Dearest Spiritual Father,
Please accept my most humble obesiances!
All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda!
This is the first offering I'm writing to you after my initiation. My initiation in Atlanta this year was only possible thanks to your unlimited mercy and your dedication to Śrīla Prabhupāda's mission. I would like to extend my utmost gratitude to you for accepting me as your spiritual son and I request you to bless me so I can help you in fulfilling your commitment to Prabhupāda in the spreading the message of Lord Caitanya all over the world.
Your trip this year to Atlanta, even though you were not in the best of health, is a testament to your commitment to the cause of Prabhupāda and Lord Caitanya. Watching you take time to care for devotees, despite your ill health is one of the many things that inspires me about you.
This year was also the year I found my future wife, Golokapriyā Gaurāngī devī dasī, thanks to your blessings. I would like to thank you for bringing the both of us together. Our commitment to you is what brought us together, and we hope to establish an ideal gṛhasta life to spread the message of Lord Caitanya. I would like your blessings to be a good husband and a good gṛhasta. Both of us are very excited to have you be present at our wedding, to bless us in Māyāpur later this year.
Finally, Gurumaharāj I pray to Lord Nṛsingha Deva for your good health. You have been a constant source of inspiration. Your ability to transcend the material bodily discomforts when engaged in preaching is aspirational and I hope to steadily follow in your footsteps. We still need you to show us the way and guide us out of the ocean of birth and death and back to Godhead.
Your spiritual son,
Nāmarasa Nimāi dāsa
United States (New Orleans)