Dear 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
Please accept my most humble obeisances unto your lotus feet! All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda!
Today is the most auspicious day, the most spiritual day, most divine day, most transcenden-
tal day, most holy of days, the most pure day, because today is Bhadra-māsa kṛṣṇa-pakṣa navami:
today is Śrīla Prabhupāda navami, the most auspicious appearance day of His Divine Grace Śrīla
Prabhupāda! Śrīla Prabhupāda kī jaya!
Your appearance in this material world marks the appearance of the most benevolent and most
merciful personality appearing in this material world! Today the world is recognizing you as the
greatest spiritual ambassador by honoring you with the title, viśva-guru!
Many great saints of today from East India, West India, North India, or South India, Rajendra
Mahārāja, Premānandjī Swami Mahārāja, and many others, are glorifying and appreciating you.
Śrīla Prabhupāda, the secret of your success is your love for your spiritual master and your
love for fulfilling the instructions of your spiritual masters by spreading the message of Caitanya
Mahāprabhu in foreign countries, and printing and distributing this message in book form.
Today, if we go to any place in this world, whether Australia, Kenya, Singapore, Nepal,
Uganda, Togo, Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, Fiji, New Zealand, and so many other countries, we will
find ISKCON devotees and your books. Thus we see that you have fulfilled the prediction of Cai-
tanya Mahāprabhu:
prithvī te āche yate nagar ādi grām
sarvatre pracher haibe more nāma
You are the most powerful spiritual ambassador, a Vaikuṇṭha man, a transcendental personality
who has come into the material world where the conditioned souls are in a hopeless, helpless,
and useless situation. When one comes in touch with you, one finds oneself in a hopeful, helpful
useful situation.
You have made the process of going back home, back to Godhead, very simple. You have
mentioned the way two or three times: chant sixteen rounds every day, follow the four regulative
principles, and do not leave ISKCON. At the end of life, an airplane will come from Vaikuṇṭha
and take us back home, back to Godhead.
And in case this airplane does not come to take us to the spiritual world, you promised very
kindly and in a humble way that you will come and take us back home, back to Godhead, saying
that you have a key to the back door of Goloka Vrindavan. This shows that you have a special
connection with the Supreme Personality Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, and with Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī. So in
this way you are very kind to the conditioned souls of this world.
For another ten thousand years your ISKCON organization, books, lectures, instructions, con-
versations, and letters will be the guiding force of the people of this world.
Hare Kṛṣṇa. All the devotees under your divine shelter in ISKCON are individually trying
to please you by book distribution, book studying, book reading, preaching, temple cleaning,
fund-raising, life membership, Food-for-Life, scientific preaching, social media preaching, etc.,
etc., and collectively we try to please you by fulfilling one of your final instructions: “Your love for
me will be shown by coming together after I leave.” “Unity in diversity” and “Cooperation, coop-
eration, cooperation” are the sūtras and mantras we follow to please you.
Śrīla Prabhupāda, personally you are very kind to me because you gave me a place in ISKCON
and a wonderful spiritual master and wonderful devotees.
On this very special day, I beg at your lotus feet that you shower your mercy on this useless
soul! Hare Kṛṣṇa. Śrīla Prabhupāda, kī jaya!
Your servant,
Bhakti Karuṇāmayī Vanamālī Swami

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