Dear Guru Maharaj Please accept my humble obeisances
All Glories to Srila Prabhupada, the Acarya of the Golden Age
All glories to You dear Gurudeva, Who carrying forward the mission of the Acarya to reinstate the conditioned souls in their original svarupa
First I would like to take the blessings of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, the golden avatara, the personification of mercy, by whose remembrance difficult things becomes easy.
kathañcana smṛte yasmin duṣkaraṁ sukaraṁ bhavet
vismṛte viparītaṁ syāt śrī-caitanyaṁ namāmi tam
Even though unqualified to write the offering and yet we don’t expect that we can ever be qualified as being conditioned since time immemorial, it is so difficult to understand the glories of associate of Lord Caitanya. But still the Lord being merciful has given us this golden opportunity, simply by meditating on the wonderful qualities and activities of Your divine self we can get freed from the ignorance.
The attempt of Glorifying you not only becomes a means for our purification and fulfill our responsibility as a disciple but also becomes an inspiration for the future generation of Your divine self. Many of us knew Srila Prabhupada only through his stalwart disciples… Unlimited books are coming up where each individual who interacted with Srila Prabhupada has unlimited glories.. So we would also like to being part of this great history of attempting to do so.
Though our attempts would be with full of faults but just by such attempts we get purified. Whatever words we would use to glorify would seem to be mundane so we would like to glorify you through the prayers of Narrottam Das Thakura, all these qualities we can see you manifest in your day to day activities. It is nothing amazing for you but for us it is a live example of the activities of spiritual world, many times we fail to recognize your glorious attributes.
ei-baro karuna koro vaishnava gosai
patita-pavana toma bine keho nai
0 Vaishnava Gosvami, please be merciful to me now. There is no one except you who can purify the fallen souls. You are our only hope otherwise we seem to be hopeless. Many times we are just lost in our ignorance but you take the responsibility of purifying us and somehow engage us in Krishna’s service… You take full responsibility in giving us the mercy of Gaura nitai and acaryas and purify us. The tweet messages you send us everyday even from your toughest situation of body is simply to pave our path back to godhead.
jahara nikate gele papa dure jay
emona doyala prabhu keba kotha pay
Where does anyone find such a merciful personality by whose mere audience all sins go far away?
Who can exchange their twenty years of life span just by accepting our karma. Normally for any good or pious or transcendental activity one receives 100 times the benefit depending upon our intensity But Guru Maharaj you had reversed the situation you are accepting our karma and suffering, not sure whether your sacrifice is valued.. with your investment of life there is negative returns.. Where can we find such mercy… we ar so much stone hearted not able to understand your mercy.
gangara parasa hoile pascate pavan
darsane pavitra koro—ei tomara gun
After bathing in the waters of the sacred Ganges many times, one becomes purified, but just by the sight of you, the fallen souls are purified. This is your great power.
I have heard many devotees and non-devotees who visit the rath yatra programs and other programs of Your are simply attracted to Krishna just by Your darshan.. This your great power to attract the conditioned to engage us in pure devotional service.. many times I felt that my japa is improved when we take darshan of you..
hari-sthane aparadhe tare hari-nam
toma sthane aparadhe nahi paritran
The holy name delivers one who has committed an offense to Lord Hari, but if one commits an offense to you, there is no means of deliverance.
How can we expect any means of deliverance by offending you, but the greatness of Yourself is you don’t take the innumerable offenses we commit at your lotus feet because of your compassionate nature.
tomara hridoye sada govinda-visram
govinda kohena—mora vaishnava paran
Your heart is always the resting place of Lord Govinda, and Lord Govinda says, "The Vaishnavas are in My heart."
Every single moment you are simply absorbed in Gaura lila and devising ways and means to execute the instructions given to you by Srila Prabhupada.
prati-janme kori asa caranera dhuli
narottame koro doya apanara boli’
I desire the dust of your holy feet in every birth I may take. Please consider Narottama yours, and be kind upon him.
Oh dear Gurudeva, let me aspire the strength and determination to perform some worthy service in assistance of your mission of spreading the Sankirtan movement.
On this auspicious occasion of your Vyasa Puja, I would like to reconfirm my vows that I took during initiation and pray to Lord that I never become slackened in my sadhana. Let me remain grateful to whatever glorious service You have awarded this insignificant soul in the mission even though most unqualified.
Oh dear Gurudeva, you being the true follower of Pancha tattva, as your sole purpose of living is to spread the holy name far and wide. Praying to you that let me also become a squirrel in my attempts to do some preaching program and please you.
I would like to share some personal realization
Last year we have to leave Mayapur for some reasons with heavy heart and we were in Wada for our service but somehow within six months we returned back to Mayapur but wondering how come it is possible, once Gurudeva was enquiring about our services, I just expressed my gratitude to Guru Maharaja and thanking him, its because of your mercy we are back in Mayapur, Gurudeva just put his hand close to his heart and told us “I always wish that” these words were not just words it has just changed the whole course of our life. Me and my husband were eternally grateful for all those sweet moments we received from Gurdeva
Praying for their Lordships Sri Sri Radha Madhava, Sri Pancha Tattva, Sri Prahlad Narasimhadeva and all the previous acaryas and Srila Prabhupada for awarding you the best of health of execute the mission of Srila Prabhupada more efficiently.
Yours most fortunate spiritual daughter,
Rasa priya gopika devi dasi, (Diksa)
Vraja Krishna das, (Siksa)
Sridham Mayapur, India