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 Śrīla Gurudeva,
Please accept my respectful obeisances. All Glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda. All Glories to you Śrīla Gurudeva.
All glories to your auspicious appearance day Gurudeva! With your mercy, we would like to pray to their Lordships Śrī Śrī Rādhā Gopīnātha, Jagannātha Baladeva and Subhadrā, Gaura-Nitāi and guru-paramparā to bestow you unlimited mercy on your 74th Vyāsa-pūjā, so you can fulfill the mission of Śrīla Prabhupāda.
Guru Mahārāja you’re very kṛpālu, without your mercy we could not have done anything. Last year was a very big roller coaster in our life with so many commitments. You were there helping or guiding in some sort or the other.
As mentioned in Gurvāṣṭakam
saṁsāra-dāvānala-līḍha-loka-
trāṇāya kāruṇya-ghanāghanatvam
prāptasya kalyāṇa-guṇārṇavasya
vande guroḥ śrī-caraṇāravindam
The spiritual master is receiving benediction from the ocean of mercy. Just as a cloud pours water on a forest fire to extinguish it, so the spiritual master delivers the materially afflicted world by extinguishing the blazing fire of material existence. I offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of such a spiritual master, who is an ocean of auspicious qualities.
Śrīla Prabhupāda was also mentioning in one lecture that It is the business of the guru, to deliver this disciple, śiṣya, from this blazing fire of saṁsāra, saṁsṛti, bandha, conditioned life, to save him from that position and give him the eternal happiness,. Gurudeva you’re truly doing this and helping us in every way to be Kṛṣṇa consciousness and be focused on the lotus feet of Śrī Śrī Rādhā Gopīnātha.
In every lecture you’re emphasizing about reading Śrīla Prabhupāda’s books and doing Bhakti-śāstrī so I am always worried about the quality of my sādhana. Once you mentioned in one of the lecture that if we need to know how our sādhana is then we need to visit India and test ourselves to see if we can do the same quality of sādhana. I was always thinking about this point. We had to come to India at the end of last year for our daughter’s wedding. As we had a lot of arrangements to be organized and had a short time frame, I was thinking about my sādhana and was scared about the quality. We could do all our chanting by your mercy but could not do reading and hearing very well due to my insincerity. I felt very bad for not being able to do my sādhana well, but on the other hand become humbler and my pride reduced. I understood why you were mentioning to test our sādhana. This situation is helping me to push myself and work harder to achieve better sādhana. In every step of our spirituality you have held our hands so tightly and taken us along with you and made sure if any obstacles arise you remove it before it even touches us. We are indebted to you for this Śrīla Gurudeva, I can only return by getting more and more sincere towards my sādhana.
Early this year we came to Māyāpur for your blessing for my daughter and son-in-law after their marriage. You were so merciful and gave them your special blessing. We are very thankful for everything Śrīla Gurudeva.
Would like to offer whatever small services we are performing with your mercy Śrīla Gurudeva.
We do coordination for the temple room and altar decorations for the festivals, for the pleasure of Śrī Śrī Rādhā Gopīnātha.
My Prabhu, Śrīvāsa Nitāi Gaura Dāsa does Hall programs in two suburbs every alternate week. I just try to support him as much as possible, like coordinating for kids program, talking to the guests, reception and answering questions from Vaiṣṇavīs. Please bless me and my family to be able to continue our services humbly without offending anyone and offer all the results to your lotus feet.
Jaya Śrīla Gurudeva!
Your Servant,
Vṛndāvana Pālinī Devī Dāsī
Initiated on 21/2/2010