Dear Srila Prabhupada, please accept our humble respectful obeisance’s, All glories unto you,
I Dinesvara Sacisuta Das, a most insignificant servant of yours feel very fortunate to be part of this ISKCON family and this year I got initiated from HH Jayapataka Swami Maharaj.
You are still living among us through your books, lectures and instructions. Your books, lectures and instructions help me to progress in Krishna Consciousness.
Please provide me at least a little bit of the strength and courage that you had in following the instructions of your Spiritual Master and likewise I would like to help my Guru Maharaj in abiding by his instructions.
I’m placing all my prayers at your lotus feet and kindly accept it.
I Supriya Kalavati Devi Dasi wanted to tell you that my consciousness & progress in bhakti is increasing with time because of your mercy of giving your most intimate & purified disciple as my guru HH. Jayapataka swami maharaja. I am able to constantly get the chanting of the Hare Krishna Maha mantra without any stoppage in my mouth.
My focus while chanting is getting better as days pass by in KC. My devotional services as Sankirtan, hosting, glorifying devotees, feeling of service to anyone who is connected to ISKCON is becoming more intense. My energy levels as gifted by you & your devotees are keeping well in bhakti. My uninterestedness in material life is growing every day. But for all this I have no credits or qualification to possess, it’s all your blind mercy on me. I cannot even pay you back to you in any way. It’s absolutely impossible. This unworthy instrument(a litter) on the street is put into best use by yourself. And you know very well that I am useless. But just to give me the satisfaction of being used in service to the society in Krishna consciousness, you are putting extra efforts to use me in the way you want. So even if I want to give something in return to you, you are fulfilling my desire. So again I am only taking service from you.
So all that I desire is to keep serving to fulfil your mission. The moment any service comes, though it’s out of my capacity to do, I prefer to take up just thinking of your struggle to make me Krishna conscious.
Want to mention some realisations from Janmashtami 2022. Recently we were doing Sankirtan in appts for promotion of Janmashtami . Not many but few would come n participate n stay till the end of the programme. After everything we devotees would also have prasad n start to our homes wrapping up all the accessories. And we were some 10 + volunteers ageing between 30-40 doing this promotion service of appt Sankirtan. And we would get tired when the programme is completed. At that time another devotee asked me that we are doing a great job isn’t it? That time I laughed n replied that we so many devotees of young age doing this small programme with so much of help n feeling a sort of success!!!! Just imagine Srila Prabhupada doing programmes in the west in the early stages of ISKCON even for small crowd all by himself at the age of 70 without any proper facility too.
• Even a small spiritual programme involves – promotion, cooking, getting ingredients for cooking, Hall arrangements with spreading of mats, setting up mics, altar arrangements, kirtan, giving class, arrangements of Arati paraphernalia, then showing or doing Arati, prasad distribution arrangements which involves ,getting prasad from one place to another, serving, Cleaning of the places & again talking to the guests before their start to their places after the ISKCON programme, cleaning of the utensils and much more miscellaneous jobs. And all these were handled by just one person!!!😓😰😥We both were flabbergasted at the thought and went speechless. What service of ours can please you Srila Prabhupada?? Is it possible in any way to surprise you with our devotional activities. Its simply your mercy that you get pleased with the little that we are again doing by your empowerment. We cannot measure your compassion, mercy, tolerance, patience, perseverance, determination, intelligence, courage, humility, servitude etc & your devotion at all. Such an unlimited measuring tape this material world doesn’t have. All that i can do is just think of ISKCON as my home n serve the community as my family and think of KC festivals to be our house festival and do it. That’s all.
• Also one more realization is , I see that all the Janmashtami services & activities came out to be best or done by you or your disciples only using us. Then what we do is always getting only panic, anxiety, stress and tiredness. Which actually you all are supposed to have for getting the job done through us. It’s very unfortunate that we are so unqualified. & we are ever grateful for your mercy.
• Also many times since childhood I have thought as to why I was not associated with you directly? Why was I not serving the mission under you as your other direct disciples? But the fact is that I can never compete with you or your direct servants of your dedication and sacrifices which I understood after this Janmashtami and also by reading the book “The JUHU story”. I am very sorry for having such a thought to serve you directly. How can a blade of dry grass on the road compare to Kalpavriksha in serving the Lord. I am not even qualified to serve any neophyte and what to speak of serving you directly. My humble obeisance’s.
Please keep me always in your service for nothing is pleasure giving than KC. I have to mention my thanks to you Srila Prabhupada though I cannot thank you at all.
Yis
Dinesvara Sacisuta Das
Supriya Kalvati Devi Dasi
Pranav