Hare Kṛṣṇa, dearest Guru Mahārāja. Please accept my respectful obeisances. All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda and all glories to you, dear Gurudeva!
Your glories are a vast deep ocean and the perfection of life would be getting to dive into it! Your Guru bhakti is of the tallest stature and you are a first-class disciple of Śrīla Prabhupāda par excellence. You are so absorbed in propagating the mission and instructions of Śrīla Prabhupāda that you bring up fresher and creative ways every time. Despite your failing health and hectic schedule, you make it a point to read Śrīla Prabhupāda’s books every day and take various degrees to encourage the devotees. You maintain jaw-dropping sādhana, make time for hefty correspondence with the management echelons and rank and file devotees like us alike.
For furthering and strengthening Śrīla Prabhupāda’s mission, you have instituted systems like Devotee Care with great heart. You have maintained sannyāsa ashrama in the most militating situations of Kaliyuga for a whopping five decades! With all the divine knowledge revelations installed in your pure heart, your understanding of the philosophy is so impeccable, and you refute current Kaliyuga apasiddhantas strongly through projects like Rtvika Māyavada Sata Dusani, Vaiṣṇava Ke and your discourses.
You are a confidential associate of the Lord having access to esoteric subject matters, yet you simplify everything so mercifully for the fallen. You are a lenient affectionate father yet you keep your eyes on the highest progressive stages of bhakti for your children that at our levels you give us a glimpse of the otherwise inaccessible fruit and constantly encourage us to refine our practice. You have imbibed and carry the mood of the paramparā as a magnanimous surrendered instrument with a childlike simple heart.
You impregnate one and all with Gaura prema, you are such an empowered Gaura priya jana, Gaura dhana jana. Just like Lord Caitanya would inspire someone and he would infect his entire village and, in this way, Prema would spread like wildfire, you empower your disciples to establish wonderful preaching. Your imprint and glories are sung by the hard work and sincerity of your disciples in forwarding the mission of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu through Bhakti-vṛkṣa, Nāmahaṭṭas, online preaching, scientific preaching and so on.
It is said that the perfection of life is to be accepted as madīya of a pure devotee sadhu Guru, which is had with much rigorous purification. Your transcendental intoxication-bred generosity sheds criteria and you already identify us as your own. There can be no greater fortune than this for all time to come. Only a sadhu has real mamata for a jīva. No one has ever given us the love and care that you have and you are thus our real well-wishing father spending gallons of your spiritual blood to reclaim us. You are our prana, Guru Mahārāja.
On this most auspicious day, I beg to become a worthy disciple and an instrument of your mercy and have an iota of your dedication for Śrīla Prabhupāda and a glimpse of Guru darśana as the perfection of life. What can I speak or understand of your glories? It is beyond material senses. One day when I am able to understand a drop of it by your and Vaiṣṇavas’ mercy, life will be successful.
I pray to always remain under your ānugatya. I have made so many mistakes and you give me a chance every time. You are my only shelter, Guru Mahārāja. There is nowhere else to go ever. E jīvana dharibāra māta binā nāhika upāya … toma bina nahi pari, kakhana dharite e jīvana …
Seeking forgiveness for all my faults, offences and sins; and also seeking strength to overcome them,
Your eternal loving fallen daughter
Snigdha Mādhavī Devī Dāsī (dīkṣā)
Kharagpur, India
