(1/4) Enriched with Service

His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad
Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj
Divine Appearance Day, Sri Vyasa Puja
Kolkata—West London, 17 October 2020, part 1

Jay Om Vishnupad Jagad-Guru Srila Bhakti Sundar Govinda Dev-Goswami Maharaj ki jay.
Visva-varenya Srila Guru Maharaj ki jay.
Om Vishnupad Jagad-Guru Srila Bhakti Raksak Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj ki jay.
Om Vishnupad Bhagavan Sri Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Goswami Thakur Prabhupad ki jay.
Rupanuga-guru-varga ki jay.
Namacharya Haridas Thakur ki jay.
Vrinda Devi, Tulasi Devi, Sri Bhakti Devi ki jay.
Shyama Kunda, Radha Kunda, Sri Giri Govardhan ki jay.
Sri Mayapur Dham, Sri Nabadwip Dham, Sri Vrindavan, Mathura ki jay.
Purusottam Ksetra ki jay.
Baladev Subhadra Jagannathjiu ki jay.
Akar Math-raj Chaitanya Math, Mayapur Yogapith ki jay.
Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math ki jay.
Bhakta-prabara Prahlad Maharaj ki jay.
Suddha-bhaktir-vighna-vinasankari Bhagavan Nrisinghadev ki jay.
Sri Sada-Siva Gangadhar, Giriraj Govardhan ki jay.
All the Western and Eastern devotees ki jay.
All the worldwide devotees ki jay.
All the London devotees ki jay.
West London, East London devotees, all the devotees ki jay.
Harinam sankirtan ki jay.
Samagata Sri Gaura bhakta-vrinda ki jay.
Nitai Gaura premanande Hari bol.

I am very happy to see you all. I know you have been waiting to see me... You are all keeping me in your heart, giving me love and affection.

Gurudev has chosen me, this dog, to serve him, and I am very satisfied, I am very happy that all of my godbrothers, all of my well-wishers, all of my senior sisters and brothers and everybody else are keeping me in their hearts. Actually, I have no quality or qualification... [His Divine Grace's phone rings.] So many phone calls have been coming the whole day from early in the morning – they are giving me so many good wishes. It is giving me much inspiration and enthusiasm for service. I am getting power and much energy from the devotees.

Gurudev taught me what he learned from his gurudev, his Guru Maharaj (Srila Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj). Many godbrothers came to Srila Sridhar Maharaj to listen to his Hari-katha: Srila Bhakti Prajnan Keshav Maharaj, Srila Bhakti Pramode Puri Goswami Maharaj, Srila Bhakti Saranga Goswami Maharaj, Srila Bhakti Kamal Madhusudan Maharaj and many others. They all came to listen Hari-katha from Om Vishnupad Srila Bhakti Raksak Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj. At that time, Gurudev, who was a brahmachari and Srila Sridhar Maharaj's servitor, learned how to serve Vaishnavs and devotees. Without service to devotees, we cannot proceed in our spiritual life.

So, it is my happiness that you have accepted me as your servant and allow me to serve you all. I am a very fallen soul, I do not have any qualities or qualification; I do not know Vaishnavs, I cannot recognise them, and I cannot understand what the qualities of Vaishnavs are. But Gurudev taught me: 'If you can please devotees and make devotees happy, then you can succeed in your spiritual life.'

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