Sri 2003

All glories to Sri Sri and Gauranga!

Dear Srila Govinda Maharaj,

Please accept my most sincere dandavat pranams at your lotus feet. All glories to Srila Guru Maharaj.

I wish you a happy Vyasa Puja day, and I hope that the Lord protects you for thousands and thousands of years, so we can continue receiving your association. You are the true representative of the Sweet Lord in this material world.

With love and affection from a fallen soul, Shyamagouri devi dasi Caracas, Venezuela

All glories to Sri Guru and Gauranga All glories to Srila Sundar Govinda Dev-Goswami Maharaj All glories to Srila Bhakti Rakshak Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj

Holy Gurudev,

I hope you are doing well. I’ve been busy trying to succeed here, but I cannot for- get the Holy Dham. Please give me the strength to surrender myself unto the lotus feet of your servants. I remember you, my dear Gurudev, as the sweet one who always has a place for everyone. I also remember your holy mother; she touched my head, blessing me with her touch. I remember your relatives, and I also remember your associates, the holy places, the holy Guru Maharaj’s place, the holy air, the holy sun. Please give me strength to bear this empty gap between us. I’m sure you’re having a happy celebration for your Vyasa Puja, as you always deserve. I wish I could be there next to you; but what is better, maybe I can do some real service for you. I think that’s the best gift I can give you; anything else I’ve been trying to render the best I can. I know you don’t need a fallen soul like me, but I need a loving father like you.

Waiting to see you for the next time, Dvija Mani das Mexico City Sri Vyasa Puja 2003

Dear Gurudev,

Please accept my humble obeisances again and again at the dust of your divine Lotus feet. All glories to my Beloved Master Srila Gurudev and all glories to your unlimited compassion. Happy Vyasa Puja day! Thanks for all and thanks for Param Karuna Gaurachandra! Please make a little space in your heart for me.

Begging to remain engaged in your service,

Your servant and daughter,

Amita Shakti devi dasi Caracas, Venezuela

Dear Srila Gurudeva, Srila Bhakti Sundar Govinda Maharaja,

any, many dandavats to your holy lotus feet, which are dancing across the Mplanet, giving happiness and relief to all. We are immeasurably fortunate to glorify your Divine Grace on this Most Auspicious and Divine day of Your Holy Appearance!

You are full of transcendental qualities, and like the sun your presence immediately dissipates the darkness. Even if one is so unfortunate to be attracted by darkness, you give complete hope. As you described in one lecture, the conditioned souls are afraid of the light. This was compared to trying to get pigs to go on a boat - they naturally try to run away, but then they are prodded with sticks from behind to get them on the boat (referred to as “pig-sticking”). This is so very hopeful that you have given us such beautiful association to prod us constantly toward the light, even against our own unhappy and unfortunate inclination to run to the darkness.

On this most glorious occasion of your Divine Appearance, I pray to be allowed the most divine asso- ciation of the devotees of your devotees, as well as their merciful service.

Your unqualified but aspiring servitor, Jivana dasi Sri Vyasa Puja 2003

My dearest Gurudev,

Please accept my humble dandavats at the soothing shelter of your lotus feet. I, who have nothing but shame in coming before my exalted and merciful lord, seek to glo- rify you again and again on this holiest day of the year. ekaki amara, nahi paya bolo, -nama samkirttane tumi krpa kori, sraddha-bindu diya, deho’ krsna-nama-dhane

You have explained, “It is necessary to see what should be the one target in our lives, and that is service to Guru and Vaisnava. This is the main thing of value in our lives. To get a position or to get a chair is very easy. Anyone, anywhere, can make a chair for himself. But to receive mercy from Guru and Vaisnava is very diffi- cult, although that is the wealth of our lives, and that is what we need for our prac- tising life.”

Somehow you have allowed me a position in your divine family, and I see that all others around me are knowledgeable about your purport. I drag along among them, always tolerated, like a stupid but lucky dog, unaware of uncountable offences and misaligned steps. You not only allow my abominable presence, you have assuredly created my fortune from total nothingness, a complete void of any auspicious mate- rials. You do this for no benefit to yourself or your divine mission, only out of kind- ness to an unqualified, fallen soul. Your kindness is proof of the transcendental char- ity of divinity.

