nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale
śrīmate jayapatāka svāmin iti nāmine
nama ācaryapādāya nitāi-kṛpā-pradāyine
gaura-kathā-dhāma-dāya nagara-grāma-tāriṇe
nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale
śrīmate bhaktivedānta-svāmin iti nāmine
namas te sārasvate deve gaura-vāṇī-pracāriṇe
nirviśeṣa-śūnyavādi-pāścātya-deśa-tāriṇe
Jay Śrīla Gurudeva, My Spiritual father,
Please Accept My Respectful Obeisances
All Glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda
All Glories To Your Divine Grace
I am your servant Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Pothuru from Tallahassee, FL, USA, with my family and was mercifully took aspiring from your Grace on November 28, 2019, in Alachua. I am under the mentorship of His Grace Amāṇi Gauracandra prabhu (Minneapolis) to progress in our spiritual life. I also attend Amani pr’s Teens Value Class, and have been doing so for the past few weeks.
Gurudeva, when I took aspiring in 2019, I was chanting 8 rounds every day. After a few months, I was chanting 16 rounds. But all of a sudden, I lost interest in chanting. Now, as of 2023, I am 13 years old, and I am chanting only 6 rounds, and it is on and off chanting. I feel ashamed, but I still can’t get the love and interest for chanting, and I’m still chanting on and off. Please bless me so that I get the love for chanting again.
Almost everyday, my sister and myself take turns in doing Guru Pūjā and Tulasī Ārati, and dress the deities for darśan ārati at home.
I serve our Gaura Nitāi deities during abhiṣeka, either in bathing the deities, preparing the paraphernalia, or being the pujari for the abhiṣeka.
I very much like reading, and I plan to write a book about our ISKCON movement. I currently finished writing a fiction book, and need blessings from your Grace before I start to write spiritual books based on your teachings on Caitanya Mahāprabhu, Śrīla Prabupada, the Vaiṣṇava Ācāryas’, etc.
I have been playing the trumpet for two years now, and have started to play our kīrtana’s on the trumpet. I have also been playing more of keyboard and harmonium, and have started singing in kīrtana fests in Tallahassee. As trumpet is rarely used in ISKCON kīrtanas, and in any spiritual movement, so I’m hoping this might attract more people to join the kirtans.
I also have a very good interest in cooking, and want to start cooking and distributing prasāda to people in Tallahassee. So I want blessings from your Grace to learn many cooking recipes and start distributing prasāda to the local devotees.
Gurudeva, you have been to many cities, not just in USA, but in other countries too! I really request you to come to Tallahassee, FL, and grace our house by your presence and your personal servants. My family and myself hope that if you place your lotus feet in our city, not only will it become a dhāma, but will attract more people to Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
I pray to Lord Narasiṁhadev, Jagannātha, Baladeva, Subhadrā Mayi, Gaurāṅga, Nityānanda, Lord Kṛṣṇa, and Śrīla Prabhupāda for your wellbeing. Please stay safe and well, and hope to see you in Tallahassee, FL, in our house. Hare Kṛṣṇa.
Your humble servant,
Kṛṣṇa Caitanya
Tallahassee, FL, USA