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Vyāsa-pūjā 2024

Śubhaśrī Mādhurī devī dāsī (Bankura-West Bengal - India)

Dear most respected and worshipable Guru Mahārāja,

nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale
śrīmate jayapatāka svāmin iti nāmine
nama ācaryapādāya nitāi-kṛpā-pradāyine
gaura-kathā-dhāma-dāya nagara-grāma-tāriṇe

Please accept my most respectful obeisances at the dust of your lotus feet. And please accept this small homage offered on the eve of your 75th Vyāsa-pūjā ceremony. All glories to you! All glories to the most auspicious Vyāsa-pūjā eve of yours! All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda!

Due to your unconditional mercy, this fallen ignorant, and unqualified being got the shelter of your lotus feet and thus the opportunity to perfect her life and go back to Godhead. Please bless me Guru Mahārāja so that I can always strive to fulfil your instructions life after life and thus become your qualified disciple.

I have started to read your monthly messages carefully from this year 2024. I feel highly motivated and enthusiastic after reading about your preaching efforts and your disciples’ preaching news from all over the world. Although your doctors forbade you to travel because of your health situation, you keep on traveling, thinking of how Śrīla Prabhupāda traveled the world at the age of 70. This was an overwhelming note in your previous monthly message. This forced me to think, why can’t I with a young body and all healthy organs, endeavor to come out of my comfort zone and serve the mission of Lord Caitanya a little bit?

You have never-ending travel and preaching plans all over India, USA, Europe, Australia, etc., and you never settle or relax! Being an ideal disciple of your spiritual master Śrīla Prabhupāda, you are always thinking and contemplating His spiritual instructions to you. Receiving preaching reports from your disciples makes you ecstatic, and reminds you of Lord Caitanya’s prediction. Your monthly messages show us how you have only one desire, and that is to see everyone becoming Kṛṣṇa conscious and thus blissful.

By personally completing the Bhakti-vedānta degree, even with challenging physical obstacles, you are immensely motivating your disciples to become serious in studying Prabhupāda books and becoming ācāryas by completing all the śāstric courses. So, I want to sincerely seek your blessings for completing my Bhakti-vaibhava study.

You are also trying to fulfill the desire of Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura - building 108 pāda-pīṭhas of Caitanya Mahāprabhu, at the sacred locations visited by the Lord. I hereby promise to donate some lakṣmī for this project upon receiving my first Ph. D. stipend in Aug-Sept 2024.

I have received instructions from your disciple and my śikṣā-guru His Grace Rūparāja Rāma Prabhu, to train Mātājīs of JBP Nāmahaṭṭa in proper Vaiṣṇavī culture. Another instruction is to understand and memorize all the important verses from the Bhagavad-gītā, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and Caitanya-caritāmṛta, so that I can quote verses like a lawyer while preaching and also for personal ‘smaraṇam’. By your supreme mercy, you have arranged for my spiritual shelter and guidance through an ideal disciple of yours. Thus, please empower me to take this great opportunity and fulfill these two instructions.

You have also mentioned how husband and wife can become a nice unit and do wonderful services for this mission. Please bless me so that I can also execute devotional services with my husband and always endeavor to become an ideal wife. Please also enable me to use all my talents and abilities in the service of the Supreme Lord by properly following your instructions. I beg at your lotus feet for blessings and empowerment.

Your insignificant spiritual daughter,

Śubhaśrī Mādhurī devī dāsī