Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda,
Please accept our most humble obeisances at your lotus feet. All glories to Your Divine Grace.
It is said in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (2.4.18):
kirāta-hūṇāndhra-pulinda-pulkaśā
ābhīra-śumbhā yavanāḥ khasādayaḥ
ye ’nye ca pāpā yad-apāśrayāśrayāḥ
śudhyanti tasmai prabhaviṣṇave namaḥ
Kirātas, Hūṇas, Āndhras, Pulindas, Pulkaśas, Ābhīras, Śumbhas, Yavanas, members of the Khasa races, and even others addicted to sinful acts can be purified by taking shelter of the devotees of the Lord, due to His being the supreme power. I beg to offer my respectful obeisances unto Him.
In your Bhaktivedanta purport to this verse, Your Divine Grace wrote: “Khasa: The inhabitants of the Khasadeśa are mentioned in the Mahābhārata (Droṇa-parva). Those who have a stunted growth of hair on the upper lip are generally called Khasas. As such, the Khasa are the Mongolians, the Chinese, and others who are so designated.”
From this we can understand that even we Chinese, who are constantly engaged in sinful acts, are corrigible to the standard of perfect human beings by taking shelter of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness founded by Your Divine Grace in 1966 in New York. Just like Jesus Christ, a powerful devotee of the Lord, Your Divine Grace has done tremendous service on behalf of the Lord on the surface of the globe. The dust-worn minds of the people in general are becoming purified by the association of Your Divine Grace and of the devotees of ISKCON.
Your Divine Grace has taught us that simply by chanting the holy name of the Lord, a tremendous change of heart can take place, by which the complete misunderstanding between the human nations created by politicians can at once be extinguished. Otherwise, the valuable human form of life will be spoiled in following a type of materialistic civilization that is ultimately doomed.
Śrīla Prabhupāda, Your Divine Grace is such a powerful Vaiṣṇava that you turned into Vaiṣṇavas even those who were lowborn, women, śūdras, and vaiśyas. Your Divine Grace has fulfilled the prophecy of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu:
pṛthivī-paryānta yata āche deśa-grāma
sarvatra saṅcāra haibeka mora nāma
In every town and village of the world, the chanting of My name will be heard. (Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata, Antya-khaṇḍa 4.126)
Thank you, Śrīla Prabhupāda, for saving us from this animalistic way of life. Your Divine Grace is our great savior.
Now we have over two thousand devotees here in China, although we are not a legal entity yet because of the local government. Your Divine Grace predicted that the Chinese will be the last but the best for taking up Kṛṣṇa consciousness. It is definitely going to come true, for as a self-realized soul, Your Divine Grace can see past, present, and future. Just as the Chinese accepted Buddhism with all their hearts and souls thousands of years ago, so by the mercy of Your Divine Grace and the mercy of Lord Buddha, who is a powerful incarnation of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, we Chinese will also accept Kṛṣṇa consciousness with all our hearts and souls in the not-far future.
Your fallen servant,
Gaurāṅga Prema Dāsa
On behalf of the Chinese devotees