Dear Guru Mahārāja,
Please accept my respectful obeisance. All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda. All glories unto your divine lotus feet
Hare Kṛṣṇa. In the mission of Lord Caitanya, there are many pure devotees. Some focus on writing books and some focus on preaching the message and distributing them widely. Gurudeva, your divine grace exemplifies the preaching of the message of Kṛṣṇa consciousness far and wide. No day of your divine grace goes without speaking Kṛṣṇa-kathā. I am greatly fortunate to have gotten the shelter of your divine grace.
As I had shared in my last year’s offering, I am practicing the chanting of Praṇāma mantra distinctly and meditate on the chanting as a personal and specific service blessed upon me. I try to serve your divine grace almost every day by offering flowers, prayers and begging forgiveness. This was my vāpu seva for many days. This year I was fortunate to travel with you to Coimbatore and Kerala. That gave an opportunity for vāpu seva. I really feel this as a reciprocation for my offering that wore last year.
I could able to send one preaching report last year. I am constantly meditating on your instruction to make Bangalore a Kṛṣṇa conscious city. We were preaching in few areas in and around Whitefield. This year we could open 5 more centers additional to the existing center, all of which is headed by competent leaders. We did 8 massive scale Janmāṣṭamīs where around 5k to 10k people participated in each one of them. We had a roaring Śrīla Prabhupāda Book Marathon, we came 5th place among small temples all over world. We have completed 2 batches of Bhakti śāstrī and about to start Bhakti-vaibhava batch.
While performing the services I try to offer a prayer, that if Śrī Guru, Śrīla Prabhupāda, Śrī Śrī Pañcatattva, Śrī Śrī Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa are pleased with my service, kindly purify my heart of all the contaminations and enable me to go deeper in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. If I become a true devotee with purified heart, decorated with devotional qualities, that will be the best offering that I can offer. My heart is filled with lots of impurities. I am helplessly dependent on your divine grace’s mercy, Gurudeva.
Seeking your blessing for rendering service unto you. Begging to forgive my offences in course of my services.
Your disciple,
Harikṣetra dāsa
Bangalore, India