nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale
śrīmate jayapatākā-svāmin iti nāmine
namo ācāryapādāya nitāi-kṛpa-pradāyine
gaura-kathā dhāma dāya nagara-grāma tāriṇe
Dear spiritual father,
Please accept my respectful obeisances.
All glories to You, all glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda, all glories to our beloved Lordships Śrī Śrī Gaura Nitāi, Śrī Śrī Rādhā and Vrajasundara and Śrī Jagannātha, Śrī Baladeva and Śrīmati Subhadrā Devī.
On this 74th anniversary of Your appearance, such an auspicious day, I would like to extend my heartfelt thanks to You.
You are completely detached from the body and any material designation I wonder how it is possible to reach this level of purity, I endeavor the best I can, but I tend to repeat certain mistakes, māyā takes over and sometimes I wonder if it will end and if I will be able to get out of it, many times I don’t realize what’s wrong, what I have to fix, but then You come with Your infinite mercy and my mind changes and gets purified.
I have so much work to do on myself, I’m afraid I have to take birth again in this material world and not meet You anymore, it is so hard to get out of our conditionings, and I would like to live a more spiritually intense life, but my mind is still so full of conditionings that it scares me, thank You for being taking care of me despite the fact that I have no qualifications to serve You, how will I make it if You were not in my life?
I pray every day for Your health and I chant a round every day for You, because despite the tribulations of Your body, You still wish to stay here in this world to give Your association and mercy to us with the desire to make us strong and Kṛṣṇa conscious.
With the hope to remain eternally at Your feet and Śrīla Prabhupāda’s I bow down to You, begging forgiveness for any offense I may have committed to You and to all the Vaiṣṇava, the devotees of the Lord.
Your eternal insignificant servant at Your lotus feet,
Lakṣmīpriyā Sundarī devī dāsī
