—Rukmini Dasi

Namah Om Vishnu Padaya Krishna Presthaya Bhutale
Srimate Bhaktivedanta Swamin Iti Namine

My Dearest Guru Maharaj,

Please accept my humblest obeisances at Your Divine Lotus Feet on this holy day of Sri Vyasa-puja. All Glories to Sri Guru and Gouranga!

Our desire knotting into an illusory wheel
A wheel of death and rebirth long unbroken
We're spun numb in the temporal and eternally we reel
With our words of surrender left unspoken.

A fallen leaf in the wind may appear to hold life
But detached from the whole tree it will wither
Life without Divine Refuge-my Master-is strife
Your service is evergreen, your Grace draws us together.

Your unworthy servant,
Rukmini Dasi
(ISKCON-Boston)

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