Hare Kṛṣṇa dearest Guru Mahārāja,
Please accept my respectful obeisances unto your divine lotus feet. All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda! All glories to your divine grace! Wishing you a very happy 74th appearance day. Your appearance is our greatest blessing. Of all festivals, this day is most important and auspicious to us as you have personally appeared to deliver and give shelter to us fallen souls.
Guru Mahārāja, just by listening to your instruction, I am inspired to perform activities to improve my devotion, be they reading Śrīla Prabhupāda’s transcendental books or studying more meticulously for Bhakti Śāstri and Bhakti Vaibhava. But instead of just instructing us through your vāṇī, you lead by example, making us re-evaluate our decisions and choices. Śrīla Guru Mahārāja, by your mercy and example, I’ve now joined Bhakti Vaibhava.
Guru Mahārāja, the only time my stone heart melts is when I hear your vāṇī and see your ecstatic love for Lord Nityānanda Prabhu and Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Even hearing and reading about the loving relations between devotees in the pages of Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta makes your hair stand on end and tears swell up in your lotus eyes. Seeing that, I pray, dear Gurudeva, I don’t know what you’re experiencing but please bless us so that we can also relish your mood and taste that nectar of Gaura Prema, of kṛṣṇa-prema someday.
Gurudeva, you have been so merciful and so very compassionate to such a fallen soul. Please forgive me for so many mistakes committed knowingly and unknowingly. Every day I keep falling in bhakti and must pick myself up. I feel helpless and lonely on this path at times but when I see you in class, read your messages in the JPS App or when I perform Guru Pūjā, I realize that I am under the shelter of the most exalted and surrendered souls and need not fear. Guru Mahārāja, I seek your guidance every day to get through each day in this forest fire of material existence.
I would like to request for one blessing from you on this most auspicious day. Please bless our family so we can receive pure devotional service and sincerely serve The Supreme Personality, Lord Kṛṣṇan and His pure devotees.
You are always working for our benefit, dear Gurudeva, I pray that I can also become an ideal disciple and follow the instructions of Guru and Gaurāṇga faithfully.
Praying to Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva and Śrīmati Tulasi Mahārāṇī to always protect you.
Nitāi Gaurāṇga!
Your servant and daughter,
Indulekha Karuna Devī Dāsī (dīkṣā),
Yātrā : Omaha, Nebraska
Lincoln, Nebraska, USA