Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda,
Please accept my most humble obeisances in the dust of your divine lotus feet. Let me try offer-
ing you a few words of worthy glorification.
When I think about what you’ve done for the mission of Lord Caitanya, it makes me very
grave and humble. Your glories will not disappear into the shadows over the coming centuries.
Rather, your glories will shine brighter and brighter in the upcoming ages, like a rising sun shines
brighter and brighter. The world will see the true value and sweetness of Kṛṣṇa consciousness that
you brought into it.
Kṛṣṇa consciousness is always attractive to the soul – no doubt about it. Examining your
mission and legacy, I understand that your ideas can catch the attention of the world. You have
genius ideas that can transform the world and make it more susceptible to take to Kṛṣṇa con-
sciousness. No external obstacles can stand in the way of the tide of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
The only question that rises in my mind in this regard is about my own qualification. I under-
stand that to spread your mission you need some instruments to work through. As your preachers,
we have to be up to the mark that your purity demands. You said to your followers that to be a
preacher, a guru, is an easy thing: one need only repeat what one has heard from you.

“I am this, I am that. How can I become guru?” Caitanya Mahāprabhu said, “No, it is
very easy thing.” Yāre dekha, tāre kaha ‘kṛṣṇa’-upadeśa, āmāra ājñāya guru haṅā tāra’ ei
deśa.… You become guru simply by advising everyone the instruction which Kṛṣṇa has
given. That’s all. You become guru. It is not at all difficult thing. But if you want to
cheat others that you are Bhagavān, you are this and that, you are yogi, you are very
powerful, and I am God, then you will cheat, because you are neither God; you are
less than a dog. You are falsely claiming that you are God. That is not your position.
You are servant of God – that is your position. That is real jñāna. (Lecture, Śrīmad-
Bhāgavatam 3.25.43, Bombay, December 11, 1974)

On the one hand it is very easy to become your instrument – it is the easiest thing to do. On the
other hand it is most difficult for a conditioned soul used to working under the spell of ahaṅkāra.
Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda, on this auspicious day of your appearance, I pray at your lotus feet for
the strength and ability to always stay chaste to your instructions and standard of purity. Let me
become a suitable tool and channel of yours and your followers’ mercy.

Your unworthy servant,
Acyuta Priya Dāsa

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