Rajendra dasa, Ruciranana devi dasi and Arya

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

Hare Krsna dear Guru Maharaja,

Please accept our humble obeisance at the dust of Your lotus feet. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to Your divine grace.

Guru Maharaja, on this occasion of Your Vyasa-puja, I want to beg for Your mercy to become more fixed in devotional service. The past year was very challenging due to excessive engagement in material activities because of our taking up a new project. We did not succeed in that project but because of Your remembrance, we were able to sustain our faith in Krsna and continue with the services which we thought would suffer a lot. Our faith in the fact that building a stronger relationship with the spiritual master is the only way to make progress in devotional service has become stronger. My goal is to reveal my heart to You more often and more honestly, which I have not been able to do consistently over the last couple of years. 

Ruciranana is trying to be consistent in following Your instructions. She continues her Sunday morning classes for children in the U.S. and Friday morning classes for children in India. She faces lot of challenges, but she is not disheartened because of Your encouraging words “keep going” with a sweet smile during Your visit last year. She knows that this will please You. With the same intention, she has taken the service for managing the Sunday school in the temple, though it was out of her comfort zone. She seeks Your blessing to continue these services with more enthusiasm.

Guru Maharaja, I was so happy when Arya asked me Your email address and when he wrote to You. Thank You so much for responding to him and clarifying his doubts. I was also pleasantly surprised when he was asking questions to You in the class during Your Houston visit. This is a very critical time in his life and I am only relying on Your mercy and blessings so he can choose the right path.

At the end, we pray to Krsna for Your good health so You continue serving Srila Prabhupada’s mission and we get Your divine association.

Your aspiring servants,
Rajendra dasa with Ruciranana devi dasi and Arya