Respected Guru Maharaj,

Please accept my humble obeisances.  All glories to Srila Prabhupad.

Please accept my best wishes/greetings at your 67th Vyas-Pooja festival, fortunate are those people-who would be physically witnessing it.  I must get some mercy from Nitai-Gaur Sundar Prabhu.

It also means that you have spent another year in the service of Guru and Gauranga after your last Vyas-Pooja, so exemplary and even inspiring.  Year after year you are persuing your spiritual life, now a fool like myself have no excuse, you are there like a Light-House, giving guidance to anyone-who wants it.  The thing which I like most about you that you never gave any impractical instruction to your disciples, you always want us to aspire to become a dust particle on the soft feet of Prabhupad through Sankirtan while following four regulative principles rigidly and chanting 16 enthusiastic rounds, So there is no self-interest, just the pure desire to please Srila Prabhupad and Shri Krishna, that's why we love you and ready to execute your orders without any hesitation.

At this most auspicious occassion, I fall flat at your feet and ask for your mercy, please forgive me if I have ever committed any offense. May your glories spread all over along with the glories of Srila Prabhupad, HARE KRISHNA.

yours servant,

Raktak Das

HpS - AGTSP!!!  What is happening with the family? We usually say "fallible soldiers" but in your case they may be infallible soldiers, they may help you, everyone escape from their Karma. Why are you going to Mayapura? Shall we visit Australia next year, Noviembre +?