Hare Kṛṣṇa dearmost Guru Mahārāja
please accept my respectful obeisances at your divine lotus feet thousands of times
All glories to you dear Guru Mahārāja! All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda and Śrīla Bhakti Siddhānta Saraswati thakur Gosvāmī Prabhupāda
All glories to Lord Nityānanda Prabhu and Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu
small verse as humble offering To Dearmost Guru Mahārāja -
navadvīpa māyāpur prasidha bhumau
atraiva caitanya candra svapāda mule
jñanam param parama puruśa (nitāi gaura) bhakti yuktam
datre sadaiva ācāryapāda namo namaste!!
Happy 75th Vyāsa-pūjādear Guru Mahārāja! You are an ocean of unlimited qualities (Compassion, Tolerance, Determination, Love & Personal Care, many more), I am greatly indebted to Śrīla Prabhupāda and Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda for arranging you as my divine spiritual master. Through my Grandfather I used to attend programs by one of the Gauḍīya maṭha (Kovvur/Rajamundry Math) devotee in my childhood (In Tiruvuru, near Vijayawada) which gradually allowed me to come in touch with Śrīla Prabhupāda Books/Vāṇī/temples and By their both Śrīla Prabhupāda's cause less mercy (& through your dear disciple) able to get your divine association and mercy. Last Year 2023, You gave your causeless divine mercy/blessings and association and personal service and valuable instructions in Atlanta and Dallas, NJ and NY. I am eternally indebted to you for always inspiring and encouraging me even though I am unqualified and unworthy. As śāstra explains Guru is prakāśa tattva - Like a light bulb removes darkness and reveals the source of electric energy by that, similarly Guru is Dhāma prakāśaka / Śakti prakāśaka /Nāma prakāśaka / Mantra prakāśaka (revealing the holy dhāma /Energy of the Lord / Glories of Holy Name/Glories of Dīkṣā mantras). In CC Ādi 1.58, Śrīla Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī pāda writes
jīve sākṣāt nāhi tāte Guru caittya-rūpe
śikṣā-Guru haya Kṛṣṇa-mahānta-svarūpe
Since one cannot visually experience the presence of the Supersoul, He appears before us as a liberated devotee. Such a spiritual master is none other than Kṛṣṇa Himself.
As I hear from Śrīla Prabhupāda and read Śrīla Prabhupāda books I can see you as living example of Mahā Bhāgavata.
Your unprecedented glorious activities of carrying out the orders of your beloved spiritual master Śrīla Prabhupāda gives me (& thousands and thousands of people all over the world) inspiration every day to strive my best to serve at full capacity to please you and Śrīla Prabhupāda as an instrument in your hands. To name few of your unprecedented /unparallel activities as senior most sannyāsī (53 + yrs of sannyas) in ISKCON and in the world (if I am not mistaken) - You are the pioneer in Spreading the Lord Caitanya/Śrīla Prabhupāda mission all over the world
1 # Establishing Bhakti Vṛkṣa program - now we can see all over the world thousands thousands of these programs because of you creating the framework and training the devotees in expanding this program all over the world
2 # Establishing Nama Hatta program - In India and many other countries Russia and others, now we can see thousands of Nāmahaṭṭa centers bringing those who can't regularly attend temple programs to participate in Lord Caitanya mission/Kṛṣṇa consciousness activities
3 # Damodar program - In Middle east especially and all over the world distributing the mercy of Lord Kṛṣṇa/Lord Caitanya
4 # Gaura Katha - Speaking Gaura Katha and compiling Gaurāṅga book and upcoming Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya book (consisting of all Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu pastimes from different authorized books – Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Caitanya-bhāgavata, Murāri Gupta kaḍacā, Caitanya Candrodaya Nāṭaka, Caitanya-maṅgala, Caitanya Candrāmṛta, Caitanya-carita Mahā-kavya, Caitanya Sīkṣāmṛta, others) - For last 40-50 years you are been speaking Gaura Katha (living and breathing in Gaura Līlā and inundating everyone else in it)
5 # Navadvīpa dhāma / Gaura Maṇḍala Bhumī - Establishing/constructing /renovating temples of many of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu and his associates birth and pastime places in India and Bangladesh
6 # Establishing Lord Caitanya Lotus foot prints - Carrying out the previous ācārya's desires – Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura established Lotus foot prints of Lord Caitanya in Siṁhachalam /Ahobila Narasiṁha and Maṅgala Giri/Pāna Narasiṁha and other places. You have established in Ananta Padmanābha swami temple and in Vṛndāvana, Maharashtra and many other places you are tirelessly working on to establish and you are not worried about money as Śrīla Prabhupāda said to Guru Kripa Swami/Prabhu don’t worry about money, Lord Kṛṣṇa will provide money as you take on responsibility of previous ācārya.
7 # Developing Māyāpur dhāma & Building TOVP & many more wonderful projects
To Receive one person instruction from Bonafide spiritual master/Guru itself is rare achievement and on top you had received 43 plus personal instructions from Śrīla Prabhupāda we can understand that, How much Trust and confidence and empowerment of previous ācārya's has upon you and we can see that you are the first class disciple of his divine grace Śrīla Prabhupāda.
O my revered dearmost Guru Mahārāja, I humbly beg you to shower your cause less mercy on this ignorant fallen soul and keep me in your shelter and service always. Without your mercy there is no hope for me.
As Śrīla Narottam dāsathakur writes in his most beautiful song,
ei-bāro karuṇā koro vaiṣṇava gosāñi
patita-pāvana tomā bine keho nāi
O Vaiṣṇava Gosani, please be merciful to me. There is no one except you who can purify the fallen souls.
jāhāra nikaṭe gele pāpa dūre jāy
emona doyāla prabhu kebā kothā pāy
Where does anyone find such a merciful personality by whose mere audience all sins go far away?
gańgāra paraśa hoile paścate pāvan
darśane pavitra koro-ei tomāra guṇ
After bathing in the waters of the sacred Ganges many times, one becomes purified, but just by the sight of you, the fallen souls are purified. This is your great power.
tomāra hṛdoye sadā govinda-viśrām
govinda kohena-mora vaiṣṇava parāṇ
Your heart is always the resting place of Lord Govinda. Lord Govinda says, "The Vaiṣṇavas are in My heart."
Your instructions, lectures/Vāṇī is dispelling my gnorance and inspiring me to scrutinizingly studying Śrīla Prabhupāda books, hear his lectures and serve the Deities and devotees/sādhu's and preach as an menial servant at your divine lotus feet. As we can see that in statements of CC Madhya 20.123
‘śāstra-guru-ātma’-rūpe āpanāre jānāna
‘Kṛṣṇa mora prabhu, trātā’ — jīvera haya jñāna
“The forgetful conditioned soul is educated by Kṛṣṇa through the Vedic literatures, the realized spiritual master and the Supersoul. Through these, he can understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead as He is, and he can understand that Lord Kṛṣṇa is his eternal master and deliverer from the clutches of māyā. In this way one can acquire real knowledge of his conditioned life and can come to understand how to attain liberation.
Please forgive my offenses I have committed knowingly or unknowingly and please kindly bestow your causeless mercy to carry out your desires and mission till my last breath.
Śrīla Jayapatākā Swami Guru Mahārāja ki Jai! Śrīla Prabhupāda ki Jai! Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda ki Jai!
Your insignificant servants
Kṛṣṇa Nāmānanda Dāsa
Haripriyā Gaurāṅgī Devī Dāsī
Panngayukta and Kṛṣṇasaketh (grand spiritual daughter and son)
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