Hare Kṛṣṇa, most respected Guru Mahārāja,
Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet. All glories to your lotus feet!
All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda!
nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale
śrīmate jayapatākā-svāmin iti nāmine
nama ācāryapādāya nitāi-kṛpā-pradāyine
gaura-kathā-dhāma-dāya nagara-grāma-tāriṇe
nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale
śrīmate bhaktivedānta-svāmin iti nāmine
namas te sārasvate deve gaura-vāṇī-pracāriṇe
nirviśeṣa-śūnyavādi-pāścātya-deśa-tāriṇe
Dear Guru Mahārāja,
Please accept my humble obeisances on this most auspicious occasion of your 76th Vyāsa-pūjā.
Respected Guru Mahārāja, taking your divine darśana has always been an extraordinary sight. It reminds us of how you tirelessly continue to execute the instructions of Śrīla Prabhupāda, and that nothing can stop you. So mercifully, you continue to shower your causeless mercy on conditioned beings like me.
You have given us this most beautiful and most merciful Audārya-dhāma of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. By your mercy, we had the opportunity to hear your glories from your dear disciple H.G. Mahāvarāha Prabhu. It helped me to understand how, even in the worst of conditions, Your Holiness never gave up preaching.
Your desire to spread harināma to as many people as possible is so inspiring. Guru Mahārāja, you have so much compassion for us jīvas that you see no qualification in anyone before bestowing your mercy.
Even after undergoing an intense 12-hour surgery, the first thing you told your personal servant was:
"Teach the nurse how to chant."
You could not speak due to tubes in your mouth, yet you used the alphabet board and endured so much difficulty just to communicate this message.
Without any concern for your own health, you travel extensively, giving your divine association to all of us. Your constant meditation is on how to preach to more people and deliver more souls.
By your mercy, this servant of yours has received the association of the Kṛṣṇa Bandhu family under the guidance of our śikṣā-gurus, H.G. Sundar Vāmana Prabhu and H.G. Ratnāvalī Gopī Māta jī. Kṛṣṇa Bandhu is blessed with many of your glorious disciples, who kindly give their association.
By your blessings, I try to serve online through video editing and other small sevas. Guru Mahārāja, please bless me that I may continue to serve your Kṛṣṇa Bandhus and please you with my service.
We pray to your beloved Śrī Śrī Rādhā-Mādhava and Śrī Śrī Pañca-tattva for your good health and long life, so that you may continue to spread Śrīla Prabhupāda’s mission far and wide. May Śrī Prahlāda-Nṛsiṁhadeva protect you from all dangers.
Thank you so much, Gurudeva, for fighting so many battles for us, for keeping us in your shelter. Please continue to keep us under your cooling shelter always.
Your grateful, undeserving servant,
Bhaktin Jasmine
(Mumbai, India – Kṛṣṇa Bandhu)