Hare Kṛṣṇa Guru Mahārāja,
Please accept my respectful obeisances at your divine lotus feet. All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda and Your Holiness.
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
My life has been blessed by your causeless mercy. Without association of pure devotees’ life goes in vain and presence of pure devotee like Your Holiness has made my life blissful. In this planet you are manifestation of mercy of Lord Nityānanda. Lord Nityānanda is ocean of mercy and you are giving his Mercy to everyone through your different actions like you take care of devotees, love everyone, deliver nectarean Caitanya-līlā classes to devotees and bless them.
Guru Mahārāja, you are fully surrendered and dedicated to serving your beloved Spiritual master, His Divine Grace Śrīla Prabhupāda, that you are carrying his instruction of preaching into entire world with life and soul. You are empowered by Lord Caitanya and Śrīla Prabhupāda and thus you are also empowering the devotees to commit themselves to this preaching mission.
From the very beginning you were completely absorbed in serving your spiritual master with life and soul. We can see that when once Śrīla Prabhupāda was not well and you got to know that he wants some fresh flowers especially Rose then somehow you managed to bring them to Śrīla Prabhupāda and in this way you pleased him by your beautiful service.
Guru Mahārāja, wherever you go like in cities, towns, villages in India or abroad, by your presence that place turns into spiritual world.
Guru Mahārāja, I am very insignificant fallen soul. I don’t have interest to render devotional service. I am deeply conditioned soul that is why I don’t have taste in reading scriptures, hearing, and chanting. Some day or the other I skip reading the books of Śrīla Prabhupāda and hearing Śrīla Prabhupāda’s and your lectures.
Guru Mahārāja, please bless me so that I can strictly follow these principles of devotional service beginning with hearing and chanting.
I also seek your blessings to so that I can engage myself in preaching service and continually progress ahead in spiritual life.
Please give me the strength so that I can follow the teachings of Śrīla Prabhupāda and with full faith walk on the path that is shown to us by His Divine Grace. Entire life I want to remain engaged in this transcendental devotional service.
Currently I am serving in deity department at ISKCON Ujjain temple and I do variety of services there like tulasī-ārati, worship at Puṣpa samādhi of His Holiness Bhakti Cāru Swami Guru Mahārāja and many other backup services. I also get the opportunity to serve senior devotees like His Holiness Bhakti Prema Swami Mahārāja. Sometimes I also go out into the saṅkīrtana bus to take part in Śrīla Prabhupāda transcendental book distribution.
Seeking your causeless mercy to do services and nicely.
Your Servant,
Mitra Balarāma Dāsa (Dīkṣā)
ISKCON Ujjain Temple, Madhya Pradesh
