Praṇamāmi Guru Tīrtha Padaṁ

Gurudev is like a Himalayan mountain and I am like an invisible bacteria sort of thing, how can I sing the glories of Guru Mahārāj?   The other day I was witnessing a video of vaiṣṇavas glorifying Gurudev. One of Śrīla Bhakti Kumud Sant Gosvāmī Mahārāj's disciples was speaking about an incident when they had all gone with our Guru Mahārāj to a village in West Bengal and they were staying at a Vaiṣṇava's house who had arranged for prasād and kirtan . During prasād time. they were all complaining about the prasād saying that it is very ordinary, not so good. Gurudev heard this from his room upstairs and came down and chastised them. He said, "Our host is a devotee; though he is not a wealthy man, he has arranged for prasādam for all of us and has offered to Supreme Lord, and then it becomes mahā-prasād . And you are criticizing mahā-prasād ? This is not right!" Hearing him, everybody was stunned.  I recall an experience related to this topic from 2005 when we atten...

My god-brothers have ordered me to speak some glories of Gurudev. Though I do not know anything much about Gurudev, I am still hoping for Gurudev's blessings and mercy and I will attempt to speak.   This evening I was trying to remember my interactions with Gurudev.  By their mercy, vaiṣṇavas engaged me in Gurudev's sevā in 2010. I'd been staying in Vṛndāvan and then Māyāpur, and after Vraja-maṇḍala parikramā in 2010,  I came to Kolkata and was given a place to stay in the library next to Gurudev's bhajan-kuṭīra . Gurudev would come to water Tulasījī every day and go back to his room via the library where many devotees would gather for his darśan .  One day when no one else was around, I offered obeisances to Gurudev.  Then Gurudev's sevāks told Gurudev that I have come from Māyāpur to serve him, I wanted to become his sevāk . Gurudev did not say anything and returned to his room. It was almost a week and I was not given any sevā ; I was waiting.   One...