Śrī Caraṇa Kamaleśu Guru Mahārāja and My Dear Spiritual Father,
74-tama śubha vyāsa-pūjā upakṣe āpnār śrī caraṇapadme āmāra śraddhāpūrṇa praṇāma nivedana karlām.
Please accept my respectful praṇāma at the dust of your lotus feet on the auspicious occasion of 74th Vyāsa-pūjā.
All glories to His Divine Grace Śrīla Prabhupāda.
All glories to Your Holiness Guru Mahārāja and Gaurāṅga Mahāprabhu.
My Dear Spiritual Father, there are so many topics for glorifying Your versatile qualities. I am fortunate to be able to write homage at your 74th Vyāsa-pūjā.
As I keep following You in digital media and occasionally in person, new things always emerge. I find it very amazing to go through your posts – all appear very fresh, covered with high positivity. Few messages are the same for several months or years, but they do appear as new and bring increased Joy with each passing day. Absence of the messages in the App makes the atmosphere tense, void, unhappy and dull. I cannot figure out the reason for this. There is something mystic which cannot be understood by myself.
Though we are many miles away from You, however Your presence in our space is very prominent through the Jayapatākā Swami App, Facebook, YouTube and Māyāpur TV as if You are residing in the same perimeter.
I heard some JSSS recordings, a source of pure joy and real laughter.
Guru Mahārāja, for any situation, You have a distinct ability to give multiple positive dimensions while solving. I heard this quality in one JSSS recording. When our Ghuni village challenge got resolved, the meaning became fully clear to me. Whatever I wanted not only got fulfilled, but many more things achieved in a far better way compared to what I planned. Same thing I noticed for my daughter’s 2022 crisis. The imminent danger got defused so nicely with a new opening. Post that I was observing how You are handling different situations and always adding new spiritual flavors.
I have observed that You add Kṛṣṇa consciousness as per disciple’s profession and style. Very gracefully, You channelize us towards spiritual progress without overtaking or overruling our aptitude, liking, schedule and profession. I am very privileged to come under your shelter.
Once You kept on passing sweets to one of your senior disciple’s plate. He was unable to honor such a high quantity and thus kept on putting those sweets in his own cotton pocket. Syrupy, moist sweets in dress pockets – ha ha…
You were navigating a ferryboat over Ganges while the other non-swimmer disciple was very tense. But You were in control of the situation.
Once you wanted to honor some puffed rice in Bangalore almost near midnight. Devotees started scanning the road on a motorbike and found some puffed rice in a distant small shop. Those devotees were so elevated, surrendered that they obliged You immediately and succeeded. Had I been present at that moment, my first reaction would have been refusal to listen. This proves that we are very sub-standard.
During the Māyāpur flood in the 1980s, You immediately cancelled Your overseas trip and came back right in the middle of the heavy flood very bravely. Then You risked your own life and served prasāda to villagers for several days using a boat. You could have fallen seriously ill.
Once Śrīla Prabhupāda told You to do a registered post with acknowledgement slip from Kolkata General Post Office (GPO). People kept on redirecting You from one queue to another and You ended up standing in several queues for hours. I guess common people were taking Your association - a young sannyāsī wearing saffron clothes. You succeeded after several hours and came back to His Divine Grace Śrīla Prabhupāda expressing victory about finally posting the registered letter with a return receipt.
There was a picture of the early 1970s where You were looking very attentively at earth wearing a spread-out coconut or betel nut leaves hat. You engineered production of high-quality grains and vegetables, which amazed the local Bengali farmers. However, all of You ate the same grains, vegetables for several weeks or months at a time until the next suite of production came out. Also, You started learning Bengali from locals in exchange for groceries.
You abandoned the luxury of the United States of America and a very promising professional career; rather chose to surrender to His Divine Grace Śrīla Prabhupāda. You were doing all the above amusing stuff here in rural India without having basic facilities, means of transportation.
My Dear Spiritual Father – you are really dear to us… I laugh merrily whenever I recall these pastimes of Yours.
Some of us are quite sub-standard in terms of doing devotional service at the same time fully dependent on Your gracious presence. We will really be in total danger without Your prakaṭa existence.
Guru Mahārāja, many are looking forward to celebrating Your 75th sannyāsa anniversary in prakaṭa-rūpa along with Your godbrothers and godsisters including SGVA community. You might be able to walk slowly at that time and arrange a feast with all of His Divine Grace Śrīla Prabhupāda’s disciples. Many devotees will experience unlimited joy by observing this celebration. People say, You fulfil everyone’s wishes. Thus, expecting that You shall mercifully fulfil above wishes also.
May Lord Narasiṁhadeva, Śrīmān Caitanya Mahāprabhu protect you and bestow a very long prakaṭa healthy life to serve His Divine Grace Śrīla Prabhupāda for many more upcoming years.
Your affectionate spiritual daughter and humble disciple,
Nitya Vrajalīlā Devī Dāsī
Kolkata, West Bengal