My dear spiritual father,
Please accept my respectful obeisances. All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda! All glories to Your Divine Grace!
The last one year, especially the last couple of months, have given us great anxiety about our beloved Gurudeva.
So many new health challenges arising one after the other has been very difficult for me to see.
But when I see that you are resolutely fighting each challenge and doubling down on your mission to please our spiritual grandfather Śrīla Prabhupāda, I am struck with wonder. I see that you just become more and more determined not to reduce your focus, and to stretch your body beyond all limits. The whole Guru Mahārāja Healthy team is meditating all the time on how to keep up with your desires. In this way you engage your disciples in pleasing guru and Gaurāṅga.
It is very clear to me now that all that matters for the rest of my life is to expend my efforts to pleasing you. This is what I am trying.
Firstly - to purify myself by everyday hearing / reading the discourses given by you and Śrīla Prabhupāda. The spiritual purity and power I experience is like a powerful cleanser of my mind and touches my heart.
Secondly - to improve my japa quality a little every day, by eliminating every thought which enters my mind, as fast as it comes. It is rather like baling out water from a leaky boat, but this is what I must do every day of my life.
Thirdly - do as much as I can to help other devotees to remember guru and Kṛṣṇa. I have to do this while simultaneously doing housework, managing my finances, managing my farm, managing my restaurant, and serving my family. It takes every ounce of my energy and patience.
Without your mercy it is not possible for me to do this.
Please bless me with more capability. Please bless my sons Pradeep and Ananth to get more involved with our Kṛṣṇa conscious life and become your initiated disciples. Please bless them to be able to take over the running of the Farm and the Restaurant, start making profits, and earn a good living from them, and donate substantially for your projects.
Please bless Prema Padminī with good health and good fortune to serve you more and more.
Please bless me with more and more opportunities to serve you unrestrictedly.
Your fallen spiritual son,
Vijaya Veṇugopāla dāsa
Koramangala, Bangalore, India