Dearest Guru Mahārāja, Hare Kṛṣṇa!
All glories to Śrī Śrī Guru and Gaurāṅga, All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda!
On this auspicious day of Your appearance, we offer our most respectful obeisances again and again at Your lotus feet, which, for us disciples, are the abode of pure devotional service.
It is hard to know Śrī Kṛṣṇa through karma, jñāna, or yoga; instead, one can know Him by performing devotional service under the instructions of the Guru, who in turn follows the instructions of his Guru, Śrīla Prabhupāda, and thereby of the entire paramparā.
Your determination to fulfill Śrīla Prabhupāda's desires is now known throughout all three worlds.
It is evident that the push of material energy, which compels us to repeatedly undergo birth, disease, old age, and death, has no hold on You.
When we enter the material world, we become covered by the twenty-four material elements, which push us through the guṇas to nourish unlimited material desires.
But devotional service to Guru and Kṛṣṇa causes the impassable ocean of material existence to be reduced to the water contained in the hoofprint of a calf.
You are that special soul whom Śrī Kṛṣṇa has sent to us for our purification.
By Your causeless mercy, our lives will not have been a useless incarnation in the cycle of saṁsāra.
Thank You for Your presence, which is a great source of inspiration for us and such an elevated means by which we can present our insignificant devotional service to Śrī Kṛṣṇa. We trust that only through You can we be accepted by Śrī Śrī Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa.
In this last decade, we have been praying more intensely for Your health, hoping to alleviate Your physical suffering.
Your divine presence remains—and will always remain for us—the brightest example of uninterrupted and unconditional devotional service, rarely equaled now or in the future within this material world.
Please always shower Your causeless mercy upon us, thus revealing to us Your innumerable good and holy qualities as both Guru and Father.
Your insignificant servants,
Rāma Gaurāṅga Dāsa and Anusarini Sītā Devī Dāsī