MY DEAREST FATHER AND SPIRITUAL MASTER,
Please accept my respectful obeisances. All glories to Śrī Śrī Guru and Gaurāṅga! All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda! All Glories to the previous ācāryās!
Please accept my respectful obeisances unto the dust of your lotus feet. All glories to You! All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda
Guru Mahārāja, it is a great privilege and honor to write an offering unto the most elevated person on this planet even though I don’t have any qualification to write or talk about You.
I feel so fortunate to get your mercy and this blessed Kṛṣṇa conscious life. Before that, I was just rotting in this material world with lot of miseries. I beg your mercy so that I can develop more attachment to your lotus feet and follow your instructions seriously. You saved me from the mundane society with dīkṣā, but I am such a fallen soul, that I cannot follow all your orders and instructions properly.
When I examine, I find no good qualities within me, I find myself most degraded than a worm in the stool. Although, I deserve no Mercy, still you have made me your spiritual daughter. Gurudeva! I am made of only your love and mercy…. I always want to be a recipient of your ‘kṛpā-kaṭākṣa’ as your daughter. Kindly deliver me from all my anarthas and keep me at the shelter of your lotus feet always. Empower me to execute the mission of your heart’s desire. My only ask is that my lips never stop the glories of your mercy, my mind never thinks of anything except you, my actions culminate into your service. Engage me at service of your lotus feet, eternally with my mind, words, and actions. Make me dive deep into the transcendental ocean of Gaurāṅga’s devotional service to attain perfection of my life in this lifetime. Bless me to develop taste for chanting and hearing the Harināma!
Guru Mahārāja you are the strongest pillar in my Kṛṣṇa consciousness. I am very grateful to you Guru Mahārāja, you are inspiring everyone even though your health is not good. Your commitment to Śrīla Prabhupāda and dependence on Lord Gaurāṅga is really inspiring us to take Kṛṣṇa consciousness seriously. By sending your activities in the app, you are reminding us to always take shelter of Kṛṣṇa and always be careful in executing our devotional service. Guru Mahārāja your enthusiasm to spread the movement of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is inspiring many devotees.
Gurudeva, you are the engine providing the spiritual energy for us to continue our spiritual lives. Your instructions as well as blessings and prayers keep helping us to try and come out of māyā’s clutches and try to render pure devotional service.
“Cakṣu-dāna dila yei, janme janme prabhu sei”, you are my master, birth after birth. Each and every moment of your life, you teach us by example. You never lose a single moment to glorify your spiritual master A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda. Anytime anyone credits you with the wonderful service you are doing, you attribute it to Śrīla Prabhupāda’s mercy. Guru Mahārāja, you have made all arrangement not only for your disciples but for humanity at large through your many innovative ways of getting your association through your lectures, live internet broadcast, and in app activity report. In every activity of yours, you never fail to strengthen our commitment and conviction to Śrīla Prabhupāda and his ISKCON. In very exemplary way you teach us the mood of becoming an eternal disciple by displaying your unconditional pure love for Śrīla Prabhupāda.
Today, I am trying to meditate upon some attractive qualities of you, the significance of devotee care and to feel non-envious to one and all. While thinking upon devotee care at first, I remember how you care for all your disciples and followers in very possible ways. For example: despite all your health issues, you try to be present for Caitanya classes and meeting with devotees. This is how you value each-and-every conditioned soul. I was thinking how I must look forward to having your association with respect and gratitude. Secondly, the quality of non-enviousness is very natural for you. This is the most essential quality of a person bhāgavata. I must aspire to follow in your footsteps.
You always teach us by your example. This year on Feb 15, 2023 you have received BHAKTI-VAIBHAVA DEGREE from Māyāpur Institute, you wrote this exam just to show us that everyone should read Śrīla Prabhupāda books. You also showed how we should distribute books, read books, and write exams.
After seeing everyday app updates on how you read books still I am not able to follow your footsteps in reading books, please bless me so I can overcome this challenge and be able to read books daily.
Guru Mahārāja with your blessings and mercy me my prabhu Bāla Chandra Chenna and my daughter Bāla Vṛndā, all visited India in November and visited Māyāpur. Devotees in dhāma are wonderful they took care of us so nicely. I met CDM devotees also. Guru Mahārāja I remember you said in your class how you always make sure visiting devotees in Māyāpur are taken care so nicely. Now we witnessed personally. Our visit was completely taken care by Bhakti Vijaya Bhāgavata Swami Mahārāja. He was so much caring us just like as if you were caring us Guru Mahārāja. Please bless us so that we can visit dhāma every other year. First day in dhāma after went to temple and then came to lotus building to see you. As soon as I went to the window where the class is happening, your servant devotees recognized us and showered their blessings, love and care. When I saw you for blessings you asked for cottage cheese, so sorry Guru Mahārāja I don’t know about that you want to eat it. I felt sad that I could not server you.
