Dearest Śrīla Prabhupāda,
Please accept our respectful obeisances unto your lotus feet.
oṁ ajñāna-timirāndhasya jñānāñjana-śalākayā
cakṣur unmīlitaṁ yena tasmai śrī-gurave namaḥ
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
Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda, thank you for having fearlessly descended to this material world to com-
passionately distribute the mercy and love of Goloka Vrindavan in all directions!
His Holiness Śivarāma Swami Mahārāja writes in his work Nava-vraja-mahimā, volume 7,
chapter 32:
His Divine Grace told my friend Tamal Krishna Goswami: “In Goloka, Kṛṣṇa told me,
‘You go down there and preach.’ I replied to the Lord, ‘It’s such a nasty place. I don’t
want to go. Please let me stay here.’ but Kṛṣṇa persisted and said, ‘Don’t worry about
anything. I will make every arrangement for your comfort. In the meantime write your
books, and when you have finished, then you can return.’” Śrīla Prabhupāda con-
cluded, “Then I said, ‘All right.’”
Having taken the mission that Lord Kṛṣṇa empowered you to do, you were willing to brave the
fire of ordeal to convey the transcendental message of the spiritual world, Goloka Vrindavan,
to the fallen souls in the midst of material existence, launching your heroic life journey as the
senāpati-bhakta of the Lord.
Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda, our most respected senāpati, you crossed the seven continents with
your divine love, the pure holy name, your transcendental knowledge your weapon, and using
modern means of transportation as your chariot, and you built a powerful saṅkīrtana army. You
gave the ungodly the opportunity to bathe in the vibration of the holy name, to drink the nectar
of transcendental knowledge, to experience pure devotion, and to finally return home to Vrinda-
van. All this has come to pass because of your sweet will.
One of your early disciples, Govinda Dāsī, found an old Indian newspaper from the 1970s in a
box in her attic. In it was an article about you, Śrīla Prabhupāda, written by an astrologer. It read,
“Nobody can read this chart; if they say they can, they are lying. This personality comes and goes
by his own sweet will; he is not bound by anybody or anything. The stars are lined up perfectly.
There is no question of karma. He is working directly under the will of God. And when he writes,
his pen does not have ink in it. His pen has fire in it, which will burn the ignorance of the whole
world.”
Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda, whose heart is as soft and sweet as a rose, thank you for having reso-
lutely sent a resourceful, vigorous, considerate, humorous, down-to-earth, caring saṅkīrtana
soldier to Khasadeśa to spread the seeds of bhakti throughout this land of voidism and imperson-
alism. With the blessing of your beautiful wishes, the spiritually dormant land of China, like an
awakened lion, has begun to rise in the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. The Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-
mantra is spreading all over the land. A wide range of quality prasādam is attracting more and
more young people. Your books, Bhagavad-gītā As It Is, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Caitanya-caritāmṛta,
and others have entered countless homes in towns and villages and now flow into the veins of
countless people, transforming the hearts of many, because you inherited and presented these
sacred teachings exactly as they are. As Kong Ji, a grandson of Confucius, said: “A filial person is
one who inherits the will of the ancestors and spreads their activities and contributions.”
Dear far-sighted Śrīla Prabhupāda, thank you for having raised so many heroic sons and
daughters that we now have the privilege of consulting and serving. In this way we can truly feel
the value of a moment of personal association with pure devotees and the extraordinary power of
your presence through them.
Dear merciful Śrīla Prabhupāda, may you, who are always in the mood of Goloka Vrinda-
van, bless us to unite closely as you wished and to keep moving in the direction of the sweetest
Goloka Vrindavan, no matter what storms we may encounter in this world. Dear affectionate Śrīla
Prabhupāda, may you bless the Khasadeśa yātrā to be prosperous in Lord Caitanya’s saṅkīrtana
movement.
Your indebted servants,
The Chinese devotees
(written by Surabhi Devī Dāsī)

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