Sundarananda dasa and Lavanya Kari

My dear Guru Maharaja,

namah om visnu padaya krsna presthaya bhu-tale
srimate romapada svamin iti namine

Please accept my most humble and respectful obeisances in the dust of your divine lotus feet. All glories to Your Divine Grace! All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

I am thankful for this opportunity to glorify you on this auspicious occasion of your Vyasa-puja. Kindly accept this humble offering in spite of my shallow gratitude and very limited capacity to appreciate your glorious spiritual qualities and this wonderful Krsna consciousness process.

You have so many wonderful spiritual qualities. You preach with your qualities and actions as an acarya. Here are a few that I am able to appreciate currently:

• You are an inspiring example of how to see everything as Krsna’s property and utilize them carefully, efficiently, and effectively in service of Krsna.
• You are expert in making philosophical understandings approachable to devotees and relevant to newcomers. You are expert in answering questions to address the root behind the questions so it helps the person completely in his/her journey towards Krsna with appropriate principles.
• You are expert in utilizing time without wasting even a second.
• You are kind to everyone.
• You are expert in guiding all who take your shelter with the right thing that they need to go towards Krsna.
• You deeply care for each of the devotees who take your shelter.
• You train your disciples so nicely to help them get situated right in Krsna consciousness.
• You are compassionate towards all people. You think about ways and means to help devotees reach out to the mass of people in novel ways seen through the medical professionals’ retreat, western outreach seminar, mantra meditation at several events, and encouraging book distribution.
• You create devotional communities in many places across the world that exemplify teachings of Srila Prabhupada!
• You are an inspiring example of how to care for health in complete service attitude to be fit in serving Srila Prabhupada and His mission.

I am very grateful for your shelter, care, guidance, blessings and love that you extend to our family and me.

On this auspicious day, I would like to submit to you by renewing my initiation vows and practice applying teachings of Srila Prabhupada in my life very carefully under your guidance.

I am grateful to you for the wonderful mentors you provided in my life, His Grace Sacikumar Prabhu and Her Grace Prema-tarangini Mataji. They have dedicated their life to Krsna consciousness in your service. Their understanding, love, care, and guidance is essential, valuable, and vital for my spiritual life. It is only because of their patient nurturing that I am able to continue to grow my appreciation for the Krsna consciousness process, and practice it. I appreciate their association, personal example, and realizations that they kindly share to help me. I appreciate their help in practically developing the right consciousness and in improving loving relationships. It is only due to their training that we have an opportunity to associate with sincere devotees (trained by them) who are developing the right consciousness to serve the spiritual master and Krsna.

I am happy to experience this year due to your mercy and mercy of devotees, the meaning of Krsna consciousness and how it is not mere mechanical set of actions. I am thankful to you, my mentors, Krsna, and devotees for their mercy and support in reaching this understanding.

Thanks to your consistent and regular emphasis on the spiritual conception and our constitutional position in the classes. I am appreciating the importance of developing spiritual conception and how that is possible only through regular and strong sadhana.

I am also appreciating and experiencing the importance and necessity of prayer in spiritual life thanks to my mentors, you, and several devotees.

I am appreciating wonderful instructions you provide through the medium of classes for us to develop and grow in Krsna consciousness. Thank you for your classes!

I am appreciating the wonderful process of Krsna consciousness under your guidance that purified me so far and has a huge potential to purify me of all my impurities so I can be situated in my constitutional position of service to Krsna.

I request you to kindly bless me so that I can develop deep appreciation and gratitude towards you and my mentors so I can engage in your service very sincerely and please you by following the instructions I receive carefully.

Kindly forgive me for any offenses I committed at your lotus feet.

Your aspiring servant,
Sundarananda dasa