We visited all the below mentioned places, moreover I got your darśana 3 times in the dhāma.
First we visited Antardvīpa:-
Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s birthplace, Śrīvāsa Aṅgan, Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s Aunt house, Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta’s samādhi.
Next: Koladvīpa – Dhāmeśvara Mahāprabhu, Parama-tala, Śrīla Jagannātha dāsa Bābājī’s samādhi, Dhāmeśvara Mahāprabhu temple, Rājāpur Jagannātha temple, Sīmantini Devī in Rājāpur.
Gupta Rādhā-kuṇḍa, Śyāma-kuṇḍa, Govardhana, Bhaktivinod Ṭhākura samādhi, Gaura Kiśora dāsa Bābājī samādhi, Ekacakra Dhāma, Nityānanda’s Prabhu’s birthplace, Bāṅka Rāya and Haḍāi Paṇḍita’s personal Deity Lord Jagannātha, Balarāma and Subhadrā Mātā, Kālnā and Katwa:
We went Katwa dhāma parikramā and here Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu shaved His hair, also Śrīnivāsa Ācārya’s bhajan-kuṭīra, Mahāprabhu’s spiritual master, Lord Caitanya’s lotus feet.
You also mentioned that the secret of success in Kṛṣṇa consciousness is to push ourselves to the best of our ability and capacity to serve, so I would like to offer my services at your lotus feet to the best of my capability.
Guru Mahārāja from day of your surgery, I am doing Nirjalā Ekādaśī, but from 2020 January 4th from initiation day I am chanting 64 rounds on every Ekādaśī and hosting call for chanting many devotees also join me in chanting 64 rounds.
Every day also I chant my rounds before 6am, I chant daily 21 rounds.
I co-ordinate calls for Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, I upload classes to YouTube, and I help as technical team to organize calls.
I also started a WhatsApp group for Your Divine Vāṇī on May 11th, 2021. Monday to Friday we hear your lectures and share our realizations.
I cannot go for book distribution, so I am doing book distribution at your virtual book table daily from the past 1 year. We paid advance for the virtual book table for small books for complete of 2023. We also sponsor additional books for special occasions like festivals, birthdays, anniversaries. We encourage many other devotees to sponsor for the virtual book table. Please bless me so that I can continue it for ever.
I also have a WhatsApp broadcast group for your class reminders, and I encourage devotees to join your class by sending them daily link for the class and YouTube link to watch it later if they miss the class.
My daughter Bāla Vṛndā learnt 16 chapters in Bhagavad-gītā and prayers from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and chanting 4 rounds daily. She joins bhakti classes Monday to Friday for one hour each day. She also tries to read Prabhupāda books daily.
My Prabhujī helps me so much so I can do my service and he chants 8 rounds daily.
From the time I have got initiated I have been trying to follow your instruction to my best. I have completely depended on your mercy on this. By your mercy only we can perform devotional service without any difficulties and can be success also. Your most valuable guidance has given us courage and enthusiasm to manage our spiritual life. Your blessings and encouragement has given us great strength to render devotional service and to serve the mission of Śrī Caitanaya Mahāprabhu by spreading the holy name and message of the Supreme Lord. Please accept my heartily gratitude by accepting us and guiding us taking us through the path of divine knowledge (Kṛṣṇa consciousness).
Last but not least, Guru Mahārāja your health is very important for our tender spiritual life. We beg the mercy of Their Lordship Śrī Śrī Rādhā Mādhava, Śrī Śrī Rādhā Śyāmasundara and Śrī Śrī Pañca-tattva to keep you in the best health for preaching Kṛṣṇa consciousness all over the world - apratihatā. For now, I pray at Your Divine lotus feet to always have your shelter despite my entire shortfall.
Thank you for everything for accepting me as your “Spiritual daughter”. I look forward to serve you more and more. Please bless me so that I can follow your instructions and become worthy servant for your mission. I sincerely request your blessings and mercy so that I can fulfill my responsibility as a wife and mother and become a good devotee.
Yours insignificant spiritual daughter,
Vinita Gāndharvikā Devī Dāsī
Bāla Chandra Chenna
Bāla Vṛndā Chenna
