Vyāsa-pūjā 2024
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
Hare Kṛṣṇa dear Guru Mahārāja,
Please accept our most respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet. All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda. All glories to Śrī Gaurāṅga Mahāprabhu.
All glories to your auspicious appearance Vyāsa-pūjā day and all glories to you and your uninterrupted services. Guru Mahārāja, you are a living example of how a disciple should love his spiritual master and follow his instruction to perfection under any conditions. Your loving service to Śrīla Prabhupāda and your determination to fulfill his instruction is so inspiring and motivating. No matter what your health situation has been you have been preaching, undertaking GBC responsibilities, interacting with disciples, giving classes everyday. Guru Mahārāja, you are showing us by your example how to study scriptures by doing Bhakti-vedānta. Guru Mahārāja, you have this great zeal, energy and so much motivation to give Kṛṣṇa consciousness to others that you don’t think twice to put yourself in the last priority. Your giving and loving nature is so evident the way you interact with your secretaries and servants and the way they shower their love on you and are always eagerly to serve you and that is very commendable. Guru Mahārāja, you have made all the arrangements not only for your disciples but for humanity at large through your many innovative ways of giving association through your lectures, live zoom and Facebook classes and your daily activity reports on your Jayapatākā Swami App. In every activity of yours, you never fail to strengthen our commitment and conviction to Śrīla Prabhupāda and ISKCON.
In a very exemplary way, you teach us the mood of becoming an eternal disciple by displaying your unconditional pure love for Śrīla Prabhupāda. Guru Mahārāja, please instill in our hearts, a drop of that mood of servitorship for Your Divine Grace Śrīla Prabhupāda. Guru Mahārāja, your mood is filled with genuine compassion and love. You strongly desire and endeavor to facilitate Lord Caitanya’s mercy to reach every house in every town and village. Thankyou for always stressing foremost to chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra attentively with taste, and to study Śrīla Prabhupāda’s books with great faith and enthusiasm. Since we have been initiated, we have tried to follow your instructions to the best of our abilities. By your mercy only we can stay in the holy dhāma and perform devotional service without any difficulties.
Guru Mahārāja, Me and my wife Lalitā Mādhava Premī have stitched 30 new maṅgala-ārati outfits for Śrī Lord Narasiṁhadeva and Prahlāda Mahārāja that will be offered to the Lord on your behalf during new temple opening. We also make jewelry for the temple Deities. I am also doing Bhakti-vaibhava by your mercy and instruction. I also chant one round of ugram vīram mantra for you protection and wellbeing…
I beg you to please bless us both and our family which includes our son Doyāla Caitanya, our daughter-in-law Braja Mandali, and our two grandkids Kṛṣṇa Caraṇa and Govinda Caraṇa to be always Kṛṣṇa conscious devotees and also serve Śrīla Prabhupāda and the ISKCON movement. Please bless us also that we can follow your instructions and become your worthy servants.
Last but not the least, your health is important to our tender spiritual life. We beg the mercy of their Lordships Śrī Śrī Rādhā Mādhava, Śrī Śrī Pañca-tattva and Śrī Prahlāda Narasiṁhadeva to keep you in the best of your health for preaching Kṛṣṇa consciousness to the fallen souls like us all over the world.
Once again, we offer our respectful obeisances unto your lotus feet,
Your insignificant servants,
Yaśodānandan Mādhava Dāsa,
Lalitā Mādhavapremī Devī Dāsī