oṁ ajnana-timirandhasya jnananjana-salakaya caksur unmilitam yena tasmai śrī-gurave namah
śrī-caitanya-mano-'bhistam sthapitam yena bhu-tale svayam rupah kada mahyam dadati sva-padantikam
All glories to the transcendental appearance of His Holiness Jayapatākā Swami Guru Mahārāja
All glories to the Saṅkīrtana movement of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
Dear Gurudeva, please accept my obeisances unto your lotus feet.
Your life is perfect, your character is perfect and everything that emanates from you is a form of pure prema to become manifest. Year after year, month after month, day after day, moment after moment you are demonstrating complete surrender to Kṛṣṇa. A glimpse of your journey can inspire even the most cold-hearted person like myself.
You have absorbed yourself so deeply in the love of their Lordships Śrī Śrī Gaura Nitāi and for so long you are spreading this pure love with so much compassion that all the people who came in contact with you developed profound admiration for your person. It’s mostly impressive how merciful your Holiness is.
Guru Mahārāja, the auspicious day of your appearance is going to be marked in the history of Vaiṣṇavas for ages to come, and even the fallen like myself will always celebrate this great date as a reminder of how it is possible to make life perfect and dedicate our energy exclusively to Kṛṣṇa and to the benefit of His parts and parcels.
I lack the energy to appreciate you with proper prayers, I lack the intelligence to understand the full scope of your glories, but even though I'm most incapable of holding unto it I ask for your blessings so that I can develop also this ecstatic enthusiasm to serve your Holiness, Śrīla Prabhupāda and Śrī Śrī Guara Nitāi with all my energy, twenty four hours a day, and keep myself pure, free from material entanglement.
My only hope is to develop sufficient strength to follow a fraction of your example and give my heart and soul to spread Kṛṣṇa Consciousness with all vigor. I want to help you in the mission of distributing Śrīla Prabhupāda's books, Guru Mahārāja, I ask for your blessings to become completely addicted to distributing Śrīla Prabhupāda's books in such a way that I cannot take my mind out of it for a moment, I want to get myself fully into the devotional madness of unmotivated preaching. This is my only hope in life, to get your mercy and Śrīla Prabhupāda’s mercy and in this way get Lord Nityānanda's mercy to awaken the dormant love for Kṛṣṇa in my stone heart. I know that if you bless me with remembrance of your living example I will always get the strength to continue fighting māyā and serving the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
I cannot express in words the gratitude I feel for you having extended the mercy unto me without me ever deserving it, I pray that I can give you my life in return, even thought it isn't worth much but It’s all I can reciprocate with you. Thank you, you are my inspiration and savior, Jaya Oṁ Viṣṇupāda Paramahaṁsa Parivrājakācārya Aṣṭottara śata Śrī Srīmad Jayapatākā Swami Mahārāja.
Yours always,
Vinaya Śrī Nitāi Dāsa Brahmacārī,
ISKCON Curitiba Mandir, Brazil
