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
Dear Śrīla Gurudeva,
Please Accept Our Respectful Obeisances
All Glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda!
All Glories to Your Divine Grace!!
Thank you for giving us an opportunity to remember your Divine Grace on your 73rd Vyāsapūjā Celebrations Guru Mahārāja.
Please save us Gurudeva... Please save us!!!
I couldn’t explain how miserable life has been for many devotees and people in general in this world due to all the misery caused by virus, war, economy constraint, job loss, relationship strain and many more calamities, in the last 1 year…
Even for us personally we just couldn’t digest all the chaos which is going on with people all around us and just to witness and be around all this makes us feel overwhelmed and depressed… what to speak of us being affected by it!
It looks like a dream, when I think of days before covid where people were moving freely with no fear of any sorts... because now due to the fear of virus, we are not even able to touch anyone or anything with peace of mind!
The more I get to see and experience this miserable life, it just makes me think what an idiot I must be to make a crazy choice to live in a world like this, away from Kṛṣṇa... but it’s even worse because even after getting kicked by māyā constantly with all problems in life, I am still attached to please my senses and mind!!.. this whole battle just looks to be hopeless for me… as the days are passing, I feel I am going down and down against the battle of controlling my mind and developing any interest towards Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
In that regard, I can see your divine grace is totally in different world, even though you are faced with all the challenges one can ever imagine – your enthusiasm and determination to serve Śrīla Prabhupāda is resolute and you are fixed in your purpose! And in fact you are getting stronger and stronger as māyā throws more challenges against your divine grace...
You always find excuse to serve Kṛṣṇa and his devotees... this is something beyond my imagination. I can only wish and pray I can develop a drop of that eagerness by your mercy to serve Kṛṣṇa and your divine grace.
I am just making my spiritual life complex day by day due to my ignorance and absence of desire to serve Kṛṣṇa. I am digging my own grave by running after satisfying my senses, even though I know that’s not good for me. I am voluntarily committing spiritual suicide!
Deep inside I really don’t want to lose my interest to do devotional service but my anarthas are pulling me to be more lazy in my Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
I very well understand, everything I got in my life is only by your blessings and Śrīla Prabhupāda’s blessings. I was thinking I am a great leader and great devotee but I can see, I am not even able to handle my own life with simple common sense... forget about leading and guiding other’s life!
This being your divine grace’s vyāsa-pūjā, I am taking this golden opportunity to beg for your causeless mercy and magic to help me get lifted out of this mental ditch I have put myself in... so that I can be enthusiastic to do my morning sadhana and able to serve your divine grace with love and devotion.
Thank you Gurudeva for being with us, amidst all the challenges you are going through. Yes you are liberated pure devotee but it doesn’t deny the fact, you are taking the burden of love on your shoulder single handedly... struggling a lot just to deliver stubborn rascals like me. I call myself stubborn because even though I know what is right and what is wrong, I am still being stubborn to follow the wrong path every single time. But you are still mercifully tolerating and being with us just to help us improve in our spiritual life.
I am begging you once again on this auspicious day Gurudeva, to please forgive all my repeated offences I am committing and begging for special benediction to help me get out of this material clutter which I am sinking down in... so that I can be enthusiastic in serving and assisting your divine grace to preach unlimitedly Kṛṣṇa conscious and bring many souls to Kṛṣṇa consciousness! - seriously that’s what is life all about!! …not work hard like an ass for making money, eating, sleeping, mating and DIE!
I apologies for just pouring out what’s in my heart in this homage... it could be incongruent and not in the right flow but I just want to share what I felt, so that we can seek special blessings on your divine grace’s vyāsa-pūjā, to step up in our spiritual life and be an effective servant of your divine grace. I just don’t see any other hope than this!!
Please Guru Mahārāja - We humbly seek your blessings, to be empowered with the mood to do pure devotional service for the pleasure of your Divine Grace. So that we can eternally serve your Divine Grace in bliss as your humble instruments just like your Divine Grace is serving your dear Gurudeva His Divine Grace A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Śrīla Prabhupāda with pure joy.
Please allow us to be part of this bliss party as your humble servants Śrīla Gurudeva.
Please forgive us for all our offences Guru Mahārāja and we beg for your mercy to be an effective servant in the service of your Divine Grace.
Praying to see your divine grace soon... and have the mood and opportunity to serve your divine grace’s vapuḥ with love and devotion.
Happy 73rd Vyāsa-pūjā Celebrations Śrīla Gurudeva!!
Thank you once again for all your mercy.
Your Dear Insignificant Servants,
Aravinda Kṛṣṇa dāsa and Yamunesvarī devī dāsī
From East London BV, UK