Dear Guru Mahārāja, please accept my respectful obeisances at your lotus feet.
Śrīla Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura states in Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata, Ādi-khaṇḍa 3.48, “Just as the appearance day of the Lord is sanctified, the appearance days of the Vaiṣṇavas are also.”
All glories to Kāmadā Ekādaśī, your divine appearance day.
Every night, while taking rest, you hear Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam very attentively. The servants are taking care of your body by putting pillows on the two sides, below the feet, measuring blood pressure, injecting insulin, placing the BiPAP device, applying cream on the feet, applying ointment in the eye, putting eye tapes etc…, In spite of so much of activity going on related to your body, you are exhiting complete Kṛṣṇa consciousness, exhibiting unawareness of the bodily concept of life. Sometimes, as a matter of course, there is pain in the body, but you do not identify with the pain though you make it to be known to the servants so that they be careful while doing their services. Though you are not affected by the pain, occasionally you come out of your internal absorption and make it known about the pain. For the benefit of the doctors and servants who are serving to please you, you interact with them on the external platform coming out of your absorption in internal Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
And then again as your usual natural serlf, you pay rapt attention to the reading of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, completely oblivious of the external circumstances. Once while reading the purport by Prabhupāda to Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, 7.5.16, you came across this:
Because of their fault of being devotees, the American boys who have sacrificed everything for preaching Kṛṣṇa consciousness are charged with being members of the CIA.
Upon hearing this, immediately you exclaimed loudly, “Caitanya Intelligence Agency.”
Thus as an eternal associate of Lord Caitanya, you are relating CIA to Caitanya Intelligence Agency.
So, on the auspicious occasion of your Vyāsa-pūjā, let me express the similar desire expressed by Śrīla Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura in Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata, Ādi-khaṇḍa 9.232, “I desire to study Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam under Śrī Nityānanda Svarūpa birth after birth.” Just as he desired to study under his guru, let me desire to study under you.
Your eternal servant,
Jayarādhākṛṣṇa dāsa