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 Śrīla Guru Mahārāja
Please accept our respectful obeisance. All Glories to You and
All Glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda.
All Glories to Your Appearance Day Śrīla Guru Mahārāja.
This is our first homage after our marriage, and we are really happy to write this one together. Śrīla Guru Mahārāja we have seen the tremendous efforts You are putting into TOVP and spending a lot of time spreading Kṛṣṇa consciousness with love in the world. Every time we hear news about Your poor health condition, we feel so worried thinking how will Kṛṣṇa consciousness be spread in a grand way in the world without Your presence, how will we do all the sevas You have mercifully given us. The reason behind this worry is that You are our strength, Your presence gives us spiritual strength to continue with our devotional services in the right direction. It is rightly said in Śrīla Prabhupāda’s books that Spiritual Master is representative of Balram ji and gives us the strength to do bhakti in all kinds of circumstances. In our life, we are really fortunate to get that spiritual strength from You because You are our Spiritual Master. We know that You are always present with us because of our heart-to-heart connection, and You always help us and reciprocate in Your own magical ways.
This year we were pondering about the fact that we have mostly attempted to do all the sevas You have mercifully given us like preaching. chanting, becoming a teacher, cooking, deity worship, etc., and thought that this is all that we have to do in this life. Śrīla Guru Mahārāja we must say that You are surely watching us and like a true Father making sure that we always engage ourselves in serving You and Śrī Śrī Rādhā Mādhava. We are saying this because recently by Your mercy and blessings, we understood our next sevā in Gṛhastha āśrama which You recently gave us when we took Your darśana this month. We both are highly thankful to You for making our married life a Kṛṣṇa-centered married life. In one of Your lectures, You mentioned that if we follow Your instructions then gradually everything will become fine. We have practically experienced it in our lives. We both are trying to move on in our Kṛṣṇa-conscious married life based on His Holiness Gopal Kṛṣṇa Gosvāmī Guru Mahārāja and Your instructions, so we easily come to know our next Kṛṣṇa conscious step. Your instructions are saving both of us from the greatest dangers and trying to keep us happy. We thank both of You for Your mercy, blessings and teachings.
We request You to always bless us and always allow us to serve Your Lotus Feet for eternity. Your presence in our life is one of the causes behind our enthusiasm and inclination towards Kṛṣṇa consciousness so please always be with us. We both are really happy to reside at Your Lotus Feet and at the Lotus Feet of His Holiness Gopal Kṛṣṇa Goswami Guru Mahārāja so please always keep us under Your shelter. We love to serve Śrī Śrī Mādhāva based on Your instructions so we request both of You to always give us sevas and we will try to do it together.
Your Spiritual Daughter
Ria (sheltered disciple)
Your Spiritual Son,
Apūrva Prema Dāsa
New Delhi, India