Damodara Vilasa dasa and Priti-krt devi dasi
om ajnana-timirandhasya jnananjana-salakaya
caksur unmilitam yena tasmai sri-gurave namah
namah om visnu-padaya krsna presthaya bhutale
srimate romapada svamin iti namine
mukam karoti vacalam pangum langhayate girim
yat-krpa tam aham vande sri gurum dina-taranam
Our dearest Guru Maharaja,
Please accept our humble obeisances at your lotus feet. All glories to Your divine grace! All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
Guru Maharaja, this year has been very special as by your kind mercy we got beautiful deities Sri Sri Nitai Gaura Nataraja after the South India yatra. Moreover, Jagadananda Prabhu and Ananda Vrndavana Mataji`s presence has been a great boon for us. All our need for your personal presence in Indore has been taken care by them very carefully and diligently. We are very thankful to them for this also to you for making all kinds of arrangements. We will always remain astonished about how deeply you think about our real protection and well-being. We will remain eternally indebted for your matchless gifts such as the Brahmasamhita in-depth seminar, systematic recorded lectures, and annual dhama yatras. We are eagerly waiting for the next yatra.
This year, the Brahma-samhita seminar was very insightful. Although the matter was quite difficult to handle, we enjoyed hearing it again and again. Here we are getting regular facility for hearing your lectures and opportunity to do sadhana with devotees.
I am also looking forward for your coming seminar on Tattva Sandarbha of Srila Jiva Gosvami. We are very grateful to get an opportunity to hear all these wonderful teachings of our great acaryas. You invest so much of your time and energy to prepare for these seminars which we cannot understand.
Guru Maharaja, your determination and dedication to serve Srila Prabhupada’s mission is very oceanicdeep and fixed. Your life is fully engaged in His mission. I pray unto you on this auspicious day …
chaya bega domi, chaya dosa sodhi’, chaya guna deho’ dase
chaya sat-sanga, deho’ he amare, boshechi sangera ase
“Teach me to control my six passions; rectify my six faults, bestow upon me the six qualities, and offer unto me the six kinds of holy association.”
Guru Maharaja, it is only because of your concern for us that Krsna is making all wonderful arrangements in our life, while I examine I do not find a qualification for that. It is simply by your causeless mercy. As taught by our acaryas as below:
jogyatā-vicāre, kichu nāhi pāi, tomāra karunā-sāra
karunā nā hoile, kāndiyā kāndiyā, prāna nā rākhibo āra
“If you examine me, you will find no qualities. Your mercy is all that I am made of. If you are not merciful unto me, I can only weep, and I will not be able to maintain my life.”
Thank you very much Guru Maharaja, for everything, and especially for giving us your kind shelter.
Your eternally indebted servants,
Damodara Vilasa dasa and Priti-krt devi dasi