Akhiladhara dasa
om ajnana-timirandhasya jnananjana salakaya
caksur unmilitam yena tasmai sri gurave name
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 and dear Guru Maharaja,
Hare Krsna!!! Please accept my most respectful and prostrated humble obeisances at the dust of your divine lotus feet. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to you.
Guru Maharaja I have no qualification to glorify the magnanimous and most munificent personality like Your Divine Grace. On this auspicious day of your Vyasa-puja I would like to take this opportunity for my purification.
Guru Maharaja in the seminar at Naperville I’m chanting, I’m hearing but I’m barely changing HG Nityananda Pran Prabhuji and Hemangi Mataji shared practical realizations to help us grow in our own Krsna consciousness. Prabhuji shared the following verse and mentioned it is his go to verse in life’s many circumstances: Srimad-Bhagavatam 3.25.20
prasangam ajaram pasam atmanah kavayo viduh
sa eva sadhusu krto moksa-dvaram apavrtam
“Every learned man knows very well that attachment for the material is the greatest entanglement of the spirit soul. But that same attachment, when applied to the self-realized devotees, opens the door of liberation.” [Srimad-Bhagavatam 3.25.20]
This verse mentions how just by transforming our attachments from asat to sat or material to transcendental personality opens the path of devotional service to the Lord.
Guru Maharaja you have innumerable qualities, I would like to focus on some of the qualities a drop of which if you can shower upon your insignificant servant my life will change:
Avyartha-kalatvam: In Bhagavad-gita 6.17 purport Srila Prabhupada quotes that Srila Rupa Gosvami mention “a devotee never wastes a moment without the service of Krsna.” I can see that you tirelessly engage yourself in service to Srila Prabhupada. I am very weak and spend lot of time frivolously seeking your blessings to overcome this challenge.
Organized: Guru Maharaja we see how well-organized you are in whatever service you do, even heard from many devotees about how you plan and execute everything with minute details. Recently I heard from Mother Kamalini recollecting her early days in Brooklyn temple with you as her Sankirtan leader and she is glorifying this aspect as well. I seek your prayers and blessings to have some organization into my unorganized life.
Clarity and Focus: Guru Maharaja the clarity and focus you have in your life of Krsna consciousness are inspirational. You are clear what and how you want to present any topic to help your disciple and well-wishers in any seminar. You always remain focused in service as an instrument of Srila Prabhupada. Please empower me with the drop of the same.
Expert (Daksa): Guru Maharaja you are expert in executing devotional service and engage your disciples and well-wishers in service to Srila Prabhupada. As an expert captain you are providing what we need. An example is the Vaisnava Etiquette seminar. One instruction that Her Grace Krsna Lila Mataji shared – you asked her to be best employee at workplace, and I meditate on that to be a proper representative of guru-parampara. I seek your blessings as I have lot of scope of improvement.
Careful: Guru Maharaja you are very careful in execution of your devotional service. I witness in Hyderabad around 15 years back there was a child name Gauranga and during your lecture you took his name, and he started crying. In the next class you gave him written letter seeking forgiveness, exemplifying for all of us that we should be very careful with our dealings with Vaisnavas and safeguard ourselves from offenses.
Guru Maharaja the year 2025 was filled with lot of lessons and I have succumbed to financial losses due to cyber fraud. The incident taught a lesson for life. At workplace, they want to do cost reduction by reducing resources. One more difficulty came a trip to India for performing rituals to my departed father had to be cut short from 6 weeks to 3 weeks. I received important guidance and support from His Grace Jagadananda Prabhuji and managed the situations without getting too much impacted by them. Prabhuji being there to help in all circumstances in life is the biggest blessings of yours in our life.
The way Jagadananda Prabhuji went through Triple bypass Surgery maintaining elevated consciousness throughout the situation is filled with so many teachings. It is amazing to see him recovering from the surgery and again fully engaged in the service of Guru, Gauranga, Laksmi Narasimha deva and all the Vaisnavas. He is an exemplary mentor and guide for all of us in Indore and I seek your blessings to properly remain under his training and guidance.
Her Grace Ananda Vrndavana Mataji is leading 5 AM Japa Club in Indore and giving lot of encouragement to all of us to chant the holy name attentively. His Grace Padmanabha Prabhuji engaged in practical services for your pleasure is amazing to see, Her Grace Krsna Lila Mataji’s wisdom is other worldly. Access to these resources is manifesting in my life by Your Divine Grace’s blessings. I am grateful for these gem like resources in my life.
On this auspicious day I remind myself the instructions for lifetime which you kindly shared with me in 2010 when I moved to Hyderabad.
- Regularity and focus upon daily sadhana
- Spiritual and emotional care extended to my wife and child
- Hearing with an open heart
Once again, I seek empowerment to keep this instruction in the fore front of my life. I would also like to go deeper into my relationship with Srila Prabhupada by reading his books and imbibing his teachings in my life.
Guru Maharaja I seek forgiveness for all my mistakes.
vancha-kalpatarubhyas ca krpa-sindhubhya eva ca
patitanam pavanebhyo vaisnavebhyo namo namah
“I offer my respectful obeisances unto all the Vaisnava devotees of the Lord who can fulfill the desires of everyone, just like desire trees, and who are full of compassion for the fallen souls.”
Hare Krsna!
Your insignificant servant,
Akhiladhara dasa