Anantasesa Balabhadra Das (Sydney, Australia)
My dear spiritual father, HH Jayapataka Swami Guru Maharaj!
Please accept my respectful prostrate obeisances at your lotus feet!!!
All glories to you Srila Gurudev!!!
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!!!
I beg to offer you my homage on Your Divine Graces’ 75th Vyasa Puja. Please give me blessings to glorify you Guru Maharaj.
My dear Guru Maharaj, thank you for another inspiring year wherein you have relentlessly preached and spread the glories of Mahaprabhu. Inspite of increasing bodily challenges you have kept up the momentum of your services and that encourages me to be very one-pointed focused in just following and serving the instructions of one’s spiritual master. Last one year being my second year in grhastha ashram I realize that there are multi-fold responsibilities simultaneously that we need to attend to and when I fail to connect them with Krishna consciousness, I feel less motivated to get back to regular service and quality of sadhana also gets impacted. When I see how wonderfully you deal with variety of situations and keep increasing your momentum in Krishna consciousness, that inspires me to see Krishna’s hand in all activities and keep springing back to regular routine faster and better.
My dear Guru Maharaj, when I keep receiving updates about your health, I feel anxious and distressed that you have to go through so much trouble to fulfill your spiritual master’s desires. But I feel more amazed and stunned that you are willing to do more sacrifice to fulfill instructions of His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada. When I see your health updates mentioning about dialysis, injections, strong medicines etc. being administered to you, I felt you are truly a mahajan like Bhishma Pitamah with the difference being that he was on the bed of arrows and you are on bed syringes and injections. While Bhishma Pitamah awaited darshan of Lord Krishna before he completed his pastimes you are by your sweet will waiting to see the fruits of fulfillment of Srila Prabhupad’s instructions.
I would also like to take this opportunity to mention that you are really expert in engaging all your disciples Guru Maharaj. We got frequent updates about your visit to Sydney, Australia and each time it made us more desirous to have you in Sydney and we kept praying and planning what we must do to serve you better. Though the visit did not materialize during Dec ’23 – Jan ’24, I became more absorbed in your thoughts. I beg you to bless me and my wife and your spiritual daughter, Deepapriya Gandharvika DD, that we remain intensely and constantly focused at your lotus feet Guru Maharaj.
My sincerely prayers to Lord Jagannath, Baladev and Shubhadramayi for your good health, well-being and long life so that you can guide more souls like me in fulfilling the glorious mission of Srila Prabhupada.
Dear Guru Maharaj, lastly please forgive me for any offense that I have done at your lotus feet knowingly or unknowingly. Please enable me and Deepapriya to receive the mercy showered by you Guru Maharaj and bless us (fallen souls) so that we can always be engaged in your service.
Please accept this humble attempt to glorify you Guru Maharaj!
Your insignificant servant,
Anantasesa Balabhadra Das
