Praṇamāmi Guru Tīrtha Padaṁ

Most merciful Gurudeva attracted me to his transcendental personality through his books. The first of his books that I read was Harikathā and Vaiṣṇava Aparādha, and such was the impact of his words on my heart that I decided to take shelter of his lotus feet without even personally meeting him. Later I came to know that Guru Mahārāja had withdrawn from the external world and was no longer communicating through spoken words. I only had the first darśana of Gurudeva at his bhajana kuṭīra in Kolkata during my harināma initiation. Even though I never had personal communication with Gurudeva, he continues to instruct me through his vāṇī . After his departure from the manifest pastimes, I could sustain and relish my relationship with Gurudeva through connection with his vāṇī . So I always nurture my relationship with Gurudeva through his vāṇī . I always had the impetus to distribute his books primarily as a means to water the seed of bhakti sown by Gurudeva in my heart. We have many of

I bow down to Śrīla Guru Mahārāja’s lotus feet and I am so happy that I can be with all of you today and I bow down to every one of you here. I have a wish in my heart because sādhu-sanga is such an amazing thing, and is such a nice thing to reunite and see each other also. It is always so nice to speak about Gurudeva. I could do this only, all my life, speaking about Guru Mahārāja. My heart is always thumping when I think about him and talk about him. I was thinking what shall I speak today? But I have prepared nothing because I just wanted to tell in the moment now to see what to speak about. There are different things; one thing is we have a little group where we unite once a week and we speak about Guru Mahārāja and everybody remembers about the pastimes of Guru Mahārāja, what teachings each person had, or what one saw, or what experience one had, and it is so amazing because we do this since many months now and it is never boring and it is always beautiful even if we hear it agai