Dear Guru Mahārāja,
Please accept our respectful obeisances.
All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda.
For all the nourishment, encouragement, help, mercy and spiritual strength we are receiving for you, it would be insufficient even if we glorify you every moment. Your Vyāsa-pūjā is an opportunity for us to speak your glories in public. We long for this opportunity and beg to place this offering at your lotus feet on your 70th Vyāsa-pūjā celebration.
Guru Mahārāja, life in Kṛṣṇa Consciousness has always been exciting and challenging. Often increasing our spiritual anxiety, challenging our surrender level, we are pushed to an extend that we are forcibly made to completely depend on mercy of the Lord. This year we all of us had been greatly challenged with your health condition, complicated transplantation surgeries and even more critical the post-surgery organ acceptance. You are Kṛṣṇa’s devotee. You are an associate of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. You are completely taken care and are in full protection of Gaurāṅga. We are still students in Kṛṣṇa Consciousness. We are still learning. Your presence would mean a lot to us. We are learning a lot from you. When that was challenged, we had no option but to simply depend on the causeless mercy of Lord upon us. Your senior disciples often repeatedly emphasized that our prayers for your good health and well-being is not for your benefit. You are already taken care off by Mahāprabhu. These prayers are actually for our spiritual well-being in your physical association. These prayers are not to save you but to save ourselves. Because only in your association, we get direction in our spiritual life. You are captain of our life. You bring life in our spiritual journey. We need you. ISKCON needs you for many more years to come.
Guru Maharaj, you have always been inspiring us. Your commitment to Śrīla Prabhupāda; Your dedication to fulfil his instructions; Your strict adherence to follow his teachings; Your enthusiasm to serve him; Your confidence in his words; Your submission of your body and life in all circumstances to always serve him, are the main source of inspiration in our attempts to please you. Your class on Facebook has been a great lesson for us. We are learning a lot from you.
Life is teaching us a lot of lessons. There is a lot for us to learn. We still need to learn reform our bad habits. We need to learn rectify our mistakes. We need to learn remorse for our wrong dealings. We need learn to be sensitive in our dealings with other devotees. We need to learn how to speak in a way pleasing to others. We need to learn how to deal properly during pressing situations. We need to learn to be a good servant. And we feel ourselves blessed to get you as our master during this training period. Your life and teachings are lessons for us to learn and reform. We wish to become a good disciple of yours. We wish to please you. We wish help you in fulfilling your desire to preach Kṛṣṇa Consciousness unlimitedly. We wish fight with our bad habits and incorrect behaviors for your pleasure. We will constantly endeavor to increase our submission level to you. We are willing to change but we aren’t intelligent enough to catch up with so many things that you are teaching us. We need your help. You please bless us; give a drop of your mercy; give a drop of great spiritual qualities that you have got. Your mercy is the only hope for us in this struggle to be Kṛṣṇa Consciousness amongst all odds. Your teachings are the only weapon in our fight against our own mind and conditioning. Please continue to help us.
Guru Maharaj, on this Vyāsa-pūjā we wish to recommit ourselves to you. We will continue to read Śrīla Prabhupāda’s books and hear his transcendental lectures on a daily basis. We will try to the best of our capacity to preach Kṛṣṇa Consciousness. We will endeavor to sacrifice our personal comforts for the spiritual well-being of other devotees. We will endeavour to pass the mercy that you are giving us to many others who are not yet taken up the chanting of Hare Kṛṣṇa. With your mercy, we will try our best to be happy Kṛṣṇa Conscious devotees and help others by being an example and good in our behavior.
Always seeking your blessings.
Your servants,
Bandhu Mādhava dāsa
Sumati Jāhnavā devī dāsī