Badarinatha dasa
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
Respected Guru Maharaja,
Hare Krsna! Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! All glories to your lotus feet!
Kali-yuga is swiftly advancing and deeply impacting the lives of all. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself, has provided the antidote of Sri hari-nama-sankirtana. There is no other possible way.
Guru Maharaja, you have gifted this precious and rare gift of the holy name to me and to many fortunate others. Your words and messages as heard from your recorded lectures are our visa to the spiritual world.
Bhagavad-gita verse 4.34 says:
tad viddhi praṇipatena pariprasnena sevaya
upadeksyanti te jsanaṁ jnaninas tattva-darsinah
“Just try to learn the truth by approaching a spiritual master. Inquire from him submissively and render service unto him. The self-realized souls can impart knowledge unto you because they have seen the truth.”
Srila Prabhupada’s mercy for us is flowing in the form of his books, the association of devotees and most importantly the shelter of your lotus feet, my eternal spiritual master. The shade of your lotus feet is the anchor which has kept me afloat in the midst of reversals, miseries and tribulations. Your instruction about the nature of this world is my beacon light – “This material world is designed in such a manner that there will always be some challenge or tribulation and therefore our duty is to be always fixed in the service of the Supreme Lord.”
Guru Maharaja, you work incessantly to spread the message of Srila Prabhupada. Your lectures are divine music of the spiritual world. You train us to become true Vaisnavas through your heart-melting lectures and presentations.
Your instructions to thoroughly read Srila Prabhupada’s books and to become his transparent representatives is our life-long mission and objective. Your surrender and dedication to your spiritual master, Srila Prabhupada, is an example for us to deeply imbibe in our hearts.
Bhaktivinoda Thakura sings in one of his Saranagati songs –
gaur amara, je-saba sthane,
koralo bhramana range
se-saba sthana, heribo ami,
pranayi-bhakata-sange
Following in the footsteps of the previous acaryas, you conduct wonderful spiritual pilgrimages to the places of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s pastimes. We could never appreciate the dhama and never understand the spiritual potency in such visits, were it not for your divine lectures delivered in the dhama and heard by us in the association of such wonderful sincere devotees.
Last and definitely not the least is the wonderful gift we have received from Your Divine Grace in the form of the very loving association of Jagadananda Prabhu and Ananda Vrndavana Mataji. They are conducting online hearing program for the past many years through which we hear your divine lectures translated in Hindi for our progress and maintenance in Krsna consciousness. Hearing from you daily helps us to strengthen our bond of surrender to Your Divine Grace and makes us steady on this wonderful path of devotion.
Your servant,
Badarinatha dasa