Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda,
Please accept my humble obeisances.
What a privilege to serve you in this life. Whenever we please you, our hearts fill with joy and satisfaction. Your precious and potent gifts, the “techniques of spiritual life,” always uplift our hearts and minds. Reading your books, chanting japa, discussing Kṛṣṇa with your followers, honoring prasādam – anyone, anywhere, now and for all time, can learn these simple practices and transform their lives. As your service to your spiritual master, you gave these miraculous gifts so freely, and at so much personal sacrifice.
As you have given these gifts to us, we pray to share them with others on your behalf. Doing so, we please you and enrich our lives with Kṛṣṇa consciousness all over again.
In his song, Vaiṣṇava Vijñapti, Śrīla Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura wonderfully expresses our appreciation for you.
(1) Dear merciful Vaiṣṇav master, be kind to us, please.
Other than you, who can wash out our impurities?
(2) To simply be in your presence, all sins go away.
Where could we find someone else with mercy you display?
(3) To bathe in the Gaṅgā’s waters cleanses over time,
yet simply to see you, one is instantly refined.
(4) Offenses to Kṛṣṇa better chanting will resolve.
Offenses to you cannot be washed away at all.
(5) In your sacred heart Govinda endlessly resides.
Govinda declares, “Vaiṣṇavas are My very life.”
(6) Birth after birth, we shall beg for the dust from your feet.
Please think of your Gainesville servants as your property.
Your servants at ISKCON Gainesville, Florida, USA