Badrinath dasa
nama om visnu-padaya krsna-presthaya bhu-tale
srimate romapada-svamin iti namine
nama om visnu-padaya krsna-presthaya bhu-tale
srimate bhaktivedanta-svamin iti namine
namas te sarasvate deve gaura-vani-pracarine
nirvisesa-sunyavadi-pascatya-desa-tarine
Respected Guru Maharaja,
Hare Krsna! Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! All glories to your lotus feet!
Kali-yuga is full of faults and suitable for a conditioned soul to progress towards hellish life. But if a conditioned soul, in Kali-yuga, is fortunate enough to receive the shelter of sri guru and is able to hear from Him and follow His instructions, the conditioned soul will achieve the highest benediction of pure devotional service. sri-guru is non-different from Krsna and is the only shelter for conditioned souls like myself who have no qualifications, rather who possess many disqualifications.
Guru Maharaja, I am deeply indebted to you with my life and only desire to dedicate my entire life for applying your instructions. Guru Maharaja, your recorded lectures, heard in the association of devotees, are the basis of my Krsna conscious life. You spend so much time and energy in preparing for relevant topics to enrich our Krsna consciousness. Your discourses are based on sastra and teachings of previous acaryas. You take so much care to ensure that all your teachings are in line with our disciplic succession and you desire that we mature in our Krsna consciousness by being absolutely loyal to our disciplic succession.
I find myself to be a very fortunate soul as I have a second birth due to the loving shelter of a bona fide spiritual master and I pray unto your lotus feet for the spiritual strength to accomplish the objective of this human form of life.
hari hari! bifale janama gonainu
manusya-janama paiya, radha-krsna na bhajiya,
janiya suniya bisa khainu
“O Lord Hari, I have wasted my life. Although I have taken this rare human birth, I have not served Radha and Krsna, and thus I have knowingly drunk poison.”
[Song by Srila Narottama dasa Thakura]
Your servant,
Badrinath dasa