nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale
śrīmate jayapatākā-svāmin iti nāmine
namo ācāryapādāya nitāi-kṛpa-pradāyine
gaura-kathā dhāmadhāya nagara-grāma tāriṇe
Dearest Gurudev,
Please accept my respectful obeisances unto your lotus feet. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! All glories to you Srila Gurudev!
First of all, on this most auspicious occasion, I would like to wish you a very Happy Appearance day! I also humbly pray to your beloved Sri Sri RadhaMadhva, most merciful Sri Sri RadhaGopinath, Pancha Tatva and Nrshimha Dev to bless you with good health.
Gurudev, as I sit to write this Vyaas Puja offering only one word comes to my mind when I am trying to glorify you which is- perfection. Perfection personified in every respect. Be it foremost as a disciple of Srila Prabhupada- who have time and again displayed how you are a first class disciple executing each and every instruction with full diligence given by your spiritual master. An exclusive example of this is when Srila Prabhupada asked you to go and develop Sri Mayapur Dham. I would spend many days enlisting the various projects that you embarked on following this instruction from Srila Prabhupada. Most of which you delivered with utmost excellence. Your colossal contribution to the ToVP project and your attention to detail in ensuring the ToVP exhibit meetings were flawless.
Your perfection as a sincere God brother as you try to serve your God-brothers and God-sisters in every way you can even amidst this unfathomable health crisis is nothing but a true example of someone who has attained perfection in every way.
Your perfection as a Sanyasi and initiating guru. You took sannyas at a very tender age of 21 on the most auspicious day of Sri Radhashtmi so, this year we will celebrate your 48th Sannyas anniversary which in itself, is an astonishing achievement. Your perfection as an initiating guru or more appropriately as a spiritual father, to many of your spiritual children is beyond comprehension. Your love for us is nothing but pure and unconditional. Even besides knowing that your children are the primary cause of your suffering yet you never fail to shower your unconditional love on each one of us. Clearly knowing that the karma of your unqualified children are adversely affecting your health yet all we see in your eyes for us is love- unconditional love. Gurudev, I have had the honour of transcribing your personal emails and often such emails would be an exchange of ideas, discussions and guidance between you and your disciples. I can’t even fathom how many of us fall at your lotus feet with such bizarre and inexplicable situations yet with your transcendental wisdom somehow or other you manage to put us all back on the path which leads straight to loving the supreme personality of Godhead and putting him in the centre.
Gurudev, your perfection as a visionary leader and as a loving grandfather to the next generation devotees is worth highlighting. Even in this age you are always well aware of the latest developments and always have brilliant ideas to utilise any means in the service of the Lord. Social Media is a perfect example- how you have used a complete material thing, transformed it into a spiritual platform whereby you touch millions of lives with your transcendental knowledge- A quote a day keeps Maya away! In one of his offerings to you, HH Radhanath Maharaj once mentioned how you are always concerned about the youth in our movement and always helping the second generation devotees and their families without any prejudice like a true Vaishava.
Gurudev, as for my personal experience with you then I am eternally indebted to you, klife after life for accepting me as your spiritual daughter and giving this rarest of the rare opportunity to go back home after wandering around life after life. Your mercy upon me and my family is like Endowment Fund. A fund one is not entitle to but given out of sheer mercy. I have no qualifications, no merits yet I am a proud recipient of your causeless shower of mercy. This year you accepted my material father as your spiritual son making my material family complete official JPS family! My gratitude has no bounds for it has no match to your mercy. Your mercy and blessings is the most prized possession of my life. “My spiritual father you are Krpa-Sindhu (ocean of causeless mercy).
Gurudev, like every year, on this special day of yours, once again I genuinely pray to you that never for a moment, even in my dreams, I become ungrateful, unfaithful or forgetful of your causeless mercy. Just as a father takes pride in seeing his children grow, you take great pleasure in seeing us advance in our spiritual lives. GM as you often say that advancement implies becoming free from selfish material desires and rendering service, but I somehow cannot free myself from such selfish desires alone. I need your mercy... Please help me Gurudev to strengthen my faith, my intelligence and bestow me wisdom so I could serve you and assist you and become a valuable instrument in your cherished service of fulfilling Srila Prabhupada’s mission. Gurudev, please empower me that I not only become a good mother but also act as friend and guide to Anaiya Siddha Radhika by ushering her way on this sublime path. Lastly, I beg you for your blessings again allowing me to fulfil my initiation vows with purity, grace and truthfulness.
GM there is no purity in my prayers, yet, I make an attempt to pray to the Supreme Personality of Godhead to bless you with perfect health so you can preach all over the world- with each passing day may Their Lordships bestow upon you renewed conviction and determination to help Srila Prabhupada spread the holy names of Gauranga to every town and village....Gaura Katha Dhama Daya, Nagar Grama Tarine!!
Your most fallen Spiritual Daughter,
Yutheshvari Radha Devi Dasi,(Diksha Disciple)
Sydney, Australia