My dear Śrīla Prabhupāda,
Please accept my obeisances in the dust of your lotus feet. All glories, all glories to Your Divine
Grace, Śrīla Prabhupāda.
nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale
śrīmate bhaktivedānta-svāmin iti nāmine
namas te sārasvate deve gaura-vāṇī-pracāriṇe
nirviśeṣa-śūnyavādi-pāścātya-deśa-tāriṇe
This year we are observing the fiftieth anniversary of your Kṛṣṇa-Balarāma temple, ISKCON
Vrindavan. You installed Deities of Śrī Śrī Kṛṣṇa-Balarāma, Rādhā-Śyāmasundara, Lalitā, Viśākhā,
and Śrī Śrī Gaura-Nitāi, and a mūrti of your Guru Mahārāja, on the auspicious occasion of Rāma-
navamī in 1975. You installed your own mūrti also. You explained that you are ready to accept the
sinful reactions of whoever takes shelter of your lotus feet.
Śrīla Prabhupāda, I was appointed in 2024, by your ISKCON GBC body, to serve as a dīkṣā-
guru, an initiating spiritual master. I am a granddisciple of Your Divine Grace. My initiating
spiritual master, His Holiness Gopal Krishna Goswami Mahārāja, one of your dearest disciples,
disappeared last year on May 5, 2024, to join you in the spiritual world or wherever you are now
engaged in the saṅkīrtana mission of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
Now I pray at your lotus feet to be merciful to me.
yogyatā-vicāre, kichu nāhi pāi,
tomāra karuṇā—sāra
karuṇā nā hoile, kāndiyā kāndiyā,
prāṇa nā rākhibo āra
When I examine myself, I find nothing of value. Your mercy is therefore essential to me.
If you are not merciful, I will constantly weep and will not maintain my life any longer.
(Śaraṇāgati, Gurudeva (4), Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura) Your lotus feet are my only shelter.
Your instructions and your books are the only hope for me. By regularly reading your books and
hearing your lectures I am trying my best to be in your association. Thank you, Śrīla Prabhupāda.
Keep me always in your association, and guide me to serve you perfectly, life after life.
Your most fallen granddisciple,
Prabhodānanda Saraswati Swami
ISKCON Vrindavan