By your mercy alone, you kindly allow your devotees to be exceedingly happy in their remembrance of you and their connection with you through their daily practic- ing service lives; enlivening them in their expansion of your mission, to gather more and more of your servitors presently lost in all corners. All this you must do in spite of my presence, which you have established, so I do not know how you will accom- plish it. But you are of the same quality as the inconceivable Lord Hari, and there- fore, I know there is no impediment to the success of your inconceivably ambrosial plans to bring deliverance to the fortunate souls of this dark world.

On the world’s most favorable day, that day of your divine appearance here, please bestow a drop of faith in my heart. I am always,

Your beggar,

kum kum dasi San Jose Seva Ashram Sri Vyasa Puja 2003

The Miracle of You

In a world full of misery, darkness and pain you bestow love divine like a golden rain. In this world of suffering, death and endless strife, through you gives relief and eternal life.

In a world full of cruelty, pride and grief, your presence transforms them with kindness, honor and relief. To this world of war-torn hearts lost in the dark, you shine a torch of light igniting the forlorn with ever-new spark.

To all poverty-stricken souls pursuing worldly pleasure, you bestow the infinite bounty from our Guruvarga’s treasure. Miracles manifest wherever you cast your glance, and all the fallen jivas come alive in song and dance.

Beauty springs where once there was none, like -muhurta forms resplendent with the sun. Random atoms not yet knowing what to do, all take form in their service to Guru and God, just because of you.

The qualities of Srimati Thakurani’s grace, in your over-flowing sweet soul take pride and place. Where Srila Guru Maharaj’s golden smile delights all that you do, and their nitya-parisads celebrate the divine miracle of you.

While all the faithful serve in appreciation of this blessed event, Madhura das pines in separation, for just another moment of your appearance - heaven sent.

May the love of your dearly devoted enliven yours and the Lord’s desire to keep you with us, for this world desperately needs you. Sri Vyasa Puja 2003

Dearest Srila Gurudev,

lease accept my dandavat pranams at your holy lotus feet. On this most auspi- Pcious day of Your Holy Appearance I find I have no qualification or capacity to honor or serve You, even though I desperately wish to do so. Yet You are so merciful and kind to such a fallen soul as I, despite all my faults and failings. I am most for- tunate that such a great personality as You allows me to have some connection, let alone become Your disciple. I can only beg Your forgiveness and mercy as You are my only hope and shelter in this dreadful material world. I humbly beg that the obstacles that prevent me from serving You are removed.

Your fallen and aspiring servant, Kanailala das

All glories to Sri and Sri Krishna

Lovely spiritual father,

We hope that you have a good time on your birthday; we pray that you are happy and that you remember us with all the love and mercy that flows from your beautiful self. We hope to see you soon in Mexico. Here we love you and want to see you. We also want that our lovely father has good health and comfort and lots of tolerance for us, his sons.

Your servants, Prananat das, Prapana dd, Govinda dd, Subala Krishna das

Dear Gurudev,

Happy birthday. This is the first time I am sending you a letter. I want you to be happy and comfortable on your Vyasa Puja. I’ve been attending the Sunday meet- ings. I go with my mother Radha Kanti dd and my father Anumitra das. My mother is the treasurer in Mexico and she takes care of all your money, and my father helps the directory. Now, I am studying to be ready to serve you when I grow up. I’m eleven years old now. I beg for your blessings to continue forever, as well as those of the devotees and Ashram Maharaj. I wish you will always be well.

Humbly, Krishna Kumara das Sri Vyasa Puja 2003

All glories to Sri Guru and Gauranga All glories to our Param Guru Mahara All glories to Sri Nitai-Gauranga All glories to Srila Bhakti Sundar Govinda Dev-Goswami Maharaj

Dear Gurudev,

Dandavat pranams.On this day, the only thing I can tell you is that you are the only one in this world who is guiding the souls so they can do the right and natural activities of the real self. There’s no one else who makes us see these truths; thus it is a great fortune for us, the Westerners, to have a relationship with you because our condition is very bad.

I have prayed as sincerely as I can to grow my faith, because it is really hopeless to be captivated here in this mundane and adverse world. I also notice that I am so far from the real position. I’m not even a steady person in the search for my real nature.

