Gaurasundara dasa and Lavanya-Keli devi dasi
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
om ajnana-timirandhasya jnananjana-salakaya
caksur unmilitam yena tasmai sri-gurave namah
Dear Guru Maharaja,
Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to you and Srila Prabhupada.
On this auspicious day of your appearance, we are fortunate to write few words of gratitude trying to glorify your lotus feet. You were very kind to give us harinama diksa this year and connect us to the great lineage and family of great devotees all the way to Lord Caitanya and Sri Sri Kisora-Kisori. We will be indebted to you for this life-after-life. Sometime back we approached you seeking shelter and you kindly accepted us. We are very happy to write reports to you every month expressing our heart and trying to learn how to serve Krsna and their devotees. We want to express our heartfelt gratitude to His Grace Nityananda Prana Prabhu and Mother Hemangi who gradually connected us to your lotus feet.
We seek your blessings to continue doing our sadhana-bhakti eternally and carry the mood of serving the vaisnavas. It is said that lava matra sadhu sanga is more than sufficient to deliver a conditioned soul. Please give us that intelligence to always have the eagerness to access the drop of nectar when associating with such elevated souls like your divine self. We are fortunate that we have abundant availability of resources to practice devotional service under your shelter. We have the website to always hear and read your instructions. You give us your association during your visits. Your senior disciples like Nityananda Prana Prabhu, Mother Indulekha and Bhayahari Prabhu are giving us care and shelter to practice bhakti. Krsna is very merciful to us that He has given us all these valuable resources for taking us back home, back to Godhead.
Earlier this year, Krsna put us in a situation such that we learn to adapt in a different location with a different sanga of devotees away from Chicago devotees and Sri Sri Kisora-Kisori. We were not sure where Krsna is taking us away from Chicago. We moved from Chicago to DC where we got a new job. Krsna was kind by putting us in the DC area instead of putting in some remote location away from devotee association. By His mercy, we are always given access to devotees to keep us strong in our Krsna consciousness.
Lavanya-Keli is very fortunate as she got an opportunity to serve you in the compliance department of ISKCON this year. She is working with Kuladri Prabhu in this service. She also got an opportunity this year to assist in the service of Sri Sri Radha Madan Mohan here at Potomac temple under the guidance of Mother Ananda Vrnda and Mother Jahnava (head pujari).
Thank you Guru Maharaja for giving shelter without which we would have been easily carried away into the deep dark whirlpool of Kali Yuga forgetting the all-merciful and glorious path of devotional service unto you, Srila Prabhupada and Sri Sri Kisora-Kisori.
Your aspiring servants,
Lavanya-Keli devi dasi and Gaurasundara dasa