My dear spiritual father,
Please accept my respectful obeisance! All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda! All glory to you!
I’m grateful for this yet another opportunity to write glorification on your Vyāsa-pūjā day.
You are the personification of dṛḍha-vratāḥ. Your unending compassion for others, genuine humility, uncompromising honesty, pure love of God head, always prayerful, praying for other’s welfare in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, spotless character, simplicity at heart, dedication, and many more spiritual qualities in you makes you a great spiritual leader Guru Mahārāja, someone has even named you as ‘The Gentle Giant’.
By completing your Bhakti-vaibhava course you are setting an example for all your disciples to take up śāstric study and engage in scrutinizingly studying the scriptures recommended by Śrīla Prabhupāda.
When you sang in the Kīrtana-melā in 2020, I think, we saw tears from Mahāprabhu’s eyes. This shows your purity, Guru Mahārāja.
You are loveable by all who know you. You do not show any magic tricks or use the word jugglery to impress and please your disciples but the pure love you show to everyone vibrates and makes others also reciprocate the same. You are able to vibrate this pure love because of your pure love for Kṛṣṇa and Śrīla Prabhupāda.
Guru Mahārāja, I am very inspired by your teachings of cooperation among the devotees, not offending Vaiṣṇavas, and treating all the cousins’ godbrothers and godsisters equally and affectionately. These qualities are very much needed in this world to experience and radiate love and peace within society and outside.
You have asked His Holiness Kadamba Kānana Mahārāja who is on his deathbed now if there is any service he wishes to leave for you. In a similar situation, you got a sevā to do on behalf of His Holiness Bhakti Tīrtha Mahārāja while he was on his deathbed. You have several projects on hand that you are working on and on top, it you are asking more from your godbrothers to help them to fulfill their commitments as well. How great and compassionate you are Guru Mahārāja! As disciples, we all should learn this wonderful quality of genuine offering of help to others in any situation and in any capacity.
Guru Mahārāja, I recently got an opportunity to speak your glories in a program called ‘Throwback Thursdays’ organized by ISKCON Seshadripuram. It was a delightful moment for me as I was able to recollect and list all the little interactions I had with you and my realizations about you.
Guru Mahārāja, I wish to share a piece of good news with you that my son Sachin Appiah is getting his initiation from His Grace Vaiśeṣika Prabhu on the Gaura Pūrṇimā day at ISKCON Silicon Valley. You have blessed him during his adolescent age and I strongly believe that your love and blessings brought him here and more to come.
On this most auspicious and glorious day of your appearance day, I beg for your blessings, causeless mercy, and prayers for us. May Lord Narasiṁha keep you under His personal protection always, eternally. All glories to You, Guru Mahārāja!
Your spiritual daughter,
Vṛndā Nandinī Devī Dāsī
