nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale
śrīmate jayapatākā-svāmin iti nāmine
namo ācāryapādāya nitāi-kṛpa-pradāyine
gaura-kathā dhāmadhāya nagara-grāma tāriṇe
Dear Gurumaharaja,
Please accept our most humble obeisances at your lotus feet. All glories to your Divine Grace. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
In the sastra it is said:
yasya deve parā bhaktir yathā deve tathā gurau
tasyaite kathitā hy arthāḥ prakāśante mahātmanaḥ"Unto those great souls who have implicit faith in both the Lord and the spiritual master, all the imports of Vedic knowledge are automatically revealed."
Shvetashvatara Upanishad 6.23
guru Krishna rupa han shastrer pramaney.
guru-rupe Krishnakripa karen bhaktagane.According to the deliberate opinion of all revealed scriptures, the spiritual master is nondifferent from Kṛṣṇa. Lord Kṛṣṇa in the form of the spiritual master delivers His devotees.
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta Ädi-līlā 1.45
To understand Krishna and his devotees, we need complete surrender toward the spiritual master and serve him with same attention and sincerity as we would do to serve the Supreme Lord Krishna Himself. In fact, serving Guru is more important than serving the Supreme Lord Himself. This is the foundation of all Vedic knowledge. Unless one understands the position of spiritual master as a direct representation of the Supreme Lord, he won’t be able to approach pure devotional service s at any time.
Srila Gurudeva,
Last year we had the good fortune to have Your Divine Grace personal darshan during your visit in Los Angeles, US. Many devotees from different parts of the world gather to get your blessings and rare association. As usual, it became a great conference of many god siblings and we had a completely ecstatic yatra in your presence. Each and every bit of it was full of joy. But in the midst of all these rejoicings, Your Divine Grace taught us many lessons through your personal Leela. You were extremely tired on account of removal of your accumulated body fluid just prior to your visit to the US, but still, you gave all of your time to rest of us. Many of your Godbrothers had many hours of meeting with you and they all left satisfied after the discussion. We saw you everywhere: in your quarter, in your god siblings’ apartment, in the temple hall taking darshan or giving a lecture, giving your darshan to your disciples and well-wishers 2/3 times a day, traveling to Laguna beach temple and bless that congregation- what not! We can’t fathom how much energy you possess. Just being with you can become very hectic for people like us who work sometimes 2-3 shifts to meet the deadline for demanding office works. The difference is that by doing mundane work we become exhausted but by being with you we become rejuvenated.
Dear Acharyapada,
Last year, we got your special mercy through getting mantra diksha from you. Even though we are not qualified enough to get this benediction, you accepted us because of our interest in deity worship. We are really grateful for your acceptance to our request. At the late evening, when you were uttering the mantras to our ear, you seemed very exhausted. We felt so bad by thinking that for the sake of us, you are keeping yourself awake and spending so much energy to bless us with those divine mantras. But another experience we want to share with you. When you were uttering the mantras, we felt the world had stopped us. We had nothing but the sound vibration from your lotus mouth. This was an amazing experience for us. We are also grateful to you for blessing our daughter when she was in the womb and immediately after she was born. It will be always one of the most cherished memories of her when she will understand what she had been bestowed upon.
Dear Father,
It always amazes us how you have embraced each and every detail of Vedic culture in your life. Your attention to every detail chores you do we can see nowhere these days. Especially, it is almost impossible for a person to maintain this high standard who is traveling round the clock to different parts of the world. Your eagerness to preach to everyone at any situation has given you a very special position as an Acharya in the line of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and your glorification will be sung by devotees all around the universe many millennia to come.
Hey Patita Pavan (Deliverer of the most fallen souls),
We are not able to become your disciples. When we see around us, almost every disciple of yours is supercharged with your enthusiasm to preach to each and everyone through a various different faculty of preaching services. But we are not able to embrace any of them wholeheartedly. Our lack of sincerity do not allow is to fulfill our initial vow that we would help you to fulfill Srila Prabhupada’s instructions. Please make us an instrument so that we can do something in your service to Srila Prabhupada. Please empower us to execute our sadhana more rigidly and strongly. Please take full control of our heart and make us dance as you wish.
Gurumaharaja,
We pray to Their Lordships Sri Sri Radha-Madanohan, Sriman Mahaprabhu, and Sri Sri Laxmi-Nrsimha Dev, Sril Prabhupada, and all the previous acharyas to protect you from all kind of physical sufferings and make you completely cured so that you can preach more vigorously all around the globe. We are the flagship of Sankirtan movement, where ever you will go, millions of people will automatically follow you. We want to see you jumping and dancing in front of the kirtan rally as the commander in chief of Srila Prabhupada’s army.
All glories to your Divine Grace!
Eternally Sheltered at your Lotus Feet,
Koladwip Pran Dasa,
Simantini Sakhi Devi Dasi,
Rai Mandali Sikder