All Glories to you Guru Maharaj!
All Glories to Srila Prabhupada and All Glories to this great Sankirtan movement of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu!
It’s Tuesday 30th January 2018, in Australia it is Nityananda Trayodasi. I wake up at 2.55am and I realise it is an opportunity to start this day well, to receive the mercy of Lord Nityananada. So I am chanting early, preparing the temple room at Govinda Valley for the devotees and making a garland for Lord Nityananda. So much mercy I am getting today! Chanting extra rounds (32), asking for special protection, for you, Guru Maharaj and ISKCON, the transcendental body of Srila Prabhupada. Later that day I read on the internet: without the causeless mercy of Sri Nityananda nobody can obtain the mercy of Sri Krishna and without a connection made through a genuine Guru. Lord Nityananda is the representation of the spiritual master. Wow! So much mercy I have just received by the Grace of Sri Nityananda! So much gratitude I have to express. How can I repay all that mercy I received to be connected with you Guru Maharaj?
A genuine Guru, a genuine connection with Srila Prabhupada, with all the Guru Parampara, with Krishna, by the causeless mercy of Sri Nityananda! So fortunate I am…and we are! I also read that you, Guru Maharaj, are telling ‘I am a hurt warrior but I am still fighting’. Guru Maharaj , you are our general in front of us, fighting and fighting on the battlefield against Maya. You are truly a hero, Guru Maharaj; our hero! You are truly an Acarya; Acaryapada, like we were calling you before, when you mercifully accepted me as your disciple in September 1980 in Lima, Peru. You have saved me, Guru Maharaj! From that time I have tried to give my best in serving you, Guru Maharaj, in serving Srila Prabhupada and his great movement, ISKCON. To try to pay back something in exchange of so much mercy I have received. I am very sorry that I am not a scholar; I cannot really give honor to the name you gave me, Guru Maharaj, Kanu Pandit…. I am not a Pandit. One devotee, Mahodaya in Lima, Peru was joking about this; not Kanu Pandit but Cannot Pandit! It is true, sorry for that, Guru Maharaj. I have even tried to serve you as a temple president in Peru but I don’t have enough intelligence, or maybe not enough surrender to and dependence of the mercy of the Lord; not enough purity! I was struggling so much, so much anxiety. But now I am in Australia, since November 2006, in this project Govinda Valley. I am still trying to give my best here, according to my nature, my dharma. I do my best as a handy man; fixing and fixing stuff (which I find next to the road). That is the ability Krishna gave me. Working with the volunteers who are young travellers, backpackers, most of them Westerners, trying to share the philosophy of Krishna consciousness according to their receptivity.
Recently you told us in one of your messages that some of your disciples have found some scriptures written on palm leaves in an old temple of India. They speak about you, Guru Maharaj! There is the name of your father and mother, Guru Maharaj and it says that you will sacrifice twenty years of your life for accepting so many disciples. After hearing this you made this comment: ‘I don’t mind to lose twenty years of my life, if this can help my disciples to be Krishna conscious. But what is the use of this sacrifice if my disciples do not become Krishna conscious; if some are not following properly the four regulative principles and are not chanting 16 rounds every day’. Guru Maharaj, so much sacrifice you do for us, your disciples, only to try to continue, to try to finish the sacrifice that Srila Prabhupada started to change the face of this world. Thank you again and again Guru Maharaj, thank you again and again Srila Prabhupada!
Yours in service,
Kanu Pandit Das,
Isarani Devi Dasi,
Syamasundar and his family and
Devaki Mayi.
