Dear Guru Mahārāja,
Please accept my respectful obeisances at your divine lotus feet
All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda
All glories to your divine grace
All glories to your auspicious 73rd appearance day.
Please accept my most respectful obeisances unto the dust of your lotus feet.
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
I beg for your mercy on this most auspicious occasion of your Vyāsa-pūjā, so that I can even to some degree, understand your unlimited glories, and thus increase my appreciation, dedication and gratefulness towards you.
I must admit, that I have not endeavored enough to hear from you or hear about you, because of which I feel a real hook of belongingness in my spiritual life.
Kindly bestow me the strength Guru Mahārāja, to endeavor in this regard, and to stick to my words, which is something, I really lack.
This year, I was fortunate enough to have more association of devotees who have guided me since the beginning days of my Kṛṣṇa Consciousness.
And under the guidance of His Grace Nitāicandra Nimāi Prabhujī, I assisted in some of the Youth preaching endeavors on behalf of IYF Śrīdhāma Māyāpur.
Programs such as Wisdom eye, Business yoga from Bhagavad-gītā, 2 Personality-Software development camp, spiritual tours to Śrīdhāma Māyāpur and Śrī Jagannātha Purī, also individual programs at BCET college and NIT college were conducted, along with preaching programs for DSP employees.
I was also very fortunate to have the opportunity to participate in Śrīla Prabhupāda book marathon, and devotees from our BACE distributed more than 1200 Bhagavad-gītās.
By your mercy, I got some taste in distributing Śrīla Prabhupāda books, so I beg your for your blessings, so that I can think of newer and better ways to distribute these transcendental literatures and be an a proper instrument in your hands to connect more and more number of people to this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement.
You have mercifully given us the goal of reaching out to 5,00,000 youths by 2025, so I beg you to bless me, so that I can worship this and always meditate on ways and means to fulfill this GOAL for your pleasure and for the pleasure of Śrīla Prabhupāda.
Also, kindly bestow your blessings on me Guru Mahārāja, so that I can always remain an obedient disciple of yours and also obey the instructions of my authorities, under whom you have placed me, and that I can avoid having independent mentality.
I sincerely pray to Śrī Śrī Rādhā-Mādhava, Śrī-Śrī Pañca-tattva, Śrī Śrī Prahlāda- Narasiṁhadeva and Śrīla Prabhupāda, to bestow you with good health for many more years to come, so that all of us can develop attraction for serving the mission of Śrīla Prabhupāda by your association.
Begging for your mercy,
Your most unworthy son,
Iṣṭadeva Gopāla dāsa (dīkṣa)
Māyāpur, India