Dear Guru Mahārāja,
Please accept my respectful obeisances at the dust of your lotus feet. All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda. All glories to Śrī Guru and Śrī Gaurāṅga.
All glories to your most auspicious appearance day! I bow down before you again and again with great reverence, devotion, gratitude and love.
Your glories are unlimited and transcendental. I am a tiny conditioned jīva under the grip of the three modes of nature. It is impossible for me to understand or pen down your glories. Yet as a matter of duty and seeking your mercy and blessings I make this bold attempt to express a few of your glories.
Despite my dull intelligence, negative qualification, sinful life and poor service attitude, you very mercifully accepted me as your disciple and gave me shelter under your lotus feet, just like Nityānanda prabhu showered His mercy on Jagāi and Mādhāi.
You gave me residence in the audarya dhāma Śrī Māyāpur and engaged me directly in the service of Śrīla Prabhupāda’s vision though I have absolutely no qualification whatsoever to serve our founder ācārya. I do not have the ability to perform even a sesame seed worth of devotional service. Yet you very magnanimously gave me that service. Whatever results have been obtained in this service are 100% due to your causeless mercy and blessings only – there is no other cause, no other cause, no other cause.
Śrīla Gurudeva, whatever you have done for me and given to me till now, nobody in the three worlds will do – nobody, nobody, nobody – not even demigods, parents, teachers, relatives, friends and well-wishers.
Guru Mahārāja, we have seen time and again that every time you come out of a sickness, you become more and more resolute in your determination and actions to fulfil Śrīla Prabhupāda’s desires. Just like Arjuna could single-handedly fight and win a war against many akṣauhiṇīs of strongest warriors, Guru Mahārāja you can single-handedly go on war against māyā and come out successful. Your transcendental potency is inconceivably unlimited.
Your enthusiasm to preach Kṛṣṇa Consciousness and give out Lord Caitanya’s mercy knows no bounds. For you, any and every time, place and circumstance are perfect for preaching. You do not miss even a single opportunity to give Kṛṣṇa consciousness to conditioned souls as well as inspire your disciples to advance in their Kṛṣṇa Consciousness, even if you yourself are on a hospital bed. Your recent message from Rela Hospital, Chennai, to all disciples stands testimony to this.
Your will power to fulfil Śrīla Prabahupada’s instructions is so strong and pure that Lord Kṛṣṇa appears to have given you the boon to remain in this body as long as you desire. You are an epitome of guru-niṣṭhā.
You are one of the most empowered spiritual sons of Śrīla Prabhupāda and your pure desire to serve him “even life after life” has empowered you to bring hundreds of thousands of suffering conditioned souls into this society founded by him.
I pray at the lotus feet at Rādhā-Mādhava, Pañca-tattva, Prahlāda-Narasiṁhadeva and Jagannātha Baladeva Subhadrā maharani that They may always protect you and keep you in the best of health as long as you desire to perform your līlā on this earth planet.
I very sincerely beg you to forgive me for whatever offenses I may have committed at your lotus feet, knowingly or unknowingly, and remove my ignorance. And to shower your causeless mercy and blessings on me to act as a puppet in your hands and assist you in constructing the Māyāpur Institute Campus Project for the satisfaction and pleasure of Śrīla Prabhupāda and our previous ācāryas.
Your very insignificant spiritual son,
Prema Gaurasundara dāsa
Māyāpur, India