oṁ ajñāna-timirāndhasya jñānāñjana-śalākayā
cakṣur unmīlitaṁ yena tasmai śrī-gurave namaḥ
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
Hare Kṛṣṇa dear Guru Mahārāja,
Please accept my humble obeisances Guru Mahārāja. All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda. All glories to you Guru Mahārāja!
I don’t have any qualifications, but I am so fortunate to have the opportunity to glorify you on your auspicious 75th appearance day Guru Mahārāja.
Śrīla Prabhupāda mentioned in a conversation with his student during a morning walk in Chicago, “If America and India pool their technological and spiritual resources, this combination will bring about perfect peace and prosperity all over the world.” Just as Prabhupāda said, you use technology as a tool to spread Kṛṣṇa conscious Guru Mahārāja.
Thanks for all your online discourses, question and answer sessions, quotes, monthly emails, messages on JPS App - the ways you keep in contact with all your disciples, well-wishers.
Your monthly messages are very inspiring Guru Mahārāja, they also exhibits, the love you have for us. It’s written with such simplicity, humility, care, love, seriousness, expressing the importance for insignificant souls like me with all your activities done for the month is really inspiring. Your shorts (short videos) on social media, QnA posts either solve my problems or answer my questions Guru Mahārāja. Very grateful for them.
Though you have crossed the number of disciples to be initiated by you by Śrīla Prabhupāda, you are still continuing to accept disciples. this shows us how merciful and compassionate over us Guru Mahārāja.
I’d like to express my sincere gratitude for accepting both me and my husband into your family. It is my tremendous privilege to be an insignificant part of your spiritual family. I’m very undeserving, yet after being under your care, I feel more protected and blessed in my spiritual and material lives, as well as more connected to you. I always believe, only under your shelter, I’m able to follow the regulative principles in any circumstances.
Last year during your visit to the UK, my husband got an opportunity to serve you in person. He shared his realizations during his service - the way you always remember Kṛṣṇa by chanting, how you get updated with the latest news and implement in Kṛṣṇa conscious (if any take-aways), how simple and loving you’re - whatever you do is very special and inspiring for me Guru Mahārāja, but lack to implement it. Your last visit to the UK also helped me understand how a disciple must be to a Guru when I saw the way all the senior devotees in the UK served you.
Whenever I am in distress or overwhelmed, I pray to you and then I get necessary strength to face the challenges ahead Guru Mahārāja. I’m trying to make a habit to remember you just after I wake up, whenever I do a service which strengthens me and make me feel you’re always there for me Guru Mahārāja.
Few services that I do with your mercy, that I would like to share with you Guru Mahārāja:
- Cooking service in our temple
- Guru-pūjā and Tulasī-ārati in the temple
- Garland service
- Got a chance to organize few festivals (with so many learnings)
- With the encouragement of our Shiksha gurus, we did start a Bhakti-vṛkṣa last year, but after few weeks it could not be continued for several reasons Guru Mahārāja (I liked to do this sevā Guru Mahārāja, because I was reading more than what I did, trying to understand and contemplate, query every single n small thing in order to understand better to help others to know about Kṛṣṇa and this beautiful journey of spiritual life - but unfortunately we were not able to continue it, maybe because I was proud doing some little service to you) - Please help me to get rid of my pride and give me an opportunity like this to help myself and others Guru Mahārāja.
- Recently (just few weeks ago), I started reading SB along with a new devotee Guru Mahārāja - please bless me that we continue doing this everyday consistently Guru Mahārāja
- Trying to teach our daughter, Śrī Vṛndā (4-year-old) few bhajanas, pastimes, etc.,
Thanks for always steering us in right direction by emphasizing to read Śrīla Prabhupāda books Guru Mahārāja, in most of the videos you mention about reading Śrīla Prabhupāda books, taking Vaiṣṇava courses like Bhakti-śāstrī, Bhakti-vaibhava, I feel you are shooting this only unto me and for me. I enrolled for Bhakti-śāstrī from the month of April, please bless me that I take up the course with seriousness, sincerity, commitment; help me to apply this study in my spiritual practice and improve in my sādhana Guru Mahārāja.
I pray to you to help me in performing my sādhana in a manner that pleases both you and Gaurāṅga, help me understand more about Nityānanda and get attached to him Guru Mahārāja.
Please forgive me for all the non-sense which I am doing when māyā catches me. There are still so many things that I must improve, I don’t want to be that person who would cause You any suffering.
Praying to Lord Narasiṁhadeva to protect you and remove obstacles from your service.
P.S: I always feel Caitanya Mahāprabhu has sent Mahā Varāha Prabhu exclusively to serve you. On your auspicious appearance day, I would also like to express my heartfelt gratitude to Mahā Varāha Prabhu for looking after you like a son looks after a father or vice-versa.
Your spiritual daughter,
Hemāṅgī Vrajeśvarī Devī Dāsī (Dīkṣā),
ISKCON South London, United Kingdom