Dear Gurudeva,
Please accept my humble obeisances unto the dust of your lotus feet. All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda. All glories to you and Śrī Gaurāṅga. All glories, all glories, all glories to your auspicious appearance day.
Your tireless efforts in preserving the mercy of your spiritual master Śrīla Prabhupāda, previous acharyas and Lord Gaurāṅga, for future generations is very inspiring. The way to preserve the mercy is simply by serving the instructions and pure desires of one’s spiritual master and previous acharyas.
1. “Free Free Free The love of Godhead is absolutely Free”, Lord Gaurāṅga unconditionally distributing kṛṣṇa-prema to everyone. Similarly you are unconditional in loving fallen conditioned souls like me and kindly accepted me as your disciple and you are unconditional in accepting and giving shelter to so many conditioned souls, your compassion has no bounds like Lord Gaurāṅga and truly representing Lord Gaurāṅga.
2. In 1975, Śrīla Prabhupāda said he wanted ten thousand gurus, then one lakh, one million, and one crore. Understanding the heart of Śrīla Prabhupāda, You are empowering many of your disciples to become gurus and distribute Kṛṣṇa consciousness for future generations.
3. You have gifted “TOVP - Śrīdhāma Māyāpur” to the whole world as a great hope giving shelter for next 10,000 years for Kali-yuga souls, simply by serving the pure desire of Śrīla Prabhupāda, Bhaktisiddhānta, Bhaktivinoda, Lord Nityānanda by building a biggest temple for Lord Gaurāṅga in Śrīdhāma Māyāpur and also by developing Śrīdhāma Māyāpur to accommodate the spiritual needs and also basic needs for all visitors and devotees.
4. You have taken an initiative of fulfilling the desire of Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta to establish Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s lotus footprints all over India.
5. Developed Navadvīpa Maṇḍala Parikramā to facilitate and encourage devotees to take part of parikramā and experience Gaura-prema.
Similarly, in so many ways, you are preserving the mercy of Śrīla Prabhupāda and previous ācāryas and Lord Gaurāṅga for future generations which is very inspiring.
In recent Govinda Month message - Mar 2024, you mentioned the following point “I heard that the Prime Minister of India, His Excellency Śrī Narendra Modi, had a campaign in India called “har ghar triraṅga” representing India’s national integrity. So, I thought we should have a campaign called “har ghar Gaurāṅga” (every house should have Gaurāṅga)”. I felt how deeply you are situated Gaurāṅga centered way.
I felt this praṇāma mantra perfectly suits you dear Gurudeva.
nama ācaryapādāya nitāi-kṛpā-pradāyine
gaura-kathā-dhāma-dāya nagara-grāma-tāriṇe
Through monthly messages, you reach us, you purify us, you instruct us, you give hope to us, you enlighten us, you clarify some of the questions, you become a good example for us by your own ācāra and inspire us to follow the devotional principles.
Little endeavor to please you Guru Mahārāja by doing following services:
- Offline Bhakti-vṛkṣa service on every Saturday evening in my house.
- Online Bhakti-vṛkṣa service on Sunday evening (who are unable to come regularly offline).
- Gītā daily Telugu online session, daily 1 śloka discussing.
- Sometimes giving Bhagavad-gītā classes in temple (ISKOCN Attapur, Hyderabad) for newcomers.
- Started organizing small pandal programs in our area Manikonda, Hyderabad to introduce new people to Kṛṣṇa consciousness under the guidance of local temple authority.
- Every Saturday morning doing prasāda distribution service plus Śrīla Prabhupāda books distribution service. (On a weekly basis reporting this score to His Holiness Bhakti Vijaya Bhāgavata Swami Mahārāja).
- Doing services in Temple (ISKOCN Attapur, HYD) on festival days.
- Pursuing Bhakti-śāstrī course from Simple Vedas institute.
- “Har ghar Gaurāṅga” inspired me and desiring to worship Lord Gaurāṅga in my home.
I am developing a desire to please you and form a strong relationship with you Gurudeva through service unto your lotus feet, please be kind upon this fallen soul. Begging for your mercy in endeavoring to serve and please you, kindly accept me as your eternal servant.
Your spiritual son (most insignificant person in this universe),
Viśvapati Mukunda dāsa