Prayer To Guru Mahārāj

Prayer To Guru Maharaj

Oh grand spiritual master, please forgive me for this broken expression in my own words, unto you who is very dear to Radharani and beyond my contaminated understanding. One day in the hospital my spiritual master, your foremost disciple and spiritual son, said he didn't know Krsna, he just knew you, his Guru Maharaj. During those days he also offered flowers to a picture of you, and I could understand that when you accept it, it is as good as accepted by the Lord. It is now many years since your disciple who is now the acarya for the age, Bhaktivedanta Swami, first wrote, "The Lord is sentient thou hast proved, impersonal calamity thou has moved." He, the world's Prabhupada, is certainly now your most prominent, faithful son. He has captured the Western world at your command. We, your grandchildren, joyfully sing Gauranga's praises where only yesterday we were drug-infested, obscene and miserable. How has he done this? He says, "I have done nothing extraordinary. I am following the instructions of my Guru Maharaj."

So in Prabhupada's example we see it is practically true: the sat guru is so potent that simply to do what he asks can conquer the world. And now we are engaged in stabilizing Krsna consciousness all over the world, and many are coming. It is as if we are trying to distribute a langra mango free of charge, and many are suspicious of love of God; but if we persist, as did our Prabhupada, then success is guaranteed. On your appearance day I simply pray, grandfather guru that you allow all Prabhupada's sons and daughters to remain steadfast at your feet, and let us, through thick and thin, remain the personal servants of Bhaktivedanta Swami, our eternal father. Please be kind to bless us in this way. All glories to Vaisnava Sampradaya! All glories to Simha Guru our learned guide!

Satsvarūpa dasa Adhikari

Dear Guru Maharaj,

Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet. You are known as Sringha Guru, and therefore the impersonalists were afraid to approach you. Two weeks before your disappearance from this mortal world you wrote one letter to Prabhupada instructing him to deliver the sublime teachings of Lord Caitanya to the West. Thousands of years of penances and austerities may not liberate a conditioned soul who has fallen into the dark well of material existence; but one word from the pure devotee, and he is at once freed. You saved Prabhupada from engagement in material affairs by honoring His Divine Grace with transcendental loving service of the dust of your lotus feet. He said you are like an ocean and have pulled him out of material existence. Now by your grace Prabhupada is the most powerful personality in the three worlds, as he can deliver the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

You were born in one place, Prabhupada was born in another, and we were born in still another, but Krsna has brought us all together to push on the sahkirtana movement.

The grandfather takes better care of the children than the father, and therefore you must be even more merciful than our most merciful Prabhupada. So my dear Guru Maharaj, I only pray to you that in some birth I may develop a tiny fraction of the love for Prabhupada that he has for you. I pray that I may remain a tiny part in his gigantic plan of dragging all of us back to Godhead. Your servant,

Jadurani devi dasi

Dear Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Prabhupada Maharaj,

Please accept my most humble obeisances at your lotus feet. On this day of your appearance, I want to please offer my prostrated obeisances to you again and again, for it is by your mercy only that I am having bestowed upon me the mercy of your beloved disciple, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami, who is teaching me how to love the Supreme Lord, Sri Krsna. Before finding Prabhupada, I had nothing, and now, being given the opportunity to serve him, I have everything. Prabhupada has said so many times that he has come here to spread Krsna consciousness simply because you have ordered him to do so. So actually, I have you to thank for everything, for it is completely by your grace that Prabhupada has come here. So, please, on this day of your appearance, accept my repeated obeisances again and again and again. Always your servant,

Arundhati devi dasi

All glories to Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami.
Your garlanded picture on the wall in front of me:
You are looking very beautiful and grave,
You whose mind is fixed on Lord Caitanyadev.
By your mercy, for love of you, Prabhupada is here;
Your message, love of Krsna, is ringing loud and clear.
I want to thank you on this auspicious day
For sending our dear Prabhupada to save us from our ways.
I am especially the most wretched devotee of all,
And it is by your mercy only I do not fall.
And I pray, dear Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati,
That I may serve Prabhupada from now until eternity,
That I may one day become humble and sincere,
And learn to love Krsna, to whom you are so dear.

