Dear Jaya Pataka Swami,
please accept my humble obeisances, all glories to Srila Prabhupada.
nama om visnu-padaya krsna-presthaya bhu-tale
srimate jaya pataka swamin iti namine
nama acharya padaya nitai-kripa pradayine
gaura-katha dhama-daya nagara-grama-tarine
nama om visnu-padaya krsna-presthaya bhu-tale
srimate bhaktivedanta-svamin iti namine
namas te sarasvate deve gaura-vani-pracarine
nirvesesa-sunyavadi-pascatya-desa-tarine
I would like to sincerely express my gratitude for accepting me as your disciple.
In the many years that I was fortunate to be your second initiate disciple, I experienced
your sincere dedication to following Srila Prabhupada and the acaryas instructions and desires.
This is not only culminating in your sincere and determined desire to build the Temple of Vedic Planetarium, but also in always explaining and following the sastric conclusions (bhakti siddhanta).
It is said in Srila Prabhuapa’s purport to the Srimad Bhagavatam, Canto 4, The Creation of the Fourth Order, chapter 28, Puranjana Becomes a Woman in the Next Life, text 48, The main business of human society is to think of the Supreme Personality of Godhead at all times, to become His devotees, to worship the Supreme Lord and to bow down before Him. The acarya, the authorized representative of the Supreme Lord, establishes these principles, but when he disappears, things once again become disordered. The perfect disciples of the acarya try to relieve the situation by sincerely following the instructions of the spiritual master.
>>> Ref. VedaBase => SB 4.28.48
The last sentence, The perfect disciples of the acarya try to relieve the situation by sincerely following the instructions of the spiritual master.
is in my humble opinion, epitomized by you as long as I have known you throughout my life in the International Society of Krishna Consciousness.
I continue to pray for your blessings and keep hoping against hope, that one day I may also become a strict follower, and inspiration to so many souls, like you.
Last but not least, I would also like to thank you for preserving so many holy places in and around ISKCON Mayapur and always making an effort to maintain good relations with so many vaisnavas throughout the region.
your servant,
Madhu Gopal Dasa
