Kisora Krsna dasa and Bhanumati devi dasi

Dear and most respected Guru Maharaja,

Hare Krsna. Please accept our most humble obeisances at the dust of your divine lotus feet. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

On this most auspicious occasion of your Vyasa-puja, we are very grateful to you for giving us opportunity to glorify the disciplic succession in our own hearts and appreciate the oceanic mercy flowing in our life.

Krsna consciousness is easy for the grateful soul who accepts everything with a grateful heart. And this singular part of training in Krsna consciousness has repeatedly saved us in different situations in the last one year. While reading about Srila Prabhupada’s visits to different colleges to preach we noted that the approach of the students is, in general, intellectual and as a result there is a general lack of deep respect for saintly persons.

This process cannot be absorbed by an intellectual effort alone. It is due to the extensive training that was mercifully given over so many years that we are able to appreciate a true saintly person and offer respects to such a person. We feel grateful for accessing this gift through our teachers, Sir and Mataji who have been blessed by you so profusely.

The training helped us to take up some voluntary steps to reciprocate with the oceanic descending mercy we have been receiving from them this year with a happy heart. Krsna consciousness is fairly simple for a grateful soul. He looks to what he has received while seeing the disciplic succession and looks to inadequacy in his own service while seeing the service he has rendered. We are so fortunate to be able to see such a pure example before us in our teacher and be reminded of this consciousness.

We humbly seek your blessings, on this auspicious day, to become humble servants of the parampara and to always think of what service we can offer for the uncountable gifts that have been bestowed upon us.

Please forgive us for our offenses in the course of writing this offering.

Your aspiring servants,
Kisora Krsna dasa, Bhanumati dasi, and Iravati dasi