Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda,
Please accept our humble obeisances at your divine lotus feet.
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
Śrīla Prabhupāda, many of us here at Prabhupāda Village in North Carolina are now older than
you were when you first courageously crossed the ocean on a cargo ship and endured immeasur-
able hardships to bring Kṛṣṇa consciousness to us drowning souls of Kali-yuga. Yet although
we are older, we still have done so little in comparison to Your Divine Grace. We are now more
embarrassed than ever at how little we have accomplished to further your mission. Some of us
still struggle to maintain the vows we made to you when you initiated us, yet you have been
supremely patient, as patient as Mother Earth. You have been unconditionally loving, as loving
as a Bengali mother, as loyal, watchful and protective as the Supersoul in our hearts. Kindly con-
tinue to be patient with us, Śrīla Prabhupāda. Please don’t give up on us.
There are also some bright jewels among us here at Prabhupāda Village who are younger than
we are, Śrīla Prabhupāda. They have joined your mission and are enthusiastic to please Your
Divine Grace in every way. They are taxing their brains about how to give Kṛṣṇa consciousness
to other souls, and we are grateful to have their enlivening association. Some of them are farmers
and gardeners, some of them are businessmen and women, some of them are book distributors
and preachers, some of them are pūjārīs and cooks, some of them are kīrtanīyas. Some of them
are all of the above! Kindly bless them with determination to carry on this movement after we
are gone, Śrīla Prabhupāda. Your spiritual grandchildren need your guidance, inspiration, and
unconditional love, just as we seniors, your spiritual children, do. Please help them to understand
that you are always here, guiding and supporting them in their efforts to serve and glorify and
please Your Divine Grace and Śrī Śrī Parama Karuṇa Nitāi-Gaurasundara.
Thank you, Śrīla Prabhupāda, for saving all of us, young and old, from the dangerous pitfalls
of Kali-yuga. You gave us more than eighty books and hundreds of lectures to keep us enthused.
You gave us the four regulative principles and the instruction to chant at least sixteen rounds of
the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra daily on our beads. Help us follow your instructions, Śrīla Prabhupāda.
Help us to please Your Divine Grace and make this village of yours a true legacy in your honor
for generations to come. All glories to Your Divine Grace! All glories to Śrī Śrī Parama Karuṇa
Nitāi-Gaurasundara!
Your servants at Prabhupāda Village

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