nāma oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya Kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale
śrīmate jayapatākā-svāmin iti nāmine
namo ācāryapādāya nitāi-kṛpa-pradāyine
gaura-kathā dhāma dāya nagara-grāma tāriṇe
Dear Guru Mahārāja,
Please accept my most respectful obeisances unto your lotus feet. All Glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda …!!! All Glories to Śrī Guru and Śrī Gaurāṅga…!!!
On this auspicious occassion of Your 73rd Vyāsa-pūjā, we lovingly
wish you a very blissful appearance day. We offer our heartfelt prayers to Lord Nrsimha Dev, ŚrīŚrī RādhāMadhava Astasakhis and Pañca tattva to keep you in good health & let you be in Śrīla Prabhupāda’s service.
Guru Mahārāja, like how it is impossible even for Ananta to chant the unlimited glories of Lord, your glories are so endless for any mundane person to even list out. And I am so ignorant, fallen and incompetent to glorify you duly. Still, I am trying to glorify you and express my deep gratitude to you, as part of my duty as a spiritual daughter.Kindly accept this offering of love and gratitude.
I really like to hear Lord Caitanya's pastimes from you. I feel you are always living in those eternal pastimes & trying to give us glimpses of it. Your total absorption & bliss in Gaurāṅgas pastimes & instructions, is so wonderful. You are an eternal associate of Lord Caitanya and you are also very munificent like Lord Caitanya.
Even when your health is not good, you invest all your time in various devotional services & keep inspiring all of us. Your determination & enthusiasm in devotional service is unparalleled.
Where can I find a greater spiritual influencer & leader? I submit my prayerful gratitude to Lord to have given you as my spiritual father. I pray that somehow I may be able to please you through my insignificant services of preaching.
Like how Śrīla Prabhupāda replied to his disciple
" I made your fortune " regarding how he could get the fortune to get Kṛṣṇa consciousness, your grace definitely made all our fortunes. You are an ocean of mercy. I couldn't serve you much personally. But you give darsan & accept our humble offerings through zoom meetings.. I always felt it is such a mercy, such a fortune, to hear Gaura kathā from you & receive " kṛṣṇe matir astu" blessings from you...thank you dear spiritual father. I cannot express the happiness & support I feel when I see you / receive your blessings.
My dear spiritual father, I was going through many material worries & problems & it helped me to be more prayerful, grateful & to try to depend on Lord more and more. Because my spiritual growth is still very little, I'm going through fear & anxiety regarding a planned relocation to India, with our children. I fear that the situation there is not as conducive to devotional service as it is here in Mathurā deśa. I'm very weak spiritually & so I'm praying that I may get good association & always be in devotional service and that I may be able to carry out my material responsibilities also nicely. I know you are praying everyday for all our spiritual welfare, it is a great assurance, but still I seek your protection, like a weak daughter requesting her strong father.
Guru Mahārāja, when I see your preaching efforts, other services & travel, I realize how much loyal you are to Śrīla Prabhupāda & to paramparā. You have taken the curse received by Nārada muni & Śrīla Prabhupāda, just for the sake of reaching out to more & more souls. Though I always feel very inadequate to preach, I pray to you in all my preaching efforts..Like the tiny squirrel in Lord ŚrīRama's pastimes, kindly bless & accept my insignificant sevā. Gurudeva, I have strong desire to preach / assist in preaching so that many more souls are eternally benefited.
Kṛṣṇa-śakti vinā nahe tāra pravartana. (Unless endowed with the mercy of the Lord, one cannot preach the glories of the Lord) A drop of your mercy can help so many souls, kindly make me instrumental in more preaching sevā with a droplet of bhakti śakti.
I also pray that my mother and my other family members also be blessed with the gift of Kṛṣṇa Consciousness. Kindly help me in bringing them closer to devotional service. Please shower your mercy on them so that they may also engage in the eternal service of ŚrīŚrī RādhāMadhava.
I sincerely desire that this is my last birth & that I may be allowed to go back to spiritual world after this lifetime itself...I'm so tired & beaten up by all the material experiences, frustrations & though I haven't developed deep spiritual realization, I seek your blessings that somehow I may be able to perfect this lifetime & be able to go back to Godhead.
Guru Mahārāja, please forgive me for any offences I may have committed knowingly or unknowingly and I beg for your blessings for our spiritual advancement and to serve you and Kṛṣṇa in a better way. Please help us to improve devotee care and to increase our preaching activities with more love and care.
Śrīla Gurudeva, please bless us and all the devotees whom we are trying to care, train and help in their services, on behalf of you. Kindly bless us all so that we can overcome the present impediments and improve our preaching to more conditioned souls. Kindly help us to be free from all offenses so that we may develop a taste for the Holy names.
Praying for your mercy and blessings so that we perform our material and spiritual duties with the right attitude and service mood for the pleasure of Śrī Guru and Śrī Gaurāṅga. We humbly express our deep desire to be blessed with the dust from your lotus feet. I express my deepest gratitude to you. You are the greatest gift in our lives. We love you Gurudeva.
Gaurāṅga !!!!
Thanking you
Your spiritual daughter,
Lakṣmī Rādhā devī dāsī (Dīkṣā)
Vinay Nitāi chand Dāsa (Dīkṣā)
Nandakiśore (13 years)
Saumya Rādhikā (3.5 years)
Jayakumary (my mother, your aspiring disciple)
Mathurā Deśa