My dear spiritual father
Please accept my most humble obeisances!! All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda!! All glories to your divine grace!!
On the auspicious occasion of your Vyāsa-pūjā, I pray to the Lord to always protect you and bless you with good health and a long life.
Guru Mahārāja, I am very fortunate and always thankful to you for coming into my spiritual life as a guru, who is so merciful, a good protector, a well-wisher, and showing so much love to the fallen souls. You are a great fighter who is teaching us how to fight against māyā. By giving initiation, you are showing your mercy to so many fallen conditioned souls like me all over the world, opening our eyes with knowledge, and helping all of us to go back to Godhead, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa.
You are such a wonderful personality who has a direct relationship with Kṛṣṇa. The way you develop and maintain such personal relationships with everyone surely testifies to your realization of your personal relationship with Kṛṣṇa. You show such compassion to the living entities who are in a state of forgetfulness of Kṛṣṇa by constantly preaching and giving so much of your time, guidance, and care, in spite of your own physical difficulties.
You are such an expert preacher, Guru Mahārāja. Each time I hear you speak, I am amazed at how you are able to say exactly what I need to hear. I remember your instructions every day; they are my inspiration to keep myself always engaged in devotional service.
Guru Mahārāja, I am always surprised at how you are always ready to serve Śrīla Prabhupāda each and every moment of your life. Your enthusiasm gives us motivation to serve your lotus feet. Sometimes, I think about the biography of Śrīla Prabhupāda, where externally it looked like he had to undergo so many difficulties to propagate the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. Being the eternal associate of the Lord, he could have done it easily without any difficulties. But to set an example of sincerity, commitment, and surrender to the spiritual master, he took so much austerity in his life. It is said that the spiritual master teaches us with his own example, and so Śrīla Prabhupāda did. I was not fortunate to associate with Śrīla Prabhupāda, but I feel very grateful to the Lord for giving you in my life as a role model and his representative. Like Śrīla Prabhupāda, you are undergoing so many difficulties and austerities just to show us how a pure devotee of the Lord is—never disturbed by any external difficulties. You are a true follower of Śrīla Prabhupāda, following in the footsteps of your spiritual master word by word.
Reading the scriptures like Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and Caitanya-caritāmṛta, we understand that we are very, very fortunate that Kṛṣṇa, who comes once in a day of Brahmā, and then Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, who came to establish pure devotional service, appeared just a few years ago. It is already so rare to be born in this Kali-yuga where Lord Caitanya descended to distribute love of Godhead so easily. Look at the mercy of the Lord—that this was not enough, so He sent Śrīla Prabhupāda to teach us how to practice devotional service in the easiest method without compromising the principles. Then, the greatest fortune for all of us is that Lord Caitanya has sent His direct associate as a gift to us in the form of you. I feel most fortunate to have all this in my life…
But look at my misfortune, that I still give more importance to my ego, lust, and greed over sincerity, compassion, and a serving attitude.
Guru Mahārāja, please help me to also have a drop of that mood of servitorship for your divine grace as you have for Śrīla Prabhupāda. The sincerity with which you are serving Śrīla Prabhupāda is truly commendable, and that is a wonderful example for all of us to learn how to serve a spiritual master.
On this day, I pray to our entire guru-paramparā to make me follow the teachings of Śrīla Prabhupāda and your instructions.
As per your instruction, I am trying to do some preaching online and offline, trying to connect them all at the lotus feet of Śrīla Prabhupāda and yours. Please bless all Bhakti-vṛkṣa members to take your shelter and be instruments in serving Śrīla Prabhupāda.
Your health is very important for our spiritual growth. We beg the mercy of Their Lordships Śrī Śrī Rādhā Mādhava, Pañca-tattva, Jagannātha-Baladeva-Subhadrā, Narasiṁhadeva, and Dhanvantari Bhagavān to keep you in the best health for preaching Kṛṣṇa consciousness all over the world and delivering many conditioned souls like me.
Your insignificant spiritual daughter,
Sevā Padmā Devī Dāsī