Dear Guru Mahārāja,
My humble obeisances at your lotus feet. All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda.
nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale
śrīmate jayapatākā-svāmin iti nāmine
namo ācāryapādāya nitāi-kṛpa-pradāyine
gaura-kathā dhāma dāya nagara-grāma tāriṇe
It has been five years since initiation Guru Mahārāja and still when I recall that moments, I get goose bumps and think is it true? Am I so blessed?
Last year when you were in Intensive Care, we were so worried and then you came out and started giving video classes. I felt so proud that My Guru Mahārāja even in his discomfort thinks only about others. And then I feel ashamed that what am I doing, I do nothing to be worthy of your shelter but then again, I think that if I was unworthy you would not have accepted me as your spiritual daughter.
Sometimes I do doubt Guru Maharaj, fallen as I am, that whether you remember me and then I remember the first time I had met you was in May 2011 in Balarāmadeśa and we were taking Aspirant. We were all in a line coming over from your right side, offering flowers and then moving over to your left side. I was worried because I have visual field defects. If I looked up, I couldn’t see your lotus feet. If I looked down, I would bump against the one in front of me. But when I reached you, you stopped me and said, ‘Come over to the front and offer’. I had become numb for some seconds and then had understood your greatness. Without my telling, you knew me. This one instance I hold close to my heart. And replay again and again in my mind.
It has been two years Guru Mahārāja that me and my son have shifted to Mangalore. We are not able to go regularly to the temple but try to do as much sevā as we can. I had written in the initiation form that I will work with kids and so when Rukmiṇī Mātājī told me that there is a sevā to teach Bhagavad-gītā in a school, I accepted it. It is Rāma Kṛṣṇa School and though we are not allowed to propagate Bhakti-yoga but we try to propagate the values given in the Gītā. It is a weekly once class. It has been two years since I took over and recently, we had the last class of this session and we had a Quiz. I had requested the Local temple President His Grace Smita Kṛṣṇa Prabhu to come and give a talk. He came and spoke about Dhruva and how his mother had advised him not to do bad against those who did bad to him and how determined he was. He also spoke about Garuḍa and his selflessness. The management was happy with the children’s progress and the talk. Later we distributed prasādā from the temple for 700+ students, teachers and the allied staff. Attaching a few photograph of that event.
We are trying to spread this school sessions to other schools too. Please bless me Guru Mahārāja that I may do justice to the promise I made to you.
Your spiritual daughter
Revatī-priyā devī dāsī
