oṁ ajñāna-timirāndhasya jñānāñjana-śalākayā
cakṣur unmīlitaṁ yena tasmai śrī-gurave namaḥ
nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale
śrīmate jayapatāka svāmin iti nāmine
nama ācaryapādāya nitāi-kṛpā-pradāyine
gaura-kathā-dhāma-dāya nagara-grāma-tāriṇe
Hare Kṛṣṇa dear Guru Mahārāja
Please accept my most respectful obesciencses
All glories to your Vyāsa-pūjā day,
All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda,
All glories to You!
Although I have no qualifications to glorify an exalted personality like Yourself, but for my own purification I will try to do so.
Because of being very much unfortunate, I have not witnessed Your pastimes physically but from Your Great Servants, Well-Wishers, and Sīkṣā disciples, I have heard some of the inconceivable pastimes of Yours.
One devotee was telling that once You were in a hospital, and a person next to your bed was about to leave his body. Upon seeing his situation, the devotee was telling that, You immediately told the nurse “Give him neck beads, give him Tulasī, I will initiate him right now and free him from repeated birth and death”, no fire yajña, no information of him, but You, being infinitely merciful, were ready to initiate him then and there.
Another time, a devotee was telling us that we should practice and dive into the nectarine Holy Names of Kṛṣṇa, and with this process, we will transcend this bodily conception of life and he was giving the most vivid example of Yours, “Mahārāja (You) has completely absorbed himself in the holy names of Kṛṣṇa that he is completely transcendental to this body. So much pain Mahārāja has to go through, you all cannot even imagine. How is Mahārāja able to do so much for Śrīla Prabhupāda’s mission? Because due to his absorption in the holy names of the Lord, he is completely transcendental to the body.”
As in a Vyāsa-pūjā offering to You, His Grace Jananivāsa Prabhuji was saying, “Every time I see Jayapatākā Mahārāja, I say to myself, ‘take a good look, this person(You), he does not live for himself, he simply lives for others... take a good look, it is very rare to find such a Person’.” and this statement of Jananivāsa Prabhu was technically proven to be absolute truth when you were having your liver and kidney transplant. A devotee was sharing that, at that time, doctors had left all the hope. So, devotees asked an astrologer, out of their great love for you, if the surgery is going to be a success? Would you be present amongst the devotees for some more time? The astrologer deeply answered the devotees that according to your astrological charts, the time period of your manifest pastimes on this earth planet already came to the end when a miscreant attacked you on the neck with a knife but you are still here. After that incident so many health-related traumas including that awful stroke in 2008, but you are still here. He added further, “This saintly man is just here to fulfill the orders of his Spiritual Master and to deliver the fallen souls, that’s all... Do not worry he will continue to give his divine association to all of us for at least 10 more years” and since that time Dear Guru Mahārāja, you went through many health challenges but just out of your own sweet will, for the sake of delivering the falling souls, you are on this planet and gave up your life just for the sake of others. Indeed, today is the most auspicious anniversary of your ‘52 Years of Self-Sacrifice’.
Knowing the mood of Your Spiritual Master, ‘Preaching is the essence, Purity is the force’, as a Perfect Disciple, You have led all of us, all the way to this point, as your name transliterates: Victory Flag, please Guru Mahārāja I beg at your Lotus Feet, please continue to lead us and inspire us so that we may also, in some lifetime, at least try to follow in your footsteps.
O Gurudeva, I am completely fallen but you are so much merciful that out of your own sweet will, you have causelessly saved a fallen person like me from Spiritual Death. O Spiritual Master, please keep me under the shelter of your divine Lotus Feet, if it so pleases you. I am completely filled with vāsanas and anarthas, O Guru Mahārāja please accept this humble offering unto to Your Divine Lotus Feet and please Gurudeva, kindly forgive me for my mistakes.
O Gurudeva, please give me your divine mercy and strength, so that I may endeavor to carry out your divine instructions.
śrī-guru karuṇā-sindhu, aDhāmaa janāra bandhu,
lokanāth lokera jīvana
hā hā prabhu koro doyā, deho more pada-chāyā,
ebe jaśa ghuṣuk tribhuvana
All glories to your Vyāsa-pūjā day,
All glories to You,
All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda.
Your aspiring servant,
Priyanshu Dwivedi (aspiring disciple)
Allahabad (Prayāgrāja), India
