Hare Kṛṣṇa Dear Guru Mahārāja, Please accept my respectful and humble obeisances at Your lotus feet. All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda!!! All glories to Guru and Gaurāṅga!!!
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
nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale
śrīmate bhaktivedānta-svāmin iti nāmine
namas te sārasvate deve gaura-vāṇī-pracāriṇe
nirviśeṣa-śūnyavādi-pāścātya-deśa-tāriṇe
oṁ ajñāna-timirāndhasya jñānāñjana-śalākayā
cakṣur unmīlitaṁ yena tasmai śrī-gurave namah
Please forgive me Guru Mahārāja for my offences as it is my first attempt to do Your Divine Grace’s glorification. I know I am not capable of doing the same yet but for my own purification I’m taking this golden opportunity. The lockdown period of COVID19 proved out to be a blessing in disguise for me as during this time I could reconnect to His Grace Satyabhāmā Mātājī, whom I knew as my school friend and eventually she turned out to be my mentor. She literally pushed me into Kṛṣṇa consciousness by her inspiring lectures and her dedicated preaching. I was also fortunate to get the association of His Grace Rādhāpati Gopīnātha Prabhujī and that was like a turning point in my life. Prabhujī just nurtured my heart with Kṛṣṇa consciousness. I am not fortunate enough to have Your darśana Guru Mahārāja but the spark I see in the eyes of your disciples, each time when they describe You fills my heart with immense love and gratitude for You and the desire to meet you increases. Guru Mahārāja I earnestly pray to You that overlooking all my shortcomings, please bless me with your darśana and kṛpā. I know I’m very fallen, but I also know by the strength of Your kṛpā fallen souls like me can also realize the true nature of self, learn to love Godhead and can go back home. During the lockdown time only I had the opportunity to see your Vyāsa-pūjā program on TV live and that was the first time I had chanted 16 rounds for the first time and could never give up after that day such is your strength Guru Mahārāja that just by taking Your darśana on TV also, I could get that strength to chant 16 rounds which I had never thought I would be able to do. Thank you Guru Mahārāja for Your unconditional mercy. Dear Guru Mahārāja, Your pure, flawless, relentless endeavors and preaching efforts knows no bounds. You are always 24/7 Kṛṣṇa conscious. Traveling, preaching, and always finding new ways and opportunities to preach and distribute love and message of Lord Gaurāṅga throughout the world to all jīvas. Thanks for establishing a wonderful network of Your disciples and well-wishing devotees and giving me their wonderful association. You are an eternal and transcendental mine of spiritual inspiration.
Although I am still covered in ignorance and full of defects, I pray to Your lotus Feet to please continue to remove my ignorance and guide me in this spiritual journey with Your lamp of Kṛṣṇa conscious knowledge, so that someday I will be free from the four defects of human nature and become all auspicious and pleasing to Your Divine Grace, Śrīla Prabhupāda and the entire paramparā and be able to see things as they are. I have no hope except Your Divine Grace, you are truly Nitāi-kṛpa pradāyine Guru Mahārāja.
Please accept me as Your spiritual daughter and make my life worthy. Guru Mahārāja, on this auspicious day of Your Vyāsa-pūjā I pray to Śrī Rādhā Mādhava Aṣṭa-sakhi, Pañca-tattva and Narasiṁhadeva to kindly ease Your physical pain, even though I believe it’s Your līlā, it’s painful for us to see you extend Yourself so much for absolutely unworthy disciple like me.
Aspiring the dust of Your lotus feet always,
Anshu Bhardwaj,
Your aspiring spiritual daughter,
Ajmer, Rajasthan, India