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
My dear spiritual father Śrīla Guru Mahārāja,
Please accept my respectful obeisances. All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda!!
It has been a great fortune for me to write the offering to your glorious 75th Vyāsa-pūjā.
Śrīla Gurudeva, by your mercy last year has ended with a very positive note and our association of devotees has increased so nicely and started doing different temple services and new preaching programs and your Zoom classes still giving all energy and encouragement in our devotional life. In spite of all health challenges, you have been giving darśana in YouTube/Facebook and giving your unlimited mercy and blessings upon all of us. We are feeling so ecstatic hearing from you on Lord Caitanya’s pastimes and taking your blessings unlimitedly. I am very much indebted to Your Divine Grace for giving this wonderful Kṛṣṇa conscious nectar with love and care.
I can’t imagine what I would have done without your guidance, mercy and blessings Śrīla Gurudeva. I had a dream in which you were saying to me that this year you wanted something different to be done by me and for that you were blessing me with super energy to spread Kṛṣṇa consciousness. At one point in that dream, you said in my dream that you could you have given me the name Baladeva Kṛṣṇa Dāsa due to requirements of that spiritual power but in the end you mentioned that your name Yogeśvara Gopīnātha Dāsa also has the same potency and all your blessings are with me to carry out wonderful preaching services to please Śrīla Prabhupāda and all previous ācāryas. By your mercy, my family is also becoming favorable to Kṛṣṇa consciousness and all of them are coming to Śrī Vṛndāvana Dhāma for Pāda-pīṭham installation and for your blessings. Please bless all our family, Śrīla Guru Mahārāja so that they can be connected to the guru-paramparā and feel fortunate to get the mercy of Nitāi Gaura!! My father would like to come to Śrī Māyāpur dhāma also for TOVP inauguration as well. I feel very ecstatic when he glorifies Kṛṣṇa and Śrīla Prabhupāda! You are indeed inviting the whole world to come to Śrī Māyāpur dhāma to get the supreme mercy of Lord Caitanya. I remember one of your room conversations in which you were mentioning how merciful Lord Caitanya is, which is really unlimited. We are so fortunate to be connected to Lord Caitanya through your Divine Grace.
Your personal association last year was also so empowering for me and all fellow devotees in London. You very mercifully gave me brāhmaṇa dīkṣā that time and by your mercy Śrīla Gurudeva, I will be engaged in Deity services at ISKCON London along with my wife. We are eternally indebted to you Śrīla Guru Mahārāja for bestowing your supreme mercy on us which is completely unconditional.
We have been doing maṅgala-ārati in the temple, japa marathons, Kīrtana programs, festival celebrations and many other spiritual activities in person now a days. This all could happen by your mercy and blessings Śrīla Gurudeva. My daughter has been taking part in kīrtana programs and inspiring her classmates also to take up Kṛṣṇa consciousness with chanting and reading. She talks about you Śrīla Gurudeva to all her classmates and inspires them to never give up in every circumstances of life. You gave her the instructions on preaching when you met her last time. She is so happy to get that instruction Śrīla Gurudeva.
Your Divine Grace, you are always guiding and caring for each and every disciple and well-wishers personally. This is really heart touching and amazing.
Please bless me and all our group members that we can bring more and more souls including local western people to Kṛṣṇa consciousness this year in London as an offering to Śrīla Prabhupāda by following your instructions.
Thank you very much.
Your insignificant servant,
Yogeśvara Gopīnātha Dāsa (dīkṣā),
London, UK