from Mathura Jivan das – Nepal, Pokhara

Param Pujya Guru Maharaja,

Please accept my most humble obeisances unto the dust of your divine lotus feet.
Today is auspicious and beautiful day – when unique and special personality appeared on earth. To teach, inspire and share his unique care. Light of knowledge and transcendental melody from golden heart.
In the hope of your endless patience and forgiveness, I try to rethink, refresh, and reconsider our spiritual principles, year after year in the hope that once I could reach the stage of their realization.

• Guru Maharaja, bellow is the description of spiritual “MASTER” into our existence,
• Meaningful – He who made us understand meaning of life and thus made our life spiritually meaningful.
• Attribute – He who gave special quality and characteristic to our spiritual life.
• Steady – He who brought stability in our lives to follow principles and vows
• Training – He who empowered and trained all of us in our spiritual life.
• Escape – He who taught us to escape from the cycle of Birth and Death by giving us Holy Name.
• Realization – He who have given us ultimate and absolute realization – God Realization (Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead).
  So thank you for being for me: a light, a song, a dance, a rose, a thunderbolt, a laughter, a hope. A role-model, a pride, and a perfect example who is still so humanlike. I know that this sounds like a perspective of an ant trying to describe a mountain. Still, I enjoy it and look forward discovering more – more of love that is there saved for us. More opportunities to embrace miracles and magic in finding ourselves being a part of Lord’s sankirtan lila. Such an amazing, adventurous life we have been given, and it is you who made selfless arrangements for that.
  I pray on this day, I remember that daily and live to please you, as you live to please your Masters and all of us. It was so ecstatic to witness especially lately how much you are appreciated and loved deeply by all around the globe. I remember once listening in amazement to your class and then spontaneously exclaiming.
  You was there right from the start – You have always been there, through all my trials and tribulations… and always will be there for me. The love and encouragement, your smile and scold – they are everything to me. Please continue with your prayers for me, never ever give up on me despite my inefficiencies.

Take my hand, let me be with You in Braj.
Teach me what love is, train me.
You are my good fortune and ever well-wisher.
In service of Srila Prabhupada, with all the affection and respect of my little heart.

Your humble & indebted servant,
Mathura Jivan das.