Krsna Svarupa dasa, Sari devi dasi, and Shrinithi Karthikeyan

om ajnana-timirandhasya jnananjana-salakaya
caksur unmilitam yena tasmai sri-gurave namah

namah om visnu padaya krsna presthaya bhu-tale

srimate romapada svamin iti namine

Dear most respected Guru Maharaja,

Hare Krsna! Please accept our humble obeisances at your merciful, divine lotus feet! All glories to you on this most auspicious day of your appearance! All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Guru Maharaja, you often instruct that gratitude is the bridge and stepping stone to advance in the spiritual path. Keeping this in mind, on this most wonderful day, we beg the opportunity to express our gratitude to you. Though we are not even qualified to utter your unlimited multifarious impeccable devotional service that you do every day, we are trying to make an insignificant effort to express our immature gratitude to yourself.

Guru Maharaja, thank you so much for everything you have done to help our family further progress on the path of Krsna consciousness. You have cleared away all the dirt, dust, and rocks to make the path smooth for us to walk on. Even though we are not ready to walk on it, you encourage us through your loving advice and showing compassion towards us.

Guru Maharaja, this past year has been full of blessings for our family! On August 26th of this year, we received the most treasurable gift from you! Our gorgeous merciful deities, “Sri Sri Nitai-Gaura Sundara”! It would not have happened without your incisive endeavor. You showed personal attention and meticulous care in getting those deities to us, even though you were very, very busy that time in Mayapura with meetings. They are so sweet and magnificent, and we cannot express how grateful and blessed we feel to worship Them in our home! You have given our family so many life-altering instructions and encouraged us every day to walk the path of Krsna consciousness in full stride. Guru Maharaja, this year is a milestone for our family, because we are finally beginning to realize how fortunate we are, and this is all because of you.

Queen Kunti prays to Lord Krsna that her attention to Krsna may only be intensified while experiencing many difficulties. Whatever situation we may be in, our only prayer to you is that our proclivity should always be to remember you as our only shelter and remember your care, support, encouragement, and unconditional love for us in numerous ways and also that you are the only protection to us in all walks of life.

In spite of all turbulence we went through, the one thing that has kept us going in all these years is the felt sense of immaculate love and shelter from yourself.

And we are very much thankful to our mentor His Grace Nityananda Pran Prabhu and Her Grace Hemangi Mataji for coming all the way from Chicago to guide us in the process (of our next step) of our deity installation and also would like to thank Yamuna-jivana Prabhu and Sri Radhika Mataji for their support and helping us to get ready for that event.

Guru Maharaja, your instructions have helped us and helping us in our most difficult times and whenever we needed guidance. Thank you so much for everything! Your mercy has helped us come this far and has also helped our chanting a lot. We would like to kindly request you to forgive our offences and mistakes we did knowingly and unknowingly.

May we develop deep feelings of gratitude to you, which will naturally result by applying your instructions. If you so desire please bless us that we may become disciples whose every thought, word, and action is for your pleasure only. Kindly accept these words for our purification of heart.

Hare Krsna!

Your most insignificant servants,
Krsna Svarupa dasa and Sari devi dasi