Hare Kṛṣṇa dear Guru Mahārāja.
Please kindly accept my most respectful obeisances unto your divine lotus feet.
All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda! All glories to Your Divine Grace! All glories to your most auspicious Vyāsa-pūjā day!
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
kṛpālu, akṛta-droha, satya-sāra sama
nidoṣa, vadānya, mṛdu, śuci, akiñcana
sarvopakāraka, śānta, kṛṣṇaika-śaraṇa
akāma, anīha, sthira, vijita-ṣaḍ-guṇa
mita-bhuk, apramatta, mānada, amānī
gambhīra, karuṇa, maitra, kavi, dakṣa, maunī
(Cc Madhya 22. 78-80)
Guru Mahārāja, you are the personification of all 26 qualities. Śrīla Prabhupāda used to say that a devotee does not need to perfect the 8 mystic perfections, for when any magic is required to be done, Kṛṣṇa being Yogeśvara, Himself does that miracle for the devotee. You are performing miracles everyday Guru Mahārāja. The whole world has been seeing it, is seeing it, and will continue to see it in the future years. Materially, it is impossible to do even a fraction of your activities for anyone in such external conditions. Not only your activities, but your vision for ISKCON is also incredibly big and far-sighted. Every day you are performing inconceivable austerities. Recently you visited Delhi, and gave the Sunday feast lecture at the EOK temple. By your mercy, I had the extreme good fortune to hear and associate with you in person. While departing from the temple to the ILBS hospital, I saw that simply getting inside the car is such austerity for you. Yet you unceasingly continue to travel, give your association and preach, for the sake of saving fallen souls like me and for the sake of trying to fulfill your debt to Śrīla Prabhupāda, as you always express.
Guru Mahārāja, your daily app updates are very inspiring and make me feel much more connected to you. With your inspiration, I recently completed the Bhakti-śāstrī course. By your mercy, I am seeking your eternal blessings and servitorship in the form of Harināma initiation in Vṛndāvana Safari this year. Guru Mahārāja, you always say in your initiation lectures that initiation is ātma-nivedanam – surrender to Kṛṣṇa’s service with mind, body, and words. Currently, I am primarily involved in youth girls preaching at the Rohini temple in Delhi. I wish to serve you in a much, much, much-improved quality, quantity, and variety of services (I have elaborated some in my initiation essay, but beg you to be able to do more and more).
Currently, I am a worthless disciple whom you have kindly accepted under your shelter, but I do not wish to remain worthless. I wish to do ātma-nivedanam and serve you in fulfilling Śrīla Prabhupāda’s instructions with my body, words, mind, intelligence, desires and all that Kṛṣṇa has blessed me with. I struggle a lot with my thoughts and japa. Please bless this fallen beggar with your causeless mercy to become a sincere, determined, humble, pure follower and propagator of Śrīla Prabhupāda’s mission under your instructions, shelter, and guidance. I also desperately seek your blessings for a sincere devotee husband for a happy, peaceful, and progressive Kṛṣṇa conscious gṛhastha āśrama life with whom I can continue and increase my practice and services. I have been seeking for the past few years, but have not found yet. It is a source of great great anxiety for me. Please bless me Gurudeva.
Please bless me so that I can perform the required austerities for purification and non-duplicitously surrender to you and practice, preach, and serve pure devotional service as coming in our guru-paramparā via Your Divine Grace till my last breath. Please bless me with the proper attitude and mood for rapid progress in Kṛṣṇa consciousness and be a most pleasing servant to Your Divine Grace, Śrīla Prabhupāda, his devotees, and Śrī Śrī Gaura Nitāi.
Aspiring to be one of your most beloved servant,
Your sheltered spiritual daughter,
Harshita Sharma (sheltered), Delhi, India