His Impressions Remain a Treasure Within the Heart

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Dear Guru Maharaj, 

I pay prostrated obeisances to Your Lotus Feet and all Your dear Servitors. I beg Your Divine Grace to teach me how to properly respect the Holy Day of Your Divine Appearance. Every time after Gaura Purnima I feel excitement and thrill — because only three weeks are left to Your Vyasa Puja. This year it has been a very long winter in the city which You mercifully visited more than 20 years ago. On April 2, there was so much snow left but all of a sudden it started raining, and lightning came as it does in Summer.

I love your Hari katha, where you say that you can't do any action without having a motivation, a motive to do it. So, what motivates me to write this letter? It is necessary to have inspiration born in sincere efforts to perform service. I realize that I am bereft of such merit. Only Your causeless mercy, your desire to purify me, to distract from bad thoughts are the main sources of motivation for writing this letter. It is like rain, like summer lightning above the snow of my ignorance. 

Once your disciple, the late Partha Sarathi Prabhu, wrote you a letter for Vyasa Puja while in prison. He read it to me over the phone five years ago. Unfortunately, I do not remember the precise words but they were so sincere that the impression of something very good is still treasured in my heart. You bestowed causeless Mercy on him, It was clearly felt in his words.

Dear Guru Maharaj, please forgive my offenses and allow me to realize deeper and deeper Your causeless Mercy — please give me service to Your dear Servitors.

—Advaya Jnan das (Voronezh)


Original in Russian:

Дорогой Гуру Махарадж низко кланяюсь всем Вашим дорогим Слугам, приношу полные поклоны Вашим Лотосным Стопам. Прошу Вашей Милости научить меня оказывать самое должное почтение Дню Вашего Божественного Явления. Всегда, когда заканчивается Гуру Пурнима, чувствую волнение ведь остаётся всего три недели до Вашей Вьяса Пуджы. В городе, в который Вы Милостиво приезжали более 20 лет назад, в этом году выдалась очень долгая зима. 2 апреля ещё лежало много снега, как вдруг пошёл дождь, в небе засверкали молнии, словно летом.. Очень нравится Ваша Хари Катха, где Вы говорите, что нельзя совершить никакое действие не имея побудительной причины, мотива на это. Что же побуждает меня писать это письмо..? Необходимо вдохновение, рожденное в искренних усилиях совершать служение. Понимаю, что не имею таких заслуг. Лишь Ваша беспричинная Милость, Желание очистить меня, отвлечь от плохих мыслей--главный Источник побуждения писать Вам. Она, Оно подобно дождю, летней молнии среди снегов моего невежества.. Однажды Ваш ученик Партха Саратхи Пр., он сейчас уже оставил тело, будучи в тюрьме, написал Вам на Вьяса Пуджу письмо. Он читал мне его по телефону 5 лет назад. К сожалению не помню подробных слов, но они были настолько искренни, что впечатление чего-то очень хорошего до сих пор хранится в моем сердце. Вы пролили на него беспричинную Милость, очень ощущалась Она в его словах..Дорогой Шрила Гурудев, пожалуйста простите мне мои оскорбления, позвольте глубже и глубже сознавать Вашу беспричинную Милость--даруйте пожалуйста служение Вашим дорогим Слугам.. Адвайа Джнан дас. Воронеж.



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