Dear Guru Mahārāja,
Please accept my respectful obeisances. All glories to you dear Śrīla Gurudeva!
All glories to your auspicious appearance day Dear Gurudeva!
Feeling sheltered and seeking more shelter at your lotus feet, Gurudeva.
Recently I had a consultation with devotee astrologer. While he was looking into my chart he assessed many things and one important thing he brought out was that based on my chart there was no possibilities for kids. But if you have kids now, it might have been possible only by mercy of GURU! I questioned the astrologer asking, are you referring about the GURU(One in Nava graha), based on astrological chart or my Guru Mahārāja.I was expecting him tpo say what I was thinking.:) He mentioned -All that I wanted to Hear! Which made me so Blissful" Its definitely your Guru Mahārāja who is representing the GURU.
This news didn’t come to me as a revelation, as I always believed in your mercy GURUDEVA and I firmly believed that the kids came into my life, due to your causeless mercy, I have two wonderful kids now(Dipti Rādhā and Lokalīlā)! As you are -Powerhouse of mercy! And you shower your mercy indiscriminately on all who offered even very little service to you.
Was telling astrologer, Do you know Prabhu! Both my kids conception date(Feb-21) and due date for delivery (Nov-28th) was same!. My first-initiation date was also Feb 21st. Both the times I had to do a small procedure -laparoscopy before the baby was born. And both the times I had taken blessing from Śrīla Gurudeva. Once in Sydney when we met him and second time in Perth when we met him.
Actually, the words of astrologer made my belief even more stronger! He also mentioned that if I didn't have kids my life would have been even more difficult.
Now recollecting my journey, Gurudeva (when I was pregnant (7 months) with my second kid). I along with some devotee friends came to visit you in Adelaide. You blessed me and asked me to pray to SSRG regarding the baby, even though, I had my own choices for what baby I wanted. As I followed your instruction my individual interests became SSRG interests and then, I didn’t have much to ask but accepted whatever was given. You sweetly guide devotees to pray for right thing from Lordships.
Also when I had spoken to you during one of your visits and expressed my concern, you had asked me to meet take mentorship from Śrīla Prabhupāda disciple(senior devotee)/in London. After many years I am in touch and she is guiding me very nicely.
I fully now understand how much merciful you had been to me and our family and to our entire god family, taking care and supporting each one us throughout our lives.All glories to your divine lotus feet. As my little understanding is that if we take shelter of your lotus feet, then we are safe eternally, not just in this material world.
You are going through so much pain but yet keep us all motivated and enthused in Kṛṣṇa conscious. You constantly keep in touch with your disciples through your vāṇī(lectures) and now we have app to connect with you as well.
Last year I was fortunate to get second initiation from you dear Gurudeva. This means a lot and a significant milestone in my life. With your blessings, I would like to support you, Śrīla Gurudeva in whatever way I can. Praying to Śrī Śrī Rādhā Gopīnātha for your speedy recovery. Also praying to Lord Dhanvantri by chanting mantras.
Guru Mahārāja, Your are magnificent personality with magnanimous heart, as everyone knows. When I was new in Kṛṣṇa conscious, when I was convinced that this is the path and when I was searching for my Guru, I prayed to Kṛṣṇa to show me the right Guru. Then, I used to ask your initiated disciples to say something about yourself, I vividly remember, how much interest they used to take in explaining about your glorious qualities. Like in cooking you used to make the thinnest chapati it seems. And you used to love eating chilies.
In preaching you used to travel country after country with very less sleep and not caring much about your comforts. While travelling you would also check for the cheapest flights, less expensive means in each and everything you do. For example you might not ask for a helper to carry your lug gages, in all your journey.
I have personally seen you trying to connect to each and every individual at their current state of mind and provide care and nourish them accordingly. When I saw you for the first time during a session at Śrī Śrī Rādhā Gopīnātha temple in Sydney, You showed us videos and asked devotees, what they liked to hear from you. We chose the video which showed the places you had visited all around the world. You explained how people in different parts of the world danced/served Kṛṣṇa.
I have seen that you as a person who is into a lot of details. You would know what a south Indian Pongal would have, you would know with how much grams of batter a best Idli could be made and you would ask how much grams of batter I had made the Idli. I would understand that You were encouraging us to get to perfection like that. When I had cooked for you Gurudeva. I learnt how to make paneer with low fat milk. After we cooked you would taste and say that a dish is good. It would be those dish in which we made put a lot of effort. You would qualify the prasāda that was offered to you had intelligent quotient, emotional quotient and Bhakti quotient. So we know what quotient we had put in the food and how to continue doing our best services. You have expressed to us that you like variety in food which would encourage us to try different things. You would be a simple person and mention, keep sweet vegetables sweet and savory things savory. Because once I had tried to make savory dish out of sweet potato.:)
Also, if a person comes to you and says that they are doing one round a day. You would be very happy. You would magnify it by saying
7 rounds a week, 30 rounds in a month, 365 rounds in a year, 3650 round in a year. Initially if the person might have felt shy to say one
round now. But now after hearing from you, they would feel as though he has achieved some award and feel encouraged to do more.
You constantly encourage book distributors and you are a top book distributor yourself. Myself and my husband (Nityānanda Prana Das) got introduced to you as book distributor. So even when devotees saw you in Malaysia, you had sent blessings through them when I was pregnant with first child.
I felt so so grateful for each and every interest you took on us. If I can share say so many experiences with you. I wonder if each and
every disciple start to explain your glories how many volumes would this Vyāsa-pūjābook go. This time I felt like sharing more, so
kindly tolerate me writing such a big offering.
śrī-guru karuna-sindhu, adhāma a janara bandhu,
lokanath lokera jivana
ha ha prabhu koro doya, deho more pada-chaya,
ebe jasa ghushuk tribhuvana
Our spiritual master is the ocean of mercy, the friend of the poor, and the Lord and master of the devotees.
O master! Be merciful unto me. Give me the shade of your lotus feet. Your fame is spread all over the three worlds.
Your spiritual daughter
Vraja vinoda devī dāsī,
Dīkṣā Disciple, Sydney, Australia