Balai dasi

Prabhupada, you are like a touchstone,
The land of Cintamani Dham is your home.
Your holy self is far more than royal,
Your nectar love of Krsna is true and loyal.
From the golden lotus-flowered succession you have come to here,
Saint Bhaktisiddhanta's divine instruction has been captured by your lotus ear.
By the infallible line of perfected spiritual masters with the transcendental view,
Srila Bhaktisiddhanta is so beautifully transcendental, just like you.
Oh, Sri Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, my Prabhupada loves you so,
I offer all obeisances to you, from myself so very low.
I see in your book, Relative Worlds, a great thing about you:
Even the greatest English erudite scholar, next to you is but a fool.
You are the greatest of all the learned men,
To Goloka Vrndavana, a saving hand you lend.
You are so kindly and completely, showing us all,
We puffed up souls, don't know anything at all.
By your mercy, my dear grandfather, master, we are having a sweet taste
Of this beauteous Krsna consciousness, you've sent our Prabhupada, so full of divine grace.
It's so wonderful!! What your disciple, Prabhupada, says is really so,
This nectarean chanting is making our love for Lord Krsna grow.
Your messages of Goloka and the aratrika prayers, so sweet and true,
All obeisances, all obeisances, all obeisances unto you.
Oh, Guru Maharaj of my Guru Maharaj, although I have no right, let me make one crying plea,
Although you are showing freely the blissful devotional sea,
I am still lost, absorbed in envy, greed, I'm so perverted, I cannot see,
Oh Guru Maharaj of my Guru Maharaj, never let me fall from the service of thee.

Vaikunthanatha dasa Adhikari

When will this mind cease to reflect the horrors of my lust,
Just chanting Hare Krsna vanishes the dust.
My thoughts they are so selfish to satisfy my needs,
By chanting Hare Krsna uprooting all bad seeds,
This illusioned fallen soul I am, a victim of Kali's prey,
The mercy of his lotus feet I need in every way.

Dear Guru Maharaj, I beg to present my prostrated obeisances unto your divine lotus feet on this, your appearance day.

Sridama dasa Brahmacari

As I journeyed in a labyrinth of darkness with ignorance and passion at each step, and the glitter of maya as my only illusory refuge, I screamed for mercy, for a light of truth. Amidst this world of confusion and sleep I heard and echoed a sound that seemed to come from the remotest corner of my heart. It was Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, the holy mahamantra. By chanting and hearing, the maze dissolved, and in its place dawned the sweetest, purest, most glorious sense of eternal bliss and divine link with the all-attractive Supreme Personality, Lord Sri Krsna. And now by Krsna's causeless mercy, I am guided toward the supreme destination, back to Godhead. Thank you, Your Divine Grace, for saving me. Thank you for giving us Prabhupada. On this sacred day of your appearance, I muster all the gratitude of my unworthy self and offer obeisances unto your holy lotus feet.

Manmohini devi dasi

My dear Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Maharaj,

We cannot hope to begin to praise you, and yet by the inconceivable mercy of your transcendental son, Bhaktivedanta Swami, we are writing these meager words for this auspicious day.

All glories, all glories, all glories to the Appearance of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati!

You come as the son of Bhaktivinode Thakur, just to show us what the transcendental product of household life should be.

You are eternally Brahmacari, and yet the numbers of children you have fathered are uncountable.

By your causeless grace upon the Western world, so many souls from this land of license are entering the sublime path of bhakti, being so attracted to your beloved son.

Simply because he heard you, all the nectar of Krsna consciousness is flowing across oceans to our parched ears.

We do not know you, and yet you are caring for us even better than our own spiritual father.

