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
Hare Kṛṣṇa Dear Guru Mahārāja,
I offer my most respectful obeisances unto your lotus feet, which is the source of all inspiration for me in my spiritual life. All glories to Śrī Guru and Śrī Gaurāṅga. All Glories to His Divine Grace A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Śrīla Prabhupāda.
On this most auspicious day of your holiness’s Vyāsa-pūjā, I would like you pray for Śrī Śrī Prahlad Narasinga, Śrī Śrī Rādhā Mādhava and Śrī Śrī Pañcatattva to bestow you with good health so that you can pick up many fallen souls who are drowning in the material world and connect them back to Kṛṣṇa via. Śrīla Prabhupāda. We (myself and my wife Gokuleśvari Padma Devī Dāsī) are extremely fortunate to receive Harināma Initiation from you on 10th Anniversary of ISKCON Chennai Temple (28th May 2022).
More fortunate we were, when you had the most UNEXPECTED AND SUPRISING visit to our small out-post center ISKCON Rampally on 23th Aug 2022, NEVER in our DREAMS we could imagine you blessing our small center with your lotus feet. We were following along with you, to have your darśana at ISKCON Kukatpally, ISKCON Hyderabad and were given opportunity to invite you to our center, and you have mercifully accepted and also mentioned about our invitation in class at ISKCON Hyderabad a day before. This could be one of your many thousands of visits to many centers, but it will remain the greatest day in our life, to keep us enthused in serving your Holiness and Śrīla Prabhupāda.
We are grateful and thankful to you for keeping us inspired in our spiritual lives, the hardships you faced while building community in Montreal working in restaurant, later travelling and preaching in India with Śrīla Prabhupāda, building devotee communities, mission to unite Sarasvat family, Identifying the Vaiṣṇava holy places in-and-around Navadvīpa Maṇḍala and the most challenging and never ending project TOVP which was desired or Visioned by Śrīla Bhakti Vinoda Ṭhākura (adbhuta-mandira) and is also dream of Śrīla Prabhupāda. Surviving the Knife Attack in 1989 and Stroke in the year 2008, you are really unstoppable in serving Śrīla Prabhupāda.
My dear Gurudeva, with your mercy we are able to chant the prescribed rounds and with your inspiration I was able to complete Bhakti-śāstrī Course and Began Bhakti-vaibhava Course (Currently in Module 3). My wife would be beginning soon with Bhakti-śāstrī Course. I have been rendering services at ISKCON Rampally under the guidance of senior devotees, and part of Book Distribution and Nagar Saṅkīrtana Team and serving the Lordships Śrī Śrī Rādhā Gopīnāthaa with best of my abilities.
We kindly request you to give us (your servants) a drop of your mercy, please bless us to get the taste in chanting the holy name of Lord Kṛṣṇa, please bless us to have our faith stronger in Your Holiness, Śrīla Prabhupāda and the great ācāryas to render devotional service till we end this life, I am your most useless servant without your mercy I cannot hold my spiritual life intact.
Once again, we thank you for kindly accepting this unfortunate soul as your disciple and I am looking forward to serving you in one of your many projects with your kind blessings.
Your Insignificant Servants,
Kṛpāsindu Śrīhari Dāsa
Gokuleśvari Padma Devī Dāsī
Hyderabad [ISKCON Rampally]
