nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale
śrīmate jayapatākā-svāmin iti nāmine
namo ācāryapādāya nitāi-kṛpa-pradāyine
gaura-kathā dhāmadhāya nagara-grāma tāriṇe
Hare Krishna Guru Mahārāja,
Please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda.
All glories to Your Divine Grace on this auspicious day of Your Vyāsa-pūjā.
One more year Your Divine Grace have blessed us, people of this material world, with Your divine association. Although You are a person of spiritual realm still it’s Your causeless mercy that you are loving us and caring us and encouraging us to go back home back to Godhead. You, by Your divine will, showed Your kind mercy on all of us, otherwise we don’t have any inclination to think about Kṛṣṇa or do any devotional service. We are Just interested in sense gratification, envying others, hating others, full of selfishness.
It is not at all possible for us to chant the Holy names. Why Lord in his most merciful form of Holy names will vibrate on our tongue, what qualification do I have? It is not at all possible. It is possible only and only by the prayers, blessings and mercy of Spiritual master that I am producing this sound vibration through my mouth which is always speaking nonsense.
The great fortune of being a part of this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement and able to see such exalted devotees, hear from them is a causeless mercy which is coming through Lord Caitanya, Guru Paramparā and finally through Your Divine Grace. And Causeless mercy doesn’t have any cause, it is purely the heartfelt desires of great vaiṣṇavas Like Your Divine Grace who always thinks about the welfare of the fallen souls. Causeless mercy cannot be demanded. It is not my birth right, it’s a privilege, it’s a blessing which I don’t deserve but still getting. How can I repay such gift?
I don’t have even intelligence to understand my good fortune. I Just do chanting as a ritual, go to temple, read books etc., just because You are always encouraging us to do so and shows by Your own example.
Your Stone like determination to serve Śrīla Prabhupāda is beyond my conception of service. I am limited with my bodily boundaries, capabilities, and situations. But Your Service attitude has no such limitations. You are unstoppable under any circumstances and I am so fortunate to observe these divine pastimes of Your Divine Grace. Just seeing You, hearing You makes me purified and increases my faith in Lord Krishna and Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s Movement.
You are Conscious of Kṛṣṇa at every step of walk, every spoon of food, every blink of Your eyes. I feel like just observing You and Your activities every second because these activities are essence of all shastra, essence of all teachings and culmination of all spiritual understandings.
I feel and I know for sure that any spiritual progress, Understanding or even going back home back to Godhead will be possible only and only because You desire so for all of us. There is no other possibility. There can’t be any other reason.
Finally, I pray to Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa, supremely merciful Pañca-tattva, Jagatguru Śrīla Prabhupāda to bestow Your Divine Grace with Good health, Long Life and all strength so that We all can see Your Divine Grace again walking like a Lion amongst the Jackal like misinterpreted, unauthorized spiritual leaders and performing Your extended pastimes of Caitanya Lila and creating good fortune for all of us.
Thank you for being there always and when We need you. Thank you for always answering questions and clearing my doubts. Thank you for everything You gave us . I look forward to serve Your Divine Grace more and more and more.
Please bless me so that I can chant with proper concentration and prayerful mood, can read and study Śrīla Prabhupāda books, can understand the real essence and principle of devotional service, can do some value addition to this glorious movement, follow your instructions, able to please Your divine Grace and become a worthy servant of Yours.
Your Fortunate Sīkṣā Disciple
Vraja Kṛṣṇa Dāsa, Śrī dhāma Māyāpur.