Girivara Dhari dasa, Sriya devi dasi, Shradda and Shubhan
My Dear Guru Maharaja and eternal father,
Please accept my humble obeisances! All glories to you!
om ajnana-timirandhasya jnananjana salakaya
caksur unmilitam yena tasmai sri gurave namah
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
I have fault finding tendency in my heart. While visiting India in August I was praying to you for mercy. I could feel your mercy in every step in the form of your instructions to protect me from offenses by fault finding. Your instructions about “trnad api sunicena” was helping me to protect myself and also your disciple’s association. The deeper the prayers, more help came from you. Thank you Maharaja for always showering your kind blessing in the form of mercy.
Guru Maharaja you are always in service mood towards guru and fallen souls. During Vrndavana- yatra(online) last year, your laptop crashed few days before retreat, you were thinking of cancelling the retreat but decided to recreate all the content again by giving away sleep to serve devotees and chanting extra rounds to get your Guru Maharaja’s mercy for the service.
You always relish to share knowledge again and again as if sharing for the first time. While giving discourses on Ramayana for new devotees or devotees who have already heard earlier you teach them as if you are teaching for the first time and you relish the story every moment.
You always reside in the heart of the devotees, you bless them with your vani and your disciple’s kind association to save them from bewilderment of the life challenges, your mercy is our only hope.
Understanding our hearts by knowing we are struggling with our chanting, you sent Syamasundara Prabhu to teach us how to chant our rounds correctly and uplift our chanting rounds.
India Trip – Hearing knowledge about how to avoid fault finding, just find good things in another person. Accepting people as they are, trnad api sunicena taror api sahisnuna.
We are most disqualified souls to get your shelter and get transcendental knowledge which you share. We are most fallen souls who are not able to say or hear maha-mantra correctly. We are struggling to give away sense gratifications. Our senses are imperfect and make offenses to sadhu and sastra, knowingly or unknowingly. Our only hope is your kind mercy.
We are always looking up to your kind mercy as a thirsty man in a desert, please engage us in your service at your lotus feet for our purification. We know we have no qualification for the service, our hope is your instructions as the potency to deliver that service. We are totally dependent on your mercy, that is our only hope.
Your aspiring servants,
Sriya devi dasi, Girivara Dhari dasa, Shraddha, Shubhan