A prayer to Om Vishnupada Srila Bhakti Sundar Govinda Dev Goswami Maharaj on the occasion of His Divine appearance.

Who am I and who are you?

A simple question and yet I cannot ascertain the answer. I know I am small and you are great but how small and how great I cannot understand.

"The finite is chasing the Infinite, such audacity." Audacity I have in ample supply. But how to proceed is always baffling me. Not that you have not explained it to us. You have given thousands of explanations. I know the theory, it is the process, surrender, that causes me always to stumble and fall.

If surrender were simply an exercise of will then I think it would not be so difficult. I have a strong will, to do wrong.

What I can understand of surrender is that it is not a matter of will but a matter of choice. The choice is also a simple one. To serve your Divine Will or follow the dictates of my depraved mind.

Somewhere inside of me there seems to be a voice telling me which is the better choice. But when the time is at hand to make the right choice I quite easily and naturally make the wrong one.

When I reflect on what I have done I cannot understand how I have again repeated the same mistake with which I am so familiar. Like making a wrong turn over and over again on a road that is well known to me.

The idea for which I came to Srila Guru Maharaj and for which I try to keep connection with you has all but disappeared. I am almost hopeless that I may ever have a substantial service connection to Sri Sri Guru Gauranga.

Only one small glimmer of hope remains, that you have always been very merciful to me. It is your merciful nature that gives me hope and it is my prayer that I may forever remain within your merciful glance.

A lowly tridandi bikshuka and aspiring servant of Your Divine Grace,

Swami BK Giri

SRI SRI GURU GAURANGA JAYATAH!

Dear Srila Bhakti Sundar Govinda Dev Goswami Maharaja,

On the occasion of Your Divine Appearance:

"gurvabhista-supurakam guru-ganair asisa-sambhusitam chintyachintya-samasta-veda-nipunam sri-rupa-panthanugam govindabhidham ujjvalam vara-tanum bhakty anvitam sundaram vande visva-gurun cha divya-bhagavat-premno hi bija-pradam"

All glories to Your Divine Mission, Srila Gurudeva! All Glories to Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu in the line of Sri Rupa! All glories to Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math and the glorious Vaishnava!...and -- HAPPY BIRTHDAY Srila Gurudeva!!!

Gokulananda das

Dear Guru Dev,

All glories to your appearance day on December 25th., 2007.

I am at a loss for words to even speak about this, but I feel as if I am a dead body without your association and the association of the Vaishnavas in your Vedic line.

To a dead person like me you are my only hope for life. You are the only hope for my soul's engagement in devotional activities from the easiest to the most difficult.

Through your blessed appearance has come the lifesaver for my rescue from hell and doom. You are my savior.

Lila Sundari Devi Dasi

Dear Srila Gurudeva

Please accept my dandavat pranam in the dust of your holy feet, I am acknowledging this most holy of days as being the anniversary of your appearance on this plane to help souls such as me connect with the mercy of Gaur-Nityananda and Sri Sri Ganddharvika Govindasundara! I am a fallen soul with no qualification to glorify you but as your disciple it is my duty to at least thank you for all the kindness you have shown me and all our devotional family.

Your compassionate nature, indeed you are the embodiment of the merciful nature of Koladwip/Nabadwip, after all it is aparadh banjan patha. So by accepting us despite our many faults and offenses you are revealing the true nature of guru and gaudiya vaisnavism as being not only the highest but also the most magnanimous of all paths.

Therefore your loving acceptance is reciprocated with loving surrender and exclusive loyalty on my part and I know that despite geographical distance between us that all I need to do is have faith and that connects me with you directly-this is my most sincere experience.

I am grateful with every atom of my being to have at last the connection with a true source of Krsna Bhakti and am assured that as long as I stay with this connection that success is assured.

Thanks again for bringing enthusiasm back into my spiritual life.

With much love, affection and respectful dandavats and willingness to serve.

I wish you a most happy appearance day and know that it will be filled with joy and the company of all those most dear to you.

your servant