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

The Power of Purity
We here at New Gokula farming community offer our gratitude for the rare fortune of offering
devotional service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead every day in varieties of ways compat-
ible with our individual capacities.
We offer our praise for the privilege to nurture body and spirit on devotionally imbued kṛṣṇa-
prasādam, prepared devotionally – our devotee cooks being careful and conscious to follow all
standards you have personally taught in order for their offerings to be accepted by Lord Kṛṣṇa
and Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī.
Full appreciation to you, our dear Śrīla Prabhupāda, for directing your followers to read and
discuss your precisely prepared literatures, which remove the prevalent ignorance of Kali-yuga,
under which we were also fully ensnared; and which lift human lives from despair and drudgery
to genuine realization of the highest spiritual truths, yielding actual contentment.
The association of like-minded devotees, sincerely attempting to raise their consciousness to the
mode of goodness and beyond, is your unique and glorious credit, Śrīla Prabhupāda. Also, Śrīla
Prabhupāda, you have bequeathed a life in the lap of Mother Nature, offering fresh produce and
flowers that can please Their Lordships. Not to forget the loving nature of Lord Kṛṣṇa’s cows and
bulls, whom we are learning to nurture and protect and who epitomize the principles of dharma.
Śrīla Prabhupāda, it is no small feat of your far-reaching vision that you offered rigorous
training in worshiping the beautiful arcā-vigrahas of Śrī Śrī Rādhā-Gokulānanda, Jagannātha-
Balarāma-Subhadrādevī, Gaura-Nitāi, and, of course, your own form, in which the devotees of the
Lord have full faith and confidence that you hear and reciprocate their daily prayers.
And most of all, Śrīla Prabhupāda, may we sincerely glorify you for the wonderful example
you left us, recounted in countless memoirs and recordings, of the qualities of a perfect character
lauded in all scriptures, appreciated by anyone and everyone, including even so-called enemies.
Finally, Śrīla Prabhupāda, thank you for the ISKCON society, which you describe in your
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.26.5 purport: “This Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is the only means by
which the sinful activities of men in this Kali-yuga can be counteracted.”
Your servant,
Kāliya Kṛṣṇa Dāsa,
on behalf of the devotees at New Gokula Farm

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