Beloved Spiritual father,
Please accept my most respectful obeisances to Your divine lotus feet. All glories to Your Divine Grace! All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda!
Ācāryapāda, your presence and association is very valuable for this planet, as even a moment’s association with Your Divine Grace can give one the seed of Kṛṣṇa Bhakti. That is why we pray everyday that you should regain your bodily health, strength, and capability even better than your pre- stroke days. Like Nārada Muni, your eagerness to reach out to all, is tremendous! You once remarked that you were forced to apply for visas in so many countries which delayed your travel, unlike Nārada Muni who can go anywhere at a moment’s notice!
Gurudeva, you are the engine providing the spiritual energy for us to continue our spiritual lives. Your instructions as well as blessings and prayers keep helping us to try and come out of māyā’s clutches and try to render pure devotional service.
This pandemic has been very spiritually productive in my life as I could focus completely on trying to render better quality service to Your Divine Grace. My sadhana and my consciousness have become more focused in pleasing you. I have tried to share this with other devotees and new devotees as well.
The internet has helped in continuing our programs even more rigorously than before.
One thing I realize through this is about your high level of dedication, love, and commitment to Śrīla Prabhupāda! I feel so humbled and dwarfed both quantitatively and qualitatively in my attempts to serve You!
I can understand a little better now about your desires for us- to become humble, selfless, and service -minded. That is really the goal of rendering all services, including preaching. So that we become eligible to taste kṛṣṇa-prema.
Dear Gurudeva, your purity is a benediction upon us like the sun’s rays removing darkness.
As long as I live, I wish to be a useful instrument in your mission. I wish to realize my true identity and develop pure love for Kṛṣṇa. I seek your blessings for this- for my eternal bond of loving relationship with you- so special and unique even though you have thousands and thousands of souls attached to Your Divine Grace!
For you, even 50.000 is a small number of disciples! That is why Śrīla Prabhupāda asked to expand the number of devotees unlimitedly! Please keep me as a particle of dust at your lotus feet so that I can always keep serving you selflessly.
You have been very strict with me. I wish to qualify to please you naturally and spontaneously without any anarthas.
Gurudeva, once, during the Māyāpur parikramā, I was praying in front of the Rājāpur Jagannātha Deities among so many devotees. I was wondering what to pray to the Lord for, and Your Divine Grace from somewhere behind came and told me to pray that Bhakti-vṛkṣa preaching should reach and spread all over the world and for blessings and good fortune for my two sons!! So I pray for the Bhakti-vṛkṣa preaching and also beg you to bless my two sons Pradeep and Ananth and make them both your loving servants. Please also bless my husband Vijay Venugopal das for rendering wonderful services to your lotus feet.
I also seek your blessings on all the devotees of our Bangalore yātrā. Please bless everyone that they may advance very nicely and engage in loving services including extensive preaching for your pleasure. Please also bless all the devotees that I am helping, from all the other places.
Please kindly forgive me father, for all my offenses unto your divine lotus feet. You are an ocean of love. I have no shelter but you.
Your insignificant spiritual daughter,
Prema Padminī devī dāsī (dīkṣa)
Bangalore, India