Vyāsa-pūjā 2019
All Glories to Śrī Guru and Śrī Gaurāṅga
My Lord in the form of Śrīla Gurudevā,
Kindly accept my prostrated obeisances at your lotus feet. Your Divine Grace being a confidential servitor of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is indiscriminately giving the mercy of Lord Caitanya to one and all. Having full faith in the lotus feet of A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Śrīla Prabhupāda you surrendered completely to his desire and took the renounced order of life at the age of only 21.
Śrīla Prabhupāda was the fulfilment of the Lords prediction that His holy names be chanted in ever town and village in the whole world. Oh lord and master I have come to realize that your an expansion of the Supreme Lord’s desire that this Kṛṣṇa Consciousness be spread all over the world.
You are the embodiment of Śrīla Prabhupāda’s desire to preach the message of Lord Caitanyadev and deliver all the inhabitants of the world. Just like Lord Nityānanda delivered Jagāi and Mādhāi but you oh Gurudevā are delivering hundreds and thousands of Jagāi's Mādhāi's.
When you were recommended not accept any more disciples due to your apparent bad health conditions, tears flowed down your eyes and in response you said, “if I don’t help them who will?” Your merciful is causeless because there’s its unmotivated by any material desire for fame or name. You simply desire to serve your Spiritual Master Śrīla Prabhupāda.
I pray that you may take away the deep-rooted desire from my heart to perform solitary bhajan for my own so called “deliverance”. Taking the mood of Prahlāda Mahārāja and not desiring personal liberation and feeling grief seeing the suffering condition of the jīvas, you are showing us what real compassion and what is the real spirit of a Vaiṣṇava. Forgetting our actual duty to carry our your order by preaching the message of Lord Caitanya, we are performing the violence not only to ourselves but to others by not prescribing the medicine to those in need of the medication.
Please instill in our hearts the desire to taking up the preaching spirit with our life and souls, which you have so expertly adopted following in the footsteps of Śrīla Prabhupāda, and the predecessor Acharyas. Oh Master you are the living example of one who has full faith in the order of the spiritual master. Only by such faith can one be actually successful in spiritual life.
yasya deve parā bhaktir yathā deve tathā gurau
tasyaite kathitā hy arthāḥ prakāśante mahātmanaḥ
[ŚU 6.23]
" One who has unflinching devotion for the Supreme Lord and is directed by the spiritual master, in whom he has similar unflinching faith, can see the Supreme Personality of Godhead by revelation. One cannot understand Kṛṣṇa by mental speculation. For one who does not take personal training under the guidance of a bona fide spiritual master, it is impossible to even begin to understand Kṛṣṇa. The word ‘tu’ is specifically used here to indicate that no other process can be used, can be recommended, or can be successful in understanding Kṛṣṇa."
Lord Caitanya was appreciated by Rūpa Gosvāmī as the most munificent man of charity because love of Kṛṣṇa, which is very difficult to achieve, was distributed freely by Him similarly you are distributing love for Kṛṣṇa not just in India but all over the world therefore your Divine grace is worthy of the highest appreciation of the all the Lords confidential devotees and the Lord Himself.
I feel myself very weak and poor, begging at your lotus feet please give me śakti-bala and determination to be fearless in serving the desire of Śrīla Prabhupāda. Let thy desire be fulfilled utilizing this servant as an instrument in thy hands.
An eternal servant at your lotus feet,
Kṛṣṇa Prasāda Patita Uddhāra dāsa