Gaurasundara dasa and Lavanya-keli devi dasi

Dear Guru Maharaja,

Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to you and Srila Prabhupada.

We are blessed to be part of your Vyasa-puja festival. Your appearance in our lives and the lives of many others who have taken your shelter have changed them in a positive way for our spiritual benefit. You are one of the torchbearers coming in the line of Srila Prabhupada and we are fortunate to get the divine shelter of your lotus feet.

guror anugrahenaiva
puman purnah prasantaye
[Srimad-Bhagavatam 10:80:43].

“[Lord Krsna continued:] We had many similar experiences while living in our spiritual master’s home. Simply by the grace of the spiritual master a person can fulfill life’s purpose and attain eternal peace.”
[Translation Srimad-Bhagavatam 10:80:43].

One who has attained the lotus feet of a bona fide spiritual master, such a person has truly achieved the substance of the human form of life and he attains perpetual peace thereby preparing himself to serve the Supreme Lord, Sri Krsna.

You tirelessly travel across the globe even at this age with your present health condition, in order to inspire your disciples and well-wishers to align themselves cent percent at the lotus feet of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and his sublime teachings. Your compassion in this respect is unparalleled and unconditional to the suffering conditioned souls. It is not possible to have a successful outreach consistently over time showing exemplary character, without being the recipient of the abundant mercy from the line of our acaryas. You have shown by example how to please a bona fide spiritual master by completely dedicating your life for the mission and vision of our Founder-acarya, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada. We aspire to get a drop of mercy from your lotus feet to do at least a small portion of your preaching activity so that we can please you and the line of our disciplic succession.

Today, whatever sustains our Krsna consciousness in our daily lives is a boon obtained from your lotus feet. Whatever little impact and little credit we create and get in our preaching attempt to a smaller audience has its source coming from your lotus feet. You are the owner of that impact and credit, not us. Without your instructions, we would be certainly handicapped to consistently carry out our regulative principles of bhakti. Your instructions play a significant role to keep our mind and intelligence resonate in spiritual harmony for our spiritual awakening and for the pleasure of Sri Krsna.

Praying at your lotus feet, we seek forgiveness for our shortcomings and beg for your mercy to awaken and kindle the spiritual acumen within us in order to offer it for the service of the divine couple. Hare Krsna.

Your aspiring servants,
Gaurasundara dasa and Lavanya-keli devi dasi and Nitai