Dearest Guru Mahārāja,
Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.
All Glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda.
All Glories to Your Holiness.
Before attempting to Glorify You I beg forgiveness unto Your lotus feet. I am simply to doing it for my own purification.
Śrīla Prabhupāda once commented that Lord Kṛṣṇa is already glorified, however He is more pleased when His pure devotees are glorified. Guru Mahārāja, the divine presence of pure devotees like Your Holiness is holding the planet intact, else it would have long back been sunk into rasātala on account of being overburdened by the sinful activities of today’s godless civilization. If You didn’t come what would have happened to this world?
Whatever You do, inspires everyone to surrender unto the lotus feet of Śrīla Prabhupāda. By seeing Your exemplary activities everyone a lot of faith in the potency of the process of devotional services. If You didn’t come what would have happened to me?
You have appeared to this world to give us Kṛṣṇa prem. From the very young age You have taken the responsibility of spreading the Holy Name of the Lord all over the world. Śrīla Prabhupāda had given You so many important services which almost seemed like impossible task but You achieved all of it happily and blissfully and made the instructions as Your life and soul.
The standard of my devotional life completely changed when I got the opportunity to serve your spiritual nephew His Holiness Bhakti Prema Swami Mahārāja, when he personally instructed me and made arrangements to join the ISKCON Youth Forum of Kolkata, a couple of years back. Here I am getting divine association of many pure devotees of ISKCON Kolkata and specially His Grace Purīdāsa Dāsa prabhu who is my spiritual counsellor and guide. We have a small group of devotees as a Local Outreach Strategic Planning team, where I am always trying my best to serve his instructions. I am also trying to make nice relationship with other devotees of Śrī Śrī Rādhā Govinda Temple through various services specially on each and every festival possible. Especially during the previous Ratha-yātrā where I got the opportunity to serve as your umbrella holder for a short while fulfilled my strong desire to serve you to some extent. We also had very nice spiritual camps, yātrās and Śrīla Prabhupāda book distributions throughout the year where many enthusiastic youth devotees participated. At present I am trying to guide and serve around 8 to 10 newly joined youth devotees at our temple, they are very much energetic and enthusiastic and I am trying best to engage them in the Mission of Śrīla Prabhupāda. Last but not the least, within a few days I will be enrolling myself for the Bhakti-śāstri course, as you always encourage all your disciples and followers by your own example to give importance to all such courses very seriously where we get to study Śrīla Prabhupāda books thoroughly in a systematic manner. So, I am seeking for your mercy and blessings so that I can do Bhakti-śāstri very nicely with full devotion.
On this most auspicious occasion of your Divine Appearance, I pray to The Supreme Personality of Godhead for your good health and well-being so that we can get your divine association for many more years to come. Especially I will be eagerly waiting for your annual visit to ISKCON Kolkata during this year’s Ratha-yātrā festival. I beg for your causeless mercy on me so that I can fully surrender myself to Śrīla Prabhupāda’s lotus feet and to serve your instructions to the fullest of my capacity.
Your most insignificant unworthy foolish aspiring servant,
Deepnil Biswas,
Kolkata.