Hare Kṛṣṇa Dear Guru Mahārāja!
All glories to Śrī Śrī Guru and Gaurāṅga!
All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda!
All glories to 73rd Vyāsa-pūjā Mahotsava!t
Please accept my respectful obeisances. The good fortune that is bestowed up on your disciples have no words to explain. Out of thousands I am getting so much of Your Divine association is makes me silent. Whenever I think about how to repay this debt, I am lost. Whatever, I am doing for Your Divine Grace is not at all enough. I am in an illusion that I am doing a lot for Your Divine Grace! But, in reality it is not.
Being very next to Your Divine Grace, we witness lots and lots of miracles. How Your Divine Grace, truly tolerating and bestowing mercy to the conditioned souls. Kṛṣṇa repeatedly providing us a chance to understand Your mercy, importance of Your physical presence, and more over, giving this great opportunity to serve Your Divine Grace. But due to our own conditioning, we are not taking all these offers, rather we give excuses after excuses.
I am very much scared about the future, I am still not matured enough in spiritual life, I am not serious about Your instructions. But simply by Your blessings, I am engaged in many services. Always I feel that, your blessing hands is on my head and protecting me and guiding me in every step.
I have personally witnessed many miracles of Your Divine Grace. Since my intelligences is very much covered, these personal experiences are very much needed to uplift me to at least to human platform.
As a co-manager in JPS Archives and Victory Flag Publications – we are trying to please Your Divine Grace in our humble efforts. His Grace Pāṇḍava Prabhu and Caitanya Rūpa Mataji, His Grace Vidvan Gaurāṅga Prabhu are guiding and being like a pillar for these departments. And we are trying to give out Your vāṇī to the world. Slowly, I am realizing the great responsibility of these departments. Each lecture of Your Divine Grace was like pre-answered for disciples’ questions in the future. It shows that the spiritual master’s vāṇī is eternal. Your Divine Grace said to us that, Your Archives and Publications are Your immediate expansion, and this will benefit Your disciples, and ISKCON devotees in the present and future. So, this is a great responsibility on our shoulders.
This year, I am very much praying to work and complete the Gaura maṇḍala bhūmi darśana book. And as per your instruction, we are also working on Śrī Navadvīpa maṇḍala map and we will offer it soon to Your Divine Grace. Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya book also becomes a priority in this period of time, as Your Divine Grace investing hours and hours of your energy to give this book, which is going to flood the world with Gaurāṅga-līlā smaraṇa. Your Divine Grace given so much mercy up on me and engaged me in all these projects.
We from Publications, trying to expand in Bangladesh, South America, Russia, and in Europe by translating your books in to different languages. Also, we are desiring to start a dedicated Bengali to reach out your vāṇī in greater scale. I very much believe that Your Divine Grace holding our hands and doing this wonderful artwork, but we are foolishly thinking that we are doing. You own us eternally, and we owe you birth after birth.
I thank His Holiness Bhakti Vinoda Swami Mahārāja for his personal training in my initial days of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. He engaged me in printing small magazines, and he guided me to learn multi-media, book layouts, etc.
I thank, Mahā Varāha Prabhu for providing me an opportunity to serve Your Divine Grace personally. I thank, Vidvan Gaurāṅga Prabhu, who engages me in various ways accordingly. I thank, Vaikuṇṭhapati Prabhu for supporting us in our efforts to develop Archives and Publications. I thank my sister Rasa Priya Gopikā devī dāsī and her husband Vraja Kṛṣṇa Prabhu for their constant support to serve Your Divine Grace. I thank all the devotees in JPS Archives and Publications.
It is all by Your causeless mercy, that all these great souls gives me association. As this life is very short, I would like to do something substantial service in order to please Your Divine Grace and Śrīla Prabhupāda.
I pray to Your Divine Grace to bestow, taste for the holy name, please drill humbleness in my heart. I wish to do Bhakti-śāstri, Bhakti-vaibhava as per your instruction. Always, keep under Your Divine shelter.
Your Ever Servant,
Śyāma Rasika dāsa (dīkṣa)
JPS Archives and Publications
Śrī Māyāpur dhāma, India