Your Divine Grace Srila Jayapataka Swami!
Dear Guru Maharaj!
Please accept my respectful obeisances at the dust of your lotus feet
at this auspicious day of your Vyasa-Puja,
A disciple should see guru as svarupa-sakti-pusta-krsna-parikara – eternal associate of Sri Krsna, who is supported not by material nature, but by svarupa-sakti – internal energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Only this way disciple develops guru-bhakti. Otherwise, he will consider guru as an ordinary person, committing aparadha and destroying own devotional service.
Dear Guru Maharaj! I’m infinitely grateful to you for the most amazing evidence of your non-material existence in this world, which makes easier to become confident in svarupa-sakti-guru-sraddha, naturally advancing in guru-bhakti. Witnessing your last few years’ preaching, it is impossible to doubt that you are supported by “Personal” Sakti of Bhagavan. It is obvious, just because any human being with two eyes can see, that simply there is no sufficient material and bodily resource, required for the immense activity, you perform all around the world. You have overcome not only old age and diseases of material world, but even death: your beloved disciple Caitanya Candra Caran Prabhu some time ago realized it, while witnessing your expression of will to responsible GBC members considering placement of your samadhi within Mayapur area.
Staying above the laws of material world, you wonderfully glorify Lord Gauranga’s lilas with such a power, that natural affection to Mahaprabhu and His associates immediately brakes in one’s heart, making an etched imprint. Your Gauranga-katha is like a documentary “report” from a witness of those pastimes. Therefore, how possible it is to doubt in the fact of your direct service to the lilas of Lord Caitanya as krsna-parikara – His eternal associate?!
Dear Guru Maharaj! I’m endeavoring to grow the seed of your personal instruction – to deliver transcendental knowledge about the difference between consciousness and body to intellectual elite of modern civilization. I believe that, by the mercy of your powerful blessings, this (in some context - impossible) task will be successfully realized for the benefit of intricated by modern science people. I hope, that like you keep in your heart personal instructions of Srila Prabhupada, and therefore follow them perfectly, I will succeed in keeping forever and following your instructions too.
With all my strengths I only have, I wish you the most generous mercy of Sri Sri Panca-tattva and health for many years of unparalleled preaching that would surprise and fascinate all conditioned souls!!!!
Attempting to become your true servant,
Vasushreshtha Dasa.