Dearest Śrīla Guru Mahārāja,
Hare Kṛṣṇa dear Guru Mahārāja. Please kindly accept my respectful obeisances unto your most merciful lotus feet.
All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda!
All glories to you!
All glories to your most auspicious appearance day!
You are the life of our spiritual life
Because of your prayers and mercy we survive
Thank you for your daily classes and darśana live
Because of them we are able to strive
Thank you for your daily visits, mahā-prasāda and time
They save us from our crimes
Thank you for your immense efforts to connect and care
They shield us from Māyā devī’s snare
Unflinching faith you have in the holy name
That It will surely change māyā’s game
You lead, encourage and teach by your behavior exemplary
Always taxing yourself how to free us from our material lives temporary
Your causeless mercy you give to all
Always declaring a war against māyā, you stand tall
Our ever well-wisher and best friend
You want to put an end to our material lives’ trend
For every living entity you desire to take their sins
And send each one of us back home to Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa, our greatest kins
To shower your mercy you are always finding new ways
In our dark lives they are like the sun’s rays
Serving Śrīla Prabhupāda’s instructions is your life and soul
For his pleasure you have dedicated your life whole
Giving out the inconceivable mercy of Lord Nityānanda
You seek out and save those who are the most manda
While giving out mercy you know no bounds
Just to save us from perpetual material rounds
You never reject or discriminate
Always protective, loving and considerate
To wipe out our material life and not leave even a trace
Your shelter and instructions are our only saving grace
Unlimited are your glories
Inconceivable are your mercy stories
What can a wretched one like me say
Only by your mercy I can simply try to pray
O all powerful Vaiṣṇava Ṭhākura,
I wish to become your faithful, pleasing and beloved kukura
I wish to carry out all your instructions to your utmost pleasure
I wish to spend not a moment of leisure
But to be worthwhile and determined I am too weak
To be strong please tell your special mercy how can I seek
I wish with each passing day I may fulfill your heart’s desire and preach
My initiation vows I wish never to breach
I pray never to be for you a disappointing black spot
I do not wish to come back here again to rot
But alas, always running after lust, name and fame
I have no taste for chanting the holy name
Numerous offenses everyday I make
Please save me, my spiritual life is at stake
Please kindly bless me with faith pure
For that is my only cure
Aspiring to be the dust of your lotus feet
My Lord, please in my heart kindly reside and have your eternal seat.
Please bless that your unlimited mercy I am able to receive and retain
And my material life be eternally detained
Please kindly bless me with Harināma
And to serve you with mind, body, words, intelligence and without any desires for personal kāma
Please kindly bless me to quicken my devotional pace
All glories, all glories, all glories to Your Divine Grace.
Your fallen insignificant sheltered spiritual daughter
Harṣitā Ṣarma (sheltered)
Delhi, India