Rupa Raghunatha dasa, Sri Padma Manjari devi dasi, Kush, Keshav and Krishiv
Dear Guru Maharaja, Hare Krsna!!!
Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to Guru and Gauranga!!!
om ajnana-timirandhasya jnananjana salakaya
caksur unmilitam yena tasmai sri gurave namah
“I was born in the darkest ignorance, and my spiritual master opened my eyes with the torch of knowledge. I offer my respectful obeisances unto him”
We probably have written many offerings to you this year, some in mind and some in thoughts and this time on paper for your Vyasa-puja day.
To begin with, we want to express our gratitude and Thank You for your presence in our lives, for all your blessings and mercy upon us. As we are aging and delving deep into this material ocean, we are experiencing, first hand, that it is definitely ‘duhkhalayam asasvatam’; Krsna consciousness, guru’s shelter and his blessings is the only remedy to it. Krsna has been very kind to us and we are truly fortunate to have you as our spiritual master to keep us afloat in this world.
Going back in the memory lane, we had our first opportunity to get your darshan and association in 2011. Since then, you have been constantly guiding and inspiring us through your exemplary and deep faith in Krsna. By your conduct wherein everything related to you is related to Krsna. Your lectures, weekend retreats and teachings have always guided us to make the right decision and choose the activities which bring us closer to Krsna. This year we were fortunate to have your association on multiple occasions, starting with Memorial Day ‘Manah-siksa retreat’. The whole retreat was so powerful and relevant to present time and we enjoyed all the visual presentations. It was during this retreat when you formally accepted us under your lotus feet which made this retreat an extra special event for us.
It was an out of world experience to chant 64 rounds in front of Radha-Nilamadhava during japa retreat at Houston. You shared so many powerful techniques to improve our japa. We felt very inspired to attend more and more of your retreats in future and have set this as one of our goals.
This year, 2022, has been a transformational year for us as a family. We took the big decision to move to Dallas, Texas from Maryland after eleven years and you helped us navigate that path. Many thanks to you for connecting us with caring devotees here in Dallas and by Krsna’s arrangement, many more devotees including some of our Godbrothers had moved to Dallas at the same time. This immensely helped us stay intact with our sadhana and get opportunities to serve and participate in various services. We were blessed to serve you in Nitai-Gauranga’s new abode during your Dallas visit. We are forever grateful to you for giving us the opportunity. During this visit of yours, it was a visual treat for eyes and perfect melody for ears to hear Srimati Radharani’s pastimes. We want to thank you again for visiting Dallas and request you to visit here more often and make it your permanent stop whenever you visit this region.
Your affinity towards young students including our three boys has been very beneficial to us and for upcoming generation as well. All three boys Kush, Keshav and Krishiv often talk about you and share their experiences/observations in seeing and hearing from you. Based on your teachings, they often remind us of anything that we don’t do correctly, and it is a true blessing to have them in our lives. We seek your blessings for them to always stay humble.
Our goal in life is to serve you and be in association of the devotees, attend as many in-person classes and retreats as we can throughout the year. We will continue to follow your instructions and try our best to please you. Please forgive us for any mistakes, we look forward to serving you again and again.
Your servants,
Rupa Raghunatha dasa, Sri Padma manjari devi dasi, Kush, Keshav and Krishiv