Jaya Gurudeva! All glories to Guru and Gaurāṅga.
Please accept my humble obeisances.
I have recently been blessed with mercy to take shelter at your lotus feet by the association with Anandmaya Gopīnātha Dāsa. While I am learning Kṛṣṇa consciousness and am trying to make proper spiritual advancement, I can clearly sense your mercy. Your senior disciples have guided me in the spiritual life. Without your mercy, I would not be in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. As a result of your dedication and unwavering faith in the instructions of Śrīla Prabhupāda, I aspired to have shelter at your lotus feet. You sacrificed yourself, and endured so much pain to guide devotees. With your guidance from the spiritual realms, you are a blessing for humanity as you point us back to godhead.
With my untrained material eyes, Guru Mahārāja, I see you desperately suffering from our offences on a material level - you have difficulties in many common aspects of life, yet on a spiritual platform I realize that you are always engaged in the service of Gaur Nitāi and enjoy eternal bliss. I pray to Lord Jagannatha to mitigate your suffering. In this way, you will be able to speak to your heart’s content and flood the vibrations in the air with the nectar of your Kṛṣṇa conscious speech.
You are such a glorious manifestation of a pure Vaiṣṇava! Jaya Gurudeva! In spite of the material conditions, you preach Kṛṣṇa-kathā everywhere, even in hospitals, and even inspired the doctors to become devotees! Hari Bol!
Now, I am waiting for you to initiate me. I am preparing myself to be disciplined in the spiritual life so that I don’t cause any suffering to you. So that you can uplift many more fallen and conditioned souls like me. Please shower me with mercy so that I can be a speck of dust at your lotus feet and be a good devotee of Śrī Śrī Rādhā Gopīnātha. I wish to serve you properly, in whatever way I can, to please you and Rādhā Kṛṣṇa.
Hare Kṛṣṇa!
Guru Mahārāja ki Jaya! Śrīla Prabhupāda ki Jaya!
*Your most fallen devotee*
Shubh Pañcal (Shelter)
Sydney, Australia