Vyāsa-pūjā 2022
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
nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale
śrīmate bhaktivedānta-svāminn iti nāmine
namas te sārasvate deve gaura-vāṇī-pracāriṇe
nirviśeṣa-śūnyavādi-pāścātya-deśa-tāriṇe
Our Dearest Spiritual Father,
Our most respectful obeisance at your lotus feet on this very special day of your 73rd Vyāsa-pūjā day. We are most grateful every moment that in spite of being the most unqualified in every way you have given us shelter under your lotus feet and continue to guide us even though we are not grasping all your instructions.
Our spiritual and material life is a mixed bag of many blessings and many obstacles. Kṛṣṇa has kept us balanced in dealing with both our Spiritual and Material life. Guru Mahārāja observing you and reading Prabhupāda Līlāmṛta everyday is showing us how to deal with these vagaries. We are not intelligent enough to apply it but we get solace and feel energized whenever we see how in spite of far more responsibility and personal issues you continue to inspire all of us to follow Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu's instruction and Śrīla Prabhupāda's desire. Our issues seem insignificant and our blessings are more than our Surrender. Guru Mahārāja, your daily instructions keep us going through very tough times and gives us hope that someday we will be able to actually please you and Śrīla Prabhupāda and thereby please Śrī Kṛṣṇa.
This past year has been tough preaching-wise as we continue our classes on Zoom. Some of our services for this year are:
1. We have started going into Arizona State University (ASU) as well as hosting TSKP book distributors who have distributed over 50 boxes of books on campus.
2. We have been inviting new and regular devotees to our front-porch for kīrtana and prasāda on festival days, as well as having 1:on:1 sessions.
3. We continue with our monthly JSSS Arizona disciples meeting online on the first Saturday of every month
4. We are continuing daily (30 minutes) readings of Śrīmad-bhāgavatam which we started in March of 2020. On Mondays we read other books such as Brahma Saṁhitā, Mukunda Mālā stotram.
5. We are conducting twice a week Kids Bhagavad-gītā As It Is classes online which we started in May 2020. We celebrated Gītā jayanti by having "Gītā at the Park" with all kids presenting a summary of the Gītā to parents and invitees.
We hope with Kṛṣṇa's will and your blessings to increase our preaching effort and fully open our Bhakti Yoga Tempe(BYT) center which was shutdown due to the pandemic the day after Gaura Pūrṇimā in 2020. We hope we can be fully open after this Gaura Pūrṇimā (2022).
Guru Mahārāja, please kindly continue to bless us that we are able to serve you in some way to fulfill our promise to you. Only with your Blessings can we do anything, that is the instructions in the shastra and that is what we have experienced personally. Our only qualification and good fortune is that we have come under your shelter.
We pray to Śrī Śrī Rādhā Mādhava Hari, Śrīnathji and Śrī Gaura Nitāi that they may give you many many years of Good health so you can guide such insignificant souls as us to make some progress in this lifetime.
Guru Mahārāja, please give us instructions to improve our service as we are daily praying that we can please you in some way. Also please bless our children Ankith & Aneka who are helping us in our preaching activities to develop into Kṛṣṇa Conscious devotees.
Yours most unqualified servants,
Rādhā-pranaraja dasa (1997) & Anupama-gopī devī dāsī (1997)
Bhakta Ankith Kṛṣṇa & Bhaktin Aneka Rādhā
