Narahari dasa and Saumya devi dasi

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

mukam karoti vacalam pangum langhayate girim
yat-krpa tam aham vande sri gurum dina-taranam

Our dear and respected Guru Maharaja,

Please accept our most humble and respected obeisances in the dust of your divine lotus feet!

All glories to Your Divine Grace. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Guru Maharaja, we are very grateful and indebted to you for conducting yatras every year by spending lot of time and energy and also grateful to the whole yatra organizing team. Whole year we are eagerly waiting for the yatra. This is the first time we attended Vrndavana yatra. Previously we had visited Vrndavana a few times, but this was very very special because we were able to hear from you about the transcendental glories of various places. We don’t have any qualifications to visit the holy places on our own. When we visit, we only see the material side of it but when we visit with you, we are able to get the glimpse of transcendental nature of Vrndavana. At the starting of every yatra you set the mood – how to visit, how to see various places, how to behave etc. We are trying our best to be in that mood for the whole yatra. These yatras are taking closer to our real home Sri Vrndavana-dhama.

Guru Maharaja, when you conduct retreats, you also invite various other speakers that we can hear from. Recently we heard from Ramayana and attended FOHN (festival of holy name).  We are trying our best to implement some of the points that inspired us such as chanting and listening attentively each syllable without distractions.

We are very grateful to His Grace Nityananda Pran Prabhu and Her Grace Hemangi Mataji, they are always there to guide and inspire us all the time in spite of whatever goes in their lives. In spite of their busy schedule, they always take time to spend with us.

On this special day we humbly beg for your blessings, so we go deeper in our devotional practices and cultivate the mood of serving Vaisnavas without committing any offenses and completely dedicate in the service of Sri guru and Krsna.

Your humble servants,
Narahari dasa and Saumya devi dasi