Hare Kṛṣṇa Dear Guru Mahārāja,
Please accept my most respectful obeisances unto the dust of your lotus feet. All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda! All Glories unto you Śrīla Gurudeva!
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
nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale
śrīmate bhaktivedānta-svāminn iti nāmine
namas te sārasvate deve gaura-vāṇī-pracāriṇe
nirviśeṣa-śūnyavādi-pāścātya-deśa-tāriṇe
Dear Guru Mahārāja,
You are also known as Ācāryapāda, and the more I hear from you, and see your example, the more I feel convinced about this title of yours. Whether it be book distribution, or taking śāstric courses or preaching, you truly lead by your exemplary example. Your often stress in your lectures on the importance of book distribution and we saw that how you yourself are the World no 1 in book distribution and following your lead, your dedicated disciples have worked very hard to make sure that Māyāpur is also World no 1 in book distribution.
Also, in the recent few years in almost all your lectures you stress on the importance of scrutinizingly reading Śrīla Prabhupāda books and then writing the exams of Bhakti-śāstrī, Bhakti-vaibhava, Bhakti-vedānta and Bhakti-Sārvabhauma, and we saw that how you yourself are doing the same. Even though you have realized the conclusions of all Vedic literatures, you still are personally taking the course and writing the exams for everyone to follow.
Also, Guru Mahārāja you stress the importance for your senior disciples to travel around and preach, so that everyone can become fortunate by getting to taste the nectar of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, and to set an example even in such an advanced age with all the physical complications you yourself travel around the world to preach at least twice or thrice a year.
And you have mentioned several times that, how this is not only meant for Brahmacārīs, but also for the gṛhastha devotees, as you often quote that how Śrīla Prabhupāda wanted his grhastha disciples to be paramahaṁsas.
And Guru Mahārāja, seeing the physical challenges you face everyday, with newer and newer complications, your dedication to practice and preach so enthusiastically is unfathomable.
O Gurudeva, I feel unlimitedly fortunate to have you as my Spiritual father, and I seek for your mercy, so that I can execute the instructions which you give through your lectures.
By your mercy, I have some taste for distributing Śrīla Prabhupāda books, and mostly we are doing one to one. I am currently serving in ISKCON Youth Forum Māyāpur, and so we mail try to reach out to youths, but currently we are unable to reach out to as many youths as we would like, so I seek your blessings dear Gurudeva, to inspire us within the heart, so that we could think of effective ways to reach out Śrīla Prabhupāda books to the youths.
Dear Gurudeva, I desperately want to follow your instructions of doing Bhakti-śāstrī, and I was thinking to enroll in the Māyāpur Institute Bhakti-śāstrī course, and I seek your blessings so that I can complete the course and get the degree as an offering to you, before your 75th Vyāsa-pūjā celebrations, in 2024.
Currently, I am also trying to assist in college preaching in Durgapur under His Grace Nitaicandra Nimāi Prabhujī, and we have some 15 youths staying in our youth center.
I seek your blessings Guru Mahārāja, so that we can all be nourished by finding shelter in the Holy name and Bhaktivedanta purports and by following your instructions.
Begging for your mercy,
Your most fallen spiritual son,
Iṣṭadeva Gopāla Dāsa.