Hare Kṛṣṇa! Dear beloved Gurudeva!
Please accept my most respectful obeisances. All Glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda! All Glories to Your Divine Grace!
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
mūkaṁ karoti vācālaṁ paṅguṁ laṅghayate girim
yat-kṛpā tam ahaṁ vande śrī-gurum dīna-tāranam
paramānandaṁ mādhavaṁ śrī caitanyaṁ īśvaraṁ
Happy 75th auspicious appearance day dear spiritual father!! Today I feel very blessed to write this Vyāsa-pūjā offering. I thank the tradition of glorification and all Your kind servitors who engage all of us in writing these homages. One may not realize sometimes but I deeply feel it’s our great fortune to be able to purify ourselves seamlessly, simply by meditating on the qualities of Your Divine Grace.
I want to begin by praying to the Lordships Śrī Śrī Rādhā Mādhava Aṣṭa-sakhi vṛnda, Śrī Śrī Pañca-tattva, Lord Narasiṁhadeva to bestow Their innumerable blessings and grace on My beloved Gurudeva.
Guru Mahārāja, Your exemplary divine virtues and Vaiṣṇava qualities are not only looked up to by your dear disciples but by the whole ISKCON community world wide. This makes me fill with spiritual pride to be Your spiritual daughter but guilt ridden at the same time that I don’t deserve to be one. But because You’re an eternal associate of Lord Nityānanda and You constantly meditate on Lord Nitāi’s qualities, You also are inexhaustibly merciful like Him. That’s why you accept a sinful soul like myself.
brahmāṇḍa bhramite kona bhāgyavān jīva
guru-kṛṣṇa-prasāde pāya bhakti-latā-bīja
I was fallen but You made me ‘bhāgyavān’ just like Kalia was made fortunate by the dust of the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa.
O giver of Gaurāṅga’s love, I feel incapacitated to sing the glories of Your ‘Gaura-Prema’. I have learnt to love Gaurāṅga by watching you hail ‘Gaurāṅga’. You say, one cannot get kṛṣṇa-prema without getting mercy of Lord Gaurāṅga and I couldn’t have got Gaura-prema without Your mercy dear beloved bābā... thus You made me fortunate.
Today I want to say thank you, so very much dear spiritual father. How things took shape gradually and by Your Divine spiritual potency I, a fallen soul met You and a metamorphosis occurred. From the sea of nescience, I was directly ported on the ship of devotional service. My heartfelt gratitude dear beloved Gurudeva for all your love and affection. I may have still hurt you in many ways by my hard hearted non Vaiṣṇava behavior but You are an ocean of forgiveness and benedictions.
Please forgive me for all the mistakes and offenses. Praying unto thy divine lotus feet, my merciful Guru Mahārāja by Your Divine potency please kindly eradicate the weeds on the path of my devotional service. Please empower me to serve you day after day, year after year, life after life with increasing enthusiasm, offenselessly. I am your tool, use me the way you like. Make me an instrument dear spiritual master to spread Your Gaurāṅga’s glories far and wide.
I have been assigned the transcendental service of raising funds for TOVP but I am a mere sparrow who wants to empty the ocean with her beak. Kindly bestow Your kind benediction and strengthen my faith in the service. As to please You is now the only goal of my very being. I surrender unto You dear Gurudeva and depend totally upon Your mercy.
Gurudeva with my head on Your Divine lotus feet I plead and beg that kindly make my (present body) immediate family members too, serve You with all their might. Please cast Your merciful glance upon all three of them and make them Gaura conscious in this very lifetime.
With gratitude brimming heart,
Your menial, unintelligent daughter,
Satyabhāmā Sādhvī Devī Dāsī
Ajmer, India