Thus, dear Gurudev, I say it again: you are the only one who makes us see the truth, and I thank Lord Krishna for giving us a relationship with you. Sometimes I think all of this is going to finish, and that gives me anxiety; but the question is how we can stay together no matter how time is rushing.

You are a special messenger but I cannot appreciate it; I don’t even know how to talk to you. My feelings don’t flow, and I don’t have any words to glorify you because of my low condition.

Let me tell you in my way that I appreciate you, and beg you not to be apart from us. Please be with us forever. Thank you for teaching us the beautiful feelings of soul and for making us remember our original identity.

You are the only one who knows how to wake up the sleeping souls; there’s no one else. Please teach me how to improve, how to remember the love of my soul forever.

Your servant, Ekalaisvara das Sri Vyasa Puja 2003

All glories to Sri Guru and Sri Gauranga

offer my humble obeisances to my spiritual masters: to my dear Gurudev, to the Isacred temple in - Sri Chaitanya Saraswat math, to Srimati Tulasi Maharani, and to all the sacred places in . Whenever I try to write to you I can’t find the words to describe my feelings for you or what is happening inside of me. Well, it seems I just found some words to offer you; I am learning more at the preaching center and everywhere I go. By myself I couldn’t produce anything. We wait for you to come to Mexico; even if it is a long time from now, I hope you will come. I wish you a happy birthday. I know you will always have happy days, but I wish you more. We are going to celebrate you here. As I said, I have no more words to tell you; I don’t know if it is my emotions or my mind that prevents me from telling you more. I send you my humble obeisances at your sacred lotus feet.

Gadadhara das Mexico City

All glories to Sri Guru and Gauranga All glories to Sri Param Guru Maharaj All glories to the Sri Vyasa Puja of Jagat Guru

Dandavat pranams to all the devotees of the world.

ajnana-timirandhasya jnananjana-salakaya caksur unmilitam yena tasmai sri-gurave namah

Lovely Paramahamsa Srila Govinda Maharaj, endless supply of love, wisdom and mercy, and more auspicious than I can conceive: You are dedicating your whole life to serve your divine master. You are teaching us by your example. I am so happy I have the chance to try to serve you through His Holiness B.K Ashram Maharaj. Lovely eternal father, my only real fortune will be your sweet association, life after life.

Wishing to reach someday the shelter of your divine lotus feet, I humbly bow before you. .

Rasa Mayi dd Mexico City Sri Vyasa Puja 2003

All glories to Sri Guru and Gauranga

ll glories to our beloved param guru, Srila Bhakti Rakshak Sridhar Dev- AGoswami Maharaj. All glories to this auspicious day of our perfect guru, the personified Siddhanta, the endlessly merciful, the guardian and well wisher of the fallen, the dear one of Lord Krishna Chaitanya and of his Guru Maharaj. Srila Bhakti Sundar Govinda Dev-Goswami Mahara is the brilliant sun enlightening and guid- ing the sincere devotees of the world. I offer my dandavat pranams unto his divine lotus feet.

All glories to the Supreme Lord for sending us one of his intimate ones to rescue the suffering souls and take them to the spiritual world. All glories to his divine parents and relatives that took care and enjoyed his pastimes in his holy birthplace. All glo- ries to his divine masters and associates, and to the lovely Dham Sri Nabadwip. Their hearts full of sweetness of service, they render glorification that is only found in Dham.

May our Lord Chaitanya take care of you and protect you, and allow you to stay here with us for so long. All glories to Srila Gurudev ki jaya.

Trying to serve you, Gauravani dd

All glories to Sri Guru and Gauranga

Dear Gurudev,

I offer my humble obeisances to Srila Bhakti Sundar Govinda Maharaj. My dear spiritual master, happy birthday. You know that all the devotees from Mexico love you so much. I don’t want you to leave us because who are we going to love as much as we love you? We want you to spend more time with us. I hope you are fine and in good health. I hope you to come to Mexico for another birthday so we, the kids, can make a very big cake for you.

I’m waiting for you, and even if you don’t come, I will still be waiting.

Your servant, Subhadra Manjari dd Mexico City