oṁ ajñāna-timirāndhasya jñānāñjana-śalākayā
cakṣur unmīlitaṁ yena tasmai śrī-gurave namaḥ
Dear Śrīla Gurudeva and our spiritual father,
Please accept my most humble obeisances unto your lotus feet. All glories to Śrīla Gurudeva, All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda.
On this auspicious occasion of your 69th birthday (the Vyāsa-pūjā) celebrations 2018, I pray to Lord Narasiṁhadeva to be merciful so that you regain your health and to give you long and healthy life and give you all protection so as to enable you to continuously distribute Kṛṣṇa-prema to innumerable fallen conditioned souls and lead them to their real home, back to Godhead.
Guru Mahārāja, please forgive me for any offences I may have committed knowingly or unknowingly and beg for your blessings for my spiritual advancement and to serve guru Mahārāja and Kṛṣṇa in a better way. In fact, I am unable to glorify you Guru Mahārāja as I am an ignorant and fallen conditioned soul. However, I try to make an attempt to glorify you, as you are my beloved spiritual father.
Guru Mahārāja, I always remember your spiritual activities. Though you are not able to do anything alone, you are very eager and serious about distributing Kṛṣṇa-prema to more fallen conditioned souls. To prove this I quote a sentence from your health update – “With these serious health problems by strictly following the regulative principles and helping him to make more devotees with his known heroic attitude, he wants to actively continue his preaching and performing his services for Śrīla Prabhupāda and Lord Caitanya. Thus we request everyone’s prayers for him to fulfill his performance.”
Śrīla Gurudeva, please bless us and our Nāmahaṭṭa group so that we can overcome the present impediments and improve our ability to preach the glories of Guru and Gaurāṅga to the conditioned and fallen souls like me. Help me to be free of all offenses so I develop a taste for the Holy names which you have instructed me to chant. You know everything I do; therefore I pray that everything I do – my behavior, my devotional service – be a source of pleasure to you.
We are living in South Vṛndāvana and doing services to their Lordships, Rādhā Vṛndāvana Kṛṣṇa, Jagannātha, Baladeva, Subhadrā Mayī and Gaura-Nitāi on a day today basis. We also conduct three Bhagavad-gītā classes in a week and just started Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam class. To continue our preaching here in Kerala we pray to Guru Mahārāja’s blessings so that we could succeed in our endeavor as Kerala is a very difficult place for preaching.
My family joins me to wish you Guru Mahārāja many, many happy returns of the day.
Your humble and most fallen spiritual son,
Gokula Gopīnātha Dāsa (Dīkṣā Disciple)
Rāsa Vilāṣiṇī Rādhā Devī Dāsī (Dīkṣā Disciple)
Vaṁśidhara Mohana Dāsa and Śyāmapriyā Gopikā Devī Dasī (Dīkṣā Disciples)
Nithin and Vandanā
Kanhaiyā, Śrī Hari and Śrī Kṛṣṇa
Place : South Vṛndāvana (Mathuradeśa)