Hare Kṛṣṇa dear Guru Mahārāja, please accept my respectful obeisances.
All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda. All glories to You on this auspicious day of Your Vyāsa pūjā.
It's a small attempt to express my genuine thoughts into words. Please forgive me if I’d transferred my thoughts in any offensive way.
Guru Mahārāja, I met You in-person for the first time at Atlanta for Pāṇihāṭī festival, 2023. Prior meeting to You I listened You through YouTube videos/recorded archives, Your classes almost for a year and spiritually accepted You as my Guru Mahārāja
When I saw You for the first time, I got goosebumps - have no words to express! Seeing almost God in front of my eyes.
I remember, I bowed down to pay obeisance- You looked at me and then for more time like 10-12 seconds(compared to other disciples) You rubbed Jagannātha tooth-brush on my head- I'm still wondering what You mean to say to me by that action.
Later for Jagannātha Yātrā, I experienced Your compassion for Atlanta souls- You were distributing your causeless mercy (during Your car ride) to each and every one whoever approached You without thinking what's his or her spiritual position. That made me realized that without any qualification how fortunate I am - by getting under Your shelter
I was very very satisfied after meeting and getting Your kind blessings.
After the Atlanta visit, I'm trying my level best to follow Your instructions- sincerely for daily min. 16 quality rounds during Brahma Muhūrta, hearing your and Śrīla Prabhupāda lectures, some Sevā at temple and sometimes reading. I do experience the change in my inner consciousness by just following Your instructions. I feel that I’m more conscious, calm, peaceful and slowly getting detached with unwanted material things. How I was 2 years back and what I’m now is totally beyond comparison.
I have started realizing my anarthas on a regular basis after daily quality chanting.
Although I'm so fallen, still I get wonderful devotees association and Sewa at temple- I know it’s only Your and Śrīla Prabhupāda’s causeless mercy on me.
Here at Central New Jersey ISKCON temple, under the able guidance of Kṛṣṇa Nāmānanda Prabhuji, I am getting spiritually trained on a day to day basis through his Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, Bhagavad Gītā and Kṛṣṇa Book reading classes. As Prabhuji suggested, hence I'm doing 'Bhakti Śāstri' course. After completion of the first Unit, I’m now understanding the importance of this course.
We are also keeping BV once in a month at our home - that way we try to serve Vaiṣṇavas.
We are very grateful to Kṛṣṇa Nāmānanda Prabhujī - Your extremely sincere, selfless and compassionate disciple- having us in our lives, by following him we are assured that we are walking on Your instructed- most divine path of KC.
Guru Mahārāja, I have a desire to get Your blessings in person again, I am not sure when we will get that opportunity to see Your lotus smile. But I know one thing: You are very compassionate to all of Your disciples, so You will definitely fulfill my desire someday soon.
I would like to pray- rather beg unto Your divine lotus feet that shower some mercy on me and my family so that we can be worthy servants of Yours.
Your aspiring insignificant servants,
Shubhangi Panjiyar
Rajiv Kumar Panjiyar
Sanjana & Raveena (my daughters)
101 King Street, Edison, NJ 08820