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 Guru Mahārāja,
Please accept my respectful obeisances. All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda. All glories to Your Divine Grace.
Thank you very much dear Guru Mahārāja for giving me an opportunity to offer Vyāsa-pūjā homage on your appearance day. Every year when I write Vyāsa-pūjā offering I feel a strong connection to You, Śrīla Prabhupāda and whole guru-paramparā.
You are an embodiment of compassion, love and care. Due to Your compassion for all the fallen souls You regularly give live classes on past-times of Lord Caitanya and travel all over the world.
Despite Your fragile health you always care for others. When I came to Māyāpur last year I saw how despite Your weak health You still were meeting many devotees, listening to their problems and blessing them. Showing someone genuine care is very rare in this world and it is heart touching to see you care for so many people.
You have been serving His Divine Grace Śrīla Prabhupāda with outmost dedication and sincerity. This is inspiring to see how despite every challenge in the world You still carry on serving Śrīla Prabhupāda.
The JPS App, regular emails I receive from you and live classes on Pastimes of Lord Caitanya are very helpful for me. These all are keeping me more connected to You.
Many times, when I was in distress I saw you in my dreams giving me blessings and hope.
I have been trying to serve you in my tiny capacity by involving in Bhakti-vṛkṣa preaching and book distribution.
By your mercy we are able to reach out to many souls as a group and I was also individually trying to reach out to as many people as possible.
I have been involved in Bhakti-vṛkṣa preaching for nearly 10 years and in these 10 years I have observed that people genuinely benefited because of Bhakti-vṛkṣa preaching. Some people took Kṛṣṇa conscious with sincerity and they took initiation etc., and others who are trying take Kṛṣṇa conscious sincerely are still chanting, trying to follow four regulative principles and support ISKCON as much as they can.
People who have read Bhagavad-gītā and having an enhanced, alternative and spiritual view of life and it is giving them solace in the most difficult times.
All these people’s lives were touched by your mercy. It is by your unlimited love, care and forgiveness that we are able to do whatever small we are doing.
My daughter Vṛndā Kṛṣṇa is trying to practice Kṛṣṇa consciousness by chanting, helping me with Deity service, participating in dramas and engaging in book distribution.
By Your causeless and unlimited mercy, we as a family (myself, my husband and child) are involved in the service. Without Your causeless mercy I might had been lost as I am someone who is not strong enough to deal with great troubles in my life.
Thank you very much Guru Mahārāja for everything you have given in my life. Different difficult circumstances had taught me to take Your shelter and also to be grateful to You. I can say from the bottom of my heart that it is by Your causeless mercy that I am living happily.
Please kindly bless me that I can preach continuously with sincerity and without any ulterior motives. Please kindly bless me that I can get Kṛṣṇa Prema. Kṛṣṇa Prema is impossible to get but by Your mercy it is possible.
I sincerely beg at Your lotus feet to please kindly forgive me for any offences I have done knowingly and unknowingly.
Thank you very much, Guru Mahārāja.
Your servant,
Sādhavī Gaurāṅgī Devī Dāsī
East London Bhakti-vṛkṣa