So we are very much desirous of taking shelter at your lotus feet, but we are afraid to approach you, having not an ounce of austerity or intelligence. But because our spiritual master is so kind upon us, he is giving us the opportunity to address your holiness in this way. So may we appeal to you-help us keep ourselves for Krsna. We are so much a prey to the agitations of this mind-body, and you are the perfect master of the senses, so only you can help us look within for the treasure of our lives. Please pull us out of the mire or our ignorance, and even if you must drag us by the hair, kicking and screaming, like children balking at the sternness of their wise grandfather, please, please help us be ourselves again. Restore this battered consciousness to its natural condition.

We know that if you will be kind upon us, only then will Lord Nityananda cast His blissful glance over our unbowed heads. Since you are so dear to Srimati Radharani, help us heal these broken tools for Her service.

It is unto your lotus feet, O Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Prabhupada Maharaj, the deliverer of the science of Krsna and the personified teachings of Lord Caitanya, that we offer our most respectful obeisances.

Despite these pitiable and unworthy appeals, may we be your eternal servitors.

Murari dasa Adhikari, Lilavati devi dasi, Subhadra devi dasi

Oh my dear Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Prabhupada, you are the ocean of transparent mercy who has sent your loving disciple Srila Prabhupada to flood the world with Hare Krsna love of God vibrations.

We were demons envious of Krsna and unhappy, but now by your mercy Prabhupada has come and dissolved this madness with the magic wand of Sri Krsna Caitanya sahkirtana. All glories to Your Divine Grace's lotus feet! All glories to he who is always serving at your lotus feet! All glories to Sri Sri Radha Krsna! Repeat! Repeat! Repeat!

Nanda Kisora dasa Adhikari, Jahnavadevidasi

All glories to you, Sri Bhaktisiddhanta, preceptor of Srila Prabhupada. Siddhanta Thou truly art the conclusion of the ripest fruit upon the Vedic tree. By your sweet grace you have set us free.

You the unflinching lion, who having quelled the maya-vadi's deathly trance, now a conquering hero, have taken the regal stance.

Your presence has outshone illusion's most deceptive maze, and your greatest gift has been to send us the shelter of Srila Prabhupada's unflinching gaze.

All glory to you, who are not different than Srimad-Bhagavatam.

All glory to you, nectarean moon, distributor of Visnu's rays.

I humbly bow at Srila Prabhupada's lotus feet, knowing that a father is most pleased when honor is given to his son, so kindly accept this worthless gift.

My service to parampara from now on.

Naranarayana dasa Adhikari

I beg to ask of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada to kindly convey my humble obeisances unto the dust of the lotus feet of His Divine Grace Om Visnupada Paramahamsa Parivrajakacarya 108 Sri Srimad Bhaktisiddhanta Gosvami Prabhupada. Even my obeisances are worthless. But you purify everything by engaging it in Krsna's transcendental loving service, thus making a fallen soul such as I worthy to serve superior authorities. So therefore I am coming to you.

I am part and parcel of Krsna and eligible for going back to Godhead, but I am forgetful and in my ignorance I forget who I am and what the purpose of life is. Please force me, Prabhupada, to always remember my constitutional position. Please force me.

Brahmananda dasa Brahmacari

We offer our humble obeisances unto His Divine Grace Om Visnupada Paramahamsa Parivrajakacarya 108 Sri Srimad Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Maharaj.

Like a thunderbolt, His demeanor is straight and bold, fearless. His grace, like a rose, is soft and sweet. His spiritual son, Prabhupada, is merciful and kind. Please help us to know your mercy. Your ungrateful servants,

Sacisuta dasa Adhikari, Indumati devi dasi

Humble servants we are of Bhaktivedanta Gosvami, who presses holy head to your feet, the sheltering refuge. Oh the most regal lion guru, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati! You whose roaring of the message of Lord Caitanyadeva will pierce this dark jungle of Kali. Then the jackal that is our mind on hearing such a roar may run to relinquish the eatable thing it has stolen from the lion to enjoy in fearful secrecy. But we are calling in faint voices upon the mercy of your regal strength to catch the jackal and destroy him and take back your due, our eternal service unto your lotus feet, Oh most beloved Gurudeva.

Bharadraja dasa Adhikari, Rukmini devi dasi

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