nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale
śrīmate jayapatākā-svāmin iti nāmine
namo ācāryapādāya nitāi-kṛpa-pradāyine
gaura-kathā dhāmadhāya nagara-grāma tāriṇe
Dear Śrīla Gurudeva,
Please Accept Our Respectful Obeisances
All Glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda! All Glories to Your Divine Grace!!
I am writing this homage on the Gaura-pūrṇimā day. It’s the best day to beg for mercy from the pure representative of Ādi-Guru – Śrī Nityānanda Mahāprabhu.
Every year there is something very unique I get to realize about your divine grace which I get to put it in writing in homage as an offering and beg for your blessings to develop that similar mood at least a minute fraction, so that I can be an effective servant in the way you want me to serve you. This year the uniqueness which I am getting to realize about Your Divine Grace is Caitanya Mahāprabhu – Gaurāṅga!!!
Yes. How you always exhibit the fact – Mahāprabhu can do anything and ONLY HE can do anything in this day and age for all conditioned souls like me. I generally used to offer my prayers to Kṛṣṇa, Narasiṁhadeva or many other avatars and I also in the corner do offer my prayers to Caitanya Mahāprabhu BUT I don’t have that firm faith that only HE can turn things around for me let it be in preaching or in normal day to day life. Now - This twist in focus has actually kick started in this year Guru Mahārāja and I can say All the Glories go to your Divine Grace for that!
Actually, Śrīla Prabhupāda opened my eyes through his life example and through his books about the importance of Kṛṣṇa Consciousness and convinced me to start chanting the Holy name. BUT I really got to understand the importance of Caitanya Mahāprabhu and the power of Love of Kṛṣṇa only from your Divine Grace – through your lectures and loving personal dealings with all of us. I never seen anyone who can be so selfless and simple in heart when it comes to dealing with people and developing genuine relationship with people. The amazing beauty is how you able to make anything and everything in connection to Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Kṛṣṇa on practical grounds. That’s very unique!
So all these association of your divine grace and without a doubt the association of your empowered personally trained senior disciples of your divine grace – has really touched and transformed my heart to develop some faith in Caitanya Mahāprabhu – who is the One and Only Merciful Lord for this day and age who can be with anyone and everyone to give love of Kṛṣṇa - Easily!
BUT I also realize now, this association I am having with your Divine Grace is not some association with some person. It’s actually with the eternal associate of Caitanya Mahāprabhu and in fact it’s becoming more and more evident to the entire world now that without a doubt you are an empowered eternal associate of the Lord who is just here for the benefit of all the whole human race performing the extended pastimes of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu… and how fortunate are we to have so many personal association of your divine grace and on top of it getting so many chances to do services of various types for your pleasure. This is something unexplainable and extraordinary causeless mercy on us!! By your divine grace mercy we are getting so many Bhakti-vṛkṣa service opportunities in UK and Europe now, which is so dear to your divine grace. As we are getting more opportunities to serve, by your mercy, Mahāprabhu is also very kindly revealing to us how to take more shelter of Him and show Him out to everyone boldly the supremacy and beauty of Divine Lordships Śrī Śrī Nitāi Gaurasundara. That’s the only panacea for this crazy world!
In this most auspicious occasion of your divine grace’s vyāsa-pūjā – please bless us Guru Mahārāja with Nitāi Gaura Prema so that we can be intoxicated in the service of Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Nityānanda Prabhu by serving your lotus feet BUT not just that, please bless us we be empowered to distribute this nectar to unlimited number of souls in UK and Europe and all over world... So that they get connected to Nitāi Gaura!
I have heard from your divine grace lectures and your senior disciples how this mood of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is very much bottled inside in Bhakti-vṛkṣa. Just by doing Bhakti-vṛkṣa and inspiring/training others to do Bhakti-vṛkṣa, how we actually exemplify the mood of Mahāprabhu and receive his mercy through your divine grace. So we please beg your divine grace for special mercy so that on tangible note - we can actually give Mahāprabhu to everyone through getting them be part of Bhakti-vṛkṣa and get to start this Bhakti-vṛkṣa in as many cities and towns as possible in this western world for westerners and all types of people. So that people get to be connected with Caitanya Mahāprabhu, Śrīla Prabhupāda and be a helping hand to develop Śrīla Prabhupāda’s spiritual family – ISKCON in every town and village.
All I can say is Thank you Guru Mahārāja for being there with us all these years and many more years to come – to show us how to love and give love to others following in the mood of Śrīla Prabhupāda and Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu as humble servants.
We pray every day to Śrī Śrī Rādhā Mādhava, Prahlāda Narasiṁhadeva, Jagannāthaa Baladeva Subhadrā, Pañca-tattva and Śrīla Prabhupāda for quick recovery of your divine grace health and for many, many more years of healthy life, so that your divine grace can travel all over the world with ease, to serve Śrīla Prabhupāda to your full hearts content.
Please forgive us for all our offences and mistakes we have done knowingly and unknowingly Guru Mahārāja. We pray at your lotus feet to please bless and empower us so that we can be a first class disciple in your service for eternity. So that we can be of some help in your divine grace’s mission than being a burden.
Happy Vyāsa-pūjā Celebrations Guru Mahārāja!
Śrīla Gurudeva ki Jaya!
Your servants,
Aravinda Kṛṣṇa Dāsa and Yamuneśvarī Devī Dāsī