Dear Guru Mahārāja,
Please accept my respectful obeisances unto your lotus feet! All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda!
All glories to Śrīla Gurudeva on this auspicious 74th appearance day Vyāsa-pūjā celebration!!!
I am your sheltered disciple, dear Guru Mahārāja. This is my first formal Vyāsa-pūjā offering to you and I am writing to thank you! I was struggling very hard to wake up early in the morning to do my japa, sādhana effectively in spite of continuous prayers to Śrī Śrī Rādhā Gopīnātha. This January when we visited India, I had a strong desire to visit Māyāpur and take your personal darśana and blessings, but couldn’t make it, instead we had the fortune to visit Śrī Vṛndāvana Dhāma for the first time! By sincere prayers to Śrī Śrī Rādhā Śyāmasundara and due their mercy, somehow on the last day of our yātrā, got to meet a devotee, through slowly grown conversations and due to sharing our spiritual challenges, miraculously through his guidance got committed to do Maṅgala-ārati at 4:30 am every day and read Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, thereby forcing myself to overcome my conditioned nature and perform my morning Sādhana. That devotee has been pushing our family to follow the rules and regulations set by Śrīla Prabhupāda - somehow he could convince my husband as well to do 16 rounds of chanting which he was hardly able to do before.
This commitment to perform Maṅgala-ārati has happened after Nityānanda Trayodaśī of this year, after praying to Lord Nityānanda to help. I read on your Facebook page that you keep praying to Śrī Śrī Rādhā Mādhava, Pañcatattva, NarasingaDev for the spiritual progress of all your initiated, sheltered disciples and more. As Guru is said to be one, I sincerely believe its you only who have reached me through another devotee and forcing me to do my sādhana properly and helping me to get ready to receive initiation from you Guru Mahārāj! Hopefully I don’t fall down by your mercy and continue to do maṅgala ārati everyday in my life at 4:30 am!
When I hear your lectures sent in ICF-JPS group on weekly basis, your strong voice really inspires me, the clarity of speech and such sincere bhakti through your vāṇī attracts me deeply to your lotus feet. I wish I had known you many more years before and had personally seated in your lectures and had your vapu association, but I should admit that I am lucky to have come to your lotus feets shelter in this life time.
Please be merciful unto me and kindly bless me with initiation soon Guru Mahārāja and hopefully my husband will also receive initiation from you in near future and we shall progress in our spiritual journey sincerely and serve you Gurudeva!
Very thankful to you for your mercy and giving us a helping hand to perform better sādhana so that we can connect to Rādhā Kṛṣṇa’s mercy, Gaura Nitāi’s mercy which is plentily available above the stringent three material modes. We will not be able to cross the māyā without your mercy Gurudeva, please continue to protect us and bless us to progress in our spiritual path!
I have a strong desire to have your personal darśana at least once in my life and receive blessings from you personally! Thank you sincerely and my śīkṣā-gurus who are your sincere disciples due to whose mercy I am writing to you today!
Jaya Śrīla Guru Mahārāj!
Your spiritual daughter,
Sravanthi Naveen (Sheltered)
Sydney yātrā.