Re: New Year Obeisances!

Respected Guruji and all devotees!

      Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare  Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare! Jaya Guru Parampara! Please accept my humble obeisances!

      All glories to the Supremely merciful Lords Nityananda Gauranga! All Glories to the divinely sweet Radha Krishna! To the servants of the Lord and their servants and their servants and their servants, all glories! Please accept my repeated dandavats to these servants and the dust particles at their lotus feet.

      I am sorry for joining in late for the New Year. I hope you will all forgive me. Over the last year I have had various experiences along the path of devotion from the very rock bottom and condemnable to some very beautiful ones all possible by your mercy. I thank you for letting me stay in your association despite all my failings and all the mistakes I have committed.

     In a year's span there have been many occasions where I may have offended all of you by words, or by thoughts, or by my actions. I once again beg forgiveness for all these aparadhas and pray that you will be merciful to keep showering your mercy as always because without your shelter, there is no way, no way for such rascal fools and pathetic idiots like me.

     I pray that I become the servant of your glorious servants and remain in that position in true humility and gratitude always. My prayers are that the glories of Nityananda Gauranga naama along with the Hare Krishna maha mantra along with all their literatures headed by Sri Chaitanya Bhagavata are spread all over the world more and more. I certainly pray for all those souls who have not yet realised the treasure that is always with them and that they should be drowned in the flood of preaching that the Lord has unleashed.

     I pray that the taste of chanting the pure spiritual names of Nityananda! Gauranga! and Hare Krishna! increase more and more always.

     I have always asked many things from all of you, but now my conscience cannot sit still and take your services. I have a desire to give my service to you in whatever capacity I can. But I realise I am so fallen that I am dependent on your grace to even give me the ability to serve you. Therefore I pray that I be able to serve you using all my resources with a completely favourable attitude this year and the years beyond eternally.

      So I pray that I start the New Year on a devotional note and let it grow, "anandaambudhi vardhanam pratipadam" with every step. I pray that I lose my selfishness and give and serve you all unconditionally. I hope that whatever insignificant service I can do will be of some use to you and the Lord. Although you are all my seniors, I pray that it must be so for all of you too.

      My last prayer is that even if the whole world and universe has chosen to turn against me for making the choice to serve you, even if no one accepts the principles of devotion, not even I am thrown into the darkest regions of hell, never under any circumstances should I even feel the thought to leave your association and the chanting of Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krishna! even involuntarily in my dreams.

I always pray that I have these prayers ringing in my heart at all times!

      All glories to the assembled devotees!
      All glories to this sacred sanga!
      All glories to our spiritual master Swami Gaurangapada and his exalted servants!
      All glories to the guru parampara!
      All glories to all devotees known and unknown!
      All glories to our devotional literatures!
      All glories to the Supreme Lords Nityananda Gauranga and Radha Krishna!

      May the ocean of divine love expand more and more and drown us all!

Most worthless and wretched aspirant to become the servant of the servants,

Srinath

Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krishna!

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