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
Dear Śrīla Gurudeva,
Please accept our respectful obeisances. All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda! All glories to Your Divine Grace!
Thank you for giving us an opportunity to remember Your Divine Grace on your 74th Vyāsa-pūjā celebrations Guru Mahārāja.
I have heard the saying “Time and Tide wait for none” but the only personality who is standing strong against all challenges of time is Your Divine Grace.
If I have to use a gross word to explain – “like a machine” – mercilessly you are slaughtering the influence of Kali by your relentless dedication to your spiritual master. This is absolutely in a different league which I wouldn’t want to imagine trying, as that’s humanly impossible!
Its becoming more and more obvious as I am getting old, that I am missing the golden opportunity of not taking more of Your Divine association, even though you are more easily accessible than before through technology.
This act of mine is making it even more obvious to say – I am, who I am due to lack of interest in Kṛṣṇa consciousness and hence having more materialistic way of thinking in life.
No wonder an avatāra like Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu, An ācārya like Śrīla Prabhupāda and a guru like Your Divine Grace – are the only saviors for fallen souls like me. I didn’t understand the glory in my early years but it’s getting more and more obvious now.
For all the adulterated practice of Kṛṣṇa consciousness I am doing – if there is anyone who can tolerate and keep me engaged in service then that has to be Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu and his dear associates like Your Divine Grace.
I am begging and praying at your lotus feet, please forgive for all the negligence and offenses I am committing repeatedly without any shame to Your Divine Grace and all your dear disciples and devotees.
I never want to be like that, and I am looking for this ray of hope/mercy which can lift me away from this filthy ocean of nescience. I desperately need that mercy, as being submerged in this ocean, all I feel is paralyzed and get no strength to carry forward in my spiritual life.
Now I am getting a glimpse of what it feels like being “helpless” and “hopeless”; but I am praying for your causeless mercy that feeling helps me to take shelter of your lotus feet as the only source of help rather than going after material help/solution, which will only drag me further down in my life!
I don’t want to make this homage sound depressing with my problems, but I just want to share how amidst all the challenges getting thrown at Your Divine Grace as time passes by, all I see is Kṛṣṇa, Śrīla Prabhupāda and Gaurāṅga coming out of your transcendental lotus mouth, which shows you are always absorbed in their thoughts/līlā irrespective what’s the external challenges.
But on the flip side, even though I get all the access to your divine grace through technology. All I think in during these challenges times is “ME ME ME ME” even though I go through just a tiny infinitesimal small fragment of the problem what Your Divine Grace go through.
This is a real shame when I think about it. This just puts me in perspective on how low my consciousness is and how millions of light years away, is my spiritual life. So hence the reason, I just feel helpless and hopeless to do anything on my own strength, even though my filthy mind makes me always think I AM GREAT!
Our humble request at your lotus feet in this Vyāsa-pūjā is – please be merciful to give your magic touch on us (who are swimming in an ocean of nescience), so we can be empowered to execute the mission of your divine grace to spread the glories of Śrīla Prabhupāda and Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu unlimitedly and distribute 10,000 big books and 100,000 big books to all types of people all over the world. By which we can be an instrument to usher in golden age and enlighten all the western world who are going mad hankering after attention/love/care since they got no knowledge of Holy name and Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
Only by your magical touch we can be saved and hence help everyone in this western world to be connected to the service of Gaurāṅga Mahāprabhu under your shelter, Guru Mahārāja.
Please forgive us for all our offences Guru Mahārāja and we beg for your mercy to be an effective servant in the service of Your Divine Grace.
Praying to see Your Divine Grace soon in UK and have the mood and opportunity to serve Your Divine Grace’s vapu with love and devotion.
Happy 74th Vyāsa-pūjā celebrations Śrīla Gurudeva!!
Thank you once again for all your mercy.
Your Dear Insignificant Servants,
Aravinda Kṛṣṇa Dāsa and Yamuneśvarī Devī Dāsī
From East London BV, UK