Hare Kṛṣṇa Dearest Guru Mahārāja,
Please accept my respectful obeisances at your lotus feet.
All Glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda.
All glories to your services, Gurudeva.
All glories to your auspicious appearance day.
nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale
śrīmate jayapatāka svāmin iti nāmine
“We offer our respectful obeisances to His Divine Grace Jayaptākā Swami Guru Mahārāja, who is very dear to Lord Kṛṣṇa, having taken shelter at His lotus feet.”
nama ācaryapādāya nitāi-kṛpā-pradāyine
gaura-kathā-dhāma-dāya nagara-grāma-tāriṇe
“I offer my respectful obeisances unto Śrīla Jayapatākā Swami, who is dedicated to serve the desire, instructions, and lotus feet of the previous ācāryas by offering the mercy of Lord Nityānanda prabhu. He is freely distributing the glories of the transcendental pastimes, instructions, mercy and abode of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.”
Dearest Guru Mahārāja, since taking shelter at your lotus feet and having you as my Spiritual Master, sometimes, I feel Kṛṣṇa is testing me by putting you through so much pain and challenges. In the last year or so you have endured more health issues than any ordinary person. I don’t know how you cope with it all and still manage to maintain your services. I have come to realize that you are not just any ordinary Guru Mahārāja, but a very special, highly elevated soul whose mission is to help other Vaiṣṇavas. Also, you have helped me to understand that pain is there, but how to deal with it in Kṛṣṇa’s service is the way I should learn to move forward.
Not a day goes by without praying for your good health and praying that I may serve you in some way here in England.
Dear Guru Mahārāja, I just wanted to share how your mercy and blessings are always with me and how it has helped me in my spiritual life. Without your mercy I have no abilities to do any services, so I am feeling truly blessed.
In such a short time you have given me a lifetime of spiritual energy to help others and do my services for Lord Jagannātha, Baladeva and Subhadrā, Rādhā Mādhava and Gaura Nitāi at ISKCON Reading. I am also able to continue with my sewing services to make outfits for the Deities in Reading, which is a service that Rādhā Gokulānanda blessed me with.
Now I understand better that Kṛṣṇa has His plans, which are much better for me and it has worked out well. I have been truly blessed by you to help others to perform arti in their own home and learning to sing our ISKCON prayers and āratis, although I am not qualified at all to do this service. Especially since I cannot sing myself. But they are singing so nicely and offering āratis for the Sunday Morning maṅgala-ārati programs on zoom every week. This is all possible since you saved me from the ocean of māyā and took me under your shelter by giving me initiation.
So many times, I have been fortunate to cook for Lord Jagannātha on festival days and serve Vaiṣṇavas. This is only possible with your blessings and mercy.
Please, Guru Mahārāja, bless me, that I may continue to do my services better, so I can please Kṛṣṇa and please you also. I don’t have any other desires.
It has been two years since we started having your association through vāṇī (listening to your lecture and more on the daily Caitanya-caritāmṛta classes) and Facebook classes. These have been the most blissful two years of my life. Now I am looking forward to the vapuḥ association. Although you give us live darśana everyday, still I am looking forward to the day when we can have your personal association and serve you in any way we can.
Dearest Guru Mahārāja, I will continue to pray for you everyday. May you have a nice Vyāsa-pūjā Day.
Your spiritual daughter,
Bhāratī Revatī Devī Dāsī
UK (Reading)