Dina Dayal dasa and Kanaka Manjari devi dasi
om ajnana-timirandhasya jnananjana salakaya
caksur unmilitam yena tasmai sri gurave namah
mukam karoti vacalam pangum langhayate girim
yat-krpa tam aham vande sri gurum dina-taranam
Dear and most respectable Guru Maharaja,
Please accept our humble obeisances at the dust of your lotus feet. All glories to your Holiness. All glories to his Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada.
Guru Maharaja, we have no qualification to glorify you. Yet, with your causeless mercy, we make an attempt to write a few words about your worthy and divine qualities that come from our hearts on the day of your Vyasa-puja.
Guru Maharaja, we felt sad that we did not have your personal association for the last 3 years due to outbreak of Corona. However, we are getting enough vani association all these years in spite of rampant spread of the Virus. Somehow or other you are providing us uninterrupted spiritual discourses of Srila Prabhupada and Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. We experience your vapu association through the medium of your vani. We are grateful for your mercy Guru Maharaja. You are a great, magnanimous Vaisnava Guru Maharaja. We are eagerly waiting now to have your “vapu” association in the form of Vrndavana Yatra 2022.
Maharaja, all your classes are nectar for our ears and heart as well. Particularly Manah-siksa classes, which we have heard recently in the Indore devotee association, have made great impact on our mind, senses and heart. His Grace Mahatma Prabhu’s break out sessions and Her Grace Urmila mataji’s participation have added further depth in the retreat. If we understand these classes and take to our heart, all our senses, body and mind will get purified and attain right spiritual consciousness. This retreat is a wonderful gift for us Guru Maharaja.
After hearing classes we strongly feel how attentively we need to chant for our purification and for the pleasure of Guru and Krsna.
Guru Maharaja, when we read your offerings to Srila Prabhupada we understand your deep love towards your Guru Maharaja and your internal commitment towards his mission, more than external display of submission. In one of your offerings, when the devotees tried to touch the lotus feet of Srila Prabhupada for his mercy in a crowd causing physical inconvenience to him, you thought:
“Why don’t these people take the real mercy Srila Prabhupada has to offer by responding to his appeal to help him directly in his missionary work? This is where Prabhupada’s real desire lies. If they actually want his mercy, why do they not take it in the manner that he is most abundantly offering it?”
It touched our heart that we get Srila Prabhupada mercy only through supporting his mission of spreading Krsna consciousness movement with all our strength and intent.
Guru Maharaja, we are sadhana-bhaktas. You gave us maha-mantra. By properly and attentively chanting mantra, hearing classes or performing any other service like deity service, reading Srila Prabhupada books, we feel, we are rendering service to you.
Please bless us that we remain always under the shelter of your lotus feet, follow your instructions and render the required services to move forward in our spiritual path.
On the eve of your Vyasa-puja, we pray Radha and Krsna to give you enough strength, health and vitality to serve the mission of Srila Prabhupada for long time to come.
Your most insignificant servants,
Dina Dayal dasa and Kanaka Manjari devī dāsī