from Sakhi Lila Dasi – India, Mayapur

Hare Krishna!

All Glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga! All glories to Srila Prabhupada! All glory to you, Srila Gurudeva, my dear Spiritual Master! Please accept my humble obeisances in the dust of your
Lotus feet, from Your insignificant disciple.

The day of your Vyasa Puja is coming soon and we, your spiritual children, have the opportunity to voice our gratitude to you again!

For a person who wants to achieve the highest perfection of life, the most important thing is to find a real Spiritual Master and give his life to Him, accepting His guidance as the captain of the ship. I fall again and again into the dust of Your Lotus feet, expressing my awe and admiration for the feat of your life in selfless service to Your Spiritual Master.

There are words in your pranama mantra “Prabhupada priya dasaya” which very accurately reflect Your connection with Srila Prabhupada. Your whole life is the story of great success of guru-nistha. Your preaching on all the continents of this planet knows no equal. Everyone who meets you immediately feels the influence of Srila Prabhupada on his life. Thanks to your lectures, kirtans, festivals and webinars, everyone has a chance to find the highest good fortune: the grace of the sadhu and salvation, to embark on the path to the highest perfection of life, which is pure loving service to the divine couple Sri Sri Radha Madhava.

Once in the 90s you saved me drowning in the ocean of ignorance through your wonderful album “Pada Kamala”, tying my heart to you. In 2003 in Divnomorsk right on the street surrounded by children you gave me my first initiation, and since then my life has been transformed. Thanks! Thanks! Thank you, my dear Srila Gurudeva! You are the most important person in my life. This life belongs to you.

Since my birth I didn’t know what a father was until I met you. Your mercy and kindness, wisdom and trust, selflessness and courage, sensitivity, combined with determination and unending enthusiasm, faith and dedication to Srila Prabhupada’s mission are a source of endless inspiration and strength for all of us.

I always feel your attentive and loving look and care, wherever I am. I have one desire: to live so that you will be happy with me. Therefore, I will continue following your instructions which I receive by listening to you.

My dear Srila Gurudeva, may Sri Nrsimhadeva always protect your life and health. May all of us, your spiritual sons and daughters, become worth of you, so that you will not have to come back for us. I will never repay my debt to you. But you can always count on me.

Your insignificant disciple, Sakhi Lila Dasi