My DEAR FATHER AND SPIRITUAL MASTER,
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 in this planet. I don’t have enough qualification to write or talk about You.
First I sincerely thank and pray to Śrīla Prabhupāda, Śrī Gaura-Nitāi, Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva, Śrī Rādhā Mādhavā, Their Lordships Jagannātha, Baladeva, Subhadrā-māi and Sudarśaṇa, for giving us back our beloved Guru Mahārāja from the various recent health challenges Guru Mahārāja had to undergo in order to guide us fallen souls from the clutches of māyā and progress into Kṛṣṇa Conscious journey. You are a living inspiration of how the determined faith in Guru and the Supreme Lord will bring us out of the most trying conditions.
We finally saw the end of the pandemic during 2022 which had brought havoc to the lives of many. We were very fortunate to get the association and blessings in person from you our beloved Guru Maharajah. Early in the year your most insignificant servant had the opportunity by Your abundant mercy and blessings to serve you for a part of a day on your visit through Dubai, UAE. I cannot even imagine getting this opportunity. I prayed to you for the wellbeing of my son, Sanjeev Ramanathan, who was finishing school and by Your blessings and abundant Mercy he has now joined engineering course in VIT Vellore. By arrangement of the Supreme Lord and Your blessings he is getting the association of devotees near his college. I had earlier prayed to You Guru Mahārāja, for my wife to join me in Dubai and now by Your blessings she has joined me. She is Hemasundarī Gaurāṅgī Devī Dāsī. We partake in all our Yātrā programs, and she is involved in prasādam-sevā. We are pursuing the Bhakti Vaibhava course. We are inspired and motivated by Your obtaining the Bhakti Vaibhava degree recently. It is not necessary for You to get this qualification, but You showed through Your example as to what we should do to improve our spiritual and scriptural knowledge. We remain indebted to you for your Mercy and guidance.
Again, we were very fortunate to have your Blessings and association for a couple of days in the New Rājāpur Jagannātha Dhāma temple inauguration in Bangalore and the following Pāṇihāti cīḍa-dahī festival. We saw in close quarters your enthusiasm and motivation in guiding the preparation of the cīḍa-dahī offerings for their Lordships Jagannātha, Baladeva, Subhadrā-māi and Sudarśaṇa. We also heard your pastime in identifying exactly the pot from which you were not served the prasādam. We were wonderstruck.
You are showering us with your blessings and mercy every day. We are unfortunate that despite your love and mercy, we are unable to reciprocate by rendering proper service and fulfil our sadhana in a most appropriate way. However, we are confident that we will overcome our shortcomings and will be able to render proper service unto you.
Guru Mahārāja, we remain eternally optimistic of our spiritual progress in the association of your senior disciples who are taking care of us.
On this auspicious day I offer my sincere prayers to the Lord Nṛsimhadeva to give you long healthy life. My sincere obeisance unto Your lotus feet.
Your insignificant servant,
Rāmarūpa Gaura Dāsa.
Gaurāṅga Deśa Yātrā, UAE.