nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale
śrīmate jayapatāka svāmin iti nāmine
nama ācaryapādāya nitāi-kṛpā-pradāyine
gaura-kathā-dhāma-dāya nagara-grāma-tāriṇe
My Dearest Spiritual Father,
Please accept my respectful obeisances at the dust of your divine lotus feet.
All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda!
All glories to Your Divine Grace!
All glories to your glorious Appearance Day!!
On this auspicious appearance day of your Vyāsa-pūjā, first of all like to offer my heartfelt gratitude to you for accepting me as your spiritual daughter and showering me with your causeless mercy.
With my limited knowledge and devotion how can I properly glorify your Divine grace? yet I am making this attempt as a small token of gratitude for the showers of mercy that you are pouring upon me incessantly.
“śrī guru karuna sindhu, adhāmaa janara bandhu”
You are an ocean of mercy dear Guru Mahārāja!!! It is unfathomable to describe your compassion in words. How much suffering you are going through to uplift all the conditioned souls?? Starting from Madrid attack to Covid +ve you have been through so many health crisis yet in all these times you have been always pushing yourself to give out the mercy of Lord Caitanya to everyone and now also you are travelling with all inconveniences simply for the wellbeing of all your dīkṣā and śikṣā disciples and for the benefit of everyone in general. Though you have not recovered fully yet still you have started maṅgala-ārati darśana, Caitanya līlā class, attending festivals, meetings and other services and you are constantly serving hard for TOVP fund raising and all other services for the pleasure of Śrīla Prabhupāda. We are broken to tears watching you attending Navadvīpa-maṇḍala parikramā this year and giving out medallions for the various sponsors of TOVP with your fragile health. How can we describe your love for Śrīla Prabhupāda?
our divine grace is always meditating on the development of Gaura-maṇḍala-bhūmi. Your heart is in Māyāpur-dhāma and you are always finding newer and newer ways to develop the kingdom of God given to you by Śrīla Prabhupāda. You are Lord Caitanya’s eternal associate, so you have the power to give Lord Caitanya to everyone. How blessed are we to hear the nectar of Lord Caitanya’s līlā from your lotus mouth?
When the transcendental vibration from the mouths of great devotees carries the aroma of the saffron dust of Your lotus feet, the forgetful living entity gradually remembers his eternal relationship with You….
A pure devotee always engages in the service of the Lord, taking shelter of His lotus feet, and Therefore, he has a direct connection with the saffron mercy-particles that are strewn over the lotus feet of the Lord. Although when a pure devotee speaks, the articulation of his voice may resemble the sound of this material sky, the voice is spiritually very powerful because it touches the particles of saffron dust on the lotus feet of the Lord. As soon as a sleeping living entity hears the powerful voice emanating from the mouth of a pure devotee, he immediately remembers his eternal relationship with the Lord, although up until that moment he had forgotten everything.”
[SB 4.20.25 part of the verse and purport excerpt.]
These transcendental words we heard in one of your Caitanya-līlā Śrīla Guru Mahārāja. We are so grateful to you Guru Mahārāja for your causeless mercy. Please bless us that we can awaken our dormant love for Lord Caitanya, serve His instructions sincerely and spread His message everywhere for your pleasure.
It is purely your mercy Śrīla Guru Mahārāja that we are engaged in Bhakti-vṛkṣa and other services. We can see how your mercy is manifesting in the East London Yātrā. We are eternally grateful to you Guru Mahārāja. Kindly forgive me for all the offenses committed knowingly or unknowingly Guru Mahārāja. Seeking your blessings and mercy so that we can fulfil your instructions in the proper spirit of service and please you dear spiritual father. Kindly give us your mercy so that all the obstacles on the path of our devotional service are removed and we can be useful instruments in your mission of pleasing Śrīla Prabhupāda.
We are eternally indebted for your love Guru Mahārāja. Please bless us that our love for you increases every moment and we can serve you blissfully with all our hearts.
Thank you dear Father,
Your spiritual Children,
Yamuneśvarī devī dāsī, Aravinda Kṛṣṇa Dāsa
East London, UK