Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda,
Please accept our humble obeisances in the dust of your lotus feet. All glories to you and your spiritual master.
Thank you for bringing the wealth of love for Kṛṣṇa to the entire world! We can never be grateful enough to you for the sacrifices you made to give us this mercy. It is unfathomable how you came halfway across the world at the age of 70, suffering two heart attacks while aboard a cargo ship, and doing what you have done in a short span of eleven years. This was only possible because of the love of Godhead you possess.
As your spiritual master, Śrī Śrīmad Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī famously stated – and as quoted by you in your purport to Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi 13.67: “There is no scarcity of anything within this world. The only scarcity is of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.” Later in your purport to Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya 8.44, you state: “Unless one is a first-class devotee, he cannot be a preacher.” This treasure of love of Godhead has specifically been entrusted to you for distribution: kṛṣṇa-śakti vinā nahe tāra pravartana (Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya 7.11).
We here in Iceland are trying in our very humble manner to make you proud with whatever little we are able to do with our very limited resources. Each year we accomplish a new milestone only by your mercy. Despite knowing our limitations, we took the risk of coming to Iceland and making an effort, hoping Kṛṣṇa would step in and supply us with what we lack. That has really been our strategy.
Although we are a very small yātrā with very limited capital, manpower, and land and real estate, such things can be easily supplied by Kṛṣṇa as they are abundant all around. The resource we really desperately lack for making our mission successful here, however, is Kṛṣṇa consciousness – that we ourselves develop love for Kṛṣṇa. That resource, of prema-dhana, can only be attained by the mercy of the śrī-guru-paramparā. We therefore pray that we may be able to receive that treasure so that we can be authorized to distribute it to the people of Iceland.
Dear Śrīla Prabhupāda, you and your spiritual master both set the example of spending many years in the holy dhāma doing intense prayer and bhajana to be empowered before starting your mission. One of our spiritual masters, His Holiness Radhanath Swami, followed in your footsteps by doing intense austerities in New Vrindavan before becoming an empowered preacher. However, we are not in a position to first go to a holy place to execute austerities before commencing our mission. We are therefore praying desperately, that we somehow can connect to the causeless mercy coming to us from you through our spiritual masters, and that we may develop advanced Kṛṣṇa consciousness while staying committed in Iceland.
Thank you for engaging us in your service!
Your servants at ISKCON Iceland