Dear Guru Mahārāja
When Your Holiness visited Los Angeles, we wished to offer this poem at your lotus feet.
Dear Gurudeva,
eternal loving father,
Prabhupāda's victory flag, Nitāi Gaur's associate
Thank you for accepting all of us, sons and daughters,
although a burden,
but as a burden of love.
By your personal example,
you teach us how to live in this dangerous material world,
by deep absorption in Kṛṣṇa- consciousness through thoughts, words and deeds.
Thoughts of Gaura, Gaura
Gaura, Gaura, Gaura
In your dreams,
in the class,
every moment
you see Gaura.
You embody thoughts of Prabhupāda's instructions, previous ācāryas instructions,
in sleep, travel, exercise and even ICU.
We pray we engage our very restless mind in thoughts of fulfilling Your instructions
We pray we engage our very restless mind in thoughts of Nitāi Gaura Sundar.
In spite of your condition you daily read - Bhāgavatam
and hear Śrīla- Prabhupāda's lectures.
You even did the entire course of Bhakti- Vaibhava,
receiving certificate,
inspiring all of us.
Hare Kṛṣṇa Hare Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Hare Hare
You are, constantly chanting the Mahā-mantra.
In the pool you chant,
Every morsel chewed you chant
Every blessing given you chant
Every exercise done you chant
Rolling beads in sleep you chant,
In addition rounds you chant
We pray we chant and read
everyday with sincerity.
Tirelessly fulfilling
Śrīla Prabhupāda's instructions,
travelling all over
giving Kṛṣṇa to all-
from staff in airports,
to the dying in ICU,
from the poverty-stricken to the doctors and nurses
Not a single day without Caitanya-līlā class
Even when you caught covid,
Weak and painful cellulitis,
even during typhoid, in the midst of many meetings,
even late in the night
you shared Gaura's glories.
From our Gurudeva
we learn to never give up
Kṛṣṇa consciousness
at any circumstance
We pray we follow
the perfect example
of our Gurudeva
at every moment
Of our life.
Your loving servant
Śrīmatī Lalitā Devī Dāsī (brahmin- initiated)
New Dvārakā (Los Angeles), USA