You are great and Your example as a Kṛṣṇa conscious devotee confirms this at every moment.
I was wondering, “But Kṛṣṇa consciousness is singing dance, it’s joy! So, why so much suffering?”
But You gradually made me realize how indispensable, urgent it is to become Kṛṣṇa conscious. The devotee is not a person who does not suffer, who does not get sick, whose life is only joy, but he is the one who depends on guru and Kṛṣṇa, in the difficulties and sufferings that arise on his path, and I am working on it... it seems easy, but it is not.
If only I realized the great mercy that has been bestowed upon me by receiving refuge at Your lotus feet! And I often wonder if I’m up to it!
Guru Mahārāja, you are the savior of fallen souls, you are the one who bestowed causeless mercy, who sees beyond appearances, the one who can be truly trusted, because only You can save us from this ocean of material sadness.
These are talks said and repeated, but now they come spontaneously to me.
Only when I will be able, by Your and Kṛṣṇa’s mercy, to serve You adequately then, only then will I find true peace.
Your insignificant servant at your lotus feet.
Lakṣmīpriyā Sundarī devī dāsī (dīkṣa)
Italy (Lecce)