—Jayapataka

-Jayapataka
ALL GLORIES TO THE DIVINE MASTER!
AND SRI KRISHNA CHAITANYA MAHAPRABHU!
VYAS PUJA DAY. I beg to place this teeny offering at the Lotus Feet Of my Spiritual Master.
Blind men stumbling along the path
Cannot find their way alone.
As Causeless Mercy Incarnate,
The Spiritual Master guides us home!
Back-To-Godhead the Goal set forth
Beyond our feeble mind and effort.
Only through His Divine Grace may
We, the most fallen souls, arrive in port.
A blind man thirsty with no hope my own,
Upon my head His Lotus Feet I beg to place.
His Mercy on us all knows no limit!
The thirst of the soul is satisfied by His Grace!
Amongst the pack of fools and hypocrites
One stands out in the golden gleem of Truth!
No thought of selfish ends be His!!
The Guide is kindly leading us to Truth!!
Entangled in the quicksand of mind and action's result,
Guru Maharaj is lowering a cord of life to pull us up
Beyond the clutches of concocted pleasure and pain!
Returning us to our rightful place, there Krishna's Love to sup!!
In the land of "Loving Exchange" the Master has His Home,
And extends the invitation of the Lord, a Gift of utmost worth!
How can we return this Gift of Boundless Grace?
Bereft of all, I can but be to serve birth after birth!
Chanting HARE KRISHNA, so sweet from Him,
We hear and dance in ecstacy of love!
Praise, praise, praise the Gurudev!!!
From all sides, below, above!!!
We are like so many sleeping fools being maneuvered in robot mechanisms here and there, sleeping souls in a nightmare created from our own perverted desires. The robot encagement is always on the verge of breakdown, both mechanically and electronically. Among these mechanically controlled personalities a free person is traversing unhampered by the robotism. He is trying to wake the sleeping fool from his robotistic situation of mechanical control to the free situation of Truth far beyond such limited scope.
We are like robots acting out Maya's mechanical control in the three modes simply to try to satisfy the perversion of temporary infatuation. The Spiritual Master is so kindly trying to wake up the fallen souls in such precarious, unsatisfying condition of stereotype existence to the loving platform of pure devotional service. Unfortunately, we are too much anxious to sleep and let the robot act forcing us then to suffer and enjoy in relation to the machine, not tasting real happiness ourselves. No! No! Please, do not let it remain as such! Let us try to serve with willful purpose the Representative of Truth now present, although beyond the robotism of this inert material world, and thus taste the ecstacy of His Love causelessly reciprocated on our prostrate heads.
How can I, deluded in this robot cage, hope to illuminate the Glories of Sri Guru? It is like the lantern held up to illuminate the sun. I hope my poor representation of His Boundless Mercy and Grace will be understood as only the smallest voicing of His Unlimited Qualities beyond even the great demigods' scope. All Glories to the Spiritual Master!! May He Grace us with the causeless mercy of His transcendental service for ever and ever.
The most fallen, unworthy servant of His Divine Grace,
Jayapataka
(ISKCON-Montreal)
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