Dear Guru Mahārāja,
All glories to Śrī Guru and Gaurāṅga
All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda
All glories to Śrī Jayapatākā Swami Guru Mahārāja
Please accept my humble obeisances.
nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya Kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale
śrīmate jayapatākā-svāmin iti nāmine
namo ācāryapādāya nitāi-kṛpa-pradāyine
gaura-kathā dhāma dāya nagara-grāma tāriṇe
I am so blessed that became your disciple and I don’t know what pious activity I have done in my previous or current life. I am able to improve on my daily sādhana with your mercy. With your blessings and mercy only, I am able to understand lots of lilas of Bhagavān from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and Bhagavad-gītā and tell to others.
I got your darśana in Māyāpur during December 2023 and felt so blessed. I didn’t think that I will be able to get your darśana in Māyāpur physically. Since I have taken Initiation in June 2017, now only I got the opportunity to get your darśana physically. Till now, I was getting your darśana in Online only.
I listened to your Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam lectures during this stay in Māyāpur from Canto-3. Also I attended Caitanya-caritāmṛta lectures daily evening. Almost, I was getting your darśana daily during my stay in Māyāpur.
When Guru Mahārāja was moving from Temple hall, I was able to come very close to Guru Mahārāja and very surprised to see Guru Mahārāja that much closer after Initiation. With this close darśana, I am able to realize that my spiritual strength is increasing.
I noticed that Guru Mahārāja is giving Initiation / Shelter daily to the devotees there in Nāmahaṭṭa. When I see there, the more number of newly initiated disciples were going to each and every devotees asking for bikṣa, again and again, I felt lots and lots of mercy from Guru Mahārāja.
Guru Mahārāja was giving Shelter / Initiation / 2nd Initiation in Nāmahaṭṭa even upto 10.00pm, without considering any pain / sleepy, only for granting mercy to the disciples.
You are so compassionate to distribute Kṛṣṇa-bhakti to more and more souls to elevate them from this material miseries – I could see in front of my eyes, there in Māyāpur during my stay.
I could see there during the lectures, more and more devotees were trying to get their seats very closer to Guru Mahārāja, making me to realize what is my affection towards Guru Mahārāja to be come closer and closer.
Guru Mahārāja developed Māyāpur like anything and built Chandrodaya Mandir, all local devotees there were also speaking in English very fluently, which influenced me to develop my English language skill.
I watched online that many Tamil Gītā devotees from Chennai came there to Māyāpur for visiting and many of them were given Shelter by Guru Mahārāja and I could realize the mercy of Guru Mahārāja again and again.
His Grace Rasanātha Gopāla Prabhuji – Senior vaiṣṇava and our sīkṣā Guru from Kṛṣṇa Kathā-deśa - His son’s marriage held at that time and the newly married couple got Guru Mahārāja special blessings together with many Kṛṣṇa Kathā-deśa devotees.
In our Kṛṣṇa Kathā-deśa, I will be attending monthly Guru śiṣya samūha program in which the Senior devotees will share their realization with Guru Mahārāja and I will always listening from them that Guru Mahārāja remembers all his disciples every time and will recollect their sevā done by them some time before, even during their future visits, making them to be surprised.
I saw the below situation in You Tube shots that one time Indradyumna Mahārāja came to see Guru Mahārāja and He was trying to garland Guru Mahārāja but Guru Mahārāja was trying to garland him first – This shows how Guru Mahārāja respect his God-brothers, setting example to his disciples.
I am trying to glorify You more and more but I am not able to do. I think that I am not that much eligible.
Seeking your blessings at all time to progress in Kṛṣṇa conscious life to achieve the goal of life.
Your Humble Servant,
Ananta-rūpiṇī Viṣṇupriyā devī dāsī