Hare Krishna Dear Hanumat Presaka Swami, Hare Krishna Dear Hanumat Presaka Swami,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Sri Prabhupada! All glories to you.
I hope this message finds you well. Please excuse the delay in posting the message on the blog as I've been traveling to NYC for annual rath yatra and just got back yesterday. I will be tomorrow moving to Houston! So crazy time.
Attached below is the letter I sent to you via email.
Your aspiring servant,
Sarita
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Hare Krishna Dear Hanumatpresaka Swami
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Sri Prabhupada! All glories to you.
Please forgive me in advance as I am unaware of the correct etiquette for addressing your grace.
In fact, I look back retrospectively and I still remember the first time I had the fortune of meeting
you in Richmond, Virginia almost 3-4 years ago. I could not even pronounce your name. You
were so merciful to come to the university in Richmond and give a lecture hosted by the Bhakti
Club (I was the fool who introduced you and totally messed up the introduction as well). You
very gracefully saved the evening by captivating the auditorium full of students and introducing
the concept of bhakti to the student body. That was the real start of the bhakti yoga club at VCU.
With your and Srila Prabupad’s mercy– the bhakti club has prospered immensely these last few
years. It has been my central point of sadhana all throughout my college career. Your disciple
and my mentor – Subala Sakha Prabhu comes weekly with Prasadam and offers his insightful
classes. His daughter, Chandana, will be taking over now that I have graduated. Their entire
family has been essential to the foundation and flourishing of this club as well as expanding my
personal sadhana in my time in Richmond.
Maharaj, the reason I am writing to you now is that I am ready for the next step. I’ve been
praying for a while to find my spiritual master. So many sanyasis have come through Richmond
and DC yet there always remained that gap in guru-tattva connection. After long consideration
(and quite a few “universal” signs) I would like to request to be your disciple.
I watch and listen to your lectures frequently and it is not only satisfying but pacifies any doubts
or questions I have. I’ve heard a fair share of classes from Subala Sakha Prabhu and hold so
much reverence from him- who in turn accolades only you Maharaj. I constantly think of how
ignorant, and frankly stupid I was when I first met you and wish I could go back and retract all
those statement and offer all glories to you again and again. I am so embarrassed.
Besides attempting to run the bhakti club- my workload in college inhibited me from
chanting 16 rounds. I chanted maybe 4-6 rounds daily but I did read and follow all regulative
principles and attend the bhakti vriksha programs weekly. I understand the chanting is what was
vital and I just couldn’t keep up. Since graduation however, I have been keeping up with 16
rounds daily. I am serious now. I have finished whatever my “material” goals were but still feel
unfulfilled. I know there is no other way and nothing else to aspire for.
I moved back home to Washington DC and it’s taking some time to get used to not being as
engaged as I was in Richmond. Nonetheless, with great mercy, Krishna still keeps me engaged
in Sadhu Sanga, Kirtan, or finding some service at the temple.
I do know that I am serious now about my sadhana and have absolute faith in the next step.
Please forgive me again as I do not know the protocol nor the etiquette but I am following what
my hearts tell me Maharaj.
So here goes….
I humbly request Maharaj, for you to allow me to accept you as my gurudev. Please accept me as
your aspiring disciple. I have been going to the temple for as long as I can remember but am as
lost as ever and ignorant, blind, illusional and conditioned. Please drag me out of this
conditioned state and guide me towards Krishna.
Please forgive any offensives I have committed
Your aspiring servant,
Sarita
HpS - ASA - Jaya. I thin kwe answered this, no? You have another letter. Let us look at that one.