Dearest Guru Maharāja,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda. All glories to Śrī Śrī Guru and Gaurāṅga.
nāma oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya Kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale
śrīmate jayapatākā-svāmin iti nāmine
namo ācāryapādāya nitāi-kṛpa-pradāyine
gaura-kathā dhāma dāya nagara-grāma tāriṇe
nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale
śrīmate bhaktivedānta-svāminn iti nāmine
namas te sārasvate deve gaura-vāṇī-pracāriṇe
nirviśeṣa-śūnyavādi-pāścātya-deśa-tāriṇe
Guru Maharāj I am so grateful to have received initiation from you recently, your health wasn't good but still you insisted on personally giving out beads to each and every one of us with so much love and mercy. For me this was the most important day of my life, I am eternally grateful and I am taking all vows very seriously.
Guru Maharāj for all my life I was stuck in no mans land in between a material mountain and a spiritual mountain. I found no happiness at the bottom of the material mountain. I therefore spent a lot of time at the base of the spirirtual mountain, unable to take a step onto the bottom without a Guru. It is with so much mercy that I have been accepted as your disciple and now for the first time in my life I have a sense of belonging, I feel true happiness. Your instructions and your mercy carve a path up this mountain, I pray for the blessings to be able to make this journey.
Guru Maharāj I admire your tenacity to serve the order of Śrīla Prabhupāda the most. I saw first hand in Dāmodara Deśa how you were sick on the day of initiations and how the next day you were so determined to go to expo again and again to see everything just so that you can get ideas for TOVP and make it truly engagaing for all, nothing short of perfection is what you intend to offer Śrīla Prabhupāda. Your desire for everyone to discover and love the Lord is so apparent. You are such an inspiration, have shown us what determination really means and how to serve your Guru.
Guru Maharāj I pray for your health so that you can continue your service to Śrīla Prabhupāda and your inspiration to all of us, but also so that I can serve you and your mission for the rest of my life and beyond.
Your servant
Nityayoginī Rādha Devī Dāsī
Dāmodara Deśa
