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Vyāsa-pūjā 2025

Śrīnidhi Gaurahari Dāsa (Bangalore - Whitefield - India)

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

Respected Guru Mahārāja,

Please accept our respectful obeisances unto Your Divine Grace.
All glories to Your Divine Grace and to Śrīla Prabhupāda.

Your deep love for Śrīla Prabhupāda is exemplary for all of us. Despite having so many physical limitations, you are constantly engaged in expanding the preaching mission of Lord Caitanya. By your activities, we realize what real compassion means.

It was a great fortune for us to have your darśana during your divine presence for Guru-ājñā 2025 at Madurai. By your causeless mercy, we were able to hear the series of lectures from your senior disciples, who gave insight into the importance of following the guru’s instructions. We also witnessed the abhiṣeka you performed for the twelve pāda-pīṭhas of Caitanya Mahāprabhu. You emphasized that each one of us should begin taking classes to preach and spread the message of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, and how Caitanya Mahāprabhu traveled through South India spreading Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

We are able to remain enthusiastic in devotional service by your grace, which is not so easy in this conditioned life. Please bless us that this enthusiasm may become eternal.

In spite of your health conditions, you are traveling to bless your disciples. Generally, disciples have to travel to take your darśana, but you are traveling to give your darśana to us. You are a great example for us, showing how to follow the spiritual master's instructions as life and soul, without expecting personal gain or loss.

In your discourse, you mentioned that Śrīla Prabhupāda gave you more than sixty instructions. You have asked for help from your disciples to fulfill those instructions. Please give us the strength, intelligence, and capacity so that we may become instruments in your hands in fulfilling your spiritual master's orders.

We pray daily for your good health, protection, and mercy to Śrī Gāndharvikā-Giridhārī, Gaura-Nitāi, and Lakṣmī-Nṛsiṁha Swāmī, as well as to all the ācāryas and Śrīla Prabhupāda, so that all your dreams may come true.

Guru Mahārāja, we know that we don’t have any qualification to receive your mercy. Still, out of compassion, you have given us your causeless mercy. But we are so much engrossed in material attachments and struggling hard to overcome our anarthas. We pray to you to bless us with spiritual strength so that we can properly follow your instructions.

Thank you, Guru Mahārāja, for all that you have given us. At the same time, we beg forgiveness at your lotus feet for the mistakes we have committed. We beg from you to please show mercy and teach us how to cry for Lord Kṛṣṇa. Our hearts are hard like stone—we cannot even feel a drop of gratitude for the Lordships. We are so cruel-minded, unfit even to be servants of an ant, what to speak of being your servants. Guru Mahārāja, you are the humblest personality; that is why you don’t see any difference between neophyte and advanced devotees. Your Divine Grace shows equal importance to all living beings in this material world—that is why you take care of us at the cost of your own health.

Guru Mahārāja, we are under the guidance of His Grace Harikṣetra Prabhu and His Grace Kārtikeya Prabhu. We come under ISKCON Bhakti Center, Panathur—an extension of ISKCON Whitefield, Bangalore. Many other devotees come under this center. We request you to please shower your mercy upon the devotees in this sector so they may advance in Kṛṣṇa consciousness and serve Śrīla Prabhupāda’s mission in an unalloyed way. We also beg for your powerful blessings to start more and more Bhakti centers in Bangalore.

Hare Kṛṣṇa!

Yours in service,
Śrīnidhi Gaurahari dāsa
Dayāvatī Gaurapriyā devī dāsī
Tattva Darśana
ISKCON Whitefield,
Bangalore, India